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
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