Hello! Happy Monday!
Here is my layout for Stick It Down. When I drew up this sketch I had the layout in mind so I pretty much copied the sketch exactly...
I used my Silhouette Cameo and sketch pens to create the love you patterned paper strip, the Y and U, and the top peek-a-boo section. I then switched to a cutting blade and cut them out. I also cut out an O to use as a template to trim my photo. Whilst I had the Silhouette up and running I cut a stitchnig template for 'love' on a 12x12 background. I make my stitching templates by switching the solid line of text to a dashed line. Also, as I am a lazy impatient bad hand sewist I go through and delete every other dash. This makes the stitches larger and takes a lot less time to complete the sewing!
The hardest part of the layout was choosing which colour heart stickers to use...
I opted for yellow, a deliberate swerve of my instinct to use green. I'd use green on everything...
I added a haze of yellow behind th photo using a polychromos coloured pencil and a blending stump. It is subtle but I love the little subtle touches.
I hope you can join us over at Stick It Down this month. Remember the sketch can be interpretted many different ways and doesn't need to have the title 'love you' - you could use any words.
Here's the process video...
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