Looking for a sweet Valentine’s craft to practice your embroidery skills? We’re sharing our embroidered paper cards with Valentine’s Day Printable today! Use our free printable to create these adorable cards for loved ones.
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With Christmas behind us, and snowy weather keeping us in, I have been busy planning and crafting Valentine’s projects!
If you have been around Home Sweet Harps for a while, I’m sure it doesn’t surprise you that I created some embroidered paper cards for Valentine’s Day, as I have had several paper embroidery posts lately!
I dabbled in creating embroidered bookmarks and fell in love, so I’m transferring that love to cards!
These cards are beginner-friendly with simple stitches and can be finished in one or two sittings.
I included a FREE printable below to help you create cards at home!
Let’s start with the materials you need for these adorable Valentine’s Day embroidered cards!
Materials
- Blank cards
- Embroidery floss
- Sewing needles
- Printable – here’s a free one from me!
- Scissors
- Pencil
Let’s get to the DIY!
How to Make Embroidered Paper Cards
1. Using pencil, sketch your design where you want on the bookmark. (Or use my free printable) See notes below on how to trace this pattern.
2. Thread your needle* using two or three strands.
3. When stitching the designs, I used different stitches for each pattern:
“String Heart”
The “string heart” pattern uses simple straight stitches throughout. You are simply threading from one hole to the next in a criss-cross pattern.
“Lazy Daisy Hearts”
The “lazy daisy hearts” pattern is named after its main stitch: the lazy daisy. I used this stitch to make all of the “v” shaped hearts as well as the “dot” on the letter i.
For the words “i love you,” I used the stem stitch.
4. Once you are happy with your design, you have a few options to hide the ugly backside:
-You can attach a second card using a running stitch*. Or
-You can hot glue another card to your original card.
(I chose to hot glue this time, but I show you an example of how to use the running stitch to combine two cards and create a border below).
Embroidered Paper Cards - Valentine's Day Printable
Looking for a sweet Valentine's craft to practice your embroidery skills? We're sharing our embroidered paper cards with Valentine's Day Printable today! Use our free printable to create these adorable cards for loved ones.
Materials
- Blank cards
- Embroidery floss
- Sewing needles
- Printable
- Scissors
- Pencil
Instructions
1. Using pencil, sketch your design where you want on the bookmark. (Or use my free printable) See notes below on how to trace this pattern.
2. Thread your needle* using two or three strands.
3. When stitching the designs, I used different stitches for each pattern:
-The "string heart" pattern uses simple straight stitches throughout. You are simply threading from one hole to the next in a criss-cross pattern.
-The "lazy daisy hearts" pattern is named after its main stitch: the lazy daisy. I used this stitch to make all of the "v" shaped hearts as well as the "dot" on the letter i.
-For the words "i love you," I used the stem stitch.
4. Once you are happy with your design, you have a few options to hide the ugly backside:
-You can attach a second card using a running stitch*. Or
-You can hot glue another card to your original card.
Notes
How do I keep my sketches clean?
Using paper for embroidery makes it difficult to trace a pattern. You can cut out the pattern to trace, but it does tend to be easier to sketch it out. If you’re worried about your drawing skills, don’t fret!
When sketching your design, it may be helpful to use simple dots or faded lines so it can be easily covered by your thread, or erased later!
The "string heart" design is very simple to trace. Simply cut out the heart from my printable, and trace onto your card.
Use your needle to punch tiny holes around the heart. Use these holes as a guide for your stitching across the heart!What size sewing needle should be used for embroidering on paper?
What size sewing needle should be used for embroidering on paper?
Remember, when working with cardstock, you want to use a small sewing needle. You’re working with paper, so making large holes can cause tears, and won’t allow you to keep your stitches close together. Stick with size 8 or 9.
If you tried these Embroidered Paper Cards – Valentine’s Day Printable, or created something on your own, I would love to see it over on Instagram! @homesweetharps
Notes:
How do I keep my sketches clean?
Using paper for embroidery makes it difficult to trace a pattern. You can cut out the pattern to trace, but it does tend to be easier to sketch it out. If you’re worried about your drawing skills, don’t fret!
When sketching your design, it may be helpful to use simple dots or faded lines so it can be easily covered by your thread, or erased later!
The “string heart” design is very simple to trace. Simply cut out the heart from my printable, and trace onto your card.
Use your needle to punch tiny holes around the heart. Use these holes as a guide for your stitching across the heart!
What size sewing needle should be used for embroidering on paper?
Remember, when working with cardstock, you want to use a small sewing needle. You’re working with paper, so making large holes can cause tears, and won’t allow you to keep your stitches close together. Stick with size 8 or 9.
Running Stitch Helpful Hint
When doing the running stitch, you can use your thumb nail as a stitch guide! Simply mark the size stitch you want with pen or marker, and use that to keep your stitches the same length. (Example in photo above).
Thanks for reading along! Happy crafting friends!
These are darling! And love your tip for a running stitch measurement, very clever!
Thanks Jenni, it definitely helps me get more even stitches!
These are darling, and don’t look TOO challenging for a beginner… 😉 Keeping these in mind for my daughter!
Yes, especially the “string heart” pattern is 100% beginner-friendly!!
I LOVE this! Totally going to make my sweet hubby one for Valentine’s Day!🥰
They’re so simple, I’d love to see your final product Penny!!
How adorable! I’ll definitely be doing this with my girls.
Thanks Megan!
I love this idea! Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays and this is such a sweet craft. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks Lori, they were fun to make!