ZVA Creative July Blog Hop!

Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcome you to our July blog hop!
The Blog Hop begins at Zva Creative's blog! Be sure head on over to check it out! Leave a comment there for a chance to win an extra prize package just for visiting the blog and telling us that you stopped by! 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 will be sharing 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.

My assigned colour this month was Olive Green (can ya tell!?) so I tried to incorporate as many green, bling flourishes and flowers as possible!  This layout was majorly inspired by the wonderful Finnabair (I recently took one of her classes and was dying to try a little more grunge).  Lots of inks and mists to complete this project...

Although the flowers from ZVA were already beautiful shades of green, I intensified the colour a little more by misting them a deeper shade.

The metal elements are from Graphic 45's Staples Collection and the paper is from Bo Bunny's Campalot Collection.

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, July 30th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, July 31st. 

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, August 1st on Zva Creative's blog. We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to Zva's blog on Wednesday.

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 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 blog and leave a comment there to tell us that you made it there!

 The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative's blog. Your next stop is Carole Maurin. Enjoy!

 Thank you for joining us!

 P.S. Mark your calendar to join us again on August 27th for our next Zva blog hop!

Finn-alicious!

HOLY LORD!! Talk about getting major crafty mojo inspiration!! I had the opportunity to attend one of Anna Dąbrowska's classes today and WOW is all I can say! I am totally addicted to the grunge!

Here is the layout I made in her class.  LOTS of layers, mists and inks... (will try to get more pics tomorrow - I just took this photo after class in the room...)

A few pics from the class...

So talented, so sweet, so funny and entertaining and so beautiful!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

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If you haven't already heard, 7 Dots Studio is coming out with TWO new collections this summer - Domestic Goddess and Hopefully. I cannot wait to play with these gorgeous new lines and to celebrate their arrival a new Laboratory Challenge was posted on the 7 Dots Blog yesterday. The challenge was to use the 4 existing collections in 1 project. How fun!

For the project above, I did indeed include all four of the current 7 Dots papers.  I love how each collection comes with coordinating chipboard elements and stickers - the perfect size to stick in here and there and to accent you projects. 

I have also used many metal elements on my page here.  ALL are from Graphic 45 - including the new keys and keyhole - released this past CHA.

Lots of wonderful layers accented with some butterflies and flowers from ZVA Creative.

Thank you so much for your visit today!! I'll be back again tomorrow with some more scrappy goodness!

PS - My sweet and dear friend Anna (Finnabair) is in town tomorrow and I am meeting up with her in the afternoon as well as taking one of her mixed media classes! Cannot wait - will be sure to post some photos!!

7 Dots Supplies:
Dreamer Collection: 12×12 Elements, Drive All Night
Wonderland Collection: 12×12 Elements, Royal Garden, Spades and Clubs
Elise Rebel Collection: 12×12 Elements, Extraordinary
All I Ever Collection: 12×12 Elements
Chipboard
Graphic 45: Metal Brads, Clothespins, Hinges, Door Plate, Keyhole, Key
ZVA Creative: Flowers