Happy 4th of July! Gina K Designs Special Blog Hop

Hey y'all!! Welcome to a special little hop that some of us DT from Gina K Designs and the CSS group have put together for you today! Hope you enjoy!

Welcome to this special July 4 Gina K. Designs Hop!!!! Some of the Design Team and the Center Stage Spotlight Team have some fun cards and projects to share with a patriotic theme and flair!!! And Gina has a special sale incentive too!!! Check out these 2 new Duos:

Harvest of Memories and Unforgettable

From Thursday, July 4 thru Sunday, July 7
Orders of $25.00 or more get Harvest of Memories
Orders of $50.00 or more get Harvest of Memories and Unforgettable.

Arent those two duos just awesome?! I just LOVE all the duos that Gina comes out with! And how fun to be able to get them free!! :D

And for our hop today I have made a few patriotic cards for you....I am VERY patriotic and LOVE getting a chance to celebrate the good ole US of A's birthday!! We were also to use some older Gina K Design sets!

This first card is dedicated to a couple of my family members...one, my brother-in-law Todd Cummings...he has served in the Air Force for over 20 years now...active duty and then Reserves. And also dedicating to a brand spanking new soldier, my great nephew, Corey Brazile...he is now a US Marine! We all are so very proud of Corey! What a decision to make as such a young age....I still think of him as a small boy!! LOL! Ok, enough of my babbling...here is my card:

This card has ALOT going on with it, lol! First, the background was created by using some patriotic papers, layers one by cutting out and laying at different angles. Then i applied Gesso over all of it and then sponged to give an aged look. The Stamp I used is from the set Masculine Tags and was stamped 3 times...cut out using several different areas of the stamp to layer it. I also popped it up and made like a little pocket to create a spot from some tags. Here is a pic of the tags:

and a close up of the 'courageous' charm I added. I also embossed this with gold embossing powder:

ALL soldiers, no matter what country you are from, are VERY Courageous to me!!

And I also made a few quick cards...

I will be sparkly and glittery all week after making this card! haha! Me and glitter...well, thats another story for another day, lol! BUT, I AM trying to get over my fear of it! :D

And one more:

This is the card that got my hands very inky! I used distress inks to stain the red and blue doilies, getting it ALL over me because it didnt try very quick, lol! I had to zap it with my heat gun to dry it good. But this is suppose to look like the buntings or swags that you see around bandstands...at least that was what I was going for, lol!

Ok, ready for more awesome eye candy!?? Here ya go! I cant wait to hop myself!!

Come hop along for some Patriotic inspiration to help kick off your Fourth Of July festivities!!!

Gina

Lee

Laurie

Cat

Sean

Carolina

Latisha

Tami

Val

Cheri

Miesje

Vicki

Lori

Tera

Melissa C.

Geri

Karen

Brenda

Thanks sooo much for stopping by today and joining in our celebrating the birthday of our country! Even if you arent from the USA, hug a soldier today!! Tell them how much you appreciate them!! :D

Card Details:
Card #1:
Stamps: Masculine Tags, American Made both from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstocks, DP is Tim Holtz Seasonal line
Accessories: distress inks, gesso, glue stick, pop dots, seam binding ribbons, Sizzix embossing folder, gold embossing powder, versamark ink, eyelets, clothes dress pin, '4' card from Tim Holtz, clear embossing powders, file metal tag (cut the back off to lay flat) burlap and felt star Naturals burlap sticker, sponge tool.
Card #2:
Stamps: Calendar Bits and Pieces and Perfect Pennants both from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstocks
Accessories: Distress ink, scor-tape, star punch, emboss resist number by Tim Holtz, pop dots.
Card #3
Stamps: Stars and Perfect Pennants from Gina K Designs.com
Papers: Gina K cardstocks
Accessories: distress inks, paper doilies, bakers twine, glue dots, pop dots.