Gina K Preview Day 1!!

WOoohooooo!! The previews are FINALLY here with the release party this Thursday, July 30th 7pm CST at the Gina K Designs company forum at SCS. I will be sure and have that link up, to the party thread, on Thursday too!

Now, on with the good stuff! For today, first up is Melanie Muenchinger's new set entitled Inspiration Mosaic:



Mel has done it again! Her creative side of her brain never ceases to amaze me! This is another BIG stamp and when I first saw it, I felt like I would not know what to do with it! But then, OMG, the ideas for this just keep coming! I am having to write them down to remember them all, lol! I have had a blast with this stamp set! For this card I actually cut all the pieces apart and sponged the edges and then put them back together like a puzzle. Did some paper piercing, popped up the two sentiment areas you see there (isn't that one saying sooo awesome, LOVE it!) The little leaves I have used are from the Tropical Flowers set, also from Gina K Designs, just to give my flower a stem there. These are some of the white paper flowers that you can color with your copics to match your colors you are using too. Slapped a ribbon and some brads on and I was done! Fun card! This set has so many possibilities...and I already have 3 more cards done with this set, which I will show the night of the party!

Now the next set we are previewing tonight is by Nina Brackett entitled Elegant Post:



And isn't the name fitting? VERY elegant, just look at the sentiment even! I decided to go with a CAS (clean and simple) card for this one. I stamped the pole directly onto the Soft Sand cardstock (from Gina K) and then drew the line onto the cardstock all around the edge with a copic multi-liner pen and added the little dots in the corners because they needed something there, lol. The flowers are colored with copics, then I went over some of them with spica glitter pens to give it some sparkle, which of course you can't tell in this photo, cut them out, and then I popped them up with some pop dots. This is the card that you got to see the backside of last night, lol! I really LOVE how this card turned out! I love it when you can take a stamp set and make an elegant CAS card with it and this is one of those!!

For more projects made with the stamps previewed today, be sure to check out our other Senior Design Team Member's Blogs:
Gina , Donna, Emily, Erika, Kurtis, Jessica, Lee, Lynn, Melanie, and Theresa
and, don't forget to check out our CenterStage Spotlight girls joining us in Previews today: Sue Walsh is showing an Elegant Post card today and JenMarie Taylor has a card made with the new Inspiration Mosaic stamp set.

Ok, that is all for now! Be sure and stop back by for more previews tomorrow night, same time, 10pm CST!! Can't wait to show you those too! It's like Christmas in July with Gina K!! So Fun!!

Card Details:
Card #1:
Stamps: Inspiration Mosaic by Melanie Muenchinger, Tropical Flowers from Gina K Designs
Papers: Rocket Red, Black Onyx, Pure White from Gina K
Accessories: copic marker to color White flowers, ribbon, brads, ink, sponge, popdots, paper piercing tool and pad.
Card #2:
Stamps: Elegant Post by Nina Brackett from gina K Designs
Papers: Soft Sand, Pure White cardstock from Gina K
Accessories: copic markers, copic multi liner and ruler, copic spica glitter pens, ribbon, pop dots, nestie tag.