It's that time again! Gina K Release!!

YESSSSSSSS! Are you excited this month? I know I always am when a new StampTV Kit is coming out with the release!! It's not till Tuesday that we give you a peek of it though...BUT we have THREE stamp sets to wet your appetite tonight! So I will be a bit brief!

First up is Melanie's newest set called A Beautiful Life and here is my card:



Mel has come out with another frame stamp set, this one PERFECT for spring time! I just LOVE these tulips too! I am thrilled she used that image for this! I decided to do a bit of distressing to show you dont have to be all pastel and springy colors ALL the time, although it would be gorgeous like that too, lol!

Ok, next up is Tami Mayberry's newest set called Fairy Tales...what a fun one this one is! Here is my card:




Isnt that frog just the cutest! And I do NOT Like frogs, lol! But this one is so much fun to color, so he is OK, lol! He has got kissed so much it's knocked his crown a bit crooked, lol!

Ok, last but for sure not least is Theresa Momber's newest set called Sending Sunshine and oh boy, does it ever! Here is my card for this set:


OMG, can you feel the sunshine looking at those daffodils? They are blooming everywhere around here right now so I HAD to do this image on a card! LOVE it!

Are you ready for even more inspiration?  

Start with Gina's Blog

Then, visit these Illustrator's blogs of these new stamp sets:

Melanie Muenchinger - A Beautiful Life

Theresa Momber - Sending Sunshine

Tami Mayberry - Fairy Tales

Finally, check out these Designer's blogs:

Jessica Fick

Nina Brackett

Carolyn King

Cathy Tidwell

Lee Murphy

Lynn Mercurio

Donna Baker

Kurtis Amundson

Emily Giovanni

Erika Martin

Colleen Schaan

Jennie Harper - our Guest Designer for this Month!

StampTV is celebrating it's first birthday and the festivities are in full swing with this month's release!  We'll be holding this month's Release Party on StampTV and couldn't be more excited about all that Gina has planned for everyone!  The party kicks off this Thursday, March 18th starting at 7pm and ends at 10pm (all times CST) when all the new products will be available for purchase in Gina's online store. 

To keep informed of all the party plans and activities, check out this link:

Release Party Forum on StampTV

Ok, thats all for tonight! But dont forget to stop back tomorrow, same time, same place!! :D

Card Details:
Card # 1:
Stamps: A Beautiful Life by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: All Gina K cardstock
Accessories: copic markers, half pearls, gold spica glitter pen, ribbon, distressing tool, oval nesties, circle punch, distress ink.
Card # 2:
Stamps: Fairy Tales by Tami Mayberry from Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! and Gina K cardstock
Accessories: copic markers, rhinestones, tag nestie, ribbon, pop dots, CB embossing folder.
Card # 3:
Stamps: Sending Sunshine by Theresa Momber from Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! and Gina K cardstock
Accessories: copic markers, label nesties, brads, tag nesties, ribbon, MS butterfly punch, pop dots.

It's a Special Hop!!

It's a Surprise Party!!!! It is Stamp TV's 1st birthday and we just wanted to throw a little party for Gina! Happy 1st Birthday Stamp TV!!! To celebrate, a bunch of design team members and challenge hostesses decided to create birthday cards using a previous Stamp TV kit (or Gina K set). Leave a comment on every blog along the way because one lucky commenter will receive the all new Stamp TV kit that will be released next week!!!! (And....you're gonna LOVEEE it!) You will have until Sunday, March 14 at 8:00 p.m. central to post comments on all the blogs. The winner will be posted on Stamp TV on Monday!

For my card, I used my ALL time favorite image from a previous StampTV Kit, Eclectic Summer! Here is my creation:



I absolutely love this daisy image...I have used it more than any other stamp! For this card, I stamped the image onto vellum with stayz on ink in black, then flipped it over and colored the backside of the flower with my prisma pencils before cutting them out. Love LOVE how this turned out! It just makes me smile and I hope it does Gina! Thank you Gina for creating StampTV! It has touched so many lives, including mine! Ok, I'll quit with the mooshy stuffs, lol!!

Be sure to check out all of the birthday cards on these blogs:

Carolyn
Jessica
Melanie
Theresa
Lee
Tami
Lynn
Nina
Erika
Emily
Cathy<----You are here!
Valerie
Bev
Tina
Karen
Vicki
And Donna too!
She has been having horrible back troubles and wasnt able to get up her post till late, so you dont have to leave a comment on her blog for the prize, but I know she would LOVE some love on her gorgeous creation!

