June Zva Blog Hop Winners Announced...

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

Jana Eubank: http://www.janaeubank.com/
Carole Maurin:: http://scrapalolette.canalblog.com/
Teri Anderson: http://terisplace.wordpress.com/
Tara Orr: http://eachmoment-onlyonce.blogspot.com/
Angelica Franssen: http://angelicascrappenings.blogspot.com/

One winner from each of the 5 blogs will receive a Zva prize package worth $30.00. Congrats winners!
And here's a little something to finish the blog hop on a fun note! I created this layout to show how summer is different for me with two little girls. Titled: Summer From A Girly Point Of View. I created the background with some paint and bubblewrap, and cut the paper flowers from the new DeLovely range from Cosmo Cricket. I have added a Zva Creative pink rhinestone flourish to the left corner, and balanced this with a Zva Creative flower rhinestone flourish in the top right hand corner. I have added more colour with the Zva Creative silk flowers and rhinestone brads.

Thank-you for stopping by and thank-you for all your wonderful comments. I have read each and every one and I appreciate them all. I hope you can join us for our next blog hop scheduled for later in July. I look forward to inspiring you with some new projects. (-:

Zva Creative DT Blog Hop!

Are you ready to be inspired?

As you may know, I am a proud design team member for Zva Creative. We are joining together today to share a project that we have created using some of our favorite Zva Creative products. I am hoping that you will take some time to join us for a little bit of fun! 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, I am linking to one of the Zva designers (Veronica Goh) and that designer is linking to the next and so on. There are 19 design team members, so be prepared to be inspired along the way. Hidden on 5 of the blogs is a Zva Creative prize package ...YAY! Those blogs 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.

This Blog Hop runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, June 29th and the 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, June 30th on each of the winning blogs and the full list will be found on Kim Hughes‘s blog (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.

Here's a little something that I have created to help inspire you. Titled: A Food For All Seasons. I have used Zva Creative silk flowers, 3D miniature blooms, gem brads, rhinestones, pearls and bling flourish.

Please hop on over to see:
VERONICA GOH at Treasured Moments.

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us.

Pencil Lines Sketch #193

This is sketch #193 over at Pencil Lines. I think this is one of my favourite sketches so far - I fell in love with it the moment I saw it. Our guest designer this week is Tara Rosas. Come on over and have a look at what the designers have been up to. They've created some amazing layouts to share.

Here's my take on the sketch (I think you will see more layouts based on this sketch down the track). I've used lots of Bo-Bunny goodness (because it was already sitting on my desk and it just kind of came together). The glittered alphas are by Creative Imaginations. The layout is titled "Hers" and is about Keana's new acquisition - Stitch!!! (-: I hope you can join us with this sketch and that you have as much fun using it as I did.

I Made The Blog!!!

Woo-hoo! My Teresa Collins/Pencil Lines layout made the Aussie Scrap Source blog. (-: How excited am I? You can check out the details here. Such an honour. (-:

All In A Day's Exploration...

We made a quick trip to the dentist today to have Keana's back tooth coated (this is done for added protection). Our dentist was kind enough to give both my girls a glove, and tell them that they had to blow it up. (-: So the moment we stepped out of the office, this is what I got. Puff, puff, concentration...I think I can, I think I can!!! At least it kept them amused for a little while.

The girls asked if we could stop at a park on the way home. So I took them somewhere new (and not too far out of the way). I've known about the Raven Street Park at Mitchelton for about 6 years, maybe more, but today is the first day we have ever gotten there (I have tried in the past but things always went wrong!!!). It is actually a huge reserve of bushland with walking and bike tracks, and a bushland learning centre.

So we decided to explore the walkways. We found beautiful green moss growing on so many things. And we actually saw a wallaby (but he bounded away before I could get a photo). And there was lots of orange funghi that could be seen on dead logs in the hollows, but they were too far away for me to photograph. The girls had a fantastic time exploring and asking questions.

We found this beautiful pale yellow wattle (at least I think it's wattle - it could be bottlebrush or something else). And lots of spiders - big, big spiders. And a hairy caterpillar on a thread hanging from a tree. It was amazing how a simple walk through this bushland could produce so much intrigue for my two girls. And to think, this is only 20-25 minutes from the heart of the city.

Here's one of the big gullies that we saw. This one had a little stagnant water, but most of them where empty and dry. It was actually quite sad to see an area that was supposed to be "wetlands" all dry and uninhabitated. The drought is still evident in many ways. Anyway, my girls absolutely loved this, and I am sure we will return (maybe with our bikes?). So, that's it for todays exploration and science lesson!!! (-: