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Color Me Crazy Unity Stamps Day 2

Today is the 2nd day of our team-up with Unity Stamps.  We have been coloring all month with the Color Me Crazy collections.  Now we get to stamp and ink this week so lets' see who's up today. 

Today we have this darling card desinged by

Alice Carman   

This card was made using the Color Me Crazy Value Bag Medium Layers in white. 

I colored them with blue and yellow color shine (the Color Shine we used from last week's team-up) and inked the edges in a light brown. I also layered my flowers to make them fuller and added a brad from the Coordinating Brads and Trims line to hold the layers together. 

To acheive this effect for a fuller flower.  I layered a few small flowers together and then picked the same style flower, but in a larger size and held them together with a brad.  You can lightly spray them with water so they look more life like before you color them. 

Supplies:

Shades of White Brads

CMC Value Bag Medium Layers

You're my Bestie stamp

Japanese Background stamp

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Color Me Crazy Unity Stamps!

Starting tomorrow, Monday, May 20th.  We bring you a super delightful team-up week.  Unity Stamps will be joining us all week to bring stamping to our Color Me Crazy collections. 

We can't wait for you join us!  Starting Monday, we will have tons of ideas on how to stamp, color, ink, emboss and all the fun that you can create with stamping. Unity's design team along with Petaloo will be kicking off the fun so come and join us! We will be giving away prizes for everyday that week so join us everyday for a chance to win. Details on how to enter will be posted on Monday. 

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Color Me Crazy with Heidi Swapp Day 6

Today is our last day sharing all the wonderful techniques you can acheive using Color Me Crazy flowers and Heidi Swapp's Color Shine.  We have enjoyed working Heidi Swapp's products and want to thank her for her generosity during this team-up.  Our deisgn team had a blast using her products along with our Color Me Crazy flowers.  What a treat!

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I always love creating with CMC flowers - you can paint them, mist them or keep them just as they are, they are perfect for any project! Together with Heidi Swapps products these flowers really shows off - everything goes so well together and once I started creating I could hardly stop!

First I want to show you a layout where I've used papers and embellishment from Heidi Swapp's No Limit collection with CMC Flower Layers and Darjeeling flowers.

I started with the background: I painted with gesso, used a stencil and texture paste, then misted with Heidi Swapp Color Shine - colors gold and tinsel. Then I layered a few pieces of paper and my photo on top of a piece of cheesecloth.

Then I pulled out lots of Petaloo CMC flowers and used the same colors of mists to color them. Some with just gold, some with just tinsel and some with both. The chipboard flourishes tucked into my large flower cluster I painted with gesso and then used a Heidi Swapp stamp (the word "Today") to create a pattern.

I love Heidi Swapps Buzz Words - so pretty and fun!

I attached some Petaloo brads - color Teal - here and there. They are so cute!

Finally I painted with gesso and texture paste a bit here and there :)

After making the layout I still had some misted flowers left, so I created a card:

I would also like to show you the process when I colored the flowers and lace seen on the card:

I have used CMC Flower Layers and Darjeeling flowers. The mists are Heidi Swapp's Color Shine, and I have used the colors Gold and Tinsel. I use a plastic box when I mist, you will see why later.

I first sprayed the flower layer with Tinsel color.

Then I sprayed with Gold color on top, which gives the flower a beautiful shine.

I then sprayed the Darjeeling flowers, one with Gold and one with Tinsel. As you can see, there's quite some wet mist around the flowers since I used a plastic box to spray in, the left over mist I used like this:

I took the flower layer and held the edges in the wet mist and let the flower soak up more mist. You can see that the tips of the flower are a bit darker with a golden edge. I first let the flower soak up some tinsel color, then gold color. It turned out beautiful!

But, I wasn't ready just yet, I still had lots of mist left in my plastic box. So, I used it on a piece of Petaloo lace and the cheesecloth I used beneath the flowers, I just put the lace and cloth into the plastic box and let it soak up the mist. I also put my Darjeeling flowers upside down in the mist leftovers for a while. The possibilites are endless and I have only used two colors!

I hope you are finding our team-up with Heidi Swapp inspirational! Thank you for stopping by.

xoxo

Helena

Petaloo products used:

Color Me Crazy Flower Layers

Color Me Crazy Darjeeling Flowers

Color Me Crazy Chipboard Flourishes

Brads - Shades of Teal

Crochet Lace Fancy Trim - white

Color Me Crazy Spray

Heidi Swapp products used:

Papers, stickers, trimmings, photo frames, stamps and pennants from the No Limit collection

Color Shine - Gold

Color Shine - Tinsel

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Color Me Crazy with Heidi Swapp Day 5

It's the DAY 5 of the Altered Art week with Heidi Swapp.  Yesterday we shared Lisa Valentine's adorable layout with details on how she stamps onto the Color Me Crazy flowers. Today's project will wow you with layers of Color Me Crazy flowers, chipboard and brads.  Scroll down to see Design Team Member, Irene Tan's work of art.

