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Birthday party invitations

Welcome to the FINAL DAY of our "It's Your Birthday" Week!!

   

 Our Design Team will be featuring the NEW "Sugar Shoppe" paper collection from Doodlebug Designs and the Botanica & Darjeeling flower collections from Petaloo!!

 

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 WINNERS announced ... Tuesday, May 27th

 

Let's get the birthday party started with Petaloo DT member HELENA JOHANSSON!

My daughters birthday isn't until January, but when I saw all the goodies from Doodlebug Sugar Shoppe and Petaloo, I just knew I had to make something fun for my daughters next birthday party. She got all excited too, and we made these invitations together.

The fun embellishments from Sugar Shoppe and beautiful Petaloo flowers are perfect for creating together with your children. My little girl loved playing with these beauties just as much as I did and we had a great time together!

The cards are 10x10 cm, and I precut all the papers to make it easier for my daughter to start. We just laid everything out on the table and started to play.

Here you can see the cards better, and I bet you can't tell which ones I made and which ones my daughter made. She is 8 years old and is a fantastic creator!

 

 

Thank you for stopping by today!

/Helena

Petaloo products used:

Botanica Minis - Teal

Botanica Minis - Soft Yellow

Velvet Hydrangeas - Fuschia

Velvet Hydrangeas - Butterscotch

Velvet Hydrangeas - Aqua Blue

Velvet Hydrangeas - Cream

 

Products from Doodlebug Designs:

Papers and embellishments from Sugar Shoppe collection

 

Sail Me Away - Petaloo & Authentique

 

Welcome to DAY ONE of our Blog Hop with Authentique...

 Our two Design Teams will be featuring the NEW "Anchored" paper collection from AUTHENTIQUE and the Botanica & Darjeeling flower collections from Petaloo!!

 

FOUR WAYS TO WIN...

1.  Leave us a message on the Petaloo Blog scroll down

2. Leave us a message on our FB page  here

3. Re-PIN a project from Instagram   here

4. Leave  message on the Authentique Blog   here

 

Let's "sail away" with Petaloo DT member Helena Johansson...

 

Hi everybody! Oh boy, did I have fun creating with Authentiques Anchored Collection, Petaloos Darjeeling flowers, Penny Lane flowers and Seashells!

This paper collection really inspired me to do something "beachy" and I started with layering a couple of the beautiful papers. I painted the edges and the middle with some white gesso and glued a piece of cheesecloth in the middle, perfect to get that ocean feeling.

I then cut smaller pieces of different papers and made a little banner, also using the Anchored stickers and tiny pieces of cheesecloth. I then attached little clothespins and a piece of Petaloo string in bright red. I glued the banner on top of the cheesecloth and started to decorate with Petaloo Darjeeling flowers in blue and red, and Penny Lane Forget Me Nots in white. I also added some seashell pins and seashells.

I finished everything off with some white gesso here and there.

Now I'm only waiting for Summer to arrive!

Here are a couple of close-ups for you:

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you have been inspired!

Helena

Petaloo products used:

Darjeeling Mini Mix - Teastained Blue

Darjeeling Petites - Teastained Red

Penny Lane Forget Me Nots - White

Trim Asst Glitz - All red

Seashell Pins

Bag of Seashells

 

Authentique products used:

Papers from the Anchored collection

Stickers from the Anchored collection

Play ~ Dream ~ Laugh

Hi everybody! Today I have a Spring layout to share, filled with gorgeous Botanica flowers!

Something I love about Spring is that the kids play outside much more, they love to play football in our garden with their friends. This layout shows a photo of just this.

I had so much fun creating this page, just couldn't stop adding more flowers - LOL!

I have even used a Botanica package, the colors went so well with the green and yellow.

I have used light green and golden mist to make the background, and some of the flowers got misted too. I have also painted everything with white gesso, just a bit.

The Botanica blossoms are fantastic - just the right size for layouts!

The Botanica Minis are perfect to add just about everywhere, they complement the Blossoms so well. I have also used seashells - just love these!

