Arbour-Style Birthday Greetings

This gorgeous and smartly fulfilled project was kindly contributed to our gallery by Pamela Denton. Pamela, thank you!!!

As you may see, Pamela used a couple of embroidery designs from Rose Heaven collection, along with lettering and stylish outer frame design, to make two stylish greeting cards.

There are two interesting issues about these cards, besides the fact that they're just tastefully made:

1. The card base consists of paper.

2. The designs and lettering are applied over, as applique, and therefore they stand out and look extremely dimensional.

Here are a few words directly from the author, describing the process:

First, I stitch the flower or other design on a layer of synthetic fabric. I use mostly "crystal organza" and WSF (water soluble film). I then wash dry and press the design before burning around the outline with a fine tipped soldering iron. For these cards, I digitized a trellis, which again was stitched and treated in the same way as the flower design. I burnt in and around the trellis holes and stuck this background onto the card, and then stuck the flower design on top, giving a 3D effect. I have used a number of the ROSE HEAVEN designs for cards, as they are particularly suitable for using in this way.

NOTE: A well ventilated room is essential when using a soldering iron on fabrics.

We hope that you like these cards like we do :o) Also, be sure to send your projects over, and take advantage of our "Projects Club".

Project Club!

We excited to announce an opening of Projects Club. When you're buying a set of designs after 06.11.2009, you have an oportunity to get a $25 coupon towards next purchase of designs on AnnaBoveEmbroidery.com, by sending us your project.

Project Requirements:

1. A project should utilize at least 2 designs per set

2. A project should come along with detailed instructions

3. The photos should be of decent quality, and at least 800 pixels wide.

4. Each project should be submitted to us by email, along with your permission to use it.

5. Project submission date should be 45 days (or less) after your purchase, to qualify for coupon credit.

Read more about the new Project Club...

New Tips for Embroiderers

Oatmeal Linens with Bindweed, OR How To Position Designs.

This awesome photo-guide, showing the steps to position designs exactly where you want them to be, was kindly prepared by Bobbie Berry, who is the author of many beautiful projects from our gallery. Bobbie, THANK YOU!!!!!

Be sure to take a look at this tutorial - you can get it all just by glancing at the pictures ->

We've added lovely Guest Towels to our popular Oatmeal Linen series. You've already seen it once on a photo that was sent to us by Kim Banta - the towel features an WM monogram from 2-letter monograms category.

Take a look at these blank towels, and other matching items ->

Sunny Berries Collection Newbie

Another great option to decorate the Oatmeal Linens, along with the above-mentioned Bindweed designs, is this new collection of colorful strawberries.

This set is just made for the oatmeal linens - the style matches perfectly, and the colors party! These are 8 lovely, jolly designs, that are sure to spice up just about any kitchen ->

Preparing to Christmas in August!

We've prepared a new Christmas collection, and hope that you will love it. We did our best to make it the most colorful and festive.

The set features extremely elegant shapes with Poinsettia flowers, golden curls, pine greens and pine cones. Very beautiful for anything Christmas!

The new "Poinsettia Gold" set perfectly matches the "Poinsettia Lace" collection and will look great on "Medallion Tree Skirt" and it's matching Tabletopper.

Visit the New Items for Embroidery page to see the latest stuff we get, and make available for you.

To completely stock up with supplies to stitch a "Poinsettia Gold Tree Skirt and Tabletopper" project, you only need to get some embroidery thread. We've prepared a combo thread kit that includes all necessary colors of polyester & metallic thread, to embroider the new Poinsettia Gold Set.

New Bindweed Collections

New Bindweed Accents set includes 11 elegant designs, decorated with bindweed flowers. Each design features a useful shape - these are corners, borders, swags and other stuff, that just asks to be used on classic table linens and fashion accessories.

To compliment this collection, we've also made an initials font with bindweed. The letters are about 3.9" height, great for monogramming!

The new embroidery collections, are designed and compiled by us especially for a new line of embroidery blanks - Oatmeal Hemstitched Table Lines.

They come in extremely pleasant color, called "Oatmeal". This neutral color, like the classic white, goes well with almost any color of embroidery thread.

These table blanks both look great in any environment, and are super suitable for embroidery, due to their 55% linen, 45% cotton composition. A runner, placemats, cocktail and dinner napkins are available.