Inspiration Hop, Day 2: Ocean-Minded Card Kit, Whimsical Wildflower Frame and More

Hello, and welcome back to our second day of inspiration hops for the newly released stamp sets and supplies from Gina K. Designs!  We are giving away a $50 gift certificate each day, all you have to do is leave comments on the blog as you hop through, the more comments you leave the more chances you have to win! 

We've worked hard on these cards for you, so please visit every stop, it's worth the journey!

Winner announced on Gina's blog June 14th.

You should be coming from LISA'S blog!

First up, I have some cards with Whimsical Wildflower Frame. There are many ways to use these borders from Hannah's set, but I wanted to use one on each card, in both portrait and landscape layout, to showcase these long greetings.  I chose a different new stencil for each that work well with the style of illustration.  I selected the GKD Stormy Sky ink to go with the "difficulty" greeting (and pink coloring and cardstock so that it's "coming up roses") masking off the center with Purple Tape before blending the inks over the stencil. All my blending is done with the Life Changing Brushes. All brush sets can be found in that link, choose the best assortment for you. :)

Thick Brush

For this next card I stamped the other border twice near the top in GKD Jet Black Amalgam ink to make a space for the greeting and then blended some GKD Lucky Clover over the Leafy Stencil very softly to complement the foliage. Don't underestimate the impact you can make from just the teeniest bit of stenciling, it does not always have to be solid, use multiple colors, or cover the entire mat to stand out! So many looks! I kept the coloring very simple as well. Cardstock is GKD white and Peach Bellini. 

Whimsical Wildflower Frame

Leafy

Next up, we have the Ocean Minded card kit.  I shared some elements from it in yesterday's hop if you missed it, but today I am focusing on the main stamp set. I used Gina K. Embossing and Watermark ink and Gina K. Clear embossing powder for the wave border and heated. (If you aren't using a white paper, use a white detail powder instead to create the foam, clear works here because of the white mat I started with.  Next time I'm going to try it with Gina's Puffy!! Extra foam! If you use a white, you can emboss after your sponging, but this was a resist technique) Then I blended in some GKD Sandy Beach and Sea Glass ink to create shore and water. Greeting and drawn heart are stamped in GKD Kraft and starfish in GKD Warm Cocoa.

On the second card I did the same, but created a diagonal background with the wave border for two sets of prints to follow along: one human, and one with paws! I offset the greeting with GKD Chocolate Truffle ink to help it pop more and work as a sentiment, rather than something that looked like it was literally written in the sand like the card above.

Ocean Minded card kit

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