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Are you ready for spring from Holland?

Dear Petaloo fans, Mireille here waving "hi" from Holland. I know it's still a long time till spring but I am sooo ready for it! I had so much fun creating a little touch of spring with these happy colors...

I have said it before and I will say it again. I love flowers and I think they go very well on "boy- layouts" too. The blue's and green's  were perfect for these photo's and they match the paper very, very well.

My son Noah with his best friend "in Paradise" - at the local ice cream parlour getting an icecream after having fun at the fair. They had tons of fun over there too.  (This paper by Graphic 45 may be called "Tropical Travelogue", but it works beautifully for any everyday project!!)  Look how perfectly the Petaloo flowers match the G45 paper...it makes me want to create, create and create!

Enjoy, Mireille

 

All flowers come from the Darjeeling Collection by Petaloo

Supplylist from Petaloo:

• Darjeeling leaves - small (asst. colors) #1464-001 click here   
• Darjeeling minimix (blue/ Eggplant/ Green) #1462-002 click here
• Darjeeling "Deep Blue" asst. #1452-011 click here
• Darjeeling Medium Mix #1461-002 click here

Supplylist from Graphic 45:

• "Tropical Travelogue" paper collection
• "Tropical Travelogue" stickers

Mr & Mrs

Spring is in the air! Well, almost that is. I don't know what it's like in other countries, but we in the north, Sweden, always long for spring. We have such dark winters and some days, if you work indoors, you don't see any daylight at all. It's already getting lighter though, and in about a month or so the snow will melt and we will se spring flowers pop up here and there - I can't wait!

Even though my sister and her husband got married in October, I wanted to do a light and bright layout with some pics of the newlyweds. Since springtime often means weddingtime, I felt this theme would be a good one for my sisters weddingpics and hopefully this page will inspire all of you to sprinkle some gorgeous Petaloo flowers on your spring pages, weddingpages or others!

 

I've used lots of beautiful Petaloo flowers and leaves on this page and I love how light and crisp the colors look together! The large open rose was painted with crackle accents and then I sprinkled some yellow glitter on in. I treated some of my chipboard pieces from Dusty Attic the same way.

More close-ups of these amazing flowers:

Petaloo products used:

CMC Open rose

Canterbury vine spray - green

Mini Canterbury - lemon

Magnolia blossoms - white

Sunflower leaf branch - green

Velvet hydrangeas - sage

Velvet and lace - peach

Mixed rose leaves

Darjeeling petites - black/cream

 

Have fun creating! See you soon!

Helena

Enjoy Every Moment

Lately I have been going through my boxes of pictures tyring to get organized and I am realizing that there are a lot of pictures that I haven't yet scrapped.  So as I reminisced, looking at pictures of my kids when they were young, I found this picture and decided that it would look great with some soft and pretty Petaloo flowers.  The day that I took this picture was a beautiful 1995 spring day in Florida and my daughter was having fun playing dress up in her new ballet skirt that my mom made for her.  She thought she was a princess.  I am so happy that I took pictures to capture that special moment.

For this layout, I took inspiration from a blog post that I read on the Jillibean blog where the designers were challenged to create a layout from 6x6 papers.  The patterns on these papers are much smaller than the 12x12 version and are really perfect for cards and mini albums. But as I found, they also work great on large layouts as well.  So once I got all of my pattern papers placed I went digging through my Petaloo stash and pulled flowers of all kinds in soft pretty pink, blue, yellow, and white colors.

On my layout I used a few Color Me Crazy flowers and some soft silk paper flowers from the Devon Collection.  The feel of the Bristol and Brighton flowers are so lovely.  Each is handcrafted and hand dyed on silk paper and have a soft texture that I love.

Then I used the large Bluebell Color Me Crazy Core-dinations flowers as the focal point in my flower clusters.  I used foam dots under them to lift them off the page a bit.  

I like to get creative when thinking of how to decorate the centers of the Color Me Crazy flowers. For these flower centers I used some Bo Bunny cardstock which I punched holes in and then back stitched with DMC floss.  I love the homespun feel that the hand stitching gives to their look.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you are having a great time with all of the sneak peeks from the new CHA Winter releases.  