And be SURE and leave comments on all blogs, because that will be part of the stipulation of being the winner...and this REALLY is an awesome STV kit!!

Card Details:
Stamps: Eclectic Summer from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstock, vellum
Accessories: ribbon, twine, button, oval nesties, white gel pen, pop dots, glue dots, scor tape, prisma pencils, stayz on ink, lace.

Happy Birthday StampTV!!

Be sure to visit Gina's Blog all this week for March's release snippets and any announcements about the upcoming celebrations!

Gina K Thank You Blog Hop, for...

..our retiring Challenge Hostesses from STV! We have had some wonderful hostesses for the last 3 months, that have brought us such awesome and fun challenges! So a bunch of us senior DT decided to do a little something in a way of honoring them. Also, our DT coordinator, Jessica, has created an area that has all of the hostesses a page, with their different challenges...allll in ONE place! You can even download it if you want, she has also put them alll into PDF format ... Here is a link to that area:

Idea Center with the Challenges

Ok, now, for my cards! First up, I decided to make a card for Jennie Harper, our Sketch challenge hostess for the past 3 months (and just named as the CSS for the upcoming month, woot!) Here is the link to the sketch of Jennie's I followed:

Sketch Challenge 11
And my card:


And next up, I wanted to make a card for Shannon Bracken's color challenge...I decided to use the black/white/kraft...my beloved kraft! Our could I resist?? Here it is:



I am keeping the yakking brief, cause there is alot more eye candy to see tonight too! But I do want to tell ALL of the challenge hostesses, how awesome they ALL were over the last 3 months! Here they all are:

Tonight several GinaK Designs designers are joining together to host a special thank you blog hop to our recently retired StampTV Challenge Hostess Team. The four designers we're honoring tonight have provided weekly challenges for the STV members for the entire months of December, January, and February and we are so thankful for their inspiration and hard work!

• Shannon Bracken: Monday's Color Challenge


• Carolina Buchting: Tuesday's Anything but a Card Challenge


• Jennie Harper: Thursday's Sketch Challenge


• Selma Stevenson: Friday's Blast from the Past Challenge

Each participating designer was asked to choose one challenge shared during the past 3 months and make a card to share on their blogs tonight as well as to send that card to the hostess. 


Visit these links to see all the projects we've prepared for our alumni hostess team:

• Jessica Fick


• Theresa Momber


• Cathy Tidwell


• Lee Murphy


• Melanie Muenchinger


• Nina Brackett


• Carolyn King

And, the new StampTV Challenge Hostess team is also joining in on the hop tonight! 

• Tina Gilliland: Monday's Color Hostess


• Karen Knegten: Tuesday's Anything but a Card Hostess


• Vicki Dutcher: Thursday's Sketch Hostess


• Sharri Seffens: Friday's Blast from the Past Hostess

To see all the challenges the Retired Hostess team has shared during their term, visit the StampTV  Idea Center .

Card Details:
Jennie's Card
Stamps: Picture It! STV kit, Inside and Out, Ribbon Stripes, all from Gina K Designs
Papers: all cardstock is Gina K pure luxury, dp is basic grey nook and pantry
Accessories: rectangle nesties, scallop edge punch, labels nesties, pop dots, ribbon, ms scoring board
Shannon's card:
Stamps: Pressed Flowers by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: All cardstock from Gina K
Accessories: scallop edge punch, oval nesties, taupe vivid ink, nail head stickers in black, pop dots, ribbon.

Quick stitched card!

Hey all! Thought I'd get a quick stitched card made for the challenge at Moxie's Fab World, Fun With Floss!! I have always loved stitching on cards...you might remember this card:




I think this is my all time favorite that I have used stitching on! I just love how it turned out! But I always feel like I need to make a new card for a challenge so did this one for tonight:


Asela's newest set, Dream Birds just screams whimsical to me so I can't seem to do anything else with them, lol! I did a bit of fun, whimsical stitching to frame the image on this one, in black floss. Quick one!!

Ok, that's it for tonight! I'll be bach....

New Card Details:
Stamps: Dream Birds by Asela Hopkins, Hang in There by Theresa Momber(sentiment) from Gina K Designs
Papers: All from Gina K
Accessories: oval punches, black embroidery floss, bazzill stitching templates, ribbon, pop dots, copic markers.