Round Robin Challenge - Week 2

Week 2 for the Round Robin Challenge over at Swirlydoos.  This is a photo of my DD and our puppy Zeke.  He was just about a year and a half old in this pic.  Zeke is a mix of German Shepard, Black Lab and Rottie.  He is a big boy and such a sweetheart.  He has to be with his peeps!!!  He also loves water and took this chance to follow his girl out into the river where we were camping to swim with her.  

I had the difficult job of lifting a page created by Christy.  She sewed on her page and I thought oh no....I have yet to sew on a page!  Can you believe it?  Well, it's true; I haven't!  I used to make quilts so I can't for the life of me figure out why I have waited so long to give this a try.   I dusted off my big machine, got some scrap paper and went for it.  Can I just tell you that my machine went through the paper like it was melted buttah (said using my best Godfather imitation).  Yay!!!!

I layered my paper and cut the little fleur de lis all around the edges because I wanted to use them like the brackets in a picture frame and slide my second paper underneath them.  After having done this I couldn't just sew around the edges so I made a template and drew a pattern to follow while sewing that would take me around to each point.

She also used leaves that had text on them.  I found some paper from the latest Technique Kit I got from Swirlydoos and and used a Spellbinders die from Heartfelt Creations to cut my leaves.  I also used a Martha Stewart Leaf punch for the smaller leaves.  I used a stylus to emboss veins on to them, crinkled them up and then inked them.  I added this really lovely carnation vine from Prima.  I so love the color of those flowers.  I took out my Sizzix Tattered Flowers die and cut some flowers out of yellow card stock.  Next I used some Tiger Lilly and Espresso Glimmer mist to make them more match the vine and added a pearl to the centers.

I ended up using 5 types of ribbon, trim and lace on page. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and if you get a chance hop on over to Swirlydoos and check out the rest of the pages in the Round Robin Challenge!!!  They are all "lift worthy".  

XO,

Lisa

P.S.  I will be posting a new tutorial and my latest altered object in the coming days.  Stay tuned!