Zva Creative March DT Blog Hop!

Zva Creative and the Design Team welcomes you to join us this month for a blog hop that we feel is always extra special!

There is now an added twist to our blog hops, YAY! As you know, Zva offers so 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.

The Blog Hop begins at Kim Hughes' blog. She will have the complete list of all blogs that are participating in case there is a glitch along the way. If you would like to play along, 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 blogs is a Zva Creative prize package ...YAY! 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, March 28th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, March 29th and the 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 30th on each of the five winning blogs. The full list will be found on Kim Hughes‘s blog as well (linked above). 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 Zva Blog Hop post...you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. The more times you leave a comment along the blog hop path though, the more chances you will have to be one of the lucky winners.

The colour I had the opportunity to feature this month was green/lime green. I used some of Websters Pages Hollywood Vogue papers for my project which I thought showcased the bling and blooms perfectly!


The Rose blossoms and icy blossoms as well as the bling are from ZVA Creative!


The blog hop begins here: Kim Hughes

Your next stop is here: Nancy Doren

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us.

ZVA Products Used:
Icy Blossoms
3D Bulk Flowers (purple, green)
Self Adhesive Pearls: PEB03CB112
Self Adhesive Crystals: CR03CA110
Self Adhesive Crystals: CR03CA115

Vintage Elegance Found in Darjeeling

One of Petaloo's newest releases from their Premiere collection is the Darjeeling Line. I totally fell in love with the muted, tea-stained colours in these unique and gorgeous flowers, not to mention the amazing packaging (I actually included as part of my layout)! The flowers have a very vintage flair to them, perfectly complimenting papers such as Graphic 45 (another one of my faves!) which I used for my layout. The tones are subtle and worn and suited wonderfully to the antique look of these blooms. In addition, the Darjeeling collection is made from 100% recycled cotton paper which means they will hold their colour beautifully should you wish to further colour them with inks or sprays. Petaloo Products Used:
Flora Doodles Holiday Foliage Leaves, 50 pc - Mixed Fabrics
Darjeeling Collection Poppy mix, 4 pcs
Darjeeling Collection Zinnia mix, 5 pcs
Darjeeling Collection Anemone mix, 5 pcs
Darjeeling Collection Burgundy Assorted, 4 pcs

Scrap That! Blog Hop

Welcome to the Scrap That! Blog Hop Adventure!

We will have NINE AMAZING blogs for you to visit. Each blog will have some beautiful eye candy, in the form of some AMAZING projects from our design team using the newly released "Madame Butterfly" Kit.

We are also thrilled to have PageMaps joining in on our hop with an awesome sketch that has been especially designed for Scrap That! to go with the kit!

We also have some fabulous prizes to give away!

First of all, you will need to visit ALL the blogs on the hop as there will be a randomly drawn comment winner from each blog. That means NINE winners will receive a package of Prima goodness just for leaving some love and becoming a follower of each of the blogs!

Next, while you are hopping you will want to be looking for the “special” word on each blog. Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a sentence.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll need to swing by our facebook page, become a friend and then head over to our social community and become a member. Once you’ve completed these tasks, email the sentence to Scrap That!

All correct entries received will be entered into a draw for the GRAND PRIZE, an autographed PageMaps hardcover book generously donated by Beck Fleck!

The hop will take place from 10am March 25th until midnight March 27th (MST)

Are you ready to get your hop on!?

If you have just arrived here from Lisa’s blog then you are in the correct place! If not, head back to the Scrap That! blog and join us.

Today I’m going to share with you my projects using one of the new CHA collections released at Winter CHA from Bo Bunny - Gabrielle!

First up is a layout I created using a very soft palette - lots of distressing. This collection is filled with peaches, creams, turquoises and browns - very earthy and easy to work with - especially when paired with colour photos - really brings out the skin tone hues.

You'll find an endless supply of embellishments in this kit - I opted for the soft cream tones in Petaloo's FloraDoodles.

A little fussy cutting of flower stems and beautiful butterflies which are bountiful in this amazing kit!


I wanted to showcase the versatility of this collection so my next project features a much darker palette with more paper embellishments and less floral accents. Again, you can create boy pages with pretty much any paper line - just make them work for you!



Have to toot here - I am SO proud of myself!! I have long been admiring the whole 'paint-splatter' technique but have been too afraid to try this for fear of wrecking an almost completed project (they honestly take me DAYS - yes I am a VERY slow scrapper!) Anyhooooo, this layout was simply 'missing' something so I thought - WHY NOT?! Do you like it?! I TOTALLY think it makes the page - fills in the 'white' space perfectly!

Lastly I would like to share this card and tag set to which I am not addicted. LOVE making this particular style of card with the coordinating tag - a little more intricate than your regular card or tag alone so gives a bit more of an impact when you show both together.

Here is the card and tag as a set.

Just the card....

Partially open with the tag tucked into a pocket within the card.

Front of tag.

Back of the tag (note, the text was digitally added).

One last tag I created with the leftover paper from this amazing kit - quick and simple!

Before you go, you'll need my Secret word....

...which is FOR

Now head over to Tina's blog for some more amazing creations using the Scrap That! "Madame Butterfly" Kit.

We hope you all had good fun hopping with us today, thank you so much for playing along! Watch the Scrap That! blog next week to see if you are one of the lucky winners!