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Tutorial: A Yarn Painted Greeting Card

July 9, 2010 by Michele

As you will soon discover (if you haven’t already), I love making things using stuff I find around the house and in the recycling bin, one of my favourite places (especially since I cleaned it, yesterday). This project is no exception! A yarn painted card!
Let’s get down to business. Here’s what you’ll need:

Take your sheet of card stock. Make it the size you want and then fold it down the middle. My card, when folded, measures 4″x 5″. Small.
Take your mesh bag and cut a piece of mesh that is a bit larger than your card: about 1 inch wider in both length and width.
Now you can, on a separate sheet of paper, draw out a design, but I just jumped in and improvised to my heart’s delight! Do whatever works for you.
I took my yarn needle and threaded in some yarn. And then I began weaving the yarn into the mesh.
I wove in a little yellow circle going in and out of the mesh in a spiral. Note that I don’t worry about the ends. They just hang around in back and the mesh holds it all in place.
Um, time for another colour!
Oh. It’s growing! I’m just filling up the mesh with colourful yarn.
And now I’ve filled the whole thing. Now, I have to admit that this is a time-consuming little project. Make sure you REALLY like the person your giving this card to. It took me about 2 hours to fill in this 4″x 5″ space, so they should be WORTHY!
So now, I machine-sew the mesh to the card, roughly a 1/4″ from the edge of the card and all the way around.
This is what it looks like from the front so far.
See the white machine stitching there…
Now trim the edges of the yarn-painted mesh just past the edge of the card.
So it looks like this. Now you’ll notice that the yarn at the top and bottom of the card is just sort of hanging there. What I do to rectify this situation is to run a thick bead of craft glue at both the top and bottom of the painting…
…Like so…And that holds everything in place quite nicely.
Let the card dry on a plate.
And voilà! A yarn-painted card for someone you LOVE!
Today I’m linking here: Favorite Things Friday at A Few of my Favorite Things, Look at Me I’m so Crafty at Fun to Craft and Frugalicious Friday at Finding Fabulous.

Filed Under: art, fibre, fibre, paper crafts, paper crafts, reuse, Tutorials Tagged With: crafts, greeting card, landscape, mesh bags, recycling, tutorial, yarn, yarn crafts, yarn painting

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  1. Amy says

    July 9, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    It is beautiful! I have never saved an onion bag before but I just might have to now! It really gives such a wonderful look.

  2. Anji* says

    July 9, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    This is so pretty and clever! I love your card – it looks quite reminiscent of Van Gogh paintings to me!

  3. Mrs A. says

    July 9, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    This is so cute. I'm not into making cards but this looks really good. So much so I might even have a go. Brillant.

  4. Ariane says

    July 9, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    Wow!!! I love it!! The picture is so unique and artistic!! A work of art!!!

  5. Kimbles says

    July 9, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    A lovely work of Art well done to you.

  6. Catherine says

    July 10, 2010 at 11:03 am

    Love this! A great way to use up left over yarn as well. Thanks for sharing this tutorial Michelle.

  7. MessyMissy says

    July 11, 2010 at 1:41 am

    Holey Moley. Thank is AWESOME. You could totally sell something like that!! Way to go!!!!

  8. Becca says

    July 11, 2010 at 3:39 am

    Absolutely beautiful! I love it!

  9. Cheryl G. says

    July 22, 2010 at 5:00 am

    Awesome!

  10. MeredithJean says

    May 20, 2011 at 10:32 am

    Yes it really is fabulous, well done. The person you give it to will have to keep it forever cos it's too lovely to even put in a drawer, let alone chuck out.

  11. Anonymous says

    June 21, 2011 at 3:40 am

    It's awesome!
    Thank you!!!!!
    I just found your blog and it made my day!
    I want to try most of your crafts!!!!!

    God bless you!

  12. can da lua says

    August 25, 2011 at 9:23 am

    very nice, it gives ideas to do many things…
    congratulations for your blog

  13. Anonymous says

    October 31, 2011 at 10:01 am

    world Champion !!!

  14. Kristina says

    January 10, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    What a stunner! That's perfect upcycling.

  15. Hen Party Games says

    January 14, 2012 at 4:52 pm

    Oh wow! A lot of effort – but so worth it! You should start selling these, Christmas themed one's would've gone down a storm about a month ago!

  16. Michele Pacey says

    January 19, 2012 at 1:35 am

    thanks for your sweet comments everyone. I must make another of these one day!

  17. dane says

    March 13, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    vraiment géniale!! tu as de bonnes idées je suis moi aussi pour le recyclage des objets , nous allons avoir de quoi nous entendre a bientôt dane

  18. Cathie says

    May 1, 2012 at 11:20 am

    Oh WOW Michelle! I love this. I'm gathering the supplies as we speak. Truly the pinacle of recycling!! You are a peach.

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