Tutorial Challenge: Stitch With Your Stamps!

Hi guys, it's Erica!

   Today's challenge is to stitch on your projects using your stamped images as a guide.  This is a very easy technique that adds quite a lot of wow to your images. 
 
   You'll want to start out with a stamped image that has nice clean lines.  I chose one of the cupcakes in the Susie Surprise set from The Greeting Farm.  I'd also suggest a light colored ink so it doesn't show up under your stitching.  I chose a slightly darker color than normal so it would show up better for you all.  :D
  
 

Okay, lets get started.  First, stamp your image on your cardstock. 

Next, grab your paper piercer and poke evenly spaced holes following the lines of the image. 

Make sure you have a stitch hole on any indents in the image like the points on the frosting and any parts of the image that stick out.  You want your stitched line to curve around the rounded edges. 

Make sure you poke the holes ahead of time and not as you go, it's much easier.  :)  Also, you want your holes to be close together but not so close that the paper tears when you stitch it. 

Tape the end of your stitching to the back of the cardstock and then trim the ends. 

Here's a quick how-to on backstitching. 

Step one, come up through your first hole. 

Then, down through the next. 

Back up through the next hole,
  

and down through the previous one.

And so on...

and so forth.  ;) 

It's a very easy stitch which is probably why I love it so much!  :D 
 

Here's the finished cupcake.  (It's got chocolate frosting, yum!)
  

I then cut out the cupcake using my Nestabilities, then ran it through again with the embossing mat and stitched along the embossed line.  I then mounted that on the patterned paper from the We R Memory Keepers Explore line.

I used a very cute border punch on the patterned paper and mounted it with pop dots on the card base.  I also stitched a line around the edge of the card base. 

And here's the finished card.  :)
 

I hope you'll take the challenge and stitch with your stamps!  If you do, post your card or layout creation in our gallery and comment on this blog post with a link to it. 

I can't wait to see what you make!

ps~Remember, today is the last day to get We R Memory Keepers and The Greeting Farm products, like the ones I used on my card, for 25% off!