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Color Me Crazy Unity Stamps DAY 6 LAST DAY!!!

Color Me Crazy flowers are fun! Creating with these amazing flowers, that you can alter anyway you want or need, along with Unity Stamps was double fun!

I have a layout to show you today. I have used several Color Me Crazy flowers that I have misted with Heidi Swapps Color Shine, gold, or stamped using Unity Stamps Itty Bitty stamps "He&She". But first let me tell you a bit about the background of this layout. I have used the Unity Stamp "He&She" to create the background, and I've used Heidi Swapps Color Shine, gold, to stamp with. If you look HERE you can see a little tutorial on how I misted my Color Me Crazy flowers last time, and for this background stamping I used left over mist as ink. Works perfect!

Here are some close-ups for you:

I have used both papers and flowers to build up some yummy layers for my photos. The large flower layers I folded and just tucked them under the papers.

I just love the golden shine of these Color Me Crazy Darjeelings! I have used the Unity Stamp on some of the little Jeweled Florettes.

The Chipboard Gate was painted with white gesso and then misted with gold mist too.

I hope you've had fun and got tons of inspiration this week - I know I did!

Helena

Petaloo products used:

CMC Chipboard Gate

CMC Darjeeling flowers

CMC Flower Layers

CMC Hydrangea Petals

CMC Jeweled Florettes - Multicolored centers

Penny Lane Forget Me Nots - Antique Gold

Penny Lane Mixed Blossoms - Antique Gold

Willow Vine - Yellow/White

Products from Unity Stamps:

Itty Bitty Stamp: He&She

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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

Don't forget to visit our friends over at Heidi Swapp's Facebook and their blog.  They have an amazing week to share with you too.

Petaloo and Simple Stories Team-up Day 6!

It's the last day to play along so be sure to take advantage our $150.00 Mother's Day prize and the Team-up give away.

We would like to thank the our friends at Simple Stories for their genoritsty and for helping us promote all these wonderful inspirational projects using Petaloo's Penny Lane collection and Simple Stories, Vintage Bliss collection.

 

We are giving away one prize a day so check back often to see if it's you.  I'll be pulling from all the different sources so be sure to Facebook, Share, Pintrest and comment on our blog.

Here's different ways you can enter:

 1. Like us on Facebook (if you haven't already done so)

2. Share this blog post on your Facebook wall and tell us you did on our Facebook wall

3. Follow us on  Pinterest

4. Comment on our blog or Facebook

Dont' forget to head over to Simple Stories Blog and Facebook, there's a lot inspiration there too!

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I have loved creating with Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection and Petaloo's beautiful flowers! Since it's Mother's Day soon, I decided to make a layout for my mother, and used photos of my darling children. I also created a card using the same design, just because I liked it so much *smiles*.

Here are a couple of close-ups of the beautiful Petaloo flowers - Penny Lane Forget me Nots in the colors Robin Egg Blue and Soft Pink, and Penny Lane Ruffled Roses in the colors Pink and Teal.

And here's the card that goes with the layout:

I hope you've got lots of inspiration this week with Petaloo and Simple Stories - I know I have!

Helena

Petaloo products used:

Penny Lane Ruffled Roses - Pink

Penny Lane Ruffled Roses - Teal

Penny Lane Mixed Blossoms - Antique Gold

Penny Lane Forget Me Nots - Robin Egg Blue

Penny Lane Forget Me Nots - Soft Pink

Products from Simple Stories:

Papers, transparencies and stickers from the Vintage Bliss collection

Petaloo and Bella Blvd Team Up Winners!!!!

What an incredible week!!!  Thanks to you all for making it successful and for the Facebook time, Pintrest, Sharing and just for following along.  We have enjoyed your comments and feeds and we are so thankful for all of you.

A BIG thank you to our friends at Bella Blvd for their generosity and efforts in putting this together.  Also, thank you to their awesome design team for their fantastic projects!

It's time to announce the winners...yahoo!!! 

Monday:

Janetta Grillot Zeimetz says:

(You are a sweet and special Aunt...invites and a crown! The invite and crown are adorable! I love the colors, flowers, the feather, and the brad!)

