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A Moment In Time Gift Bag

 

FINAL DAY... Dads & Grads Week

with Marion Smith 

 

There will be lots of fun ideas plus...

 

PRIZES  ~  HOW TO WIN a prize  read here

 

Don't forget to HOP over to the Marion Smith BLOG and see what their DT has created  too!  see 

 

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Let's get started with

our DT member Stacy Rodriguez ...

Hello everyone, Stacy here with you today on the Petaloo blog.  We have had an amazing week of Dads and Grads projects.  Today i'm sharing a fun little altered gift bag idea which would be perfect for either day.  I'm going to use mine for a graduation gift.  

I love the Timekeeper collection from Marion Smith which is what I used on this project.  Graduation day is such a huge moment in time and this collection also symbolizes how time has flown by watching my daughter and her friends grow up since grade school.

This is the finished altered gift bag.

 

In the close up photo below you can see I added a couple metal gear embellishments to accent the main clock.  I used Petaloo Yellow Dahlias and also intermixed a couple of Ivory Textured Mini Blossoms. I used a 1" punch to punch out a few of the clocks from one of the pattern papers from this collection and popped them up in a couple different spots on the bag.  I also spotted a few butterflies on the paper and of course had to add those as well.  Finally I had some shear yellow ribbon to tie a little bow on the handle of the bag.

Supplies Used:

Petaloo - Mixed Textured Blossoms (ivory), Dahlias (yellow)

Marion Smith - Timekeeper Collection

Ranger Ink - Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Xyron - Mega Runner

 

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.  I hope this inspires you to create a one of a kind gift bag for your special graduate!!

~Stacy

 

Graduating with Petaloo and Marion Smith!

 

it's DAY SIX

of our DADS & GRADS WEEK with Marion Smith!

 

 

There will be lots of fun ideas plus...

PRIZES  ~  HOW TO WIN a prize  read here

 

Don't forget to HOP over to the Marion Smith BLOG and see what their DT has created  too!  see 

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Let's get started with

our "Crafty" DT member DENISE HAHN ...

 

If you are crafty, then you should be making creative leis for your graduates! I made a marion Smith steampunk style one inspired by her Timekeeper collection. Add some Petaloo Flowers and some cash and you've got a easy and unique graduation gift! I made a Snapguide here to show you how:

Check out How to Make a Graduation Lei by Denise Hahn on Snapguide.

 

Supplies:

Petaloo Mixed Mini Textured  Blossoms X4 and X9 Black

Marion Smith Designs Paper Timekeeper 

 

Quick Quotes & Petaloo ~ Mothers Day HOP

 

We have exciting plans for next week...

we are "Blog Hopping" with Quick Quotes for Mother's Day ... all week!

  

 

Starting on Monday ... we will be creating Mother's Day projects with three amazing collections:

 

 "Joy Ride"  "Gypsy Road" & "Catalina Island" papers from Quick Quotes 

 

    

Catalina Island is a fun beachy paper full of teal & spice tones... see

  
Gypsy Road is an elegant paper with tones of black, taupe and ivory... see

 

Joy Ride is a travel themed paper full of fun prints & earth tone colors... see

 

PLUS ... "Darjeeling" paper flowers from Petaloo!

(which are perfect for coloring with chalk ink or left alone...) 

 

 

There will be lots of ideas like:

CARDS, HOME DECOR, & GIFTS to make for MOM  

plus...

 

PRIZES  ... 3 WINNERS !!!!

What's in the prize?   Quick Quotes paper, stickers, & chalk ink PLUS ...6 packs of Petaloo flowers & 2 coordinating crocheted trims from Petaloo!  NICE ....

 

 

FOUR ways to ENTER:

 

1.  Leave us a message ... 

each day on Petaloo Blog ... here  (scroll to the bottom) 

 

2.  LIKE US & enter the contest ...  

on our Petaloo FB page  here

 

3.  Post our giveaway on ... your FB page 

& let us know you have done so

 

4.  Re pin a Mother's day project from Pinterest

here

 

Good luck, have fun & enjoy the Hop

Be Well, your Friends at Petaloo

xxx ooo

Petaloo and Marion Smith ~ Easy Party Favors

 

DAY THREE ...Marion Smith Designs WEEK

 

Let's start off with a beautiful party project from Petaloo DT member Denise Hahn..

