Paper Stitching...

...well, I may have mentioned a couple of times that I am useless with a sewing machine... so thank heavens that I have a stitchy stamp. Over on the Lots To Do Challenge today, the new theme is Stitching. I really wish I could sew but 'cos I can't I used my Tim Holtz stitch stamp instead... and because it is unmounted, I used it without an acrylic block, when meant I could bend it along the curved edge I wanted to "stitch" Cheating I know... but I know you won't tell anyone LOL




The base is an offcut of mountboard, coloured with Wild Honey DI. I used some more of that old book - yes, I am still reading the pages as I am altering them... tis a good book and the bits that are missing I just fill in using my imagination :O)) So, I coloured the book age with Stormy Sky DI, crumpled it, spritzed it, dried it, rubbed Wild Honey over it, spritzed it, dried it and then popped it in place... and used the stitches to... erm... secure it ;o))




The flower was made using the Tattered Florals Alterations - I just cut a big wad of old book page at once and then colour the flowers with DI's - Stormy Sky, Wild Honey and Old Paper. The centre is an Idea-ology button - isn't it just perfect with that gorgeous colour in the centre??? I used the Alterations Tickets die, cut two tickets, stamped a Tim Ticket over one of them and a mini sentiment on the other, popped them into Memo Pins and then stuck the pins into the assembled flower.




I used that FAB stamp - you know the one that Tim made that actually fits under the Idea-ology Film Strip... how clever is that!!! I didn't even realise it was a perfect fit either... it is almost like he did it on purpose ROFL. All of the stamping, inkings, Alterations and embellies are from The Artistic Stamper. Anyways.. I hope that this piece is acceptable for the challenge, even if I did cheat LOL Grim is now off nights - hurrah! And... the tree chaps came back yesterday and grinded (or is it ground???) out all the stumps so we now have a massive huge task in the garden... if you know a landscape gardener who works free of charge please let me know cos I am feeling a very daunted by the amount of work that needs doing... oh how I wish I had a magic wand cos would seriously be waving it about right now LOL Thanks for looking... don't forget to check back tomorrow for the new Sunday Stamper theme... I haven't decided what it is yet... am off to make my entry now :O)) TTFN

Hels x