Video: Stamping Striped Backgrounds with Fabulous Frame and Fillers

Hello!  So sorry for no video last week, I am playing catch up! Today I will show you a simple way to fill your backgrounds with the curved and straight borders from Fabulous Frame Fillers, whether you are creating your own patterned papers, single layer card bases or adding to the Fabulous Frame stamp (back in stock! woot!). This is a very festive card that is easily mass produced for the holidays with no or very little layering, requiring minimal cardstock and no extra postage!  We’ll do some stamping off to create the two colors of stripes and a little masking.  This design can be adapted to other holidays by switching up the border, belly band fillers and colors.  Coloring flower takes 4 minutes. Stamping the striped pattern begins at 9:00 minutes in and takes about 4 minutes.  This is a quick but detailed card!

Supplies: Gina K, Designs Fabulous Frame and Fabulous Frame Fillers stamp sets
Gina K. Pure Luxury White or Ivory cardstock
Gina K. Cherry Red and Dark Chocolate ink pads
Spectrum Noir markers: DR3, DR7, DG3, BG3, GB8
Copic alternatives: R29, R59, YG95, YG99, Y28, W-3
Scissors for trimming frame, sticky notes for masking

Optional: Gina K. gold cording, adhesive pearls, punch for tag, Cherry Red or Cranberry Tart cardstock for base

Apologies, I realized after I finished the video that I forgot to add the shadow to the flower with the BG3 marker! (Doh!) Refer to card photo and trace underside the flower and leaves.

Video: Watercoloring with Ink Pads

Hello! In today’s video, I show you how to easily transform the wintery frame from the Festive Frame stamp set into one perfect for all your fall cards by just the way you color and embellish it with one of my other popular sets, A Year of Leaves.  I’ll be sharing some technique tips for masking, sponging, and watercoloring with your pads and reinkers as well.

I just love how this turned out!  Without all my explanation, it is a 10 minute card!  Thank you to whomever wrote recently requesting this technique, I can't remember who it was, but I enjoyed doing it.  Hope it was helpful!



Supplies:
Gina K. Designs Festive Frame and A Year of Leaves stamp sets
Gina K Pure Luxury Warm Cocoa, Honey Mustard, Heavy Baseweight Ivory or White cardstock
Gina K. Charcoal Brown, Warm Cocoa, Honey Mustard, Grass Green, Cherry Red, Sweet Corn ink pads
waterbrush or watercolor brush, sponge dauber, adhesive and pop dots, scissors, scratch paper (if masking is desired)

Warm Cocoa card base, 4 14” x 11, scored at 5 ½”
Honey Mustard mat: 4 ¼” x 4 ¼”
White mat trimmed to 3 7/8” x 5”, after stamping

Clean and Simple Stamped Wreath

Hello!  Hope you had great weekend! In today’s video, I’ll show you how to stamp up a simple wreath just using the oval and leaf stamps in my Fabulous Frame Fillers. Wreaths are perfect for so many holidays cards, whether open, framing greetings or small images, and can be embellished with punches, pearls or rhinestones or other small stamped images.  The dotted oval adds detail but also is a placement guide for the leaves.

Gina K. Designs Fabulous Frame Fillers, Fabulous Frame (for greeting) stamp sets

Gina K. Designs Pure Luxury White cardstock

Gina K. Tomato Soup, Dark Chocolate Ink pads

Gina K. Tomato Soup Twisted Twine

Gina K Wooden Leaf embellishment

Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Oval die (2 3/8” x 1 ¾”), die cutting machine

Adhesive foam

Inspiration Hop, Day 2: Always Autumn and The Simple Things StampTV Kit

Good morning! The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas, and as you hop through the blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hops.

First, here is a card I made with Theresa's set Always Autumn, using her gorgeous pumpkin arrangement and sentiment.  I used my Fabulous Frame Fillers set to create the framing around the pumpkins, stamping the flourish three times in Gina K. Dark Chocolate ink, then adding the fleur-de-lis to the middle of each, stamping some clusters of leaves at the corners and around the words, and finally stamping the scalloped border on either side of the sentiment.  I love how it turned out, and it is so fun just getting creative with these stamps and making up what works for your layout as you go!  These hand-drawn elements coordinate so nicely with Theresa's hand-drawn images.

Supplies: Spectrum Noir markers: CG2, DG3, GB3, CR10, GB9, OR1, TN6, TN9, BG3 (Copic: E07, YR04, YR07, YR18, Y17, Y15, YG97, YG95, W3)

Gina L. Pure Luxury Fresh Asparagus and Ivory cardstock (from the StampTV kit)

Next, another card with the new StampTV Kit The Simple Things. I am especially loving how well they coordinate with my Fabulous Frame Fillers set, I am so set for Fall! I shrieked a little when I found that both my oval borders fit into this gorgeous label in the kit *and* on the new Vintage Cuts. Eek!

