Graphic 45, Petaloo & Xyron Blog Hop: Day 1
Hello G45ers,
Get ready for joy, inspiration, prizes and lots of fun! It's time for the Graphic 45, Petaloo and Xyron blog hop! Hooray! We are teaming up with our friends at Petaloo and Xyron to bring you a week-long blog hop event filled with so many incredible ideas! Our Design Team has been working hard to create the most gorgeous projects just for this week's blog hop! We're combining all the beautiful products of Graphic 45 with fabulous Petaloo embellishments and Xyron adhesive tools! The results are pure magic! Today you'll see stunning fall and Halloween-inspired projects by Susan Lui, Alberto Juarez and Denise Hahn. There's even a fabulous tutorial that you're sure to love! Get ready to beat the Monday blues with Graphic 45, Petaloo and Xyron inspiration!
To help celebrate this week's blog hop we're giving away this amazing prize pack! It contains everything you need for fall and Halloween crafting! You could win a Steampunk Spells 12x12 paper pad, cardstock Banners, Flowers, Tags & Pockets, Chipboard Die-Cuts, Stickers, Happy Haunting 8x8 paper pad, Ornate Metal Key Holes, a beautiful array of Petaloo flowers and embellishments, and fabulous Xyron adhesive tools! This prize pack is out of this world! Just leave us a blog comment this week for your chance to win! We're also offering prizes on the Graphic 45 Facebook page this week! We will announce this week's winner on Monday, September 30th.
Petaloo and Xyron are also offering wonderful inspiration and prize giveaways on their blogs this week! Be sure to hop on over to their blogs for fabulous ideas and fun. Be sure to leave them a blog comment while you're there for your chance to win their incredible prizes!
Petaloo Blog:
Xyron Blog:
http://aintshecrafty.blogspot.com/
We've got some gorgeous ideas for fall and Halloween home decor today. All of these projects combine beautiful Graphic 45, Petaloo and Xyron products. You can see how perfectly they all blend together to create a perfect work of art. Here is Susan's fabulous Typography altered mini mailbox. All the saturated colors of fall come to life in this delightful creation. We also love how Susan added lots of pretty Graphic 45 Metal Staples and Petaloo flowers to add brilliant depth and texture to this festive piece. Here is what she had to say about it.
"I altered this mini mailbox with the lovely new Graphic 45 Typography papers, along with some Graphic 45 Staples, lovely Petaloo flowers in complementary colours and intricate Gina Designs Chipboard. I love that the Typography collection has plenty of my favorite images to fussy cut - typewriters, inks, pen nibs, ink wells… the list is endless. And as I was designing, I discovered that the image ‘LETTER’ fits perfectly inside a Staples Ornate Metal Label Holder. How perfect for my mailbox." -Susan
Supplies:
Graphic 45 8x8 Steampunk Spells Paper Pad
Steampunk Spells Stickers, Letters and Chipboard 1 and 2
Graphic 45 Metal Staples Door Knob
Petaloo Fancy Trims Paprika and Teal
Darjeeling Mini Daisies Black & Grey, Paprika and Teal
Darjeeling Petites Black and Cream
Darjeeling Dahlias Black & Grey and Teal
Wild Blossoms Paprika
Hydrangeas Black and Cream
Petaloo Color Me Crazy Chipboard:
Gates
Gears
Xyron:
Clearsnap Pigment Ink Wicked Black
Clearsnap Embossing Powder Dazzling Copper
Prima Finnabar Vintage Trinkets
Steampunk Doily Black
Steampunk Shape Set
Stickers- Pink Paislee Hocus Pocus Glitter Elements
Next we have this lovely altered box by Alberto featuring our Place in Time and French Country collections. Xyron adhesives made this box fun and easy to make, while Petaloo flowers add even more festive color. This would make a wonderful gift or classic piece of home decor. You can have so much fun getting creative with Graphic 45, Petaloo and Xyron this season!
Supplies:
Place in time 8” pad
French country 8” pad
Coredination texture paper dark collection
Antique metal door pull
Ornate metal key holder
Metal flower
Stamped metal brad
May Art ribbon
Petaloo Flower
Here is another super fun project for fall and Halloween. This is Denise's bright and beautiful countdown calendar featuring Steampunk Spells. This is such a great way to get creative and have lots of fun this Halloween! Countdown the days until candy time with this fabulous calendar that's loaded with lots of pretty Petaloo flowers and Xyron adhesives. Crafting is a breeze when you're working with such amazing products! Create one for yourself or someone you love with Denise's fun tutorial! Take it away, Denise!
