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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!!

 

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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!

Spring Layout with Flora Doodles

I'm so happy to see the bright and beautiful colors of the flowers in my yard and gardens. Spring is such a wonderful time of the year.  

So today, in honor of Spring, I have a bright and colorful layout for you, using Petaloo's Flora Doodles line.  I used some paper from Imaginisce's Spring line and the colors went perfectly with Petaloo's Bright Flora Doodles flowers.  

This cute little guy is my son and he just recently experienced his first Easter Egg hunt.  I think that next year is going to be a lot more fun! Ha! The grass was really prickly and he didn't want to move to grab his eggs when we put him down. Next year, I am sure he will be running to grab his share.

My favorite thing about these flowers is how easy they are to layer.  There are many different colors, shapes and sizes in the package so it's just a matter of putting the smaller ones on top of the larger flowers and securing them together.

On this layout I used some Basic Grey brads that I had in my stash and was thrilled to see that they matched the colors of the flowers perfectly. Another tip I woud like to share is how to make the leaves that I have with these flowers.  One of the Flora Doodles flowers is green, has 6 petals and is the same shape as the blue flower I have on my layout.  If you cut along the petals lines into the center, the pieces resemble leaves.  I slid them under the flowers and they worked perfectly.

This photo shows how I used some of the new Bird Spring Dazzlers as accents for my title. I love the little bit of glitter on their wings.

Thanks for stopping by. Let's get out your Petaloo flowers and see what you can make today!

Christine

Petaloo products used:  

Petaloo Flora Doodles Brites

Little Birdie Dazzlers

 

Spring Floradoodles & Dazzlers

Well Spring is definitely here and Summer is certainly close on it's heels.  So to celebrate the warm seasons of the year I created a couple of cards using some fun Petaloo Dazzlers and brightly colored Petaloo Mulberry Street flowers.

My first card features the cutest little frog from the Water Animals Dazzlers set.  He is all glittered up and has rolly polly eyes.  He is just a super fun way to say Happy Birthday!

The bright pink Mulberry Street Flowers are from the Embossed Daisies collection, color Fuchsia.  There are a multitude of flowers in this pack, all in different sizes, colors, and even a few polka dotted ones.  I pop dotted them on some green leaves found in the Mini Tye-dyed Daisies, Yellow.  They just happened to be the perfect green color for card.

For my second card, I used theLittle Birdie Dazzlers.  It comes with 5 birds and the branch you see on my card.  I had this pretty bright yellow paper from Echo Park and thought that a combination of the yellow paper and yellow Mulberry Street Mini Tye-dyed Daisies in Yellow would make a great place for the birds to sit.

I added a few stickers and buttons to the mini Tye-dyed Daisies centers and pop dotted a few for dimension.  I should mention that the Dazzlers have a lot of dimension to them already.  They come mounted on some foam adhesive and some of the parts are also popped up as you can see on the blue bird feather in the photo above.

Thanks for stopping by!

Christine 

Birthday Card and Gift Box

Besides scrapbooking, my other favorite thing to use my Petaloo flowers on are cards and gift packaging. It's amazing how you can dress something up with just a few gorgeous flowers.

So today I am showing you my matching card and gift box.  

The card was made using some lovely Graphic 45 paper from the Lullaby collection.  I wrapped a couple of ribbons from May Arts around it and then adhered a large daisy from the new 2012 Premier Spring Darjeeling Collection in Pistachio.  Then for a little extra I also attached some dark brown leaves from the same Darjeeling collection. 

The box that I created is from SVG Cuts and was cut using my Silhouette.  I also attached a flower to the box from the Pistachio color theme.  These medium sized flowers are the Dahlias. There are three different colors in the package.  The smallest flowers on the sides of the box are the Mini Pearl Daisies.  I thought it would be nice to tie it all together with a string of pearls along the top of each flap.

So here is my gift and packaging all ready to go.  

I love these new Darjeeling flowers because they are so easy to use.  All of the distressing has already been done so it's so quick to put together a nice card fast! Be sure to check out all of the new colors available from the Winter 2012 CHA show plus the matching accessories.

                

Darjeeling Daisies view  &  Darjeeling Dahlias view

  ~ Pistachio color ~

                  
Darj. Pearl Daisies view  Daerjeeling Foliages view

~  Pistachio color ~

Growing.....

Do you ever want to stop time?  I do!  My youngest son just turned 8 months old and I can't believe how fast the time has gone by and how much he has grown!  When I look at his newborn pictures he doesn't even seem like the same baby.  So that was my inspiration for this layout.  I thought it was also sort of a fun play on words to have his pictures surrounded by a garden of Petaloo flowers.  My little weed... Oh how sweet!

On my layout I used the brand new Petaloo Spring Darjeeling flower collection.  This particular color group is called Pistachio.  Yum!  I just happened to have these pictures already printed out that went with the pistachio color theme.  I had used a photo filter on them from The Pioneer Woman, called Soft and Faded, that gave my photographs this soft and old timey feel.  It was the perfect match for my papers and flowers.

Here are a couple closeup shots so that you can see how beautiful the texture is on these Petaloo flowers.  Each flower is hand dyed so that no two flowers are exactly alike.

In this picture you can see Large Daisies, Dahlias, and Mini Pearl Daisies. I just love how this Graphic 45 paper, Little Darlings Collection, goes with these flowers perfectly.  It's like they were made for each other.

