This week I'll be blogging at Write Click Scrapbook about one of my favorite techniques: hand stitching on pages. I hope you get a chance to visit, read, and share!
Here's a page I made right before I went on my scrap retreat, using a kit from Studio Calico (can't remember which--either September or October. I think September--I killed that kit on the scrap retreat):
I love this photo. My mother borrowed it from my cousin, and I scanned it and printed it to use on a page about the phrase I now say when we leave on road trips, which came from my Grandpa John. You can read the journaling here:
I got the idea for this design from this layout; I wasn't too fond of the paper, which I got in a kit, but I liked how it fit as the background of this nostalgic page.
Here's some details:
I love clusters. And mixed fonts.
Here's a close up of the photo turn, which is really a geotag stamp I embossed and added with a brad. Love that stamp.
Please check out Write Click Scrapbook this week--I'll share some of the cross-stitched projects from around my house so you can see a little of my first creative hobby!
How about you--do you have other creative ventures, or do you focus on scrapbooking and card making?
4 comments:
Cross stitching was my first hobby too!! Gosh, I haven't touched it in about 9 years. I do have some projects that need finishing.. though this scrapbooking seems to always take precedence. Your page is wonderful. That sheet worked good as your background. I have it too and wasn't too thrilled with it.
I say that too! in memory of him. And I always draw out the noooobody, just like he did. I love that photo. I'd love to get a copy of it. What beautiful words to remember him. A beautiful layout, too. You are very talented.
I love that paper and you used it perfectly! Really lovely layout! And I'm excited about the stitching week!
Really love what you've done with this layout - what a great tribute to somebody special, and a great photo also. I'm inspired to use some busy papers in this way!
Most of my creative ventures are in scrapbooking and card making, although I'm refinishing a window frame right now that I'm going to use for a giant photo enlargement. That's about as non-scrappy as I get. :)
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