Well, I guess I COULD post a card!

I get all caught up in stuff over at StampTV and SCS and blog hopping that I will completely forget to upload a card I have done, lol! Also, I was out of town for a couple of days, just took off by myself, took some time to think and basically just enjoying being by myself. Quite time, I didnt even watch TV that much! Anyways, just a simple one layer card I made for Donna's release party challenge...that is over now, but it was to make a one layer card using only one embellishment. Here is mine:


I used Asela's newest stamp set called 'The Journey'. I love these chairs like this! Just says 'come on, sit in me!' I dont own one, but wish I did! For my one embellishment I used flowersoft to create the flowers. The image is stamped on Gina K Designs' new cardstock called 'Soft Sand'...right now, it's my new favorite!

Ok, that's all for now. I have about 3 cards going on at the same time right now, lol! I will be doing one, and have an idea and start on it right in the middle of doing the first one...I must have that adult attention deficit disorder...sometimes my brain working too much on ideas, lol! I know, I should just right them down! Well, I'm in the process of making me a little notepad thingy to do just that, rofl!

Hope you have a wonderfully creative week! and Thanks so much for putting up with my sporadic posts right now! And for me not commenting on blogs much...it's like, I see lots of them on StampTV , then forget to go to the blog to comment too! Bad blogger me!

Card Details
Stamps: The Journey by Asela Hopkins from Gina K Designs
Papers: Soft Sand from Gina K Designs
Accessories: Flowersoft, glue, prisma pencils

Gina K Designs Preview Day 4! Release Party tonight!

Welcome back for the last day of previews for Gina K Designs!! Have you been enjoying them so far?? I know I sure have!! And tonight is the Release Party on the Gina K Company forum at SplitCoast Stampers...here is the link to that:

Gina K Designs Company Forum at SCS

Ok, on with the good stuffs!! First up is Asela Hopkins newest set called 'The Journey'. I decided to use the old truck image, here is my card:



I had such fun making this card! I decided to take off the wood rails on the back of the truck and make it into a HOT ROD!! LOL! I was inspired by a truck we had seen at a truck show a few years ago and decided to try to copy it from memory. I colored it all with copic markers and made the flames on the hood, gave it a good wax job (crystal effects, lol) which you can't tell in the photo, but it SHINES! I also used Gina's technique tutorial from last week to use nesties to emboss only on your card. Here is the link to that on StampTV My hubby only dreams about a truck like this...his is a LONG way from looking this good! LOL!

Next up is Gina's One Free with three set called 'Many Wishes'...here is my card I did with that set:


I made a card, sort of a sympathy card or a card for someone that might be going through a rough time...I used another set, Tropical flowers combined with Many Wishes, both stamped in black, sponged some black on the bottom, then, I tried to make the sky look like one of those gorgeous sunsets you see that has pink, purple and blue in it (just swiping my ink pads back and forth)...reminding you the beauty of God's world all around us! I know I have seen some of these sunsets that just makes me stop and think and feel the power of God, and will give me such a feeling of comfort from Him! I hope to have conveyed this in this card to someone!

Ok, that's all I have for now! But tonight at the release party I will have at least a couple more samples! And now for more gorgeous eye candy, here are the links for all the other DT:

Gina, Asela, Carolyn, Cathy, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Jessica, Joanne, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, Melanie, and Theresa
Our CenterStage Spotlight Design Team members Selma Stevenson and Pam Imholz are joining us this morning with previews as well!

Hope to see you all at the party tonight!! It's gonna be a blast, with the full reveals by Gina and then SHOPPING TIME!!! Woooohoooooooo!!

Card Details:
Card #1:
Stamps: The Journey by Asela Hopkins from Gina K Designs
Papers: Pure Luxury Rocket Red and white from Gina K, others from SU!
Accessories: oval nesties, sponge, SU! ink, label maker, copic markers, brads, pop dots
Card #2:
Stamps: Many Wishes, Tropical Flowers from Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! cardstock, white is pure luxury 120lb from Gina K
Accessories: circle nesties, CB folder swiss dots, ribbon, brads, ink pads, vellum, pop dots.

Gina K Preview Day 3!

Howdy and welcome again to more exciting previews of the new release stamps from Gina K Designs for June! Haven't the ones from yesterday been exciting?? Today, I have two more sets to give you a peek of, one from Melanie and the other from Nina! First up is Melanie's newest set called 'Arranged With Love':


For my card, I decided to just pop the one flower, and to do that I used the rose from Mel's set A Year Of Flowers, it fits perfect over that rose, and the leaves too! I didn't try the other flowers, but I believe they will too. I stamped the whole big ole stamp onto the new Soft Sand cardstock that will be available with this release, with versamark ink then embossed it. I also embossed the red rose and leaves too, just to give texture to match. I also cut a sign out to fit over the little area that is for stamping the sentiments in, added a bit of bling with the red rhinestones and used a bit of sheer ribbon, actually a pretty quick card for me! LOL! And I just love how it turned out!

Next is my card using Nina's set 'Bug Me Anytime':




This set is such a fun and whimsical set! Isn't that spider cute? And I don't even like spiders, haha! But he is a smiling one and giving encouraging words so he's ok, lol! And for this card, I used Designer Paper! LOL! I hear the audible gasp from many of ya'll, haha! I started out doing paper piecing on this, then changed my mind and had the paper out so used it on the card. Some of the images in this set are just perfect for paper piecing to me too, which I'm sure you will see one from me at sometime! And see those little tiny rhinestones on the flowers and the spider? Those will be available from Gina K this Thursday too with the New Release!

