Sneak Peek #2: "The Giving Tree" and "Nesting"

Welcome back, it's day 2 of our Gina K Designs sneak peeks! You are going to love Theresa Momber's newest set "The Giving Tree", which is packed with a beautiful tree silhouette and oodles of other images and sentiments to complete the most whimsical little scenes, year round! There is such a tenderness and innocence about this set that I love! The little trio of leaves and hearts really spoke to me, so I had the idea to have two trees reaching out to each other, with their leaves changing to hearts as they got closer...
The tree is stamped twice in Vivid Coffee Bean and leaves and hearts with olive ink. It's so fun to add these wherever you wish, and the branch ends make it easy. You can plant them in some grass with a few swipes of Copics, YG 93 and YG 97. Card base is Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown. There's room for a sentiment, she has some beautiful ones in the set plus a label that fits all the Circle Nestabilities, but I really wanted the focus here to be the whimsy of the changing leaves...

(If I could do this card over, I'd make one little heart RED. Just sayin'! Wouldn't that be SWEET?)

Just to give you a peek of two more images and show how else you can fill out the tree or add quick pops of color, I've added a little fur and feathers to the card, see, the little squirrel and bird are making friends! :) This is such a fun set!

Next up we have "Nesting" from Asela Hopkins. I love these realistic images and the script she used on the sentimental greetings, which would also be really nice titles for scrapbook pages. This little nest with three tiny eggs in it is my favorite, you just want to protect them by putting them in your pocket! I wanted that to be the focus on the card so I embossed a square frame around them with a Square Nestabilitie, (use the 2 B plates and rubber mat and shims with your A plate instead of the C plate so the die won't cut through) to frame the nest and stamped "Family" in Vivid Coffee Bean below.

The eggs are colored with B00 and BG01. T he nest you don't have to color at all if you stamp it in brown! I love the simple elegance of this card, these colors and design just make me think of dainty little box from Tiffany's!

We are giving away TWO of each of these sets being previewed tonight!

Here's how to play along:

Leave a comment on each of the participating designer's blogs and Gina will randomly choose FOUR winners from ALL of the comments! That means you have LOTS more chances to win free stamps! Gina will announce the winners tomorrow night, right here at the top of her preview entry just before preview day 3. (And you can leave a comment here too because all the comments will count. One comment per blog please.) Din't forget to see if you won from yesterday!


Now check out more samples from the team and come back tomorrow for our final day of previews!

Gina K Senior Designers and Illustrators

• AJ Otto
• Asela Hopkins
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Colleen Schaan
• Emily Giovanni
• Gina K
• Giovana Smith
• Janice Whiting
• Jennie Harper
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger (you are here, thanks for visiting!)
• Michelle Woerner
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Valerie Stangle
• Vicki Dutcher

See you tomorrow for our final day of previews, thank you for your comments!