Graphic 45, Petaloo & Xyron Blog Hop: Day 5

Hello G45ers,

Happy Friday! It's the final day of our amazing blog hop with Petaloo and Xyron! We've got more incredible works of art to share with you today! Autumn is such a beautiful time of year, so rich with inspiration. We've got more amazing ideas for Autumn home decor that combines the amazing products of Graphic 45, Petaloo and Xyron. You'll see splendid crafts from Maiko Miwa, Miranda Edney and Nichola Battilana of our design team. These fabulous creations are sure to give you some fabulous inspiration for crafting during this festive season! This is going to be such a wonderful day!

Remember, today is your last chance to enter to win this week's incredible prize pack from Graphic 45, Petaloo and Xyron! 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. Stay tuned!

Petaloo and Xyron are also offering wonderful inspiration and prize giveaways on their blogs today! 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!

http://petaloo.typepad.com/

http://aintshecrafty.blogspot.com/

And now it's time for some Autumn inspiration! We begin with this gorgeous altered 8x8 Matchbook Box by Maiko. She decorated this joyful shadowbox with lots of beautiful papers from our new Typography collection, as well as pretty Graphic 45 Metal Staples. Petaloo flowers and Xyron adhesive tools also add to the festive charm and beauty of this darling creation. It would also make an incredible gift. Follow along with Maiko's fun tutorial to learn how to make beautiful vintage-inspired leaves with your Xyron sticker maker and Graphic 45 papers. Take it away, Maiko! 

"I made an instructions for "Creating a flexible antique leaf" with Xyron sticker maker. This project has been created in a way that you can easily interchange and display photos using a Graphic 45 metal clothespin. Each year you use it, replace the old photo with the latest photo. Decorate the frame with flowers from Petaloo International, your source for floral & specialty embellishments." -Maiko

 

How to Create a Flexible Antique Leaf

 

・Either invest in a Sizzix Big Shot （shape-cutting and embossing machine ) that allows you to use dies or cut out the leaf with scissors.

 

 

・After cutting out the leaf, insert the leaf into Xyron's iconic sticker maker.

 

Pull out the newly made sticker and peel off the outer layer. Then make another leaf.

 

 

 

・This will be use to sandwich a small piece of wire between the leaf layers so you can easily bend and shape the leaf.

 

・Next, decorate your leaf with colorful red, orange and yellow stamp inks.

 

・Fold the leaf in half and brush the edge with brown ink to resemble the midrib of the leaf.

Then brush the outer edges of the leaf with brown ink, too.

                                                                                        Supplies:

Ornate Metal Label Holder

Metal Clothespins 

Metal Butterflies 

8x8 Matchbook Box

Metal Door Nob
Metal Blads   

Typography

Inspire

Journey

Dream

Imagine

Inscribe

Typography Chipboard

September Cut-Aparts ( Place in time)

Petaloo
die: sizzix
glue: xyron
inks: Ranger
mask: Prima
ribbon: May Arts

You are going to love this darling decor creation that Miranda has made! These sweet decorative pumpkins are both beautiful and functional! Some of them can double as treat boxes! Miranda used our collections Mother Goose, Typography and French Country to create these dreamy crafts. With Xyron adhesives, Autumn crafting is so easy! When you add pretty Petaloo flowers to your Graphic 45 crafts, you've got a recipe for perfection! Here is what Miranda had to say about these adorable works of art!

"To me nothing says Fall Decor better than pumpkins! Once I got started on these, I couldn’t stop myself! Graphic 45 papers were absolutely perfect for the color schemes I wanted to go with!  I wanted to share with you all 3 different ways (and tutorials) to create pumpkins for your home decor. These vary in difficulty, from the super quick and easy treat boxes, to the more advanced pumpkin carriage. All of them are easily achieved!" -Miranda

 

Video Tutorial:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAY2QSMvT6Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies:

 

Mother Goose 12x12 paper pad

Mother Goose Chipboard 1
Mother Goose Banners

French Country 12x12 paper pad

French Country Patterns & Solids

French Country Chipboard 2

Typography 12x12 paper pad

Typography Chipboards

Petaloo Flowers:

Darjeeling Collection

Darjeeling Foliage

Xyron Adhesives:

Mega Runner

Adhesive Dots

Double Sided Tape

Spellbinders Dies: Bitty Blossoms

Trims/Ribbons from Stash

Altered Book Pumpkin:

