Gina K Designs –Foil-Mates Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 3

Hey Y'all!!  glad you stopped b

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a very special blog hop celebrating the new line of Foil-Mates products with Gina K Designs and Therm O Web. As of Monday, May 1, the entire product line of Foil-Mates products are available in the Gina K Designs Store at www.ginakdesigns.com. We are so excited to show you our projects and inspire you to jump into the foil craze!

Creating cards is never more easy and beautiful when you work with this new line of foil products. From beautiful pre-printed Foil-Mates, to stunning colors of Fancy Foils, when you combine them together the outcome is stunning! Discover how many various combinations of different cards and invitations you are able to create with Gina’s Foil-Mates products. With many of Gina’s most popular signature colors now available in foil, coordinating with Gina K Designs card stock and ink has never been easier!

Join us and discover ideas that you can take away for your own cards and projects!

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog. We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop from a combination of all three days of comments and that person will 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 today is Foil Mates Invitations - Wedding.  I made another pocket card!  :D

 This card is a pocket card and the little silver and Turquoise hearts with the eyelet in it  (and I'm just now noticing that I forgot to add the twine in the eyelet! LOL)  is on the edge of the pull out so you can pull it with that.  Here it is pulled out:

I just used the dies to cut circles and layered the single stitch and double stitch that gives it that small edge, which I totally LOVE!! 






Up nexty is the Foil Mates Invitations -- Save The Date.  And I made another wedding invite!  :D

I made a folding card...not sure what the fold is called, but it folds up from the bottom and then down from the top.  The above card is a picture of it closed.  here is one with it opened:

The enclosed removable card has wrapped with tissue paper and the burlap and lace ribbon is like a belly band.  Here is the inside card:

I made wedding invites for my niece a few years back and boy, do i wish I had of had these foil mates!  i heat embossed with gold until I'd never do again...lol!  (I did...LOL)

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

Gina K

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Donna Idlet

Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger  

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
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.

Thanks sooo much for stopping by!  I hope you love this line as much as I do!  It is so much fun to use and easy...and you get the WOW that we all love to hear and see on our creations!  :D

Have a wonderfully creative day!

~cat

Gina K Designs –Foil-Mates Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 2

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a very special blog hop celebrating the new line of Foil-Mates products with Gina K Designs and Therm O Web. As of Monday, May 1, the entire product line of Foil-Mates products are available in the Gina K Designs Store at www.ginakdesigns.com. We are so excited to show you our projects and inspire you to jump into the foil craze!

Creating cards is never more easy and beautiful when you work with this new line of foil products. From beautiful pre-printed Foil-Mates, to stunning colors of Fancy Foils, when you combine them together the outcome is stunning! Discover how many various combinations of different cards and invitations you are able to create with Gina’s Foil-Mates products. With many of Gina’s most popular signature colors now available in foil, coordinating with Gina K Designs card stock and ink has never been easier!

Join us and discover ideas that you can take away for your own cards and projects!

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog. We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop from a combination of all three days of comments and that person will 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 today I have the Foil Mates, Sentiment - True Friend.

 For this card's background I used the Elegant Damask Foil Mate and used the Wild Lilac for the sentiment and then did a rectangle with Grass Green.  I also took the sheer white Fancy Ribbon and used a copic marker on it to make the edges purple to match, LOVE being able to do that with the ribbon!

Close up:

Isnt that little flower cute?!  I used some toner paper and the die and the Wild Lilac foil to make it!  :D

Next is Foil Mates Sentiment -- Wedding/Anniversary.  I decided to do a wedding happy anniversary card:

I went for an elegant look, and LOVE how the gold and that damask just made that type of card for me!  :D  Super simple! 



Close up:

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

Gina K

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger  

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
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.

So glad you stopped by!  See ya tomorrow!  Same place, Same time!!  I so appreciate all of your comments!  It just makes my day!  And when you tell me I inspired you, well, my goal has been met!  :D

~cat

Gina K Designs –Foil-Mates Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 1

Hey Y'all!!  Glad you stopped by! 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a very special blog hop celebrating the new line of Foil-Mates products with Gina K Designs and Therm O Web. As of Monday, May 1, the entire product line of Foil-Mates products are available in the Gina K Designs Store at www.ginakdesigns.com. We are so excited to show you our projects and inspire you to jump into the foil craze!

Creating cards is never more easy and beautiful when you work with this new line of foil products. From beautiful pre-printed Foil-Mates, to stunning colors of Fancy Foils, when you combine them together the outcome is stunning! Discover how many various combinations of different cards and invitations you are able to create with Gina’s Foil-Mates products. With many of Gina’s most popular signature colors now available in foil, coordinating with Gina K Designs card stock and ink has never been easier!

