Cat's Creations: February 2016

Monday, February 29, 2016

Gina K Designs Inspiration Blog Hop for February 2016 Release! Day 1!

Hey y'all!! Glad to see ya!

Day One

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamps from the February Release Party. We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!

Today, we are featuring the new stamp set “Year of Flowers 3” by Melanie Muenchinger and the “Birds & Blossoms 2” set Theresa Momber. Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

Up first today Is Melanie's new set, "A Year Of Flowers 3"

I have made several with this set, and still have so many to put all together! Here is wha I have for today:

I first made the background by stamping the flowers and leave all over a piece of cardstock. Then after stamping, and I bleached the flowers, I cut the cardstock piece into a bunch of inchies! For this card, I took the inchies and embossed them with UTEE to get a tiled look. Edges were distressed with Vintage Photo distress ink also. Super fun technique to do! :D And then, since I had leftovers from this card, I made TWO more! Here they are:

I used up all of my scraps, go me! LOL!

Next up is Theresa's new set, Birds and Blossoms 2.

And we are totally THRILLED T is back! :D Here is my first card with this set:

Last week my fellow DT, Karen, did the Bokeh technique for Funday Friday, and I HAD to try this one! It is very fun, and addicting! LOL! I have one more card with this technique I will be showing tomorrow.

Here is another card I made with T's set:

I used that big and little cherry blossom flowers to stamp the background, using white ink, and then colored and cut out two of the flowers. The 'happy' in the heart is actuall a Heidi Swapp mini stencil. Did a bit of distressing on the edges with the TH embossing tool too.

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Gina K

Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator for Year of Flowers 3

Theresa Momber – Illustrator for Birds & Blossoms 2

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and be sure and come by back tomorrow...we got two more sets to showcase for you!

Monday, February 1, 2016

Gina K Designs Blog Hop! New Incentive Stamp, Coffee Therapy!

Hey y'all! Surprise! Its me! :D Glad you are here!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a special Inspiration Blog Hop featuring our new incentive stamp set called, “Coffee Therapy”.

With this stamp set you will be able to make fun friendship cards to send to your favorite coffee buddy! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

I truly am having a blast working with this little set! Some think the set is little, and you wont get much use from it..but I am here to testify that this set is not like that at all!! :D

Up first, I have for you Billy's Pick of the Hop!

I used the designer papers from the New StampTV kit, Made With Love ( totally awesome!) And fussy cut the coffee cups to pop them up. I like that look, which you will probably notice! :D Billy and me agree on a favorite this time!

Up next is A close 2nd for favorite for me:

Had to get a bit of distressing on at least one card! :D I used the Spectrum Glitter Markers and just scribbled the background after stamping the coffee cup and embossing it with clear embossing powder. The marker will kinda settle into the little areas to make the flowers show up when you wipe off that part! Then used a stencil to make the coffee stains...how could I NOT use this stencil for this set? (tim holtz stencil).

A few things about our incentive stamps. now they will be changing every two weeks! Lots of asked for that and Gina did it! Once the current incentive is done...you will be able to purchase it also. Im loving this new incentive plan myself!