Hello scrappy friends! Paige Evans here and I am so excited to share my first layout with you, and this is actually the very first layout I made with my new Oh My Heart collection with Pink Paislee - available now!
I started by designing a concentric snowflakes cut file and drew it onto textured white cardstock. You can download the cut file for FREE here!
Next I poked holes about a quarter inch apart over all the pencil lines then erased the pencil lines.
I chose 7 colors of embroidery thread to match the colors of Oh My Heart and stitched away! The stitching process took a few hours, but to me it's 100% worth it - I LOVE the texture and softness it adds and it totally relaxes me.
Once the snowflakes were stitched I trimmed off a bit of the edges and adhered it onto a colorful piece of patterned paper. Then I added a trio of little square photos of my daughter Jane at the same slight angle across the center of the snowflakes.
To help draw the eye into the photos I tucked die cuts and patterned papers underneath and layered more die cuts and chipboard stickers on top. I even fussy cut a flower cluster from patterned paper since I've used most of the flower die cuts on different projects (not layouts though! This is the first legit layout!).
I finished the page up with journaling and now it's hanging on my wall for a while before it'll go inside Jane's scrapbook. If you are interested in watching the process video, you can see it below!
Have a lovely day!
We're thrilled to have Paige joining our 2017 Creative Team for 2017!
To learn more about Paige, visit our Design Team page on our website here!
Paige, your work always astounds me!! It's so beautiful! Your line is just gorgeous as well!!!!
Posted by: Roxanne | January 18, 2017 at 10:06 AM
Beautiful! I love embroidery and cross stitch, so adding some stitches to a layout is great!
Posted by: Sandy Clinton | January 18, 2017 at 10:13 AM
I love your work Paige!! I have taken many of your online classes. I am not finding the download for this project. Thanks!
Posted by: christine plaxco | January 18, 2017 at 10:48 AM
BLISSFUL LAYOUT!
So colorful and lovely...
Posted by: KELLY A. CROWL | January 18, 2017 at 11:49 AM
Lovely! I'm inspired!
Posted by: Cyndi M | January 18, 2017 at 03:14 PM
LOVE all the fantabulous stitching!
Posted by: barb macaskill | January 19, 2017 at 09:32 AM
Wow, your stitching is spectacular.
Posted by: Deepa Lakshman | January 19, 2017 at 01:29 PM
This layout is so Paige!! Lovely!
Posted by: Shannon | January 19, 2017 at 06:25 PM