Join us and discover ideas that you can take away for your own cards and projects!

 Just look at all of this gorgeousness!! And in case you didnt notice...the foils match Gina K Cardstocks!  woot!

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog. We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop from a combination of all three days of comments and that person will 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.

I cant tell you how excited I was about this line of product from Thermo Web and Gina K!  Up first today we are showcasing the Foil Mates Birthday Essentials and You're Invited .  Up first is the card I made with the Birthday Essentials set:

 I used the Polka dotted background Foil Mate on this one too And also the Birthday Essentials.  This card only took a bit of time because of the banner I cut out for it, lol!  And as we all know, its so very hard to capture shine on our cards!  But believe me, its sooo shiny!  I used the Passionate Pink Fancy Foil on this one.

Up next is a card with the Foil Mate, "You're Invited"  I created a little Invite!  :D

 This is a criss cross card I think its called.  The triangle sides dont move, you insert the info card behind those, like a pocket (maybe a pocket card?  LOL)  This one up top here is with the info card inserted.

And this shows the invite pulled out.  What I love most about this line...im a FAST card maker!  Like my idol and fellow DT  Melanie Muenchinger!!  :D

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

Gina K

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Melanie Muenchinger  

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
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 much for stopping in...we will do it again tomorrow! Same place, same time!  So come on back now, y'all here?!  

~cat

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

Hey Y'all! Thanks for stopping by!

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 My Anchor Mini Kit.

This stamp set is so fun and versatile! You will be able to create amazing card projects...especially for

the male figures in your life!  Which as stampers, we all know can be challenging, right?

And look at what all else comes in this mini kit:

Cardstock, ink pads and papers AND glue OH MY!  this is such an awesome bargain!

Ok, I got hit with some late night inspiration last night and came back and changed my blog post because I liked these cards better, LOL!  Here is my first one for you:

For this card, I have a piece of blue jeans as part of the card.  And the part that the sentiment is stamped...I took of piece of that brown wrapping paper that comes in lots of packages and stamped the anchor image all over a section of it and stamped it with versamark, then heat embossed it.  I will use it like this..cut in strips.  Im being frugal...yes?  :D   Ok , got one more card to share today with you:

I was trying to create a rocky point that the light house is sitting on...can you tell that?  LOL!  I heat embossed this in silver , the 'water' was created with colored vellum, I tore the edges to give white cap appearance, and the ray of the light was created with glitter paste...of all glitter things...I LOVE this glitter paste!  It is gorgeous and doesnt get all over the place!  (I might make Gina pass out saying I love anything glitter!  haha!)

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.

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.

Thanks again so much for stopping by!  I so appreciate all of your comments, means ALOT!!  :D

~cat

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

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 Beth Silaika, Claire Brennan and the Botanical Blocks Incentive set. 

 Beth's set, Vicki Mermaid

Claire's Cottage Garden

and the new incentive

Botanical Blocks

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!

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.

First up today is Beth's set, Vicki Mermaid.  How cute is that little mermaid?  here, let me show ya, lol!

Here she is!  Frolicking in the sea with her little fish friend!  I used some distress oxide inks for the 'waves and sponging for the clouds.  You can see of course, the sparkly goodness on her and the fish.  I used the Wink of Stella glitter pen in clear on them.  And another I made using the little seahorse:

I made a shaker card!  Super fun to make!  I also used some acetate...yes, I am the Queen Acetate, haha!  I do so love using it, but guess you can tell that!  :D  

Up next is Claire's new set, Cottage Garden. Here is what I did with it for today:

I masked, and sponged and colored and masked and  sponged...and ...well you get what I mean!  I had so much fun making this card!  I also added an overlay of colored vellum and cut with a circular opening.  The sides just looked like they were missing something an I didnt want to risk messing it all up by stamping something else there, so came up with this, lol!  Sharing my crazy thought process with ya! ha!  

And last but not least. the new incentive stamps Botanical Blocks.  I have not got to play with this one as much as a want yet  because I need to get something to play with it with and its in town!  LOL!  Anywayssss, here is what I have for today:

I did some watercoloring, lightly, on the background and the images are heat embossed and black glitter embossing powders...all sparkly!  :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 MichaelsKaren 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.

Thanks for coming by today!  We have one more day to showcase a set for you and its the new StampTV mini kit, My Anchor.  Cant wait to share with you!  

--cat