Zva Creative Feb DT blog hop

Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcome you to join us for our February Blog Hop! We are happy to have you join us today today!

The Blog Hop begins at Zva Creative's NEW blog! Be sure head on over if you'd like to start from the top of the hop. 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.

Heres my layout. I have used the gorgeous new collection from Kaisercraft called ' These days'. I adore the colours in this range, and they were a perfect match for the creamy white 2.5" Dual flowers from Zva Creative. This photo is of my 2 oldest kids, Ashlee, and Matthew, taken at Ashlees 21st a few months back. They fought like cat and dog when they were little, now, and 19 and 21, they really are very close.  

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, February 27th and runs through 11:59pm US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, February 28th.

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, February 1^st on each of the five winning blogs. The full list of where our winners will be posted 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 Facebook or "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.

* Comment to let us know that your "liked" our new page on Facebook or that you have started following Zva on Twitter.

The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative's NEW blog. Your next stop is FABI ORMEROD. Enjoy!

Thank you for joining us!

P.S. Mark your calendar to join us again on March 26^th for our next Zva blog hop!

Latest publications

Hi there my friends,

I want to share with you the latest work I did for Australian Scrapbook Ideas. I was asked to create 3 layouts, and incorperate old books or pages into my layouts. I had alot of fun doing this. I love to fossick around in second hand shops, so this was right up my alley. I found some a gorgeous old music book, and a beautifully illistrated childrens nursery rhyme book, both complete with yellowed aged edges.

My first layout I did, features the nursery rhyme book. I had these cute photos of Jack, playing with our little piglets, which were just perfect for the '3 little pigs' story and pictures from the book

The next layout features some old music sheets. Ive used the sheet behind my photo, and Ive also created a little music roll as an embellishment. This is a photo of my daughter Ashlee and I at her 21st birthday in August just gone

And the final one is some photos of my Mum, making one of her quilts. She has done some beautiful work over the years, the quilt in the photo isnt one of her favorites, but, I used this one as it matched the colours in the paper I wanted to use LOL ( as we all do Im sure). I used an old sewing pattern as the background for this layout, simply adhered to a piece of kraft cardstock using mod podge. Theres a step by step tutorial in the latest issue of Australian scrapbook ideas on how to make this background for anyone who has the magazine :) ....

Ok, thats it for today. Have a fantastic week. And I will be back soon to share my mega exciting news with you all :) 





And the winner is .....

Hi girls,

Im sorry, I am a day late with announcing the winner of the CREATIVE SCRAPPERS EBOOK. My life is just way too busy at the moment. Anyway, I wont make you wait any longer. I drew the winner using my trusty icecream container, and 6 year old....   And the winner is ( drum roll please )      ..................

AL HANNAH

who left this comment

Al HannahFeb 8, 2012 12:23 PM

Karen, so seeing as I am already a member of your beautiful blog and priviledged to see your work, does that mean I am ineligible to being part of winning the eBook? Congratulations on your invite to be part of this amazing book - no surprise though at all. Hope you are well :) 

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woo hoo, congratulations Al :)  You will just love this book so much. All I need is your email address, and I will give it to Kristine Davidson, who will forward your Ebook to you :)  

And just a reminder, if anyone wants to purchase one of these fabulous Ebooks, you can find all the details here. I reccomend it hightly :)

OK, now I have to keep this a secret for just a few more days  ( ive almost bitten off the end of my tongue in doing so ) but I can tell you that I have some HUGE, fantastically exciting news to share with you all early next week, so please call back in then, so i can shout it to everyone :) 

Have a wonderful weekend all

I just love these.........

Hi my friends,
Today I would like to share with you a layout I did for Scrapbook Boutique, and I was so happy to be able to have a play with the most adorable Glitz Design papers and Manor house flowers. Both available at Scrapbook Boutique. This is a photo of my gorgeous boy Jack, taken recently. ( yes, you can use flowers on 'boy' layouts lol )
Below, I have included a little step by step on how I made this layout, for anyone who is interested :) 

Products uses: Glitz design paper pack-walk in sunshine , Glitz design 'peek a boo', Prima brick stamp, Magnolia doo hickie die-Paris nights, EK sucess border punch-Diamond lace , Ingvilde Bolme distress tool  , Manor house creations flowers - Taneisha and Wishes.

1.Trim 5mm from each edge of ‘raindrops’ paper, distress and randomly stamp the Prima brick stamp as desired; adhere to reverse side of stripe paper.

2.Cut the perfume transparency in half (found in the ‘peek a boo’ pack) adhere to centre of the layout as shown. Trim a rectangle from Damask paper 23cm long x 10 cm wide, distress edges. Using the EK diamond lace punch, create 2 x 22 cm borders from white card. Create 2 x 22cm yellow strips from the Damask paper.  Layer rectangle, and border strips as shown, adhere to centre of  layout, over transparency.

3.Cut the frame transparency in half, tuck under each outside corner as shown.

