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Color Me Crazy Unity Stamp Day 5

 

It's DAY 5 today and Irene Tan is up to share how she creates this lovely layout! Love how she colors those Color Me Crazy flowers.

Hi everyone! It's Irene here and time to share my layout featuring Petaloo's Color Me Crazy series with stamps from Unity Stamp. I've used various Mixed Petals Flower Layers, foliage, lace and chipboard gates on this layout. The stamp sets which I've used are "My Life Our Story" and "Time & Seasons No." 

Here are some close-ups of the details.

To color the flowers, I've used some colorations, velvets and sorbets. These are water based paints which could easily be blended using water.

Petaloo supplies used are:

CMC Mixed Petals Flower Layers (1500-000)

Foliage - all whites (1540-000)

CMC Darjeeling - Med/Minis (1533-000)

CMC Chipboard Gates (1580-008)

Fancy Trims (1910-000)

Unity Stamp products:

My Life Our Story stamp set

Time & Seasons No. stamp set

xx Irene Tan

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Color Me Crazy Unity Stamps Day 4

It's Lisa Valentine's turn today on the Petaloo Blog.  You are going to LOVE what Lisa has made today. 

I love stamps and sometimes I foget just how much until I get an opportunity to just play.  I got that opportunity this week, and had a great time playing with some fun stamps from Unity Stamps.

I used Unity's Itty Bitty stamps called Encircled Love to create the banner as well as the little popped up circle.  I added some Petaloo Trim to my banner to dress it up a bit.  In the background I used Unity's Itty Bitty Love Tiles stamp.  I added some Petaloo's Color Me Crazy flowers to the mix.  I used Color Splash mist and Silk Acrylic Glaze to color them.

Here I used Unity's Itty Bitty Princess Kiss stamp on a white pices of card stock with Pink ink.  I laid it behind my chipboard dress form from Petaloo to give it some detail.  I added some of Petaloo's metal buttons and a Darjeeling flower to finish it off.

I hope you are enjoying your week and getting inspired from the team-up!!

XO,

Lisa

 

Supplies:

Petaloo - Color Me Crazy flowers, Darjeeling flowers, Trims, Chipboard and buttons

Unity Stamp - Itty Bitty Stamps: Princess Kiss, Encircled Love, Love Tiles

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Color Me Crazy Unity Stamps Day 3

A long time Unity stamp fan, I was thrilled when I heard that Petaloo was teaming up with them!  I just loved the way the flowers in my Unity stamp, Wishing You Joy, looked with the Color Me Crazy flowers that I colored in the same way.

First I stamped the image of the flowers on some paper by Simple Stories.  Then using some Tim Holtz Distress Inks and water, I painted the flowers in, just letting the color flow like you might see in a watercolor painting.  Then I stamped the sentiment and painted the grass.  When I brushed the grass color on, I used Peeled Paint, and this time I didn't use any water, just dry brushed it on.

The next step was to color the Petaloo chipboard corner.  I first inked it with some Distress Ink in Worn Lipstick for the base color.  Then I sprayed Heidi Swapp's spray in Primrose on it to give it some shine.  Then I took the sprayer out of the bottle and with my finger flicked it so that small sprays of color landed on my stamped paper.  I think that it really worked well with the watercolor feel of the card.

Then I started coloring the flowers.  I used a few from the Color Me Crazy All White Recycled Cotton Darjeeling Med/Minis collection.  I squirted some water in the tops of the Mustard Seed and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink lids and then dipped my paintbrush in it.  Then I rubbed my paintbrush in the inks and painted the flowers.  I kept building up the color until the flower was covered.  At that point, my flowers were pretty wet, so I dryed them with my Ranger heat gun, and fluffed them with my fingers at the same time.