Christine 

Brighton Collection White/Pink/Fuschia

Sweetpea Collection Yellow/Pur/Fuschia/Pink

Sweetpea Collection Pink/Fuschia/White

Color Me Crazy Core-dinations Bluebell

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"the day of LOVE"....

...is here....not that EVERYDAY is a day to LOVE (just saying!!)

It's Lynne here....
and I had a day to just play....and PLAY I DID!!
I decided to pull out my Melting Pot, some Beeswax, a bit of canvas
and some PETALOO FLOWERS
and ohhh the fun I had!



with the upcoming "HEART DAY", I decided to create a Valentine Card.
The heart was cut out of Canvas, using a homemade template, I applied Beeswax to the heart. When cooled, I sprayed the heart with Color Wash.
I melted off the wax with my Heat tool.
Then I thought......hhmmmm...what if I dipped some flowers in the wax??
So, I tried it.......AND I LIKED THE EFFECT!!!
so much so.....I decided to create another card.



Hope you've enjoyed my creative adventure!!!

The BEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt
WITH THE HEART!!

Helen Keller

Happy Valentine's Day to all... 

Flowers used:

Floral Embellishemts ~ Mini Velvet Blossoms ~ Cream
Darjeeling ~ Mini Leaves
Darjeeling ~ Medium Mix

Color Me Crazy ~ Lily of the Valley
Color Me Crazy ~ TS Collection

 

My favourite shoes!

Hi everybody! Helena here to share a Petaloo-layout with you. I chose to do a page with a very special Valentines-theme, as Valentines day only is a few days away - I wanted to express the love I have for my fav shoes *lol*. A girl can never have to many shoes, but once in a while you find those special ones, the ones you want to wear everyday, for every outfit. My fav shoes are red, and that fact made me think about doing this page.

I used Valentines-papers and stickers from Jillibean Soup and gorgeous flowers from Petaloo - Jeweled candies, CMC hydrangeas (that I kept white to make them "pop" a bit in this colorful page) and Tiffanies treasures. This page is a bit unusual to be me, but I kind of love it anyway!

Here's a close-up of a few of the flowers (and my shoes!). I even did a bit of journaling, which I rarely do.

/Helena

Petaloo products used:

Jeweled candies - Fuschia w glitter

CMC Hydrangea petals

Tiffanies treasures jewel centers

 

Teals and Blues are HOT HOT HOT from CHA show!

Hello again from Petaloo!

If you are wondering which colors are going to be HOT, HOT, HOT this spring, then look at the TEALS, BLUES and DENIMS!

 These colors were in every booth at the CHA show!  Many companies said that "teals and blues were their best selling colors!"

  

(Ruffled Roses x 4 in Teal color & Assorted Mini's x 6 in Paprika color from the Petaloo "Penny Lane" Collection)

 Graphic's 45 "Tropical Travelogue" paper collection has all the teals and blues that are "all the rage" this spring!  Although the paper was released early, it was a "BIG HIT" at the CHA show...

If you have "fallen in love" with this paper collection, Petaloo has the "Penny Lane" Collection of flowers that match "Tropical Travelogue" perfectly!!

(Forget me Nots, Ruffled Roses and Wild Roses from the "Penny Lane" Collection in Teal color)

(Forget Me Nots, Ruffled Roses and Asst Minis in Paprika color from the "Penny Lane" Collection)

(Card featuring "Tropical Travelogue" papers and Penny Lane ~ Assorted Mini flowers in Paprika color) ~ Beth Bergner designer

The "Penny Lane" Collection of flowers is available in 9 colors:  Slate Blue, Mint, Plum, Black, Paprika, Brown, Teal, Pink and Vanilla(shown) 

To see more colors of the Penny Lane Collection, take a peek at our website!

Petaloo Website!!

 Until tomorrow,

Your Friends at Petaloo 

 

"BABY" themes were HOT at the CHA show!!

If you are playing along with the Swirlydoos 

February Blog Hop Block Party, please scroll to the bottom of the page...  

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Hello again from Petaloo...

Today we are going to share with you a few more NEW items from the CHA show that were really

HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

Would you belive that the BABY theme was a HOT seller at CHA???

There were baby papers all over the show!  One of our favorites was the Graphics 45 paper collection called "Little Darlings".  It is a beautiful mix of vintage baby deisgns that looked wonderful with our

Spring Darjeeling Collection of flowers!

 

Looking to create a BABY BOY album, card or layout???

