Tuesday, February 7, 2012

A Year of Flowers Book Blog Hop

Hey ya'll!! Thank you for hopping along today with the Gina K. Design Team!! If you arrived here from Carolina Buchting's blog, then you're right where you should be. You can always go to StampTV to start from the beginning. The inspiration for today's hop came from Melanie Muenchinger's new book called, A Year of Flowers.



While you can make every design in the book with Melanie’s all occasion A year of Flowers Stamp Set, today’s samples showcase her coordinating florals, which can also be used with the book's tutorials and designs, and provide endless options and more value for your money. We are excited to share cards and projects we created using some of our favorite flower sets designed by Melanie! We love her new book and know you will too - don't miss out on getting your very own copy which you can purchase HERE!

Leave comments along our hop today to enter to win one of Melanie's coordinating floral sets of your choice. The more comments you leave the more chances to win! Melanie will draw a name randomly from one blog and post the winner tomorrow morning. She is also giving away her Crazy Daisy digital patterned paper FREE if you link Gina's video or her post, please see Melanie's blog for details! Good Luck!


For my sample today, I decided to use Melanie's stamp set called Pressed Flowers and it's a little Andy Warhol inspired:



This was a really CAS card for me...it came together pretty quickly! I love that about this Pressed Flowers set, you can use the solid images in so many different ways too! In the book are several different tutorials that could be used for this stamp set also! LOVE it!

Hope you're finding some great inspiration and wonderful designs to get your creativity jump-started! You can find the newest stamp sets and lots of wonderful accessories in Gina's Store. And then join us on StampTV for the challenges and surprises and crafty videos galore!!!

Now your next stop on the hop is the awesome Donna Baker's Blog

Thanks so much for joining us in this fun hop today! This book is really an awesome addition to anyone's collection...I am so thrilled to have mine! :D I told Melanie that I was going to send it to her to autograph for me too!
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Card Details:
Stamps: Pressed Flowers and Kindred Greetings for Her both from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K and SU! cardstocks
Accessories: vellum, ribbon, pop dots, Spellbinders postage stamp edgabilities, scor-tape.

71 comments:

Melanie said...

Terrific Cat, Love the black on colors and the vellum and notches at bottom, great design! hugsss

Tina said...

Wonderful design!! Love the bottom edging!

Becky said...

Lovely card Cat, love the vellum strip with the sentiment.

Payne Holler Cards said...

beautiful - love how you did the sentiment (-:

Lori said...

May be CAS but it really packs a punch Cat!!! Perfecto!!!

Carolina said...
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Carolina said...

Such a perfect LO to show out these adorable flowers - just beautiful card Cat!!!

Anita Braddock said...

Wow how awseome is your Card. love the way you have made this card the layering is beautiful. love the new stamps I love Love flowers. thanks for sharing.
abbraddock@msn.com

Teri C said...

Great job!

Melissa said...

Awesome color blocked card Cat! I love the vellum across the front, I always forget to use vellum. Have a great day!

Barbara Bryant said...

This is awsome Cat love your work

--Marcy said...

Oh, but "you're amazing"!!! Nice job

alex said...

Awesome design, love the bottom edge :-)

Sandy said...

Great design!

laurie said...

Again, I'm so overwelmed with all the gorgeous ideas. Thank you for sharing.

Theresa Momber said...

Fabulous, Cat! I love the diagonal vellum!

Sharon Roselli said...

great colors so simple yet cheerful. thanks for sharing.

Anonymous said...

Really like this idea. Instead of ribbon all the time, use up some of my vellum for accents. Thanks so much. It does really just ad that extra to an already unique card.

Verna Angerhofer said...

This is a wonderful card...so clean and simple but still full of cheer and vibrancy. Thanks for sharing.

Caryn S said...

Neat! I like how you added the strip of vellum at an angle to break up the "blockiness" of the squares. Great idea!

Lee Reed said...

So simple and sweet. Like it!

Jessica said...

I love the colors! Great card TFS

Annalize said...