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The great thing about Color Me Crazy flowers is you can layer them and create these clusters of blossoms. I loved using Heidi Swapp's products and Color Shine.

You can see how easy these Color Me Crazy flowers layer.  By adding the brads it gives the flowers even more color and texture.

Heidi's adorable embellishments really helped make my layout take flight with the flags and stickers.

I've used the water color painting technique to paint the CMC flowers. To do this, I've used some water based paints and inks. After painting, I've added a layer of color shine mist to give some sparkle to it.

Petaloo supplies used are:

CMC Mixed Petals Flower Layers (1500-000)

Foliage - all whites (1540-000)

CMC Darjeeling - Med/Minis (1533-000)

Chipboad Clouds (1581-003)

Fancy Trims (1910-000)

Brads Asst - Shades of Teal (1920-129)

 

Heidi Swapp product:

No Limits collection

Color Shine

stamps, frames, stickers sequin shapes trimmings and alphas

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Color Me Crazy with Heidi Swapp Day 4

It's the DAY 4 of the Altered Art week with Heidi Swapp.  Yesterday we shared Denise Hahn's video tutorial on how to use Heidi's Color Shine on Petaloo's Color Me Crazy flowers. Today we share Lisa Valentine's adorable layout.  Love how she stamps leaves onto the petals of the Color Me Crazy flowers...genius!

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Hi Everyone!! This week I had the distinct pleasure (with full on smiles and some hip shaking) to work with Heidi Swapp products.  The hip shaking came when I looked at the Sugar Chic paper collection and got happy feet.  Oh, and don't even get me started on the Color Shine mists!  Seriously....

This is my fabulous cutie when she was about 4 years old.  They had a carnival day at pre-school and she got her face painted like a little tiger.  Of course, this picture was taken at the end of the day, but she is still as cute as can be.  Meow!!  LOL

Isn't the Sugar Chic paper fun?  It opens up so many doors to just be silly and take a walk on the wild side.

I have said so many things about Petaloo's Color Me Crazy line of flowers, and all of them are true.  These flowers are a blank canvas and the only thing holding you back is your own imagination.  I stamped and then used Liquid Pearls to embellish my flowers, but not before I became a misting maniac with Heidi Swapp's Color Shine Mists.  Holy moley!!!

I combined Mustard and Primrose to get this gorgeous shade of orange.  Kind of like a melon color.  No kidding...Mustard and Primrose got me that gorgeous color.  Who'd a thunk it?  This mist dries fast and the pump never clogged on me.  BONUS!!!

Take a walk on the wild side with Petaloo's Color Me Crazy and Heidi Swapp.  You won't regret it!!!

Have fun on the hop and thanks for stopping by!

XO,

Lisa

Supplies:

Petaloo Color Me Crazy blooms

Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mists

Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic Paper

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Color Me Crazy with Heidi Swapp Day Two

It's the DAY 2 of the Altered Art week with Heidi Swapp.  Yesterday we shared a mini album created by Lynne Forsythe using Color Me Crazy flowers and Heidi' Color Shine.

Today we are going to wow you with this amazing layout designed by, Eva Dobilas.  She's has tips galore on how you can add texture to your flowers and all the different ways to use our Color Me Crazy collection.

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It's not too often that I dabble into creating layouts, but as soon as I saw the Heidi Swapp Vintage Chich collection I was drawn to create a layout.  With a recent change in my career I had a perfect opportunity to create a layout with my newest pictures. So I went to town to create.  I used Petaloo's Color Me Crazy flowers, which I LOVE so many ways, as I love to alter the colors of them.  

With Heidi's Color Shine Sprays I painted up a lot of pretty Color Me Crazy flowers and just layered them all over my layout.

Next I used my other favorite from the Color Me Crazy Collection, which is the Chipboards.  I painted it with white paint to achieve the look I wanted and added some of the stickers from Heidi Swap's Vintage Vintage Chich Collection.

I loved Heidi's stamps, so I used them all over my layout and even used her little journalin spot stamp.  By the way to color my gorgeous Color Me Crazy flowers I used the following Color Shine Sprays: Primrose, Chartreuse, Mint Green, Tropicana Teal, Gold, Bronzer and Black.

I also used the Chipboard Keyholes, which once again I painted with white paint.  I also sprayed Heidi's Chipboard Alphas with Resist with her Color Shines.  It's such a fun part of her collection.

As a final touch I added some gesso to my flowers and also the paper to make it look more vintage.  Hope you like it.

And here is the list of the Petaloo items I used to create this layout.

