Embellishing Cards and More Blog Hop Fun

It's a great week here on the Petaloo blog with a full week of Mothers Day ideas, fun & prizes coming your way ...

It's Day 3 of our hop, are you ready for some ALTERED ART fun ???

the Petaloo designers will be "Blog Hopping" with the designers from

Creative Embellishments

Their projects will feature a variety of ALTERED & PAINTED chipboard embellishments

PLUS ... we will be PAINTING & ALTERING Darjeeling paper flowers & leaves from Petaloo!

There will be lots of beautiful MOTHERS DAY ideas from our two design teams:

FRAMES, WALL ART, LAYOUTS, CARDS & more ...

Creative Embellishments - see their DT projects here:

Now, let's get the fun started with Petaloo DT member

Jen

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Jennifer Snyder here to join in the Petaloo/Creative Embellishments blog hop.

Petaloo has teamed up with Creative Embellishments this month for a fabulous product exchange. This means I had the opportunity to add Creative Embellishments chipboard to my cards. That brings a giant smile to my face.

Mother's Day is fast approaching so I created 3 cards with a feminine touch just for the occasion. It'll be here in a blink and I'll be prepared.

This is my first card. I used Maja Design's newly re-released Sofiero collection for each of my cards.

Here is a close up of the embellishments on this card.

The gorgeous lavender flower is Petaloo's Darjeeling Anemone in Purple . The accenting cream flowers are Petaloo's Darjeeling Teastained Cream Dahlias .

The floral cluster rests atop a sweet chipboard piece, Creative Embellishments Chipboard - Flourish Set 2, I kept the chipboard the natural color and dabbed some white wash over the chipboard.

This is the second card. I love how delicate this feels. I think this is the one that my mom will receive. For this card, I used the following flowers:

Petaloo's Darjeeling Teastained Cream Dahlias

Petaloo Darjeeling Teastained Cream Dahlias

and the chippies used were:

Creative Embellishments chipboard - Frond Set 5

Here's a close up of the beautiful embellishments.

The chipboard treatments were kept quite simple with just white acrylic paint and a touch of brown edge inking.

My last card is also rather delicate thanks to Petaloo and Creative Embellishments.

Flowers used on this card are :

Petaloo Darjeeling Petites in Pink

Petaloo Darjeeling Teastained Dahlias in Pink

Petaloo Velvet - Hydrangea in Maroon

Now you may say to yourself -"hmmmm crazy Jennifer says she used Petaloo's Maroon Hydrangeas on this card. And yet I see no maroon." Well let me tell you how cool one packet of Petaloo Velvet - Hydrangeas in Maroon can be.

The packet of hydrangeas has so many variations of color. I took a flower that had a little less maroon and more green and cream. I cut it to add as the greens in the cluster. I did not want to use the leaves from the package because they just were too big for my floral cluster.

Don't forget to hop on over to the Creative Embellishments Blog found here for more gorgeous inspiration and a chance to win some prizes. You can shop for Creative Embellishments chipboard right here.

Petaloo Products:

Petaloo Darjeeling Anemone in Purple 1490-104

Petaloo Darjeeling Petites in Pink 1465-110

Petaloo Darjeeling Teastained Cream Dahlias 1467-105

Petaloo Darjeeling Teastained Dahlias in Pink -1467-110

Petaloo Velvet - Hydrangea in Maroon 1272-182

Creative Embellishments Products:

Creative Embellishments Chipboard - Flourish Set 2

Creative Embellishments chipboard - Frond Set 5

Creative Embellishments Chipboard - Fern Foliage 5

Creative Embellishments Chipboard - Flourish Set 4

Other Products: