Gina K Designs April 2017 Release Inspiration Blog Hop - Day 1!

Hey Y'all!  Glad you hopped on over to my blog!  :D

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K and the illustrator team from Gina K Designs! 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 stamp sets by Melanie Muenchinger and Theresa Momber. 

Melanie's Stately Flowers 11

Theresa's Daisy Delight

These stamp sets are so fun and versatile! You will be able to create amazing card projects using each individual set or by combining the images and sentiments from multiple sets from this release. Have fun and be creative!

Please join us in welcoming Juliana Michaels to the Cast Crew for Gina K Designs. Juliana has been a project designer in the paper craft/scrapbook industry since 2007 and has worked for many top manufacturers in the craft world.  Her projects have been published in a variety of magazines and idea books. You will instantly fall in love with her projects!

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop. Ready for some inspiration? Here are a few of the projects I have created for today’s hop:

First up I have Melanie's set, Stately Flowers 11...and OH my!  you are gonna love the stamp image that you can STAMP the flowers into...and MANY other ways to use that image too!  I am sure Melanie will show you too!  My card came about as really an accident!  Stamps with an open space like the stamp image in this set...when I used them I press the ink pad too hard sometimes and will get an inky spot in the middle...well, I did on this one so I went with the boo boo and just added a bigger booboo and then stamped the flower in it!  LOL!  I actually made 3 cards with this booboo!  Here is this one for today:

It leaves that line looking spot...perfect for distressed look!  And you dont have to even color the flowers!  LOL! 

Ok, next up is Theresa's set Daisy Delight...OMG, who doesnt love a daisy??  and this big one is sooo much fun to use!  And the techniques you could use on this big ole stamp are endless!  Here is mine for today:

For this card, the background was created with some watercolors and the nuvo drops added in a messy way (not perfectly cylindrical).  The daisy is embossed with gold and masked off with masking fluid before doing the background.  And here is another one...me using that acetate again, lol!

For this card, I heat embossed the daisies with white embossing powder and then sponged/rubbed on distress oxide inks.  I tore the edge and added that to a clear acetate cardstock piece.  The tricky part is to sure and use a glue that is invisible dry...so the back of the front panel wont look all yucky!  :D

Ok, that's all from me for today!  I posted the cards I showed at the release party below also for you viewing pleasure too!

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:

Gina K

Melanie Muenchinger  - Today’s featured illustrator

Theresa Momber - Today’s featured illustrator

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet

JulianaMichaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore

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.

Be sure and hop on back here tomorrow for more inspiration for you!  Can't wait to share the other sets too!  We have such awesome illustrators for our stamps at Gina K Designs!!  

~cat 

Cards from the Release Party: