Scrapbook Layout: Large Hand-stitched Heart Design
- Allison
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min read
I'm still keeping up with the promise I made to myself to make more efforts to do some stitching heavy layouts. I very much love hand-stitching so I wanted to devote more time to making layouts here and there that have a huge focus on a hand-stitched design.
If you want to see a little video of this coming together, head over to my Instagram and look under "Reels". It's a short, 1 minute video showing the process of this layout.
For the stitched heart I used my Silhouette with a sketch pen to draw out the design.(#241366) Then I used my paper pierce to pierce along the pen lines.
When I first decided to go with this heart design my original thought was to use a bunch of reds and pinks, but then I came across this cute picture of Drew and thought it might be more fun to go against the obvious red/heart connection.
I ended up pulling the colors from his clothes and used that as my color palette. I used six different colors of embroidery floss and tried my best to kind of evenly spread them across the heart design.
For the rest of the layout I kept things really simple. With so much time and effort going into such a large amount of stitching, plus wanting that stitched design to be a big focus of the layout, I think it's best to go a more simple route with everything else.
I added a cut out camera, a few word/phrase stickers, and some heart die cuts.
My title also serves as my journaling in a way. I don't think every single layout has to have a big story. This photo was leftover from another layout I had created so the story of this moment has already been told. I love creating just to create so not every layout of mine has a big amount of journaling. Plus, I loved the sentiment of the title and thought it was exactly what I wanted to say.
Want to see more? Find me on...
It's a different kind of "sports watch" than the legion of stainless steel, black dial watches we most associate link with the form, and link they don't demand to be taken so seriously. Let's look link at the fun collabs from Maurice de Mauriac and Merci.
And to be clear, this isn't a guide for buying your dad his first watch or even his best watch, but rather to buying him a watch that can fit his taste and collection while being extra special because link it came from link you. And, because dads know it's not about the money, we kept the picks within a reasonable budget – and many are carried in the link HODINKEE Shop because dads love efficiency.