 

(G45 "Little Darlings" papers shown with our Spring Darjeeling flowers in "Cottage Blue" color...they match beautifully, don't you think?!)

or....

Looking for papers & flowers to create a BABY GIRL album, card or layout???

(G45 "Little Darlings" papers shown with our Spring Darjeeling flowers in "Hyacinth" color...)

 

The Spring Darjeeling Collection has flowers and accessories for every BABY project you can imagine... from baby cards to albums to layouts!!  We have flowers from the smallest, mini size to medium and large sizes!  But more exciting than that, we have sweet little accessories that will make your projects shine!!

(Beaded Pins to match the Spring Darjeeeling~Hyacinth colored flowers but also available in BABY blue too!)

(Glass Beaded Flowers to match the Spring Darjeeling flowers, available in BABY blue too!)

 (Hand painted Butterflies to match the Spring Darjeeling flowers ~ Hyacinth color.  Also available in BABY blue to match Cottage Blue Spring Darjeeling flowers!)

 

If you are looking for a little GLITTER on your Baby projects, our new BABY BOY & BABY GIRL Dazzlers are just the thing...

(NEW... "Baby Dazzler" lightly glittered, 3 dimensional, Peel n Stick
available in 3 styles and designed by artist Cheryl Seslar)

 

Thanks for stopping by our blog!

Check back tomorrow to see more of the HOT, HOT, HOT items from CHA!!!

Your friends at Petaloo

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Welcome to Swirlydoos' February Blog Hop Block Party!!

 

Welcome to Swirlydoos February Kit Reveal Blog Hop BLOCK PARTY!!! If you came here from Tiffany's blog (http://stampingattiffanys.blogspot.com/), then you are on the right track.  If not, go back to Swirlydoos'  (http://www.swirlydoos.blogspot.com/blog) and start from there. 

You have until midnight, eastern time, on February 10th to complete the hop. Winners will be announced on the Swirlydoos Blog on February 11th.  In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all of the blogs and leave a comment on each. This way we know you were there. Become a follower if you're not already. Take your time. There are beautiful things to see along the way.
2: Before you leave each blog, look for the “special” words and write it down. 
Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a sentence. 
3: Finally, go back to the Swirlydoos blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had AND tell us the sentence that was created with all of the special words you collected.

My special word is : "the"

~ Petaloo's Prize ... $50.00 "Spring Flower" Surprise Pack! ~

The party continues over at Karola's blog (http://karolakraftuje.blogspot.com/).  Have fun!

Good luck!!!

 

HOT, HOT, HOT from CHA show!

We are just getting back from the CHA show, but there is one question everone is asking us..."What was HOT at the show?"

So we thought we would focus our next two posts on answering this question...

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Let's start by saying that "VINTAGE-SHABBY" style is HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

It is all about mixing old and new, loads of texture, and lots of dimension...

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We were pleased to see that the SPRING Darjeeling Collection was just the perfect blend of vintage and shabby!!

The Spring Darjeeling Collection comes in seven different colors.  This is Shabby Beige and it was a great seller at CHA!  It coordinates with so many new papers including Graphics 45, Bo Bunny, Pink Paislee, Glitz, IOD and many others! 

 (Frame featuring the Spring Darjeeling Collection in Shabby Beige color)

 

(Shabby Beige card and tag created with Quick Quotes new spring paper  Cards designed by Beth Bergner)

(Layout by Lisa Valentine featuring NEW Shabby Beige flowers and NEW Penny Lane Blooms x 4 in teal ~ includes Graphics 45 "Tropical Travelogue" paper)

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CHA also confirmed that BLUE's and TEAL's are going to be a HOT COLOR for spring & summer!

There were lots of papers with blue & teal in them!  One of our favorites was the Graphic 45 "Tropical Travelogue"  paper collection! Our  "Cottage Blue"  color from the SPRING DARJEELING Collection matches this G45 paper line perfectly!!!  

(Cottage Blue color from the Spring Darjeeling Collection of flowers)

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(Cottage Blue flowers from the Spring Darjeeling Collection matches the Graphics 45 "Tropical Travelogue" paper line perfectly!)

 

There is more to see from the CHA show...

Tomorrow we will be featuring two HOT new collections as well.  Don't forget to stop by...

Your friends at Petaloo 

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