The Color Me Crazy line of flowers are so versatile.  Don't be afraid to just test out different inks, sprays, and paint on them.  Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

Petaloo Supplies used:

• Color Me Crazy All White Recycled Cotton Darjeeling Med/Minis
• Color Me Crazy Chipboard Fancy Corners

Other Supplies used:

• Unity Stamps, Wishing You Joy
• Simple Stories Vintage Bliss paper collection
• Heidi Swapp Color Shine Primrose
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Mustard Seed, Worn Lipstick, Peeled Paint
• Memento Ink, Tuxedo Black
• Ranger Heat Gun

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Color Me Crazy Unity Stamps Day 2

Today is the 2nd day of our team-up with Unity Stamps.  We have been coloring all month with the Color Me Crazy collections.  Now we get to stamp and ink this week so lets' see who's up today. 

Today we have this darling card desinged by

Alice Carman   

This card was made using the Color Me Crazy Value Bag Medium Layers in white. 

I colored them with blue and yellow color shine (the Color Shine we used from last week's team-up) and inked the edges in a light brown. I also layered my flowers to make them fuller and added a brad from the Coordinating Brads and Trims line to hold the layers together. 

To acheive this effect for a fuller flower.  I layered a few small flowers together and then picked the same style flower, but in a larger size and held them together with a brad.  You can lightly spray them with water so they look more life like before you color them. 

Supplies:

Shades of White Brads

CMC Value Bag Medium Layers

You're my Bestie stamp

Japanese Background stamp

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Color Me Crazy Unity Stamps DAY 1

Welcome to another fun week of Color Me Crazy week.  We are teaming up with UNITY STAMPS and you won't believe some of the projects both design teams have come up with. There's so many different types of techniques you can acheive with our Color Me Crazy collection and when you throw stamps in the mix.  There's no stopping the creativity!

Today's beautiful card is designed by, Eva Dobilas.

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Unity stamps have long been my favorite companies to design with, so when I found out we were going to team up with them, I was so happy!  I have lots of their beautiful stamps, and I decided to work with one of their Donna Downey designed stamp sets called Imperfection is Beauty.  Truly love the sentiments in this set! And what better flowers to pair up these pretty stamps, than Petaloo's Color Me Crazy Paintable flowers, so that is just what I did.  Here is my pretty card.

For my card shape I used Spellbinders dies and Heidi Swap Vintage Chic papers.  I stamped the large flower from the stamp set on the background of my focal panel.  I sprayed my gorgeous Color Me Crazy Wild Roses with Heidi Swap's Color Shine sprays.  I didn't spray them all the way, as I kind of wanted the white to come through still, since I was going for more of a shabby chic look.  The simple reason why I love the Color Me Crazy Paintable flowers is that I have control of how I want my flowers to look.

Once I was done with spraying my flowers I worked with the super adorable Birdhouse chipboard, which I painted with white paint to match the shabby chic look and added a white rose brad on the top hole.  It was just a perfect little touch, I thought.  I also added a white lace trim to go with my card.  As a final touch I added a pretty seaside color Darjeeling Butterfly.

List of Petaloo products used on this card:

CMC - Wild Roses x 8

CMC - Chipboard - Birdhouses w/ birds

Darjeeling - Butterflies x 9 - Seaside

Brad Asst x 20 - Shades of White

Hope you enjoyed this little card.

Eva

Dont' forget to visit our friends at Unity to see all their team designs. 

Color Me Crazy Unity Stamps!

Starting tomorrow, Monday, May 20th.  We bring you a super delightful team-up week.  Unity Stamps will be joining us all week to bring stamping to our Color Me Crazy collections. 

We can't wait for you join us!  Starting Monday, we will have tons of ideas on how to stamp, color, ink, emboss and all the fun that you can create with stamping. Unity's design team along with Petaloo will be kicking off the fun so come and join us! We will be giving away prizes for everyday that week so join us everyday for a chance to win. Details on how to enter will be posted on Monday. 

See you then!

