Reveal Day at *SWIRLYDOOS* July Summer Serenity & Zva Blog Hop Winner

It's reveal day over at Swirlydoos and I'm so excited to share my pages. This is such a beautiful kit to work with as my very first Design Team projects.

As many of you know the Swirlydoos Website was hacked into and completely destroyed. It's sad that some individual took the time to actually do this. My heart goes out to Krissy. She has made a wonderful online community, a family of Swirly Sisters. Know that Swirlydoos WILL bounce back and be better than ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Savages don't go down that easy!

Please show your support by visiting the Swirlydoo's Blog for Reveal Day of the July Kit.

Little Darling

Diamond Dust is my new best friend...lol!! I had a tub of it in my stash for months and was afraid to use it. The reason being, it's actual little glass shards. Be careful if you have little ones. Now, that I have used it I can't get enough. I love the look.

I handmade this flower. Well, kind of. The center is a Prima and I wanted a lager flower. I made the bottom three layers by distressing and layering punched out flowers from the pattern paper. Then, just put the Prima in the center and added the Diamond Dust. I did the same thing with the flower on the bottom right.

Lisa once again has supplied us with gorgeous butterflies to match the kit. I added a little Diamond Dust to the wings.

My one and only

This is my handsome sonny and me. Doesn't he look just like me...heehee!!The Basic Grey Cappela paper is so versatile. I was able to get a masculine page with a little touch of femininity.

I tried to give the Dusty Attic a aged look. What I did was use the Kasier Crafts Spearmint paint that came with the embellie add-on kit. Misted with the Smooch Spritz (embellie add-on). Did a bit of dabbing then dusted with perfect pearls. I like the end results.

Imagine

Here I used July's Sketch from Begunna. I just changed it up a bit using 1 photo instead of 3.

The technique add-on has lots of bling and alcohol ink to dye your own crystal or pearls. These crystal were clear and I blended 2 different dyes to get a pink to match the page.

Damante

So, the embellie add-on came with The Crafty Chronicle. This "newspaper" is sooooo cool. I totally didn't want to cut up. But, when I saw the map of Italy it was over. The map was perfect for my page. My grandfather migrated from Italy in the late 1920's. My mom is the cute little girl. I asked her why her father wasn't in the family photo and she doesn't know. I'm going to have to ask me uncles...I really want to know!!!

I love the corner clustering..really gets the eye moving around the page.

Growing up

I made these flowers with the same technique above. The only difference is I made my own rose centers. Yet, again I added Diamond Dust to the vines and flowers....I just can't get enough of the stuff!!

Be sure to check out Swirlydoos blog for some awesome tutorials and info.

Thanks for taking a peek!!!

P.S 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!

Catnap is one of our winners!!

Congrats

Transparency Butterfly Tutorial

I found this neat way to make transparent butterflies using embossing power and alcohol ink. I can't find the blog where I saw the tutorial...so please if you see this, contact me so I can link your blog.



Supply List:

*Transparency-the type of transparency is VERY important. I use 3M Write on Transparency Sheets from Office Depot. If you go to Staples or some other office supply store their brand is more flimsy. It will warp under high heat. Also if you make your own pearl flourishes it's harder to hold and cut.

*Versmark Pigment Ink Pad

*Embossing Powder

*Alcohol ink and Mixative
*Embossing gun

*Stamp- acrylic or rubber

Step one:
Cut a square piece of transparency. Obviously bigger than your butterfly.
Put about 3 drips of alcohol ink and 2 dots of a mixative on the transparency.
Here I used Slate Alcohol ink and Silver Mixative.



Step 2:
Blend the alcohol ink and mixative together large enough to fit your stamp.


Step 3:
Ink up your stamp with the Versmark



Step4:
On the backside of the transparency stamp your image. Now, I say the backside because if you stamp on the front with the alcohol ink it may stain your stamp. Also it's smoother on the backside.


Step 5:
Sprinkle your image with Embossing Powder. Here I used Silver Embossing Powder.


Step 6:
Heat up the embossing powder with your heat gun.


Step 7:
Cut out your image. See, super easy!!! * Thank you to my "Hand Model" Cleapatra*


Here I used Red Pepper Alcohol ink and black embossing powder.

and here....Eggplant and Gold Embossing powder. Possibilities are endless!!!!

Here is the layout I used with the butterflies.

I added Prima pearls for the body for the finishing touch.

Not only do I love Alcohol ink, I totally love Glimmer mist. Here I used Silver Glimmer mist on the white flowers.

Oh, and guess what??!! I finally got Photoshop. I figured out to leave Cleapatra's eyes blue and the rest of the photo black and white. I soooo love this effect and been wanting to do it for YEARS!!!! So, most likely I will be editing many of my photos this way...lol!!

Well, I hope that you found this tutorial interesting!! Good luck trying your own butterflies!!

~Angelica~

*Update: Here is the link to the blog that I first seen the tut. on(Thanks Auntie Em)

http://scraptacularimages.blogspot.com/2009/11/butterfly-tutorial.html

ZVA BLOG HOP

Yay, another Zva Creative DT Blog Hop!

We are joining together today to share a project that we have created using the latest Zva Creative products that are releasing at winter CHA craft show. I am hoping that you will take some time to join us for a little bit of fun! Zva is introducing 100+ brand new crystal and pearl embellishment designs at the show. All designs have a fresh new look and are available in various popular color choices. If you are attending, please stop by the Zva at Booth # 2991.

The Blog Hop begins at Kim Hughes' blog: Paper Hugs .She is linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. There are 12 design team members, so be prepared to be inspired along the way. Hidden on 5 of the blogs is a Zva Creative prize package! 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. Our team is so wonderfully diverse, so we are hoping that you will be inspired when you reach the end

This Blog Hop runs through midnight on Tuesday, January 19th and the 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 20th. 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.

Garden Pixie

Product List:

FLBK02CA113 Pink Icy Blossoms

FLBK02CA114 Blue Icy Blossoms

FLBK02CA110 Blue Sweet Blossoms

FLBK02CA111 Pink Sweet Blossoms

FLBK02CA103 Elegant Rose Buds Pink

FLBK02CA104 Elegant Rose Buds Blue

FLBK02CA109 Elegant Rose Buds Green

Please hop over to see Sherry Wright's Blog: A Season of Change

Thank you SO MUCH for joining us

~Angelica~