The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to a fun Spring Has Sprung blog hop. For this hop we will showcase Spring cards and projects with you! The DT Members have all used a wide variety of Gina K. Designs stamp sets to inspire YOU to get inky, too! Come play along with the Current Challenges at Stamp TV!
If you came from Lori McAree 's blog, then you're right where you should be. If not, please go to Stamp TV where you will find a list of all those participating.
Today I have another Clean And Simple card using Wild Flowers, this time with just a butterfly! (There I go using Blue Raspberry again, twice in one week, but I'm pretty sure I've never put it with Innocent Pink!) March is a really busy month for us (hence all the CAS designs!), but also I just love doing quick and easy direct to stamp techniques with bold images! When inking the butterfly begin with yellow Memento Marker (Cantaloupe) at center and work your way out to color each side of the visible spectrum: orange (Tangelo) and then red (Rhubarb Stalk) above, and beneath, green (Cottage Ivy), blue (Bahama Blue) then purple (Grape Jelly). This light to dark coloring process will allow colors to blend evenly and keep you from dirtying up your light markers.
Also, I wanted to show how you can use those little dotty stamps in the set to make a whimsical little trial behind the butterflies! See how they are in a fatter cluster ant one end and go to a point with just one dot? Ink up and stamp one way, then turn the stamp upside down and overlap with the first cluster so they are pointy on the ends and thick in the middle. Repeat until you have the desired trial length, see how that looks so floaty and ethereal?
Finally, because I really wanted the focus of the card to be the colors, I inked up the greeting the same way to emphasize the different words (red for "love" of course, and "laugh" in a rainbow to make it more whimsical!) and stayed away from adding patterned papers. The curved punched corner in Red Hot gives it some pop. Add just a few adhesive rhinestones for sparkle. That's it! happy card!
Mel, I LOVE this card!! Great colors and I love the CAS design!!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE that butterfly - marker to stamp technique is just perfect for this set! Thanks for the reminder for sharing this beauty with us!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat technique!
ReplyDeleteEeeeek!!! You KNOW how much I love my bright colors!!!! FAB design!
ReplyDeleteSuch a bright cheery card, love the CAS design :-)
ReplyDeleteI love the way you colored the butterfly- will try this technique!
ReplyDeleteLove how you colored this butterfly. Great card.
ReplyDeleteWhat happy colors. Love that rainbow butterfly.
ReplyDeleteLove the brightness of your card, and the trail you created for your butterfly!
ReplyDeleteLove all the fun and bright colors Mel!! Beautiful card.
ReplyDeleteI love the coloring on this one. Great job and great card.
ReplyDeleteJust want to let you know that I am a brand new fan. I just received the "A Year of Flowers" book & stamp set from Annie's Attic and after being directed to StampTV, I ordered the additional stamp set from GinaKDesigns. I absolutely love your work and am very anxious to begin my Easter cards, referring constantly to my new book. Now is I can only learn the copic terchniques to enhance your beautiful stamps, I'd be set. Thank you for your gifted creativity.
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P.S. I can't seem to figured out how to send these messages since I don't have a google account of URL. Oh well!
It is amazing how you can bring to light so many great new ideas on using the stamps in a different way! Love it!
ReplyDeleteI love your rainbow butterfly, it's so happy! And the bubbly butterfly trail is very cute too!
ReplyDeleteCute card. Loved the colors of the butterfly. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love your card. The coloring is awesome! Thank you for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, my this butterfly card is spectacular. And, how clever to show the flight of the butterfly with the dotted images. I am always so happy to see new ways to use this set of stamps. It has become a favorite of mine. Keep the ideas for it's use coming as I love all that you do with the set. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteReally innovative card!
ReplyDeleteVery attractive CAS card.
ReplyDeleteSo Pretttty and your tips are always so great!
ReplyDeleteThis card is absolutely magical.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous colors, Melanie and love that butterfly.
ReplyDeleteOooo LOVE the variegated color patterns! And the bling of course!
ReplyDeleteI am a fan of clean and simple. Yours is beautiful!
ReplyDeletethanks for the detailed tip on the dotti stamps!!! appreciated that tip, my nose was pressed against the computer screen checking it out!!! smile
ReplyDeletegreat vibrant color on your card.
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Wowsers! Love it! It is definitely a happy card!
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Beautiful card thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteyou might think it's CAS but to the rest of the world . It's AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteYou are so inspiring Melanie. Thanks for the great ideas of how to ink up the two different types of stamps, as well as the sentiment! It's like a rainbow danced on top of the card!
ReplyDeletegorgeous! love the rainbow & butterfly trail!! genius
ReplyDeleteso very pretty Melanie...Love the butterfly trail..thanks for sharing (((HUGS)))
ReplyDeleteLove, love, LOVE, this card! And that butterfly trail is awesome!!
ReplyDeleteThis card is so stunning. Love that butterfly trail.
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