Zva Creative May DT Blog Hop!

Zva Creative and my fellow Design Team members welcome you to our May blog hop! We are excited happy you are joining us and look forward to sharing our new work with you!

Today's Blog Hop begins at Zva Creative's Facebook page! Be sure head on over to check it out! 

Here's a list of participants (in case there is a glitch along the way):

Jolanda Meurs  

Jennifer Snyder    

Christin Grønnslett   

Julie Ranae

Anna Zaprzelska

Marilia Lopes

Lisa Somerville

Carole Maurin

Marley van der Heijden

Nicole Martel

Irene Tan 

Andrea Ewen

Natasha Naranjo Aguirre     

Fabi Ormerod    

Windy Robinson

Helen Tilbury

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.

Here is what I created to feature purple/lavender crystals for Zva Creative this month. 
I made the background paper from mists, inks, stamps and gel medium.  Fun fun fun. 

ZVA Creative  FL-04CA-106 -4.25" Flower with leaves in Peach

ZVA Creative CRB-06CA-109 - Lavender Crystals

ZVA Creative CRW-06CA-154 Mini Flowers Lavender crystal

In this photo below, you can see that I have just accented my page with pops of  the  Mini Flowers Lavender crystals from Zva.

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, May 27^th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, May 28^th.

***Prizes***

Hidden on FIVE of the designer's blogs 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 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.

The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 29^th on Zva Creative's Facebook page! We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to Zva's blog 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 and "like" our page or leave a comment there to tell us that you stopped by if you already like follow us there!

The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative's Facebook page! Your next stop is Christin Grønnslett  

  Enjoy!

Thank you for joining us!

P.S. Mark your calendar to join us again on June 24^th for our next Zva blog hop!

Supplies:

ZVA Creative  FL-04CA-106-4.25" Flower with leaves in Peach
ZVA Creative CRB-06CA-109 - Lavender Crystals
ZVA Creative CRW-06CA-154 -Mini Flowers Lavender crystal
Prima Stamps 563042

Kaisercraft Flutter Stamp CS853

Kaisercraft Purfume CS881

Tim Holtz - Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Gel Medium

Clearsnap Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx - Vintage/Wisteria/Verdigris/Butternut/Peaches

Martha Stewart Punch - Doily Lace

FabScraps - Adrenaline Collection Butterflies

Butterflies:
This is a design I created using the Adrenaline Collection from FabScraps.  I really loved the earthy tones of these papers and they screamed nature to me.

Here are the papers I used.  The image is from Graphic Fairy.

FabScraps - Adrenaline Collection - Military Base C54001 (bottom layer)

FabScraps - Adrenaline Collection - Action Hero C54002 (paper stripes layers)

FabScraps - Adrenaline Collection - Fast and Furious C54004 (working background layer)

I added the beads to the molding paste while it was still wet.  This way they dry and adhere very nicely.

FabScraps – Adrenaline Collection - Butterflies

For This Project You Will Need

• FabScraps Papers – Adrenaline  Collection – Fast and Furious  C54004 (12in x12in)  
• FabScraps Papers – Adrenaline Collection –Military Base Camp C54001 (12in x12in) 
• FabScraps Papers –Adrenaline Collection – Action Hero CS54002 ( strip about  3 in x 6in) and one small ripped strip about   ½ in x 4in long
• Mesh, cheesecloth
•  Brown ink  and accent stamp
• Tacky Glue
• cardboard  piece to rip
•  seed beads/decorative beads/ micro beads
• Yarn or fibers approx  20 inches long)
• Edge punch
• Flowers and leaves
• Molding paste/ palette knife or something to spread this
• Acrylic paint
• Metal jewelry accent pieces
• Decorative tape ( I used cry wall tape)

Instructions

1.     Background  Paper Preparation:

2.     Punch all edges of FabScraps Fast and Furious paper.  Use a couple of punches to mix things up a bit. 

3.     Glue to FabScraps Adrenaline Collection -  Military Base CampC54001 (12in x12in) . 

4.     Glue a rectangle of FabScraps Action Hero approx (3in x 6in) – set a little off center – to the right side of page.

5.     Cut a piece of cheese cloth about 4in x 8in and spread out on the page in a diagonal – top right corner to bottom left.

