Hello. It’s Lisa here today having fun with the Sew Easy Template that comes with the July Kit this month.

I thought that it would be fun to sew these words from the template around my photo. It’s quite a large photo. 5×7” so you can see that the words are quite a decent size.

I wanted to share a couple of tips with you though to show you how I found it easier to use the template.  When I first used it I punched through the teeny holes and sat back and just saw a mass of holes before me and it just looked so confusing and I couldn’t make out the words at all.

So I did this.

Placing a craft mat under my LO, I taped the template to my page so it couldn’t move (using repositional tape). I then used a paper piercer to pierce through. This has to be my favourite tool of all times.

I then took the paper piercer once again and re-pierced the holes to make them larger and more visible. Using the template as guidance I then joined up the dots with a pencil (like a dot to dot).

This made the sewing so much easier for me as I could properly see what I was doing.

It was fun to use on a birthday card too.

I have used this alot this month. I hope you will enjoy it just as much as I have : )