The Floral Ephemera is a favorite, perfect to use when you want to build up a large flower cluster.

I have added cheesecloth under the photo, and also tucked some in between, and on top of, some of the flowers. Just had to add a little seashell here too!

A final photo to show you the dimension of this page. I love to build up layers, using paper, flowers, chipboard. 

Thank you for stopping by today!

xoxo

Helena

Petaloo products used:

Botanica Blooms - Pistachio

Botanica Blooms - Soft Yellow

Spring Berry Clusters - green

Floral Ephemera - Soft Yellow

Botanica Minis - Soft Yellow

Floral Ephemera - White

Botanica Minis - White

Velvet Hydrangeas - Lime Green

Seashells

Vintage Button

Petals - Light Green

Garden Frame for Spring

Hi there! Today I have an altered frame to show you. Spring is finally here and what better way to celebrate it than to use lots of gorgeous flowers from Petaloo when creating!

I started by painting an orange (very orange!) frame with white gesso. I had to paint it several times to get it all white. Then I framed a piece of paper that matches the flowers I wanted to use. Finally I used lots of beautiful Botanica flowers in Ivory, and Mixed Blooms in Lilac combined with Berries, Peach/Green. I finished with Botanica minis and then some gesso on top of everything. The chipboard plate is from Graphic45.

Here are a couple of close-ups for you:

Thank you for stopping by today!

/Helena

Petaloo products used:

Botanica Blooms - Ivory

Botanica Minis - Ivory

Spring Berry Clusters - Peach/Green

Chantilly Mixed Blooms - Lilac/Purple

Layouts with Botanica and Marion Smith

 Welcome to DAY SEVEN of our Blog Hop & Giveaway with Marion Smith designs!

We are so excited to be featuring Marion's new Motley paper collection & Never Grow Up paper collections along with our NEW Spring Botanica flowers!! 

Would you like to win some of the Marion's paper or some of our new flowers?

 

There are 4 ways to WIN Prizes ... 

"Like Us" on Facebook or leave a comment ... here

  

  "Pin" a project from Pinterest ... here

 

     Comment on the Petaloo Blog ... here

 

Comment on the Marion Smith Blog ... here

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I totally adore Petaloos Spring Botanica flowers, and combined with Marion Smiths Motley collection and Never Grow Up collection, I can say I was in heaven when creating! Once I started I just couldn't stop, so today I have two layouts to share.

The first one is of my youngest sister, a school photo from when she was little. The colors want perfectly with the soft and vintage papers from the Motley collection. I have also used some pieces from the Never Grow Up collection. 

I have decorated with lots of Botanica Blooms and Botanica Minis, color Fuschia, Spring Berry Clusters, color yellow/green, and Mixed Blooms, color Cream. 

 

I have cut frames and roses with leaves from different Motley papers. Love fussy cutting!

 

My next layout is a colorful one! I have worked with Motley papers that I tore and layered. The photos are of my children playing in our pool one summer, and the colors were just right for these papers and flowers.

I have used Botanica Blooms, color Teal, and Velvet Hydrangeas, color Aqua Blue. I have also used Spring Berry Clusters, color Teal, and Light Green Petals. 

I cut some frames for this layout too, just couldn't help myself!

 

A couple of close-ups:

 

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you are enjoying the blog hop!

/Helena

Petaloo products used:

Botanica Blooms - Fuschia

Botanica Blooms - Teal

Botanica Minis - Fuschia

Spring Berry Clusters - Yellow/Green

Spring Berry Clusters - Teal

Velvet Hydrangeas - Aqua Blue

Petals - Light Green

Mixed Blooms - Cream

Marion Smith products used:

Papers from the Motley collection

Papers from the Never Grow Up collection

Forever

Hi everybody!

Helena here to share a Petaloo & Simple Stories layout with you. I just fell in love with Simple Stories beautiful papers from the Homespun collection combined with the amazing, deep red, Petaloo Botanica flowers and Mixed Blooms. These products are so perfect together and made me scrap this layout about the love of my life.

