Mistletoe Card and Removable Ornament

 In today's video, I show you how the reverse masking technique can really add a lot of pop to your stamped images and separate them from a white background, as well as how to make a removable mistletoe ornament with Stately Flowers 5  your recipient can hang from the tree (or door frame for some kisses!)   Easy to do, and the movement of it hanging and ability to remove it make it interactive and so fun. A little gift in itself.  TIP: Add a photo or write the year on the back side.  I forgot to say in the video, after the ornament is removed, it would be nice to have a photo inside to show through the open window!

You can also use two cardstock colors and mix and match the round ornament in the centers!

Well, I wish I'd posted some cards and videos with Stately Flowers 5 earlier this season, but there's still time to make lots of cards and ornaments for your holiday projects with the beautiful mistletoe!  CardMaker featured a gate fold card I made with it on the cover of their Happy Holidays Special Issue, and it is on the newsstands until December 1st!  I hope you pick up a copy!  In addition to very inspiring projects and and techniques, it is filled with bunch of really unique recipes that are new to me and I fully intend to make!  Perfect for snacks, the holiday meal, and gift giving, you've got to check this out out!

Annie's - Celebrating home, family and the creative spirit 




As you can see, there is a "Merry Christmas" stamp in this set, but I couldn't find it when it was time to make the card and roll! So the one in my video above  is from the Stamp TV kit, but virtually any greeting and font will work with this realistic mistletoe image.

 Stately Flowers 5

 Supplies: 
Gina K. Designs Stately Flowers 5, Winter Cheer StampTV Kit
Gina K. Pure Luxury White cardstock (Kraft optional)
Gina K. Black Onyx and Kraft Ink pads
Spectrum Noir Markers: CG1, CG4, DG3, IG4, Faber Castell Pitt White Pen
die cutting machine, circle die
Gina K red gingham ribbon

Optional: Cropodile and large eyelet 

This set also contains a sunflower which is a favorite image of mine for cardmaking, and you can see how to color it in this video I posted previously.

Have a fabulous day!  Are you ready for Thanksgiving?

Mix it Up Monday Challenge: All Things, Great and Small

Good morning, all!  I'm excited to bring you today's Mix It Up Monday challenge for StampTV.  My challenge is “All Things, Great and Small”.  For this challenge, please incorporate both large stamped images and very small stamped images into your card design.  Whether that be a large focal point and small images to make a background, mixing to create a collage pattern, etc, it’s up to you! Lots of ways to interpret this one!  Images do not have to be from the same set, although this works well for coordination and often sets are planned to include large and small scale images.   

 

My card uses the tiny images from Fabulous Holiday Fillers to accent the large triangle borders from Lots of Letters 2, which I stamped "stacked" to create a harlequin pattern.  Isn’t that fun with the snowflakes in the centers like medallions and the trees and bells offset?   Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury Warm Cocoa, Cherry Red, and White.  Ink is GKD Cherry Red, Fresh Asparagus, and Warm Cocoa.

I hope you play along with me this week! I can't wait to see what awesome cards you make! When uploading, remember to use tags, using the key word STV14MON46 and include which stamp sets you used as well.  

See the gallery here:  STV14MON46

See this post for some additional challenge details. 

Thanks so much for joining me, and have a fabulous day!

Video: Holiday Cards That Sing

   
It's Friday, woot! Early video post! :) In today’s video, I will show you how to spell out a fun greeting with my Lots of Letters 2 set and accents from Fabulous Holiday Fillers. This is a quick card and design that lets you take it “inside” the card for a fun surprise! 

  You can add lots of short words for any occasion in this fun circle border, which adds a pop of color and makes letter placement easy, and the holiday elements can be changed out to work for season.

More winter holiday greetings using Lots of Letters 2 or Lots of Letters (lowercase set):

MERRY
XMAS
BRIGHT
HO HO HO
FA LA LA
JOY
HOPE
PEACE
LOVE
NOEL
LET IT SNOW
JOLLY (I accidentally typed "July" on the sheet above, oops!)
SANTA
NAUGHTY
NICE

In this one, I used some of the different Fabulous Holiday Fillers elements to turn them into hanging ornaments.  To "hang" them, use the dashed and straight line from Lots of Letters 2 or Fabulous Frame Fillers. You could also use a piercing tool or Scor-Bug embosser to create the lines. And for more ideas and videos with Lots of Letters 2 if you missed them the first time around, click here.

Supplies used:
Gina K. Designs Lots of Letters 2 and Fabulous Holiday Fillers stamp sets
Gina K. Pure Luxury White cardstock
Gina K. Cherry Red, Christmas Pine, Kraft ink
Optional:  patterned papers and colored cardstock

Winner, Winner..!

