Gina K. Designs Inspiration Blog Hop: Day 1

Good morning! The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets  from Gina K Designs! 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 the stamp sets Stately Flowers 11 by me and Daisy Delight, by Theresa Momber.

Please also join us in welcoming Juliana Michaels to the Cast & Crew for Gina K Designs. Juliana has been a project designer in the paper craft/scrapbook industry since 2007 and has worked for many top manufacturers in the craft world.  Her projects have been published in a variety of magazines and idea books. You are going to love her style!

Ready for some inspiration? Here are a few of the projects I have created for today’s hop:

Here is just a simple card you can do with any of the Stately Flowers and the postage frame.  I masked off a border inside for sponging (Wild Dandelion) which I will show in an upcoming video.  You can keep this mask and use it again and again to make stamps for every state! I also just traced below the bottom border and BG3 to create a drop shadow, easier than cutting out the frame! love Utah's sego lily!  So elegant, beautiful for weddings, sympathy or anytime, and with its long stem looks lovely with various vertical sentiments.  So many ways to nest the different words around the different flowers within this large frame. Cardstock is Pure Luxury White and Fresh Asparagus.

For this next card, I saw some beautiful versions of this flower in pink, so I made a scene this time overlapping the border to create a kind of "3-up" postage stamp for my scene. The humps in the border are all the same size, so it is pretty easy to stamp over them with your clear stamp to make them line up! (here 9 humps overlap to make the sections. Yep, I'll do a video!)  Again I masked the borders (this time with post it notes) and then did my stamping and sponging. Background is sponged with Applemint and Peach Bellini and I used just a bit of the grass silhouette image from Theresa's Daisy Delight set to add more texture and grass between the flowers.  Cardstock is Pure Luxury White, Edible Eggplant and bubblegum.  Last I popped up the stamped cancelled postmark.

Finally, if you can do a "3-up" , how about a "9- up"?!  This is created the by stamping the frame *four* times, one in each corner, again overlapping the humps (8 at the top and bottom this time) at the top and bottom.  (If you are a hair off, you can touch this up with a white gel pen.) I kept the coloring simple on the mock orange and then made a dimensional butterfly by stamping the butterfly and coloring, cutting out, then flipping over and stamping on the back, a perfect fit!  I used layering weight so my alcohol markers bled through and showed me exactly where I needed to put my colors, already filled it in a bit for me! Fold and pop up with a foam square. Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury White and Wild Wisteria.  No postage marks this time, as I wanted it to look more like quilting and less like a postage stamp.  I would love to step this card up and do some paper piecing or color blocking in the new squares.

Finally, here is a "no flower" card!  (I could also show a "no postage border" card, but why not when you've got it?!)  This time I stamped overlapped the border on its short side, for three smaller rectangle to showcase images. fits perfectly on A2! I masked off the areas inside each of these with sticky notes and sponged on GKD Kraft ink to match the card base.  That white edge just pops!  You can cut the butterflies out or stamp directly in each box and trace a drop shadow underneath.  Add dots with a white gel pen.

Stately Flowers 11

Please be sure to scroll down to the next posts if you missed my first video with the set or samples I showed at the party. :)

Next up we have Theresa's Daisy Delight, how I love this set!

I love how girly this card is! After stamping the ladybug border and daisy, I colored everything with Spectrum Noir markers, and as a finishing touch added a few of the grass blades in Fresh Asparagus around the flower.  I didn't mask, just used the little rolling tip I showed with a clear stamp in my video a few weeks ago where you press only until you get to the image that would be masked and lift your stamp, easy peasy!  Cardstock is GKD Peach Bellini, Black Onyx and White.

And here is a bit of spotlighting on the ginormous daisy that I shared at our party! You can stamp the daisy or the postage frames first to overlap, either way!  Just color in the center portion.  Effective single layer card! Don't forget the ladybug!! :)

Daisy Delight

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below to enjoy gorgeous inspiration samples and ideas 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. 

Gina K

Melanie Muenchinger  -  illustrator of Stately Flowers 11

Theresa Momber -  illustrator of Daisy Delight

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
LaurieSchmidlin

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
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.

Thank you for stopping by!