 Cardstock is Gina K. Pure Luxury Tomato Soup and Ivory, both included in kit.  Stamping is done in Gina K. Tomato Soup and Dark Chocolate inks. Stitched line goes across the bottom and top with no masking, but add a sticky note to each end when doing the long sides, stamping the border twice on each side.
Spectrum Noir markers: TN6, TN3, FS3, EB5, BG3 (Copic: E35, E08, E95, E49, W3)

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more inspiration!!

• Gina K
• Melanie Muenchinger -you are here!
• Theresa Momber--Illustrator of Always Autumn
• Beth Silaika
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Karen Hightower
• Kendra Wietstock
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lee Murphy
• Sean Fetterman
• Tricia Traxler

Inspiration Hop, Day 1: The Simple Things StampTV Kit and Fabulous Frame Fillers

 
Good morning! The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas, and as you hop through the blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hops.

 First, my Fabulous Frame Fillers is a huge hit, thank you!  In the video at the top of this post, I show you how to create beautiful patterned backgrounds using the set's floral corners, as well as tips for filling punches, cut, and die cut shapes. Please enjoy!

Gina K. Designs Fabulous Frame Fillers

Gina K. Fresh Asparagus ink pads

Gina K. Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock

Organdy ribbon

Adhesive pearls, adhesive

Optional: Vintage Cuts Pointed Ovals

Here is a quick card I put together with using one of those Pointed Ovals I stamped on.  Cardstock is Pure Luxury Cranberry Tart.

And because I wanted to show another card using it with Fabulous Frame, I couldn't wait to go ahead and share this Christmas card I made!  It was so fun to make the candy cane inspired pattern with the dotted border in Cherry Red ink and the stamping off technique I demonstrated above. Might have to be my next video!  The curved border was stamped first and used as a guide to stamp my rows, skipping every other dot and starting each border below the dot in the curved border and masking the bottom.  I love how it turned out.  The gold cording I used is one of the free incentives with qualifying purchase this month, a definite must for dressing up holidays cards the next several months!

Even though we stocked up for the release, Fabulous Frame sold out again on Friday, but we have more on order!  Be sure to scroll down to this post to see some tips for using just the fillers that I came up with over the weekend experimenting with the different Fabulous Frame Fillers elements.  This is just part 1 of what will be a very long tip sheet series for this set! There is so much to do with these elements on their own, so I hope you aren't too disappointed if you don't have the frame yet and really enjoy playing with the fillers in the meantime.  (Consider it a warm up for when they both finally meet and then have fun letting them "get to know each other"!) ;)

Next, I love everything about the new StampTV  The Simple Things kit!  Colors, embellishments, and of course, terrific stamps!  You get a traditional autumn set and a whimsical one in the same kit, great "two-fer"! On this card, I stamped and colored the pumpkin first, and then added my Fabulous Frame Filler elements around it in this order: 1. Oval 2. Belly bands 3. Curved border above and below 4. Photo corners 5. Straight border on side using sticky notes to mask ends.

Cardstock is Pure Luxury Ivory and Fresh Asparagus, both from kit.  I used Gina K. Chocolate Brown ink for stamping the pumpkin, all borders, photo corners and greeting, and Gina K. Fresh Asparagus ink to stamp the belly band fillers on either side.
Spectrum Noir markers: OR1, TN6, BG3, GB11 (Copic: W3,  E07, YR18, YG93)

 Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more inspiration!

• Gina K
• Beth Silaika
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Karen Hightower
• Kendra Wietstock
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lee Murphy
• Sean Fetterman
• Tricia Traxler

Fabulous Frame Fillers Tip Sheet: Part 1

Here are some tips to get you started for the Fabulous Frame Fillers. (Some of you might be receiving your sets as early as tomorrow!) I discovered some of these over the weekend while playing around with my stamps. Experimenting on scratch paper (or cardstock for a bigger commitment) can yield some great things!

Stamp either of the two different filler semicircles for the ovals in a row to make a wide or shallow scallop border.  Use one color to make more continuous looking border, or alternate ink colors.

You can make a straight lace border with the group of three flowers stamped end to end.  You can make the lace go around any curve you wish by stamping it in groups and then filling in with one of the three size individual flowers as needed for the smaller gaps.

The scroll image is very flexible.  Use as drawn, above, or have fun creating a deeper or curve or pushing out ends to be straighter when you place it on the block, as shown below (it is stuck to my Scor-Mat to find desired shape to fit this die.)
 

Use individual elements to make all sorts of fancy custom borders inside your different shaped die cuts.  Video for this tomorrow! (or you can go peek on Youtube now)

Stamp the belly band fillers in a row to create a negative scallop, like in sample above.

Repeat stamping the plain photo corner in a row to make a chevron or herringbone inspired border or pattern.  Stamp a row in reverse to create a diamond pattern.

Add flowers in clumps around the lace curved border to add a pop of color and make it fancier. 

Color in the open stamped flowers.

Stamp the different flower and leave pieces to make large arrangements inside the oval.  Color.

Stamp one of the ovals vertically, add the bold filler at top and bottom and then fill in center with the different straight borders in different colors to create… a big beautiful Easter egg!

More to come, have some Labor Day celebrating to do!  Hope you had a great weekend!