Trying something new

In the last issue of Scrap Affairs there is a competition from Shortcut Crafts.... all about stitching and stamping. Well of course I decided to make a layout for this.

I also decided though to not just do the normal stitching thing but to rather try something a little different. I have seen similar ideas on pinterest before using other shapes on the background, but decided to go with a car shape for my roadtrip photo.

I found a fairly simple clipart of a Beetle which I printed out on A4. I then simply laid this over my background and made holes all around the outline through both pieces of paper. Now that I had my outline  I turned to my distress oxide inks and used them as watercolour to paint in the beetle. I must say I am pretty chuffed with how it turned out. Once it was all dry I simple hand stitched all the lines in white thread... took a few hours in front of the tv!

I also found a car stamp that I have which I added to the bottom of my layout in three different colours of oxide...first up I stamped in orange but it was a bit toooooo watery so then I overstamped it in blue. Lastly I just touched the brown to the edges of my stamp and restamped it... this all gave a lovely layered effect.

To finish off my page I used a few bits of paper layered under my photo and then added some stickers for the title and embellishment, plus a bit of hand journalling.

So why not try something new too and see where it gets you.