Gina K Designs Stitched Leaves Mini Inspiration Blog Hop - Back in Stock TODAY!

Hey Y'all!! Glad you stopped by today!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new Gina K Designs Stitched Leaves mini kit which will be back in stock TODAY! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!
These stamp sets are so fun, versatile and you can make a variety of different cards and projects with or without dies! You will be creating with this stamp set and dies all fall long! Have fun and be creative!

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $50 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?Okay!!

For today, I have two cards I wanted to share with you.  First one...It using the dies in the set, no stamping!  :D

I used the thankful die and shadow die for it and the maple leaf die/  I started to stamp on it, but liked how the white looked!  The 'frame' I created using Spectrum Noir Sparkle markers on water paper.  It looks better in person, you can see all the sparkly goodness!  And next, I did do some stamping...and heat embossing, and used glossy paper, and ....ok, well, here it is!  :D

ANd even some hand stitiching!  :D  I also made this background with the Spectrum Sparkly markers.  I sat down and played the other day and this is one of the background I made while playing.  The leaves where stamped and then heat embossed in white embossing powder so they would really pop off the page.  I just LOVE this set!  Fall is my favorite time of year, and this set just makes me feel like its about here!

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


Gina K 
Beth Silaika 

Cat Tidwell
Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet
 Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Rema Deleeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore 

 Theresa Momber


  Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out the entire stamp and die set as well as all of the new stamp sets by the illustrators from this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thanks sooo much for stopping in today!  I truly love sharing my creations with you and hope to inspire a few of you along the way!  :D


~cat

Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember collaboration with Gina K. Designs

Hey Y'all!!  Welcome to our little blog hop we put together to join in the excitement of Simon Says Stamp's Stamptember 2017 and Gina K Designs First time to have an exclusive stamp set with Simon Says Stamp for this celebration!  The set is called Warmer With You!

This also has a coordinating set of dies to match!  As I said, exclusive with SSS and once its gone, its gone!  So get yours fast!

Here is what I have made for today:

Isnt the little snowman I used too stinking cute?!!  I have so many ideas for this set!  For this card, I embossed the tree images in white embossing powder and then I tore white cardstock to make my snow banks.  I colored the little snowman with pencils and stuck him in behind one of the banks.  The little snowflakes are from a miniature garland that I got on clearance year after the holiday to use this year!  smart cookie arent i?  LOL!

Get Your set HERE!!

Ok, here is the rest of our GKD team with some awesome creations!

Gina K

Beth Silaika 
Claire Brennan

Cathy Tidwell <----me span="">

Chris Dayton

Claire Brennan

Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels

Karen Hightower

Melanie Muenchinger

Rema DeLeeuw

Sean Fetterman

Sheri Gilson

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Theresa Momber

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Be sure and get this set because you wont regret it!! Have fun!

~cat





Gina K Designs August Release Inspiration Blog Hop, Day 2!!

Hey Y'all!!

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 Beth Silaika and Claire Brennan.

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!

Perfect Poinsettia by Claire

and Todd Turtle by Beth

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $50 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?

Up first for today I have Beth and her newest set, Todd Turtle.  (Dont you think its awesome how Beth names the sets she does after a family member!:  LOL)

 

For Todd, I created him a little home, lol!  I first created the background and did that with water color and then the sand is sandpaper.  I used a die for the seaweed and then colored the images with pencils  I also made is shell really shiny!  Here is a close up of that:

He is just too cute!  There are more images in the set, but I just feel in love with Todd!  :D

 

Ok, next up is Claire's newest set, Perfect Poinsettia.  And its a triple stamping images but I only used the outling image and the solid one:

I made the background with some Christmas themed tissue paper that I had saved from last year, glued it onto cardstock and then swiped it here and there with some metallic paste .  I made the poinsettia out of vellum...embossed it with gold then used a stylus on it to turn it white (2x) I took the solid image and embossed it with gold and then layered them all.  Then made the gold frame with a die and also the sentiment circle.  I also layered onto gold cardstock.  It sounds complicated, but its not really.  :D  

Next I wanted to show you the new incentive stamp set Nuturing Blooms

 

Here is my card:

I made it really rustic, thinking male card, which to lots of us is so hard to do, lol!  I created the middle panel by using some paper that has the consistency or a brown paper bag (the name escaped me now and im being lazy and not going to find it, LOL) The 'journey' is an embossing folder by Tim Holtz.  I tore the edges, stamped the incentives on it then used  washi tape.  I also ties some surgeon knots onto the piece of string I used.  I stamped the sentiment, cut out with a die then sponged the edges of it.  I had fun playing with this one, LOL!  And thats what is about, right?  :D

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

Gina K

Beth Silaika – Today’s featured illustrator

Claire Brennan – Today’s featured illustrator

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton

Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels

Karen Hightower

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Rema DeLeeuw

Sean Fetterman

Sheri Gilson                                            

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Theresa Momber

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.

Thank you for stopping by!

And for the awesome comments y'all leave for me!  THAT is very inspiring to me!  :D  
~cat

Gina K Designs August Release, Day 1!!

Hey Y'all!!  Welcome to my little spot on the web!

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 set Fabulous Rose Frame (It has dies to match that you can purchase seperately!!)

 Theresa's set The Wetlands 2

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $50 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 is Melanie's set, Fabulous Rose Frames...this set just as itself is sooo awesome!  And I love the possibilities with all the goodies in this set!  Mel, as usual, thinks her sets out, down to the tiniest of images having a special purpose!  This set does that!  AND, the dies for it can be purchased separately!  Here is my first card I wanted to show you:

For this card.....Ok, so in the past I have made flowers using tissue paper   and would kinda watercolor the edges of the flower ...I first embossed the image onto tissue paper, and you have to be very careful when doing the heat gun to it, or it will burn the paper!  (Ask me how I know this!  LOL)  Then I add the watercoloring, and I will dry as I go along.  It's such a really cool effect and feel IRL! 

   Up next I have Theresa Mombers new set, The Wetlands 2....Here is what I have done :

I just stamped the image of one tree then cut into strips and moved them uneven like that.  and then I also used that same background paper I made on this set:

For this card, I used some water color markers and went back and forth with the different colors.  I then stamped the trees, masking off the little bottom reflection part that looks like water.  I meant to give the trees a shadow on the 'ground'  but forgot to do that until just now as Im writing up this blog post, lol!   I like how this turned out too, super easy! 

Ok, ready for some  more eye candy:!  Here is the link list! 

Gina K

Melanie Muenchinger - Today’s featured illustrator

Theresa Momber - Today’s featured illustrator

BethSilaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton

Claire Brennan

Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels

Karen Hightower

LaurieSchmidlin

RemaDeLeeuw

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.

Thank you for stopping by!

  And hope to see you tomorrow also!!  :D