"As a kid I used to countdown the days until I got to trick-or-treat! Dreaming of all that candy was worth dressing up for (which I hated to do). I decided to create my own little calendar using Steampunk Spells 8x8 Pad and a Graphic 45 Easel Album to help me countdown the week. Each day just flip one more page until you end up on October 31st! I embellished using tons of Petaloo flowers, they go amazing with Graphic 45. I also created a little step out on how to prep the album for decorating and even included the countdown number poem for you to print off" -Denise
Supplies:
Graphic 45 8x8 Steampunk Spells Paper Pad
Steampunk Spells Stickers, Letters and Chipboard 1 and 2
Graphic 45 Metal Staples Door Knob
Petaloo Fancy Trims Paprika and Teal
Darjeeling Mini Daisies Black & Grey, Paprika and Teal
Darjeeling Petites Black and Cream
Darjeeling Dahlias Black & Grey and Teal
Wild Blossoms Paprika
Hydrangeas Black and Cream
Petaloo Color Me Crazy Chipboard:
Gates
Gears
Xyron:
Clearsnap Pigment Ink Wicked Black
Clearsnap Embossing Powder Dazzling Copper
Prima Finnabar Vintage Trinkets
Steampunk Doily Black
Steampunk Shape Set
Stickers- Pink Paislee Hocus Pocus Glitter Elements
Tutorial:
1- Start by marking 3 inches down from the base of the binding holes-then mark a line
2- Continue down marking each page of your Easel Album at one half inch increments (3.5, 4, 4.5 …)
3- Cut each page and save the trimmings
4- Your Easel Album should look like this
5-Now choose your own Steampunk Spells pages from an 8x8 Pad- reserving the Steampunk Spells page (shown) for the last page of the countdown. Cut each page at the same increments as the base pages (3, 3.5, 4…)
6- Attach to each base page using Xyron Creative Station or Mega Runner-you want solid adhesive here as the project stands up
7- If you want to conserve paper- you can double up with scraps
8- Attach final page to back of Easel Album- note you will have to trim ⅛ of an inch or so off the top to make sure binding holes show through
9- I then attached my Petaloo Fancy Trims with Xyron High Tack Double Sided Tape to create my base pages, and now friends it’s up to you to decorate each page!
10- I included a downloadable jpeg for you to print out my Countdown Numbers
11- After I was done, I realized my Album was a little heavy-so I took some of my scrap that I cut off earlier and made an easel support. I also took another piece covered and cut it to 3x8
12- I attached the 3x8 covered piece (show here from the bottom) and attached it to right at the base fold of the easel using white glue-so I could be closed up after the holiday.
We hope you all had a lot of fun on today's blog hop with Graphic 45, Petaloo and Xyron! Be sure to leave us a blog comment today for your chance to win that amazing prize pack! Hop on over to the Petaloo and Xyron blogs to see their gorgeous creations too! Leave them blog comments while you're there for a chance to win more amazing prizes! There's more fun and inspiration in store on tomorrow's blog as we continue this week-long blog hop event! We hope you'll stop by and see us. Big thanks to Susan, Alberto and Denise for their great work today. Thanks to all you G45ers for stopping by! Have a super day!
Happy Papercrafting!
Your Friends at Graphic 45
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Posted by: {vicki} | September 23, 2013 at 07:11 AM
As always Love IT and can't wait!
Posted by: Tammie | September 23, 2013 at 07:16 AM
Wow all the projects are so pretty. Graphic 45 products have always been my favourite.
Posted by: Hew Pei Ching Debbie | September 23, 2013 at 07:17 AM
Amazing projects and fabulous giveaways this week!!! I think I like all of them... :)
Posted by: Sleigh | September 23, 2013 at 07:21 AM
Wow!! Everything is so beautiful!
To top it off...this is my favorite paper!!!
Posted by: Dorothy McCarthy | September 23, 2013 at 07:27 AM
fantastic projects; love the creativity and inspiration. thank you for sharing
Posted by: Yvonne Boucher | September 23, 2013 at 07:28 AM
I really enjoy seeing all the wonderful projects here.
Posted by: Barb Wagar | September 23, 2013 at 07:30 AM
Wow love all the projects. Thanks for the giveaway ,like always amazing .
Posted by: Sabina Halican | September 23, 2013 at 07:41 AM
Great projects, I really love the mailbox! I would love to win this price!
Posted by: Marijke Maris | September 23, 2013 at 07:48 AM
Petal Poo sent me, but I was coming anyway, great projects. I'm ready to start making Halloween happen
Posted by: Gretchen W | September 23, 2013 at 07:54 AM
Great projects as usual! Really like the altered box. Thanks for the ideas.
