Zva Creative May Design Team Blog Hop!

Happy Monday and happy Memorial day 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.

Here is a card I made using PE-02CB-145 Love the pearls and how it adds to the vintage look

 

 

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 Yuliya Khudyakova  Enjoy!

Thank you for joining us!

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

A few items I made over the last months

Love this frame I made using Art parts from Wendy Vecchi, paper, stamps and a few odds and ends from Tim Holtz. All added to a dollar frame from Michaels. 

Sorry its phone pictures so not the best quality

Yes I had the hots for Copics and Magnolia Stamps for a while

Here is some of the cards I made

This was a challenge I could not resist

A customer wanted this mobile for her baby's nursery

Beautiful Spring

The May kit ''Beautiful Spring'' from Paper Niche is out and ready for sale

It is filled with yummys from Pink Paisley(London Market), Graphic 45(Kraft Reflections), 7 Gypsy, Prima, Zva, K&co, We'r Memory Keepers, American Craft and more

Had a lot of fun playing with this gorgeous kit (YES, as always)

Here is a video Sharon made to show what is in the kit

Here is my projects

Global Hobby and Pan Pastels

 The Design Team at Scrappeland was so fortunate this month, we where sponsored by Global Hobby og kunst a wholesale company selling craft and hobby supplies to craft, hobby and scrapbook stores in Norway. 

Check out their blog here Din fantasi – fra hobby til kunst!

The products they sent us to play with was Pan Pastels, these chalks are just awesome, so smooth and easy to work with. There is around 80 colors, and lots of fun tools to go along with them

I did a canvas, where I used the Pan Pastels for the background and stamped on top stamps are by Donna Downey and Dyan Reaveley, I also added tape from Tim Holtz that I colored with Pan Pastels. I used Archival ink from Ranger

Here on this card I used the pan pastels for all the coloring after I stamped the images with ink from Memento, the stamps are from Heartfelt Creations, Dyan Reaveley and Stamping up. 

Here is an article Renate has written in Scrappeland about the company and the Pan Pastels(in Norwegian)

http://scrappeland.no/forum/threads/1143-Global-Hobby

Paper Niches June kit release

 This beautiful kit from The Paper Niche is filled with papers from Fancy Pants, 7Gypsy, PinkPaislee and Creative Imaginations. Embellishments from Kaiser. Fancy Pants, Pink Paislee, Prima and BoBunny,  Thickers, sticky back canvas ATC's, Fancy Pants Filter papers, Pink Paislee tissue paper, Kaiser stamps, 7 Gypsy tags, lots of ribbon from May Art and Prima and more. The kit is perfect for vacation, summer and other fun pictures and projects

 A close up of the flowers I made from the Fancy Pants Filter Papers 

I colored them with Glimmer mist. The filter papers was so much fun to play with. Happy I have more of them because I have some more ideas for what to do =)

 Made the  yellow flower from the Pink Paislees tissue paper....so easy and so cute. I used the Tim Holtz Tattered flower die

Mini book is from Maya Road and is not included in the kit. 

Below is a collage .of the pages inside the book

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Birthday card made from some of the leftovers. Love the black tag I used here(in the kit) The black color is easy to scratch off for a distressed look

Copic Markers

YES!!!!!!
Paper Niche just got in all the colors from Copic Markers, and I just had to take some home to play with. Sooooo.... ta da.... Here is my very first try... Liz ''Thanks a bunch for letting me borrow your stamps''

This is sooo different from using distressing inks and paints, but I love it, just need some more practice. In November I'm getting certified so look up for classes. Of course I could not just let the distressing inks sit there and look at me playing, so I used them on the tags =)

PaperNiche design kit

The kit at Paper Niche this month is filled with yummy stuff from American craft, Hambly and Maya road and more.

Had a lot of fun playing with all the bright colors and the cute embellishments.

You can pick up the kit at the store or order online from our on line store http://paperniche.blogspot.com/

Here is the pages I did

Love the Hambly overlay I used here and the paper from Crate papers

Made a card with some of the leftovers

Cant wait to get my hands on next months kit =)

Papirdesign

This month the DT at ScrapbookExpress is sponsored by a Norwegian scrapbooking company "Papirdesign". Had a ton of fun with the beautiful papers. As usual we have a challenge on the board where you can win one of their beautiful stamp sets.
Here you can see all the awesome stuff DT made DT's Papirdesign gallery
Thank you so much Papirdesign, I had a blast working with your products =)

American Craft

This month the Design Team at Scrapbook Express are sponsored by American Craft. We all got an awesome package full of goodies and another one as a prize for the product challenge.
Thank You so much American Craft
Here is some of what I made, take a look in the gallery for the rest and to see all the beautiful pages and projects from the other girls DT's American Craft Gallery

National cardmaking day

I'm not a big card maker..and not a very good one, but I did this one here last night

Come see us at the playground. We have lots of challenges going on