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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