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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Fabulous Stamped Frames Blog Hop!

Hey y'all!!

Good morning! Today several members of the CardMaker Blog team and Gina K. Designs team are showcasing stamps used in Melanie Muenchinger's newest book Fabulous Stamped Frames published by Annie's.

This cardmaking tutorial book features 36 projects using seven of Melanie's bold and line art frame stamp sets from Gina K Designs. These versatile sets each contain a frame stamp large enough to fill an A2 card front, which can be rotated portrait or landscape style, along with coordinating images and sentiments, that allow both beginners and advanced crafters to enjoy endless design possibilities for year-round themes, occasions and styles. Not all sets are needed to get a ton of instruction and ideas from this book! Melanie challenged us to each put our own spin on one of the sets, so we hope you enjoy what you see today! She and Gina will be sharing videos as well to show more of the book and some of the stamps in action.

Here is what I made for today:

I decided to use Mel's Wild At Heart frame set because I LOVE wild flowers and this set reminds me of how beautiful something so wild can be! I used the emboss resist technique on this. I heat embossed the frame stamp with clear embossing powders, then used distress markers to color in the 'lines'. And you dont have to worry about going off the lines, it just wipes right off! Ahhh, the beauty of emboss resist for messy color-ers like me! :D Here are the images included in this stamp set:

Wild At Heart Stamp Set

There is also a prize! A gift certificate to use on any sets, templates, digital paper or studio cut files in Melanie's Line of Gina K Designs Products. To enter, leave a comment on the blogs in our hop today. One commenter will be randomly chosen and posted Friday on Gina's Blog. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win. Finally, all seven sets frame stamp sets are all on sale for the first time ever!

Fabulous Stamped Frames Sale at Gina K Designs.

Take this opportunity to stock up on your favorites or complete your collection. See full details for the prize and the sale on Gina's blog.

Please enjoy the hop! Good luck on winning the gift certificate! Thanks for hopping today!

CardMaker Magazine - Brooke Smith

Thanks so much again for stopping by today! Hope you enjoy the hop!

Card Details
Stamps: Wild At Heart by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstocks
Accessories: distress markers, heat gun, versamark ink, clear embossing powder. pop dots, shear ribbon, spellbinders circle and tear drop circle dies, scor-tape, liquid pearl pen.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Gina K Designs July Releasae DT Inspiration Hop -- Day 3!!

Hey y'all!! Welcome to our last day of hops for this release!

The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News Forum on StampTV a few days after the hops!

Up first today I have Becky Oehlers' newest set, Beautiful Banners. Here is my card for today with this set:

I used the 'congratulations' stamp and made a card for a new home owner, thus the little wooden house in the corner! :D Besides the awesome banners like this one, this set also has a wonderful woodgrain stamp in it. I showed this card at the release party:

I saw a tree carved so I used some SB dies for the words to try to give it an engraved look. :D But see that awesome woodgrain? how fun is that?!

Up next is Debbie Corbari's Darling Divas...and this time we have Aloha Diva, Impressed Diva and Marathon Diva. For my card today, I used one of the sentiments from the Impressed Diva:

I have a couple of priceless friends that will listen to me and give me some good advice at times when I need it...cooler heads prevail and such, haha! So this card was made with them in mind! I did some folds with the dp, to make it look like it had been 'ironed' LOL! Here also is a card I showed at the release party, using Marathon Diva:

The sign below her bounces too! I call her my wobbly runner...because that would be me if I was to run...WOBBLY! LOL!

Ok, ready for more wonderful creations to ogle at? Here ya go!! Just follow these links to my fellow ohsotalented DT!

Thanks so much for visiting us during these hops this week! Dont be a stranger (and Ill try not to be with my posts, haha!) Come on back now, ya here!?! :P

Card Details:
Card #1 and 2
Stamps: Beautiful Banners from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstocks
Accessories: wooden embelly house and bee, Spellbinders word dies, twine, pop dots, scor-tape, lacy scallop die, paper doily, burlap banners from Michaels.
Card #3 and 4
Stamps: Darling Divas- Impressed Diva, and Marathon Diva both from Gina K Designs.
Papers: Gina K cardstocks, S.E.I. and Creative Imaginations 'Loolah' line designer papers
Accessories: stitches stickers, ribbon, twine, nesties circle large and circle large scallop, square large and scallop and decorative square, Prima junkyard findings zipper pull, wobbler spring thingy, pop dots, copic markers.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Gina K Designs July Releasae DT Inspiration Hop -- Day 2!!

Hey y'all!! Welcome to day two of our inspiration hops!

The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News Forum on StampTV a few days after the hops.

Up first today I have Theresa Momber's newest set, Up, Up And Away to share with you. Here is one card I have done with this set:

For this card, I cut an opening using a Spellbinders nestabilities and created a 'sky' on the inside of the card and attached the balloon to look like it was floating with the clouds. I think this would be a very fun birthday card for anyone! :D

Up next is Beth Silaika newest set called, Lots of Dots Alphabet...and what aLOT of possibilities with this set!! Here is my card for today with this set:

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I heat embossed the whole alphabet in white embossing powder, except for the 'h' and the 'i' to form the word 'hi'. Then did just a tad of distressing, added a fun button and ribbon and ...done! Another fun card to hopefully brighten someones day!