6.     Cut some yarn or fibers (45cm or 18 in) and layer over the cheesecloth in haphazard fashion – with twist and curves.

7.     Spread molding paste over the cheese cloth and yarn fibers making sure to leave some dry cheese cloth and yarn uncovered at the edges.  

8.     Add seed beads or decorative beads to the wet molding paste and let dry before continuing.

9.     Rip a piece of brown cardboard about  2in x 6.5in and glue lengthwise on top of the Action Hero strip – to make a new layer.  Glue to paper as a new top layer.

10.   Paint some creamy yellow acrylic paint on cardboard (or your choice of paint)

11.   Punch edges of photo image and glue to the cardboard.

12.   Left Corner Embellishing:

13.   Rip a piece of FabScraps  Adrenaline  Collection  - Action Hero  in a thin strip of approx ½ in wide and 4 in long.  Glue to the top left corner starting at top in a vertical direction. 

14.   Add a piece of mesh or cheesecloth off center on top of the paper strip.

15.   Cut  2 inches of yard and lay onto the mesh.

16.   Add some molding paste to the mesh, yard and paper. - Just enough to accent but not enough to cover the whole section. 

17.   Add some seed beads/ decorative beads to the wet molding paste and let dry.

18. Finishing Touches:
19. Tuck some metal decorative jewelry pieces under the cardboard.
20. Cut some decorative tape and tuck here and there under the cardboard – I used Dry Wall Tape.
21. Add flowers, leaves and butterflies as desired.
22. Done – Enjoy.  

Supplies:

FabScraps - Adrenaline Collection - Military Base C54001

FabScraps - Adrenaline Collection - Action Hero C54002

FabScraps - Adrenaline Collection - Fast and Furious C54004
Flying Unicorns Adornments
Prima Stamp 544980
Prima Encore C Flowers 561352
Ranger Patina Metal (Moss and Verdigris)

Flying Unicorns - Tag using the May Kit and Prima BAP

I created this tag using the May Flying Unicorns Kit - Coffee and Muse.  

This was created keeping the PPP in mind, which can be found here.   (it won the challenge)  Prima's April PPP is bursting with bright spring colors so I thought I would make it a spring type project.  The Flying Unicorn Kit was perfect for this. 

Remember that Flying Unicorns is NOT a kit club.   Yes, we sell kits, but that is not totally who we are.  There are no exclusive kit requirements to play in the forums and to enter challenges. The Flying Unicorns are a group of crafters that love the camaraderie of sharing a common passion.  

At the Flying Unicorns, you can join in the fun without the guilt of betraying your current kit club. 

Thanks so very much

Supplies:
Divine RoseBuds Paper

Divine Tiny Aplha Stickers

Ingvild Bolme Turquiose Stone ink

Prima Wood Icons in a Box
Prima Soprano Flowers in Pink

New to the USA! Friday 13th 100% collection- from Poland and the Flying Unicorns

New to the United States!  this fun, playful and exciting line of papers from Friday the Thirteenth.
Dress them up for feminine layouts or grunge them up for masculine pieces. They also make super great county chic pages.

This collection is called 100%

Flying Unicorns is the first to bring this collection to the US.  I thought it would be a great backdrop for my dandelion photo.

I used the Mojo Monday sketch for this.  

Look at this amazing sketch by Tammy Henderson (Simplyme).  

Friday the Thirteenth - 100% Collection - Sun

Friday the Thirteenth - 100% Collection - Love

Flying Unicorns Metal Adornments - In Flight 

I took this last weekend.  It's pretty but such a pesty pest in my yard.  Or should I say my much needed weedy garden.  

Come visit  the Flying Unicorns and see what we have to offer you. 

Supplies: 

Friday the Thirteenth - 100% Collection - Sun

Friday the Thirteenth - 100% Collection - Love

Flying Unicorn Metal Adornments - In Flight

Flying Unicorns  May Mixed Media Kit 

( includes: Claudine Hellmuth - Foam Stamps Domestic

  Petaloo Flowers - New Camelia - white 1555300)

Lindy's California Golden Poppy

Art Anthology Mist - Timeless

Tsukineko Walnut Ink - Java

Prima Stamp 555115

Martha Stewart punch - Large Wild Flowers

Archival Ink - Coffee

Gesso