Digital Faux Stitching

Add faux stitching to your digital scrapbook pages with this simple techique.

This video is going to demonstrate a very simple way to add the popular sewn look to your digital scrapbook layout. It’s called faux stitching. I have selected white as my forefront color, and kind of a rusty brown as my background color.

I’m gonna click on the text button. I’m choosing QuaintICG as my font for this demonstration. I’ve selected 14 point as the size. I’m going to click on the side of my layout and it’s automatically going to create a new text layer for me.

So to create my stitching, I am going to simply click on the minus key, hold down, and it’s going to scroll. It will add your stitching all the way across the page, “very simple”.

You can leave it like that or if you want to add more depth to it, add another layer right below it. Click on the background layer, and then click on the little New Layer button at the bottom of my layers palette. I am going to toggle my colors so that the brown is in the forefront. Select the marquis tool and then select Single Roll Marquis.

Now, place the icon right over the stitching, and you’re going to see your marquis line right above that. I’m just going to fill it and deselect. There, you can see it’s a little bit darker, it looks like the spot a needle would go through the paper right below it.

It turned out a little bit darker than I wanted it to be, so I’m going to play around with the layers options. So I moved it to hard light, it just has a little bit more of a subtle effect.