five.

emily issued a challenge over at studio calico to make a layout using just five items: one sheet of patterned paper, embroidery floss, metal, paint, and alphabet stickers. she said you could add cardstock for the base. here's what i came up with...
as usual, i struggled to get a good photo of this layout... white layouts seem to be particularly hard to photograph.

i used a piece of studio calico paper called "cafe american" because it had the teal color that i wanted to use to accent the photo.

the detail shots are a bit better than the overall shot:
for the metal element, i used black wire and twisted it up with some pliers. i'm not sure if you can really tell, but i made a little heart at the beginning. i like how the wire added some depth to an otherwise flat layout.
i used acrylic paint to paint a bunch of hearts all over the white cardstock, then i sewed around the perimeter of each heart with black embroidery floss.

all in all, it was fun to work on this page and try to figure out how to incorporate each element, and only those elements.

happy friday! :]