Creative Scrappers Sketch #172

Hi everyone!

I am here again with another Creative Scrappers layout! I had a lotta fun with the sketch simply because they is so much layering! I have had this My Mind's Eye "Quite Contrary" paper for a while, and I have eventually used it till there weren't any full sheets of it left! I wanted to try and use it up once and for all, so this sketch helped me [sorta] do that. I still have some smaller scraps I will use for cards, but I still like how it turned out!

I handstitched the circle (I'm FINALLY getting the hang of this technique, even if I did have to rethread my needle 3 times because I ran out of thread-- that's the worst part about handstitching!)  I misted the page before I even got started with some paint mist that I made myself (all you do is add paint and water or alcohol in a mist bottle and wa-la~ you've got some cheap mist!). The pink paper by itself looks like a pink counter top if you ask me, and I used the mist to cover that ugly look up! :P 

I pop dotted almost every element of this page. I didn't want to glue the paper straight on the layout because I didn't want the 'thread bump.'
I really like the dinension it adds to the page!!

Oh! Another technique I used. I stitched the circle with white embroidery floss, then colored the top of it with yellow chalk. Love this technique to "make" your own colors of embrodiery floss!

Thanks for looking!