Work Out Wednesday :: Sewing Kit

It's Wednesday again -- welcome back to the work out!  This week we're stretching and limbering up with the Sewing Kit stamp set.  It's full of buttons in a few sizes and stitch-pattern borders.  Plenty to get us through a tag, a card and a layout!  If you've got these, get 'em out and work 'em out this week!  (If not, you can always make a shopping trip count as exercise!)

Here's our weekly warm-up -- you just need a white tag to get started.

Stamp the large and small buttons straight on the tag in coloured inks.  Then stamp the smaller button on a sticky note to create a mask.  Cut it out and stick it over the stamped button.  Then you can stamp the cross-stitched border without it overlapping the button.  (If masking is new for you, check out this tutorial for an illustrated step-by-step.)  Then stitch on some real buttons to mix with the stamped ones.  I stamped the cross-stitch again on a pink vellum tag for more layers and tied them both together with pink satin ribbon.  Save your tag for a perfectly wrapped gift or put it to work on a quick layout.

If you sew on lots of buttons, you might also appreciate this nifty little tutorial, which is definitely my favourite way to tie a knot.  Simple but true!

Moving on to a card and staying with a pink theme this week...I love the little stitched borders in this set for adding just a little something.  You can make it bold in brighter or darker inks, but I like the is-it-there-or-is-it-not of the pale pink on white.  This is a design that goes together in just a couple minutes, especially since that paper is already cut with the lovely scallop edge.  You can add a name here or make this as a postcard and write on the lines.  Don't forget that cards don't need to take hours or carry a shopping trip full of goodies to still be cute, handmade and appreciated.

And for the final stretch, we put it all together.  Please tell me I am not the only person out there with a giant stash of those giant flowers!  I must have bought a pack in every colour when they came out and I think I have used about six flowers in total.  Definitely need to see about that!  So here's a layout with another two in use (I do think they look much nicer layered with two or three to create a fuller flower, but that's just me).  That pink patterned paper was a half-sheet in my stash as well...and I need to use up those half-sheets that get cast aside, so it was time to grab it and stick it down! 

To finish the flower accent, stamp the large and small buttons and punch them out with a scallop punch.  The lighter pink ink is great for layering in lots of faded colour along the edge of the punched shape.  Then add more flowers and more real buttons until you've got everything you want, and layer sticker letters right over the top.

There are three layers of stitching in the frames around the photographs -- a zig-zag stamped in pale pink, then a doodled zig-zag over that with a fine point black pen and a straight stitch stamped in the brighter pink.  The stitch stamps make great journaling lines too -- this one is the cross-stitch but they all work well for writing.

That's the workout for this week -- now treat yourself to a cooldown if you like!  If you give your sewing kit stamps a workout, make sure to let us see!

Until next Wednesday then!

Love and glitter,
Shimelle.~*

Comments

[grungedandy]

yeh i love this set & use it quiet a lot love the work out though given me some new ideas ! thanks seeya hugya *G*

[Jennie Gift]

I am loving the basic grey layout. I have to run home and do my work out now :)

[Amy Tangerine]

love these button stamps!!!!!