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Tuesday 14 February 2017

... Gina K Designs – February Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 2


The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp release for February by our illustrator team! 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 a new stamp set by Beth Silaika, my own new set, Springtime Baskets and our new Incentive set Vintage Rose.

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 Beth's new set is a super fun egg pals collection of Eastery/Springy  folks to help you dress up your Seasonal creations!


I made up an Easter gift set with Beths egg stamps - I love the retro 1950's look of offset stamping and Gina K's inks have plenty of shades available to allow me to create the look - the trick is to stamp the lineart in a dark shade of your chosen colour and then fill in with the solid stamp inked in a paler tone - don't worry if they are not lined up perfectly, in fact it's better not to line them up perfectly - it's more authentic!

This is a fun set with a home made treat container which is really just a cone of paper with tissue paper taped inside the open end of the cone - fill it up with goodies and secure it closed with a piece of ribbon! Use bright colours and the simplest of styling to get the look.



This gorgeous Vintage Rose set is our incentive set this month - isn't this stunning! yours absolutely FREE with any $75 order while stocks last!

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I inked the main image in Black memento ink and coloured with Copics, all the shading is done for you, this image is really the work of moments. I trimmed out my image with a tag die. I used the larger Rose bloom to stamp a co-ordinating black pattern on my card base. Layered these with a sentiment from the set on a smaller tag and there it was! This is going to be such a useful set!


Next up - My set, Springtime Baskets!

http://www.shop.ginakdesigns.com/product.sc?productId=2862&categoryId=16

 Free Cutting Files available for this set, read on -

Springtime Baskets is jam packed with plenty of images and sentiments to cover Easter, Mother's Day and beyond - I've even used it to create a cute baby card here - albeit I stole a teddy from my Sweet Thing stamp set, to add to my basket - but you are going to find so many things that will fit in these baskets that you will be able to use this set all year!
 

I'm working on a video featuring this set which I hope to finish this wee and I have so many helpful tips and ideas for it that I do hope you will tune in to watch it - I'll let you know when it's ready!

I am in LOVE with Applemint and Ocean Mist Inks together (both Gina K) and I paired those with fresh white and kraft for my baby card, I thought the sentiment 'Baskets full of Blessings to you' was quite appropriate for a baby card.

I designed this basket to be perfect for use with circle dies and you can have fun like I did layering your die cuts to frame the basket image.


If you like to cut out your images, and have an electronic cutter such as a Silhouette, you may want to avail of the FREE cutting files - Download them for yourself by clicking HERE. This will take you to my dropbox where you can grab these for free ready to use with the Springtime Baskets stamp set!

For this trio of cards I used the open basket cut file. I stamped my baskets in Brown Memento ink and coloured them with copics. I then prepared my card fronts with the various fillers stamped and coloured and a little sponging on each. The baskets were layered over these, a very simple way to add dimension to the cards.







I have a few more cards in the works but I'm saving some of those for my videos so my final card today is that tall basket - it's made by stamping the circular basket on top of the urn shaped basket - there's a wee trick to this, which I'll show you in the video, it's super simple and gives you the option of a grander, tall thin basket for tall cards. I filled mine with daffodils.

I stamped my basket onto a pre-cut shape that I created with the cut files - all of these options these are already designed and in the free Cut file bundle.

You can tell how much I'm enjoying sponging all my Gina K inks lately...



Ok, I gotta let you go - pop off and enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then 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. 

Ready for some inspiration?
Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast and Crew….

Gina K
Beth Silaika - Illustrator for Spring Fling
Claire Brennan - Illustrator for Springtime Baskets
Cathy Tidwell
Chris Dayton 
Susie Moore
Theresa Momber

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 stopping by!

50 comments:

  1. Omygoodness these are lovely!

    This is a gorgeous set, Claire!

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  2. Super cute designs Claire! Love everything you created!

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  3. Ooo, your cards are so adorable! I have this set from Waltzingmouse days and it's wonderful to see new ideas using it. :)

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  4. LOVE your Easter Baskets, how beautiful!!!

