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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!!

Excited to Guest Design!

Today on the Petaloo Blog we have a special treat!  Our sweet friend (and well known designer) Eva Dobilas has agreed to create a few Spring cards with our new Floradoodles flowers for Spring.  We hope you enjoy her creations as much as we do...welcome Eva!!!!!!

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Hello there and happy Spring to you!  This is Eva Dobilas sharing a couple of happy cards with you.  I am excited to guest design for Petaloo this month and so happy I get to show off my cards for you.  Thank you Cheryl for asking me!  :)

I had a chance to work with some of the Flora Doodles and my first card totally represents that.  I love layered flowers, so even though some of the flowers I worked with were flat, I just got them wet, crumbled them and dried them and got this really pretty frilly flower with it, than I just layered them on top of each other.  Finally I added some Diamond Dust to add even more interest to it.  The pretty sentiment is by Unity Stamps, in case you would like to know.

Here is a little close up of my flowers. They sure are pretty, don't you think.  So many options!

My next card is so super cute and is using the adorable Little Birdie Dazzlers.  I created a background scene with JustRite Papercraft's Chevron Stripe background stamp, which I white embossed onto white cardstock, than painted it in with Creative Imaginations Luminarte Twinkling H2O's.  And the easiest part was to add my cute little birdies, but look at how adorable this card is!

Here is a little close up of the birdies.  I also used May Arts ribbon and another pretty Flora Doodles flower.

Hope you like these little cards as much as I loved making them!

Petaloo products used on these cards:

1318-700 Flora Doodles Brites Mulberry Flower Pack

1357-221 Flora Doodles Go Green Tye-Died Gypsies

1387-004 Dazzlers Little Birdie

 

Find these Petaloo items at

Scrapbook.com ~  link 

OR... A Cherry on Top ~ link

 

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

What's going on at the CHA Show?

Geez ... it 's been such a busy show we have not had a chance to post any pictures until now!

The booth is finally finished and ready to go...lots of white carpet, black frames filled wth new spring Petaloo flowers and tables ready for students to learn the painting and stamping techniques with our new "Color Me Crazy" chipboard and flowers!  

(We are gonna need lots of Resolve carpet cleaner for this bright, white carpet!!) 

First day of the show and ready to go...

from left: Eva Dobilas, Noemi, Cheryl, and Kim

How cute is Alice Carman doing Make N' Take cards with Petaloo flowers?

It's hard to choose which color card to make with Alice...

You will want to stop a few minutes to learn a technique or two from Eva Dobilas. who is teaching customers how to stamp and color our new "Color Me Crazy" chipboard and flowers!!

Jill Walker educates customers on how to paint the "Color Me Crazy" flowers with Luminarte! 

One of our devoted sales reps, Howard Block...  not only is he a fantastic rep, he can reccomend the BEST restuarant in town!!

Time to relax a few minutes with some of our Canadian friends, the purchasing team from "Scrapbook Eh!" in Canada!!

 

Our feet are so tired but we are having so much fun!  Thanks to everyone for allowing us to take these cute pictures!

See you again tomorrow! 

Your friends at Petaloo