Stop And Smell The Roses

The Challenge:
Stitch your title

I love to hand stitch, but I have never stitched the title before.  I've often admired it, but never done it.  Sometime you just need a kick in the pants to cross that thing off your list of things to try.  For this title I first printed it out on my Word program, using Lucida Handwriting, trimmed the paper down to fit into the space, and pierced right through the copy paper and my layout, then I stitched.  I really love how it turned out and will be doing this again!  There are so many cool fonts out there and lots of thread colors.

I also used Ashley Horton's June Sketch It Out sketch.  I did one of her favorite things; turn a single into a double.  This sketch was the perfect one to do this.  It was easy to keep all the elements as designed, but just stretch it out.  Ha ha!  For this month's Sketch It Out I just Stretched It Out ;)

I also will be linking up to the current Thinking*Through*Designs challenge.  Be sure to link up you work of he{art}! http://thinkingthroughdesign.typepad.com/thinkingthroughdesign/

Asheley's sketch