The winner of the CardMaker 2015 Calendar from my giveaway is 

Denise Bryant said...
Love the looks of this.... very pretty card! Thanks for sharing the technique! The calendar sounds awesome!

November 10, 2014 at 9:31 PM

Congrats, Denise!  Please email me your snail nail address so I can get it out to you!

Thanks everyone for playing!  I hope you enjoyed the video!  If you have not yet seen, please watch here!  This is such a fast, easy and effective technique!

Resist Technique and a Giveaway!

This giveaway for this post is now closed and winner is posted here. Please enjoy the following video!

  Good morning! Today I will show you how to do a crayon resist technique with my A Year of Flowers 2 set.  The sketchy, whimsical style of these seasonal flowers is perfect for this technique!  You will love having these pops of color on your holiday cards, so easy for mass production.  This technique is traditionally done with a white crayon and glossy cardstock, but I have found that in a pinch, you can substitute regular white cardstock and a white pencil, producing slightly softer but still beautiful results.  Greeting is from Fabulous Holiday Fillers.

I am also giving away one 2015 calendar from CardMaker, which features a resist technique project by me (and cards from other designers you know, like Theresa Momber!)  This 12 month, 12 projects calendar includes detailed instructions for each card, as well as little known holidays in addition to all "the biggies", so fun! Winner will be drawn randomly and announced here Wednesday, November 13^th.  To enter, please leave a comment below.  Subscribers to my blog and Youtube channel get an extra chance.  Sign up today if not already!

Supplies:

Gina K. Designs A Year of Flowers 2 and Fabulous Holiday Fillers stamp sets

Gina K. Designs  Cherry Red, Black Onyx, and Fresh Asparagus ink pads

Gina K. Designs Pure Luxury Kraft  and White (or glossy) cardstock

Adhesive and foam dots, white crayon or pencil, tissue, sponges, scissors, adhesive pearls 

A Year of Flowers 2

 Fabulous Holiday Fillers

Thanks for visiting today!

Holly Cascade

Can I say again how glad I am Fabulous Frame is back in stock?!  I will be using it in my video for Tuesday, along with another favorite set!  And I think I may be doing a prize, too! :)

Here is a quick card I made the day I got my Fabulous Holiday Fillers set in the mail and wanted to test out some of the images. (I don't think I've shown you any cards with the snowflake border!) I may have gone a *little* overboard on cascade of holly,  I think less is more, but just to show you another option! I used GKD Cherry Red and Red Hot for the berries and GKD Grass Green and Fresh Asparagus for the holly, both stamped and stamped off. 
This is a single layer card.  

I like this card better in real life: the frame and snowflakes are actually stamped in GKD Navy, but it photographs really dark, looks black. I love the GKD In the Navy cardstock and coordinating ink but I don't use it as often for designs for the blog because it does look so black in my photos.  Anyway, the navy stamping looks really nice with the blue tones in the borders and belly band, softer than with black ink. 

Checking off my Christmas card list, one at a time...!

Have a fabulous weekend!

O Christmas Trees

Seeing how many Christmas cards I already have made is encouraging, but knowing how many more I'd like to send is a little daunting! So I'm challenging myself to come up with some quick, but still interesting, designs!  I love how this turned out!  I noticed the long triangle border in Lots of Letters 2 set flipped would make a perfect row of graphic trees! I stamped it in GKD Christmas Pine ink directly on a piece of aqua patterned paper from the GKD Winter Cheer paper pack (always love using blue patterned papers for sky! Linking it now I am remind there is aqua snowflake pattern in that pack that would be even more appropriate.  But I like the funkiness of this weave, actually, unexpected!) ) and free cut a very gentle curve on a piece of GKD Pure Luxury White cardstock to mount in front for snow bank.  I stamped on the star, also from Lots of Letters 2, and then added my greeting and 2 step holly bits, both from my new Fabulous Holiday Fillers set.  Card Base is GKD Pure Luxury Cherry Red to match.  

TIP:  You could add more stars to the trees , but to *me*, one is usually more interesting than adding them to all, makes that one extra special.  I offset it rather than stamping it in the middle, to move your eye around the card.

I love little "aha!" moments like this!  That's one reason I love shape stamps so much, and include them in so many of my sets.  So many uses!  I was actually trying to come up with something new for my next video, but this one is so simple, I'm just posting the card and details, no demo necessary, I don't think!  But thank you for pushing me to think outside the box! I love trying to surprise and inspire you all, dear readers!

Tip 2! f you want to incorporate the letters from that set onto this card design somehow, there are 6 trees, perfect for spelling out  "HO HO HO". :)
 


Have a fabulous day!

