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What secrets do you hold?

Hi everyone!  I found this little box at Michael's.  I think it was $3.  Anyway, it was hideous but I loved its "bones".  I just knew it would make a great little box if it had a face lift.  Well today is its lucky day because I have some yummy Petaloo and Graphic 45's Olde Curiosity Shoppe to make it purdy!  LOL 

Aren't those flowers sweet?  The perfect touch to adorn my box of curiosities.  Don't ask me what kind of curiosties are in the box.....you know what they say about cats and curiosity.  'Nuff said.  :)

I used a Shabby Beige Darjeeling Daisy as my focal point and grouped Nightfall Darjeeling Dahlias and Canterbury Berry Picks in Black around it.

I also tucked in some Nightfall Mini Daisies and a Shabby Beige Butterfly. 

I turned the box on its side so you could see the inside.  I finished it off with a blue stain lining.  A girl needs to make sure her curiosities are kept safe. ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

XO, Lisa Valentine

Supplies by Petaloo:

Darjeeling Lg. Daisies in Shabby Beige

Darjeeling Dahlias x 10 in Nightfall

Darjeeling Mini Daisies in Nightfall

Darjeeling Butterflies in Shabby Beige

Darjeeling Hat Pins in brown/green

Canterbury Berry Pick in black

Supplies by Graphic 45:  "Olde Curiosity Shoppe" paper collection

Supplies by May Arts:  asst ribbons

You're amazing!

Hi everybody! Helena here to share a couple of Petaloo-projects with you!

When I got Petaloo's new Darjeeling flowers in my hands the very first word that I thought were - amazing!! And then I thought that would be the perfect title for this page about my darling son, because he truly is one amazing boy.

The papers from Graphic 45, "Little Darlings", match the Petaloo, "Spring Darjeeling" ~  Pistachio colored flowers so well, don't you think?

A couple of close-ups of these beautiful flowers:

(I used the "Spring Darjeeling" Lg Daisies, Dahlias, Frosted Roses, Butterflies, Beaded Hat Pins, Mixed Foliage in dark Brown and Velvet Grape leaves to frame the photo)

When I was finished with my layout I decided to go all green *lol* and I decorated a Dusty Attic-frame with pics of myself and my dh and lots of Pistachio-green Petaloo flowers. (And I know you can't see this in the photo of me, but I actually have a Petaloo-flower in my hair - a red velvet and lace flower!)

Petaloo products used:

Darjeeling Daisies - Pistachio   click here

Darjeeling Dahlias - Pistachio  click here

Darjeeling Butterflies - Pistachio  click here

Darjeeling Frosted Roses - Pistachio  click here

Darjeeling Mini Pearl Daisies - Pistachio  click here

Darjeeling Foliage - Dark browns  click here

Darjeeling Mini Daisies - Pistachio  click here

Beaded Hat Pins - brown/green  click here

Glittered Grape Leaf vine - Canterbury collection 

 

Other products used:

Papers from Graphic 45, Little Darlings

Ribbon from May Arts

 

See you soon!

/Helena

Mr & Mrs

Spring is in the air! Well, almost that is. I don't know what it's like in other countries, but we in the north, Sweden, always long for spring. We have such dark winters and some days, if you work indoors, you don't see any daylight at all. It's already getting lighter though, and in about a month or so the snow will melt and we will se spring flowers pop up here and there - I can't wait!

Even though my sister and her husband got married in October, I wanted to do a light and bright layout with some pics of the newlyweds. Since springtime often means weddingtime, I felt this theme would be a good one for my sisters weddingpics and hopefully this page will inspire all of you to sprinkle some gorgeous Petaloo flowers on your spring pages, weddingpages or others!

 

I've used lots of beautiful Petaloo flowers and leaves on this page and I love how light and crisp the colors look together! The large open rose was painted with crackle accents and then I sprinkled some yellow glitter on in. I treated some of my chipboard pieces from Dusty Attic the same way.

More close-ups of these amazing flowers:

Petaloo products used:

CMC Open rose

Canterbury vine spray - green

Mini Canterbury - lemon

Magnolia blossoms - white

Sunflower leaf branch - green

Velvet hydrangeas - sage

Velvet and lace - peach

Mixed rose leaves

Darjeeling petites - black/cream

 

Have fun creating! See you soon!

Helena

"the day of LOVE"....

...is here....not that EVERYDAY is a day to LOVE (just saying!!)

It's Lynne here....
and I had a day to just play....and PLAY I DID!!
I decided to pull out my Melting Pot, some Beeswax, a bit of canvas
and some PETALOO FLOWERS
and ohhh the fun I had!



with the upcoming "HEART DAY", I decided to create a Valentine Card.
The heart was cut out of Canvas, using a homemade template, I applied Beeswax to the heart. When cooled, I sprayed the heart with Color Wash.
I melted off the wax with my Heat tool.
Then I thought......hhmmmm...what if I dipped some flowers in the wax??
So, I tried it.......AND I LIKED THE EFFECT!!!
so much so.....I decided to create another card.



Hope you've enjoyed my creative adventure!!!

The BEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt
WITH THE HEART!!

