CHA Projects

Hello beautiful blog readers! I just finished icing 24 cupcakes and 2 cakes and am now covered in green icing - yummy!! My little man is turning 5 and I'm bringing some birthday treats to school tomorrow so he can share with his classmates.

Just wanted to share with you some of my ZVA Creative projects that I had featured at CHA. I only received my layouts back (I had 17 displayed!) yesterday and hadn't been able to snap photos of my newest ones which included the new flowers, stems, leaves and bling from ZVA!

The first features some of their beautiful new flowers - larger than life aren't they? So beautiful I have to say and unquestionably the focal point of the project.

Some of the new gorgeous bling and their classic bulk 3D roses - all sizes and all colours you can imagine. Love working with these!

For this layout, I used papers from Bo Bunny's Crush line - just loved the striking pinks against the black - a great contrast.

The next layout features papers from Graphic 45's Steampunk Collection. I decided to keep the palatte quite monochromatic so that the purples would just pop!

More gorgeous flowers and leaves from ZVA!!

Just loved the leafy vine and these new "graceful" flowers - which are actually replacing their previous "icy blossoms" that we all loved so much. These flowers are wonderful and work perfectly with their current 3D rose blossoms! Again, they come in any colour you can imagine!


Thanks for the visit!! Be back on Thursday with some birthday photos and a "Lucky" layout!

SWAK
ZVA Supplies:
FL-04CA-136
FL-04CA-130
FL-04CA-124
FL-04CA-115
FL-04CA-109
FL-04CA-111
bulk 3D roses in purple and white
CRB-04CA-112
CR-04CA-145

Learn to Love
ZVA Supplies:
CR-04CA-106
CR-04CA-133
bulk 3D roses in white and soft pink
FL-04CA-103
FL-04CA-111
FL-04CA-128
FL-04CA-132

Random Pics, Ramblings and Updates

Wow, almost an entire week has passed without a blog post!! SORRY!

Truthfully, I'm frantically working on my regular DT duties for Bo Bunny, Petaloo, ZVA Creative and Scrap That! kit club but I've also taken on a wonderful Guest DT spot for the month of April and I am sooooo in love with these 'beautiful' papers (wink)! I'll be able to show all my creations with you on April 1st so please stay tuned. I'll also have some projects that I can reveal to you beginning next week so please be patient :D

In addition, I made the top 25 for Graphic 45's Design Team call (WHOOHOO!) so I was finishing up my final round submissions for them which kept me quite busy. (I've since sent off to them and have received confirmation that they have already received so all I can do now is wait!). We had to create a layout, a card and an altered project and ship off to their head office in Portland, OR. I'm not going to share the projects entirely just yet, but here are a few sneak peeks until I hear one way or another on their final DT Announcement - April 1st, 2011.

Non scrappy related news: My mom and I are headed to Maui at the end of the month and I am soooo excited! I had booked Kauai, HI for a one week stay but after much review of the beach and facility, I ended up cancelling our trip and getting a full refund as I booked and cancelled w/i 24hrs. I then booked a one week stay at a 5 Star, all inclusive resort in Dominican Republic, Punta Cana and although the resort was over the top amazing, I wasn't aware that Haiti, its bordering country, is currently experiencing a cholera outbreak. In addition, there's the whole malaria thing for which I'd need to get vaccinated for, etc. etc.

SO

After much stressing and deliberating, I ended up cancelling this trip as well - only to get 50% of my money back :<

My parents felt so bad after all the time I put forth planning, researching, booking, etc. this trip that they decided to pick up the difference and send me on a trip (with my mom) of their choice. Needless to say - we're on our way to Maui at the end of the month for a 9 night stint in paradise!! I am sooo very grateful to them for doing this and I also feel super guilty!! It was my mistake and to have them pay for me to stay somewhere else is really amazing!! My parents rock! I'm not normally so scatter-brained but I think I may possibly have a little too much on my plate as of late (hence the need of a vacation...)

I promise I will not wait so long to update you all in my life happenings - even if they are not scrappy related :D

On that note - we received a beautiful snowfall last week!! I was soooo excited - we all went out and had a blast on our little snow hill - making snowmen, snow forts, sledding (in the mud/snow) and having some snow fights. This is my fave pic from the day. Needless to say, the snow was totally melted by dinner that same day - but fun while it lasted.

Here's my sweet boy 'studying' for his spelling test last week. I honestly cannot remember doing any type of homework or studying for anything when I was in Grade 1!?! How times have changed...

My little Q-Ball. He's been a little more clingy as of late - needing Mommy a little more than normal so we decided to go on a date this weekend - just him and I. Its so rare that I get to spend time with each of my kids - one on one and clearly this little guy needed some time. We had such a great time - picked up a few 'treats' (aka - kinder surprise) then headed to the arcade for a play and finished off with dinner at his fave restaurant.

Enjoy the last few hours of your weekend. Off to scrap with my glass of Chardonnay in hand (just discovered my new fave - Cupcake Vineyards Chardonnay - sooo smooth and buttery - I hear their Red Velvet wine is to die for!!)

Cheers! Tara

My Clark (the strong, silent type)

Bo Bunny's new range of CHA releases has something to please every scrapper. The Timepiece Collection is perfect for those boy/masculine pages with a titch of grunge. The colours are deep, dark and rich and offer a perfect compliment for those vintage photos or ones you've decided to change to black & white or sepia.

My son had to dress up as his favourite storybook character for school and he chose 'Jack' from the Magic Treehouse series. The only 'spare' glasses we had were some old 3D glasses from the last movie I saw - Avatar!! I popped the lenses out and he was left with the perfect specs!

So many awesome pieces of coordinating chipboard - I inked the key a little to give more of a worn look. Of course, my doilies are there as well. One is crocheted and the other is a simple paper one which I've painted and inked.

Love, love the vintage brads in this collection!! You can see that I've also done quite a bit of fussy cutting and that yes, swirls do kinda work on this 'boy' page afterall....

Thank you so much for stopping by today!! See you soon!

Supplies:
Timepiece Brads
Timepiece Chipboard
Timepiece Noteworthy
Timepiece Dimensional Stickers
Timepiece Combo Stickers
Timepiece Patterned Paper: Unlocked, Numbers, Dot, Gears