 

WANT TO WIN a prize?  read here

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Easy? How about no scissors! Just your Petal flowers and trims, Marion Smith Papers, and some adhesive. I made a little Snapguide here so you can see how easy these are to make. I am in Love with Junque Gypsy papers I love how Marion mixes her rough sort of vintage images with lovely bright colors, and Petaloos sugared flowers just add the extra little sparkle to those easy favors. -Denise

 

Check out How to Make Easy Party Favor Boxes by Denise Hahn on Snapguide.

Supplies:

Petaloo Botanica Collection
Sugared Blooms x 4 
Mocha
Sugared Minis x 11
Teal 

Botanica Blooms in Fuschia

Marion Smith Junque Gypsy 6x6 Paper Pack

Denise

 

An Easter Bunny Home with Authentique

 

Welcome to DAY 1

of our EASTER Blog Hop

Let's start off with an AMAZING Easter project from Petaloo DT member Nichola Battilana... Don't forget to see what Authentique is doing too ...  see

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Does the Easter Bunny visit your house? He hops to our place every year. He leaves so many treats for our kiddo that it is obvious those goodies are intended for sharing. Good guy that bunny. In his honor I've created a bunny abode. Down the rabbit hole we go!

The base of this piece is a gift box turned on it's head. The lid is now acts as the base, and the bottom is now the top and home to a pretty Burlap Blossom garden.

Follow the ladder and you can spy where that clever bunny keeps his eggs! Create your own ladder with long and standard match sticks. Those little baskets are simply crocheted with Natural Burlap Trims.

The exterior of this piece has been covered with "virtue" from Authentique's Treasure collection. You'll also find an assortment of Petaloo Fancy Trims, more Burlap Blossoms and some Botanica Petite's too.

Inside, more papers from Authentique's Treasure collection: "enhancements", "cheery", "adorable" and "synthesize". The floor is covered with "darling" which I've toned down slightly with a wash of white paint.

And that's that! I do hope the bunny visits us again this year because heaven knows all of the sweets here will need to be replenished ;)

Supplies
Petaloo Fancy Trims
Burlap Blossoms
Botanica Petite's
Natural Burlap Trims

Authentique's Treasure collection
"enhancements"
"cheery"
"adorable"
"synthesize"
"darling"

Sturdy gift box
Match sticks
Moss
Easter eggs

 

 

 

EASTER Blog HOP with Authentique!

 

Hello Petaloo Friends:

 

We are so excited to announce an Easter Hop with Authentique starting on Monday, 3/23 and running through Monday, 3/30.

The design teams from both companies will be creating wonderful  Easter themed projects featuring Petaloo flowers and the TREASURE Collection from Authentique!

 

 

There will be lots of Easter ideas like

CARDS, HOME DECOR, & GIFTS  

plus...

 

PRIZES  ... 4 WINNERS !!!!

Our GRAND PRIZE will be given away to one lucky winner!! 

Plus we will have 3 FIRST PLACE prizes that contain: Authentique paper packs &  6 packs of coordinating Petaloo flowers!!

 

This Grand Prize contains 12 pcs of Treasure paper from Authentique plus 12 packs of coordinating Petaloo flowers, berries and trims!

FOUR ways to ENTER:

 

1.  Leave us a message ... 

each day on Petaloo Blog ... here  (scroll to the bottom) 

 

2.  LIKE US & enter the contest ...  

on our Petaloo FB page  here

 

3.  Post our giveaway on ... your FB page 

& let us know you have done so

 

4.  Re pin an Easter project from Pinterest

here

 

We will be selecting ... one winner from ea. location!!

 

Good luck, have fun & enjoy the Hop

Be Well, your Friends at Petaloo

xxx ooo

 

Guest Designer ~ Tammy Henderson Angel Christmas Tree Topper

 Hi everyone! Back today to share with you my final project as guest designer. I made out of a simple 16.9oz water bottle. I made a Christmas Angel tree topper. Using the Authentique "Believe" collection and the perfect icing to any cake Petaloo Flowers! Here is the Angel we will be making.

 

 

This project was really fun to make and I hope you enjoy! Ok lets get started shall we?!

First I am gonna start with a couple of tips. Use double sided tape to stick your bottle to a smaller more manageable surface. I used a small cutting mat. This helps a lot with working with the bottle. The bottles now a days are made to collapse so the plastic is thin. This part will help when your project is complete because it will be a breeze to remove the bottom of the bottle for tree placement. Don't do any removal till the end. Also I painted mine at the top and added a smaller head at the start but replaced it with a little larger head toward the end. All I used to make the head was air dry clay. All I needed to paint was the head because I covered the entire bottle up.


