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Monday 29 August 2016

...Painted Autumn Blog Hop - Day 1


The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new Painted Autumn StampTV Kit! 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 one of the stamp sets from the kit - Painted Autumn


 Featuring a 3-4 step floral image, together with a lineart image, you can create flowers with as much or as little depth as you choose.
Stamp one flower, stamp a bouquet - you choose!

Here is the entire kit (click to enlarge):
The Painted Autumn kit includes:
  • Painted Autumn 6" x 8" stamp set
  • Give Thanks 6" x 8" stamp set
  • Give Thanks die set
  • Give Thanks 6" x 6" patterned paper pack
  • 24 sheets of card stock
  • 1 binder sheet
  • Plastic Storage Box
  • Weeks of project videos at www.stamptv.com
Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then don't forget to comment on each blog for your chance to win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.


My first card today uses just the lineart images of the two sizes of flower and one of the leaf/vine stamps. I stamped in memento onto the Ivory cardstock from the kit and then colored them in just like I would with any line art stamp. These beautiful stamps are drawn in a loose painterly style which lends itself really well to good ol' colouring in! I don't feel like it's necessary to be just so fussy as normal with these little flowers, it really ads to the overall look if you go just over the line in a few places, these suit me down to the ground! Card base is the lovely Sweetcorn cardstock from the kit.


For my second card today I have used two of the possible 4 stamps to create the flower. I used the full solid flower shape, which I stamped in Sweetcorn and Sweet Mango inks, both Gina K. Once those were dry I went in with the lineart stamp in black.

This set is very versatile in that you can stamp all 4 layers of each flower, or only one layer - like in my first card, or only two - like in this card, or just 3 - it's totally up to you.

Again I love the slightly offset look and so I didn't stress about perfection when lining these up - it's all about that loose painterly style! Here's a close up on one of those blooms, you can see how I didn't bother to clean my stamp in between stamping the yellow and orange solid shapes and I have a little blending of colours going on there, which I loved!

I took the 'So thankful' stamp and masked the 'thankful' work so that I could stamp 'so' all around the floral pattern. Then I masked the 'so' and stamped the word 'thankful' on my sentiment band.

The card base is the beautiful Ivory cardstock included in the pack, as was the lovely sweetcorn cardstock that I used on the sentiment panel.


just in case you need a hand lining up your stamps when you are layering these, Gina has prepared a couple of cheat sheets, here they are (click to make bigger or download your own larger PDF files from under the video presentation here on Stamp.TV):






When you are ready for some more inspiration, 

simply click on the links below for samples from the Cast & Crew:

Gina K
Beth Silaika
Cathy Tidwell
Claire Brennan

Donna Idlet
Karen Hightower
Kendra Wietstock
Laurie Schmidlin
Melanie Muenchinger
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Susie Moore
Theresa Momber

Silke Ledlow

Don’t forget 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.

Thanks for popping in!

45 comments:

  1. Your coloring on that first one is just stunning! And you made those flowers look fantastic in just using one shade!

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  2. Awesome post! So so so so so so pretty!!!

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  3. Both of your cards are very pretty, and I love how you masked off the greeting so you could stamp the SO all over. Beautiful Creations! :) <3

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  4. Beautiful cards! I like the flowers that you colored as well as the ones you stamped.

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  5. Love the yellow flowers! So pretty

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  6. I love this color combination and can't wait to try it!

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  7. So, so, so very pretty. ;-) Honestly, they are fantastic and I love the colors that you have chosen.

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  8. Love the simplicity of the design. I am one who needs to have "balance" and this fills the bill.

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  9. Very pretty cards! Since I am eyesight challenged, I like the idea that I do not have to perfectly stay inside the lines! So happy that Gina has stamp sets like this now.

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  10. I'm all in for the "loose" water coloring look. Messy suits me to a T. lol Thanks for sharing your designs with us.

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  11. Hi Claire. I love the slight offset look also. The 3 and 4 step stamping looks so easy and I struggle with it. I love what you have done with the flowers and won't be so critical of myself when mine are a bit offset. These cards are simple and elegant and perfect Fall cards

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  12. beautiful cards!.. love the colors.. excellent work! thanks for the inspiration!!

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  13. Two beautiful cards for Thanksgiving. Love this kit.

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  14. Awesome cards! And love your tips on how you did the different flowers! Thanks for sharing!

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  15. Beautiful cards. I love the colors and the layout. I think the blending of colors was fantastic. Great job. Thanks for sharing.

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  16. So beautiful. Love the all over pattern created with the flowers.

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  17. Can't wait to play with this kit, your flowers aregorgeous!! I love how they blended together by not cleaning your stamp, thanks Claire!

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  18. Beautiful cards, Claire! I love how you used the "so" on the background on the second card!

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  19. Love the cards. So pretty. Great inspiration.

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  20. Love your coloring of these stamps. Really nice.

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  21. The colorful flowers are lovely on your projects posted here - TFS

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  22. Great designs and colors. Your cards just sing of autumn.

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  23. Beautiful cards. Such a great inspiration--thanks

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  24. I thought I loved the first card, then I saw the second one. It is so, so, so cute! Love the colors of your flowers!

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  25. Wonderful, wonderful fall color combination!

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  26. Love the colors on your cards. So ready for fall.

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  27. Oh, what beautiful cards! You achieved elegant balance with the flower corners! The "so" thankful background is brilliant!

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  28. Lovely Fall floral cards--I like the colors.

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  29. Love, love the first card! So lovely but clean and simple! The flowers and leaves and perfect. Like how you did the "So" all over the second card and then the "thankful" as a focal point. Great cards!

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  30. Gorgeous cards! Love those beautiful flowers!

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  31. 2 beautiful cards and they should be because I think you were the designer for these....yes? I love the way you approached them so differently, and both are lovely! I am looking forward to see what you bring us in the future, too! Ladyjs711@yahoo.com

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  32. Your cards are both beautiful but if I had to pick just one it would be the first one

    Kathleen

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  33. I love that first card! The flowers are so beautiful!

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  34. These are both gorgeous! Love the fall colors.

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  35. Beautiful fall cards! Love all of them.

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  36. beautiful cards! I really like the first one!!

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  37. So many ways to create and so many wonderful examples - thanks so much for sharing your talent.

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  38. Hi Claire!! You have made several awesome cards with this Kit!!!! I absolutely love them all!! :)

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  39. The coloring on the flowers is beautiful.
    Love how the flowers are placed in the corners
    of the first card.
    thanks for sharing two wonderful cards.

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  40. I love your cards - my fav is the first one! Just beautiful!

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  41. Beautiful cards! Love the color combos on both!

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  42. Love the simplicity and designs of your cards. So pretty:)

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  43. Beautiful cards! The first is particularly exquisite, wow!

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Thanks for taking the time to comment, :) I read them all and I appreciate you taking time to visit!