Zva Creative May DT Blog Hop!

Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcome you to join us for our May Blog Hop! We are happy to have you join us and hope you enjoy all that we have to share with you along the way!

The Blog Hop begins at Zva Creative’s blog! Be sure head on over to check it out! Leave a comment there for a chance to win an extra prize package just for visiting the blog and telling us that you stopped by! You will also find a complete list of all the participating blogs there (in case there is a glitch along the way).  

As you know, Zva offers many beautiful color groupings for pearls, flowers and crystals.  We want to make sure that they shine bright for you, so each designer was asked to share a creation using a specific color or color combination on their blog hop project.  If you like what you see you can find a list of stores and online retailers that sell Zva HERE.

Today, I used Zva's orange flourishes and flower to decorate a little straw bag that I picked up at Target for $2.50.  To adhere the flower to the bag, I used hot glue. and I even added a few drops behind the flourish to ensure that it stays put in hot weather.

If you would like to play along with our design team, just follow along the blog path.  I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to be inspired along the way!

Hidden on FIVE of the designer’s blogs is a Zva Creative prize package! Winners will be randomly chosen after the hop is over, so it's important to leave a comment on as many blogs as you can along the way.

The Blog Hop starts today, May 28th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, May 29th. 

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 30th on each of the five winning blogs. The full list will be found on Zva’s blog as well. We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to all of the blogs once again on Wednesday... plus, you never know what kind of inspirational creation that you may find there.

All you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post... you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. However, the more times you comment along the blog hop path, the more chances you will have to win.

We also thought it would be more fun to add even more chances to win our blog hop prize!  To increase your chances of winning:

* Comment to let us know that you posted on your Facebook page about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

* Comment to let us know that you "tweeted" about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

* Comment to let us know that you asked your local store to carry Zva creative products.  If they already do, that's fantastic, maybe you can suggest other products that they don't carry.

*Hop over to Zva’s blog and leave a comment there to tell us that you made it there!

 The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative’s blog. Your next stop is Christin Grønnslett    . Enjoy!

Dare to Dream

How is the end of spring going for everyone?  We've had some fabulous weather around here... its been good for the end of school... and life in general. So what is new with you? I have a new preschool graduate and soon to be five year old. We've been running nonstop and are looking forward to a weekend without any soccer games. We are soooo ready for a lazy summer. Heck, I may even start blogging more:) No promises though, because my kids are number one in my life right now... and time is fleeting.

Speaking of my kids, today I have another scrapbook page to share with you staring my oldest daughter as a three year old. I created this layout for Spellbinders Paper Arts.

To create the details on the page:

• cut/emboss foil frame for my daughter's photo with Spellbinders™ Floral Ovals.
• cut/emboss flowers with Grand Peony 
• emboss flowers Spellbinders™ M-Bossabilities™ Flower Fun folder, then hand paint the embossed detail for multicolored flower and mist for solid flower

Well I will be back on Monday for Zva Creative design team's May blog hop. I hope you all have a great weekend!

Supplies:

• S4-356 Floral Ovals , EL-008 Flower Fun, LF-005 Grand Peony Creations, and Grand Calibur® Machine from Spellbinders Paper Arts
• Jillibean Soup, Watermelon Gazpacho Soup 6 x 6" Pad Patterned Paper
• Fancy Pants Designs, Love Story Affection Patterned Paper
• WorldWin Papers, CutMates White Cardstock
• Cosmic Shimmer, Crimson Flame, Marigold Burst, Sunshine Yellow Acrylic Drawing Ink
• Anna Griffin, Fifi & Fido Black Chipboard Stickers
• SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L, E-Z Runner
• Spray mists by Creative Imaginations

Spellbinders Spring Blog Hop and Giveaway Day 3

Hi all! How is everyone doing today? Are you enjoying Spellbinder’s Spring Blog Hop so far? If you are just joining in, be sure to hop on over to Spellbinder’s Blog so you can catch up on all of the beautiful projects that were shared on Monday and Tuesday as well!

Today I’m happy to be showing a scrapbook page that I created using Spellbinders™ Edgeabilities® Classic Decorative Inserts One to create texture on my page.

