After spending a good many hours on piece of parchment craft, it is important to finish it off neatly. If you have a parchment craft ‘front’ for a card but no back, you will be looking for a means of attaching it. Glue marks and double sided tape can be seen through parchment paper so they are not an option. Here are several ways you can attach the parchment paper and finish off the card.
You can use very tiny drops of Perga Glue or Perga Kit: find some heavy embossing or embellishment and hide the glue behind those areas, be careful though. Although not strictly traditional you can use brads at each corner or as embellishment. Eyelets can also be used, although it is more difficult to keep the parchment flat. The traditional answer to this problem is to have both front and back in parchment paper and then sew the parchment to the card at the spine.
First of all, lay the card open and mark the centre with a pencil then mark two points equally spaced from the centre where you wish to sew the card. Then using a sharp thickish needle make a hole through both the card and the parchment on each of the three marks. I use a tapestry needle and thick cotton thread – starting on the inside of the card push the needle and thread through the centre hole (leaving a longish piece of thread) and then down through the upper hole, next up again through the centre hole and down through the lower hole. On the inside of the card pass the needle through the loop, pull it tight and tie a knot with the thread you left at the beginning. The knot can be completely covered by fixing an insert to the inside of the card with double sided tape.
