Zva Creative February DT Blog Hop!

Hello friends! Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcome you to our February blog hop! We are very excited to kick off another blog hop and tohave you join us today. We hope you are inspired all of the beautiful work that we are about to shareThe hop begins at Zva Creatives 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.Our local sb store Paper Niche carries LOTS of it ....blink blink 

Here is a layout I made this weekend During a design team workshop at Paper Niche using papers from Kaiser craft, Prima embellishments and of course lots of Bling from ZVA Creative. I used the following style numbers CRB-05CB-103, CRB-06CA-117 and CRB-06CA-103

If you like me sometimes make pages and add pictures later, this is a great way to make sure your bling or pearls don't get ruined when you try to add the picture. Simply leave some of the backing under the bling and remove later when you place the picture

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, February 24th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, February 25th.

***Prizes***

Hidden on FIVE of the blogs along the way 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 one 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, February 26th on Zva Creative 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 Like us and leave a comment that you joined our blog hop

The blog hop begins here at Zva Creatives blogYour next stop is Anna Zaprzelska HERE. Enjoy! Thank you for joining us!P.S. Mark your calendar to join us again on March 31st for our next Zva blog hop!!!

Project with Art Parts (Class with Wendy Vecchi)

So here are the awesome project we did in Wendy Vecchi's class Friday night. I had such a great time and was really inspired to go home and pull out some of the art pieces I have collected ......

Wendy and the Niche girls

I did not take the tag class Saturday, but attended the advanced stamping class Saturday night

I gave up my seat for a customer, but was able to play along on the sideline (Thanks for sharing Lyn) I made these ATC's using the new Ranger specialty stamping paper and Distress inks. The new paper are totally awesome to work with

My Paper Niche September kit reveals

The September kit is filled with Paper Loft, Basic Grey, Prima, Tim Holtz, K&co, 7 Gypsies, MM and more.

As usual I had a great time putting the kit together and also playing with it.

This month I really wanted to something more than just regular pages. We ordered so many new AccuCut dies at CHA and this one that I used here really inspired me to play.

when scanned you cant really see the dimensions, so here is  the sneak peek pictures again

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This book I made from some heavy duty chipboard sheets I had laying around

All the pictures is of my Grandma Anna (Anne Gurine) whom I was named after and that I love and miss very much. She was a very active sporty lady who would tackle everything

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I did one regular page, the pictures is of me with both my grandmothers..whom both where named Anne Gurine( Kristoffersen & Dahl)

so I was of course named after them both LOL

The kits are available in the store and on line right here

AND keep an eye out, we will post a DT call very soon

Home alone and.......

Hmmm... got my hands on some of the new Pink Paislee papers...They are totally awesome right?

On this first page I have used ''Sweetness''

I have also used  BG letters that I painted with crackle paint, stamped and then added rub-ons on

The Memory frame has paper that I stamped, sticker from Kelly Panachi and PP rub-on. I have also used  stick pin from Karen Foster, rub-ons from Glitz design and Prima bling

The picture is of my grandparents Anna and Nils Dahl and is taken in the early 1920's

Here I have used the ''Old school'' paper line from Pink Paislee

I have also used abc chipboards from BG and SR, chipboard circle from Technique Tuesday, abc letters from Websters, Prima bling, distress ink and crackle paint

Picture is of Amanda ready for her first day in first grade

The new ''House of three'' line is just totally gorgeous

I have added Prima and Zva flowers and bling, Hambly rub-ons and some picket fence crackle paint

My sister probably thought I was crazy when I pulled out the camera one night and started taking pictures of her Orchid in the windowsill ... It was about nine o'clock at night and i just loved the way the evening sunlight was shining on the beautiful flowers

Here is some close ups of the first page

Two summer pages

Last weekend ACOT had a 3 day crop, I did not get to much on-line time (as usual) but at least I get 2 challenges done. Friday night I worked a crop at The Paper Niche which is always a lot of fun, I'm a very slow and easily distracted scrapper., but at least I got one page started during the crop

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On this first page I used papers from The Girls Paperie, Prima and Zva flowers. BG and MM alphas, Glimmermist and Distressing ink. The picture is of my 2 nieces Oda and Sara

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Here I have used papers from MME, LYB, 7 Gypsy and Bazzill

LYB stickers and AC thickers

The picture is of my oldest son Erik ...just a few years and inches ago

Thanks for taking the time to look, Have a wonderful weekend everyone =)

Playing with different textures and techniques

this is a page I did before I left for Norway, I made it for a challenge at ACOT and later made a sketch of it for the sketch challenge at Paper Niche. Had a lot of fun here using different techniques and mediums. Used Utee, Glass bead medium (Liquitex) and Crackle paint. The background is stamped with one of Wendy Vechi's stamps and colored in with distress ink. I also used Tim Holtz embossing folder and Dymo for journaling. The sketch is posted on my sketch blog.

