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Darjeeling Collection...

... makes my daughter nicer than ever :)

With these deep colors, Darjeeling collection looks like anything else, it's amazing.

Products used:

- Color Me Crazy cotton paper collection, 3D foam upper case

- Darjeeling Collection, Zinnia and Anemone

- Chantilly collection, butterflies

- Petaloo leaves

Have fun creating with Petaloo !

Michele Beck

"Play"

Another picture of my cute niece, and for this one, the new crocheted flowers from the Devon collection were perfect, with these warm colors, and this sweet side it gives to my layout:

Products used:

- Color Me Crazy cotton paper collection 3D foam upper case

- Devon collection, Brighton

- Devon Collection, Bristol

- Devon Collection, Crocheted flowers

- Chantilly Collection, butterflies

 

Hope you're enjoying all the projects !

Michele Beck

"Simply beautiful"

I love this picture of my niece, she looks like a little frog, the cutest ever.

The colors was perfect for the new Devon Collection:

Products used:

- Color Me Crazy, cotton paper collection 3D foam upper case

- Devon Collection, petites mini rose clusters collection, fuschia and pink

- Devon Collection, Sweetpea collection

- Devon Collection, Brighton collection

- Devon Collection, Delila collection

- Devon Collection, butterflies

Thanks for looking and a big hug from France !

Michele Beck

Crocheted Flowers spicing up your Friends.

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share with you 3 cards today all about "Friendship", that I created using the Crocheted Flowers and the Chantilly Collection.

 

I love these crocheted Flowers they are so easy to use, and go with absolutely anything, as you can see by these cards.  These are very whimsy and fun cards with plenty of color along with some fun little critters, for that very special friend in your life.

First Card "Time with Friends"

 

I also used the very cute Petite Roses in Blue.

 

My second card "The Best"

 

 

And my third and final card "Spend the Day".

 

 
Materials Used:

Crocheted Flower in Green
Petite Mini Rose Clusters in Blue
Chantilly Mixed Blooms Red/Burgundy
Velvet Hydrangeas in Rose

Also used:

Webster Pattern Papers
October Afternoon Pattern Papers

I hope you enjoyed checking out my cards, and I hope you have fun creating some of your very own with the Crocheted Flowers and Chantilly Collection.

Carole xx

 

Spring Canvas - Evana

Well here in Australia we are actually in Autumn but you in the US are in Spring...so I thought I would create a spring canvas. I have had the absolute pleasure of following Christy Tomlinsons 'She Art Workshop' and have been so inspired that I thought I would combine some great Petaloo flowers, some awesome Lilybee products an create this...

Ok so my girls perspective is a litle off but the process is bringing me alot of joy. The canvas is 10 x 8". The techniques that Christy shares in her workshop are so cool and are able to be used on any type of craft which makes it super versatile.

Petaloo Products used:

Devon Collection - Petites Mini Rose Clusters

Devon Collection - Crochet Flowers

Brighton Collection flowers - White/Lt Blue

Also included are papers from Lillybee - Happily Lost collection

Thanks for looking. I sure hope your sprin is a colourful one.

Hugs

e

Handmade with Petaloo

My niece asked me to create a layout for her Mom for Mother's Day. She wanted me to use photos of all the First Communion Dresses her Mom made by hand for both her and her sister and their daughters. When she asked me the first thing I thought of was Petaloo's Crocheted Flowers from the Devon collection - they have a handmade feel to them and they blended perfectly with the orange and yellow patterned papers. You can definitely tell the older photos - they are originals so the quality is not quite perfect ... but that's OK - it reflects the evolution of photography !

  

 
Aren't the crocheted flowers and leaves fun ?!?! I also added several flowers from the Mini Rose Clusters which are beautiful and come in many different colors.

 
  

 
 Supplies Used for "Handmade":

• Crocheted Flowers
• Mini Rose Clusters
• Flora Doodles Mini Delphiniums

Waiting for Spring

I adore scrapbooking. Actually, that'd be putting it a little too mildly. I CRAVE it. It relaxes me, it feeds my creative juices and it challenges me. I'll admit though, I am a VERY slow scrapper. It takes me at least two full days (not from start to finish but throw in school, kids, meals, housework and life itself... you get the drift) to complete a single layout and that's IF everything is working in my favour.

There have been a heap of times where the papers or the photo or the embellishments (or all the above) are just NOT WORKING for me and I'll get sooooo frustrated - rearrange the papers, fiddle with the composition, etc. etc. and it just never looks 'right'. But, when the perfect embellishment meets the perfect paper, designing becomes effortless. Its no secret that I am in love with all of Petaloo's amazing products. What you may not know is that I am also a huge paper person. If I can't connect to the paper, regardless of how gorgeous or amazing the embellishments are, the project just isn't going to happen.

