Playing with a new scrapping tool

A few months back I saw a little sewing machine for sale on "Catch of the Day" but missed out on the deal. So when it came up again I grabbed it....it's a tiny little battery operated machine that sews straight.

It's a cute little thing that I bought solely for scrapping... it's not the best machine... very frustrating at times and is either on or off... ie be ready to sew when you switch it on. But at least it only cost me R70 (after gift voucher discounts)... so it's not like it cost the earth!

So now that I have this machine in my possession I decided i needed to test it out on a layout and created this page.

I sewed all around the background paper... with a few glitches and so did a double line of stitching.

I tried another page where I tried to sew further into the page but it was a bit awkward. The little hole to feed stuff through is very small and as paper doesn't bend so easily it was not tooooooooo successful. Note to Self... sew first then stick down.

The other element on my page was a background diecut page that I cut on my Curio. I cut the white piece and then recut a whole bunch of the inside shapes in various patterns before playing to get them to fit.

I also diecut my "pie" word in white and backed it with pattern paper. A few stickers and a date stamp completed my page.

Here's a pic of my machine in action.