Graphic 45 Staples:

Ornate Metal Keys

Ornate Metal Keyhole
Antique Metal Door Pull
Metal Clothespins

One book (at least 400 pages, can be hard back or soft back, if hard back -remove the hard covers)

Trims from stash

Pumpkin Carriage

Xyron Adhesives

Gina’s Designs Chipboards (steampunk set)

Tim Holtz Pulley wheels,ornate plate

Prima Window/Shutters, Faucets

Light Bulb

Wooden Wings

 

Here is another gorgeous idea for Autumn home decor. Here is Nichola's stunning altered wooden key cubby that she transformed into an elegant work of art! This cheerful creation combines our French Country and 12 Days of Christmas collections with pretty Petaloo flowers and Xyron adhesives. This craft is a true celebration of the seasons. Here is what Nichola had to say about it!

 

Every time a design team box arrives I just want to jump in and play with everything all at once. That’s sort of what happened with this little ode to autumn. I reveled playing with all of the new crafty gadgets, toys and goodies from Graphic 45 and their fabulous, generous partners Petaloo, and Xyron. When asked to create a decor piece with the season in mind, I did not think of pumpkins or Halloween. In our household autumn means “Harvest”. Turning leaves, migrating birds, fall flowers, chilly mornings and blue grey skies. I wanted to create an elegant homage to autumn, the most gorgeous time of year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The base of this piece is an inexpensive wooden key cubby. I dismantled the box, removed the hardware and painted the wood then embellished with French Country papers. I chose the blue hued Provance and Abundance to act as a sort of subdued sky. To adhere the papers I used the Xyron Mega Runner which worked like a charm. (Seriously, I’m a total adhesive dork and this was soooo sticky.) AND to adhere the birdcage cut-out from Gina’s at the top I simply ran it through the Xyron sticker maker!

 

Adding an assortment of Petaloo flowers and leaves to my shrine, I chose a quiet pallet which compliments the sort of old world, natural feeling of this little hidey place. I really do love the Petaloo flowers and leaves, they look beautiful and are divine to work with.

 

A bit more mixing and matching, a few splotches of paint, some beautiful 12 Days of Christmas birds and my homage to the harvest season is complete.

 

Supplies:

Graphic 45
• French Country > Provance

• French Country > Abundance

• French Country > A La Carte

• French Country > French Country Stickers

• French Country > French Country Chipboard 2

• 12 Days of Christmas > 12 Days of Christmas

• 12 Days of Christmas > Ladies Dancing
• 12 Days of Christmas > Calling Birds

• 12 Days of Christmas >Turtle Doves

Antique Metal Door Pull

Petaloo > Darjeeling Flowers & Leaves

Xyron Create-a-sticker
Xyron Mega Runner

Gina’s Designs

• Birdcage

• Wings

• Gate

Spellbinders > Oval Hatpin

Sheet Moss

Reindeer Moss

Plastic eggs

Pumpkin Pods

Small Wooden Finials
Raw Brass Box Feet

Acrylic Paint
Wooden Key Cubby

 

We hope you all had a lot of fun this week! We loved teaming up with our friends at Petaloo and Xyron for this amazing blog event. Be sure to check back on our blog on Monday to find out who won that incredible prize pack! We've got a whole new week of fun and inspiration in store for you! Big thanks to Maiko, Miranda and Nichola for their beautiful creations today. We also want to thank you all for joining us on this fine Friday. Have a fantastic day and a great weekend, G45ers!

 

Your Pals in Paper,

 

Team Graphic 45

Comments

[Lene Frost]

It gets more and more amazing.... Now it bugs me that English isn't my first language.. It is so out of this world amazing. Love it!

[Dorothy McCarthy]

WOW!!!!!

[barbara f]

The hop has been marvelous with lots of great projects...I never ceased to be amazed at the creativity of all these great designers. LOVE IT!!

[Marijke Maris]

Amazing projects, I love the pumpkins!
Thanks for the inspiration.

[DogsMom]

Love those pumpkins.
I'll have to return tonight to watch the video.

[Hazel Williams]

Thank you to all the amazing designers this week, you're all my favourite!!!!

[Beth W]

Perfect way to end an outstanding week of stunning inspiration. I want to make all of the pumpkins-they are gorgeous. Thin I have enough Le Cirque-that would be spectacular and unique!

[Jennifer Wolf]

What a FABULOUS week of creativity!