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This weekends work

WoW..there was so much scrapping going on this weekend. We had a 3 day crop at The Paper Niche and my favorite boards Scrapbook Express and A cherry on top both had tons of challenges and fun going on. So sorry I did not have time to participate too much on line, the challenges was all so awesome. However I did manage to get 2 pages done... and yeah... I'm going through a Prima stage LOL
The pictures are of me(scrapped for DD's album) and my niece Oda

More stamping

I did this LO for this months contest at A Cherry on Top, using stamps on your LO,

I love using stamps to make my own pattered paper and to make my own embellishment so this challenge was just perfect for me, and it was fun to do a challenge again. I have used Bazzill paper that I stamped with a script stamp and TH's swirl stamp. tattered angels compass stamp stamped on to CI's real wood. The flowers are punched out from stamped Bazzill . The chipboard letters are from Kaiser and are stamped with a wood grain stamp. I have also used stamps from Basic Gray (the word Cherish)and Tim Holtz (the car) everything is colored in with distressing ink. Other products used is alpha stickers and clip from MM, Leaf ribbon from May-Art, Bird charm from Tim Holtz, Zva pearl swirl and Ranger archival ink

The picture is of my mom and grandmother back in 1960 somewhere in south Norway. Out on their Sunday outing, my grandparents would take a ride the car every Sunday, stopping where ever it looked nice for some rest a cup of coffee and lunch

 

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And yayh.. my LO ''Mom and me'' was picked as one of the LO's in the Creative team's spotlight on

  A Cherry on top this month

and last month my ''Vase with paper roses'' was picked

Using stamps on your layout challenge

Did you know we post challenges at The Paper Niche blog every week, there is sketches and techniques with great prizes. This week the challenge is to use stamps on a layout and you can win one of the new Donna Downey foam stamps. email submissions to customerservice@paperniche.com  -with CHALLENGE in the subject, or upload it to your blog with a link to the PaperNiche blog and leave a link to your layout in the challenge post. Deadline for this submissions is Friday, April 16th.

Here is the inspirational layout i did for this weeks challenge. I have used Bazzill, chipboards and a lot of different stamps (Prima, Stamping Up, Inkadinkadoo, Hero Arts, Tim Holtz, Wendy Vecchi) and inks

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The Girls Paperie and April sneak peeks =)

Had some fun today playing with ''Paper Girl'' line from"The Girls Paperie" used the papers, buttons and stamps. Love this new line, the colors are so pretty and the stamps where awesome to work with...and the colors are a perfect match to the new TH distressing inks Spun sugar and Tumbled glass. I also added some flowers from Prima and Tara Green, Zva bling, BG chipboard letters, and Jenny Bowlin butterfly. I used Rock candy Crackle paint and the swirly stamp is from TH and Stampers anonymous

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Here is some sneak peek I posted on the PaperNiche blog yesterday. Look up for a totally yummy kit full of treats and goodies. I had so much fun with this one. It is released April 1st

The first live tutorial

OK so I'm no movie star yet he he..... but Krista and I did our first live tutorial for the Paper Niche  this week..This is for sure a learning experience and we had a lot of fun

Some Graphic45 layouts

Here is some pages I did with the "On the boardwalk" collection, the picture on the first one is also printed on Graphic45 paper. I have also used Distressing ink, May Art ribbon, Grungeboard swirls, Zing embossing powder, Seahorse and flowers are of unknown origin.

Here I have also used Disterssing ink, 7 Gypsies metal clip, MayaRoad pin and Dymo

Roses anyone (Graphic45)

Love making flowers from printed paper, I made this bouquet of roses out of Graphic 45 papers, the vase is also covered in Graphic 45 paper all from the Le' Romantique line. Everything is inked with distressing ink, covered in Rock Candy crackle paint and then re-inked.

Yes I did try out for the DT there =)  Huge congrats to all the ladies that made the finals

I'm working on a tutorial for the roses, hope to have it done sometime next week.

I will post some of the other stuff I did later this week.

New Distressing Inks

Beetween my regular duties and obsessive Olympic TV watching there has not been a lot of playtime this week, but I just had to play a little with the new Tim Holtz Distressing Inks... All the colors are just totally fabulous (YES I got all 12)  I have covered them both with Rock candy crackle paint.

Graphic 45 and Nikki Sivils

Got 2 pages started at the crop this weekend, this morning I finally got to finish them =)

These new papers from Graphic45 "le'Romantique" are just soooo pretty and totally perfect for this picture I have of my mom and dad leaving the church on their wedding day

  

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Here I have used the new Nikki Sivils line "Dan the record man" It is just perfect for the pictures here,
WoW I used to love my old LP's..have to dust them off and have a "remember when" night

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