Enter Graphic 45 and my obsession for beautiful, vibrant, vintage inspired designs. Each and every one of their paper collections is so unique and has endless fussy cutting possibilities.

For my Waiting for Spring layout, I used Graphic 45's Once Upon a Springtime Collection which is overflowing with gorgeous peach/rose coloured flowers, fairies, enchanted forest animals and delight.

 
It was only natural to use the Rose Blossoms and Rose Leaf Sprays from Petaloo's Canterbury Collection as they complimented these papers seamlessly.



I chose the Cream coloured Rose Blossoms and very easily altered them to a perfectly matching shade of peach/rose with the help of some Distress Crackle paint by Tim Holtz.

Thank you so much for the visit today! I hope I've inspired you to create!

Cheers, Tara

Let Flowers be the Background

Hi Petaloo blog readers. Lori Gentile here with you today to talk about a fun way to create a quick and eye-catching layout.

I love this picture of my son staring at the ground. I often wonder what captured his attention so raptly. I imagined that he was bug hunting, so I decided to go with that for the title and did a little play on his favorite book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?".

I really wanted my picture to stand out and be the main focal point. To do that, I kept the background neutral and chose to accent with the colors he was wearing to draw the eye to him. I lined up our stunning blue crochet flowers and used them as the sole background color for the layout. Then I accented with our petite yellow roses and our gorgeous blue floral butterflies.

In the end the simplicty of the layout really tells the story I was trying to tell and looks really fun, too!

Thanks for stopping by the blog!

Petaloo/Lilybee - Mixed Media Collage Canvas

We want to thank Lilybee and all their wonderful, talented designers for joining us this week for our blog hop. We have been in awe of your beautiful work!

Our final winner for this week is "Love this! I really like making mini albums but am always a bit unsure of using circles, thanks for the inspiration.~Olivia"

I have been having so much fun recently after doing Christy Tomlinsons online class that I knew the Petaloo/Lilybee linkup would be perfect. I set out to create a 8" x 16" canvas for my husband. I guess I make for alot of people but not often for him, i mean with all the girlyness he kind of gets overlooked, so this project was for him.

Christy really does have an amazing way of teaching you a simple and easy to follow way of creating the background of your canvas (if you get a chance you have to do the workshop) so on this one I used a page out of an old nursery rhyme book and some random book paper. Mod Podge is my new best friend and is used to adhere all the layers.

Lilybee's new range 'Happily Lost' is sensational!!!! The colour combinations are awesome and the designs spectacular so I chose 3 papers from this range:

Sun Soaked

Villa

Good Book

Once I was happy with my background of mixed media including rub ons, stamps, book papers etc I pasted down 3 handcut hearts from the above papers. Then the fun was adding the perfectly co ordinating flowers (ooohhh makes a girl giddie with excitment).
For this project I have used the following flowers from the new Centerbury Collection at Petaloo:

Canterbury Roses - Teal

Mini Canterbury Assorted - Teal

Honeysuckle Vine - Yellow

Trumpet Vine Spray - Teal

To adhere the vines and flowers I used dimensional Magic/Diamond Glaze so that I got a good strong bond. I did trim the stems where neccessary just so I didn't find myself having to 'hide' the exccess.

So have a go. Grab a canvas, sign up for Christy's online workshop and enjoy the freedom to create using all these amazing products! I sure hope you have enjoyed seeing something a little mixed media to show that these products are perfect with any craft! Enjoy this awesome hook-up!

Huge hugs

E

Lily Bee/Petaloo Blog Hop: More This and That

Hope you are enjoying all the projects this week and have some ideas for future projects! Thanks for all the great comments and good luck to all in the prize giveaways!

For my second project I created a mini album for my Mom for Mother's Day. I used Creative Imaginations "Michael Circle Mini Book" which is a great size for a smaller project! I painted the outer rim of each page with ivory paint and covered the pages with the gorgeous papers from the Lily Bee "This and That" collection. Then I added some Petaloo flowers from the Chantilly collection,added some bling and dug through my stash to find some Creative
Imaginations rub-ons from days of Yore LOL!! Here's the cover ...

I also added some stick pins - they are peeking out behind the lovely center flower. The Lily Bee stickers that coordinate with the collection are so cute, especially the banner stickers. Here is the rest of the album ...

 

 

Supplies Used:

Lily Bee Products:

• Milk Bottle
• Pretty Fabric
• Teacup
• Postcard
• Brooch
• Linens
• ABC Stickers
• Mixed Cardstock Stickers

 Petaloo Flowers:

• Chantilly Velvet Hydrangeas
• Chantilly Velvet and Lace

(That's Me and my Mom on the last page!) My Mom loved the book and it was super easy to do. Hope this inspires you and remember to post a comment for a chance at an AWESOME giveaway! Hop on over to the Lily Bee Blog for more great ideas and fun projects! TFL!!