Day 2 Inspiration Hop: Elegant Asters Kit, Hugs and Wildflowers, and More

Good morning! Welcome back to our April release!  Today we are showcasing Gina's Elegant Asters Kit, Hugs and Wildflowers from Lisa Hetrick, and other wonderful new goodies!  We hope you are inspired as you hop through our team's links today, we've worked super hard to share our ideas and creations with you! Please leave comments with your feedback for chances to win a $50 gift certificate to Gina K. Designs!  It is not required to comment on every blog, but the more you do, the more chances you have to win!  Winner will be announced on Gina's blog April 19th.


Here is everything you get in the Elegant Asters kit! These colors and images will take you right from Spring into Summer!

 Here are 4 cards I made by putting the flower in the MISTI and stamping it out four times in Jet Black Amalgam, on 4 squares of colored cardstock from the kit cut the same size  3 1/4" square. Next, cut them all in half and then half again, and piece them back together for four different focal points! I used both the stamped greetings, Smile stamp from the new mini kit in the same font, and the new scripty "hugs" die to make these. Such great colors in this kit! (I know I already said that, just..!) I used a white gel pen on all the centers and to make the script on the colored cardstock pop.


Next, I wanted to add the kit's gorgeous butterfly and greeting from the kit to my Open Book frame. Cardstock is GKD White and Tangerine Twist. After coloring and shading one to look like an illustration on the page, I die cut the second one to really take flight from the book.

Next up we have Lisa's lovely Hugs and Wildflowers !   I love two step flowers so my vision was to do those line art images in Prickly Pea like a gold, with clear embossed bold flowers over them to resist the blue ink and show those delicate yellow details of the flowers. 

Unfortunately, last embossing sesh I must have put the clear powder cap on the white EP jar, ooooops, and it covered up the line art when heated!  (In my defense the powders look pretty similar!)  Anywho, although the card didn't turn out quite how I planned, but it was pretty close, enough to keep going! I sponged on the Sea Glass and Blue Raspberry ink, then added a few more silhouette stamps in the blue inks or a more layered look. I did an ombre on the greeting inking in Wild Dandelion and Prickly Pear to look like shiny gold,and although pretty, it was abit hard to read in the yellow, so I stamped offset with the Jet Black Amalgam.  Love the contrast here! 

I noticed this stem-y border was the perfect length to stamp in my Triple Play Frame, so I stamped the border in GKD Jellybean on the Soft Stone stamped frame. I added the two- and three step stamps in GKD Jet Black Amalgam, Dusty Rose and Coral Reef, then inked the leaves in Jellybean and rolled in Fresh Asparagus.  

The circles in the frame spotlighting her greeting and help me place remaining floral elements for a balanced design.  Cardstock is White and Coral Reef. 

Here is one with the new mini stamp set, Hugs and one of my puppies!

Hugs


Here is a sample with another new mini set, Spring Joy! The way the animals are rendered reminds me of stuffed animals or squeaky toys, so I just had to give another one of the pups, colored like my friends beagle, something to play with!  Cardstock is Lemon Drop, Black Onyx and White.

Spring Joy

Now let's go see what the rest of the team has for all these fabulous new products! Shop all the new goodies here. 

Gina K. - Elegant Aster Card Kit

Lisa Hetrick - Hugs and Wildflowers

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Donna Idlet

Emily Loggans

Hannah Schroepfer

Karen Hightower 

Melanie Muenchinger- you are here! Thanks for visiting!

Mindy Eggen

Rema DeLeeuw

Sheri Gilson

Susie Moore