Road Trip Adventure | Cocoa Vanilla Studio Limited Edition

Hello Hello, it's Michelle here today with a new layout share as part of our current stitching theme. One of my favourite techniques to add to a layout, and one that I don't use often enough lately. I've used the Hit the Road collection to document a photo taken of Leila earlier this year when we went on a family road trip (this kit was a limited edition in 2017)

For this layout I started with my usual white cardstock base, a large piece of paper 2 from the collection (a lovely woodgrain chevron pattern), plus smaller pieces of paper 1 & 4 to create the photo stack. The paper strips along the bottom of the layout came from the paper name strips along the bottom of paper 1 & 2 and everything else is a mix of ephemera and cut apart pieces from paper 5

I've used hand stitching as a feature on select embellishments and on random places around the chevron pattern paper.  I also selected a couple of ephemera and cut apart pieces that also had hand drawn stitching to continue the theme.

When I saw this card on paper 5 I just knew it would be perfect in place of a title. I wasn't entirely sure what I wanted to use as a title, and sometimes I don't feel the need to add one, as long as theres something large in place to balance out all the elements.

Heres a closer peek at the stitching I've added around the photo, and in place of the tiny staples I would normally add to things like stars and smaller ephemera pieces

I created a cluster at the bottom of the page and added tiny stitches to the stars plus a few more random stitches to the chevron paper

Well thats it from me today, I hope you've enjoyed seeing my take on the stitching theme. Something a little different to the way I normally add stitching, but loads of fun to create.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping

Michelle x

Elephant Wall Art | The Cut Shoppe

Hi Everyone!

Today I'm here to share something for The Cut Shoppe thats a little different to the usual Scrapbook layout or card.  I really wanted to share another way that you can make use of Cut Files and your creative skills.  So when Ashley shared the Hul-la-ba-zoo Cut file collection I knew exactly what I was using for this project.

The recipient of this framed wall art loves Elephants, and I had been searching for something similar to this design for quite some time. I was super excited to see it being released!

I wanted to keep the art free of any distracting embellishments so I've kept it very simple and only used the Elephant design and her name. 

The entire artwork has been hand stitched with a variety of pink embroidery threads to create an ombre effect. Many nights on the couch stitching in front of the TV = a beautiful handmade gift 

To create a stitching template I enlarged the cut file in my silhouette studio to the size preferred, then selected the 'perforate' option in the Cut settings

This made it easier to hand stitch the design on the cardstock using a simple backstitch

To finish off the frame I've hand stitched her name using the darker pink thread. To do this I wrote her name on some transparent baking paper and poked holes evenly along the lines

Thats all from me today, thanks for stopping by

I will have more to share in a few days

Until then, Happy Crafting!

Michelle x

Hello Little Miss Attitude | Hip Kit Club

Hey Everyone!! Another super quick share from me today using the March kits from Hip Kit Club

I followed along with their weekly challenge within the Members Forum Facebook group. This week was a recipe challenge. The criteria was to create a layout using at least 4 of the following 6 "recipe" suggestions: 

1. Two or more wood veneers

2. Stripes

3. Patterned Paper behind your photo

4. Some type of Mixed Media

5. One photo

6. Embellishment cluster

I'm really happy with what I've created and I think I've covered 4 of the 6 criteria: 2 veneer hearts, Blue arrow stripe paper, Pattern paper behind photos, and an embellishment cluster.

I started with a cut file from the February downloads and backed it with the exclusive paper designed by Kim Watson. Rather than machine stitching, I changed things up and stitched by hand. Once complete I raised the entire speech bubble up with some fun foam.

I really loved both sides of the blue arrow stripe paper. I tried so hard to make the starburst side work on a layout, but it was too busy to use with the speech bubble. 

I mixed up the alphas from the kits, and added in another from my stash to finish off the title

And lastly I combined multiple die cuts, veneer and puffy stickers to create a cluster at the bottom of the page

Thanks for stopping by, more to share again soon!
Happy Scrapping
Michelle x