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Let the grungieness begin!!!

Hello peeps........Lynne here to share with you my latest creations! 
I chose Tim Holtz ~ Paper Stash ~ Kraft Resist paper
which just complimented
the Late Spring Darjeeling flowers SOOOOO wonderfully!!

 
I cut a frame from a piece of black Kraft~Core
from the Nostalgic Collection.
Do you see the Color Me Crazy Chipboard
the PERFECT addition to my card and canvas!!

I added a bit of Crackle Paint
to help with the grungieness of the card!



For my canvas, I used the backside of the leftover
Kraft Resist paper! A bit of spritzing and scrunching....
And I ended up with a WONDERFUL Mother's Day gift!
 (which by the way......my mom LOVED!!!)

PRODUCTS USED:
Late Spring Darjeeling ~ Naturals/Shabby Beige:
Mini Daisies with Leaves
Mini Pearl Daisies

Night Fall/Grey/Blacks:
Dahlias
Mini Pearl Daisies

other embellieS:
Beaded Hat Pins ~
Black/White
Brown/Green
Foliage Assortment ~ Dark Browns
Color Me Crazy ~ Chipboard
Birdhouses with Birds
Mannequins

 "There's NOTHING stronger than a MOTHER'S LOVE!!"

Fun Spring Tag

Hi there! It's Irene here again and I'm still in the Spring mood here! Today I would like to share another small tag which is also inspired by this season. I've used some beautiful mini tye-dyed daisies and some spray on this tag.

Here are some close-ups.

I've also added a beaded hat pin on the tag.

I've used layers of the mini tye-dyed daisies to create the rose liked dimensional flowers.

List of Petaloo Products used:

Mini Mulb. Paper Tye-Dyed Daisies - Yellow (1309-004)

Accessories Beaded Hat Pins - Fuschia (1474-017)

Canterbury Vine Spray 1874-303

Other Manufacturers Used:

Graphic 45 Paper ~ Once Upon a Springtime

May Arts Ribbons

Happy Spring!

xx Irene Tan

Looking at things.....differently!

Howdy folks.......Lynne Forsythe here.
Today's post was prompted by a converstion
I had recently with a woman,
about not looking at items at face value,
but looking past that
and seeing ALL THAT THEY CAN BE!!

I did just that when I created this card......

These are the flowers I used
to create these 3 dimensional beauties!!

Tye~Dyed Daisies ~ Blue

and.....these.......

Mini Delphiniums ~ Brites

now......don't get me wrong!!!
"Flatties" are WONDERFUL!
Seriously......look at the beauties!
But....this is what they can become!

To help you Transform your "FLATTIES"
I created a tutorial for you....
Hope you enjoy it....
And that I've inspired you to
LOOK BEYOND!

  

Other Petaloo items used:

Beaded Hat Pin ~ Black/White
Magnolia and Grape Leaves

thanks again!!

Celebrate Spring!

Hello and welcome to our FINAL DAY of "Hello Spring" week with Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle.

We have had a great time this week sharing our Mother's Day ideas 

and playing with all the fun "Hello Spring" goodies from LYB!! 

 

We want to send a BIG hug and thank you to Peg and the entire LYB Design Team for creating such wonderful cards & projects with our Floradoodles flowers!

 

Today is our final day to select a winner here on our BLOG and on the Petaloo FB page.  If you have not had a chance to leave a comment and enter the contest scroll to the bottom of this post and get busy... the winners will be announced this Saturday here on our Petaloo BLOG page!!  ( You can see the PRIZES below...) If you want to double your chances of winning, head over to the Little Yellow Bicycle BLOG and leave a comment there too!

 

Today we are welcoming Eva Dobilas as a Guest Designer to the Petaloo Design Team!  Let's see what see has created with the Floradoodles flowers and the "Hello Spring" collection...  Welcome Eva!!!

 

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Hi there, it's Eva here today and I am so excited to share two projects with you.  My first one is a little decoration.  I simply adore happy colors, in fact almost everything I make has to have happy colors, it's just what inspires me, so when I got my box full of happy colors products from Little Yellow Bicycle, I was in heaven!  

The Hello Spring line is AMAZING, the least to say. Colors, patterns, shapes, 3 D stickers, fabric elements, you name it, you can find them all in this one collection.  And what' the best part is that it matches Petaloo's Flora Doodles line, so I was totally inspired!

For my base I used the 6x6 Decorative Edge Double-Sided Textured Cardstock, as I just loved the shape of it and the color as well. I also used the frame from the Clear Cut Shapes with glitter. I used the little cardstock tree, which was begging for Petaloo's Jeweled Florettes and by my tree trunk I used Embossed Mulb. Paper Daisies as grass. I have to give credit, where credit is due, so I have to tell you that these ideas came from my friend Alice Carman, as we scrapped together for NSD and she was just flowing with ideas...LOL..so thanks Alice!

