Hi, I’m Kristine from Close To My Heart. Now as well all
know that stitching adds a little something extra to
papercrafting projects and now it’s even easier to
create perfectly stitched designs thanks to the new
Stitch Guide from Close To My Heart. It’s really a
simple tool and it will help you make sure that any of
your stitch designs turn out just right and it’s really
even fun to use. Let me show you how it works. Okay
first thing you’ll want to do is I like to work with our
long foam mat. This is not the one that comes with the
Paper Piercer but it can be bought separately. You just
put your piece of cardstock that you want to punch on
top of it and then here’s the Stitch Guide itself. You
can see that the Stitch Guide has just a ton of
different designs in different sizes. So I’ve got the
heart shape in one, two, three, four, five—er four sizes
and a variety of different borders as well that I can
also use for stitching. Now just for the purposes of
this demonstration, I am gonna create my fun little
geometric shape here. It’s a hexagon but I’m only seeing
half of it right now. Now I’ll just take my needle and
punch it easily through. You’ll want to make sure that
you place your paper in a place where you can actually
hold the paper down with a finger like I’m doing while
you punch to keep it steady so those holes stay
perfectly equidistant. When I’m done punching half the
shape, you can see that I’ve got half the shape done,
see how fun that is. I will simply flip over the Stitch
Guide and keep on going. Now how do I line it up
perfectly? Still easy, kind of ingenious, all I need to
do is line up the last hole that I punched with the
first hole of that shape on the guide. Not going to
punch them again because I’ve already punched them and then
I can just keep on going. So you get the idea and I’ll be
able to finish my hexagon shape in literally under a
minute. It’s going to be perfectly balanced with all of
those holes equidistant just like that with the help of
the nice sturdy gauge needle. Now, when it’s all done,
when my shape is punched, I’m going to have these great
holes. And you know what? You can leave these holes
empty. I think even just the punched shape really adds a
nice bit of flair to a different project. You can use
them for brads or anything else that might want to have
a flange that goes through, but today I’m going to show
you um what it looks like with Baker’s Twine. You just
start like you would any sewing project. I am working
with the full Baker’s Twine just to show you what a
really thick strand looks like. These holes will hold
even the thickest strand of Baker’s Twine. Ours is eight
strands and so you can see that even at eight strands it
holds it very, very nicely so that really looks great.
But if you also want a slimmer look, you don’t want
quite as much bulk, you can separate out the strands on
the Baker’s Twine. You can work with thread with a
single ply thread, or with something as thick as this
eight strand. And all I need to do is just keep
following it along there. It’s thick enough that it’s
secures really easily to the back of the cardstock quite
simply. Now I want to show you a few projects that have
been made with this technique using this awesome product.
First of all, I want to show you this darling layout.
Now I personally like the borders even better than I
like the shapes. Look how classy that looks. It is so
even, so perfect, you see that great zigzag stitch that
goes over both pages. It looks like it has been machine
sewn. That is how perfect it looks. This one has a
couple of strands so it’s got a little bit of thickness
so I can see it. Here on my card, you can see this great
swirl, so fancy it looks really elegant and yet nobody
needs to know how simple it was to do. That will be our
secret. Ssh, ssh. Now, the last one here is adding just
a really simple whip stitch right around my journaling box.
Look how finished that turns a really plain piece of
white cardstock into something that looks so intentional
and so finished. This is actually done with thread so
very, very easy to do. Now I know that many of you might
have been intimidated about combining papercrafting and
stitching before, but thanks to the new Stitch Guide
from Close To My Heart it is never been so simple. With
your Stitch Guide and your thread, floss, or hemp you
are ready to beautifully embellish all of your
papercrafting projects. I know you are gonna wanna
get your own, simply contact your Independent Close
To My Heart Consultant or visit closetomyheart.com
to find out more.