Hello everyone! Sorry for my absence from the blog… apparently EVERY school project, presentation, concert, meeting, etc. has to happen within a 3-week period at the end of the school year. It is chaos. But I have been sneaking time in for crafting in amongst it all and I am so excited I was able to make some cards with the new Stitched Together from the Ellen Hutson United We Flourish collaboration with Waffle Flower. I have a thing for globes, and I have an obvious thing for flowers and stitching. So it was like the designers of this set read my mind and developed this set just for me! I LOVE it.
I decided to try a new-to-me-technique with this set that you could call highlight or spotlight stitching… just taking at portion of an image and stitching it for emphasis. I thought stitching the flowers on the globe would add beautiful detail and texture to the card, so after stamping the stitched images and cutting out a panel with a stitched rectangle die, I poked holes in the corners of all the flowers.
This is not as tedious as it looks, I promise. If you try this technique, take your time and don’t poke your holes too large. I poked all the holes in about 10 minutes.
Then stitch them up! Because these images are somewhat small, I found the thinnest needle I could fit my thread through and started stitching. I used two strands of floss for each color.
I had so much fun stitching the first card that I made two more! I used a Pretty Pink Posh “Lovely” die to make the larger “love” in two of the cards to switch up the sentiment.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you give this technique a try, I would love to see the results!
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