Gina K. Inspiration Hop Day 1: Fabulous Rose Frame and The Wetlands 2

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K and the illustrator team 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 my new Fabulous Rose Frame and Theresa Momber's The Wetlands 2 , and I have a video for you below! Please enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $50 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop. 


 In today's video, I show you how to create a really special gate fold design with my Fabulous Rose Frame and its coordinating dies. The overlapping flowers in the illustration lend themselves to this type of design and the fancy dies save time in cutting as well as helping keep the gate closed! 



Supplies:

Gina K. Designs Fabulous Rose Frame stamp set

Gina K.  Jellybean and Black Onyx Ink pads

Gina K. Pure Luxury Jellybean (5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 2 1/8" on both sides, and scraps for the die cut circles) and White cardstock (4 1/4" x 5 1/2")

Acrylic blocks or MISTI, sponge dauber

Fabulous Rose Frame label dies and die cutting machine, scissors

Spectrum Noir markers: DR2, DR3, GG2, and LY1

I am also showing this set's label, small flower and centers paired with the beautiful silhouettes and a greeting from Nurturing Blooms, the new incentive set, free for a limited time with your purchase $75 or more.

On this sample, I stamped the flower silhouettes in GKD Dark Sage, Chocolate Brown, and Honey Mustard inks on a GKD Pure Luxury Ivory base.  Next I stamped the label from Fabulous Rose Frame in Chocolate Brown on Pure Luxury White (love mixing these two neutrals! So elegant!), die cut with the Fabulous Label die, then die cut the center out with the smaller oval in this die set. I stamped my tiny flower centers from Fabulous Rose Frame on each side of the belly band in the same colors, and then a greeting from Nurturing Blooms inside the open space. I filled it with more solid images from my set. Love how these florals work together! 

Nurturing Blooms

Finally, here is a simple card where I snipped up a frame to use two for the roses as a border, and then the little corner pieces to create a tiny frame or my greeting.  It's so nice to stamp one and have several flowers to use on multiple projects, and to make whatever customer smaller frames you need for sentiments, when you want to change it up and not use the label! Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury White and Black Onyx. Embossing folder is the new Charles folder that Gina sells.  Love mixing something really graphic like this with flowers! I used Zig Clean color with no blenidng becuase I was in super hurry on this card!

Fabulous Rose Frame 

I can't express how much I adore this set and the dies that go with it!  I'm making some of the most ornate, fancy cards ever and they take so little time, it's ridiculous!  You are going to love all the layering possibilities that will change up the look.  And, that bold label that fills my bestselling Fabulous Frame is such a bonus, coordinates with a zillion sets! (Okay 3, to be exact! 3 SO FAR.)! :) I have so much more I want to share but I need to save some surprised and I know our team is going to rock this set! Lots more videos to come, plus my tip sheet here later this week for lots of ideas, so please check back! :)

Next up, The Wetlands 2 is perfect for scene stamping, as well as the men in your life!  I love these simple trees and knew I wanted to do a clean masked scene, with the birds rising out of it.  Start with a clean white base and stamp your trees and birds and greeting in GKD Black Onyx.  Next, mask off an area with tape or sticky notes above and below.  I think it's more interesting to have the treetops extending out a bit, that's just me!  I sponged the top and bottom with GKD Tomato Soup, then switched to GKD Sweet Corn towards the middle.  Last I placed a sheet of paper over the middle to create the horizon and added more Sweet Corn, then removed the mask.  That last part really makes the scene! This is one of my favorite designs I made for this release. :)

This next card I had to try one of Theresa's images with the label from my Fabulous Rose Frame set.  This label really showcases all these gorgeous illustrations so nicely!  I stamped the cattail image right over it, then repeated again on the die cut oval from the Fabulous Labels die set to mount over the label with some foam squares.  I sponged a little GKD Turquoise Sea around the edges and then used Zig Clean Color markers to dab in dots of purple, turquoise, pink, green and blue to make the little panes of the wings look iridescent. Last I added a swipe of Wink of Stella glitter.  Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury White and Ocean Mist.

Amazing set, Theresa!

 The Wetlands 2

Please enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $50 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop. 

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

Gina K
Melanie Muenchinger (Illustrator of Fabulous Rose Frame)
Theresa Momber (Illustrator of The Wetlands 2)

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton

Claire Brennan

Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels

Karen Hightower

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Rema DeLeeuw

Sean Fetterman

Sheri Gilson

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Be sure 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!