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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!

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

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
view
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/

Petaloo and Graphic 45 "New Years Inspirations"

It was so much fun, we added a few more days...

Welcome back to... Monday's

Petaloo & Graphic 45 

New Year's Inspiration Week!

**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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Welcome to my post for the Petaloo and Graphic 45 blog hop!! I know that you will love all of the beautiful projects that both teams have created for this week.

I've got two new fabulous products to tell you about, one from each company.  Petaloo introduced their Darjeeling Collection this past summer and are the beautiful flowers you see on my layout.  Their shabby, soft, and vintage feel are the perfect companion to the Graphic 45 paper.  The Graphic 45 paper and embellishments are brand new and called Tropical Travelogue. I love the chipboard elements and the papers are printed in these wonderful muted tropical colors and patterns.

What I love about these Darjeeling flowers is that they are ready to use right out of the package.  The are already distressed and have lovely pearls and metal embellishments in their centers.  But that doesn't mean that if you love to alter that you can't dress them up a little more.  They take inks, paint, and mist very well.

Here are a couple close up pictures of the flower bunches that adorn my layout.  There are a couple of different packs of flowers that I combined to make them.  Check out the supply list for more details.

Do you see those leaves?  Their texture is so detailed that they almost feel real.  

Thanks for stopping by the Petaloo blog today and I hope you will come back to see the other beautiful projects created.

Christine

 

Supplies:

• Petaloo Darjeeling Mini Mix Blue/Eggplant/Green
• Petaloo Darjeeling Medium Mix Blue/Eggplant/Green
• Petaloo Darjeeling Petites Blue/Eggplant/Brown
• Petaloo Darjeeling Leaves Small
• Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue 12x12 Paper Pad
• Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue Chipboard 1
• Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue Alphabet Stickers
• Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue Stickers

 

 

DAY 5...Petaloo's $50.00 Giveaway!

We are so PROUD to host this Holiday Giveaway!!

Today's donation will be made to:

The American Red Cross

 Theresa:

 "The Red Cross is currently helping forty people left homeless after a fire ripped through five buildings in our small town down town. We were very lucky that the fire didn't spread further. Two firemen were also hurt fighting this fire. I would love a donation to the Red Cross for all the assistance they provided to our families."

Pattie Beltran:

"What a beautiful gift. There are so many wonderful charities out there. I would like to give to the American Red Cross. They are always the first to respond in times of emergencies."

 

Theresa and Patti Beltran: please contact Cheryl@Petaloo.com with your address and we will be sending your Petaloo Prize Pack in addition to sending a donation to THe American Red Cross.

 

Tomorrow we will be selecting our final winner and an new charity from our FACEBOOK page and making our donation!  Please pass the word along and leave us a message on facebook regarding what is your favorite charity and why...

Holiday Bessings,

Your Petaloo Family

DAY 3...Petaloo's $50.00 Giveaway

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

We are so PROUD to host this Holiday Giveaway!!

What a caring, thoughtful group of crafters we are involved with...

We would like to express our appreciation to everyone who shared their personal stories and interests in their favorite charities!

Today's donation will be made to:

Summit Quest Adventures

Barbara Staradumsky...

"How wonderful that you are giving to charity this time of year. If I won I would give to Summit Quest Adventures in Rome, Ga. This charity takes termillly ill children camping and boating. The director of the charity also makes little gift bags with reading material, etc..and gives them to people who are at the cancer center for hours receiving chemothearpy. A Fantasic Organization!"

Here is their link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Summit-Quest-Adventures-Inc/109740825714724

Here is a youtube link to a video a mother took of her son's adventure. It will touch your heart :o)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uHe5zMZ9hg&feature=share

Barbara, please contact Cheryl@Petaloo.com with your address and we will be sending your Petaloo Prize Pack in addition to sending a donation in your name to Summit Quest Adventures!!

 

Tomorrow we will be selecting a new winner and an new charity from our FACEBOOK page and making our donation!  Please pass the word along and leave us a message on facebook regarding what is your favorite charity and why...

Holiday Bessings,

Your Petaloo Family

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Petaloo and Swirlydoos ...BLOCK PARTY!

Welcome to Swirlydoos December Kit Reveal Blog Hop BLOCK PARTY!!! If you came here from Lisa Valentine's Blog (addy for the link http://www.randomonpurposelife.blogspot.com/) then you are on the right track. If not, go back to Swirlydoo's blog (addy for link: http://www.swirlydoos.blogspot.com/)  and pick up the trail from there.

Petaloo's 54 pc "Canterbury Collection" Prize!!

You have until midnight, eastern time, on December 16th to complete the hop. In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all SIX 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 them down. Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words.  They will create a sentence.
3: Finally, head back to the Swirlydoos blog 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 words are "person of value"

All winners will be randomly drawn. Winners will be posted over on the Swirlydoos blog on the 17th.  Hope you had a great time.  Now head on back to Swirlydoos (addy for link http://www.swirlydoos.blogspot.com/) to finish up!

Good luck ... love, Petaloo!!!