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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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Petaloo and Jillibean Soup

Hello and welcome to DAY FIVE of the Jillibean Soup and Petaloo Holiday inspiration Blog week!

Our second winner this week is: Barbara Moore "Your brain must have been on creative overload on these!! They are all so amazing. Love the bling."

Barbara...Please email Cheryl@Petaloo.com with your shipping address and we will get your prize out to you asap!  Congratulations Barbara!!

Plus, do not forget to visit the blog on SATURDAY...we have the cutest Christmas tree and holiday sleigh created with Jillibean and Petaloo products by DT member Lynne Forsythe!! 

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I had so much fun creating with Petaloo flowers and Jillibean Soup papers and embellishments! These products really made me happy and I made a whole bunch of cards for Christmas with the fun papers from Jillibean Soup and sweet Petaloo flowers. Now I can hardly wait until I get to send my cards to friends and family!

First, I made a card with a tag, in blue and brown. The light blue and white flowers from the Devon collection goes so well with the blue and brown papers from Jillibean Soup Christmas papers, Christmas Eve Chowder. I also sprinkled out a few Flora Doodle flowers here and there.

Here's the tag:

Then, I made three smaller cards, size 3x3. Perfect for those Christmas presents!

For these cards, I used Petaloo's Jeweled Florettes flowers in green and fuschia. I love these cute, little flowers. They make my cards sparkle and the colors match the Jillibean papers so well! And look at this little penguin - have you ever seen such a cutie?

I adore the twine called Bean Stalks from Jillibean soup, it adds that little extra on my cards.

For my last card, I cut a few Christmas trees from one of the patterned papers, they are adorable!

Have fun creating your Christmas projects using Petaloo flowers and Jillibean Soup products!

Petaloo products used:

Flora Doodles, Jeweled florettes, Teal/Fuschia/Chart/White

Dazzlers, Florettes, Teal/Fuschia/Chart/White

Brighton Collection, White/Lt.blue/Dk.blue

Sweetpea Collection, Lt.blue/White/Dk.blue

Jillibean Soup products used:

Papers from Christmas Eve Chowder

Pea pod Parts, Christmas Eve Chowder

Cardstock stickers, Christmas Eve Chowder

Bean Stalks, red/brown twine

Hugs from Sweden, Helena

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A Little Petaloo with Your Jillibean Soup?

Hello and welcome to DAY FOUR of the Jillibean Soup and Petaloo Holiday inspiration Blog week!

Welcome to today's post for the Petaloo and Jillibean Soup blog hop. Hi it's Christine and I would first love to show you a couple of cards and decorating ideas for Christmas and then further down the post give you a fun idea for Valentines Day. Click on any picture to see it up close.

My first card uses Petaloo's Brighton Collection in White/Pink/Fushcia.  I love these flowers.  They have been a special favorite of mine since I started using Petaloo.  They are the perfect size for cards and are soft and flexible so sending your cards in the mail is safe.  They won't get flatten by the machines!  They also come with sweet little leaves to use as embellishment for the flowers and the tips are sprinkled with glitter. What card doesn't need a little bling?

My second card is sparkly and bright with Petaloo's Flora Doodles Mini Candies in Fuschia.  The tips of the candy flowers are edged with glitter and really sparkle. They are made out of a very thin see through plastic and are beautiful and delicate. I also love that you get small gem flowers in the same package which gives you a nice variety when creating a flower bunch on your card.  The Jillibean Soup paper works perfectly with the bright colors of the Candy flowers.

My next project is a lovely 3D star.  You could cut out many of these to hang on your tree or around your house.  The pattern is from SVG Cuts. It came as part of a group called Spirits of Christmas Past.  It was so easy to cut out on my Cricut and decorate.  The pink flower on the star is from the Devon collection called Sweetpea which is a larger version of the Devon Brighton collection up top.  Underneath the pink flower I have added a Color Me Crazy flower in Mantis Green to mimic the flowers leaves.  The color matches the Jillibean paper perfectly and creates a beautiful frame around the flower.

 

 

My last project is one for Valentines Day.  I know it seems like a long ways off but believe me it's going to be here before you know it.  When I saw this Jillibean paper, Hearty Broth, I knew that a mailbox would be so cute so I got out my Cricut again and used another SVG Cuts called Valentine's Mailboxes.  This is just one of the three mailboxes that you get in the SVG file. 

