Cat's Creations

Monday, August 17, 2015

Back To School with Gina K Design! Come Blog Hop with us!!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a special BACK TO SCHOOL blog hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, will inspire you with many fun cards and projects for your favorite student, their teacher or your friends that are in the teaching profession!

As you hop through Gina and the Cast & Crew blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a random comment and that stamper will win their choice of a Gina K Designs stamp set with a value up to $23.95!

To see if you are the winner, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

There are a number of stamp sets from Gina K Designs that you can use to create a welcome, thank you or back to school. Today, our featured sets are Melanie Muenchinger’s Basket Additions 3 and Beth Silaika’s Keep Calm. There are some great stamps to color and the perfect sentiment for Back to School! ☺

Melanie's Basket Additions 3 set

Beth Silaiki's Keep Calm stamp set:

It’s not too late to make your project or special cards because students and teachers will be back in the classroom soon, but also need encouragement all semester long! If you do not have these sets in your Gina K Designs stamp collection, visit the Gina K Designs store at Gina's Store

Here is the projects that I made for today’s hop:

I did not use Beth's Keep Calm set, but her Stippled Nature set:

Stippled Nature set.

For Today, Ive made a bunch of goodies! I made a little deskstop gift set for a teacher. I do so understand how crazy the first days are so to me, giving them a gift on the first day, telling them THANK YOU for everything you will be doing in this upcoming year! I used Melanie's Just So Sporty stamp set too, and only realize tonight it was retired! I apologize for that! I do so love how the sets work together so well though!

And here is a little gift box, made in the shape of a backpack with matching gift card and enevelope:

The Gina K Designs products that I used to create this project are:

Every single product used can be purchased at

Gina K Designs

except for the bee die, flower die, chipboard banner and pencil, and mini door handle.

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

Thanks so very much for stopping by today! I even dusted before you came, I had been so long posting that the dust bunnies had taken over! Hopefully ill do better in the upcoming months! LOL!

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Gina K Design's June Inspiration Hop - Day 2!!

Hey y'all!! Glad you came by! Got another awesome stamp set to showcase for you!

Gina K Designs StampTV Kit June Inspiration Blog Hop

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcome you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, 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 random comment and that stamper will 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 hop.

Up today is Theresa Mombers newest set called, The Wetlands! what a wonderful set for dads, brothers, Or whoever! LOL! Ok, ill hush! Here my super quick cards I made:

The piece behind the stamp image is a piece of vellum that I tore the edges before attaching it. I think I like that look! : Super quick and easy to make and I think a wonderful 'man' card, lol. And here is the card I showed at the release Thursday night. I loved coloring this duck!

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Gina K - http://ginakdesigns.blogspot.com/

Theresa Momber – Illustrator for The Wetlands stamp set - http://craftingtheweb.blogspot.com/

Beth Silaika - http://silaika.blogspot.com/

Karen Hightower - http://www.karenscreativemess.blogspot.com/

Laurie Schmidlin - http://justgivemestamps.typepad.com/

Lee Murphy - http://luvleestamper.blogspot.com/

Melanie Muenchinger - http://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com/

Sean Fetterman - http://fettermandesigns.blogspot.com/

Tricia Traxler - http://simplystamping.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to stop by the Gina K Designs store in the "What's New" section to check out all of the new products from the release: http://www.shop.ginakdesigns.com/main.sc

Thank you again for stopping by! Ill be having more up soon!!

--Cat
p.s. thought id share how my photo shoot of my creations go most of the time!!

yess that my dear kitty cat Shady. She is such a diva, thinks the pictures should all be her. LOL!

