It’s a stitching challenge this week at Heart 2 Heart.  Do you remember the blood, I mean drama that I had two weeks ago when I tried to sew for the last Heart 2 Heart challenge?  Of course, I could have avoided this problem if I had paid attention and looked ahead at the challenges two weeks ago and saved the sewing attempt for this week.  😉 

However, I’m not one to give up easily, so I scoured the internet to find some “sewing” inspiration.  After some searching, I found this tutorial on creating french knots.  Since back-in-the-day, I used to cross stitch (I wasn’t always terrible with a needle) and played around with a crewel project, I thought this could be a “sewing” technique that even I could handle…and hopefully with minimal blood. lol  I also drew inspiration from this week’s CASE study and by the photo at Inspired By (shown below).


In addition to the french knots that I used for the center of the flowers, I also used the CTMH ruler to first pierce some holes and then hand-stitched the lines with black embroidery floss.

Papers:  White Daisy CS, Outdoor Denim CS

Stamp Used: Hooray Bouquet, In the Background, For My Friend
Inks: Sky, Outdoor Denim, Cranberry

Embellishments: Neutral Embroidery Floss

Other: Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, Sponge, Micro-tip Scissors, Paper Trimmer, 3D Foam Tape, Piercing Kit, Bone Folder, ATG Adhesive (Scotch)

So here’s what you need to know to play along with the Heart 2 Heart challenge this week…and every week.

1. Use mostly CTMH products.
2. Incorporate the current challenge…stitching (real or faux).
3. Link your project back to Heart 2 Heart Challenges from your blog post or online gallery.  If you are linking from a blog, you must link directly to the actual post, not your entire blog.
4. You also need to mention Heart 2 Heart in your blog post. (Please don’t make us guess.)
5. Finally, please, please, please, we ask that you consider turning off word verification, as it does make it easier (and less time consuming) for the design team to leave comments, as well as other visitors to your blog. 😉