 

Tuesday: 

Karen Martin Oshanick says:

(love the creativity and the colors...yippee for spring   btw, shared.)

 

Wednesday:

Buffy Esser says: 

(Such a cute birthday card, I've already been to Bella Blvd and the projects over there are stunning as well....you have some very creative people on your little blog hop! thanks for the inspiration oh and all the bright flowers....LOVE those!)

 

Thursday: 

Stefanie Haluk says:

(Cute place cards)

 

Friday:

Megan Gibbs says:

(Shared!!)

 

Saturday:

Kelli Smith says:

 (Hoping Petaloo International & Bella Blvd team up again soon. I thoroughly loved all the great creations, tips and talent both your companies shared with us this week)

 

Congratulations to all the winners.  Please email  your home address to [email protected] so we can get your prizes out to you.  Thank you again to all that played along. 

We are doing this all over again in a few weeks so stayed tuned!!

 

 

Petaloo and Bella Blvd Team up Day 4

It's day 4 on the Petaloo blog and we still have so much more to share with you. We hope you have been enjoying the week and I bet your dying to know if you were one of the lucky ones??? We will all find out on Sunday, April 14th.

We are giving away one prize a day so check back often to see if it's you.  I'll be pulling from all the different sources so be sure to Facebook, Pintrest and comment on our blog.

Here's different ways you can enter:

 1. Like us on Facebook (if you haven't already done so)

2. Share this blog post on your Facebook wall and tell us you did on our Facebook wall

3. Follow us on  Pinterest

4. Comment on our blog or Facebook

Bella Blvd's blog is giving away  a huge prize so be sure to go to their blog and Bella Blvd's Facebook page too!

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The colors of Bella Blvd's collections "Spring Flings and Easter Things" and "Birthday Girl" are so fun and bright, and matches the sweet and colorful Jeweled Florettes from Petaloo so well.

I have made placement cards that I'm going to give to my little niece, Julia, as a present for her to use on her next birthday party. I know she will love them! The Cupcake Dazzlers really were like "icing on the cake" on these cards.

I used stickers from Bella Blvd to decorate the cupcakes.

Here a few more photos of the placement cards:

Petaloo products used:

Dazzlers Birthday Cupcakes

Jeweled Florettes - Fusch/Grn/Blu/Orng

Bella Blvd products used:

Paper "Cute Cuts" - Birthday Girl

Paper "Borders" - Spring Flings and Easter Things

Miniatures - Spring Flings and Easter Things

I hope you had fun this week with Petaloo and Bella Blvd, and that you've got lots of inspiration!

Helena

Happy Easter!

I love Easter! We always celebrate at my mother's house and it's so fun spending time with my sisters and their children. This Easter I'm gonna give my mother this card, purple is one of her favourite colors, so I know she will love it.

I have used beautiful purple Darjeeling flowers in different sizes. Combined with papers from Graphic 45 "Place in Time" they look even more beautiful!

I have layered papers, doilies and a chipboard tag from Graphic 45 to get lots of dimension. Between the layers I have put 3D-pads.

Petaloo products used:

Darjeeling Dahlias - Teastained Purple

Darjeeling Mini Mix - Teastained Purple

Darjeeling Petites - Teastained Purple

 Papers and chipboard are from Graphic 45, "Place in Time"

 

Happy Easter to everybody!

/Helena

Love each other everyday

My sister and her husband got married in October 2011 and it was a beautiful wedding. When I saw this paper from Graphic45, A Place In Time, I thought of this photo and decided to make a layout to give them as a present. The title "Love eachother everyday" suited the papers well, as do the 8x8 "October" paper. Since my brother in law wears a red tie I thought the beautiful red Darjeeling flowers suited this layout perfectly!

I often use gesso on my layouts, both on papers and flowers, and I usually put the gesso on in the end, as a final touch. For this page I chose to paint the edges of every flower and leaf with gesso before I glued them on the layout, I wanted a more elegant look, instead of the shabby style I often have. I have used Daisies, Dahlias, Minidaisies and Mini Pearldaisies - all in the color Red Raspberry.

