Journey of the Heart StampTV Kit from Gina K. Designs

 Good morning!   The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina and Cast and Crew will inspire you with many beautiful ideas for the newest StampTV kit Journey of the Heart !  As you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products. To see the full list of winners check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hops.

One of the mini stamp sets included in this kit has some bold lovely florals, perfect for the direct to stamp technique, so get out your markers!  Although the kit comes with an assortment of coordinating patterned papers, I thought it would be fun to make my own with the stamps for this card (colors listed below in the supplies section).  These florals also work perfectly with my little vase stamp from my set Buds and Vases, so I stamped the flowers first, inked up the vase with a blue marker, omitting the top back edge of the vase so it wouldn't cut through the stems in the image, and then stamped.  I added just a few shadows and some water with Copics.  Isn't that fun?  You can also add these to the jar in that set or use the larger flower and leaves I stamped for the background with my flower pot, I think I'll try one of those next!  Let me know in the comment section below if you would like me to do a video on coloring clear glass and  adding water, this one was very simple.

Supplies used: StampTV Kit Journey of the Heart , Buds and Vases

Pure Luxury Blue Raspberry, Blue Denim, Cherry Red, Grass Green, and White cardstock

Memento Rhubarb Stalk, Blue Danube, Bahama Blue, Cantaloupe, Olive Grove, and Bamboo Leaves markers, Copics- BG10, B1, Pure Luxury Ribbon, Pop Dots, Tombo Mono Multi, brads

 Now please check out more amazing designs and inspiration with this kit, Journey of the Heart.   Don't forget to leave comments for more chances to win a prize!  Have a great day!


 Gina K

• Beth Silaika
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist  
• Theresa Momber

Direct to Stamp Flowers

Good morning! Here is another simple sample and easy layout I made with my new Wild Flowers set when it first arrived, just playing with Memento Markers (Cantaloupe, Potter Clay, Bahama Blue, Danube Blue, Bamboo Leaves, Cottage Ivy). It is so fun doing "Direct to Stamp" with new rubber and finding all the the gorgeous color combos you can create! :) TIP: Always ink up your images with lighter colored inks first and then go over with darker ones to avoid staining lighter pads and makers.Flowers are traced with Sakura glitter pens and cardstock is Pure Luxury Blue Raspberry, Black Onyx and White.A tiny bit of dimension was added to the butterfly and flower centers with a Black glaze pen.

If you came from the CardMaker blog, thanks so much for visiting! :) I'd love for you to stop back for more step by step technique tutorials with Wild Flowers and Wild at Heart this month and become a subscriber! Thanks, CardMaker, for the guest spots these past few weeks!

Hugs to you all!

Doilies and Tie Dye??

Do you look at a doily and see tie dye?? I have been meaning to use Nina's beautiful doily from "Nana's Needlework" for awhile now but I thought for a minute about what I could try with it that might be new to you... crossing my eyes while I stared at the stamp it got a little blurry and I had a bit of a "aha!' moment! ;) Time to pull out one of my favorite stamps (from "Little Tees") and do a bit of direct to stamp and misting for a totally groovy shirt, baby!


Choose a few different colored markers, here I grabbed several cool tones. Now loosely trace the rings making circles with each marker, putting different colors in between. Hopefully you can see I did not pick up ALL the detail of the stamp, these skips and wonky shaped rings instead of perfect circles will help with the tie dye feel in the finished image.

Now spritz on some water, these Mini Misters are perfect to keep at your desk when you are wanting a watercolor or blended look. Then stamp onto Pure Luxury White (let the paper dry a moment or heat set if you got it TOO wet) and stamp your T-shirt in black over the middle of the design. (yikes, that tee is one well-loved stamp, sorry!! I really DO clean them sometimes!)

ta DA!!!

I will be back to add a finished card using this tee, have just been so busy (and busy cutting new stamps in the house!) but I was really eager to share a funky style with this country/vintage quilting/sewing set, love the look and versatility! :)

Feel like trying some tie dye? Add your project to the Mr. Linky, then link up this post on your blog on your own blog or online gallery so people will know about the challenge. Just create some tie dye in your card, you do not HAVE to use the t-shirts or the doily stamps to play, just get creative with how you can adapt this technique to what you have or replicate the tie dye look in some way. I will announce a winner next week, that person will get some goodies from me! :)

Have fun!

Wine with Everything!

I was out of town all weekend but will catch up on posts, I missed you!! Here is a card I made with Square Pegs and the new Pure Luxury Wine with Everything cardstock! So I had to start with a little wine! The bold glass image in my new set is so fun to use with a few simple techniques: rolling and direct to stamp. First, rock and roll the edges of the glass onto a gray pad rather than inking in it fully, this will give it a transparent look highlighting those edges. Then take a burgundy marker and fill in the bottom of the glass where the wine would be, and stamp! This way you can have your glass as empty or as full as you like! I love showing this kind of progression of emptying a glass with just one image. :) I did all the glasses the same way, just inking a little less each time and then cleaning the stamp before inking for the next, until I got to the empty one, but an easier way would have been to start empty and fill it up, working right to left!

Solid heart was stamped in burgundy ink and then without reinking it I kissed my inked up XO block onto it and then stamped that onto my white cardstock to make the paler patterned one. These were punched with the Marvy extra Jumbo (yellow) Scalloped Heart punch. That gorgeous embossed background is the Victoria folder,(my new fave elegant folder!) I used adhesive pearls and Black Onyx CS to finish the card.

This design with the glasses would make such a festive wedding, anniversary or anytime celebration card, but the little hearts are saying "Valentine"! I love you!! Cheers to the new year!