Embroidery Fun!

I hope you've all had a great week and have some fun things planned for your weekend. 

If you live in or around Brisbane (or even interstate), you may be lucky enough to be heading to the Craft Expo this weekend! I hope to go next year. And I will be setting up a savings plan in anticipation of some serious spending on things i absolutely cannot live without!

This week, I wanted to do a PL layout for Jake, my youngest who is now 5. I wanted to record some of my favourite memories, or photos not in our digital family album. I always find looking at and selecting baby photos for the boys a bitter sweet process. (read more) 

For this layout, I used mostly Amy Tangerine goodies. The Around Town Kraft paper is so cute and perfect for baby/childhood pages.

Close up of LHS.

Here's a close up of the RHS.

I finally used the Amy Tangerine embroidery kit! I ordered it about a fortnight ago and procrastinated about opening it. Having admired many of Amy's layouts and tutorials about how easy hand sewing can be, I gave it a go.  

Here's my title card with a hand-stitched heart.

Papers: Amy Tangerine. Stickers: Amy Tangerine Remarks letter sticker book.
Stamps: Give a Girl a Stamp, Ali Edwards. 

Here's more stitching using the Amy Tangerine embroidery kit (from Polka Dot Creative).

I'm really happy with how the chevrons in the next photo turned out. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm really liking hand stitching and feeling slightly addicted. The boys better watch out -- they may come home to brightly coloured city scapes and arrows embroided onto their school uniforms, t'shirts, socks and their homework books. 

I'm hoping to get another PL layout done this weekend :-) I doing my best to save money by using my stash and NOT going to the Craft Expo. 

Thank you for stopping by. Hope you have a wonderful weekend! xx