Zva Creative September DT Blog Hop!

Zva Creative and our talented Design Team welcomes you to join us this month for a blog hop that we feel is always extra special! We thought it would be more fun to add even more chances to win our blog hop prize! See details below.

The summer trade show was in July, which means brand new Zva Creative products. So please keep an eye out for them at your local craft stores.

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, September 26th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, September 27h and the 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, September 28th 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.

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

Sooo, you have FOUR chances on each blog to win one of our FIVE prizes! That's technically OVER 50 chances :)

I love using bright colours when I am scrapbooking. I just can't help myself. However, I find the most versatile colours with Zva Creative are the clear rhinestones and white pearls. Why??? Because I can colour those to any colour I want using my Copic pens. The pearl leaf branch that I have used in this layout was originally white pearl. But it definitely didn't match the colours of my layout, so I simply coloured it green with a Copic pen. And voila! Bright, colourful leaves that are not lost amongst the brightness of my layout.

Here's a close-up of the coloured leaves. I also added colour to the floral embellishment. Again, it was too pale against the colours of my layout. I added a little Glimmermist to brighten it up and add a little sparkle.

The butterfly was already such a beautiful, vibrant blue, and I didn't want to detract from that. So I kept it simple, and added just a single rhinestone in the centre.

And my other weakness when scrapbooking is layers and depth. I'd be lost without the Zva Creative foam dots. I have them in both 1mm and 2mm thicknesses, and I ALWAYS have a huge stash on hand because I go through sooooo many!!!!! In this close-up, you can see how I have used the foam dots to create varying depths and layers amongst the flowers, photo, and title.

Zva Creative Products Used: flower (FL-04CA-128), pearl leaves (PES-03CB-101), leaves (FL-04CA-112), silk flowers, felt flowers, 1/8" rhinestone brads (BRBK02CA102), multi-coloured rhinestones (CR-02CB-101), rhinestone strips (CR01CB113), 1mm (AD01CB101)and 2mm (AD01CB102)foam dots.

The blog hop begins here: Kim Hughes

Your next stop is here: Windy Robinson

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us. Don't forget to pop back on Wednesday to find out if you are one of our lucky winners. Until then, happy blog hopping!