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 :)

Zva Creative products used: CR04CA102, CRC01CB103

The blog hop begins here: Kim Hughes

Your next stop is here: Guiseppa Gubler

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us

Cricut + Pink Paislee

While going through the recent projects that I've created for the Cricut Circle Blog, I thought to myself: "Woah, I've been going a little Pink Paislee crazy lately!" lol. Pink Paislee has been one of my all time favorite brands since the beginning, and getting to mix them with my Cricut? Makes it even better! :)

Here's a layout that I created with the Hometown Summer collection. I love summer + primary colors! These are photos of Alex eating cotton candy at the zoo, one of his favorite treats. Although... anything that contains sugar is one of his favorite treats it seems, ha.

I used the following Cricut cartridges to create this one: Nifty Fifties, Robotz, Sentimentals, Accent Essentials. And don't forget to use your Cricut Expression 2!

Here is my sister at her high school graduation back in 2007. I can't believe it took me 4 years to get these photos scrapped!

Cartridges used: Paper Lace, Wrap It Up

This next one was created for a challenge. About things that BUG me. What bugs me more than anything? The big messes that my dog's make... every day! :)

Cartridges used: Paper Lace

Where Have I Been?

Where have I been? Over these past couple of months it seems like I've been everywhere!  We went to the Chicago area for 5 days last week. My cousin got married and it was a beautiful wedding! Krissy is my closest family member, we were born 6 hours apart and even though we've always lived across the country from each other we're super close! :) I love her. Her husband is such a good guy, I'm so happy for them! Here are a few pics that I snapped during the wedding:

The beautiful couple!

My cousins, Jake and Dave (Krissy's brothers)

My Mommy!

HAD to get a pic with the bride!

Please excuse my peeling, red face. I got SO sunburnt a few days before I left. I tried to wear a dress that covered most of it up but can't hide the face. :)

Can you tell that I got a new camera? Yes, after YEARS of whining John finally broke down and let me buy a Canon Rebel T2i. I am in LOVE with it! I still have a lot to learn but oh my goodness, the quality of the photos that it takes compared to my old camera is insane!

While we were in Chicago we got to see lots of family, cousins, aunts, uncles, my mom and sister came over from Montana too. The 5 days that we were there went by way too fast. John and I wanted to go exploring in Chicago and we ventured our way out there last Sunday. We wanted to take Alex to the Shedd Aquarium because I went when I was about ten years old and I remembered it being the most incredible place that I had ever seen back then! I wanted Alex to experience it too. Well, once we got near the aquarium we figured out that the opening NFL Bears game was going on in the stadium right next to the aquarium! It took us two hours to find somewhere to park and it cost us $50! After that experience and once we were done with the aquarium we were done with Chicago for awhile, lol! We are definitely not "big city" kind of people! :) The aquarium was AWESOME though! All of the sea creatures were fascinating, Alex loved it! We saw the beluga whales and dolphins perform, but Alex still says that he liked watching the sharks swim around the best. *shudder* I can't wait to go back to Chicago again though, there are so many things that we still want to see and do!

Here is a layout that I created for the August 2011 issue of Cricut magazine. I highlighted the Freshly Picked cartridge here.

Check out the Cricut blog to see the Grandparent's day kid project that Alex created!

Happy Monday! :) It's going to be a great week. I'm working at the Scrapbook Store on Tues. and Wed. again, then after work on Wednesday John and I are taking Alex to the state fair!

Heh heh hehhh....

My Creative Scrapbook September Layouts!

The My Creative Scrapbook September kits are up and for sale! Make sure to check out the Design Team Gallery this month. WOW. The DT girls are so talented!

I got to play with the Creative kit this month. It featured new Pebbles papers and embellishments.

This one is an altered wooden frame. The photo is of Alex at his school field day this past Spring while he was holding a giant parachute. I love how to colors of the kit matched the parachute perfectly! :)

New Layout and Wedding Pics!

I finally received all of our wedding photos! I can't wait to start scrapping all of them.

Here is the first batch: everyone getting ready for the wedding!


Looove these pics of Sarah and my sister getting Alex ready! :)



All of the girls got ready at my Mom's house. Poor Mom, the upstairs of the house looked like it had exploded once we were done with it! Mom made all of the necklaces and earrings for the bridesmaids and I.

Our BEAUTIFUL niece, Sarayha! The most gorgeous girl alive! In my opinion. :)


It took the girls foreverrr to get my dress laced up! I made Sarah loosen it when we got to the church too, I could barely breath on the way there! lol.


John and the guys got ready at the church. I guess they waited around for us for awhile... hehe, oops.

Flowers!


Before I go, here's a new layout. The photos are of Alex at our friend's wedding in Bellingham. The green balls that he's pretending to eat are decorations that were on her tables at her reception. I love how goofy my baby is.

Layout created for Zva Creative. Products used: CR04CA148