Here is what my little wall decoration ended up looking like after adding the super fun birdie from the Fabric Favorites self adhesive 3D stickers. I just thought the birdie was a perfect addition.

I also want to mention in case you would like to know that I also used My Favorite Things Dienamics on this card, the chevron die and the label behind the frame are both by them, which I cut out from the pretty Little Yellow Bicycle papers.  Here is a close up of my little decoration.

My second one is a Mother's Day card, since we are celebrating that this weekend.  For this project I decided to use the 6x6 paper pad from the Little Yellow Bicyle Hello Spring line and once again I embellished it with the Fabric Favorites 3D elements and stickers.  I also added some Flora Doodles Mini Mulb. Paper Delphium Brites, as it just matched the whole collection so perfect!

For my sentiment I used a JustRite Papercrafts stamp set.  Here is a closeup of my card in more detail.

Hope you enjoy these projects and wishing you an early Happy Mother's Day.

 

PRIZES  ~  PRIZES  ~  PRIZES

Little Yellow Bicycle "Hello Spring" Giveaway

Petaloo "Floradoodles" Giveaway

Good luck and thank you to Eva Dobilas for her two cheery & happy projects!!

Blooming Everywhere- Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle

 

Hello and welcome to DAY 4 of "Hello Spring" week with Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle.

We have some great

Mother's Day ideas to share 

and...

some great PRIZES to giveaway as well, yeah!!

 

How to win?

1)  Leave a comment HERE on the Petaloo Blog and on the LYB BLOG

2)  Like us on our Facebook PAGE

We will be selecting a winner everyday this week.  The winners will be announced this Saturday on our Petaloo BLOG page!!   Scroll down to leave a comment & see the PRIZES below...

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Hello and welcome to my Hello Spring post and project between Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle.  I decided to create a little gift basket, card and arrangement for my mom for Mother's Day.  I had a great time creating it with all of the wonderful Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle products and I can't wait to give it to her. 

Here are a few details about my project.

The first thing that I made was a card.  I used the Little Yellow Bicycle's Hello Spring sticker sheet and papers.  The large tree trunk on the sticker sheet is seperate from the leaves and flowers for the tree so I replaced a couple of stickers with Petaloo Floradoodles flowers.  Then I used some LYB gems for the centers of the flowers and around the tree.  I also used a little bit of the grass on the sticker sheet and popped it up with foam adhesive.  The title stickers are from the LYB Hello Spring sticker sheet as well.

The second part of my project is the 3D watering can.  I cut the can out of LYB Hello Spring papers using a SVG Cuts file and my Silhouette.  Then I had fun embellishing it with Petaloo Floradoodles and LYB Hello Spring embellishments.  I love the cute LYB transparencies in this collection.  I attached them with foam adhesive for added depth.

Here are a couple of closeups of the embellishments on the watering can. Click on the picture for a larger view.

The butterfly transparencies were glued onto floral wire with Glossy Accents.   Then I took a old sponge, though I would have perferred to use a half of a stryofoam ball or florist foam, and put it in the bottom of the can and stuck the butterflies on the wire into it to make them stand up.

The last part of my project is a little stand again cut with my Silhouette using a file from SVG Cuts called Poplar Street Tulips.  The label on the stand was decorated with Petaloo Floradoodles flowers stacked on top of each other and then held together with a brad.  I love using the green flowers as the leaves so there is always a green flower on the bottom of the stacks.

I think that my mom is really going to enjoy receiving this gift.  It will look very pretty on a shelf in her kitchen.  

Petaloo supplies used:

Floradoodles Mulberry Street Paper Daisies Asst Pack Brites

Floradoodles Mulberry Street Embossed Daisies Fuschia

Floradoodles Mulberry Street Paper Delphiniums Brites

Floradoodles Mulberry Street Paper Tye-Dyed Daisies Yellow

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you have gotten some great ideas for fun paper crafts that you would like to make for your Mother, a friend, or even yourself.  

PTIZES  ~  PRIZES  ~  PRIZES

Little Yellow Bicycle "Hello Spring" Prize Giveaway!!

Petaloo "Floradoodles" Prize Giveaway!

April showers....Petaloo & Little Yellow Bicycle!

 Hello and welcome to DAY 3 of "Hello Spring" week with Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle.

We have some great

Mother's Day ideas to share 

and...

some great PRIZES to giveaway as well, yeah!!

 

How to win?

1)  Leave a comment HERE on the Petaloo Blog and on the LYB BLOG

2)  Like us on our Facebook PAGE

We will be selecting a winner everyday this week.  The winners will be announced this Saturday on our Petaloo BLOG page!!   Scroll down to leave a comment & see the PRIZES below...