Supply List:

•       Die Templates: E8-009 Classic Decorative Inserts One and S4-357 Spiral Blossom Three
•      Die Cutting Machine: GC-101 Grand Calibur ® Machine
•       Adhesive: Mega Runner by Xyron
•       Cardstock: Kraft and Marmalade by Bazzill Basics Paper; Blueberry CutMates by Worldwin Papers
•       Patterned Paper: Dolled Up “Cute” Garden Paper from Miss Caroline Collection by My Minds Eye; Howdy Doody “Baby” Lacey Paper from Miss Caroline Collection by My Minds Eye·      Sticker: Tiny Text Faith Stickers by Cosmo Cricket
•       Other: ⅞” white satin ribbon, wood letters by Pink Paislee, hot glue

To Create Scrapbook Page:

1) Trim Dolled Up “Cute” Garden patterned paper to a square that measures 11½” x 11½” and adhere to a 12” x 12” kraft cardstock base.

2) Trim Howdy Doody “Baby” Lacey patterned paper to 12” x 6” and adhere to center of page.

3) Cut kraft cardstock to 12” x 4½”. Draw centerline down on paper.

      Add lines at 1” increments out to edges of paper from centerline.

4) Lay out hearts decorative insert on center pencil line. Secure in place with tape and cut pattern.

5) Continue building and cutting pattern with tulips and beads decorative inserts, using pencil lines to line up die templates across page.

      

6) Once full pattern is cut across paper, adhere blueberry and marmalade cardstock to back (this will cover your pencil lines so you won’t have to erase them).

7) Adhere patterned kraft strip and photo (5”x7”) to layout.

8) Cut two kraft strips to measure 12” x ½”. Cut with beads decorative insert. Adhere blueberry cardstock to back and attach to layout as top and bottom borders on page.

9) Adhere sentiment sticker and title.

10) Cut and emboss two flowers from marmalade with S4-357 Spiral Blossom Three. Adhere to page with hot glue at bottom left corner of photo.

11) Tie bow and adhere to page.

The Spellbinders™ Spring Blog Hop will begin April 30th, and will end on May 5th, 2012. It consists of 16 individual and one grand prize drawings.  Enter the Spellbinders™ Spring Blog Hop by visiting the participating blogs each day.

From each Blog Hop post, click on the Blog Hop "Enter HERE" at the end of each blog to open the entry form. You may only enter once from each blog each day.

Spellbinders™ will randomly draw one winner from each participating blog to receive all of that day’s products. The Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from the pool of entrants that sent entry forms from each and every participating blog during the 48 hours each blog was open. For the full list of official rules please click RULES.

**Enter the Contest by Clicking HERE**

Don’t forget to stop by the blogs of my fellow design team members today… you will find some even more inspiration there and have a few more chances to win too! 

Beate Johns

Christine Emberson

Questions?  ContestQuestions@Spellbinders.us 

No entries will be accepted at this email address. 

Zva Creative April DT Blog Hop!

Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcome you to join us for our April Blog Hop! We are happy to have you join us and hope you enjoy all that we have to share with you along the way!

The Blog Hop begins at Zva Creative’s NEW blog! Be sure head on over to check it out! Leave a comment there for a chance to win an extra prize package just for visiting the blog and telling us that you stopped by! You will also find a complete list of all the participating blogs there (in case there is a glitch along the way).  

As you know, Zva offers many beautiful color groupings for pearls, flowers and crystals.  We want to make sure that they shine bright for you, so each designer was asked to share a creation using a specific color or color combination on their blog hop project.  If you like what you see you can find a list of stores and online retailers that sell Zva HERE.

If you would like to play along with our design team, just follow along the blog path.  I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to be inspired along the way!

*** Prizes***

Hidden on FIVE of the designer’s blogs is a Zva Creative prize package! Winners will be randomly chosen after the hop is over, so it's important to leave a comment on as many blogs as you can along the way.

The Blog Hop starts today, April 30th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, May 1st.  

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 2nd on each of the five winning blogs. The full list will be found on Zva’s blog as well. We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in on Zva's blog  once again on Wednesday... plus, you never know what kind of inspirational creation that you may find there.

All you need to do is leave a comment on this Blog Hop post... you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. However, the more times you comment along the blog hop path, the more chances you will have to win.

**To increase your chances of winning**

* Comment to let us know that you posted on your Facebook page about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

* Comment to let us know that you "tweeted" about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

* Comment to let us know that you asked your local store to carry Zva creative products.  If they already do, that's fantastic, maybe you can suggest other products that they don't carry.

*Hop over to Zva’s blog and leave a comment there to tell us that you made it there!