 

Color Me Crazy with Ranger Ink and Lisa Pace

 

Hi, I'm Lisa Pace and I was so happy to be asked to be a part of Color Me Crazy Week using products by two awesome companies, Petaloo and Ranger Ink. Of course I decided to create something with a shabby chic feel as soon as I saw the Shabby Cut and Straight Cut Fabric Flowers. I decided to alter a canvas clutch as I thought the Fabric Flowers would be the perfect accent and I was right. 

First, I covered the canvas clutch with decorative napkins using Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi Medium in Matte. Once the Multi Medium dried using fabric adhesive I attached crotchet and rhinestone trims around the front edge of the canvas clutch opening. 

It was then time to start altering the Shabby and Straight Cut Fabric Flowers. I decided to use Tim Holtz Distress Stains to color each of my Fabric Flowers. I applied a generous amount of Spun Sugar onto the large Shabby Cut Fabric Flower and Faded Jeans and Mustard Seed on two different Fabric Flowers from the Straight Cut.

You see two Mustard Seed color Frayed Fabric Flowers in the photo, just ignore one as I decided later, two was too many.

Once all three Fabric Flowers had a generous amount of Tim Holtz Distress Stain applied I then placed each flower underneath the faucet and rinsed some of the Distress Stain away. This gave each flower a gorgeous muted shabby chic color.

While the Fabric Flowers were drying I started altering some Cotton Paper Medium Sized Leaves. I could have buckets full of these leaves and I would still not have enough. These are the perfect size to tuck into all kinds of projects. 

I applied Tim Holtz Distress Stain in Peeled Paint to five Cotton Paper Leaves. I loved how each of the leaves absorbed the Distress Stain as each leaf was a bit different just as they are in nature. To dry each Cotton Paper Leaf I held them one at a time with a pair of tweezers then dried them using a Heat It Craft Tool. 

Using Archival Ink in Coffee I randomly stamped each Cotton Paper Leaf using the advertisement stamp from my Antiquated Collection Perfumery stamp set. Once the stamping was completed it was time to attach the altered Fabric Flowers and Cotton Paper Leaves to the altered clutch.

Of course this is when I decided to apply a light coat of Diamond Stickles over the altered Faded Jeans Straight Cut Fabric Flower. All I did was apply some Diamond Stickles on my finger and rub it onto the Straight Cut Fabric Flower. This added a bit more interest to the floral grouping I wanted on the front of the clutch. Since it was such a light coating (just enought to add a little sparkle here and there) I didn't feel the need to wait for the Stickles to dry. 

Using fabric adhesive I attached each altered Fabric Flower into a small grouping. Then using the same fabric adhesive I tucked the Cotton Paper Leaves in among the flowers. 

To complete the clutch I added a few stick pins among the flowers and accented some of the pattern on the napkins using Diamond Stickles. 

I hope you enjoyed this project and it's sparked a little inspiration. Altering the Canvas Fabric Flowers is so easy and fun to do, it's almost sinful if you don't give it a try.

Hugs,

Lisa Pace

Color Me Crazy...with Ranger and Jill Foster

Hi All!  It's Jill Foster here and I'm so honored to be sharing a couple of projects that feature Color Me Crazy flowers with Ranger products.

The new Ranger Distress Paints work beautifully with all of the flowers in the Color Me Crazy line.  I've used a variety of flowers including Multicolored Centers, Darjeeling, Asst. Flower Layers, Wild Roses, Canvas Flowers, and Mixed Florals on this mixed media wooden heart.  

I've also made a card using the same techniques...

I just love the grungy distressed look of the paints on these flowers!

For extra inspiration, I've created a tutorial video, just for you!

Thanks for joining me here today.

Hugs and happy painting! :)

SUPPLIES

MIXED MEDIA HEART
Petaloo CMC: Multicolored Centers, CMC- Darjeeling, Asst. Flower Layers, Wild Roses
Ranger: Distress Paints, Distress Ink
Other: Penny Black Stamps 40-201 Roman Surround, 40-237 Life’s Messages, Wooden Heart

BELOVED
Petaloo CMC: Canvas Flowers, Mixed Floral
Ranger: Distress Paints, Distress Ink
Other: Spellbinders Ribbon Banners and Foliage, Penny Black 2025M Music Background and 30-162 Love Chapter

 

Color Me Crazy with Ranger Ink and Tammy Tutterow

We are super excited to have Tammy Tutterow from Ranger Ink as our Guest Designer this week.  You are going to fall in love with her and her work!

