Karen Oliver

It might be a few days late, but I did complete, photograph and blog it!  Yay!  So here it is.  This one was a scrapping challenge, and based on a sketch from Creative Scrappers I like sketches, they really help me think in a different direction.  Otherwise I seem to do the same thing over and over.  Hey, I have a style and I’m comfortable lol.

This one I did as a 6×6, I had some of these little photos printed out and wanted to use one.  I’m going to do my son’s photo using the same sketch this week sometime.  I’ll upload that too when it’s completed.

I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve only just ordered my first package of 12 x 12 textured cardstock.  But it’s so pretty that I don’t think it’s going to take me very long at all to go through it.  And it might actually mean I’ll catch up on my scrapping.  The stitching was done by hand.  I used the matpack to prick the holes in the layout then backstitched using some embroidery thread I had laying around.  I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.  I don’t often stitch on a layout so this was quite different for me.

Anyway, hope you like it