Format: Paperback Pages: 48 Publisher: Search Press Ltd (2 Sept 2009) Make your own handmade greeting cards this year, & at the same time stitch some initials to personalize birthday cards, or anything else! Here is another lovely little book full of beautiful designs to stitch. Choose from frames to surround those paper decoupage images, or frames containing further stitched designs depicting popular subjects such as festive images: pinecones, bells & candles. Or perhaps you might prefer something more unusual, such as the innovative idea of having a Christmas tree as a frame, containing a nativity scene or still life arrangement. Then there are ideas for using up odd beads & ways of employing embossing stencils to enhance your handmade greeting cards. The alphabet features summer flowers & it will be a useful addition to any papercrafters library of designs. You can also see it being transferred via carbon paper to cloth, & being stitched as monograms on towels & face flannels so a versatile idea. There are instructions on how to work the various simple stitches, tips on making the work look better & basics for beginners as well as how to make the individual cards. Embroidery on Paper: Alphabets & Festive Motifs is a handy book for all year round.