Below you’ll find complete instructions as well as products used in making this video. I don’t have much fabric on hand so we went to Hobby Lobby and bought 1/4 yard of four materials and 1/2 yard of another, all having similar colors.
Take a sharp knife and cut into the divots of the pumpkin from the top center of the pumpkin to close to the bottom center. Don’t cut all the way through the foam, just deep enough to push the fabric and have the fabric stay. Once all of the slits are made, take your first piece of fabric about 3″ wide and 8″ tall and put a small amount of hot glue in the center of one of the pumpkin raised areas to hold the fabric in place, then take a butter knife and using the back of it, start in the center of the pumpkin, pressing the fabric into the slits alternating from the right side to the left side, back and forth, making sure there are no bumps or creases on your fabric. If you have a little too much fabric on the sides, you can turn the fabric under like a hem, and then press it into the cut working your way from the middle to the top and then the bottom. If you have way too much fabric, cut off until you feel it will work better for you.
I removed the stem until I was done, and pushed my fabrics under the stem so there’s no unfinished area. On the bottom, I hot glued the fabric down so the bottom was covered with fabric but not leaving so much fabric that the pumpkin wouldn’t sit flat.
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I was sent the dies from Globeland, but am not affiliated with them in any way. They are offering a discount to my viewers. It is a 10% discount using sandy10.
Globleland product link info: This is a great deal for $8.09 minus 10%, as you get three sets of layering dies…two sets have seven dies and one has eight, and all three have a different shape so your imagination can run wild. I realize the link has my coupon code in it, but I think it’s their way of tracking if any viewers bought something from my video and doesn”t mean I get any money in return. I think you still need to use the coupon code sandy10 when you check out to get the 10% off.
For the card I made onscreen, I started with a 5 x 7″ card base in beige and took the largest die from this set from Globleland and die cut it from the Old World paper pad (link is above.) I cut one of the smaller dies from the same set to lay the sentiment on out of beige paper. I used three strands of brown embroidery thread link: https://tinyurl.com/zwrzkp88 with an embroidery needle link: https://tinyurl.com/bdh4fenb. I think the next time I do this, I’ll use all six strands that come when you get embroidery thread so it’s easier to see.
Start by threading your needle and putting a line of tear tape on the back of the die cut paper near where you want to start stitching, then lay the very end of your embroidery thread on the tear tape to hold it in place and so you don’t have to tie a knot at the end of your thread. Then starting at the back of your paper, go through the first hole closest to your tear tape and pull the thread through then go down through the next hole, up through the next and continue until you’ve made a loop on the papers’ edge for each hole with thread. It helps if you hold the thread on the back to the left of where you are stitching so the thread is out of the way of your needle. Once finished, put another piece of tear tape down and lay the end of the thread in it and cut off the excess thread. I used the same stitching technique for the large die cut and the small one.
I had an outlined thanks die from Temu that’s no longer available and die cut the same background paper out of the die and then some green paper out of it so I could use the green paper for the words. I didn’t think the green really showed up well, so used a white gel pen and made dashes and dots on the left edge of each letter. I added some crystal sticky backed embellishments to add to the surround of Thanks. I then put thin foam strips link: https://tinyurl.com/5bf4z3n5 under the sentiment beige paper to adhere it to the center of the decorated paper. I used Tacky Glue on the back of the Old World paper and attached it centered near the right side of the card base. I added two 1/4″ strips of brown ribbon to the left of the Old World paper and called the card finished.
I used the same Old World paper on the other card with orange cardstock and the dies that have diamond cut outs in them. Because the diamonds are further apart than the other card’s die, I used a different technique where I brought the needle up through from under the paper through one diamond and down through the next diamond then up through the next diamond and down through the diamond I just came up through as there’s a gap if you don’t, and then continue around the card in this manner until you’ve completed the stitching. If you’d like to see me do this on camera, I’d be happy to.
