Have you felt the heat of this Summer yet? If not, let me send some over from Malaysia, where we have warm weather the whole year round. When asked to create a Summer project, I thought about a friend of mine who stays in a country where there are long winters. I wanted to create a card to warm her up this Summer.
I've used an acrylic card by Clear Scraps as the base for this card. Then, I decorate it up with tons of Petaloo gorgeousness and Graphic 45's Places In Time papers.
The beautiful Dahlias, Forget Me Nots and Darjeelings are just perfect to warm up the look of this card. Try creating some Summer cards using Petaloo flowers and warm up your friends this Summer!
Hello, I'm Shellye McDaniel and I am delighted to be the June Guest Designer with Petaloo! I've had several team-up opportunities between Petaloo and other companies and each experience reminded me how much I truly love working with Petaloo products. I was equally excited to learn that Petaloo would be teaming up with Graphic 45 this month in celebrating all things Summer, patriotic and beach! For my project today I'm sharing a grapevine wreath that I dressed up for the season...it contains stars, red, white & blue and a beach theme...it just says "Welcome, Summer!"
I started off with two pre-cut stars that I had on hand. I used the backs of the Graphic 45"Place in Time" papers to cover the stars. After machine-stitching around the perimeter, I spritzed each with a little walnut spray and distressed the edges.
After deciding on the focal piece to cut out from the "July" portion of the collection, I used the remainder of the patterned paper as the backdrop for two smaller stars and the postcard print. I backed it with a thin chipboard and then stitched in place.
Now for the embellishments! Before attaching the postcard to the base, I added one of the metal brackets to the bottom. A beautiful swag of Darjeeling Flowers makes a nice border, followed by a paper pennant "held up" by two of the sweetsea shell pins. I edged the bottom in three rows of the Paprika Crochet Trim
Next, I punched two small holes at the ends of each large star and attached to the grapevine wreath with a thick gauged wire. A large burlap bow to the side and my wreath is ready for hanging and welcoming Summer guests!
I thoroughly enjoyed working with these gorgeous colors and getting a chance to share with all of you Petaloo fans!
Hey there! It's another day with a layout featuring Petaloo gorgeous flowers with Authentique's "Strong" collection. I've decided to create a father themed layout to celebrate this coming Father's Day!
I've added several pieces of CMC chipboard gears by Petaloo on this layout. I've used textured flowers, darjeeling mix and the forget me nots to embellish the layout.
The vintage plates by Petaloo fits perfectly here too.
The colors of this collection is so beautiful and works great together to create tons of layering on my layout. Hope you all like today's project! Check back for more inspiring projects!
The Authentique Strong Collection
and Petaloo Darjeeling flowers are just right for a Fathers Day card. I have layered a couple of Authentique papers and then played with frames and diecuts. I have used 3D-pads to get dimension.
I painted the flowers and leaves with some white gesso to get a frosted look.
I have used a little Petaloo vintage Label Plate in the middle - I adore these! So perfect to make a title or sentiment to stand out!
Here's a close-up of some of the Darjeeling flowers in the color Teastained Blue:
With Father's Day just around the corner and Authentique's Strong Collection was a perfect timing for me to create a card, just to inspire some of you to make one with Petaloo's pretty flowers and Authentique's collection.
My card started out with Authentique's Frames and Corners Diecut paper, as it was perfectly made just for a card, so I went with it. I separated most of the die cut papers and using popped dots I layered them.
The large sentiment diecut from Authentique was perfect to adorn with all the pretty Petaloo flowers and I also die cut a flourish using My Favorite Things flourish dies. Here is a different angle of my card, where you can see all the dimensions of my card.
Here is the list of the Petaloo flowers I used on this card:
I created a card and a canvas which would be a wonderful gift for a Grad or a Dad using the Strong Collection from Authentique and some LOVERLY Petaloo blooms!!!
My canvas had begun as a card face and morphed into a canvas.
We get to design with our friends at Authentique today using their Strong paper collection. It's the perfect paper collection when you combine Petaloo's Darjeeling collection.
I used Authentique's Hinges and Tab die cuts to create my ties. The Petaloo Mini Darjeelings worked really well with the color scheme and the to top the ties. Perfect for Father's Day!
We have lots of different colors to choose from and they match Authentique's Strong collection very well.
This paper collection really inspired me so I created a Graduation card as well. It's not a traditional card, but it's perfect for the Graduation Diva in your life.
Father's Day is fast approaching and so I made this gift for my husband to hang in his office. The pictures are of our kids and I have embellished the rectangle openings with Petaloo flowers and Authentique papers.
I love how the simple repitition of a certain element is so powerful. In a couple of the openings I put two or three Petaloo flowers in a row. Simple but beautiful!
I also got some Petaloo chipboard pieces out and inked them up with Tim Holtz's Distress Inks. They really take the color well and added some fun interest as well as dimension.
The Authentique paper had some great phrases on one of the papers so I was able to cut them up and place them in key places.
The corner punch outs really gave the frame a finished look.
I know that the kids will be thrilled with the gift as well as my husband who is truly one of the best dads in the world.
We have had a busy month here on the Petaloo blog. It's been an Altered Color Me Crazy month and we hope you have enjoyed all the different team-ups and ideas. June is right around the corner and I can't believe how fast the months are going.
Just thought I'd share a couple of things we are planning on doing for June. We are working with these two amazing companies for June. Come check us out while we create for the coming holidays like Father's Day, Graduation and Fourth of July.
We also have a video tutorial from Lynne Forsythe today. You won't believe what she's making...it's fantastic!!!!
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Howdy Peeps.....Lynne here.
I just wanted to share with you
my creation made with Petaloo Color Me Crazy Flowers
and Ranger goodness!!
But before we go any further....If I had a bucket list....this would be right up there at the top of my list....the HONOR and PRIVILEGE to participate in Melt Art Mania for Ranger/Tim Holtz. When I was asked to join such a FANTABULOUS group of such SUPER CREATIVE PEOPLE....I was humbled!!
The wheels began to turn!! Now, if you know ANYTHING about me....you know, I am all about flowers....so I decided I would pull out my Melt Pot,some Clear Beeswax and a few Petaloo Flowers....and let the games begin!!
Here is what I came up with.....
The Wild Blossoms Darjeeling Collection by Petaloo I used......began as white flowers. I colored them with a Wild Honey Distress Reinker Mixture, a dab or Fired Brick Distress Re~inker ink, a spritz of Dylusions ~ Ink Spray....and dipped 'em in a pan of Clear ~ Melt Art Beeswax....
VOILA!
I created a video tutorial on how I colored the flowers and about the "dippin" process.
Look is Guest Designing for us today! It's our very own, Lynne Forsythe. I'm sure you are already familiar with Lynne's work, but did you know she also designs for Splash of Color? Today Lynne is going to share with us what she does with our Color Me Crazy collection using Splash of Color products.
What an AMAZING Team Up....
Splash of Color and Color Me Crazy flowers from Petaloo!
Out of the wide variety of ways to color available, I chose to use the Silks Acrylic Glaze from Splash of Color.
I chose to use my periennial garden as the inspiration for my creative piece.... I don't know about your garden.... but mine is full of colors!!
What better way to accent my flower cluster then with the CMC Chipboard ~ Gates and the "little birds" from the Birdhouse with Birds CMC Chipboard.
I have created a video tutorial on my creative process and how I colored my flowers.
Hope you enjoy....and are inspired to COLOR YOUR FLOWERS!!