Helen Keller

Happy Valentine's Day to all... 

Flowers used:

Floral Embellishemts ~ Mini Velvet Blossoms ~ Cream
Darjeeling ~ Mini Leaves
Darjeeling ~ Medium Mix

Color Me Crazy ~ Lily of the Valley
Color Me Crazy ~ TS Collection

 

The Smell Of Spring

Today,  the Petaloo team leaves for the CHA show!  We will post pictures of the new flowers, the booth and all the exciting "goings-on" at the show!  Stay tuned...

Until then...we have a post from DT member Irene from Malaysia.  Enjoy...

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Are you all ready for a little Spring? Today, I would like to share a layout which is fully inspired by the photograph on it. This is a photograph of my furkid, Hiro, enjoying smelling all the fresh blooms in the garden. The yummy Sienna Darjeeling flowers by Petaloo are perfect to enhance the fresh atmosphere which I'm trying to create for this layout.

Here are some close-ups on it.

The fresh citrus colors with the combination of various Petaloo flowers are amazing and sets the right effect for the layout!

Here is the list of Petaloo products which I've used on this layout.

Darjeeling Collection - Sienna asst.- click here

Chantilly Velvet Hydrangeas - Sage - click here

CMC Flower Layers - Snowflake White - click here

Canterbury Flowering Vine Spray - Yellow - click here

Chantilly Velvet Butterflies - Earthtones - click here

xx Irene Tan  

SNEEK Peek..."Penny Lane" by Petaloo!!

If you are looking for the Swirlydoo's BLOCK PARTY...see the bottom of this post!

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Ready for another ...

"Sneek Peek" from our 2012 Spring line?

Let's start with a wonderful project designed with this new collection...

(card designed by DT member Alice Carmen with the

"Ruffled Roses" in Vanilla & "Forget Me Nots" in Plum)

 

 "Penny Lane" Collection

featuring...

 4 styles of flowers: Ruffled Roses, Wild Roses, Forget Me Nots, and Mini's

available in 9 colors: vanilla, teal, slate blue, mint, paprika, pink, plum. brownie, and black

coordinating accesories: Vintage Dazzlers, glass flowers and glass ornament pins

( Wild Roses ~ white color)

(Forget Me Nots ~ Vanilla color) 

( Ruffled Roses ~ vanilla color ) 

 ( Vintage Dazzlers ~ floral mix )

Vintage Dazzlers also available in birthday wishes, best wishes and love notes

 (Glass Ornament Pins ~ peach color )

 Glass Ornament Pins also available in green, pink, and blue

 (card designed with Forget Me Nots in Plum color )

~ Cards designed by DT member Alice Carmen ~

see more SNEEK Peeks tomorrow....

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Welcome to Swirlydoos' January Blog Hop Block Party!!

Happy New Year and welcome to Swirlydoos January 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 and as a bonus we have 4 manufacturer blogs that are joining in the fun!! There are 5 prize packs up for grabs so make sure to follow along and have fun!!?

 

 Petaloo Color Me Crazy 10 pc prize

(includes letters, numbers, flowers, bugs, frames,

a 16 pc flower pack and a 80 pc jeweled florette pack!)

You have until midnight, eastern time, on January 15th to complete the hop. 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 sentence.
3: Finally, go back to Swirlydoos blog (http://www.swirlydoos.blogspot.com/) and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had AND tell us the sentence that was created with all of the special words you collected.

My special word is : "when"

The party continues over at Lisa's blog (http://www.randomonpurposelife.blogspot.com/).  Have fun!

 Your friends at Petaloo

 

Petaloo and G45 Inspiration

It was so much fun, we added two more days...

Welcome back to... Saturday's

Petaloo & Graphic 45 

New Year's Inspiration Week!

Happy New Year's Eve....

**If you would like to receive a "SNEEK PEEK" of Petaloo's new 2012 SPRING flowers  next week, LIKE us on Facebook and you will be the first to see the newest spring flowers to match the G45 papers !!! **

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 Hey there everyone, it's Tanisha here with a project that I created using Petaloo's Darjeeling collection and Graphic 45's Tropical Travelogue line.  The flowers and papers go together so beautifully and I though they'd look lovely as a hostess gift set. 

I pulled colors from the papers and then mixed and matched the flowers until it was pleasing to my eye.  Imagine showing up at a New Year's Eve party with a surprise for the hostess in this set!!

Here are some close-ups of the flowers

I even added a few berry picks from the Canterbury collection.

Supplies used:

Darjeeling Mini blue/eggplant/blue

Darjeeling Medium blue/eggplant/blue

Darjeeling Hydrangea cream/green

Darjeeling Petite burg/cream/green

Canterbury Berry Picks black

Happy New Year!!

Tanisha

Our two lucky winners for this week's Petaloo/G45 Prize Packs are:

Elena Pana   (who commented on the Petaloo Blog):

"Gorgeous flowers! I am a committed follower of G45 and was thrilled to see how well the papers work with your gorgeous flowers! Great team up this week, so much inspiration!"

Kathy Clement  (who commented on the Petaloo Facebook page ):

"I am getting the itch to make something floral! What a gorgeous week of projects this has been!"

