Personal Note: I am suffering from seasonal allergies and finally broke down and took the medicine that makes me goofy and sleepy so I might make even less sense than I usually do. 
In fact, I was in such a state yesterday that I created a forum post for Day 22, and then didn't post it. I will look that over and post it in a bit, but I was anxious to get this one up. I think it is my favorite Scraptorial so far as I have wanted to figure out how to make felties for a long time and you all finally gave me the incentive to buckle down and figure it out. So thank you, and I hope you enjoy creating felties for your kits as much as I enjoyed creating this Scraptorial for you! 
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- Zip The zip contains the pages for the Scraptorial, the holly felties I created as examples in shadowed and unshadowed form--in case you want a closer look--and a handy-dandy link to the FREE stitches brush set I used.
Resources for Felties:
The Stitch Brushes Set by Aneesah on Deviant Art.
If you don't care for that set, or just want to try some other styles of brushes, here is a link for more Stitch Brush Sets to check out on PSD-Dude.com.
The Felt Texture by Marisa here on DS.com
Also on DS.com, a Felt Ric-Rac Border template by Sheila Reed
Wanna cheat? Here is an entire Alpha in Felt with a Stitched Border by Marisa, that just needs to be recolored to match your kit.
An Action that Creates Stitched Felties by Elif Sahin, as an alternative to the Scraptorial. (I haven't actually tried this action out, but Elif always makes amazing actions.) A caution: the description for this action says it has an installation guide & metadata files for PSE, but it is being reported that it doesn't work for some Elements users.
Day 23 Challenge: Create a feltie something or two for your kit. Make an element (from a custom shape or a pre-made CU resource or something you make yourself.) You could also do an alpha or a word or phrase in felt. A felt frame with embellishments would be a fun option or a whole felt background page with a stitched edge. Use the Scraptorial or Elif's action or your own method, if you have one. I just want to see felt texture. Make it as simple or as fancy as you want and please share it here in the forums or the Commons so we can see the result of your efforts. As always you are free to do whatever you can dream up, in whatever manner works best for you or skip the prompt entirely if you are "allergic" to felt. 
I'm sorry to hear you're under the weather, Annette. Feel better soon!
This ought to be fun! I've always wanted to learn how to make felt myself. I never could figure it out in PSP. PSP comes with a stitch picture tube, so I'll probably just use that.
Oh, the PSP stitch tube looks perfect for this! I like the texture. It really looks like thread. I am scheming how to get that stitching on a layer by itself in PS so I can emboss it or use a style on it, but I am just not firing on all cylinders at the moment.
I am anxious to see what you make, Christina. I do love the felties!
Thank you for the well-wishes. My daily OTC allergy pill usually is enough to keep me feeling okay, but when the farmers are harvesting, the trees are dropping dead, dusty leaves and it is dry and we have a few brush fires in the area . . . I am a miserable mess. This too shall pass!
For some reason I can't get the stitching to work right in PSE. The action would not find either the hole or the stitch...then didn't add texture. So used the stitch part and added texture. PSE can't do brush a path
I will fiddle with the action some more later to see if I can find a work-around.
Annette: I can avoid my allergy (shellfish); it's easy enough to not eat. LOL I can't imagine just what's in the air causing a flair up.
I ended up doing it all in PS instead of PSP, so no real thread--it literally is real thread with the shadowing included. I did use that stitching tube on the hearts I made for Bingo, though.
I used both Marisa's felt texture and Elif's action. I'll have to experiment more next time. This will certainly come in handy for the December blog train.
Tricia: That's so adorable!
Annette, ((HUGS)) for your allergies. We finally broke down and took our teen in for testing and a consult with the allergist this spring. Turns out he is allergic to pretty much everything that grows here
plus our dogs and everyone's cats...the wild grasses are the worst because they put off pollen year round! Anyway, she said that new research shows that the oral antihistamines are not very effective for nasal/sinus issues and make you loopy...so she recommended a variety of nasal sprays. One of the best is available OTC:
But he has a prescription as well with a nasal spray antihistamine which can be used every 4 hours. (The steroid one is once a day.) She also recommended a neti-pot for when he needs to clean out.
Hoping you feel better soon!!!
@Annette Marie pages 1, 2, 4, and 6 don't show up and says "File not found"
Hi, Deana. Thanks for letting me know. The allergy medicine musta deleted them while I was passed out on the couch under a pile of used tissues.
They are fixed now.
Oh, Tricia . . . thank you so much for that information. I have been thinking with this latest attack, that what I am doing obviously is not working effectively for whatever is bothering me at the moment. What a few miserable days I have had. WAH! I am very happy to see a recommendation of what to use instead. Sending my husband to the store immediately! Thanks again!
Hmmmm . . . I wonder why the stitching doesn't work in Elements? And if it doesn't, how DID you make that adorable feltie Christmas element with the red stitching? You always figure out a work-around. And it looks perfect--however you managed it. (It also made me want different colored stitches really bad, so I went back in and figured out how to put the path-stroked stitching on a different layer from the felt element, so thanks for nudging me in that direction.)
Are the feltie light bulbs done with Elif's Action? The embossing at the edges is a really neat detail I didn't even think to try when I was writing the Scraptorial. (Now I gotta try that. Thanks for another nudge!) They would be so cute on a twirly piece of jute string on a country-ish Christmas scrapbook page. So excited to play with them.
All of your felties turned out super cute, Tricia. Thanks so much for doing the Scraptorial, or trying to.
