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Thursday, October 16, 2008

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,




7 comments:

  1. Well all that hard work paid off!! This layout is awesome and the stitching and it reminds me of strings of Christmas lights!

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  2. These are both great projects! I REALLY love the card!!

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  3. WHAT?!? A teaser about a BIG announcement?!?? No Fair, I want to know RIGHT NOW (picture my best immitation of the bratty spoiled girl on Willie Wonka and the CHocolate Factory!)

    Awesome card and scrapbook page... although, you could've cranked out like 4 more layouts in the time you did that stitching. Seriously though, it looks totally awesome and way worth it! Way to go!

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  4. Wow, Lisa, these are fabulous! The time you spent stitching was worth it - really love it on the sb page! Yay for thickers, I just got a couple more packs myself!

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  5. Beautiful projects Lisa and love the stitching! I have to get out my sewing machine, this adds so much! Love the layout on your page and cute card too. :)

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  6. The stitching looks fabulous, Lisa! Well worth the effort. I can't wait to hear your big news tomorrow!

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