Tuesday tutorial with Nathalie

Hi there! I am here today to share one of the pages I created with the September main and embellishment kits as well as a tutorial:

KITS USED: September 2014 "Free Spirit" main kit and "Spread your wings' embellishment kit

NON-KIT ITEMS: yellow paper from a previous kit, navy card stock and DMC thread from my stash

I will share now my low-tech tutorial for stitching perfect circles around circle embellishments. I loved all the different Crate Paper stickers from the embellishment kit and I spread all the circle ones on the diagonal on my page:

The next step consisted in getting all my circle punches out and punching a scrap of card stock in different sizes:

I placed my "template" around each sticker choosing the size I wanted to stitch and then pierced my background as evenly as I could - no need to really stress about it though:

So it looked like this around each sticker:

Using a backstitch, I then stitch with two strands of DMC thread:

And here are close-ups of all the finished circles:

...and one last look at the finished page:

I love to stitch on my pages and I hope that this little tutorial will inspire you to get those needles and threads out!