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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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Here's different ways you can enter:

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Good Luck and don't forget to visit Unity's Design Team blog and tell me we sent you!

 

Color Me Crazy Indeed

We have been teasing you for a few days so we can get you excited for the most exciting week and it's almost here. Starting tomorrow we will be starting our Altered Art week with Heidi Swapp.  We are so excited to share all the colorful creations from both design teams.

We have one more card to share with you today before we start the team-up week.  Today's card is created by Alice Carman.

CMC Darjeeling

These Color Me Crazy Darjeeling flowers come in a mix so you can cluster or use for various projects.

We asked Alice how she likes to use the Color Me Crazy flowers and this is what she said.

"I love the mix of flowers and styles you get in this set. The Color Me Crazy flowers give me so much room to play with. You can use these flowers in a cluster, like what I did here or spread them over a layout spritz with Heidi Swapp's Color Shine. I love that these Color Me Crazy flowers are white because I don't have to color them either. I can use them as they are...cool!"

Supplies:

CMC Darjeeling

Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Heidi Swapp Color Magic papers and embellishments

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for our team-up week with Hedi Swapp!!!

Oh by the way...we got more prizes to give away all week! See you tomorrow for all the details.

No Limits with Color Me Crazy

We are having a great time sharing some sneak peeks before the big day on Monday, May, 6.  It's going to be a fabulous Color Me Crazy week using Heidi Swapp's Color Shine and products.  Petaloo's Color Me Crazy collection (CMC) will be altered all week long with tips and techniques.

Here's sneak peek from Petaloo's design team member, Alice Carman.

Alice created this vintage card with Petaloo's Color Me Crazy chipboard & leaves.  She used Heidi Swapp's Color Shine in Gold and Chartrouse.  Love the shine you get with the sparys.  The great part is that the Color Me Crazy product is made from 100% recycled materials so not only is it a GREEN (AKA Recyclable) product, it also doesn't tear or bleed trhough...cool!

CMC Gears

CMC Darjeeling White Leaves

TIP #1: If you don't want to spray the leaves you can use your favorite embossing folder to dry emboss images onto the leaves.

TIP #2: You can pour out the colors from the sprays on to a color palate and use a paint brush to color with for those of you who want more control as to where the color is applied.

TIP #3: You can stamp and powder emboss too on the CMC flat flowers.

Supplies:

CMC Gears

CMC Darjeeling Leaves

Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Heidi Swapp No Limits paper and embellishments collecion

 

We look forward to teasing you today and tomorrow.  Have a great day!

 

 

Color Me Crazy with Heidi Swapp

Starting Monday, May 6th we kick off the party with Heidi Swapp.  We are going to have a great week ahead of us with techniques on how to use Petaloo's Color Me Crazy collections along side Heidi Swapp's NEW Color Shine and products. We have so much to share so check us out daily.

Today's card is designed by Petaloo team member, Alice Carman using Embossed Daisies from the Color Me Crazy collection. 

Alice stamped on the Embossed Daisies and used Heidi's Color Shine to add color to her centerpiece.  Alice has a really neat tip that she picked up while playing with the Color Shine and the Color Me Crazy flowers. 

Here's what she said:

TIP #1: You can use your favorite stamp to add texture and patterns onto Petaloo's white flowers. If you want to use the sprays.  I suggest you spray first and then stamp so that it doesn't smear the ink.

TIP #2: I started with Mint Green from the Color Shine collection and I found out that if you start with a light color like Mint Green and then spray the Teal over it.  The color becomes more vibrant and a little darker.  It's almost like you created a new color.  You can do the same with Mustard/Gold and Peach/Primrose. Try it out!

We have a huge line of Color Me Crazy flowers in different styles.  We also have chipboard, ribbon trims and fabric flowers.  The possibilities are endless!! 

 

Happy Mother's Day! Team-up with Simple Stories

It's been a fantastic week during our Team-up with Simple Stories.  We have enjoyed working with their fabulous paper products and mixing them with Petaloo flowers.

A BIG THANK YOU to our friends at Simple Stories for their genorisity and their design team for all their hard work during this week.

There's still a few more cards we like to share before we officially say it's the end of our Team-up.  Here's a few ideas to help you with Mother's Day cards designed by, Alice Carman.

I inked the edges of my flowers and die pieces to make them pop of the card.  You can create this same look by using brown ink.

Supplies:

Ruffled Roses in Pink

Forget Me Nots Robin Egg Blue

Mixed Blossoms Antique Gold

Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection

 

Lovely how Petaloo's Penny Lane collection matches Simple Storeis Vintage Bliss paper to a tee.  How cool is that??

Supplies:

Forget Me Nots Robin Egg Blue

Forget Me Nots Antique Gold

Mixed Blossoms Antique Gold

Beaded Hat Pins Brwon/Green

Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection

 Tip: I snipped off a few petals form the Petaloo Embossed paper daisies to use as my leaves on my card.

Supplies:

Mixed Blossoms Antique Gold

Embossed Mulberry Paper Daises Chartreuse

Trim Assorted Shades of Beige

Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection

 

There's no sentiment on this card.  After I created this, it just didn't need one. I used  Vintage Bliss collection and my favorite stamp to paper piece the background onto black cardstock. I also used Petaloo's assorted brads to tie all the colors together.

