Sneak Peek Day 1: "A Year of Borders" and "Winter Mittens"

I am so excited to preview my newest set from Gina K Designs: "A Year of Borders"! These 5" seasonal borders coordinate with SEVEN of my previous hand drawn nature sets, which are also some of my most popular sellers:

"A Beautiful Life" "Gifts from the Sea"

"Buds and Vases" "A Year of Leaves"

"Festive Frame" "A Year of Flowers" "Wild at Heart"

You will love having this as an expansion to these sets, or if you have none of them, once you have this you’ll feel like you do! Since the winter holidays are upon us, today I chose the poinsettia border to make an elegant Christmas card, but hopefully you'll see a few other borders popping up today in our design team hop!

I started out with a 4"x 5 1/4" Ivory mat and then punched the bottom. I stamped my poinsettia border above it and colored with Copics (E13 and E57 for pinecones, R37 and R59 for flowers, YG23 and G99 for needles). Next I Cuttlebugged the top of the mat with the Victoria folder and sponged the edges lightly with some olive and Antique Linen ink. I adhered that to a Gina K Pure Luxury Lipstick Red base and embossed my greeting from "Festive Frame" in gold and die cut the mats with Petite Ovals.

I added two more little poinsettias clusters I'd cut out from my second stamped border and popped these up over the greetings like embellishments. I hope this sample give you an idea of how much smaller these individual images are than the ones in the original sets! Accents are Fancy Corners punched from Good as Gold cardstock and adhesive nail heads. Don't forget to add a little sparkle to the centers of each flowers with a Sakura gold glitter pen! This set will make beautiful CAS cards as well, no coloring required, but I just had to do something fancy for our peek! :)

Year round, these are stamps I know you'll reach for again and again. Stamp an entire mat with the borders to create a background in just seconds filled with intricate, already masked natural elements, use a single border to add drama to the side off your card, add one to the inside of your card or create a coordinating envelope, or snip out individual images. It is sure to become a well-loved staple in your craft room.

Would you like to win "A Year of Borders"? Leave a comment at the end of this post telling me which of my nature sets you love best and/or what you'd do with these borders first! Want a second chance to win? Copy and paste a pic of this card and link this sneak preview post on your own blog to help me spread the word! Come back and let me know, thanks in advance!

Next up we have Nina Brackett's set, "Winter Mittens". Stamps in this set coordinate with a few of the Spellbinders sets, which I know you will see tonight in our hop. I hand cut the mittens for this sample, but used a Classic Oval Nestabilities die for the label tag.
Base is Pure Luxury Red Hot and patterned papers are from the Basic Grey Jovial pack. The mats are stamped with Tami Mayberry's "In Stitches" in Memento Rich Cocoa and the tag is stamped on ivory and sponged with Antique Linen. I inked up both the mittens and label images with markers for this two-toned effect. The greetings are separate from the label so you can add the one you want.

My inspiration for this card was to have them look like they are hanging up on the wall, so I used a little turquoise Pure Luxury Button and I love how this Basic Grey paper looks like the distressed and peeling plank in a cabin.

Please see more samples of these two new sets from the rest of our fabulous team!

Gina K

Cathy Tidwell

Carolyn King

Emily Giovanni

Lee Murphy

Nina Brackett- illustrator of Winter Mittens

Theresa Momber

Release party this Thursday night at 7PM CST at StampTV, it's not a party without all of you Gina K friends, please come!

Thank you for visiting today!