4.Die cut the lamp post and cat from stripe reverse paper, adhere a piece of yellow damask paper to the underside of the lamp. Die cut a fence using white card, adhere with foam tape, and sit the cat on the fence.

5.Arrange your flowers and leaves as desired , add your title and a rub on sentiment to complete your layout. 

Thanks so much for calling in, and thanks for the constant support, and wonderful comments

Have a great week

Only 3 days left....

*SEE POST BELOW FOR THE SCRAPBOOK BOUTIQUE BLOG HOP* 

Hi girls :)

Just a reminder that theres only 3 days left till I draw the winner of this fabulous EBook, kindly donated by Kristine Davidson of Creative Scrappers * SEE POST BELOW FOR DETAILS* All you have to do to be eligable to win, is

1. become a follower to my blog

2. leave me a comment on this post, or the one below. Easy as right :) 

I will draw the random winner on Friday 17 th of February, at midday :)  You so need to get this book. Theres some absolutely stunning sketches and some awesome inspiration from talented scrapbookers from all round the world ( oh, and ME lol)

goodluck everyone x

Scrapbook Boutique Feb blog hop

SEE POST BELOW FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A CREATIVE SCRAPPERS EBOOK

Hi,

And a big welcome to those hopping along on the Scrapbook Boutique blog hop and inspiration challenge for February. Im excited, cos its the first time Ive been involved as a member of the design team :) 

If you are following along with the blog hop you would have arrived from Angela's blog, and isnt her work amazing?. But, if you get lost, you can always head to the SB blog and start from there!

All you need to do, if you want to play along is, leave a comment on each of the DT gals blogs and a final one on SB Blog, the random winner will be drawn from there!

The hop will be open for 1 week, closing midday  on the 17th of February, the winner will be announced on the SB blog on  the 18th.

Unfortunately the blog hop prize (as is the inspiration challenge) is only open to anyone with an Australian mailing address.

SO....  heres what you can win
This gorgeous Magnolia stamp



BUT WAIT, THERES MORE
We also have for you, our regular monthly inspiration challenge!

Make a creation using the gorgeous photo colours as your inspiration , and you could be the winner of a $30 gift voucher to Scrapbook Boutique
The Challenge will close on the 31st of February at 12midnight, the winner will be announced on the 1st of March

Here is my layout I did for the challenge. I dont do many LO's of my Husband and I together, so this challenge was a great prompt for me. I took my inspiration from the colours in the photo, using the different shades of pink as my base. I have used the most adorable paper collection from Glitz designs called Beautiful Dreamer, along with some stunningly beautiful flowers, leaves and bling from Prima.

Products used: Glitz designs 'beautiful dreamer' collection papers, Prima flowers, Prima leaves, and pearl flourish, EK Sucess Diamond lace punch, Martha Stewart Doily lace trim punch, Cheery Lynn English tea party die, My favorite things Banner day die, Ingvilde Bolme distressor, Tim Holtz distress ink-antique linen,

Your next stop on the blog hop is Narelle's blog. Thankyou for joining us, goodluck, and we will see you again on the 10th of March for another hop, with another fantastic prize up for grabs.

Creative Scrappers EBook to win

Kristine from Creative Scrappers has been busy. She has been working oh so hard creating the most amazing EBook, crammed full of brilliant sketches, and beautiful layouts by talented scrappers from all over the world. I was so honoured that Kristine asked me to complete a layout for the book, using one of her amazing sketches.



So, to celebrate the release of Kristine's ebook ... How about a giveaway?  Kristine has a copy of her book to give away to one lucky reader from my blog - This is all you need to do.......

1. Become a follower of my blog (right side bar)
2. Leave me a comment on my blog

I will draw the lucky winner next Friday 17th of February, at 12 pm, Australian time, so make sure you follow me and leave me a comment before then.

Now I want to share with you my layout I did for the Ebook, using Kristines beautiful sketch, along with  2 of my favorite flowers from ZVA CREATIVE  ......   

The ebook version - which is a PDF file (13MB) is available TODAY!You can download it to your iphone or ipad using your favorite reader, or you can also print your own copy and use it as you wish!

CLICK HERE to PURCHASE!

 no hidden cost, no taxes ... what is indicated is what you pay!

The published book is currently in the graphic stages and getting ready for printing. You can pre order the printed book from Kristine HERE.

Zva Jan blog hop winners

We'd like to congratulate the FIVE January Zva Blog Hop winners! Their names will be found on the following blogs:

Yukiko Ochi

Windy Robinson

Nicole Martel

Christin Grønnslett

Andrea Ewen

One winner from each of the 5 blogs will receive a Zva prize package worth $30.00. Congrats winners!

 

Heres another LO I did for Zva, using some more beautiful flowers . This is a photo of my daughter, and brand new baby grandson, Jett, taken a few weeks ago, when he was just 12 hours old :) 

 

Thanks so much to everyone for joining in the blog hop, and for all the wonderful messages left here on my blog xx. Be sure to join us again at the end of February for our next blog hop.