[Sharon Young]

Oh my I don't even know which project to try first. The are all outstanding. Thanks G45 Team foe all the fabulous fall inspiration.

[TracyM #6773]

WOW WOW WOW - I am almost overwhelmed with the awesome creativity of these projects!!!
Thank you for the inspiration today and all week too!!!

[Karen Foy]

Love the fussy cutting and attention to detail. All today's projects are great but the pumkins are a great idea!

[barbara f]

My favorite store to get G45 is Photo Scraps in Eldersburg, Maryland 21784! LOVE me some G45!!

[Karen Wedding]

Everyone did a great job on their projects as usual. I love the pumpkins. I'm going to have to look for an old book I can cut up.

[Lainie Michel]

So gorgeous! I watched the whole tutorial and now guess what I'm going to be doing in about 5 minutes! Love all the projects!

[Mjfischercla]

I can't believe how detailed a beautiful each one of the projects are today. Thank you for such amazing inspiration.

[Pat Peele]

Lovely projects! Such interesting crafting to perfection!

[Jackie QH]

The pumpkin tutorial was very interesting ! I remember making pumpkins like the first one in my early years! The carriage one is so beautiful and I will be on the look out for a pumpkin shape! It looks like it's a fairy tale carriage! I like all of today's projects!!

[Marsha Reed]

Wow! I love all these projects! I love Graphic 45! I love my Xyron! Now I need to get busy watching videos and making some very neat projects!

[Mary]

Insanely beautiful projects. I only wish I were half as talented. Would love to have some Xyron products - maybe I will receive some for Christmas!

[Carol Mc]

Such fun and fantastic projects.

[mary puskar]

Ooohhh can we have a tutorial on the pumpkin carriage?? Please......

Mary

[stamping sue]

I really like those paper pumpkins! I like the idea of using a brad...I've did them with ribbon last year. what fun!
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/

[kath White]

I see you have saved the best for last! Simply gorgeous projects this week everyone!

[Marilaine Fontenot]

I wish this hop could go on forever. So many wonderful projects. I simply love all the products used!

[Katie Hurley]

I now have a stock pile of fall ideas thanks to all of the wonderfully talented design teams.

[Lynda]

Totally awesome projects again today...those pumpkins rock!!

[{vicki}]

It has been Awesome on the blog this week
thanks sooooooooooo much for sharing these wonderful projects with us
it just blows me away everyday
so in love with the pumpkins today
they along with all the creations are
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[Sar]

I love adore and am lusting after the pumpkin coach. All these projects are wonderful, but that one is just spectacular to me. I think I'm going to try something similar. Thank YOU for the inspiration and sharing these. :D

[Jeniff Sthory]

OMG I love the projects!!! Thanks.

[Barb Wagar]

I love all the treasures found here!

[LaraeScraps]

I have enjoyed all of the projects all this week. You have provided me with a lot of inspiration to bring some Fall into my central FL home.

[Mickie]

All designers outdid themselves with all the beautiful fall decorations this week, love them all and can't wait to make them for my fall deco. TFS all the great creations. Love Graphic 45!

[Lani Westover]

Wow! Had to do the pumpkin tutorial right away. Thank you!

[Christine Schärfer]

I just don't know which Word I should use. It's just so wonderfull, gorgeours, Amazing..Crafts you share here. Love them all. Thanks:)

[kathy jo]

Oh my word! What incredible projects!

Fantastic giveaway! Whoever wins is so lucky!!!

[Wendy Wakefield]

2 more days until my chance to win Steampunk Spells and much more!!! THANK YOU GRAPHIC 45 for the chance to win! It's been an exciting week of anticipation!

[Emily H]

Oh goodness!! I love love the pumpkins!!!

[Carla Hundley]

Beautiful creations!
Love the pumpkins.
Thanks for the great
blog hop all week!
Carla from Utah

[Sleigh]

Such wonderful projects and inspiration today and all week!!! I love the pumpkins and think I may just scrap-lift and do them for each plate this Thangsgiving... glad there' sonly 8 of us, lol! Well I better go and finish packing... it's BC Crop for Kids this weekend and we've been so excited for days to meet up with friends to have a great time and support a wonderful charity!!! :)

[Jeanann Cavalier]

Another AWE inspiring day! I love all of these projects .. and although today is the last day of this blog hop it doesn't disappoint me because I come here daily and G45 and the designers never cease to amaze me with their talent! Good luck everyone :)