Just saw your edits, some of my questions were answered. LOL
Christina, adorable Spring felties! I love all of your little critters, but that squirrel is my favorite. I need him to go with some pictures I took of my backyard squirrels eating the peanuts and corn I put out for them. I love what you made for your kit with the Scraptorial and Elif's action and I will be looking forward to seeing what else you might create using felt and your considerable talent for future kits!
I wish I was allergic to shellfish instead of whatever I am surrounded by at the moment. As you said, it would be really easy to avoid and I wouldn't miss shellfish one bit. Much easier to avoid than BREATHING! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!
I'm having so much trouble trying to follow this tutorial, even trying to add the brushes to my PSE was virtually impossible. They wouldn't load the way that brushes usually do, and I had to append them to another brush set to even get them to show up at all. And even that didn't work properly.
Tricia, I have no idea how you managed to get your stitching to work, unless you angled and placed each stitch individually!
I give up!
Just for me, on PSE, Elif's action doesn't work.
Robyn, I am so sorry the Felties Scraptorial was a frustration for you and no felties resulted from all that effort.
I have Elements 11 somewhere on my PC. I should probably try these things out to see if they are workable in Elements before I share, but then you all are working with different editions of Elements so that wouldn't be for certain either.
If you really want felt elements for your kit, there is the stitched alpha I shared that you can modify or the ric-rac border. I saw a bunch of kits with felt element templates as well when I was checking out what was available on DigitalScrapbook.
Kimberly, I am sorry it doesn't work in Elements.
I will edit my entry to reflect that so no one else has to go through that frustration.
Why does it always delete Christina's previews? Booo
I need to add some ellies to this kit. I have a hundred million papers. LOL I usually make 2 ellies for each paper. What about everyone else?
And I'm so cold. My mouse hand is wrapped under a blanket (thank goodness for trackball mouses). So, Im typing with one hand. LOL
@Annette, for the bulbs I used the Atomic Cupcake Puffy Felt Action. I don't think the felt action from Elif worked, it was looking for a style that I had not loaded or something...then the stitching!!! I could get dots, or I could get stitches...with LOTS of errors and incomplete. So I figured the incomplete stitches were better and I put them through the Atomic Cupcake Satin Stitch for texture and added a bit of shadow. Maybe because Elif's action could not finish, it was still on a different layer for me, though it was locked into a folder which PSE doesn't like.
@Robyn, PSE doesn't like that action...I think because brush on a path is not available as an option. I ran it with the stitch brush already picked/loaded and just hit "continue" after every error. I ended up with the lines which I added texture to...
It doesn't work in PSE, sorry Kimberly. I had the same problem and used my Atomic Cupcake Felt action.
@Annette, hope you are feeling much better soon and that the nasal spray works wonders for you!
Oh, Annette, you sound miserable!
I'm glad Tricia had some good recommendations for you.
Allergies are SO frustrating, and when they make you feel REALLY crummy, at least for me, I get CRANKY!
I hope you feel much better soon.
Yeah, Kimberly, I'm seeing the same thing with Christina's previews.
A blank blue box with "image not found"
This was interesting, to try and figure out in my software.
But, though the result isn't as good as your guys' stuff I'm seeing here, I'm pretty happy with the result.
I used Marisa's felt texture, and then used a text path and dashes for the stitching!
Proud of myself for thinking of that! ROFL!
Here is my take on the tutorial. I did a felt one and thought I really doesn't suit my kit, so I tried a leather star instead.
Lisel, your reindeer is adorable
Tricia, I didn’t even end up trying the action! Like I said, I had so much trouble with just loading the brushes from Deviant Art! I just clipped the felt texture to my shape and adjusted the blend mode to get the coloured felt shape, then tried to get the stitch brushes working. A while ago, I made my own stitched elements and whenever I do stitching around elements with curves, I place each stitch individually, and nudge the angle until I’m happy with how it looks. Time consuming, but it works for me.
Lisel, your reindeer is awesome!
Kimberly, I can’t see her images here, either! The ones in her freebie forum are fine, but they don’t seem to work here, for some reason.
Annette, don’t worry about me not following the scraptorial. We all have different software, and different versions, so it’s not surprising that some things either don’t work, ow work differently sometimes. My first Elements version was 11, and I use 15 now, so I think that anything that works in 11 would work in 15 and higher. But don’t feel that you have to put the extra pressure on yourself to test out everything in Elements. Those of use who use PSE will just come and pick Tricia’s brains; she seems to be able figure out things!
EDIT: I just purchased and installed PSE 2023 (aka version 21)! It will be interesting to see what I can do with it, compared to what I’m used to doing in PSE 15.
Thank you, Annette! I definitely need to play around with this more to make the graphics more puffy. Maybe burn and dodge before adding the stitching. I tried it afterward, but it didn't really look right, it took away from the bright stitching. Elif's script turns out brilliant and it's finished so quickly. However, I think using Marisa's felt overlay and PSP's stitch tube I can get the puffy look.
To be honest, I never have been a huge seafood eater anyway (fish and tuna fish sandwiches are good, though). The smell of crab, mussels, shrimp, etc. always made me nauseated, so I never ate it. When my son (big seafood eater!) turned 16, he made me eat a shrimp I had bought for part of his birthday dinner. That's when I discovered I was actually allergic--it was an ugly scene that landed me in the emergency room. Anyway, hope you're feeling better for the weekend!
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