Ok, that's all from me, here is the links to the other ladies with their awesome creations (weren't you just blown away yesterday with them too???!!)

Gina, Carolyn, Cindy, Donna, Emily Jessica, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, Melanie, and Theresa
and, be sure to check out our CenterStage Spotlight girls joining us in Previews today: Carla Suto and Melisa Waldorf

Nina also has some gorgeous creations to show you with her set too! Here is the link to her blog:

Nina

AND Melanie also has a few guest designers using her set:

Selma Stevenson
Denise Marzec
Dawn Lusk

Don't forget tomorrow, one more preview before the party at SplitCoast Stampers on the same night starting at 7pm CST! Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoyed!

Card Details:
Card #1:
Stamps: Arranged With Love, A Year Of Flowers by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: Pure Luxury cardstock 120lb in white, Rocket Red and Soft Sand
Accessories: versamark ink, heat gun, clear embossing powder, ribbon, red rhinestones, copic markers, pop dots.
Card #2:
Stamps: Bug Me Anytime by Nina from Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! cardstock and DP, Pure Luxury in 120lb white from Gina K
Accessories: Prisma pencils with OMS, tiny silver brads from Gina K's StampTV kit, hodgepodge hardware from SU!, pop dots, sponge, SU! inks, piercing tool and pad, SU! markers and ribbon, clear rhinestones from Gina K.

Gina K Designs Preview Day!!

I am sooo thrilled to be a part of this blog hop, and the previews this time! If you are a regular visitor to my blog, you KNOW how much I enjoy Gina K Design stuff!! And then when she asked me to be part of her design team, I actually hollered out loud!! WOOHOOO!! LOL!!

And what awesome stamps are in this month's release!! Plus new color cardstock, Soft Sand, digital paper, some free even, some bling and a new cutting tool, ink, and a bigger acrylic block!!! You will see why you might just need that block too tomorrow!! Ok, on to the good stuff!

First up is Rupa's newest set "100% Sweet" and it totally is!! Here is my card I decided to do:



I decided to make a shaker card, this is my first time to try this and I just love how it turned out! The picture was a bit hard to take, lol, with the acetate in it, all that glare! That is NOT a boo boo up top though, above the donuts, thats a glare, lol! These really are simple to make and lots of fun! The donuts have cystal effects on them along with the seed beads...that chocolate donut looks so real in person!! My grandson took the image, before I had put it all together and touched it with his finger and then tried to lick his finger, lol! So it really does look good enough to eat, according to him, haha!! This is only one of fun images in this set, and the sentiment too! Wait till you see the rest!

Next up is Theresa Momber's newest set "Happy Camper"! Ohhhh my!! Another awesome one from Theresa...here is my card I did:




And I apologize for this weird angle of this card, but once again I used acetate on this one. I did an overlay on it with the trees from this set. Although the trees are part of the mountain stamp itself, I just masked off the mountain part of the stamp, inked up the trees, then took off the tape that I used to mask the mountains off with and then stamped the trees onto the acetate with stayzon ink. I think it gives it a bit more depth doing this! I tried to create a mist rising up the trees and mountains, can you see it? LOL! All of this was colored with copic markers.

Now, are you ready for more awesome previews? I know you are!! Here are the links:

Gina, Carolyn, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Jessica, Joanne, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, Melanie, and Theresa
We are also thrilled to have a couple of our CenterStage Spotlight Design Team join us in our previews this morning: Carolina Buching and Jennie Harper

And dont forget tomorrow we all will have 2 more sets for you to preview!! I can't WAIT!! I am still so super excited to share this with you all!! And to be part of this AWEsome team!! WOOHOOO!!!




Card Details

Card #1:
Stamps: 100% Sweet by Rupa Shevde from Gina K Designs
Papers: Basic Grey DP, SU! Rocket Red and In The Navy from Gina K Designs
Accessories: slice machine, acetate, seed beads, white paper flowers from Gina K Designs, colored with copics, button, nesties tag, ribbon, CB folder, white craft thread, dimensional tape, glue dots.

Card #2:
Stamps: Happy Camper by Theresa Momber from Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! cardstock
Accessories: acetate, stayzon ink, copic markers, white chalk ink for the mist, CB folder, brad, crop-a-dile punch, pop dots

Helloooo

...and Smile! I made this card for the ways to use it challenge last Thursday I believe it was, on SCS. We were to make those scraggly flowers or whatever they are called, lol! Here is mine:



I really like how they turned out. I used that Co'ordinations cardstock, and when you sand it the core color really comes out. I still think the cards needs something on it though, like in the middle of the flowers there, but I got tired of staring at it and called it done, lol! The leaves and grass are just cut free hand out of the same cardstock, different color. Really a quick easy card and the only stamping I did was the 'hello' and 'smile' on the background, which I embossed too.

Getting ready for Gina K's release previews starting Monday or rather Tuesday at midnight!! I am just loving these stamps!! So many possibilities for all different tastes! I am super excited about it, being my first 'official' participation as a Senior DT for Gina K...wooohoooooo!! So please be sure and check back then and see what I have done and all the other DT!! I think you will enjoy it!

Happy Father's Day to all also. My Father passed away almost 25 years ago...I have wonderful memories of him. He was a very fun loving person and me and him where pretty close. I was his favorite baby girl (:P Kelli!!) haha! Anyways, hug your Daddy's today and always tell them you love them!! Have a wonderful rest of the weekend, what's left of it!

Card Details:
Stamps: sentiments from Autumn Leaves from Gina K Designs
Papers: Co'ordinations cardstock, and DP and other cardstock from PTI
Accessories: White craft thread, Bazzill piercing template, basic grey buttons, embossing powder and tool, glue dots.