 

I have used the Grey Wood paper as a base and then cut out doilies from the Stitched Together paper and arranged them across the layout. Then I added the hearts, my photo and lots of beautiful Petaloo flowers: Botanica flowers, Mixed Blooms, Berries and Darjeeling Mini Pearl Daisies.

 A close-up of a red Botanica Bloom, a couple of Mixed Blooms, red Botanica Minis and a Pearl Sheer Butterfly.

Layering the flowers gives lot of dimension!

The red is an amazing contrast to the grey wood paper and white doilies!

Thank you for stopping by today - I hope you've been inspired!

Helena

 

Petaloo products used:

Botanica Blooms - Red

Botanica Minis - Red

Botanica Berry Clusters - Red/Green/Burgundy

Darjeeling Mini Pearl Daisies - Red Raspberry

Chantilly Mixed Blooms - Red/Burgundy

Sheer Butterflies - Pearl

Simple Stories products used:

Papers from the Homespun collection

 

Happy Holidays card

I hope you all are having a great Holiday! I certainly am, lots of days off work means lots of scrappy time!

 

Today I have a card to share, using amazingly beautiful Botanica flowers, Petaloo trim and Graphic 45's ~ 12 Days of Christmas. I decided to make a card in green and white, to really feature the ivory Botanica Blooms. The beautiful papers from Graphic 45 goes really well with these flowers.

 

After gluing the papers and a doily I tied a Crochet Lace Fancy Trim, color green, around the card before adhering the flowers and leaves. I added a little Graphic 45 sticker, saying "Happy Holidays" on the trim.

Here's the card from another angle. I just love these flowers, they give so much dimension!

Happy Holidays from me to you!

Helena

Petaloo products used:

Crochet Lace Fancy Trim - Green

Botanica Blooms x 4 - All Ivory

 

Papers from Graphic45 - 12 Days of Christmas

Crazy for Christmas" BLOG HOP

 

 Day 6-7 ~ Canvas Corp BLOG HOP

 
Today we are featuring a pretty canvas & floral WALL DECORATION for the Holidays that is the perfect gift for someone special ...

 

 Our Petaloo DT member Helena Johansson is going to show you how to create a Handmade Christmas Gift made from canvas, flowers, ribbons, trim and vintage accessories!  You are definately going to try this one for the Holidays

 

(How to win a prize?  Scroll to the botttom of this post & click on the links) 

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I had so much fun creating with Canvas Corps and Petaloos products! I have made a wall hanging project, that can also be used as a center piece. This is a Christmas present for someone special, can't tell you who because then I would spoil the surprise!

 

I started with a piece of beautiful ribbon from May Arts, and glued different sized canvases from Canvas Corp onto it - love the mix of canvas and burlap! The edges of the ribbon I folded, stapled and then glued Petaloos Vintage Trinkets to cover up the staples.

 

Then I decorated the canvases using lots and lots of gorgeous Petaloo flowers - Velvet Lace flowers, Mixed Blooms, Velvet Hydrangeas and Textured flowers. I also added more Vintage Trinkets here and there.

 

You can create this project in any color you want!!  Just pick a color theme and start decorating the ribbon and the canvas shapes... (Hot glue works the best when assembling all these pieces together!!

 

Here are some more pics for you to see in different angles:

Thank you for stopping by the Petaloo Blog today - I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas!

Don't forget to stop by Canvas Corp to see lots of amazing inspiration from their team too!

xo xo Helena

 

Petaloo products used:

Vintage Trinkets

Mixed Textured Blooms - Ivory

Velvet Lace Flowers - Buttercream

Mixed Blooms - Cream

Velvet Hydrangeas - Cream

 

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HOW TO WIN A PRIZE?

Each day we will pick a WINNER from one of these locations ...

 

Visit the Petaloo Blog & leave us a message

Visit the Petaloo FB page & leave us a message

Visit our Petaloo Pinterest boards & repin your favorite project 

Visit the Canvas Corp Blog & leave them a message

Visit the Canvas Corp FB page  & leave them a message

When leaves are falling

Hi everybody! Helena here to share some Petaloo inspiration with you. I have created a fall layout and a Welcome canvas, using lots of beautiful Botanica flowers and Textured flowers.

