AHHHH!!! I love this LO, Shawn!! This is so beautiful. Adele is getting so big!!! Love all of the hand stitching and the colors you choose. This LO is just so beautiful. I keep looking at it and finding something else I like. Great job and good luck!!
Awesome!! Love the brads and the way you cropped the pictures into the flowers!! Perfect machine stitching on those flowers and swirls!!!! Very cute and unique angle on the picture!!!
Cassie, thanks for the AWESOME challenge to handstitch :) I LOVED doing this page :) I have never stitched on paper before.. and haven't stitched ANYTHING by hand in YEARS! This was a WONDERFUL challenge b/c made me fall in love with my needle again!
Journaling is hidden under the flowers... they all hinge on a brad. I wanted Adele to be able to discover little things about herself.
Under green flower: "A" sticker mono; "almost nine months; 18.5 lbs
Under pink: her full name and the date of pics
Under Blue: "Playing in the grass after your cousin Laci's party at Chuck ~E~ CHeese. In a manner of minutes you managed to eat: rocks, leaves, grass, rocks again... and repeat! I Love how you are right now~ so fun and brave! (heart) mom
Old= Circle Punches (and paper piecing the flowers by cutting circles in half) new= Junkitz long brads (flowerful), BG pp borrowed= washers and yellow drywall tape blue= thread, brad and BG pp
Stitches: too many to count lol, all by hand Fabric tied on to letters (pink/green; green/pink)
Supplies: Basic grey Oh baby pp Daisy D's Nursery line pp Bazzill Chip Chatter Letters (were red- painted with 5 coats of paint/gloss medium) Junkitz brads (flowerful) fabric: unknown (recvd in swap) Floss: DMC Washers and Drywall tape from garage Delta paint: green, aqua, Delta Glossy Effects: blue, clear Joann's scrap essentials chipboard flowers (painted) Magnetic Poetry stamps, traditional typewriter
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