Gina K. Foil-Mates Day 2: True Friend and Wedding & Anniversary Cards

Hello again! The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another very special blog hop celebrating the new line of Foil-Mates products with Gina K Designs and Therm O Web. The entire product line of Foil-Mates products is now available in the Gina K Designs Store at www.ginakdesigns.com. We are so excited to show you our projects and inspire you to jump into the foil craze!

Please join us and discover ideas that you can take away for your own cards and projects! Today we are showcasing True Friend and Wedding & Anniversary sets, with various backgrounds from the Foil-Mates line, designer's choice what inspired us first! ;)

We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop from a combination of all three days of comments and that person will win a $50 Gina K Designs gift certificate, so be sure to visit all the stops on the hop! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop. 

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

Well, hello!! In the lighting in the room I was creating this wedding card in, this looked tone on tone, like gold foil patterned with gold sequins... well, it IS, but when in a different light or angle, these sequins turn totally DISCO ball!! That is ONE festive wedding! :)

These dies are sooooo cool! I used one circle three times to cut out two of the Foil Mate images and greetings form this pack, and the hearts dies from her Rectangle pack to cut out a negative heart window on the third circle, plus extra hearts to pop up all over! The foiled hearts are cut out from the gold foiled background in those spaces UNDER my layered circles, you'll never see the cut outs! The black and white hearts? Well, I made these for two dear friends who  are getting married in October.  He is black, she is white. :) I know they will totally dig this card!

THIS is what I thought it looked like while I was designing it, GOLD sequins on gold, lol!! These foils are full of surprises, I tell ya!! All good ones, of course... :)  Foil-Mate background is from the Swirls and Flourishes background set. Such elegant patterns!

This next card I am featuring a sentiments from the True Friend set with one of the Dots & Strings Foil-Mates Backgrounds. Well, always being the "flower-minded person" you *know* that I am, and *since* Gina said it was fine to show fun ways to use the stamps with the Foil-Mates, all I saw in this particular twisty pattern was flower centers and vines, natch!! :) I used my Fabulous Flowers stamp set to stamp my leaves next to the vines in Grass Green ink (to match the foiling I was about to do) and my daisy and sunflower images in GKD Sweet Mango and Red Velvet over most of the dots in the pattern, also stamping the sunflower over the foiled flower in the sentiment.  Card base is Red Velvet. View with to show off the fgorgeous foil shine and color below!

Fabulous Flowers 

HERE you can see the gorgeous foiling with the Grass Green pack!  Die is from double stitched circles.

NOW! If you visited all the spots on the hops yesterday, you already know that foils work like a "two-fer"!  This is thriftiness at it's best, y'all!  If you just invest (and I'm talking a couple of bucks that will last and last and last, when I say "'invest"!) in a can of spray tack adhesive, you can use the negative parts of your peeled away foils for entirely new and fabulous projects!  

 How's that for stretching your product?! Here I used a piece of the negative Grass Green Fancy Foil piece I'd used for the greeting on the previous flower and vine card, adhered it to a piece of white cardstock by spraying on just a bit of adhesive (do this outside, please!!  No getting everything sticky from the glue or headaches from the fumes!), and gently smoothing on the foil, then die cut with Gina's new circle dies I also used on the card above.  The negative greetings look SO crisp and sharp, right?!  (BTW, if you see a dark line on green circle above, it is reflecting the line between those planks of wood, NOT a mistake! These shiny Fancy Foils are SO mirror-like!)

I will show some more "negative" bits tomorrow, plus more stamped tie-ins, so stay tuned!  Card base is GKD Pure Luxury Wild Dandelion and these fun flowers are cut using the flower element dies in the pack using GKD Pure Luxury Passionate Pink cardstock, and the leaf dies are from that same pack, BUT the leaves from those extra foiled Grass Green bits!  These big and  little flower dies both have a hole in the center, too, perfect for layering or using with brads (these white brads are from a past StampTV kit), no need for an extra punch. Love!!

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

Gina K

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger  you are here!

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
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.

Thank you for stopping by!