 1st. The Cuts for the Dress portion is 8x12. I used the Believe "Tidings" piece for this. Save the excess because it will be used for the bottom of the dress. I also inked the edges of this piece with Tim Holtz walnut distress stain. Then misted the entire piece with water and glycerin trick that Alda has taught me. This helps the paper act more like cloth. Dry to a damp but not wet state.

 

2nd. Form the top part of the paper in a pleating manner around the top of the cap of the bottle. Don't attach just form. You will want to adjust so that the paper meets in the back of the bottle at a angle. This will allow for cutting and tree placement later.

 

 

3rd. Now take the dress portion down and build your bottom part. This is made with the leftover scrap. You will want to fold the paper to leave about a 1/2inch showing, then punch with your fave punch. I used a strip of lace to hang just below to give the appearance of a skirt. Then stamped with some stitching stamps.

  

 

4th. attach to bottom of dress.

5th, Attach to bottle. I used some Beacons to secure it to the top of the bottle. Be sure to follow evenly around the bottle as possible. Again leaving the bottom at the back not meeting. See above photo.

6th. Now to cut the part for the cloak/arms. Cut a circle 11 1/8 inches. I used the Believe "Adorn" paper for this part.

 

 7th. You will want to mark a inside center circle 1 3/4 inch. Then measure from the base of the circle inside 11/16ths and bottom angels measure 5 5/16th which will be at the bottom of the circle itself. here is a pic to give you a idea of the cuts. Then cut this section out. It should look like pic below.

 

 8th. I edged the whole piece with Tim Holtz Peeled paint distress ink. Misted with water mixture and let the paper relax. When mostly dry I attached some lace to the under side and folded back for the arms. You don't need to crease. But once you get the lace attach and arms folded back place on your bottle again before gluing to adjust to the size of the cap and even out the arm placement. It should fit right over the top of the dress piece without any needs for pleating. After you have this done then use some double sided tape and attach the arms on the inside of the inside piece. Before I glued the piece together I added a little piece of lace at the top to give a more finished look to the dress part. Now glue to the top of the bottle. Once attached I added some Petaloo Embossed Velvet Flora Doodles as a collar for the cloak.

 

 

 

9th. Notice in the above photo I now have the correct head size attached. I think it looks much better! The head size is about 1 1/16 inch. I painted the whole head with some gesso then just the front part with some 13 arts paint in matte peach lightly and watered down slightly. Then attached to the bottle and gave her some hair. I used some wool yarn. I separated the yarn out so to look more like hair instead of yarn. Then braided a little piece to go completely around the head and added a Petaloo Darjeeling Petite in Teastaine Green to the side. Of the head. Also wrapped a little fun yarn around the neck to pose as a winter scarf.

 

10th. I made the wings and attached to the back. I used Creative Embellishments wings I had on hand. Covered them with gesso and added a piece of the Believe "Novelty" to the backs of them. Before I attached the wings I used a small piece of cardboard attached to the back below the head cover with matching paper of the cloak. Then I attached the wings to that. It helped with centering and to allow the wings to look properly when attached. Instead of flat to the back.

 

11th. Final part of this is the icing! The Petaloo flowers of course! I added them to a Creative Embellishments wreath that I had inked up with some Tim Holtz distress stain in peeled paint.  I also added more of the Darjeelings in red and greens to the hair. On the Wreath I used the Darjeeling Petites in Red on the lower half of the wreath. The upper half of wreath I used Faux Dried Berry Clusters the red ones and because they are pull aparts I used a leaf from one of the green ones in the set and divided up my red berries to go on each side. Then Layered the Burlap blossoms in white a few more of the Petites in green. The small red flowers are Darjeelings mini Mix in teastaine Red. The larger green flower is a from the mixed textured blossoms in moss green.

 

Final look at the completed project..

 

Supplies used:
Darjeeling Petites in Red and Green teastaine
Faux Dried Berry Clusters in Red/Green/Burgandy
Darjeeling Mini Mix teastaine red
Mixed Textured Blossoms in Moss Green
Burlap Blossoms in Ivory
Flora Doodles Embossed Velvet white

Other supplies:
Authentique "Believe" Collection Novelty, Tidings and Adorn papers
Flying Unicorn Venice Lace
Creative Embellishment wings and wreath
Tim Holtz Distress ink in Walnut and Peeled paint
13 arts Peach matte paint
Gesso (head)
Airdry clay (head)
Beacons glue
Double sided tape
Wool yarn and fun Fur

Thank you so much for joining me today! I hope you enjoyed and make one of your own!

