A woman who works with her hands is a LABORER; a woman who works with her hands and head, a CRAFTSMAN; but a woman who works with her hands, her head and her heart is an ARTIST. ~ Louis Nizer
Hey, everyone! Let me show you
how to create easy borders and backgrounds with one of the smaller knotted
images in my Macramade with Love set. Whether you choose to use multiple ink
pads to create a rainbow or gradient, or one pad with the stamping off technique
I demonstrate to create multiple shades from one ink pad, you'll get lots of
helpful tips and ideas for layouts and small details you can change, watch to
the end! Please enjoy, and I hope you will subscribe to my channel. Tell me in
the comments which card, color combo or layout you like best!
Supplies:
Gina K. Designs Macramade with
Love stamp set
Gina K. Pure luxury White
4" x 5 1/4", Innocent Pink 4 1/4" x 11, scored at 5
1/2"cardstock
Gina K. Passionate Pink, Jet
Back Amalgam ink
MISTI, acrylic gridline block,
tape runner, Gina K Connect Glue, Gina K. rainbow hearts or clear solid quartz
sequins
Welcome back to our last day or hops (for now!) Today we are featuring the Nature's Touch kit and what a fabulous one it is! Hope these ideas inspire if you already purchased your and if you are waiting for the reorder to come in, click on this link and then hit the "notify me" button so you get a message as soon as its back! Let us know you favorites along each stop of the hop today because we are giving away a $50 gift certificate to the store to one lucky commenter! You should be coming from Lisa's blog!
I was so intrigued by this long bold stamp in the kit. It can be a cloud, sandbar, snow, water depending on the color you use, has a lot of applications. I stamped this in GKD Tangerine Twist and masked a setting sun behind the trees (stamped and stamped on in Jet Black amalgam) with GKD Wild Dandelion and the tangerine ink using a Life Changing Blending Brush. I used the Master Layouts die set for my mats. (again, click notify me in that link if you want these later!) Don't forget the heart!
The Hands of Love set included is so fun! I used GKD Peach Bellini to make a square card base and the stencil for a subtle border with coral Reef. This really echoes the colored in heart (I used alcohol markers) that the hands are making. I used the I, love, and you words from my Macramade with Love set to stack the sentiment, I LOVE how the "love" fits perfectly inside! Isn't that cute? Finish with a rainbow heart using Connect Glue. I can't even how adorable and effective these teeny TEENY embellishments are!
One more with the hands! I used the greeting from the Baby Girl
set and the kit's pretty stencil again. Cardstock is Warm Glow. One of the rainbow clay hearts inside the kit's hands went so well with the little/fierce
sentiment. I have really come to appreciate over the years how measuring my words and seasoning them with grace makes the strongest impact on others. <3 font="">
For this last card, I used the flower dies included in the kit and stamped them in Jet Black Amalgam ink and colored with alcohol markers. I used some of the new clear solid quarts sequins and without a hole in them like traditional sequins, they really like dew drops on the petals and leaves, allowing your gorgeous coloring to show through! I also dotted the I in the greeting with one of the rainbow clay hearts. Base is GKD Pure Luxury Heavy Base Weight White.
I hope you enjoyed all these cards and ideas today! Have a few more for our Instagram hop, coming up!
Welcome back, it's Day 2! Thanks for returning for more fun idea and inspiration with new Gina K. designs products! Comment as you hop for more chances to win a $50 gift certificate to the store!
First is Free to Flourish from Lisa Hetrick. Sometimes simple is best! Start with Kraft for an elegant textured base. Then stamp the images an sentiment with Jet Black Amalgam and create some depth adding the fern with GKD watermark embossing ink to create a shadow. Filling the daisy with the white pen makes it pop! Boom, this card is DONE.
Step it up and make a fancy card now! I used GKD Fresh Asparagus, Lucky Clover, Watermark, and Plum Punch for my stamping. Cardstock is GKD Whisper, White and Plum Punch. I used the Free to Flourish dies to die cut the frame and flower and colored both with alcohol markers to match.
Next up some baby cards with Emily's lovely greetings and images!I used the stencil from the new Nature's Touch kitfor this first Baby Girl card, but any pretty cutesy one will do! I blended on a gradient with GKD inks and a Life Changing Blending Brush and then stamped the flower and sentiment over it in GKD Chocolate Truffle Amalgam. A drop shadow on the flower with a gray Arteza Everblend marker gives them more dimension and looks so pretty with soft gray of the GKD Pure Luxury Soft Stone cardstock base.
For this next card, I made a background with three images from my Macramade with Love -the circles piece stamped end to end, the heart underneath, and one of the tassels, all in GKD Innocent Pink on Pure Luxury White. I stamped Emily's cute greeting in the center in Jet Black Amalgam, and then accented where each circle met with arainbow heart, just picked out the yellow, orange, white and pinks from the mix and adhered with Connect Glue. Two step stamp the heart from my set (GKD Soft Stone and Innocent Pink) and use the coordinating Macramade with Love Die Set to cut it out and pop up with a foam square over the scalloped strip of Lemon Drop cardstock. So sweet! I love how this just looks like one big detailed background stamp once it's all together, soft and subtle. Now I shared a baby boy card yesterday and my friends aren't having boys now, so I wanted to make some samples with Baby Boy that could work double duty as an encouraging card to give to a friend or loved one if I needed it. I made a simple scene with the tree and mountain stamps, adding some grass and a path to the mountains with markers and blending on some sky and clouds with GKD Blue Raspberry and Life Changing Blending Brush. A rainbow hear that the mountain top is so encouraging! I love this book and think anybody would recognize the Seuss sentiment and enjoy this encouraging card. Great for a grad! Cardstock is GKD Moonlit Fog, White and Black Onyx.
