Gina K Designs Inspiration Blog Hop for February 2016 Release! Day 1!

Hey y'all!! Glad to see ya!

Day One

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamps from the February Release Party. 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 set “Year of Flowers 3” by Melanie Muenchinger and the “Birds & Blossoms 2” set Theresa Momber. Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!!  To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

Up first today Is Melanie's new set, "A Year Of Flowers 3" 

 I have made several with this set, and still have so many to put all together!  Here is wha I have for today:

 I first made the background by stamping the flowers and leave all over a piece of cardstock.  Then after stamping, and I bleached the flowers, I cut the cardstock piece into a bunch of inchies!  For this card, I took the inchies and embossed them with UTEE to get a tiled look.  Edges were distressed with Vintage Photo distress ink also. Super fun technique to do!  :D  And then, since I had leftovers from this card, I made TWO more!  Here they are:

 I used up all of my scraps, go me!  LOL!

Next up is Theresa's new set, Birds and Blossoms 2.

And we are totally THRILLED T is back!  :D Here is my first card with this set:

Last week my fellow DT, Karen, did the Bokeh technique for Funday Friday, and I HAD to try this one!  It is very fun, and addicting!  LOL!  I have one more card with this technique I will be showing tomorrow.

Here is another card I made with T's set:

I used that big and little cherry blossom flowers to stamp the background, using white ink, and then colored and cut out two of the flowers.  The 'happy' in the heart is actuall a Heidi Swapp mini stencil.  Did a bit of distressing on the edges with the TH embossing tool too.  

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

Gina K

Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator for Year of Flowers 3

Theresa Momber – Illustrator for Birds & Blossoms 2

Allie Gower

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Laurie Schmidlin

Sean Fetterman

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.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and be sure and come by back tomorrow...we got two more sets to showcase for you! 

Gina K Designs Blog Hop! New Incentive Stamp, Coffee Therapy!

Hey y'all!  Surprise!  Its me!  :D  Glad you are here!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a special Inspiration Blog Hop featuring our new incentive stamp set called, “Coffee Therapy”. 

With this stamp set you will be able to make fun friendship cards to send to your favorite coffee buddy! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!!  To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

I truly am having a blast working with this little set!  Some think the set is little, and you wont get much use from it..but I am here to testify that this set is not like that at all!!  :D

Up first, I have for you Billy's Pick of the Hop!  

I used the designer papers from the New StampTV kit, Made With Love ( totally awesome!)  And fussy cut the coffee cups to pop them up.  I like that look, which you will probably notice!  :D  Billy and me agree on a favorite this time!
















Up next is A close 2nd for favorite for me:

Had to get a bit of distressing on at least one card!  :D  I used the Spectrum Glitter Markers and just scribbled the background after stamping the coffee cup and embossing it with clear embossing powder.  The marker will kinda settle into the little areas to make the flowers show up when you wipe off that part!  Then used a stencil to make the coffee stains...how could I NOT use this stencil for this set?  (tim holtz stencil).




A few  things about our incentive stamps.  now they will be changing every two weeks!  Lots of asked for that and Gina did it!  Once the current incentive is done...you will be able to purchase it also.  Im loving this new incentive plan myself!

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

Gina K

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Sean Fetterman

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.

Here are a few more of my cards I have made with this set.  The inspiration bug hit me late last night and I was up to almost 3 making cards, lol!  But didnt want kill that bug!  :D

Thanks again for stopping by!  I so appreciate your wonderful comments!  Makes my day! 

Gina K Designs January 2016 Inspiration Blog Hop, Made With Love!

