Sometimes I see a paper and immediately get the itch to stitch it! Such was the case with the frames paper in the 12x12 Paper Pack from my Halloween-themed BooVille collection with Pinkfresh Studio! It took about a month to stitch this entire page, a little bit here & a little bit there - slow & steady wins the race!
First I carefully cut out the icons inside of all of the frames, all except the two inside the leafy frames. Then I hand poked holes around all of the frames, spiderwebs, and candles.
I did a chainstitch around all of the frames and a backstitch through the webs and candles, using tone-on-tone colors of DMC embroidery threads:
The stitching took probably 24 hours in total. Worth every second to me :)
After finishing the stitching I added Glossy Accents to all of the stars to make them shiny! Next I backed three of the open frames with photos of Fox from way back in October of 2013 when he was only 3 years old. It was our first fall living in Germany and we wanted to visit a pumpkin patch so we drove about an hour away to the closest one and all of the pumpkins were still green lol! So funny. But memories were made and here I am 16 years later documenting it. I just love the skeleton hoodie Fox was wearing - perfectly coordinates with BooVille!
After backing three of the frames with photos I backed the rest of the layout with a sheet of smooth white cardstock. Then I fussy cut most of the icons from the inner frame pieces (along with a skeleton trick-or-treater and a few bats from other papers) and popped them into the open frames. I decorated with tiny embellishments like the Enamel Shapes and star and burst Rub-On Transfers.
The title "happy Halloween" is from the Title Puffy Stickers and I cut it into a couple pieces to fit into one of the bigger frames on the right side. I journaled below the title with an aqua pen and finished with an aqua "hey, pumpkin!" Cardstock Sticker.
This might be my favorite Halloween layout of all time :) Thanks for stopping by and have a spooktacular day!
SUPPLIES: Patterned papers, die cuts, stickers, rub-ons: BOOVILLE
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