Ok, ready for more eye candy? Here ya go!

Thanks again for stopping by today! I so love reading all of your comments! Come on back by tomorrow for another day of inspiration we have for you!

Card Details:
Card #1
Stamps: Up, Up and Away by Theresa Momber from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstocks
Accessories: copic markers, pop dots, cloud and grass dies from MFT, buttons, SB nesties.
Card #2
Stamps: Lots of Dots Alphabet by Beth Silaika from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K Designs cardstocks
Accessories: white embossing powder, heat gun, versamark ink, ribbon, button, white craft thread, tim holtz tiny attacher, glue dots, scor-tape.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Gina K Designs July Releasae DT Inspiration Hop -- Day 1!

Hey y'all!! Welcome to our Hop!!

The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hops!

Up first today is Melanie Muenchinger's newest set called Stately Flowers 7, another awesome addition to this collection! I so love all of these state flower stamps! Here is a card I showed at the party the other night:

I just used the sentiment and butterfly stamps on this card. I wanted to show that you do not have to be one that has those awesome coloring skills for flowers to enjoy this set! Melanie even made such an awesome card with the flowers and NO coloring! So do not feel intimidated by these stamps, thinking that you need to be able to color, you dont! :D

Up next is Tami Mayberry's newest set called Simple Numbers. This is another 'simple' but awesome concept for a stamp set by Tami!! Here is what I did with it:

Im all ready for my daughter's birthday in November! :D She loves red, so that is why everyone of the cards I make for her birthday are red, lol! And yep, she's the big 30 this year...I definitely will be rubbing that in to her, haha!

Ok, one last card that I made today, or rather yesterday, and with this one, I combined Mel's, Tami's and the new free stamp you can get when you spend $25.00!! Here it is:

I used the flowers from Mel's set, and embossed them in gold. I used the numbers and sentiment (The Big, and 'th') from Tami's set and then the free stamp 'Congratulations', and made an 50th anniversary card! I used gold and silver cardstock too, it looks awesome IRL! I did some 'fussy' cutting on some of the flowers to pop them up...(this is my challenge today over on StampTV!! Come Play along with us!) My SIL's parents are celebrating their 50th this September and this card is for them. :D

Ok, ready for more wonderful eye candy? Here ya go!! Just follow these links to my fellow DT!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to come back tomorrow for another awesome day of wonderful inspiration for you!!

Card Details:
Card #1
Stamps: Stately Flowers 7 by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K Designs cardstocks, Teresa Collins DP Vintage Finds line
Accessories: versamark ink, clear embossing powder, heat gun, tim holtz idealogy line embellies, twine, hexagon stencil by MFT, clock by Recollections, scor-tape, pop dots.
Card #2
Stamps: Simple Numbers by Tami Mayberry from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstocks, Teresa Collins DP Stationary Noted line.
Accessories: Spellbinders' dies in circle, pinkingshear, and tags, pop dots, scor-tape, lacy scallop punch, ribbon.
Card #3
Stamps: Stately Flowers 7, Simple Numbers, Monthly Incentive Stamp Congratulations all from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstock in white, gold and silver cardstocks by Recollections
Accessories: Spellbinders fancy rectangle die, tag dies, morrocan accents dies, lattice die, gold embossing powder, versamark ink, heat gun, ribbon, silver brads, pop dots, scor-tape.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

An Invitation for you and a forgotten card...

Hey y'all! Thought I'd jump on here and post a little invitation for our Gina K Design Release party tonight from 7PM - PM CST over on Stamp TV tonight! Lots of good times to be had! Lots of inspiration from all of the DT and good, fun chit chat! Hope to see you there!! Here is a link to Gina's blog...the Illustrators (the ones that desing GKD stamps!) have put together a little hop for you today! And dont forget to come back Monday when we will start the DT hops!

Gina K's Blog

I also wanted to share I card I overlooked from last month's release of the STV kit, Days of Summer.

For my card I used the new designer papers called Watercolor Garden. I put a piece of vellum over it, to mute it a bit. And on the vellum I stamped and heat embossed some white butterflies. I painted the metal ornate piece with some gesso, to tone down the metal a bit too...and did a bit of sponging on it to match the colors of the papers and cardstock I used. I also sanded over the metal pieces to give them even more of an aged look. I love how this turned out, cant believe I overlooked it, ha!

Ok, that's all for now! Hope to see you at the party!

Card Details:
Stamps: Days of Summer StampTV kit, A Wish for You, from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstocks and dp is Watercolor Garden, also from Gina K
Accessories: vellum, white embossing powder, versamark ink, heat gun, ornate metal piece from the Tim Holtz idealogy line, brads, seam binding ribbon, distress tool, scor-tape.