Posted by: sharon d | September 23, 2013 at 08:00 AM
Your Inspiring blog keeps getting better & better so glad I found Graphic 45 :-) xx
Posted by: Danyelle Hosken | September 23, 2013 at 08:01 AM
What a perfect prize pack! Thanks so much for the chance!!!
Posted by: Kathy Jo | September 23, 2013 at 08:02 AM
Love the projects today. Great mailbox! Keep them coming.
Posted by: linda ann murphy | September 23, 2013 at 08:05 AM
Wow! All the projects are fabulous. Thanks for the tutorial.
Posted by: Karen Wedding | September 23, 2013 at 08:16 AM
It's always a treat to read the G45 blog and what a great prize package this week!!!
Posted by: PeeJee | September 23, 2013 at 08:23 AM
Both projects are fantastic. I love the count down to Halloween. I want to go create now.
Posted by: Cassie Keith | September 23, 2013 at 08:25 AM
Amazing projects! It just keeps getting better.
Posted by: Zena Harty | September 23, 2013 at 08:39 AM
Love the steampunk spells paper and these projects are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Cecilia | September 23, 2013 at 08:40 AM
Love the ideas for my granddaughters Halloween.
Posted by: Nancy | September 23, 2013 at 08:46 AM
Flipping fantastic! Love the creations :)
Posted by: Paula | September 23, 2013 at 08:47 AM
wow, fabulous projects and a wonderfully generous giveaway! Always a pleasure hopping with you!! have a super day :)
Posted by: LynneJ | September 23, 2013 at 08:48 AM
((WOW))!! Simply stunning beauties <3 Thanks for the chance <3
Posted by: Carla Henderson | September 23, 2013 at 08:55 AM
WOW! What a prize pack! Gorgeous creations as always, especially the altered mail box. Love it! xx
Posted by: Solveig | September 23, 2013 at 08:55 AM
Oh my goodness - what awesome projects! And isn't "Steampunk" the perfect collection for it.
Posted by: Kathleen Rimer | September 23, 2013 at 08:56 AM
Great projects and fun hop..thanks.
Posted by: Yolanda Gonzalez | September 23, 2013 at 08:58 AM
Great inspiration! Would love to win this prize pack!!
Posted by: Angie DJ | September 23, 2013 at 08:58 AM
OMg what awesome projects, I love them all, could not pick a fave if I had too! AND what a great prize pak
Posted by: Maggi Harding | September 23, 2013 at 08:59 AM
Hooray for Fall, cooler temps, G 45 colors, Xyron, and Petaloo. How pretty.
Posted by: Judy Webb | September 23, 2013 at 08:59 AM
I love the spell paper, I have a friend who loves Halloween, I may just have to get this lines and make her something!!
Posted by: Amy Thompson | September 23, 2013 at 09:06 AM
Appreciate the tutorials, beautiful projects! Would love to win!
Posted by: sara | September 23, 2013 at 09:08 AM
LOVE the altered mailbox!! Just gorgeous. Also, am intrigued by the Halloween Countdown. What a fun project.
<3 J
Posted by: Janis in ID | September 23, 2013 at 09:08 AM
I would be ever so happy if I won this awesome prize pack! Graphic 45 is my absolute favorite paper crafting company and Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday! Thanks so much for the beautiful ideas and inspiration!
Posted by: Jenni Brockob | September 23, 2013 at 09:08 AM
Just love the projects and all the details! Thanks for sharing the "how-to" on the Halloween countdown.
Posted by: Mj | September 23, 2013 at 09:12 AM
I love the mini mailbox. Thanks for the chance to win the amazing prize pack!
Posted by: Karen Smee | September 23, 2013 at 09:13 AM
Graphic 45 your reputation of wonderful projects with outstanding paper continues to soar. Beautiful work.
Posted by: DebbyL | September 23, 2013 at 09:13 AM
I can't express how much I want this collection, its phenomenal especially when you look at all the projects that were done with it. I must have it!
Posted by: Ana | September 23, 2013 at 09:26 AM
Wow! I'm gobsmacked! These projects are each so fabulous, I hardly know where to begin. Sue's mailbox is so whimsical and filled with all those wonderful quotes from Typography that I love so much. Alberto's box is just filled with so many luscious layers. And then Denise's count down calendar makes me feel like a kid again. What a great way to start my week!
Posted by: kathy/NorthCarolina | September 23, 2013 at 09:34 AM
Love those Halloween projects!!
Posted by: S Zacher | September 23, 2013 at 09:38 AM
GORGEOUS projects!!! Love them all!
Posted by: Jenny-May | September 23, 2013 at 09:42 AM