So simple but effective! Sentiments on tracing paper is one of my favourite things to do at the moment!

ibalady said...

channeling andy warhol. what a great idea . love the colors

Amanda said...

Maybe I should stop the hop now. I now need this set as well. I love this card and I have so many ideas from it.

Carole said...

Love this design with the blocks of color.

mermaid fenicia said...

That's a lovely flower card ^_^

crotnem said...

Great card!

PJ said...

Love your "Andy Warhol" style card!

Jennie said...

How creative are YOU!!!! eeks, too fab and love those design.

Olga said...

Such a modern card!

Sue D said...

Great card idea!

Patricia said...

I love the Andy Warhol inspiration. It translates very well to this card. Great job, Cat!

Mama said...

Interesting take on the basic design!

Cheryl W. said...

This may be a CAS card but it has great impact! Love the colors and the "you're amazing" sentiment banner.

Bast said...

What a great idea for this set! Thanx for sharing.

KimMJ
bast830@comast.net

Anonymous said...

I love how all of the sets coordinate with each other! Great card design!!

Unknown said...

Pretty card & layout, really like that vellum sentiment banner!

Sharon said...

Great card!

Giovana said...

Beautiful card Cat!!

Betty Neville said...

Awesome layout! Everything just pops!

Angelica Schmidt said...

Beautiful card Cat! Love the pressed flower look!

Pat Jandacek said...

Great Warhol take-off. Like the diagonal addition of "You're Amazing" across the front. TFS

Dawnll said...

Such a wonderful CAS design...loving this book.

Rosy Newlun said...

Hi, Cat!
The first thing I thought of was 1960s then read your comment about Andy Warhol!!! I'm right there with you :) Lovely take on his art, thanks for the ideas!

Judy Inukai said...

Great card.

LORRAINE p said...

so clean and simple. love it.

Deb Fortin said...

Love the Andy Warhol effect. I think I have to try this idea.

Deb Fortin said...

Love the Andy Warhol effect. I think I have to try this idea.

Ravengirl said...

What a clever use of that stamp! I really like the Andy Warhol feel!

Vicki Dutcher said...

Love the angled sentiment!

Golda said...

What a fun card! I love the way you have the vellum going across the images, so you can still see the parts that are covers. Wonderful work!

A Margery Card said...

This is a very different card but I love it - bright colors are just my thing. I just ordered the pressed flower set and am anxious to try a card very similar to this one. Love the bottom border. Beautiful work and very original!

elizabeth said...

Such a cool card.

Gayle said...

Very much Warhol, Cat. Great card.

Nana Griffin said...

What a cool idea this is! Love the simplicity and yet the elegance.

Pam Zirbel said...

Have always wanted to do a card like this! It looks fabulous!!

Dee said...

It DOES have a Warhol look! Very colorful and quick way to make a card. The sentiment pulls it all together.

Unknown said...

I love what you did with this set. I cant wait to order my own and the book and the year of flowers stamp set. Gina surely has a terrific design team...keep up the great work.
Linda
drozd.linda@yahoo.com

gobarb26 said...

I really like the look of the different color paper with the same stamp. It may be CAS, but it is very effective!

cardscookiecarrotcake said...

Colorful and simple, yet elegant. Nice!

Leta said...

love your card... Melanie's stamps are the bomb and all the design teams use is inspiring..thank you all.

Kris in Alaska said...

I totally love it!

Kris in Alaska
funamom at yahoo dot com

Denise Bryant said...

Great card! Love the floral stamp!
DeniseB

Sonia said...

Love the card. Sometimes the simplest cards are the best!

Wendy Thompson said...

What a great card. Thanks for sharing you inspiration

Gladys R. said...

Nice card. Like the vellum
strip across the front.

ktfabian said...

Really pretty card!

muscrat said...

Happy Birthday Gina!

Debbie Rogers said...

Gotta love those layers Cat!

Lee said...

What a fabulous silhouette design....sometimes I struggle with those but you have created gorgeousness!!

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