Zva Creative February 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. My color this month was purple!

The Blog Hop begins at Kim Hughes' blog: Paper Hugs. 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, February 28th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, March 1st and the 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 2nd 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.

Zva Creative products used:
PEB03CB109
CRB03CB117

The blog hop begins here: Kim Hughes

Your next stop is here: Tomoko Takahashi

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us

A Little Out of Season

Here's a new layout a little out of season but I had a craving to create a Halloween layout the other night. Halloween is my favorite holiday to scrap.

These Girls Paperie Halloween papers are amazing! I love the fun flourishes with skulls and spiders.


The photo is of Jennifer, Dakota and I last Halloween in our costumes. None of us wore a scary costume for once! Hence the title.

Before I go, I have some more cell phone pics to share! John and I get to CUTEST pictures on our phones all the time since we have our phones with us everywhere we go. Even though they're not the best quality a lot of them end up being some of my favorites. :)

Here's Alex at the mall a few days ago. John was clothes shopping and Alex and I were sitting there all bored. Alex grabbed this hat and started dancing around, it was so cute and funny! :) I kind of want to get him one of these hats now, he looks adorable in it!

Here are the dogs earlier this week too. They fell asleep together and luckily John snapped a pic. Aren't they sweeet? Here you can really see how big Riley is now, what a big boy!

Cricut Oldies but Goodies

The Cricut Circle design team got the go ahead to post projects that we created for the blog that are a few months old. These are projects that I specifically created for the Cricut Circle. If you would like to become a Circle Member you can find out more about it here. Here are some creations by me from October and November!:

Alex carving our pumpkins last Halloween. I used lots of cuts from the Happy Hauntings cartridge and the Martha Stewart Crafts Seasonal Cake Art Cartridge on this one.


And check this out, I actually made a mini book!! I rarely make them but when I got my hands on the new Your Story Photo I couldn't wait to make one! I made this one with Teresa Collins Designs Papers and embellishments and the Heritage Cartridge for my Mom. I gave it to her for Christmas, she loved it!











This weekend I've been working with my Imagine. I haven't worked much with it before and I can't believe it took me this long to get hooked, I absolutely love it!! I'll share some of the stuff I made with it soon.

Painting Alex's Room

Today I spent the whole day painting and organizing Alex's room. I'm so happy that it's almost all done! :) Here's some photos of his BLUE walls:



They're just crappy cell phone pics but I'll take better ones once the room is actually done.

I still need to hang all of his stuff up on his walls. John and I have been shopping for new furniture for his room too. Soon he'll have a full sized bunk bed, new dresser and bookshelves!

The red dresser in his room used to be green to match his baby room but I painted it red last year because the light green clashed with all of his blue/red cars stuff. The kid has Cars EVERYTHING, that's all he ever wants! John decided to "help" me paint the dresser and he messed it up pretty badly. I was thinking about sanding and re-painting it but we decided to just toss it and get him a smaller dresser so he'll have more room for bookshelves. Alex definitely needs more shelves for all of his TOYS, he's such a spoiled boy. :)

I've been shopping around for new bedding for his room and I like this the best so far:

Pirate Bedding from JCPennies!

I'm really thinking about just making him a quilt though. We'll see how motivated I feel.

I got a little etsy crazy this weekend- since I've caught the decorating bug again! I ordered these for MY room!:

From The Little Fox

My sister and I used to collect these little Hagen Renaker figurines when we were little. I had a TON of them! Somehow during our move to Oklahoma I lost ALL of them. I was so bummed. I got a little crazy and bought a bunch of replacements today. I'm not usually a big knick knack kind of girl but I love these things! :)


Now I just need to find a cute way to display them in the living room. Hmmm...

I think I want these prints for Alex's room. What do you think? I still haven't decided.

Gypsy Winner

Well it's about time! We just had three snow days in a row again this week! The snow is finally melting again and there's no more snow in the forecast for awhile now. Hopefully we won't get any more!

I tried to keep Alex entertained at home, even though he and I are both tired of being stuck in the house. I took him out to lunch, to the movies and then bowling on Monday because I knew we were going to get snow on Tuesday. I wanted to make sure to get him out and let him have as much fun and possible before we got snowed in again!

Look at all of that snow!


Now for the winner of the Gypsy give away...

Andrea said...

Congrats! Awesome giveway! Good luck everyone!

Congratulations Andrea!! Please send your mailing info to me at jilly122684(AT)hotmail(DOT)com.

Thank you to all who entered my giveaways this week!

And I guess that I was in a Christmasy mood the other day, probably because of all of the snow. I went Christmas Cosmo Cricket crazy on this layout!

Have a great day everyone! I am headed off to Alex's school for his Valentines Day party. :) It's going to be adorable!

WINNER and Last Give Away!

Hello all! I'm sorry I didn't post the winner over the weekend, we had a busy one! The snow finally melted enough so we could get out. Alex had basketball games and we ran around and did lots of fun things before we get snowed in again later this week!

The winner of the Fabulous Finds cartridge is...


Linda said...
Hello Jillian! Great layout! Love the bling!

Congratulations Linda! Please send me your mailing info at jilly122684(at)hotmail(dot)com.

And now for my final Cricut give away this week. I have a Gypsy up for grabs!!


Just sign this blog post for your chance to win!! I'll draw a winner in a couple days, good luck!

Winner and Yet... ANOTHER Give Away!

The winner of the Freshly Picked Cricut Cartridge give away is...


Monique Nicole Fox said...Congrats Cathy.

I love this giveaway.

Thanks for the opportunity to win.


Congratulations Monique! :) Please email me with your mailing info at: jilly122684(at)hotmail(dot)com!

Today I'm giving away a Fabulous Finds Cricut Cartridge! Just sign my blog post for your chance to win tomorrow! :)



I made this the other night. Cricut layout. I created this one with the Simply Charmed cartridge, one of my favs! I added some pretty Zva Creative bling as wHell. (that "h" is not a typo, get it??)

Zva Creative products used:
CR03CA111
CR02CA105

Winner and New Give Away!

Hi All! Thank you so much for your happy stories yesterday. :) I enjoyed reading all of them! Using a random number generator I picked and winner and that winner is...


Cathy said...
How exciting Jill. Cricut products can be so expensive. Let see a happy story.....My camera was starting to take dark photos. We go to Best Buy to look at new ones. I jokingly say to DH I want one of these DSLR. He says ok pick one out. New Canon 60D and 3 lens = super incredible happy me.

Congratulations Cathy!! That is awesome that your husband bought you a brand new DSLR out of the blue, what a sweet guy!  Please send me your mailing info at jilly122684(at)hotmail(dot)com.

Today I'm giving away a Freshly Picked cartridge! Just sign my blog post for your chance to win. I'll announce the winner sometime tomorrow. :)


Have a great day! We are snowed in again today so I've been hanging out with Alex and cleaning a ton. The house definitely needed it! lol.