Prickly "Pair"

Good morning! Today I am showing one of my favorite cards from ths release that I shared at our party, showcasing Theresa Momber's Peace and Joy and my Fabulous Frame (back in stock, but not for long!) and new Fabulous Holiday Fillers set.  I stamped the pine cone image into the Fabulous Frame and then added some of the new Fabulous Holiday Fillers. I thought the points in the pinking borders (stamped in Dark Chocolate) went really well with the petals of the cone and needles.  Doesn't that look *so sharp* across the top and bottom?!  I love this new border!  Love! I filled in the belly bands with these new ones from the Holiday Fillers set stamped in Grass Green and added the smaller plaid circle inside, again in Dark Chocolate.  I prefer the smaller circles in this belly band to give you that little ring in between the colors.  Just love how masculine all these pieces are, work for so many designs, but then also can go completely flirty and feminine with different color or focal points.  Base is GKD Pure Luxury Prickly Pear. This golden cardstock is so gorgeous for the fall and winter holidays! I colored the borders with Spectrum Noir EB3 and DG3, and stamped the sentiments from Fabulous Holiday Fillers above, thinking this card was perfect for my dad and stepmom.

I want to point out I made a little boo boo in my stamping here, can you spot it?  On the left above the oval, I was off a bit stamping the border.  The fix was to pick up just a little ink with a blender pen from the Dark Chocolate pad I'd stamped the border in and filled in underneath. In real life you wouldn't notice it at all unless I were to point it out!  (Which I wouldn't.  This is just between you and me.) To prevent getting off though with the borders,  you can lay our border down on your already stamped frame and then press your block to it, and then ink it and stamp, this way your border will be really lined up well with the frame you are about to stamp into. :) 

Fabulous Frame

Fabulous Holiday Fillers

 

Peace and Joy

Have a terrific day! 

PS   Pssst.  Fabulous Frame Fillers stock is very low, too, after yesterday's video.  Don't miss it!

"Crazy Christmas Sweater" Inspired...

Have you been to a Crazy Christmas Sweater party? Do you own one?  You know, with a zillion colors and patterns? :) Well, that's what I was thinking of when I made this card with Fabulous Holiday Fillers!  I don't care for the half circle as a border as much as I like the belly band "scallops" (watch this video), but I am all about trying to create some new looks, as you know.  ;) I have to say, I do really like the little rows of Christmas trees and hearts, that part is my favorite!  The trees and hearts are both stamped off in between to create the lighter shades. I was playing with the washi again, too.  This is a single layer card. 

Inks: GKD Red Hot, Christmas Pine, Fresh Asparagus ink pads
GKD Pure Luxury Base Weight White cardstock

My Christmas card is stash is growing!

Remembering Gina K. Favorites Mini Hop

The giveaway for this hop is closed.  Hope you still enjoy the hop!

Good morning! Today some of us from the Gina K. Designs team are showcasing some past favorite sets from Gina K. illustrators Debbie Corbari and Beth Silaika.  Another mini hop to start your Monday right, we hope it inspires!  Grab your cuppa'!  We also have another prize today: the Fleece Navi-Baa stamp set by Debbie Corbari!  So be sure to comment on the blogs as you hop through for more chances to win!  We will draw a name randomly from one of the blogs and will announce it Tuesday in the StampTV forum.

 

First I have one with Beth's Deck the Halls. The big bold ornaments in this set are some of the prettiest Christmas stamps I own.  So easy to make really beautiful graphic cards in no time with just a few ink pads for a lot of gorgeous color!  I stamped and stamped off the same ornament in GKD Cherry Red, Fresh Asparagus and finally Blue Raspberry inks on Pure Luxury White cardstock, added a greeting in Black Onyx, then did a quick wrap of gold cording to "string" my ornaments and popped it up on a GKD Pure Luxury Cherry Red card base.  Step it up by adding a pearl or rhinestone or two to accent that pattern on the bulb.  (Actually, think I'll go do that right now...)

 

Next, I am sharing one with Debbie's Fleece Navi-Baa!  Well, I love Christmas, and I love puns, and I love SHEEP, so this set is a winner times three!  I love how "poseable" these different little sheep appear, so I had to make some framing with the little strand of lights, imagining the "Clark Griswold" places he might take it!  Images are stamped in GKD Black Onyx and colored with my Spectrum Noir markers: BG6 and BG7 for face and ears, DR3, DG3, BT3, GB6 for the lights, and IB2 for shadow and hoof prints in the snow.  Finish with Wink of Stella pen swiped on body and lights.  Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury White and Grass Green for the base.

 Deck the Halls

 Fleece Navi-Baa

Now please continue to enjoy the hop and have a fabulous day!

Debbie Corbari
Beth Silaika
Sean Fetterman 

Laurie Schmidlin
Lee Murphy