Hello everyone!  My name is Tammy Tutterow and I am thrilled to be a guest here sharing a tutorial for a project I made with Petaloo Color Me Crazy products colored and Ranger Inks.  I am a huge fan of the Tim Holtz Distress collection of products by Ranger!  I couldn't wait to try them out on the fun Color Me Crazy products!

For my project, I created a small decor piece that can double as a card.  It mixes soft vintage feminine colors and textures with some fun steampunk ornate details.

To recreate my project, you will need the following supplies: 

• Petaloo: Color Me Crazy Med/Minis 1533-000, Med Leaves 1536-000, Butterflies 1539-000, Chipboard Gears 1581-006; Chipboard Keys 1581-008 
• Dies: Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Postage Stamp Frame 658572
• Stamps: Hero Arts Leafy Vines CG509
• Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink- Scattered Straw, Squeezed Lemonade, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Broken China, Wild Honey, Worn Lipstick, Victorian Velvet; Ranger Ink Archival- Jet Black
• Stain: Tim Holtz Distress Stain- Tarnished Brass, Brushed Pewter, Antiqued Bronze
• Markers: Tim Holtz Distress Markers- Walnut Stain, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint
• Embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology- Crinkle Ribbon, Word Band, Wire Pin, Cabinet Card Frame
• Surfaces: Ranger Ink Manila Tag #8; Muslin; Cotton Batting; Mat or Chipboard
• Tools: Ranger Ink- Non Stick Craft Sheet, Heat It Craft Tool, Ink Blending Tool, Mister Bottle; Tim Holtz Sanding Grip
• Adhesive: Ranger Ink- Pop It Foam Squares, Wonder Tape; Xyron Glue Stick; Helmar 450QD

Begin by applying different colors of metalic Distress Stains to the chipboard gears.  While the stain is drying, sand and ink the edges of the Cabinet Card Frame.  Adhere a large gear to the top right and lower left frame openings extending past the outside edges of the frame.

Use a glue stick to adhere a piece of muslin to a piece of cotton batting.  (I used a scrap of muslin that I dyed using Distress Stains.  You can see the tutorial here: http://tammytutterow.com/2011/08/tuesday-tutorial-distress-stain-muslin/) Die cut the assembled piece of fabric/batting using the Tim Holtz Sizzix Postage Frame die.  Stamp a floral design on the front of the fabric piece using archival ink.  Accent the stamped design with Distress Markers. Machine stitch around the edge of the die cut fabric piece.

Die cut a second frame from mat or chipboard.  Adhere the fabric piece to the mat board piece.  Adhere the assembled postage frame to the Cabinet Card using adhesive foam squares.  Be sure to not put any adhesive in the frame opening so that the frame can be used like a pocket when finished.

Color a length of Crinkle Ribbon using water and the Distress Ink colors you plan to use on your flowers.  Crinkle the ribbon and dry it.  Use the ribbon to attach a Word Band to the front of the Cabinet Card.  Wrap the ribbon around the card above the large gear and tie it in a bow on the left side of the card.  Add a decorative pin to the knot in the bow. 

Color two medium sized chipboard keys with any color of metalic Distress Stain.  Adhere the two keys to the fabric piece, one on the upper left edge and one on the lower right edge.  Adhere a medium sized gear just above the Word Band.

To color the leaves, brush over the leaves with Peeled Paint Distress Ink using an ink blending tool.  Brush over the raised areas of the leaves with Vintage Photo Disress Ink using an ink blending tool.

