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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!

Little Yellow Bicycle and Petaloo Blog Hop

 Hello and welcome to DAY 2 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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Mother's Day is this weekend so I thought I make a couple cards that will inspire you to create a few of your own.

On this card I die cut some honeycomb shapes to match my Petaloo flowers.  Then I folded the flowers over the die cut and addes some Little Yellow Bicycle sticker leaves and rhinesones for texture.  Super cute and easy to put together!

This card was created using Little Yellow Bicycle Hello Spring collection and Petaloo's Mulberry Paper Flowers.

New Mini Delphiniums Mulberry Street Pastels

 

I die cutted a few shapes using LYB Hello Spring collection papers and added the Birdy Dazzlers.  Simple and clean, perfect for a quick card and just in time for Mother's Day!

Aren't these little birdies adorable? They work so well with LYB Hello Spring collection. Almost like they were meant for each other.

This card was created using Little Yellow Bicycle Hello Spring collection and Petaloo's Dazzlers

Little Birdie Dazzler

Thanks and have a wonderful week!

 

PRIZES  ~  PRIZES  ~  PRIZES 

Hello Spring Prize Pack from Little Yellow Bicycle

Floradoodles Prize Pack from Petaloo!

 

Good Luck to everyone and a BIG thank-you to DT member Alice Carman

for her adorable Mother's Day cards!!

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! 

Say "Hello Spring" all next week!!

 

It's going to be a week of Mother's Day inspiration with Little Yellow Bicycle and Petaloo! 

We will be featuring LYB 's hello Spring line of paper and embellishments with our Petaloo Floradoodles flowers!

* Join us for some Mother's Day project ideas!! *

* win prizes from Petaloo & Little Yellow Bicycle *

by...

posting a "Mothers Day" message on...

Petaloo's Blog  &  Little Yellow Bicycle's BLOG

 

We hope to see you Monday...

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A Vintage Spring card from DT member Helena Johannson:

Spring is in full bloom and what better way to celebrate that than to make a card? I decided to make a vintage one, and the blue Mulberry paper daisies has got the perfect shade of blue to go with the music paper. I layered several flowers and used a brad in the middle. I folded the "legs" of the brad a bit to make the flower more three dimensional. Then I added some blue tye-dyed daisies around the larger flower.

 

Petaloo products used:

Mulberry paper tye-dyed Daisies - blue

Mulberry paper Daisies - Brites

/Helena

How do you layer flowers?

Today's post is all about flowers.  It's the perfect embelishment for Spring!  I love all the fun and bright colors of this season. Petaloo's Flora Doodles have the right shape, size and colors.  

I couldn't decide what flower I like best so I used a few to create today's card.  Don't you just love these flowers?

I started layering my largest Flora Doodles flower and used the smaller Flora Doodles flowers to fill in the empty spaces on my card.  I also tucked in die cutted leaves where needed.  This is a great way to build clusters and to add more texture to your card.

Want another techinque to use on your card?  Using the Mulberry Paper Flowers I like to fold them over and layer them on another.  I like this look because it reminds me of a Cone Flower Daisy(my favorite).  

The only difference between a real flower and my card is my flower has a cute frog on it.  You can get these adorable frogs from the Dazzlers Water Animals collection.

Supplies I used:

Jeweled Florettes - Blue/Pink/White/Yell - Baby’s Coming

Embossed Mulb.Paper Daisies - Chartreuse

Hope you enjoyed today's techinques and come back tomorrow to see more creative projects by our talented Design Team.

Alice

 

 

Excited to Guest Design!

Today on the Petaloo Blog we have a special treat!  Our sweet friend (and well known designer) Eva Dobilas has agreed to create a few Spring cards with our new Floradoodles flowers for Spring.  We hope you enjoy her creations as much as we do...welcome Eva!!!!!!

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Hello there and happy Spring to you!  This is Eva Dobilas sharing a couple of happy cards with you.  I am excited to guest design for Petaloo this month and so happy I get to show off my cards for you.  Thank you Cheryl for asking me!  :)

I had a chance to work with some of the Flora Doodles and my first card totally represents that.  I love layered flowers, so even though some of the flowers I worked with were flat, I just got them wet, crumbled them and dried them and got this really pretty frilly flower with it, than I just layered them on top of each other.  Finally I added some Diamond Dust to add even more interest to it.  The pretty sentiment is by Unity Stamps, in case you would like to know.

Here is a little close up of my flowers. They sure are pretty, don't you think.  So many options!

My next card is so super cute and is using the adorable Little Birdie Dazzlers.  I created a background scene with JustRite Papercraft's Chevron Stripe background stamp, which I white embossed onto white cardstock, than painted it in with Creative Imaginations Luminarte Twinkling H2O's.  And the easiest part was to add my cute little birdies, but look at how adorable this card is!

Here is a little close up of the birdies.  I also used May Arts ribbon and another pretty Flora Doodles flower.

Hope you like these little cards as much as I loved making them!

Petaloo products used on these cards:

1318-700 Flora Doodles Brites Mulberry Flower Pack

1357-221 Flora Doodles Go Green Tye-Died Gypsies

1387-004 Dazzlers Little Birdie

 

Find these Petaloo items at

Scrapbook.com ~  link 

OR... A Cherry on Top ~ link