One of the things I love about fall are all the amazing colors - yellow, orange, green and brown - together they create a beautiful color palette. I have used all these colors for my November layout:

I arranged Botanica Ephemera around my photo and then added more Botanica flowers and some Textured flowers. They work wonderfully together!

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I have painted the flowers with a bit of white gesso, using a sponge.

Another thing I love about fall is that you can cuddle up inside next to the fireplace and spend time with family and friends. In our family we love to play boardgames, eat together and just have fun. To welcome guests in our house, I made this canvas to put up in our hall way:

I have painted the canvas with gesso, used a stencil and texture paste to create a background pattern, misted with red mist and finally arranged lots of gorgeous Petaloo flowers - Botanica and Textured. I have then painted everything with white gesso.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you all are having a wonderful fall and Thanksgiving holiday!

/Helena

Petaloo products used:

Botanica Berry clusters x 3 - Red/green/burgundy

Botanica Blooms x 4 - Cranberry/Amber/Orange

FloralEphemera - Moss Green

Botanica Minis x 11 - Ivory/Green/Brown

MixedTextured Blossoms x 4 - Moss Green

MixedTextured MiniBlossoms x 9 - Mocha

 

 

Christmas with Petaloo & Authentique

Its DAY 6 of our Christmas Blog Hop with Authentique!  We hope you are inspired to try making this beautiful Christmas gift box & cards from DT member Helena Johansson.

 Plus, leave Helena a message and be entered to WIN a prize from our Giveaway today ...

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Hi everybody! Helena here to share some Christmas inspiration using Petaloo's fabulous flowers with Authentique's beautiful Christmas papers.

First I have a gift box to show you. I have used the Tradition collection from Authentique and the amazing Botanica flowers from Petaloo. I adore the new Floral Ephemera!

I have used a round paper box that I bought in the local dollar store, and dressed it in the Tradition papers (Peace and Medley). I have used some Petaloo trim around the edge of the lid.

I have decorated with Botanica flowers (Floral Ephemera and Botanica Blooms) in red and some cream Velvet Hydrangeas and a cream Mixed Bloom. I have "dusted" the flowers and leaves with some white gesso.

I have used a cute little Xmas Hat Pin Bow that I glued a diecut from Authentique on, saying "Surprise".

 Here's the box from a different angle:

I have also made two cards, using another Authentique Christmas collection - Glistening. For this collection, Petaloos Textured flowers were a perfect match!

I actually made these cards into "congrats cards", since I have several of my family members having their birthdays in December.

I have used the papers Twinkle and Glitter (just love polka dots!) and some beautiful diecuts from this collection. For the larger card I have decorated with a Mixed Textured Blossom in teal and Mixed Textured layers in ivory.

For the smaller card I used a Mixed Textured Blossom in mocha and Darjeeling Dahlias. I have also decorated with Petaloo seashells. I have painted the flowers and seashells with a bit of gesso.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Helena

Petaloo products used:

Botanica Blooms - All Red

Floral Ephemera - Red

Velvet Hydrangeas - Cream

Mixed Blooms - Cream

Xmas Hat Pin Bows

Mixed Textured Blossoms - Teal

Mixed Textured Blossoms - Mocha

Mixed Textured Blossoms - Ivory

Darjeeling Dahlias - Teal/Aqua

Darjeeling Dahlias - Naturals

Seashells

Trim Asst Glitz - All Red

 

Authentique products used:

Papers, diecuts and stickers from the Glistening collection

Papers and diecuts from the Tradition collection

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"HOW to WIN a prize" ...

We will be choosing winners all week so so don't forget...

There are 4 ways to win a prize:

 

1.  leave a comment here on our Blog (scroll to bottom)

2.  leave a comment on our Facebook page  here

3. leave a comment on the AUthentique Blog  here

4. leave a comment on the Authentique Facebook page here

 

WINNERS... will be announced on Monday, November 18th