Hugs Tammy :)

Graphic 45 ~ Present Toppers

 

 

I've created this little set of doo-dads with Graphic 45's Twas the Night Before Christmas and Petaloo's "Victorian Children" Vintage Dazzlers. They would look adorable with a bit of string as ornaments, but I will be using these to embellish my holiday gift wrap.

 

Making these was oh so simple too! Simply cut narrow lengths of paper and acordian fold them. Fan them out to create the round shape, using hot glue to hold in place. For the 'star' effect I simply clipped a folded corner on an angle... as you would a paper snowflake.

A Graphic 45 tag, a Botanica Berry cluster and a Burlap Trim bow and it's ready to gussy up a gift!

While it's fun to add a bazillion blooms to projects, sometimes just one or two little flowers is all you need.

I really do like how cheery and festive these are and I think they'll be a big hit with the people on my holiday list :)

Chantilly-VelvHydrangeas 1272
Burlap Trims 1483
Berry Clusters - 1104
Vintage Dazzlers - Victorian Children 1420-112

Graphic 45's Twas the Night Before Christmas
Twas the Night Before Christmas Chipboard Tags

Christmas Card Box

Hello everyone, Stacy here with you today to share my 10 Days Of Christmas project with you.  I simply adore Graphic 45 papers and Petaloo flowers together....it's simply the PERFECT holiday match!!  So i'm sitting thinking what am I going to make?  I'm looking around my craft room and I see this gift box, plain just sitting on the self saying pick me!  After I stare at it for awhile I knew what I was going to use it for.  I'm going to display it on the table and place our Christmas cards in it that we get in the mail.  The size of the box is 8" x 8" so it's plenty big enough.

Ok so lets start with the finished project then a few close ups.  I used the red paper for the sides of the box and the top of the lid, and the green paper to imitate ribbon tied around the gift.

I grabbed my petaloo goodies and started placing them on the lid.  I didn't glue them down until I was happy with the way the looked.  I actually took a photo with my phone once I had them the way I wanted so that when I glued them down I remembered where I wanted them.

You can see in the next photo that I placed one of the die cuts upand put the flowers and berry clusters around them.  Once I glued the clusters down and they dried I spread them apart.

Can I just say I wish it was Christmas all year so I could always leave this out!!!

Some of the leaves I only glued the end down so I could bend the leaves so that they didn't lay flat.

Supplies Used:

Petaloo- Faux Dried Blooms (cranberry/green), Chantilly Velv Hydrangeas (red), Sugared Blooms (green & burgandy),Beaded Acorn Picks (natural),Sugared Berry Clusters, 

Graphic 45- Twas The Night Before Christmas

Xyron - Mega Runner, High Tack Tape, liquid glue

Ranger - Distress Ink (walnut stain)

Thank you so much for stopping by the Petaloo blog today, and thanks to Graphic 45 for sharing your amazing products with us.

~Stacy

 

Petaloo and Graphic 45 Blog Hop Christmas Lighted Birdhouse

So excited to be playing with Graphic 45 papers again! They pair up so beautifully with Petaloo flowers, so much in fact I went a little overboard! This is a simple wood birdhouse I purchased from the craft store. I like to paint all the edges first with acrylic paint. I painted the roof green to look more leafy green and to help hide the tiny green light cords.

After I painted it, I cut two 4.25x12 inch strips of Graphic 45 paper and glued them the the house. Then I just hot glued down the cords, starting from the back. (Make sure you let them stick out a little so you can see them past the flowers)

Here is the back before I covered it up with all those gorgeous Petaloo flowers! I also tacked down the cords a bit with some more hot glue. The battery pack is also glued on- make sure you leave the battery acces panel open.

I used some cut outs from Graphic 45's Twas the Night Before Christmas collection to decorate each panel

I embellished the front with some of Petaloos Fancy Trims in red, a Graphic 45 Die Cut and some super cute Petaloo Beaded Berry Picks.

I used a Mixture of Petaloo flowers to cover the roof top. Botanicals, Hydrangeas, and Mixed Blooms. Start with smaller flowers on the bottom, bigger flowers in the middles and smaller at the crown

It looks os cute all light up at night! This was a super easy project that looks like it was hard, I hope you will give it a try! -Denise

SUPPLY LIST:

Graphic 45 Twas the Night Before Christmas Bundle of Toys and Long Winters Nap

Petaloo:

Botanica Mixed Blossoms Cranberry/amber/green

Chantilly Velvert Hydrangeas Red

Beaded Berry Picks

Faux Dried Berry Clusters

Festive Trims Glitz All Red