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Cutting the Cake by Beth Madland
Materials Needed
  Navy 12 x 12 cardstock
  Maroon 12x 12 cardstock
  Crème cardstock (any size – scraps will work)
  Navy DMC embroidery floss
  Maroon DMC embroidery floss
  Thin gold thread
  Metal hearts from Scrapyard 329
 
Instructions
  1. Matter maroon cardstock on top of navy cardstock leaving a quarter of an inch border.
  2. Cut a piece of crème cardstock 8 ½” x 2 ½” inches.
  3. Using a pencil, lightly trace a design onto the crème cardstock. For my example I drew a heart on the paper and then filled the heart with X’s.
  4. Take a sharp needle or paper piercing tool and poke holes in all four corners of each X of the heart. Remember that some of the X’s will be sharing the same hole.
  5. Poke holes along the lines of the names using a sharp needle or paper-piercing tool. Remember to put more holes around the curves of a letter to make a rounded look – otherwise the letter might turn out boxy.
  6. Thread a needle with four strands of the maroon embroidery floss.
  7. Adhere the tail of the thread to the back of the crème cardstock with a photo tab. Cover the tab and floss with a small square of scrap paper. This will keep your adhesive covered during the project.
  8. For the cross stitches, bring the needle through the bottom left corner of the X. Pull the thread through the hole and bring the needle down through the upper right hole of the X. Bring the needle through the bottom right hole of the X pulling the thread through the hole. Bring the needle through the top left hole of the X. Now you have completed one X. Keep repeating this with all of the X’s of the heart.
  9. For backstitches the process is similar, but there are no X’s to cross just straight stitches. Remember to bring your needle back up through the next closest hole. Repeat this until you have the names stitched using the navy embroidery floss.
  10. I used the gold thread to make long backstitches and X’s for a border.
  11. Add the metal hearts to the borders.



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