After I assembled the box I started decorating it.  I love the Jillibean stickers with this line.  The premade sayings were the perfect title for my project. The flowers I used on the mailbox and card are also from the Devon Collection called Petites Mini Roses.  They come in 8 different colors.  These flowers are the best for cards and small projects like mine.  Petaloo also makes a collection of flowers that goes with the larger version called Mini Petites Rose Clusters which are even tinier and oh so cute!

Aren't those mini roses the cutest on this Valentine's card?  They were a perfect fit!!  Love the Jillibean twine that I used on this Valentine card too.  The card is part of a paper in the Jillibean line Hearty Barley called Beef Broth that has 12 different cards on it.  They are really cute!

Here is a another look at the mailbox.  It's actually a working one so it would be a great gift to give.  The door on the front swings open so that you can retrieve the cards put inside.  

Well I hope I have given you some fun ideas to try for the upcoming holidays.  There is also plenty of inspiration found on the previous days Petaloo posts and over on the Jillibean blog.

Have a wonderful day!!

Christine Ousley

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Layout- Brand New

Great news...

The Petaloo DT family would like to send a big hug & CONGRATULATIONS to our DT member, Christine Ousley and her family, on the birth of their healthy baby boy!!!  

We are so excited to share a layout of her new son... 

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I couldn't wait to scrap some photos of my brand new baby boy so I grabbed some Petaloo flowers and some new paper by Authentique and got started.  

 

Christine has colored the "Color Me Crazy" Flowers Layers  and mixed them with the Devon Collection of Sweetpeas in brown...

Thanks Christine and lots of luck with the new baby...

The Petaloo family

Petaloo + May Arts Ribbons = True Love! - Day 4

Our first three days of "ribbons and flowers" week has been so fun!  We have seen how to mix these two mediums in cards and layouts from DT members Tanisha, Lynn, and Lisa.  

Today we are featuring a "European" style of scrapping with flowers and ribbons from Petaloo DT member, Zarah Peterson of Sweden.  Enjoy & njut ...

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I happen to work for the most fantabulous company ever. Petaloo.

I'm so proud and happy to have been part of this journey with the DT since the very beginning, because it's a wonderful team to be part of (just look at the blog. Stunning work, right?!) and the company itself is one of the few that truly has a HUGE heart. Petaloo GIVES!

Now, this month, they have teamed up with another giving company: May Arts, and the result is too fun and inspiring for words! I got this wonderful kit of flowers and ribbons in my mail box and I just could not WAIT to dig into it!

Here's the result:

I've used these beauties from Petaloo:
Canterbury Roses/Lemon 1823-314
CMC Mixed Floral Assortment/White 1573-000
Glitter Critters/White+Light Blue 1288-003

These 6 different May Arts ribbons in FANTASTIC quality and wonderful variety & colours:
Beige/green twill stripe (it's actually not regular twill, it's striped, silky and WONDERFUL!)#385-58-46
Aqua satin pleats-#379-15-04
Aqua silky crush-#UK04
Beige net ribbon-#WQ09
White sheer/ruffle edge organza-#350-15-01
Beige crochet lace-#361-58-10

Hope I could inspire you as much as the kit inspired me, with yet another of my Mexico-themed layouts.
Have a wonderful day!

xoxo,
Zarah

"Play"

Another picture of my cute niece, and for this one, the new crocheted flowers from the Devon collection were perfect, with these warm colors, and this sweet side it gives to my layout:

Products used:

- Color Me Crazy cotton paper collection 3D foam upper case

- Devon collection, Brighton

- Devon Collection, Bristol

- Devon Collection, Crocheted flowers

- Chantilly Collection, butterflies

 

Hope you're enjoying all the projects !

Michele Beck

"Simply beautiful"

I love this picture of my niece, she looks like a little frog, the cutest ever.

The colors was perfect for the new Devon Collection:

Products used:

- Color Me Crazy, cotton paper collection 3D foam upper case

- Devon Collection, petites mini rose clusters collection, fuschia and pink

- Devon Collection, Sweetpea collection

- Devon Collection, Brighton collection

- Devon Collection, Delila collection

- Devon Collection, butterflies

Thanks for looking and a big hug from France !

