Friday, January 1, 2010

We're Celebrating Two Years and 25 Sets Blog Hop!

This blog candy is now closed. Winners were chosen randomly. Congrats to:

Sharri Seffens who won my new Square Pegs set!

Marsha Drain, who won a set of Nestabilities (please email me with your set choice ASAP!) :)

-A Charmed Life set goes to Donna Rinkel

-Sporty Accessories goes to Juli Smith,

and finally the signed CardMaker issue goes to Donna Polley!

Thank you again everyone for your comments and adding your gorgeous samples, I will be back to share some of my faves this weekend along with some comments from and thoughts from me on the hop! Winners, please email me your snail addys ASAP so I can put your prizes in the mail! Thank you!

It's hard for me to believe that since I started illustrating and blogging two years ago I have already released 25 stamp sets with GinaK Designs (and written over 700 GinaK posts!!)On this first day of the new year, I am celebrating this huge milestone with the help of 25 designers, showcasing ALL my sets, starting with my very first set, "Just So Hippy", going in order all the way up to my most recent "Tech Talk"! I have been SO excited about this, a retrospective not only of my designs but so many ladies who guest designed or won contests with them, it will be such a wonderful stroll down "memory lane"! I have offered many different styles over the the past two years so it's gong to be really fun seeing them all together (There is candy plus a chance to join in our hop at the end of this post!)


I'm eager to get hopping but I had to share something so here is a quick peek of a new pop up template I have coming out next week, I created this little oven to go with one of my favorite sets from 2008, "Have a Cookie"! All the baking images you see here are from that stamp set!
DP is October Afternoon Report Card. I'll be back next week with the full card sample and instructions for assembling the oven, it's very similar to process for putting together my desk template, you are going to love using this template with that the cookie set to make your own little pop up kitchens! :)

Now, off we go!
Just So Hippy-Charmaine
Just So Hoppy-Donna
What’s in Your Tin 1 & 2-Donna
Hip Hop Accessories-Bee
Jumping for Joy-Barb
Cuddles and Hugs-Jessie
Little Tees-Cat
Just So Sporty-Pam
A Year of Flowers-Theresa
Say it with Flowers-Selma
Have a Cookie-Carolina
Tee Talk-Gabby
Hand in Hand-Ally
The Best Things in Life-Shannon, Sankari
A Charmed Life-Cathy
Wee Tees-Libby, Laura Jean
Arranged with Love-Selma
Sporty Accessories-Tina
Inspiration Mosaic-Jennie
School Sports Spirit-Melissa
A Year of Leaves-Geri
Hip to Be Square-Karen
Festive Frame-Linda
Tech Talk- Lee


Finally, Nina and Jessica from the GinaK Senior Design Team have joined in, too! You can also get in on this hop yourself and increase your chances of winning a prize by creating your own project with any one of my sets and linking it in the Mr. Linky below. Hope you can join the fun! Enjoy your first hop of the year! :)


Thank you ALL : designers, readers, customers and friends, from the bottom of my heart for taking this journey with me, I know SO many of you are faithful readers of my blog and have amassed quite a collection (in some cases every single one!) of my sets! Here's to a wonderful year of stamping and creating for each and every one of us in 2010!

Now it wouldn't be a party without candy! I have several prizes up for grabs, so I will be drawing several winners, one for each:

-a signed copy of my new set releasing next Thursday January 7th, trust me you'll want this one, you can stamp with it the whole year!!


-a signed copy of "Sporty Accessories" stamp set


-a signed copy of "A Charmed Life" stamp set


-one set of Nestabilities dies that GinaK carries, your choice!


-a signed issue of the latest issue of CardMaker (January 2010), which features 3 of my designs in its pages (and one from the lovely and talented Carolyn King!) :)




Just leave a comment below telling me either your favorite set of mine, favorite project from this blog the past two years, or favorite project from today's hop to enter. Get an extra chance at winning the newest set and the Nestabilities dies by joining in our hop and creating your own new sample with any of my sets and adding your name and link to the Mr. Linky below. Then, on your blog entry, refer people back here to my blog so they can hop to the next name on the list.

You can continue to add links until next Monday night, 1/4, at 10:00 PM CST. On Tuesday morning, I will post the winners of all prizes and some of my favorite samples from the customer hop! :)

So start your year off right and enjoy a little time stamping over the weekend and add your project here! And don't forget to visit each of the links posted and leave them a comment too! I hope you'll find some new fun bloggers and Gina K fans and friends, and get lots of inspiration along the way!

(I reserve the right to remove any inappropriate links or links that do not link to a project using one of my sets. Please use direct post links to the this blog hop challenge only.) Thanks again, can't wait to see your creations!








214 comments:

  1. There is no way I can decide my favorite! I love everything I have seen so far. I guess if you make me choose, I love the deer card which was inspired by the teapot! Wow! Very impressive.
    Julie L.
    jaleon40@verizon.net
    www.scrappinjulie.blogspot.com

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  2. Congratulations Melanie! It is so hard to choose because I love all of your sets but if I must choose it would be a year of flowers.

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  3. I like Wee Tees!!! Congratulations!!

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  4. I am a follower:)

    It's a good life!
    Terri E.

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  5. Melanie, I just signed up to follow your blog! I hope i got it all right...seems my picture does not cross over?? Go figure! Hope I win!

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  6. This is my second comment as a subscriber. I wanted to let you know I have joined in the hop and linked my card! Thanks for letting us join in!

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  7. I just read on a different post that I can let you know that I am subscribed to your blog for an extra chance to win. Of course I follow your blog. I STALK it! Muahahahaha! LOL

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  8. Wahoo for all your GREAT designs! It's hard to pick just one favorite, but for me it's Inspiration Mosaic. It's SO versatile I can use it for any theme. LOVE IT!

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  9. It is hard to pick one of anything you make. You inspire me to create. I love how you combine your sets and the tip sheets are fantastic.

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  10. I love so many of your sets, but my favorite is A Year of Flowers; so classic! But I'm really liking the new Tech Talk, because it is so versatile and cute....

    Congratulations on an incredible 2 years!

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  11. Tech Talk is awesome. I can't wait to see the new oven set. That would go great with Have a Cookie.

    Missy K.
    marilyn2222 @ hotmail.com

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  12. Hi Mel - I just love all of your sets :) but if I had to pick just one favorite, it would be A Year of Flowers. So gorgeous! Happy Anniversary!!

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  13. My favorite project from this Hop is Pam Smerker's Super Bowl Party ensemble! What a great idea and how amazing are the sets she used. I also love the project you used here. I must have that set! Happy New Year. Best wishes to you. I can't wait to see what you come up with next!!!

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  14. Wow Melanie, When you read these numbers, it's amazing just how incredibly talented you are. Every new release becomes my favourite, but the one that I would really love to get is tech talk.
    Best wishes for the next 25 sets!!!
    Hugs,
    Trish x

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