Supplies:

Ruffled Roses Teal

Brads Assorted Shades of Green

Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection

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Monday:

Judy Bowlby commented on our Facebook page: Like you already on fb and love your products.

 

Tuesday:

Dorthy McCarthy LIKED us

 

Wednesday:

Melaine Jaegle who commented on our Facebook page: Absoultly beautiful product.

 

Thursday:

Sharon Gullikson commented on our blog: My mom would like to receive something like that for Mothers Day. I will have to try it. You have the nicest flowers anywhere.

 Friday:

Lisa's Letters and Lace who shared our post on her Facebook Page.

 

Saturday:

Amy Jones Pinned us on Pintrest

 

If you see your name listed here.  Please email your shipping address to cheryl@petaloo.com so we may get your prize out to you. 

This is NOT the Mother's Day prize worth $150.oo .  That picture for that giveawy is different from what you will recieve. 

 

Petaloo and Bella Blvd Team Up Winners!!!!

What an incredible week!!!  Thanks to you all for making it successful and for the Facebook time, Pintrest, Sharing and just for following along.  We have enjoyed your comments and feeds and we are so thankful for all of you.

A BIG thank you to our friends at Bella Blvd for their generosity and efforts in putting this together.  Also, thank you to their awesome design team for their fantastic projects!

It's time to announce the winners...yahoo!!! 

Monday:

Janetta Grillot Zeimetz says:

(You are a sweet and special Aunt...invites and a crown! The invite and crown are adorable! I love the colors, flowers, the feather, and the brad!)

 

Tuesday: 

Karen Martin Oshanick says:

(love the creativity and the colors...yippee for spring   btw, shared.)

 

Wednesday:

Buffy Esser says: 

(Such a cute birthday card, I've already been to Bella Blvd and the projects over there are stunning as well....you have some very creative people on your little blog hop! thanks for the inspiration oh and all the bright flowers....LOVE those!)

 

Thursday: 

Stefanie Haluk says:

(Cute place cards)

 

Friday:

Megan Gibbs says:

(Shared!!)

 

Saturday:

Kelli Smith says:

 (Hoping Petaloo International & Bella Blvd team up again soon. I thoroughly loved all the great creations, tips and talent both your companies shared with us this week)

 

Congratulations to all the winners.  Please email  your home address to cheryl@petaloo.com so we can get your prizes out to you.  Thank you again to all that played along. 

We are doing this all over again in a few weeks so stayed tuned!!

 

 

Petaloo and Bella Blvd...it's a team up!

We are counting down til the fun starts tomorrow, Monday, April 8th.  It's going to be an exciting week with Bella Blvd!!!!

There is so much planned for the entire week so be sure to visit both team's blogs and Facebook pages to find out the details on how to win.

You're Toadilly Cool card by, Alice Carman

Thanks card by, Alice Carman

Now that you got a little peek of what's to come, we'll see you Monday!!!  I wonder who's going to win day one????

 

Petaloo and Bella Blvd Team Up

Starting Monday, April 8th, Petaloo and Bella Blvd team up for an entire week of crafty inspirations. We are super excited to join Bella Blvd this week and we know you will too!

Happy Days card by, Alice Carman

Details on how to enter will be posted on Day 1 of our Blog Hop and it's going to be exciting!

 See you Monday April, 8th for prizes and inspirations you don't want to miss.

We look forward to your visit!

 

 

 

A Card, Brads and Petaloo flowers.

It's Spring...I think? We have been getting some strange weather here in California, but at least the sun is out.  It tends to feel like Spring everyday here at the home office.  After all, we do make flowers.

DTM, Alice Carman loves using our Mulberry Paper flowers and our NEW Brads!  They go so well with all our flowers and especially the Embossed Daisies.

Embossed Mulberry Paper flowers

Here's a close up of our NEW Brads used on a card.  Perfect for that extra special touch on your project. We just love these!

Assorted Brads in shades of green

Mini Mulberry Delphiniums- Brites

We have so much in store for you in the month of April so be on look out for prizes and team ups.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Alice :)

 

 

How to use Glass Flowers

We have been sharing our Printed Darjeeling flowers all week, but have you used our Glass Flowers?

You may have seen these at your local craft store, but you don't have a clue what to do with them? Today Design Team Member, Alice Carman will share a few ideas.

You can use the glass flowers as a center piece or as a center piece on another line of Petaloo flowers. The best way to adhere the glass flower is to use fabric glue, hot glue or high tacky glue. You can also use them with our Color Me Crazy flowers as a center and spray them with your favorite color sprays.  You'll get loads of color and texture.

We carry them in five different colors (black, white, Aqua, Rose and Orange). The stem of the flower is flexible so you can bend it.

Supplies:

 Glass Flower Orange

Printed Darjeeling Wild Butterflies Aqua

Darjeeling Mini Pearl Daisies Cottage Blue

Darjeeling Mini Pearl Daisies Shabby Beige

If you have a question, please feel free to leave our Design Team girls a comment on our blog so that we can answer your questions. Thank you for visiting today and we hope you had a great weekend! 

Alice :)