 

Here are a couple of more close-ups:

Petaloo products used:

Darjeeling Daisies - Red Raspberry

Darjeeling Dahlias - Red Raspberry

Darjeeling Mini Daisies - Red Raspberry

Darjeeling Mini Pearldaisies - Red Raspberry

Willow Vine - White/Yellow

Darjeeling leaves

 

Thanks for stopping by the Petaloo blog today! Have a wonderful Spring!

Helena

Cards with new textured flowers

Hi everybody! Helena here to share some Petaloo-inspiration with you!

The new textured flowers from Petaloo are so amazing! I think I almost fainted when I got them in my mailbox. I just love how you can build your own flowers in different sizes with the Mixed Textured Layers, and the colors are beautiful.

I have made two cards, perfect for any Spring gifts, with textured flowers and papers from Authentique, Seasons: Spring collection. The colors of the flowers, Teal and Apricot, are a perfect match with these lovely papers.

The smaller flowers are Mixed Textured Miniblossoms, and they are so gorgeous! I might just use them on every project I make from now on, cards or layouts. I have used the colors Salmon, Teal and Ivory. I have dusted my flowers and papers with a bit of gesso, just a little to make my projects a bit "crispy".

Petaloo products used:

Mixed Textured Layers x 12 - Apricot

Mixed Textured Layers x 12 - Teal

Mixed Textured MiniBlossoms x 9 - Ivory

Mixed Textured MiniBlossoms x 9 - Salmon

Mixed Textured MiniBlossoms x 9 - Teal

Mixed Textured Blossoms x 4 - Teal

Willow vine - White/Yellow

Berry Spray - Fuchsia

Papers from Authentique papers - Seasons: Spring

Cardstock from Core'dinations

I hope Spring will get here real soon!

Have a nice day!

/Helena

Authentique and Petaloo Valentine Blog Hop Winners

What a wonderful week we had here on the Petaloo blog.  It was so fantastic sharing the week with our friends at Authentique.  What a lovely way to start the love fest!  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for joining us and  here's a recap of all of our lucky winners.

Monday: Racheal Moses

Tuesday: Jo Ulrich

Wednesday: Wendy Crowe

Thursday: Trudy Harris-Thomas

Friday: Lori Elizabeth Williams

Saturdady: Denise Day

Thank you so much for playing along with us and please email your home address to [email protected] so we can get your prizes out to you.  Please resond by Friday, Feb 8th...thank you!

With Love

Thank you so much for following along all week.  We extended the giveaways and the winner from Saturday is...Denise Day.

Congratulations Denise Day, please email your home address to [email protected] so we may get your prize out to you.

That's it for our giveaway, but don't stray too far.  We've got lots of new things coming!!!

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I was thrilled when I saw the "Lovely" collection from Authentique Papers with the beautiful Darjeeling flowers and florettes from Petaloo and ribbon from May Arts! With Valentine's Day just around the corner I just had to create some cards and a little present to give away. Everybody loves a home made card, and with these lovely papers, flowers and ribbon the result can't be anything but beautiful!

I used one 12x12 kraft cardstock for my three cards, all sized 3x4 inches. I have layered papers, stickers and diecuts from Authentique Papers in different ways, and decorated with darling Darjeeling flowers from Petaloo and ribbon and lace from May Arts. I have also put some sweets in a little bag and sealed it with the "Lovely" papers and florettes.

Here are more pics of my cards:

I have softened the edges of the papers and die-cuts with a bit of gesso.

Just look at these flowers - sweet as candy, aren't they?!

Ok, I'm not gonna eat the flowers, but I might just eat the candy in this gift bag:

Decorating a bag filled with candy is such an easy way to make something sweet if you need a little present for someone. Here is a close-up of the top of the bag. The little sticker "I'm sweet on you" was just perfect here :)

Petaloo products used:

Darjeeling Dahlias - Red Raspberry

Darjeeling Mini Pearl Daisies - Red Raspberry

Jeweled Florettes - Valentines

Darjeeling Mini Daisies - Red Raspberry

 

Papers from Authentique Paper - the Lovelyl collection

Ribbon and Lace from May Arts

 

I'm wishing everyone a wonderful Valentine's Day! See you soon!

With love,

Helena