Hi, everyone! It’s Cristina here. I’m known in the scrapbooking world as l’alchimiste artisane and I’m so happy to be here with you in my first post as a part of the hybrid scrapbook DT. It’s an honor and I really hope we will enjoy together with this experience.
I consider myself a storyteller, so photographs and journaling are the main characters of my scrapbooking, and I don’t use many embellishments in my spreads. But this year I wanted something special for my Project Life®’s week number cards, as sometimes I have the feeling that my pages are too much simple 😉 .
And this is what I’m going to share today with you. How I do my week number cards. They are simple and easy to do, but they attract attention in the moment you look at the page, making it special.
So, here we go!
First things first, we have to do the digital work to have our card. I work on Photoshop, but you can do the same in Photoshop Elements if you want.
- Open a new 3×4 inch 300 dpi document with white background
- Write the week number with your favorite font (I use Arial Black for this)
- Open a card with the design you want for your number
- Copy the design you want to use
- Paste it in your week number card
- Verify that the pattern layer is on top of the number layer
- Click on image – create a clipping mask
And you got it! You just have to print it. And now the funny part!
- Place your card onto a foam
- With a needle or a metal point, make regular holes all around the number silhouette, including the inner parts
- Choose an embroider thread. There are two possibilities that work well here, you can choose the main color of the pattern as your thread color, or you can choose another color present in your spread that would complement the main color of the number pattern, as I have done in this example: the main colors of the cards I’ve chosen from the Rooted collection for my pages are green and rose; as the main color in my number card is green, I have used rose as thread color.
- Begin to sew using the holes you have done.
This is the result! cute, isn’t it?
This is the back, as you can see, I have tried not to go back and forth while sewing, in order to avoid bulges.
This is the complete spread.I hope you enjoy this tutorial and let me know in the comments below if you have any questions.
See you next month!
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What a great idea! Thank you so much for the tutorial. I adore the stitching but I’m not sure I’ll do that – but only because I’m having enough trouble keeping up with my weekly album (I’m afraid to admit how many months behind I am in creating pages =( ) & adding One More Thing To Do may break me. =D I will, though, be making your number cards & adding the label with the stamped dates at some point. If I don’t use it for next year’s album, it will definitely be used in the one after that! Thanks again for a quick, gorgeous project!
Thank you Sarah!! I completely understand your point 😉 sometimes project life it’s really overwhelmed, but the important thing is to do it, no matter how or when 🙂 and regarding the cards, you can use this technique in other project if you don’t want to invest more time in your project life!
Thanks passing through and for your comment!