Hey y'all!  Glad to see you here today!  :D

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our January Release!  We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along in the hop this month!  Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!!  To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

I truly think this is my most favorite of all of the kits!  Totally flooded with ideas in my old brain!  I have like 5 halfway finished cards done...because I know if I dont start, right when I get the thought, ill forget it, haha!  Ok, so...I always ask Billy (hubby) to pick his favorite and this is the one he picked:

AND I admit, its my favorite one Ive done for this release too!  :D  It has a clear overlay on it, that the tree and sentiment is stamped on.  I do have plans to show How I made the 'fence' on this too.  The moon is made by making a circle die cut, then taking a marker (I used Copics W1 and W2) and just scribble on different areas.  Then I took the Spectrum clear glitter marker and swished it all over.  It looks sooo cool IRL!

Here is another super quick one I have made:

I CAS card ...I also used the Spectrum Glitter markers on this one and then fussy cut it.  I did the dry embossing and then just put the flower in middle of it, ta-da!  I gave this to Billy on our anniversary the other day.  (our 33rd :D)



OK!  Ready for more eye candy?!  Just follow the links below!!

Gina K

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Melanie Muenchinger

Sean Fetterman

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Thank you for stopping by! Don’t forget to stop by the Gina K Designs Store to purchase this awesome STV kit  at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Here are some cards that I showed at the release too!

 Again, thanks for stopping by!  I so love reading all of your compliments, than mean sooo much to me!

--Cat

Gina K Designs December 2015 Release Inspiration Blog Hop!

Hey y'all!!  Long time no  see!  Glad you stopping by today!

LINK LIST AND BLURB FOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 21

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our December Release!  We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along in the hop this month!  Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!!  To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

I am so tickled to be sharing these two stamps sets!  They are soo much fun to work with.  Being on the DT, when we get the stamps, sometimes they are kinda hard for me to come up with anything (doesnt happen often, but it has!)  you dont really have anything else to look at, like what others might have done with the sets, to give you  any ideas...YOU are the one others will be looking to to come up with something...well, that being said...both of these sets I have not had to struggle at all!  The idea for them just keep coming!  :D  

Ok, first up we have Beth's new set called, 'Hippo Bird Day' !!  Here is what I have for today:

 Party hats!  And I used my new Spectrum Noir Glitter pens with them....TOTALLY loving those!  These little hats just sparkle IRL!  

  Next up is Melanie's new set, called, Twine Time!  And like Ive said before...Melanie packs her sets jam full of stuffs and it makes the combinations and ways to use these stamps endless!  Here is my card for today with this set:

I actually didnt use any of the twine images, but I love this little saying so much I had to use one more time, lol!  Another case from me today!  Hope you like!

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 Hippo Bird Day

Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator of Twine Time

Allie Gower

Cathy Tidwell

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Sean Fetterman

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Thank you for stopping by! Don’t forget to stop by the Gina K Designs Store to purchase these awesome stamp sets at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Look forward to seeing you next year!  LOL!  Actually, probably before then!  :D

~~Cat

Here are a few cards that I showed at the release party!  

The first two uses Melanies set, Twine Time and the last card uses Beth's set Hippo Bird Day:
 

 

Gina K Designs October 2015 StampTV kit Inspiration Blog Hop!!

Hey y'all!!  Glad to see you here! 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our October StampTV Kit Release!  We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projections as you hop along in the hop this month!  Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!!  To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

The name if this kit is "Sparkling Christmas"  

 

          This sure put me into the mood to dig out all of my Christmas stuff!     I have a couple of cards that I didnt show at the Release the other night.  First one is this really sparkly one:

For this card, I used the snowflakes from the sets and scor-tape to make it all sparkly!!  The snowflake is a die that Gina has in the store, and I took glitter and poured all over it to make it oh so beautiful!  :D  And I also made this card:

 I had two cards in mind to do, but only go this one done. Its to give you the impression that you are inside looksing out.  It's sister card was gonna be "outside, looking in!  I didnt get to finish though and will have for you in the very near future!  :D 

ok, Want to see more eye candy  from the team?  Here ya go!! 

Gina K

Allie Gower

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Payel Ray

Sean Fetterman

Tricia Traxler

Thank you for stopping by! Don’t forget to stop by the Gina K Designs Store to purchase your StampTV Kit at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Cat