Gina K. Inspiration Hop Day 2: Sophie Pig, Old Country Roses, and Fine Feathers

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets from the May StampTV Release Party! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs! Today, we are featuring two stamp sets by Beth Silaika  and Claire Brennan . Please enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

First up we have Sophie Pig by Beth Silaika.  With her heart ears and hooves and clever puns, this little porker is going to get in lots of trouble, I know it!

 Hahahahaha!! Stamp the three little pigs first and then ink up just the lower portion of the puddle and stamp, no need to mask!  Colored with Spectrum Noir PP1, CR2, CR3, TN2, TN3, EB6, GG2, DR1. Cardstock is Pure Luxury Peach Bellini, Black Onyx and White.

Just pigcause!( Look how nicely she cleaned up from before!) Stamp the umbrella first and then mask it to add the pig. I used some of the hearts to stamp some rain falling into the puddle. I used the same hearts and reverse masked them onto the umbrella to make the print. Image is colored with Spectrum Noir DR1, DR6, PP2, PP4, CR2, CR3, TB2, and TB3. Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury Innocent Pink, Black Onyx, White and Wild Wisteria.

Sophie Pig

 The second and third sets we are featuring are by our new Illustrator Claire Brennan. The sets are Old Country Roses and Fine Feathers. With Claire’s Old Country Roses set, you can create beautiful layered stamped images that make the most beautiful and soft roses that look like you have picked them right out of your own rose garden. 

Roses are stamped in GKD Sweet Corn, Red Hot, and Cherry Red, eucalyptus from Fill it With Flowers is stamped and stamped off in Grass Green, and leaves are stamped in Applemint and Grass Green. Some little details: I used a brown pen to draw the crosshatching for texture like burlap.  I also used a craft knife to cut above and below the stamped bow to thread through the bakers twine for the tag. Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury White, Black Onyx, and Kraft. 

These roses are stamped in GKD Bubblegum, Passionate Pink, and Cherry Red, and the leaves are Applemint and Grass Green.  You can see just a tiny bit of shimmer in the photo, but I swished on a bunch of Wink of Stella glitter to the rose centers and leaves!

Old Country Roses

Next, Claire’s Fine Feathers set is a collection of stunning feathers that are perfect focal images to create a message of inspiration, hope, thanks and more!

 The feathers are a nice way to accent a sentiment, the way you would with a vine or flourish. I wanted to do something a little different here and add more interest to what was otherwise a pretty simple card so I used a craft knife and mat to cut around top and sides of the feathers, keeping the bottom s attached. Gently pull out and then add a little score to the shaft, and bend the edges outward. I think this turned out so cool! Cardstock is Pure Luxury White, Kraft (feather background stamped in the coordinating GKD ink) and Black Onyx. 

Here I used some of the new Tiny Textures incentive set images to give a real artsy feel to the Black Onyx stamped leaves and sentiment. Ink pads are GKD Bahama Blue, Ocean Mist, Sweet Mango, and finally some Tomato Soup which I rolled onto the edges of the Sweet Mango inked splatter before stamping.  Having just that little variation in the color of the dots adds a punch!

Fine Feathers

 We are so very blessed to have Claire’s illustrating and designing talents to our Gina K. team!

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast and Crew:

Gina K

Beth Silaika (Illustrator of Sophie Pig)

Claire Brennan (Illustrator of Old Country Roses and Fine Feathers)
Allie Gower
Cathy Tidwell

Donna Idlet

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger (you are here!)

Sheri Gilson

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore
Theresa Momber

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.  Thanks for visiting me today!


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Gina K. Inspiration Hop Day 1: Fill it with Flowers and Country Roads

Good morning! The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets from the May StampTV Release Party! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs! Today, we are featuring two stamp sets, by
Therea Momber and myself! Please enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

The first set we are featuring is Country Roads 2 by Theresa Momber. Theresa has created a second set to her popular Country Roads collection. Whether you are a country lover or an animal lover, you will be making creative and fun projects with this wonderful set. I am so looking forward to creating more scenes with this set (and copying some of hers like the horses one she shared at the party!) The first idea lots of other designers on our team had, to use the new paint brushed image from the Tiny Textures incentive set as a background for the silhouettes, but I'm sharing it anyway!

  I recommend starting with the bottom stroke to ground the barn in Black Onyx, stamp the barn, and then work your way up: GKD Peach Bellini,  Sweet Mango, Cherry Red, Cranberry Tart. I added the windmill and greeting last. Cardstock is Pure Luxury Back Onyx and White.

This card I shared at the party and had a few requests for tutorials, but it's really pretty straightforward. Begin with a piece of white cardstock and and sponge a little Sweet Corn to the middle, cover with a small circle and sponge Sweet Mango, remove the mask and continue to sponge Tomato Soup, Cherry Red and Cranberry Tart.  Last, Stamp the windmill in Black Onyx, sponge Black Onyx along the bottom and then ink up just the treetop form the barn image and stamp a few times along the top of the black sponged area. Cardstock is Gina K. Pure Luxury White, Kraft, and Black Onyx.

Country Roads 2

Next, we have my Fill it With Flowers set.  This set is staying on my desk for sure, goes with so much! These flowers and containers will work for any occasion, and I can't wait to see what YOU will create with them! The Hydrangea and Gerbera daisy flowers are also great stand alones, and are *not* part of the Stately Flower series!  (How could no state claim these beauties? Some of my faves!)  I will share some samples and videos using just the flowers, or the containers with images from other sets later, I promise, but today it's all about filling these!