Here is a very different mountain scene, a circle punch or die cut creates a mask for you to do a little blended sunrise or sunset with GKD Coral Reef ink and a Life Changing Bending Brush. I used theMaster Layout set of diesto cut my mats. The scene is offset and popped up with foam squares.
Last set of the day, the first card I made with Hannah's Graceful Greenery I can't find now to take a photo, ackk! (It'll turn up, but that was disappointing. I'll share it in our Instagram hop later, so all is not lost...) I'm explaining that to say I started coloring it *before* I checked the name of the set, and got to almost the end and it was all shades of green, what, no flowers? "Graceful Greenery", indeed! I love how it turned out, but I wanted to create something else to show you can do all sorts of colors, to be whimsical, or to look like the leaves that come in other shades, or are dried and dyed like eucalyptus. I used my Everblend alcohol markers on GKD Pure Luxury White. Love these vibrant jewel tones.
Good morning! Welcome to our first day of inspiration hops! It's been awhile, I've missed these so! Glad you are joining in! Please enjoy the teams ideas today and I hope you will leave comments as you go, you could win a $50 gift certificate to Gina K. Designs! You are not required to comment on every stop, but the more comments you leave the better you chances of winning, and we love hearing from you! Hope you enjoy all ideas and samples with the sets. Today we are showcasing my Macramade with Love and Beth's Let's Celebrate. Here we go!
Here I stamped one of the larger more intricate piece twice, then the tassels. This greeting is from Emily's Baby Boy which we are showing tomorrow. I really like all I've been seeing of modern nurseries with macrame and other crafty touches and neutral colors to "man up" a little man's room, but still have a softness and sweetness to it! Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury White, Black Onyx and Tranquil Teal. I heart these new rainbow hearts!!!
Here is the card I showed during the release using the beautiful coordinating dies, I loved cutting a pile to match the 3 different tassels and get a fussy cut look so quickly! All images are stamped inn Soft Stone for a more subtle look. I colored them with my Everblend markers and used a Life Changing Blending Brush to give the Blue Raspberry mat a nice glow with Blue Denim ink at the bottom. A teeny strip of Sandy Beach layered behind the popped up die cut and it look like you knotted the rope on a dowel, and easy way to add an extra earthy touch and texture with your scraps.
This was a fun one to build with the round knotted pieces, hearts and large tassel. Combos are endless! Instead of using the two step filler stamps on these, I colored with a marker to leave some strands white, really like the two toned effect. I just love the different looks this allows, and how it lends to whether you feel like stamping to add color or coloring yourself. Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury White, Black Onyx and Peach Bellini. A tiny heart is so fun on top of the o or the v in this love stamp in my set!!
Here are a couple border cards, I can't leave this image out of the hop! One I did with the coordinating dies. I LOVE the intertwined knots with a thank you or love card, all snuggly!! (It's called a double something or other and I will tell you later when I remember!) I so enjoyed drawing these! I will do a video with some coloring tips, it is fun to follow the cord, but color however YOU like!
The other with the Master Layout set of dies for the mats and sentiment mat. I covered the knots with the oval die cuts on the black and white card and added tassels, but it's that same image! Just wanted to emphasize the rope more than the knots to go with the greeting, know what I mean?
I have all my favorite shades of blue GKD inks (yes, pretty much every blue! Sea Glass, Turquoise Sea, Blue Raspberry, Blue Denim, Tranquil Teal) with the image made up of two round pieces. This makes a beautiful anywhere border, or fill up your whole card! You could stamp this all in one color with the line art, and then fill them in with the different colors with the 2 step image, or change color for each row like I did here and leave open. Cardstock is Pure Luxury White, Sea Glass and Tranquil Teal.
I forgot to post last week's video with the direct to stamp technique to my blog, so in case you missed it, here 'tis!
There is so much more than can be done with this set in the more straightforward ways I've shown today, but I have to leave some surprises for videos upcoming! Stay tuned and get ready to stamp some awesome stuff with me! You will also see this set used in our hops the next two days because it plays SO WELL with out other release sets!
Next we have Let's Celebrate. I really love the fonts in this set and greeting combos you can make. They are also fun to bling up. This first card I used the different bits to make a confetti wreath in GKD Sea Glass, Passionate Pink, Lucky Clover, and Wild Dandelion. One pink heart from the new rainbow heartembellishments to dot the i was the perfect little something. I cannot stop using these teeny so you cute you want to eat them hearts. Seriously, you need these things, get 'em while you can! Cardstock is GKD Pure Luxury White and Wild Dandelion.
For this next card I had to add some of the open hands from the new Nature's Touch Kit (we're showcasing that on Wednesday!), stamped in Jet Black Amalgam ink (I needed to reink my pad and stamped without the MISTI, so couldn't go over it, sorry it's not as crisp as it could be, my bad!) I used different ink cubes to roll the edge of the confetti image and greeting to make a virtual tie dye of color-Wild Dandelion, Key Lime, Tangerine Twist, Red Velvet and Tranquil Teal. Base is Pure Luxury White. I added more rainbow hearts with glue plus a couple of the new Angel Aura rhinestones for sparkle.
