CPS sketch #258

Hey ya'll! I had a bit of time the other day to play in this week's sketch challenge over on the CPS Blog! Here is my card:


I used the new Petals and Wings StampTV Kit from Gina K Designs, of course! :D See that black thingy? it's called a Page Pin Up, by Karen Foster Designs. I picked it up at my LSS, I think they are way cool! You could hang stuff from them even, if you wanted. Which I started to do with the butterfly, but didnt look right. So it landed where it is at, LOL!

Ok, that's all from me for today! Got new Gina K stamps in the house so will be working away for our next release, which is April 12th! Cant wait to share! I have used one set with my Smashbook too! :D Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderfully creative weekend!

Card Details
Stamps: Petals and Wings from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstocks and dp is MME
Accessories: Page Pin Ups by Karen Foster Designs, flower by Prima Marketing, butterfly charm from a bracelet from the Just a $1 jewelry store, brads, Spellbinders tags, sponge and sponging tool, scor-tape.

ATC Tuesdays, #6!! Yes, I know it's Wednesday! :D

Hey ya'll!! Well, yesterday just got away from me for posting my ATC Tuesday thingy...I had forgotten I hadnt even edited the photos and that takes me forever, especially when I couldnt find where I had saved them, lol! Anyways, gettin' it done today! (And, gonna toot my horn just a bit....I got two of my cards accepted into CardMaker magazine! WOOHOO!! I am so excited! It feels like the first time, becuase years ago, I didnt get one sent in to PaperCrafts that I had accepted, :( , and these both use my beloved Gina K Design stamps! :D ok, all done tooting that horn...lol.)

I am loving this air drying clay to work with and put onto cards! When it drys, its super light weight...sorta feels like the foam board stuff.


For this ATC, I stamped a leave from Melanie Muencher's A Year of Leaves into the clay.


This picture is after the stamped clay had dried for about 2 hours...I trimmed it down some.


I let the stamped clay dry for about 3 more hours and then took it and the versamark ink and dabbed it on the leaf. Not too hard though, you want the lines to still show after embossing...and I used some gold embossing powder on it. And sometimes, you might see a bubble come up from the clay, but mine went right back down.


Close up of the gold embossed leave.


Stamped and tore the sentiment.


In this picture, I have my elements that I am going to put together, and I have sponged the edges of all of it. The tag you see was a premade tag that I got at Michael's in their dollar bins! It even has matching papers, 8x8 size. They were not a dollar though, they were 2 bucks, still a bargain!


Attached a Clock piece from Tim Holtz Ideology line.



Here I have tied some seam binding ribbon through the eyelet of the tag, attached the gold leave and a bauble to the ribbon with a jump ring.


TaDA!! All done with the sentiment! And here is a picture of my tray, how its looking with all of them:


Looking kinda cool, huh? I am loving it! :D

Ok, that's all from me for today! Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving the wonderful comments that you do, makes my day!

ATC Details:
Stamps: A Year Of Leaves by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K cardstock and tag by Michael's stores
Accessories: air drying clay, versamark, gold embossing powders, jumpring, seam binding ribbon, distress inks, sponger tool and sponge, scor-tape, clock parts and bauble.

Spring Wreath

Hey ya'll!! Yes, Spring is in the air indeed! I love this time of year, not as much as the Fall, but love seeing all of the flowers blooming! So I decided I needed a new wreath for my door and I had all of the stuff laying around here to make this one:



Not a lot of stamping, just the sentiment that is from the Gina K Designs set called 'Great Sayings'. The rosettes where made with the Tim Holtz die, the oval piece is a piece of unfinished wood that I painted with some gesso and then sponged the edges and added the sentiment and some more rosettes to. And Me and hot glue guns do NOT get along...I have two blisters! LOL! Anywayssss...its fun to use our card making stuff to make a pretty like this I think!

Ok, that's all from me for today! It's a gorgeous 75 degrees here today and Im fixing to go supervise hubby in the garden, haha! Have a wonderful creative day!

Wreath Details
Stamps: Great Sayings from Gina K Designs
papers: Gina K and SU! cardstocks
Accessories: Tim Holtz rosette die and flourishes die, buttons, wired paper ribbon, gesso, hot glue gun, scor-tape, twine.

Gina K Designs Spring Has Sprung DT Inspiration Hop!

Hey ya'll!! Welcome to our March DT hop!



The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to a fun Spring Has Sprung blog hop. For this hop we will showcase Spring cards or projects with you!!! The DT Members have all used a wide variety of Gina K. Designs stamp sets to inspire you to get inky too! Come play along with the Current Challenges at Stamp TV!!!

If you came from Carolina Buchting's Blog then you're right where you should be. If not, please go to Stamp TV where you will find a list of all those participating.

Here is my creation for today:


I used Melanie's newest set, Wild Flowers. I know this isn't one of the bright and springy pastel colors you normally see for Spring, but I really have a hard time with those colors, so did it my way! :D I used distress inks on this and also the sentiment is stamped into some air dry clay and after it dried, I sponged it with the distress inks too. Love how this turned out! :D

Now hop on over to Donna Baker's Blog for more Gina K. goodness!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you have a wonderfully creative day! I got to make a run to Michael's today myself! :D

Card Details:
Stamps: Wild Flowers from Gina K Designs
Papers: My Mind's Eye, Gina K cardstocks
Accessories: air dry clay, distress inks, sponge and sponge dauber, seam binding ribbon, pop dots, scor-tape, Spellbinders square nesties.

ATC Tuesdays, #5!!

Hey ya'll!! Well, I meant to have this post up before this afternoon, but my daughter and grandson came down last night and well, you know how that goes, lol! But he's napping right now in this rainy sleeping weather so I decided to come get 'er done! :D

I decided to play with some acrylic paints this time around.



This is an ATC acrylic precut piece that you can find at Hobby Lobby back in the canvas and art pads section. It's really sturdy too, a plus when painting on it! Here I have gotten out the paints and am fixing to start playing.



The way I painted and played this time...I used a dry brush and brushed some paint on, then squirted with my mini mister. I then took a baby wipe and smeared my paint around.


Here I have flicked on some green to represent grass...and again, misted with the mister and dabbed with a baby wipe.


Added some ground the same way. After this far, I dried this with the heat gun some. It was pretty dry after I got done.


Here I added a puffy white cloud, did not mist or dab this though.


Another $1 jewelry store find, a feather earring! I just pulled the J-hook off...it comes off very easily...it IS a dollar store earring afterall, lol!


Stamped the sentiment and then sponged the edges.


Attached the feather with scor-tape.


Attached the ticket, that I have sponged and tore the edge of, with the tiny attacher to the ATC.


TaDa!! I decided to tie a little bit of twine to it on the bottom too. This was a fun one to do! I almost covered up all my playing with the paint though didnt I? LOL!

Ok, that's all for today! We have a Gina K Design team hop tomorrow so hope you will come back and see me then! We are gonna make you stop and smell the roses...or flowers! :D!

ATC Details:
Stamps: Visual Artisty by Tim Holtz from Stampers Anonymous
Papers: Acrylic ATC from HL
Accessories: Acrylic paints, mini mister, paintbrush, baby wipes, feather earring, scor-tape, twine, sponge, distress inks, ticket stub.