Michele Beck

Handmade with Petaloo

My niece asked me to create a layout for her Mom for Mother's Day. She wanted me to use photos of all the First Communion Dresses her Mom made by hand for both her and her sister and their daughters. When she asked me the first thing I thought of was Petaloo's Crocheted Flowers from the Devon collection - they have a handmade feel to them and they blended perfectly with the orange and yellow patterned papers. You can definitely tell the older photos - they are originals so the quality is not quite perfect ... but that's OK - it reflects the evolution of photography !

  

 
Aren't the crocheted flowers and leaves fun ?!?! I also added several flowers from the Mini Rose Clusters which are beautiful and come in many different colors.

 
  

 
 Supplies Used for "Handmade":

• Crocheted Flowers
• Mini Rose Clusters
• Flora Doodles Mini Delphiniums

Happily Lost with Lily Bee and Petaloo

Day two and another winner!

This is beautiful! The purple is so striking! I love the Picket fence collection! And those flower vine is brilliant!Thank you for sharing!~ Katie B.

Hi and welcome to the Petaloo and Lily Bee Blog Hop, I am very excited with my post today, I really loved creating with Lily Bee and Petaloo, such gorgeous products with the beautiful pattern papers and stickers by Lily Bee "Happily Lost" matchiing perfectly with the all new stunning Petaloo flowers.

I created 3 projects to share with you today, a layout and 2 cards in vibrant colors of yellow, blue and pink.

 

Here is my Layout I used the gorgeous Canterbury Collection in Marine Blue and Lemon, the Devon Collection in the Petite Roses, and the very cute Glitter Critters - Butterflies and Dragon Flies, along with Happily Lost pattern papers and stickers by Lily Bee.

 

Here are some close ups of my layout showing Lily Bee stickers and Petaloo flowers.

 

 

And here are the cards also using the Canterbury and Devon Collections as well as the gorgeous Flowering Vine Spray in Yellow by Petaloo and Happily Lost pattern papers by Lily Bee.

 
 
 I love the gorgeous colors to these papers, and the beautiful Petaloo Flowers with the Glitter Critters are just so adorable, and make such gorgeous cards or any type of project you can imagine.

My First card is called "Let the Journey Begin".

 

 

My Second card is called "The Best Day Ever".

 

 

Materials Used for All Projects:

Canterbury Roses Marine Blue
Canterbury Roses Lemon
Canterbury Mini Assorted Marine Blue
Canterbury Mini Assorted Lemon
Canterbury Flowering Vine Spray Yellow
Devon Petite Mini Roses Yellow/Gold
Glitter Critters in Yellow and Blue Butterflies and Dragonflies
Lily Bee Happily Lost Hammock Pattern Paper
Lily Bee Happily Lost Good Book Pattern Paper
Lily Bee Happily Lost Amazing Views Pattern Paper
Lily Bee Happily Lost Stroll Pattern Paper
Lily Bee Happily Lost Mixed Cardstock Stickers

Remember to pop over to the Lilybee blog for more inspiration and another chance to win! 

Thanks so much for popping and joining in with todays Blog Hop, I hope you have a wonderful day.

Carole xx 

Petaloo and Lily Bee Designs

Hey there blog readers, it's Tanisha here with a altered birdcage created using Lily Bee Designs papers and flowers from Petaloo's Canterbury collection.  I purchased this birdcage from Michael's just a few short weeks ago and have been waiting for the right products to embellish it with.  Well, I didn't have to wait long!  I coupled yellow and blue papers from the Happily Lost line with matching flowers for an elegant Spring feel.

Before hot gluing the flowers to the the cage, I wrapped flowering vine sprays around the outside.  I used Cheery Lynn Designs dimensional butterflies dies to cut butterflies from coordinating patterned papers and adhere them among the flowers.

Here's another close-up of the details.

I used a punch to create a decorative border for the bottom of the cage and die cut a large circle to line the bottom of the cage.

Products used:

Canterbury Collection

Canterbury Roses x 6 Lemon (Yellow)

Canterbury Roses x 6 (Teal)

Mini Canterbury Asst. x 9 (Lemon Yellow)

Mini Canterbury Asst. x 9 (Marine Blue)

Flowering Vine Spray (Yellow)

Trumpet Vine Spray (Teal)

Devon Collection

Petites Mini Rose Clusters (Blue)

Petites Mini Rose Clusters (Yellow/Gold)

Glitter Critters Butterflies Dragonflies (Wht/Lt.Blu)