 These colors might look a little unnatural for leaves, but I was going for those dried, dyed branches you can get at World Market or Pier One for arrangements. I'm happy with the look, hope you like! Love this for fall, or a less flowery, more masculine look.  I think it would work nicely for a sympathy card also. I used Spectrum Noir markers LV1, LV2, EB1, GB8, GB6, GB7, PP1, DR7, IG2, and IG3. I will definitely do a video showing how to get nice shadows to shade like the wrap is folded, slightly crinkled  paper! I wish it showed up better in the photo, but I used the Cuttlebug Distressed Branches folder on the Black Onyx mat, which I love anyway, but I think goes so well with the textures of these eucalyptus and lemon leaf branch images.  Base is GKD Honey Mustard. 

Isn't this a happy card?   Stamp the wrap first, then the bow, then mask the wrap and add your flowers next, cover the flowers and stamp the leaves as desired. Don't you love this striped bow?  I can finally afford all the striped ribbon I want, lol! It can also go over the bottle, layered over the other wrap containers, and added to the cup handle. No coloring needed for the bow unless you want it two tone, or to add a simple a shadow by tracing along the underside with the same color as the shadow you use on the outside to give it dimension. Tip: Stamp the tag anywhere and then draw a simple line for the string to attach it to the tied wrap like a piece of string. Or, of course, you can use real twine!  All the handwritten greetings and single words in the set fit on the tag. Use a 1/16" punch for the hole in the tag if you end up cutting it out.  Here I used Spectrum Noir EB1, GB8, IG3, CG3, CG4, FL1, CR9, CT3, CR2, CR4. Card base is GKD Pure Luxury Lipstick.

Last, I couldn't resist, showing something in one of the new container that wasn't a flower. These are the *pencils* from the most recent StampTV kit Sending Love.  I used the round label (stamped in GKD Dusty Rose) and greeting, also from that Art from the Heart set in the kit, to decorate the cup.  It is going to be *so* fun making all sorts of cute stamped cups!! For the background I just grabbed a bunch of those leftover strips of cardstocks you have form cutting down mats that were still by my cutter, in the same colors that I used to color the pencils, and adhered them at a diagonal and trimmed the edges. Shadow is Spectrum Noir GG2.

Fill it With Flowers

I just love this release!

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast and Crew:

Gina K
Theresa Momber (Illustrator of Country Roads 2)
Melanie Muenchinger (Fill it with Flowers, you are here!)

Allie Gower

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Claire Brennan

Donna Idlet

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Sheri Gilson

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out ALL of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thanks for visiting today!

You're Invited! Gina K. StampTV Release Party Tonight

Today's the day, friends! I was peeking into our team folder and am so excited about all the cards I am seeing for all the new stamp sets from our design team!  Creative and gorgeous, that's what! Get ready to be inspired at the party on StampTV and then shop with us at ginakdesigns.com tonight at 7 PM central!





And no peek has been posted of it yet, but you are going to freak out when you see what a fantastic incentive set Gina has created for you!  Definitely put together an order to earn this one for free, you'll want it!  So versatile and artsy! See you tonight!

Video: Introducing Fill it With Flowers

Are you ready to see the new set?!  Been waiting awhile for this one, eek!

You are gonna love how these containers go with any flower images you have, including all the ones in my line of stamps, of course, Statelys included! 

Fill It With Flowers will be available for purchase May 26^th,  7PM Central at ginakdesigns.com .

Supplies:

Gina K. Designs Fill it With Flowers stamp set

Gina K. Pure Luxury White (“2 ½” x 5” ), Powder Blue (2” x 4” ), Bubblegum  (4” x 5 ¼” ), Applemint ( 4 ¼” x 11, scored at 5 ½” ) and Kraft (scrap for tag) cardstock

Gina K. White premium pigment and Memento Tuxedo Black ink pads  

White gel pen and Spectrum Noir markers: GG2, CG3, CG4, DG2, IB1, LV1, IB2

Adhesive, foam squares, scissors, scratch paper or sticky notes for masks, Cuttlebug or die cutting machine, Cuttlebug Victoria folder and Lifestyle Crafts Whimsy folder, adhesive pearls, acrylic blocks

Come to our party at StampTV Thursday night to see more inspiration for this and all our new sets!  See you then!

Video: In Between the Lines: Top Stitched Frame

Hello! I hope you had fabulous weekend and your week is off to a great start! Got my video done early, this just came to me!  I was all set to show some of the other stitched Triple Play Holiday borders with the Triple Play Frame that I hadn't demonstrated in a video yet, when I realized the straight one can fit *inside* the frame's borders! Coolio!  i'll have to try it in Fabulous Frame next. This is a single layer card, and gores together quickly! The addition of a few more images and a greeting from that same coordinating set finish off this masculine design, perfect for Father’s Day or any time of year. Lots of tips in this one, plus some simple coloring and shading with Spectrum Noir pencils. Please enjoy!

Supplies:

Gina K. Designs Triple Play Frame, Triple Play Holiday stamp sets

Gina k. Pure Luxury Kraft cardstock, 5 ½” x 8 ½”, scored at 4 ¼”

Gina K. Dark Chocolate ink pad

Spectrum Noir essentials colored pencils

White gel pen, acrylic blocks, adhesive pearls, Spectrum Noir EB6 marker (for coloring the pearls)