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Howdy folks.......Lynne here with my creation using the soooo
ULTRA CUTE helloSPRING! collection by Little Yellow Bicycle.

APRIL SHOWERS bring MAY FLOWERS!!

What a fantabulous combo....
spiral flowers cut from the
6 x 6 Paper Pad
and
Floradoodles!!
Sooooo Bright and Cheery!

I accented the wreath with burlap squares
and loopy bows!

For added sparkle I placed
Jewel Stickers on the tendrils.

I used the fantabulous saying from the
Cardstock Stickers...
"Live Every Moment,
Laugh Every Day,
Love Beyond Words."
by adhering it to a piece of cardboard
and cutting out the individual words.

The Floradoodles used:
Mini Florettes ~ Tutti Fruitti
New Mini Delphiniums ~ Brites
Mini Tye-Dyed Daises ~ Blue
Embossed Daises ~ Yellow & Blue

PRIZES  ~  PrIZES  ~  PRIZES

Little Yellow Bicycle "Hello Spring" Giveaway!!

Petaloo "Floradoodles" PRIZE GIVEAWAY

Good luck to everyone and a BIG thank you to DT member Lynne Forsythe

for this wonderful wreath!

Bring on the sunshine...Hellllloooooo Spring!

Hello and welcome to the "Hello Spring" week with Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle.

We have some great

Mother's Day ideas to share 

and...

some great PRIZES to giveaway as well, yeah!!

How to win?

1)  Leave a comment HERE on the Petaloo Blog and on the LYB BLOG

2)  Leave a message on our Facebook PAGE

We will be selecting a winner everday this week.  The winners will be announced this Saturday on our Petaloo Facebook page!!   Scroll down to leave a comment & see the PRIZES below...

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This week Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle are joining forces and there will be no shortage of inspiration to be found!  Imagine my surprise when I opened up my box and literally felt like I was being wrapped in sunshine. Get your sunglasses ready.....

Wow!  If that doesn't make you want to go build a sand castle, I'm just not sure what will.  I love how vibrant and happy everything feels.  This line from LYB comes with a ton of embellishments.  There are 3D stickers, regular stickers, transparencies, die cuts and the list goes on.  Lots of possibilities.

Flora Doodles are just so much fun to play with.  One of my favorite things to do with them is fold them and smoosh them.  Here I fold and layered different colors, and then dressed it up with a jewel and some Stickles.

This is my most favorite part of this page.  These flowers are a blank canvas and while I stayed with the tried and true option of layering the different sizes, I still found a way to give them their own personalities.  They aren't just ANY flower.  LOL  I added some grommets, jeweled brads for centers and stickles.  I layers a few of the tye dyed Gypsies in there to give the flowers some varigation.  I am really pleased with how they look.  GORGEOUS!!!

For my mom, I made this cute little gift tag using some paper from the Hello Spring line.  I smooshed and layers some smaller Flora Doodles and gave them all a little bling.  I finished them ff by adding in some of Petaloo's newest items, feathers.  MMMMMMMmmm, so soft.

 

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Lisa

Supplies:

Petaloo FloraDoodles - Click Here

Tye-Dyed Gypsie Florettes - Click Here

Petaloo Feathers - Click Here

Little Yellow Bicycle - Hello Spring - Click Here

 

Little Yellow Bicycle "Hello Spring" Prize!!

Petaloo Floradoodles PRIZE!!

 

GOOD LUCK and thank you to DT member Lisa Valentine

for starting off our "Hello Spring" week with such beautiful projects! 

Delicate Treasure

A few years back we went on a family vacation to the Outer Banks in North Carolina.  My daughter was running up and down the beach looking for sand dollars and pirate treasure.  Instead of gold she found a feather from a sea gull and she couldn't have been happier.  Not sure the birds were so excited as she kept chasing them trying to give it back. 

I have packs of these gorgeous and vibrant Flora Doodles so I decided to just have fun and play with color.  Flora Doodles are a perfect blank canvas.  Sure they are perfectly gorgeous just as they are, but a little bling never hurts. ;)

I decided to stamp an image in white onto my Flora Doodles.  Then I folded the flower in half and placed a Grungeboard flower base shape over it.  I curled back the top petals and then accented with Liquid Pearls.  I really love the way they came out. 

Here, I stamped the base flower using the same stamp but this time I added some Fairy Dust glitter to the ink before it dried.  I layered a smaller flower on top and using Glossy Accents I added some beads for my flower center.

Here you can see some of the itty bitty Flora Doodles.  I smooshed these together to make them nice and plump and then glued them in place!

The next time you are looking to totally customize your flowers and make them look totally unique, grab some Flora Doodles!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

XO,

Lisa

Supplies

Flora Doodles - Click Here

Oodles of Doodles

If you are playing along with the SWIRLYDOOS Blog Hop Block party...then you are in the right place!