Congratulations Elena and Kathy!!!  Please email Cheryl@Petaloo.com with your address and we will send our your Prize Packs next week.

 

Petaloo and Graphic 45!

 Welcome to DAY 2 ...

of the Graphic 45 & Petaloo 

"New Year's Inspiration Week"

We are so excited to have the opportunity to share some wonderful designs with you using... 

Graphic 45's beautiful Tropical Travelogue papers

&

 Petaloo's brand new Mini Darjeeling Collection of flowers!!  

 

We have calendars, layouts, altered art projects and so much more to share with you this week!  

 

Plus.......we have PRIZES to give away too!!  

You can win by leaving messages on the Petaloo BLOG & Petaloo FACEBOOK PAGE and  Graphic's 45 BLOG & Graphics 45 FACEBOOK PAGE!!  We will be selecting several lucky winners from each location to give Graphics 45 and Petaloo prizes on Friday!!

 

Today we bring our "New Year's Inspiration" all the way from Sweden with Petaloo's DT member Helena Johansson....

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Hi everybody! Helena here, sharing a couple of projects with beautiful Darjeeling flowers from Petaloo combined with fabulous papers from Graphic 45. Such an amazing match - the colors are perfect together!

First, a layout with a photo from my sisters wedding this fall. I used lots of Darjeeling flowers with colornames like Sienna and Eggplant (I love these colornames - they describe the colors in such a beautiful way!). The papers from Graphic 45, Tropical Travelogue Collection, go so well with these gorgeous flowers and I could easily use flowers with several colors.

A couple of close-ups:

I painted the flowers with a little bit of white acrylic paint, a nice effect against the patterned papers, especially the one with white dots.

My next project is a frame, approx size 6x6, that I covered with a paper with this amazing blue color. Of course, the Darjeeling flowers I chose to decorate the frame with are all blue (and a couple of black and white ones just to add "that little something").

And a close-up of course:)

Thanks for visiting the Petaloo blog today, I hope you got some inspiration!

Petaloo products used:

Darjeeling collection - deep blue click

Darjeeling medium mix - blue/eggplant/green click

Darjeeling collection - dahlia mix click

Darjeeling hydrangea - black/cream click

Darjeeling mini mix - blue/eggplant/green click

Darjeeling collection - zinnia mix click

Darjeeling leaves small click

Darjeeling petites - blue/eggplant/brown click

Darjeeling medium mix - black/cream/brown click

Berry Spray - blue click

Willow vine - white click

Graphic 45 products used:

Papers, 12x12, Tropical Travelogue Collection click

Papers, 8x8, Tropical Travelogue Collection click

Stickers and chipboard pieces from the Tropical Travelogue Collection click

Christmas Traditions

Well, the holiday season is upon us and I am loving all of the beautiful holiday crafts I have been seeing all over the internet.  Today I am sharing with you a layout that I created about a family tradition that we started with our children when they were very small.  Each Christmas Eve we sit down next to our tree and read Twas the Night Before Christmas.  Everyone takes a turn and reads one page and then passes it to the next person. It's been a wonderful tradition and especially fun to watch the kids reading skills improve year after year.

Here are a couple of close up shots of the Petaloo flowers that I used on my layout. I loved the combination of the blue and reds in the Echo Park's Season's Greeting line so I combined the Petaloo's traditional Christmas Velvet Poinsettia flowers with the beautiful teal Mini Canterbury flowers.

A couple of extra tips when using flowers on your project is to stack and layer them with foam dots. Misting or spraying the flowers with inks and paints is also a lot of fun.  On my layout I used Studio Calico's Mister Huey's in white.

I also like to include flourishes and small paper tickets or stickers in the flower stack. The dies that I used on my layout that created the flourishes are from The Memory Box.  

I hope you are inspired by all of the wonderful holiday projects that you are seeing on the Petaloo blog this week.  Merry Christmas from me and my family to yours!

Christine

Something for your Christmas candy?

HOORAY...only one more week until Christmas!!  If you find yourself (somehow) with a little extra time to create a few "last minute" Christmas decorations or gifts, Petaloo has some great project ideas!  

This adorable Christmas project comes from DT member Helena Johannson in Sweden!!!

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I love making Christmas candy with my children. I also love eating Christmas candy! If there will be something left after we make fudge this year, I will put some in this little cornet I made out of beautiful papers from Pion Design and with lots of gorgeous Petaloo flowers. Maybe I even will give this away (if there is some fudge left, that is...)?

I just rolled the papers into a little cone and then glued them together. I put a doily in the opening and then I attached some lovely ribbon and lace from May Arts for a handle. And then I dived into my flowerbox and found Ivy Leaf vines, Magnolia blossoms and Velvet hydrangeas which I used to decorate my cornet.

Look at these amazing flowers and vine! I love the gold sprayed onto the ivy leaf vine - perfect for a Christmas project. Hmm, I just might keep this one and hang it into our Christmas tree!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

Helena

Petaloo products used:

Ivy Leaf vine

Magnolia blossoms - white

Velvet hydrangeas - red