Embroidered Wedding Photo
My husband and I will be celebrating our 2 year anniversary this week, so I thought I would stay on that theme, and in the process create a few nice things to commemorate two years.
Side note, it feels like a lot longer than two years!
Mostly for good reasons.
We are 2 months from welcoming our second child into the family.
So, in two years we’ve added two more human beings to the population. Wild!
To say nothing of how our lives have changed.
Our weekend fun now is taking the little guy to a splash pad…and I can’t even remember what wine tastes like!
All that in only two years!
But onto the project!
This is a simple project that has a cool final effect.
Simply stated, it is a black and white photo printed on cardstock with embroidery embellishments.
- Picture printed on b&w on cardstock
- Embroidery floss
- Sharp needles
- Scissors
- Painters’s tape
- Frame
- Apply painter’s tape to the back of the photo, where you plan to stitch. This will help keep the paper from ripping.
- Using a sharp needle, stitch with long back-stitches along the outlines of objects. It is important that your holes don’t get too close, as the paper will rip. Also, reuse the same hole to connect lines. Finally, before you push you needle through the paper, make sure you are in the right location…you don’t what the people in the photo to end up looking like voodoo dolls!
- Crop and frame!
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What a cute idea Nancy! I’m dropping by from Facebook. I have a blog as well, http://www.thesweetestpear.blogspot.com. I added you to my google reader, now I can follow along. Hope you’re doing well.
Beautiful technique. Thank you for sharing at my Our Favorite Things Link Party.
Thanks for sharing at Etcetorize last week! I think this is such a neat idea. I’ll be featuring it at tonight’s Make it Great party. I hope you’ll stop by to grab a featured button from the sidebar and link up again!
What a neat idea, I have never seen this done before. Thanks for linking up to our Keep Calm & Link up party – hope to see you again next week!
That is so cool! I love this idea! Happy anniversary! Thanks again for linking up to the CHQ blog hop! Hope to see you next week! Bring a friend!! =)
Thanks for linking up to the Pomp Party! Pinning!
That is such a cute idea! I’ve seen people add color to black and white photos but embroidery is even more fun. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
– Megan from polishthestars.com
Hearty Wishes!! Nice Idea. Following your blog. –diya
what a neat idea – congrats on 2 years! we just celebrated our first 🙂 Just found your blog from the hop and excited to be your newest follower!
love,
elisabeth
ps. stop by and say hi at lavitaebella-elisabeth.blogspot.com when you get a chance!
Very cool technique! Found you on The Things We Find Inside.