First, take a peek at Lisa Valentine's wonderful projects for Spring with our new Petaloo Floradoodles!

 

I picked up this little lavender wreath for a few dollars at Micheal's and new exactly what I wanted to do with it.

Have you seen Petaloo's new chipboard pieces???  Have ya??  You have now!  I painted the butterflies with some Shimmerz and then embossed them with Ranger's Bridal Embossing Powder.  I embellished them with pearls and some of Petaloo's Feathers!!  Yum......

The flowers are Flora Doodles that I combined to create little colorful magnolias.  Suh-weet!

THEN, I found myself inspired by a vintage stock photo I found.  I looked at the picture....looked at the bright and springy Flora Doodles....looked back at the picture and heard the theme to Hawaii Five 0 in my head (and visions of a shirtless Alex O'loughlin). *walkin' it off*  I knew that I wanted to create a 1950's style card with art deco colors and a tropical feel.

OK, this really isn't my normal style, but every once in a while you just have to let loose and do something different.

Flora Doodles Tye-Dyed Gypsies are too cute and absolutely perfect for the look I was going for.  I topped them off with a Bird Dazzler.

That cute little frame is part of Petaloo's new chipboard collection.

Thank you for stopping by!

Lisa

Supplies

Flora Doodles Mulberry Paper Flowers

Flora Doodles Tye-Dyed Gypsies

CMC Chipboard Flourishes

CMC Chipboard Butterflies

CMC Chipboard Fancy Frames

Petaloo Feathers

Paper - Heidi Swapp, Sugar Chic

 

Welcome to Swirlydoos' April Kit Reveal Blog Hop Block Party!!

 

If you came here from Lynne's blog (http://lynneforsythe.blogspot.com), then you are on the right track.  If not, go back to Swirlydoos' blog (http://www.swirlydoos.blogspot.com/) and start from there.  We have some amazing projects for you to see today there are 2 prize packs up for grabs so make sure to follow along and have fun!!

Petaloo Prize : entire collection of Spring Darjeeling flowers in Shabby Beige!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You have until midnight, eastern time, on April 11th to complete the hop. Winners will be announced on the Swirlydoos Blog on April 12th.  Winners have 7 days to claim their prize.  In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all of the blogs and leave a comment on each. This way we know you were there. Become a follower if you're not already. Take your time. There are beautiful things to see along the way.
2: Before you leave each blog, look for the “special” words and write it down. 
Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a QUESTION. 
3: Finally, go back to the Swirlydoos blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had AND tell us the QUESTION that was created with all of the special words you collected AND GIVE US YOUR ANSWERS.

My special word is : "CRITERIA"

 The party continues over at Heidi's blog (http://seesterk.blogspot.com/).  Have fun!

 

Here is the order and blog addresses.  

Swirlydoos CLICK HERE

Angelica Franssen CLICK HERE

Rae Moses CLICK HERE

Lisa Gregory CLICK HERE

Vicky Alberto CLICK HERE

Lynne Forsythe http://lynneforsythe.blogspot.com/

Petaloo CLICK HERE

Heidi Kelley http://seesterk.blogspot.com/

 Karola Witczak http://karolakraftuje.blogspot.com

Irene Tan http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/

Lisa Valentine CLICK HERE

Paulien van den Bosch CLICK HERE

 

Back to Swirlydoos!!!

 

 

Hippty Hoppity...

$$  Enter to win  $$

 $700.00 of paper, flowers, and accessories

 from Core'dinations, Tim Holtz, Sizzix, Xyron, May Arts, Petaloo and more!!

Scroll to the bottom of this post...

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Easter is on the way!!!

Both of my children are teenagers now, so the days of dressing up for Easter are long gone. (Very Sad Face!) But while walking through the Dollar Store the other day, I just couldn't resist buying a plain jane Easter bag to jazz up! Here is a picture of the little cutie before I got my hands on it.



I pulled out a couple packages of Petaloo goodness...

Mulberry Street~New Mini Delphiniums~Brites
Mulberry Street~36 pc Value Bag~Brites
Mulberry Street~Embossed Daisies~Fuchsia
Flora Doodles~Tyed~Dyed Gypsies
Flora Doodles~Jeweled Florettes
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and let the creating begin!!!



To give the flowers a bit more depth....
I crumpled them!



To help the pink Jeweled Florettes match a bit better,
I spritzed them with Bubblegum Pink Ink Spray.



while the creative juices were still flowing
I made an Easter Card....



I used the Adorable
Bird and Branch Dazzler!!
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And there you have it.........Beautiful Easter Goodies!!



Easter spells out beauty,
the rare beauty of new life. 
~S.D. Gordon

 

$700.00 Grand Prize Info:

Link to enter:

http://pages.exacttarget.com/hcc-northridge-optin/