A Little stitching....

....no, A LOT of stitching. My good friend, Tanya won these awesome stitching templates last Spring at a crop we were at. I was thinking about them the other day and asked her if she had ever used them. "Nope, not yet," she says, "Why? Do you want to try them." I jumped at the suggestion since I already had an idea for them in mind. I should have paid attention to who they were made by because they really are cool. Sorry, so I can't tell you were to find them. Anywhoo, I got way in over my head with this project. This first card is what I started out with. Easy, peasy, short and sweet. I love how the card turned out and I especially love the little cross-hatches on the two corners. This turned out just like I wanted it to-Love that! I got the idea for the bird on a branch from this card by the uber-talented, Becky. So, after this quick and simple card, I went on to the original idea I had for these templates-a stitched border on a scrapbook page. I love my sewing machine, well, on most days I do, but I wanted a bigger stitched look around my double page spread. There was this cool, loopey stitch that I thought would work well on my spread. It did and I love how it turned out, but OH MY WORD did it take me FOREVER to so all the stitching. Now let me remind you that I am NOT a seamstress so maybe that had something to do with it, but I am not kidding you I think it took me almost two hours to complete both pages of stitching. The things we do for the love of this craft! So here is a close up of the detail on the stitching. Now that I look at it up close, it isn't so impressive, but I love home-made feel it gives my pages. I have to give credit to the Sketch 102 class for the layout. This is one of the last ones I had left to use. Check out those letters, too. I found some Thickers and now am wondering why I waited so long to get some. They are too cool. I even got them on sale, so bonus for me! I think I carried on enough about these two projects. Thanks for listening to me ramble. Check back tomorrow for my BIG announcement. It's big to me, anyway. Have a fabulous Thursday! Hugs,