Layer style 'stroke' not even

I have an image that I put a 3px stroke around 'inside'.  It looks fine, until I import it onto another project then it is heavy on the top and left side and hardly visible on the right and bottom.  Has anyone else ever had this happen?

Zeno Bokor,
Thanks for the reply.
I'm not sure what the deal is, but when I closed everything out and restarted Photoshop, the problem dissapeared and I can't seem to get it to duplicate itself. I dunno.  I'm going to mark this question as answered, but I sure wish I knew what that was all about.
Thanks again for the reply.

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