Mist the leaves with water to blend the ink.  Blot the water with a dry cloth and dry using a heat tool.

To color the flowers, choose a light shade of ink (Squeezed Lemonade shown).  Dab the ink onto the flower using an ink blending tool.

Select a second, darker color of ink (Scattered Straw shown).  Lift and hold the top layer of petals.  Use an ink blending tool to blot the darker color on the lower petals.

Dab on a dark brown ink (shown Vintage Photo) randomly onto the flower.

Mist the flower with water to blend the inks.

To add extra color accent, highlight the area close to the center of the flower with a Distress Ink Marker (Mustard Seed shown).  The color will wick on the wet flower.

Dry the flower using a heat tool.  You may find it helpful to hold the flower with tweezers as you dry it.

Adhere two leaves and two medium sized flowers to the lower left corner of the fabric piece.

Adhere two medium sized flowers to the fabric piece; one above and one to the right side of the first two flowers.  (Second set of flowers colored with Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw, and Wild Honey Distress Inks.)  Adhere a leaf to the top of the two keys so that only the top scroll part of the key shows.

Adhere two small flowers to the fabric piece, one above and one to the right of the firs and second set of flowers.  The new set of flowers should overlap onto the leaves covering the keys.  (Third set of flowers colored with Broken China Distress Ink and Mustard Seed Distress Marker.)

Add a final small flower to the fabric piece overlapping onto the gear in the center of the cluster above the Word Band.  (Fourth flower colored with Victorian Velvet and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink and Mustard Seed Distress Marker.)

Tuck additional gears into the flower clusters and under the edge of the frame to balance out the design.

Adhere a small gear to the upper right corner of the fabric piece.

Color a large butterfly with Wild Honey and Scattered Straw Distess Inks using an ink blending tool.  Use a Walnut Stain Distress Ink Marker to color the center of the butterfly around the beads.  Mist with water to blend the inks.  Dry the butterfly with a heat tool.  Adhere the butterfly to the fabric piece overlapping onto the gear.

Use an ink blending tool to apply Distress Inks to a #8 manila tag.  Stamp the tag using the stamp used on the fabric.  Add a stamped sentiment or journaling to personalize the tag.  Slide the tag into the top opening of the Cabinet Card.

Thank you so much for checking out my project!  I hope you love it as much as I do!  I am so in love with the way the Color Me Crazy flowers took the ink.  The colors are so vivid and vintagey at the same time with such wonderful texture!  

www.tammytutterow.com

Altered Art Week...who won???

Today's the day to announce our winners from this Altered Art week.  Right before we do that, we'd like to share a few sneak peeks of what we have in store.

Starting Monday, we asked 3 of the top designers in our industry to create a few projects using our Color Me Crazy collection and Ranger's products.

Here's a sneak peak from Tammy Tutterow's featured design.  You can find more of Tammy's amazing work by visiting her blog.

Here's a sneak peek from Jill Foster's featured design.  You can find more of Jill beautiful work by visiting her blog.

 

Here's Lisa Pace's gorgeous sneak peek.  You can find all of Lisa's beautiful art by viiting her blog.

We hope you join us for another week of Altered Art projects by these 3 incrediable woman. 

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Now that we kept you waiting, I bet you'd like to know who won! 

 

Monday: Betty Kuettle

(Betty shared our Facebook Post with friends and family)

Tuesday: Janet Zeppa

Janet posted our blog and said (Love the layout! Such pretty flowers.)

Wednesday: Sarah Romano

(Sarah LIKED us on Facebook)

Thursday: Pam Dear-English

(Pam commented on our Facebook and said: So cute!)

Friday: Tasha Hart

(Tasha pinned us on Pintrest)

Saturday: Leticia Rodriguez

(Leticia LIKES us on Facebook)

 

Congratulations to the lucky ladies!  Please email your home address to cheryl@petaloo.com so she can get your prizes out to you.

Thank you everyone for playing along.  You never know what we are giving away so keep playing and have wonderful week!