original posting date – February 25/2008 Never one to be satisfied with simple designs, I just had to experiment with creating my own templates. As paper embroidery templates have the needle piercing marks I thought it would be easy to take a simple graphic or create one and then use the ‘stroke’ option in Photoshop [...] Continue reading
After my introduction to paper embroidery I just had to play around with it some more to see what I could come up with. As I like to work with small items I started with ATC cards. original posting date – February 25/2008 Paper Embroidery Geisha ATC Card On Saturday’s shopping trip I checked out [...] Continue reading
original posting date – February 22/2008 I have gathered a number of links both in English and German. English Links Embroidery on Cards Embroidery on Cards techniques Card Inspirations: Intro to stitching on cards Handcrafted Greetings: Paper Embroidery Prick ‘n Stitch: Stitching Tips Studio 3D String Art Fun Math Cats German Links Basteln mit Friedel [...] Continue reading
original posting date – February 20/2008 After discovering Iris Folding I came across Paper Embroidery or Faden Grafik (thread graphic) as it is called in German. An extensive search showed me sites with instructions on how it is done and patterns. I have discovered that it looks like the ‘String Art’ designs I remember from [...] Continue reading
In the fall of 2006 I came across this calendar design on the Canon website.
After looking at my 2 page vertical calendar for a few months, I decided that if would be more convenient to have it all on one page. The following design is based on the 2 page design, but condensed onto one page. I [...] Continue reading
After receiving a number of emails if I was going to create 2010 calendars, I decided it was time to get to work.
How to Print the Calendar
The finished calendar is about 3 inches
Use card thickness paper not office paper to print on
The template is created to print at fit to page on US lettersize or [...] Continue reading
In 2005 I came across this website: http://www.ii.uib.no/~arntzen/kalender/ and made the dodecahedron calendar cube and used it.
Update
On my wanderings around the web I came across this site where you can create a world globe with the same design as the calendar.
Here is another link to another version. This one will take some time to download [...] Continue reading
In 2007 after receiving a comment from Diane about my vertical calendar and a question about a template for the horizontal monitor calendar, I set out to find more info by asking Diane and doing some research on the web. I found a template on the Adobe site and passed that on to Diane, but [...] Continue reading