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  5. Wow, what wonderful creations Claire! :) <3 They are ALL fantastic. I love your designs and coloring. That cone is a really cute idea for filling with goodies! <3

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  6. What a fun set to get us in the Spring mood!

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  7. Super cards and a super set. I just got it yesterday. Can't wait to start creating Spring/Easter cards. The card with the teddy bear is so sweet. I love the dies you used.

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  8. Love the designs of these stamps and the wonderful cards. TYSM 4 sharing.

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  9. Love those baskets. So many things to go in them....I love the basket with the teddy card. Thanks for sharing your talent with us.

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  10. ohhh my Claire! All ofyour creations are always so gorgeous! And this set, another AWEsome stamp set! I sure miss my silhouette...those cut files really make the images pop!

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  11. These are cute ideas! Love that basket with the bear. So looking forward to that set arriving today!

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  12. Love the happy spring colors. What a fun set.

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  13. Your new set is my favorite of the bunch. I love your sample cards.

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  14. Love these ideas. Great coloring and sponging. I am trying to do both days hops at one time and I don't know if I ended up commenting twice on yesterdays post of yours as my computer is really slow and stalls at times and with the comment not showing right away. So please delete one if I did that so only one for the drawing. Sorry.

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  15. Wonderful lineup of cards, Claire! Love your newest Springtime set!

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  16. Baskets full is such an inspiration.

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  17. Beautiful cards. Very lovely. I may have to think of getting a electronic cutter.

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  18. Your colors are all so vibrant and bright! Beautiful cards

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  19. Beautiful cards, Claire! Love your colors! Thanks for sharing.

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  20. so many possibilities with the baskets - what a fun idea!

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  21. Wow, love your card and project samples they are so inspirational. Congrats on another fabulous stamp set!!!!

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  22. Stunning work Claire and I will be looking forward to your video of the Springtime Baskets, thanks!

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  23. Wow! I just love your cards. You have a great eye for color and placement.

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  24. A basketful of so many choices in these sets. Love the soft little flowers in them!

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  25. Love all the cards... hard to pick a favorite!!

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  26. It's hard to pick my favorite. I love the colors you used on the spring ones.

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  27. The basket options are wonderful...thank you for them!

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  28. Beautiful cards! Love that the cut files are free too!

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  29. Beautiful cards and I especially love all the basket designed ones.

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  30. Beautiful cards! Thanks also for the cutting files!

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  31. love your cards---the basket set is gorgeous!!!

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  32. That baby card is the cutest thing ever! Shows how versatile this basket is. My stamps came while I was out of town. Tomorrow I play!!!!!

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  33. Claire,
    Your cards are gorgeous, the colors and layouts are magnificent. I am glad they are not for sale, because I would not be able to choose just one. Again I see the use of Kraft paper. Great imagination used for these stamp sets.

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  34. These cards are too cute I could just mail them right out with no problem if they are in your way...lol

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  35. Wow talk about completely spoiling us with your beautiful card candy!

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  36. So many beautiful cards and I love the treat container!

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  37. Claire again you have out down yourself! Love all your cards. I really enjoyed working with your Springtime Baskets stamp set.

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  38. Oh such beautiful cards! Hreat inspiration!

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  39. Wow! So many different cards! Impressive! I really like the shading around the stamped images as that really makes the images pop!!

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  40. All beautiful cards!! My favorite are the basket cards...especially that first one...I love those beautiful colors together!!

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  41. I am in awe- these are absolutely beautiful! I love your use of watercolor it really shows the image off as a focal point !

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  42. Being a bear person, love the wee bear in the basket, but the favourite is what you did for the treat cones with the eggs stamped. And the colour combinations, am loving.

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  43. Your cards are so stunning! I love them all!

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  44. Fabulous, fabulous and fabulous - by the way did I say fabulous.

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  45. I love your cards Claire, and I really love how you got the little teddy bear into the basket: so cute!! Hugs, H

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  46. Love your cards.....especially the one with the bear in the basket and the blue/green background....just gorgeous!

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