Zva Creative May Design Team Blog Hop!

Happy Monday to you! Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcome you to our May blog hop!  We are very excited to kick off a new blog hop and to have you join us today. We hope you are inspired all of the beautiful work that we are about to share!

The hop begins at Zva Creative’s blog! Be sure head on over to check it out! 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.  If you like what you see along the hop you can find a list of stores and online retailers that sell Zva HERE.

For my project today, I decided  to create a series of cards. They all use cardstock and no patterned papers. They are simple to create cards that focus on the gorgeous Zva products!! Check them out!!

 Zva CRB-06CA-107 Green 2 tone crystal flourish, Green flower

Zva Pink flower centre crystals:  CRW-06CA-149

Zva CRS-07CA-109 Brown 2 tone crystal flourish

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!

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

***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. 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. 

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 28th on Zva Creative’s Facebook page. We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to Zva’s page on Wednesday to see if you are a winner!

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 Facebook page and “like” our page or leave a comment there to tell us that you stopped by if you already like us there!

The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative’s blog. 

Your next stop is Carol Maurin.  Enjoy!

Thank you for joining us!

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

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Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time,

Happy Creating!!

Elegant Heart flourish card: For Zva Creative

Hello friends! Today I have an elegant card to sure with you that I created for Zva Creative! It's beautiful colour scheme are perfect for this week... with Valentines day just around the corner!!

This is very simple to create using the Spellbinders Bracket Borderabilities and the  Swirl Heart (insert only).
I dimply Embellished using some gorgeous bling from Zva Creative!!

CRW-05CB-148

CRW-05CB-146

So, it's short and sweet today!!!

Thanks for stopping by! And HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

Until next time..

Happy Creating!!

Blog Party coming up, and a project to share!

Yes!! You see it right!! Spellbinders is having a blog party!!! Be sure to stop by the Spellbinders blog to see all of the rules and details!!!  I will be taking part, so be sure to stop by my blog and see what I've created for you! :)

While I'm here, I want to share a project that I created for Spellbinders as part of my Design Team Term.

While sitting on my scrapbook table, this photo of my daughter got lightly speckled with white paint. While trying to get it off with no success, I decided to go with it! I added some paint speckles to the page… it worked!

I cut strips of paper and adhered them to the page with lots of machine stitching, in 2 stitches, straight and zig zag. I used the entire set of charm dies to create a fun banner. The journaling is computer printed, cut into thick strips and them machine stitched as well.

 

Spellbinders Product used:

GC-001 Grand Calibur

S4-378 Cherry Blossoms (sm and med blossoms)

S4-390 Gold Circles One (#2 and 3)

S4-399 Charmed I’m sure

S6-005 5x7 Elegant Labels 4

S5-142 Homespun (leaves and flower) (DISCONTINUED)

 

Other supplies:

Flourishes: stamps, Taglines 55096

Just Right Stampers: Winter Words

Want2Scrap: Bling: Silver gems, Fancy Tags Two Silver (cut apart)

KaiserCraft: Patterned Papers, (Bubblegum Hill collection, P633 Calipso Punch) (Timeless collection, P655 Dressform, P654 Newsprint, P656 Script) (Prairie Lane collection, P445 Pine Arbor, P444 Spring Acres, P441 Ivy Heights)

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L; Thick and thin foam squares

Bazill Basics: Cardstock; Milkshake ,  Pretty buttons

Worldwin cardstock; Ivory, Kraft

Bo Bunny: Large Gem (Butterfly Garden ribbon package)

Cosmo Cricket: Tiny Type stickers

Xyron Mega Runner

 Americaina acrylic paint, white (watered down)

Lace (unknown)

Machine stitchine (machine, thread)

The Twinery: Twine

Thanks for stopping by! I really do LOVE all of your comments and visits!!!

until next time,

Happy Creating!!

Stenciling Technique video featuring Spellbinders Die D-Lites

Good morning all!! Along with today's project and tutorial, I also have the winner of our September GIVEAWAY posted at the bottom!!!

Today I have a FULL video tutorial for you!! It is featuring Spellbinders® Die D-Lites™ medallions! I ADORE these dies SOOO much! There are a million things you can do with them!! And pairing them up with fabulous inks from Tsukineko® makes thus SUCH a fun project!

 

IMAGINE CREATE DREAM stenciling card

Last weekend, I taught a couple of workshops at a Crop in Quispamsis! One that I did was FULL of Spellbinders techniques! This video shows you one of the techniques that I taught! It was a hit and everyone loved it!! Check it out!!

This video also features the fabulous Dew Drops MEMENTO inks from Tsukineko! These are PERFECT inks for this technique! And the colors? OMW they are amazing!!! Special thanks to John at Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko for providing the inky goodies for us to work with at our workshop!!

And a closeup shot...

If you have any questions regarding the technique used here, please don't hesitate to ask!!
I hope that you are inspired to try something new today! Make a stencil from your dies!! It doesn't have to be the same one I used, try ANY of your dies!! You will be surprised at what you can do!!

Supplies:

• Spellbinders
• Grand Calibur Machine
• Die D-Lites Medallion One
• A2 Card Creator Curved Corners A and B
• Girlie Grunge
• Birds One Blanks
• Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko
• Memento Dew Drops Inks (Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves, Teal Zeal)
• Staz On Inks (Variety of colors)
• Glaz On
• Ink Blushers
• Bazill Basics Paper Co:  Cardstock
• May Arts: Lace
• Xyron Mega Runner
• Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: Foam Squares 

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GIVEAWAY WINNER!!!

 

 

I want to start with a HUGE thank you to everyone who visited my blog thru the month of September!!! I read every comment on my blog and you tube page and appreciate every one of you!!!

So, here is the giveaway that I will be sharing with one lucky blog reader!!

 

And that winner is.....

Maryann Laursen

CONGRATULATIONS!

Thank you for your visits and comments!!

Maryann, you have 7 days to claim your prize!!! Please email me at tinamcdonald(at)xplornet(dot)ca and I will get that out to you!!!

 

 

Thank you all!! Stay tuned, perhaps we will have another giveaway soon!!

Until next time,

Happy Creating!!!





Spellbinders Decorative Labels Twenty Eight SUNSHINE card

At last! My video loaded! Now I can share!! :) My problem is not yet fixed, so until it is my posts will be a bit sporadic... but I'll do the best I can! I think I may go back to the old cam-corder for a bit until the WIFI is fixed.

 

So today's video is sharing this little card that I created using the following supplies:

Spellbinders(TM):

• Grand Calibur(R) machine
• Decorative Labels Twenty Eight
• 5x7 Detailed Scallops
• 5x7 Matting Basics B
• Les Papillion Two

Fancy Pants Designs:  PARK BENCH papers and sticker
Bazzill Basics Paper® cardstock
ZVA Creative bling
Decorative Pin by Darsie Bruno
May Arts Ribbon
Xyron Mega Runner
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: Foam squares

Enjoy the video! Raw, unedited and real! :) I'd love to have your feedback!

And don't forget about my giveaway!! I'll get a picture posted soon of the goodies!  All comments posted get you a chance to win!!
Until next time!
Happy Creating!!