CMC - Darjeeling Coll. Med/Minis x 14

CMC - Foliage asst x 15 - All Whites

CMC - Chipboard - Birdhouses w/ birds 

CMC - Chipboard - Keyholes x 7

CMC - Darjeeling Coll. Petites x 24

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Color Me Crazy Indeed

We have been teasing you for a few days so we can get you excited for the most exciting week and it's almost here. Starting tomorrow we will be starting our Altered Art week with Heidi Swapp.  We are so excited to share all the colorful creations from both design teams.

We have one more card to share with you today before we start the team-up week.  Today's card is created by Alice Carman.

CMC Darjeeling

These Color Me Crazy Darjeeling flowers come in a mix so you can cluster or use for various projects.

We asked Alice how she likes to use the Color Me Crazy flowers and this is what she said.

"I love the mix of flowers and styles you get in this set. The Color Me Crazy flowers give me so much room to play with. You can use these flowers in a cluster, like what I did here or spread them over a layout spritz with Heidi Swapp's Color Shine. I love that these Color Me Crazy flowers are white because I don't have to color them either. I can use them as they are...cool!"

Supplies:

CMC Darjeeling

Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Heidi Swapp Color Magic papers and embellishments

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for our team-up week with Hedi Swapp!!!

Oh by the way...we got more prizes to give away all week! See you tomorrow for all the details.

No Limits with Color Me Crazy

We are having a great time sharing some sneak peeks before the big day on Monday, May, 6.  It's going to be a fabulous Color Me Crazy week using Heidi Swapp's Color Shine and products.  Petaloo's Color Me Crazy collection (CMC) will be altered all week long with tips and techniques.

Here's sneak peek from Petaloo's design team member, Alice Carman.

Alice created this vintage card with Petaloo's Color Me Crazy chipboard & leaves.  She used Heidi Swapp's Color Shine in Gold and Chartrouse.  Love the shine you get with the sparys.  The great part is that the Color Me Crazy product is made from 100% recycled materials so not only is it a GREEN (AKA Recyclable) product, it also doesn't tear or bleed trhough...cool!

CMC Gears

CMC Darjeeling White Leaves

TIP #1: If you don't want to spray the leaves you can use your favorite embossing folder to dry emboss images onto the leaves.

TIP #2: You can pour out the colors from the sprays on to a color palate and use a paint brush to color with for those of you who want more control as to where the color is applied.

TIP #3: You can stamp and powder emboss too on the CMC flat flowers.

Supplies:

CMC Gears

CMC Darjeeling Leaves

Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Heidi Swapp No Limits paper and embellishments collecion

 

We look forward to teasing you today and tomorrow.  Have a great day!

 

 

Color Me Crazy with Heidi Swapp

Starting Monday, May 6th we kick off the party with Heidi Swapp.  We are going to have a great week ahead of us with techniques on how to use Petaloo's Color Me Crazy collections along side Heidi Swapp's NEW Color Shine and products. We have so much to share so check us out daily.

Today's card is designed by Petaloo team member, Alice Carman using Embossed Daisies from the Color Me Crazy collection. 

Alice stamped on the Embossed Daisies and used Heidi's Color Shine to add color to her centerpiece.  Alice has a really neat tip that she picked up while playing with the Color Shine and the Color Me Crazy flowers. 

Here's what she said:

TIP #1: You can use your favorite stamp to add texture and patterns onto Petaloo's white flowers. If you want to use the sprays.  I suggest you spray first and then stamp so that it doesn't smear the ink.

TIP #2: I started with Mint Green from the Color Shine collection and I found out that if you start with a light color like Mint Green and then spray the Teal over it.  The color becomes more vibrant and a little darker.  It's almost like you created a new color.  You can do the same with Mustard/Gold and Peach/Primrose. Try it out!

We have a huge line of Color Me Crazy flowers in different styles.  We also have chipboard, ribbon trims and fabric flowers.  The possibilities are endless!! 

 

Color Me Crazy... "Altered Art" month starts tomorrow!

 

We are excited to announce May as 

Color Me Crazy ~ Altered Art month!!!

 

All month long we will show you how to...

ALTER our ALL WHITE flowers, chipboard & trims

with paint, spray, inks & stamps from...

  
  

 

 

WEEK ONE: HEIDI SWAPP Week...May 6-12

WEEK TWO: RANGER WEEK...May 13-19

WEEK THREE: UNITY STAMP Week...May 20-26 

WEEK FOUR:  COPIC WEEK... May 27-31

 

We will be featuring projects and "how to" videos from...

Heidi Swapp,  Tammy Tutterow, Jill Foster,  

Lisa Pace & Sharon Harnist

We will also have ALTERED ART ideas & projects from...

the Design teams from Petaloo, Heidi Swapp, Unity Stamps & others!

 

plus...

 PRIZES will be given away all month long !!!!!!