Sneak Peek "Fine Furnishings and Additions" and "Friends are Forever"

Final days of peeks and then it is time to party! First up I have a card where I used both of Nina Brackett's sets "Fine Furnishings" and "Fine Furnishing Additions". "Fine Furnishings" is a lovely set of furniture and home decor and the "...Additions" features a chaise lounge and greetings to go with the larger set. Although I am looking forward to paper piecing the many couches, I gravitated towards the large chandelier image, thought it would be perfect for adding large scale decorative elements to a card. Starting with Pure Luxury White, I stamped the chandelier in Pink onto my 3 3/4" x 5" mat, gave the paper a half turn, reinked and stamped again. TIP: Make sure the mid line of the chandelier is going through the mid line on your grid line block, this makes it easy to line up the second one below the first.
I stamped the picture frame twice in Memento Tuxedo Black onto Pure Luxury White and Passionate Pink, stamped the greeting onto the pink CS and cut out the middle to piece onto the frame, then layered that and my larger white mat on Black Onyx. A punch border and wave flourish make it extra fancy! I couldn't find my rhinestones (eek!) but I did go over some the dots with a glitter pen for some sparkle. This went together really fast and would be a pretty gift set in different colors with the balck and white like lime, turquoise, etc!

Next up we have Gina's "Free with Three" set "Friends are Forever". This was actually the first card I made when our new release stamps arrived, I just had to use all three new colors of Pure Luxury Wild Dandelion, Grass Green, and Sweet Mango! Right away! LOL! So I went with a simple color block background, these each measure 1 1/2" x 4". The two flowers standing straight and serenely were prefect for the color scheme, and they looked like the belonged in a vase...so I cut one out of part of a plastic Nestabilities package with one of my long rectangles dies, and then adhered it over my colored image with some Crystal Lacquer.

Love the perfectly smooth, shiny texture the plastic layer adds, very sleek and modern. Layer it just right and the lacquer showing through looks like water. :) TIP: Be sure to just use a little bit of the lacquer so it doesn't smoosh out the sides when your cover it with your die cut. You may want to wait until the lacquer its almost dry before putting the vase on top. You could also use a Versamarker pen to fill in a rectangle shape and add clear embossing powder to make the water and have a little more control of where it goes.

This is a great set, and free makes it even better! I'm sure you will have NO trouble picking out at least three other stamp sets from our Gina K release this month to earn it! :)

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, check out these Designer's Links:

• Gina Krupsky *Friends are Forever designer




• Nina Brackett *Fine Furnishings and Fine Furnishings Additions designer




• Jessica Fick




• Theresa Momber

• Melanie Muenchinger (you are here! thank you!)




• Cathy Tidwell




• Lee Murphy




• Donna Baker




• Lynn Mercurio

• Emily Giovanni




• Erika Martin




• Kurtis Amundson

• Sankari Wegman

• Kay Simmons *May's CenterStage Spotlight Team Member!*

Please make plans to attend our Release party tomorrow night, Thursday night, May 27th from 7-10 central time which will be held at StampTV. There will be contest questions, challenges, samples from several designers and lots of chatter all leading up to 10pm central, when all the new products and stamp sets previewed this week on our blogs become available online through GinaK Designs store!