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 

Gina K Design and My Sweet Petunia Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Hey Y'all!!  Thanks for hopping with us today!  We have a fantastic blog hop for you today featuring Gina K Design's stamp set, Boho Flowers Mini kit and My Sweet Petunia's M.I.S.T.I. tool!!  Ohhh my!  I am so thrilled to share this tool with you!!  Plus, be sure and comment on all the blogs in the hop because if you do, you will be entered into a drawing to win your choice of MISTIs, small or large, and then another winner for  the Stitched Flowers mini kit (brand new!  Being released this Thursday!) from Gina K Designs!!  Deadline for commenting is Sept. 5th and winners will be posted no later than Sept. 8th on Gina K's Blog and My Sweet Petunia's Blog.

Ok, now...the M.I.S.T.I.....this tool............

If I am ever asked the tools I would recommend to new stampers, this would be at the top of the list!  Besides being so awesome for mass producing stamps...it has been a life saver, or rather cardstock saver, lol!  to me!  I always struggled with getting things lined up...or not getting a good first stamping of an image...oh i could go on and on, but I'm sure you will so much more on this hop!  I do want to show one of my favorite things to do using the M.I.S.T.I.  I little pictorial for you:

 I lined up where I wanted my images on the cardstock and then closed the lid to attach the stamps to the MISTI and then stamped my images.

And then, I left my images on the MISTI, then flipped my cardstock so I could stamp same images, same positions, just flipped.

And for my design, I wanted to color with white pencil and this is another fantastic thing about the MISTI...how when you color your images with pencils, it will sorta 'dull' the images when stamped in black, using a white pencil...so what I do, after coloring:

Yuk, right?!  BUT, the MISTI fixes that with ease...as long as you leave the image on the MISTI, just insert your cardstock with the colored image and restamp it!

as long as you leave the image on the MISTI, just insert your cardstock with the colored image and restamp it!

See how its all fixed now?  You can see the difference in the top leaf on the left there and the bottom ones, how crisp the black is once again...LOVE that!    And then on to finish my project:

I used the flowers in the kit, butterfly and the 'you'.  The flowers were stamped on vellum and I colored them on the backside and attached with brads...yea, old school i know, haha!

Ok, ready for more awesome and I do mean AWEsome creations?

You next stop will be to the oh so talented   Ceal Pritchett


And here is the full list of the blogs for this hop:

Gina Krupsky

Ilina Crouse

Joyce Erb

Jeanne Streiff

Chris Dayton

Lydia Fiedler

Sheri Gilson

Kia Gibson-Clapper

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

Ceal Pritchett

Susie Moore

Idlet Donna

Giovana Smith

Bethann Silaika

Chris Dayton

Karen Hightower

Stephanie Severin

Juliana Michaels

Sean Fetterman

Laurie Schmidlin

Silke Ledlow

Melanie Muenchinger

Rema DeLeeuw

Theresa Momber

Iliana Myska

 Thanks so much for stopping by!  I will be having brand new Gina K stuffs next week too!  Cant wait to show you that also!  Now, go get inky!!

~cat

Gina K Designs - Inspiration Blog Hop - Day 2!!

Hey y'all!!  Welcome back!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K! This month, we are celebrating the release of the Boho Flowers mini kit and three other stamp sets by Gina K Designs! These sets are Wise Old Owl, Peony Wishes and the new incentive set Grand Greetings. 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 sets Wise Old Owl, Peony Wishes and the new incentive set Grand Greetings. 

Wise Old Owl:

Peony Wishes:

Grand Greetings:

 

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:

Up first I have those absolutely adorable owls!  Wise Old Owls!  Here is what I have done with this set:

Super simple and CAS creation!  I just stamped them out, then die cut each one, the purple owl is layerd 3 times to give it more depth.  I also made a  little house for the owl LOL!

I used a die for the littler house, then colored and die cut the owl after coloring with copics, and also stamped, colored and die cut one of the swirl images from Boho Flowers to decorate his little house with, too cute huh?  LOL!

Next up, Peony Wishes!  For my first card I was going for a Vintage feel...

I heat embossed and then watercolored the flowers, distressed the edges with ink and layers the bow with two different silk ribbons and some twine.  The button came from a friend, back when I asked if anyone had any old buttons they didnt want.  :D 

Next, the new incentive stamp, Grand Greetings.  LOVE these big sentiments!

I helped the awesome Karen Hightower out this week with the Friday Funday tutorial...for this card I created the background by painting with salt water.  (A link to the tutorial is HERE on StampTV)



Ok!  Ready for more awesome inspiration?  Just follow these links!

 

Gina K

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet

JulianaMichaels

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 so very much for stopping by!  I truly love reading all of the awesome comments left!!

~cat

Gina K Designs - Inspiration Blog Hop - Day 1

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K! This month, we are celebrating the release of the Boho Flowers mini kit and three other stamp sets by Gina K Designs! These sets are Wise Old Owl, Peony Wishes and the new incentive set Grand Greetings. 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 Boho Flowers mini kit.

You will have so much fun creating so many varieties of cards using these images and sentiments. Here is everything that comes in the kit:

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:

I am sooo loving this kit!  I know I say that every time, but I truly mean it every single time, lol!  This was a super easy card, using the dies that come in the kit is really awesome and so glad to have that now!  it just makes the cards look so , professional and finished kwim?  I just did simple coloring on this one and then cut out and popped up.  tada!  done!  

On this next one, well, it looks much better IRL, lol!  I did a vellum overlay, and used a die to cut out the flower shape So I could pop the top layer of the flower I made, to have it coming through the die cut open spot.  I used a glitter embossing powder on the butterfly...just cut it out with the die too and then added the glitter. The swirls were also cut out of vellum and then I placed them behind the flower.

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

Gina K

Beth Silaika

Cathy 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 all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thank you for stopping by!

Gina K Designs June Inspiration Blog Hop - Day 3!!

Hey Y'all! Welcome back to this release's last day of blog hops!

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 Chris Dayton’s first stamp set and June Incentive set “Happy Mail”.

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!

Today, we will be featuring a brand new set by a brand new illustrator with Gina K!  That person is Chris Dayton, and the name of her set is Sentimental Calla Lily and the Incentive stamp for this month, Happy Mail!

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.

Here is my card I have for you today.  (I apologize for not having an little something with the new incentive stamp, but seems I cannot find!  We have moved and everything is where its NOT suppose to be! )  but, yea, got this one done with Chris's new set:

 Very quick card...I stamped the flower with white ink, cut a oval pattern out to frame the image which that paper is vellum.  Beautiful saying in that sentiment I think!

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

Gina K

Chris Dayton - Today’s featured illustrator

Beth Silaika  

Cathy Tidwell

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 all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thank you for stopping by!

I so very  love ready every single comment!  Thank you so soo very much!  YOU truly make my day!  :D 

~just cat