So here are all of the products that I used on my layout today.  

click here to see Darjeeling Daisies x 4 - Pistachio by Petaloo

click here to see Darjeeling Dahlias X 10 - Pistachio by Petaloo!

click here to see Darjeeling Mini Daisies x 12 - Pistachio   by Petaloo!!

click here to see Darjeeling Pearl Daisies x 40 - Pistachio   by Petaloo!!

click here to see Darjeeling Butterflies - Pistachio by Petaloo!!

click here to see Foliage Assorted - Dark Browns by Petaloo!!

also used Graphic 45:  "Little Darlings" Collection

 

Enjoy Every Moment

Lately I have been going through my boxes of pictures tyring to get organized and I am realizing that there are a lot of pictures that I haven't yet scrapped.  So as I reminisced, looking at pictures of my kids when they were young, I found this picture and decided that it would look great with some soft and pretty Petaloo flowers.  The day that I took this picture was a beautiful 1995 spring day in Florida and my daughter was having fun playing dress up in her new ballet skirt that my mom made for her.  She thought she was a princess.  I am so happy that I took pictures to capture that special moment.

For this layout, I took inspiration from a blog post that I read on the Jillibean blog where the designers were challenged to create a layout from 6x6 papers.  The patterns on these papers are much smaller than the 12x12 version and are really perfect for cards and mini albums. But as I found, they also work great on large layouts as well.  So once I got all of my pattern papers placed I went digging through my Petaloo stash and pulled flowers of all kinds in soft pretty pink, blue, yellow, and white colors.

On my layout I used a few Color Me Crazy flowers and some soft silk paper flowers from the Devon Collection.  The feel of the Bristol and Brighton flowers are so lovely.  Each is handcrafted and hand dyed on silk paper and have a soft texture that I love.

Then I used the large Bluebell Color Me Crazy Core-dinations flowers as the focal point in my flower clusters.  I used foam dots under them to lift them off the page a bit.  

I like to get creative when thinking of how to decorate the centers of the Color Me Crazy flowers. For these flower centers I used some Bo Bunny cardstock which I punched holes in and then back stitched with DMC floss.  I love the homespun feel that the hand stitching gives to their look.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you are having a great time with all of the sneak peeks from the new CHA Winter releases.  

Christine 

Brighton Collection White/Pink/Fuschia

Sweetpea Collection Yellow/Pur/Fuschia/Pink

Sweetpea Collection Pink/Fuschia/White

Color Me Crazy Core-dinations Bluebell

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Pretty Petaloo things at CHA...

 Hello from the last day of the CHA show...

There have been so many Pretty Petaloo things from the show, we wanted to show you some of them before it is time to take the booth down!!

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The Vintage style is HOT, HOT, HOT!  It is everywhere in the show...in the beautiful papers, the ribbons, and of course, our Petaloo flowers and accessories!

These Vintage Dazzlers were a BIG HIT at the the show! They are perfect for ATC cards, layouts and greeting cards.  They were created from over 100 year old designs, how's that for vintage?  Plus, the stores loved that they are only $3.99 for a pack of eight!

(Vintage Dazzlers frame featuring four new styles of the Vintage Dazzlers: Floral Mix, Best Wishes, Birthday Wishes and Love Letters...layout by Lisa Valentine and cards by Christine Ousley & Lisa Valentine)

(close up of the wonderful layout by Lisa Valentine featuring a Vintage Dazzler Tag from Floral Mix & Spring Darjeeling flowers in the Shabby Beige color)

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Another BIG HIT at the show was the Petaloo " COLOR ME CRAZY" ALL WHITE flower collection!!

Our customers like to color their own flowers and we have over 50 styles of flowers, chipboard designs, frames and accessories to choose from...

 We were so lucky to have Eva Dobilas demonstrating how to color our white flowers with  Ranger Inks and Luminarte paints! 

(Tag by Eva using the CMC Frames, NEW CMC Chipboard Butterflies, and CMC TS Flowers) 

(CMC Daisy Layer and NEW CMC Chipboard Branch... Tag by Eva) 

(Could not resist one more...Tag by Eva designed with NEW CMC Pearl Daisies, CMC Mixed Blooms x 6, and CMC Frames)

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 There is so much more to share from the show and we will be blogging about it in the next few days to come...Make sure you check back with us tomorrow!

 

Your Freinds at Petaloo

SNEEK Peek...."Vintage Dazzlers" by Petaloo!!

Ready for another "Sneek Peek"

from our Spring 2012 line?

Today we will start with a beautiful & vintage tag made with our new

"Vintage Dazzlers" 

Collection

introducing...

"Vintage Dazzler" Collection

Spring 2012

 

~ 2 X 3 "lightly glittered" tags

(perfect for ATC cards)

~ three dimensional design... 

~ created from designs over 100 years old...

~ includes glue dots on back...

~ perfect for greeting cards, tags & more!

 $3.99 retail

for an assorted pack of 8 designs!

 

4 NEW styles

 ~ BIRTHDAY WISHES

~ FLORAL DESIGNS

~ BEST WISHES

~ LOVE LETTERS

 (Vintage Dazzlers ~ Floral Collection pkg 8)

see card below....

 

(card made by DT member Christine Ousley using Vintage Dazzlers,

Spring Darjeeling flowers & Chantilly Velvet Blooms )

(Vintage Dazzlers ~ "Birthday Greetings"

Collection of 8...)

4 designs per pkg two of each design...

(tag designed by Beth Bergner using Vintage Dazzlers &

Spring Darjeeling flowers by Petaloo)

(Vintage Dazzlers ~ "Best Wishes" Collection of 8

4 designs per pkg two of each design...)

(Tag designed by Beth Berner ~ using Vintage Dazzlers &

Penny Lane flowers & hat pins by Petaloo)

 

We hope you enjoyed this Sneek Peek!

There are more goodies to see tomorrow...

 

 

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

 

 

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