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Gina K Design Inspiration Blog Hop for StampTV kit, 'Flowers and Frames'

Hey' Y'all!! Long time no see! Welcome to our May (yes, in June!) StampTV kit Inspiration Hop!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for the brand spanking new StampTV kit, Flowers and Frames.!! And we are so excited to tell you that the kit will be available tomorrow, Friday, 6/4 8AM CST for you to puchase after being out of stock for a few weeks. We apologize again that these sold out so quickly!! So for today, enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then in the AM, add it to your cart and any other GKD goodies you are needing and head on to checkout!! (And did you know we have a special group that you can join if you are a member of StampTV? It’s called StampTV Addicts! Tricia has all kinds of good advice and inspiration in there too!) Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, 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 a random comment and that stamper will win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

I have two creations I want to share with you today! First up, this one:

For this card, I first stamp the flowers onto the card stock with versamark ink and let it dry. Decided I wanted a bit more pop so then stamped and using white embossing powder and outlines those ones with a very light grey copic marker W1). I also took some of the leaves from this kit and stamped them onto vellum and heat embossed those with white too. I like how the edges did for this, that you cant really see the cut edge after cutting out with the die because its vellum. Cut a curve with a Spellbinders border die and added a piece of white doily on the back side to get this look on the bottom left edge. All the other pretty obvious what I did...And now for my 2nd card...super quick distressed one! :D

And since I had my embossing stuff out...I decided to emboss this flower too. Clear embossing used on this one, then took a stamp pad (innocent pink) and stamped over the flower, which I did until I had a look I wanted then took a cloth and buffed off the flower. Distressed the edges on this one and layered and all done!

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Tricia Traxler

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope in someway, a good way, that we have inspired you! Thanks for all of the wonderful comments too!
--Cat

Card Details:
Stamps used: Flowers and Frames STV Kit
Papers: All Gina K cardstock
Accessories: seam binding ribbon, canvas butterflies, small kraft butterflies, embossing powder in clearn and white, oval nesties, sticky dots, scor-tape, loopy ribbon (for lack of better name) from Michales,

Monday, April 20, 2015

Gina K Designs Mini Inspiration Hop!

Hey Y'all! The Gina K Design team thought we would do a little inspiration hop for you while we are in between release! It's using our newest stamps. And today, Beth is going to be giving you a chance to win her awesome 'Lots Of Washi' stamp set! Just leave a comment on the blog posts...the more comments you enter, the better your chance to win! Today, I only have one card at the moment. As I am typing this, its 2:30 AM....I had 3 cards total done and Shady Cat was a BAD bad kitty and knocked my coffee all of the table...I was able to salvage this one though...

I used Melanie Muenchinger's newest set, Triple Play Frame. This is a super easy CAS creation, and I am tickled to have salvaged it..but sad about my cards with Theresa's and Beth's sets! Might get them worked up to show you later though. Tomorrow will be another Mini Hop too! Here are the links to my fellow DT and their awesome creations:

Beth Silaika – Illustrator of Delicate Damask

Laurie Schmidlin
Sean Fetterman

Thats all from me today! Im heading to be and cry over spilt milk...:(
-Cat

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Gina K Designs March 2015 Release, Day 3!

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

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, 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.

For today, we have Beth's newest set, Delicate Damask. Here is what I have for today:

I call this 'Faux Melted Crayon' technique, lol! I used rubbing alcohol and Sharpies to help create the rainbow background. The damask images are stamped along the bottom to give it a bit of sassy style, lol! Oh the possibilities with this set...the mind gets to going and then cant get it down on paper quick enough, lol!

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Gina K

Beth Silaika – Illustrator of Delicate Damask

I am so glad you stopped by my blog for this release! I totally enjoy sharing with all my creations and if you ever have any question, never hesitate to ask!

Have a wonderfully creative day!

--Cat

card details:

Stamps: Delicate Damask by Beth Siliaiki from Gina K Designs.com

Papers: Gina K cardstocks

Accessories: arrow image by Recollections, sharpie pens, rubbing alcohol, rose ribbon, black rhinestones.

Cat's Creations

Monday, August 17, 2015

Back To School with Gina K Design! Come Blog Hop with us!!

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Gina K Design's June Inspiration Hop - Day 2!!

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Gina K Design Inspiration Blog Hop for StampTV kit, 'Flowers and Frames'

Monday, April 20, 2015

Gina K Designs Mini Inspiration Hop!

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Gina K Designs March 2015 Release, Day 3!

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