If you love both embroidery and scrapbooking, you can enjoy both at the same time by using your Brother SE350 Sewing and Embroidery Machine to embellish your pages.

Adding embroidery to your scrapbooking pages gives them a new dimension and unique look. The embroidery stitches can even have a purpose beyond decorative by securing other elements to the page at the same time as creating the design. The embroidery thread itself can add texture, depth, value, and color to your scrapbook.

Here are some fun ideas for projects:

• Embroider titles of pages and photos using the monogramming feature
• Embroider the corners of the binder for a unique photo album look
• Embellish the pages with frames and borders in all sorts of designs. I particularly like the old Italian styles from Florence.
• Sprinkle all sorts of fun and cute little designs over the pages.

Tips For Embroidering Elements On Your Scrapbook Pages

• Use coordinating fabric for the background of the entire page.
• Use the Edit feature in your embroidery machine to assemble a variety of motifs.
• Add an embroidered Christmas or other special message with the date
• Embroider a frame for the photos using one of the built-in frame patterns

1. Use the trial feature in your embroidery machine to test out the size of the shape that you have chosen. Sew out with a straight stitch for the initial frame pattern. Sew out the shape of the frame (note the size of the frame that you have sewn out.)
2. Cut out the center of the frame fabric along the straight stitching, while the fabric is still in the hoop.
3. Use the Back button to select a decorative frame in the same size, proceed to embroider.
4. Place the photo behind the embroidered frame.

Techniques For Sewing And Embroidering On Paper

The techniques for sewing on paper are basically the same as sewing on fabric with a couple of important adjustments.

• Be sure that you have enough thread in the bobbin. Paper, unlike fabric, will have permanent holes that show if you sew without thread.
• Instead of tying off the thread ends or back-stitching, use a dab of glue or a small amount of clear tape to adhere the loose threads to the back of the work.

Sewing and embroidering on paper is a really fun and easy way to add another dimension to your paper craft projects. Countless types of thread and paper are available for creating your own personal style. You can sew papers together or simply embroider to embellish. You can download a vast number of free embroidery designs from the Internet to enhance your pages. If you have a Brother SE350 Computerized Embroidery and Sewing Machine, you’ll need software such as the Brother PED-Basic Software to write the designs onto a memory card.