 The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative’s blog. Your next stop is  Robin Shakoor. Enjoy!

Thank you for joining us!

P.S. Mark your calendar to join us again on May 28^th for our next Zva blog hop!

Happy Easter Friends!

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.  ~Albert Laighton

Image from The Graphics Fairy

Grooving with Go-to Gals

Hello everyone!

I'm up on the Paper Crafts Connection blog today with a chat on making last minute Easter cards. Here a little sneak of what I'm sharing there...

If you have time to visit and leave me a comment there you could win some goodies from the Hello Spring collection by Doodlebug Design and the Classic Bracket Edgeabilities® by Spellbinders™.

  See you there!

A Sweet Goodbye

Hello! I hope you are all having a great week!!

I'm here today to share my final project that I created for GCD Studios as one of their design team members. GCD was the first manufacturer that I had the privilege to design for... they were also the first folks that invited me to CHA (and what a great time we had... that Heidi Sonboul is one fun... and super kind girl).  I am grateful that I've had the chance to get to know GCD better and will always have a fond spot in my heart  for the time that I've spent with them.

So here it is (but no worries if you are a fan, I still use their papers, as I LOVE every bit of their newest release)...

Labels and Tags, Heirloom and Navy Flora patterned paper from Splendor Collection

A quick and easy way to add interest to a project is by adding dimension though layers. On this card I've created fussy cut four different elements from the paper and layered them on the card base with foam tape. 

I also applied ink on each edge layer for added interest. A few crystals and twine and this simple card can be re-created in just minutes. 

Well before I sign off on behalf of GCD Studios I wanted to let you know that they are now launching an ezine to show off their products and the wonderful work of the new (and very talented) design team. 

If you'd like to check it out... here's the link: http://gcdstudios.blogspot.com/2012/04/our-very-first-issue-of-paper-cut.html.

Take care!

Pretty in Pink

Hello, I'm here to share a few cards created with GCD's Sweet Tooth collection today. Everything about this collection is just darling... from the pink dot flower patterns to its spring motifs with birds and butterflies to its delicate color palette.  So what to do with such a darling collection? Well I of course wanted to create something for my sweet four year old daughter who always goes for the pink items in  her closet before all others.

Sweet Tart and Cherry Cordial patterned paper from GCD Studio's Sweet Tooth Collection

 This one was created by layering a little fussy cut design elements on my card with foam tape... a simple way to add a bit of detail to a project. Then bling it up and you have a special card to share!

March Zva Blog Hop Winners Announced

We'd like to congratulate the following FIVE participants who won a prize from our design team member's blogs on March's Blog Hop! Their names will be found on the following blogs:

Carole Maurin

Christin Grønnslett

Jolanda Meurs

Robin Shakoor

Windy Robinson-- yeah!!! That is here & Calamity Jane... YOU ARE MY WINNER! Congratulations, please email me with your mailing address at windyrobinson@gmail.com.

One winner from each of the 5 blogs and one winner on Zva's blog will receive a Zva prize package worth $30.00.  Congrats winners!

Card features Zva's 4 1/4" Azure Flower with Leaves (FL-04CA-104) paired with Anna Griffin's Fleur Rouge Collection paper & tag on kraft.

Go-to Gal Designer Challenge: Bazzill Basics Paper

Hello, hello! Today is a great day here on the blog because its time for another Go-to Gal challenge!

On the last Wednesday of the month the Go-to Gals take turns picking a manufacturer and challenge each other to create something using products from that manufacturer. It's a fun little hop to see how we put some of our favorite goodies to use. There are really no rules... some times we all play, some times we don't. But it will ALWAYS be fun!

Today we are all featuring Bazzill Basics Paper. I've been a long time fan of several of Bazzill's collections, particular the Prismatics Cardstock (love that texture!) and Smoothies. Smoothies is so versatile... it can easily be stamped, die cut, embossed, punched... and it has my go-to color for cardstock- kraft. Anyone else a big kraft fan? 

To create this card I punched three layers with a border punch and then simply layered a few favorite embellishments that were laying in my desk.

So now its time to check out the other Go-to Gal's blogs! Stop by and say hi to Betsy, Jennifer, Kim & Teri! 

Have a wonderful day!


Products used: cardstock (Bazzill Basics Paper); trim & buckle (vintage); ribbon (Stampin' Up); flower (Zva Creative); blinged floral brad (The Paper Studio); punch (EK Success); sentiment (October Afternoon).

