Technique Tuesday + Zva Creative Blog Hop

Today is going to be a fun day on my blog. Technique Tuesday is teaming up with Zva Creative to bring you some fantastically blingy projects for your viewing pleasure. We are hosting a blog hop and it is likely that you hopped over to my blog from Andrea Ewen (yay, my old teamie from PDCC, hi Andrea!) 


If you've never heard of Zva Creative, they produce many beautiful color groupings of high quality pearls, flowers and crystal embellishments that can be used on scrapbooking, card making and mixed media projects. You can visit Zva’s gallery or blog for project ideas and find a list of stores and online retailers that sell Zva HERE. 


Normally, I'm not a blingy kind of girl, (although I did quite enjoy looking at all the pretty, lacy and blingy undergarments at Victoria's Secret yesterday) but occasionally, I get the urge to go all feminine on my cards. I had a blast playing with these gorgeous rhinestones.


For my first project, I grabbed one of the larger groupings of greenish-blue and green rhinestones and made it the focal point of my card.

You may have noticed that I also used one of the new Seals stamps that Technique Tuesday just released. I added some glitter to the heart in the center using a glue pen.


For my other project, I wanted to showcase another way to use these gorgeous stones. Not only can you use them together, but you can also cut them apart to get individualized bits of bling. See how I've used them on this project:






I brought attention to the details on the wings of this butterfly using that bling. I've also used the watercolor crayons from Technique Tuesday to add that bold and vibrant color.


Are you inspired yet? If not, keep on buzzing along and visit the next stop on the blog hop, Lisa Gregory. You guys know the drill - where there's a blog hop, there are prizes!!!! Be sure to leave comments along the way for your chance to win. Technique Tuesday will be giving away a $25 gift certificate and Zva Creative is giving away a prize package valued at $30. You have until 11:59 pm on Tuesday, June 19. All winners will be picked at random and the winners will be announced on Wednesday at the respective blogs. Happy hopping!