Monday, March 28, 2011

Spellbinders Blog Hop

Good morning and happy Monday! Today the Gina K Designs team is doing another thank you blog hop for Spellbinders, sharing more samples of cards we've made with our Grand Calibur gifts! If you are following the hop you should be arriving from Lee Murphy's blog, but you may start anywhere along the way and see everything, thank you for stopping here! The card I made for today, which also uses this week's StampTV's sketch challenge, uses 5 different Spellbinders dies and I was able to cut them ALL in one pass on my Grand Calibur, then flip and emboss all five on the second pass, love it! I stamped my daisy bunch from "Spring Basket" in Vivid Coffee Bean on the Long Rectangle panel and then framed it on Long Scalloped Rectangles die cuts from Pure Luxury Creme de Menthe and Chocolate Brown. After coloring my daisies with Copics G21, YG11, RV00, BV31, BV00, and V17, I layered these over a Petite Scalloped Circle from Lovely Lavender mat, both stamped with my "Bring the Bling" flourishes in Versamark, which I then covered with Liquid Pearls. Base and Fancy Tag are made with the new Gina K Pure Luxury Wild Lilac.
Greeting is from the new Free with Three set "Stenciled Spring". I hope you can participate in our sketch challenge this week!! Be sure to upload your card using this sketch to the STV gallery with the tag STVSKSP19, good luck winning a set of free stamps!
Now please continue the hop on Sharon Harnist's blog and check out more stunning samples with Spellbinders along the way from the rest of our talented Gina K Designs team! Enjoy the rest of your day and I hope to see you again tomorrow!

50 comments:

  1. So pretty and Springy, Mel -- love the colors!

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  2. Oooh, love all the layers, Melanie!

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  3. So very pretty!!! LOVE all the layers and wow... I wish my Liquid Pearls came out as nicely as yours did. Mine always have points!!!!

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  4. Love the way you made all of those dies work together in that layout. Great design job!!

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  5. Great card to showcase the dies.

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  6. Lovely card ! Purple shades are my favorite colors ! Hugs

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  7. Beautiful card - love the little peek-a-boo pearl swirls!

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  8. Beautiful card - love the colors, the coloring, and the pearl bling!

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  9. This is a beautiful card design. It represents spring so well.

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  10. This is really cute! I love how you have used this image vertically!

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  11. Very pretty. I love the way you colored the flowers. Dawn

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  12. I like how you turned the flowers on end and is really shown off sitting on the lacy card stock.

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  13. Love the card. Love the spellbinders fancy tags.

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  14. Your card is really really pretty! Great use of the sketch!

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  15. Five in one pass!! Wonderful. I'm looking forward to beginning my own collection of Spellbinder items.

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  16. Beautiful card. Love how
    you used the image vertically.
    I must give this a try. I doubt
    my pearls will look as neat and
    perfect as yours.

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  17. Beautiful card with beautiful colors! Love it!

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  18. I love the layers and layers of color!! Simply beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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  19. Wonderful card. I'm looking forward to doing the sketch, as well.

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  20. Love that you incorporate more than one stamp set in your cards. Beautiful card and fantastic colors.

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  21. The purple and green is a great combination.

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  22. Very pretty card.. colors are great.. they so remind me of Easter..

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  23. Cheerful shade of purple. Very sweet and pretty!! Iris, Saved by Grace

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  24. Such a pretty card! Love the color!

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  25. What a unique and beautiful card. I'm envious of those people who have a Grand Calibur!

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  26. Love the color combo, mel. The card has such a "spring" feel to it. Thanks for sharing.

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  27. Melanie, love,love your card. The purples are so beautiful!

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  28. This is a beautiful color combo Mel and I love the elegant touches--gorgeous!

    hugz,
    Suzanne

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  29. Wonderful card. Love the colors and the design.
    Marcie

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  30. Wow, wonderful job!! Love the purple flowers, the card is gorgeous.
    Thanks
    Donna P

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  31. Beautiful! Purple is a favorite color in our household.

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  32. Oh I love this cards. It has so much movement. All those dies in one pass...wow!

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  33. I love this sketch design. And I have to start using pearls, they add soooo much to the card.

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  34. I love the flowers in the vertical layout! Whodahthunkthat?! Well you of course!

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  35. I love how you used the stamp on this card. Wonderful.

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  36. Love the lovely pearl flourishes peeking out from behind!

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  37. Love Love Love. Beautiful Colors.

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  38. Gorgeous. What detail. The card is amazing.

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  39. Melanie very nice card -- who you used 5 spellbinders on this one card and did that with one pass on the Grand Caliber and then did a second pass and embossed with the second pass. I'm impressed. Aloha from Hawaii.
    cc

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  40. Beautiful card - what a great way to use the flowers! I love this sketch!

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  41. It's a lovely card!!! I love the colours, the pearls & the layers. Sooo pretty!

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  42. I love the purple, the stamps, the diecuts--the whole darn thing! Spellbinders are awesome!

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  43. Love the colors thanks for sharing

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