Zva Creative March DT Blog Hop!

Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcome you to our March blog hop!

The Blog Hop begins at Zva Creative’s blog! Be sure head on over to check it out! Leave a comment there for a chance to win an extra prize package just for visiting the blog and telling us that you stopped by! You will also find a complete list of all the participating blogs there (in case there is a glitch along the way).  

As you know, Zva offers many beautiful color groupings for pearls, flowers and crystals.  We want to make sure that they shine bright for you, so each designer was will be sharing a creation using a specific color or color combination on their blog hop project.  If you like what you see you can find a list of stores and online retailers that sell Zva HERE.

So do you like pink & cream? I think it is a great combo for an elegant new baby card. Here I used a cream pearl flourish with a combination of Zva's blooms to make a sweet card for a new little baby.

If you would like to play along with our design team, just follow along the blog path.  I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to be inspired along the way!

Hidden on FIVE of the designer’s blogs is a Zva Creative prize package! Winners will be randomly chosen after the hop is over, so it's important to leave a comment on as many blogs as you can along the way.

The Blog Hop starts today, March 26th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, March 27th. 

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 28th on each of the five winning blogs. The full list will be found on Zva’s blog as well. We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to all of the blogs once again on Wednesday... plus, you never know what kind of inspirational creation that you may find there.

All you need to do is leave a comment on this Blog Hop post... you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. However, the more times you comment along the blog hop path, the more chances you will have to win.

We also thought it would be more fun to add even more chances to win our blog hop prize!  To increase your chances of winning:

* Comment to let us know that you posted on your Facebook page about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

* Comment to let us know that you "tweeted" about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)

* Comment to let us know that you asked your local store to carry Zva creative products.  If they already do, that's fantastic, maybe you can suggest other products that they don't carry.

*Hop over to Zva’s NEW blog and leave a comment there to tell us that you made it there!

 The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative’s NEW blog. Your next stop is the blog of Fabi Ormerod. Enjoy!

Thank you for joining us!

P.S. Mark your calendar to join us again on April 30th for our next Zva blog hop!

29 Again?

Hello... Happy Saturday!

Here's a little card I made for a girlfriend who is turing 35... yes, that's a tough one for some of us... the thought that you are now just five years from 40.... well... I guess it won't seem like such a bad thing in another 10 or 15 years. Right?

To create the card I started by creating a square card from cream cardstock and added a yellow damask mat (Teresa Collin's Carolina Breeze collection). I then cut and embossed the circle from kraft cardstock with Spellbinder's Splendid Circles (S4-354), placed a disc of patterned paper (Crate Farmhouse collection) underneath and adhered it to the card with dimensional adhesive. Lastly I embellished with two smaller cut/embossed circle dies and an assortment of flowers (Zva Creative, Michael's Stores Inc. and Jillibean Soup). Lastly I stamped the sentiment (Technique Tuesday), created the flag and added it to the card with leaf pins (Maya Road). Note: all edges are inked with Walnut Stain Distress Ink (Ranger).


Well, I'm off to pack my bags for Arizona. Spellbinder's Design Team retreat is coming up quick... in just four days I'll be on a plane on my way there! I can not wait to get there to meet many new friends and be with such wonderful people from a great company.

Have a great one!

Giveaway!

***Contest is closed & the winner is...***

27. POSH said...

Ohhhh wowww Windy what a great giveaway!!1I have admired your work...it is clean & elegant. I try to emulate your style....its very classy.

Thanks for the chance to win some crafty suprises....

MARCH 16, 2012 4:12 PM 

Congratulations & thanks to all who left such wonderful comments! Big hugs!!!

Hi all! Just dropping in today to share some goodies with you! My goal is to keep all of my supplies cleaned up and of the floor this year, so with that comes the need to not hold on to it all. Soooooo...  I have a prepaid flat rate box all packed up with card making products from some of my favorite companies, some are old and some BRAND NEW! It is an assortment of patterned paper, cardstock, chipboard, stamps and dies (maybe even a few other things... I can't really remember everything I put there since I packed it up last week... lol). Anyway, as a thank you for being so nice and supportive of my work here, I'd love to send this to one of you. If you are interested in possibly winning it, leave me a comment here by next Thursday (3/22) and I will randomly select a winner.

Image credit: Shabby Blogs