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Tuesday 11 July 2017

... Blog Title: Gina K Designs –Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 2


The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K and the illustrator team from Gina K Designs! 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 the stamp sets by Beth Silaika and myself!

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I adore the whale in Beth's set and stamped it twice onto Gina K white cardstock. I coloured them with copics and then trimmed them out. I made a background panel by blending some Gina K Inks - I used Wild Dandelion, Jellybean Green and Blue Lagoon. I speckled the panel with some water and layered on my whales. I made some fun water spouts with pva glue - I just 'drew' the spouts freehand with the tip of my glue tube. It dried nice and clear and then I went over the spouts one last time with the glue again and this time added some white glitter, I love how this turned out.


For my dolphin card I stamped the dolphin 4 tames and coloured him up. Again I stamped on white cardstock and trimmed them out. The sentiment panel was cut out with a circle stitch die from the Gina K/Thermoweb stitched circle die set. 

I'm excited about that background - I used one of the new Gina K STENCILS!!! it's called Water drop and instead of using it as a stencil, I embossed it onto white cardstock befroe sponging with Wild Dandelion and Sweet mango inks - I LOVE the look!

I arranged my dolphins around the circle to finish. 

Next up - my new Lovely Lilies set.

http://www.shop.ginakdesigns.com/product.sc?productId=2950&categoryId=16
  
This is a layering set and it's quite easy to achieve different styles of flower with this set.
My first card is bold and contemporary - I used just the solid stamps to make the flower for this one. I trimmed it out and popped it up on a sponged background. I used a sentiment from Chris's new set (more on that tomorrow).


To achieve a more traditional style I used the outline stamps on the next couple of cards - I only used two of the solid layers on this flower. There's a handy graphic below that shows how to layer the solid stamps. I'm prepping a quick video on layering these.


 For the card below I created my blooms in the same way, I stamped two of the solid layers in Tomato Soup and Innocent pink. Then I stamped the outlines and stamens in Dark Chocolate. The stamens were clear embossed also. The speckles were stamped in Lipstick. I layered them over some leaves and popped them up in front of a background that I created using the Cottage Garden stamp set. I thought it made a charming backdrop for this happily ever after card.

This graphic gives you an idea of how the layers work together.

I hope you have enjoyed these samples and I encourage you to pop over and see what the rest of the Gina K folks have been making. Don't forget to comment on each blog for your chance to win a $50 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 & Crew:

Gina K
Beth Silaika - Today’s featured illustrator
Claire Brennan - Today’s featured illustrator
Cathy Tidwell
Chris Dayton
Donna Idlet
Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin
Melanie Muenchinger
Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
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!

53 comments:

  1. I love all your cards and the backgrounds are wonderful! :) The Happy ever after card... well, i love the beautiful calming colors. <3

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  2. Amazing and pretty creations, love your ink blending so smooth, love them all!

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  3. Your new set is lovely! I think we all adore lilies.
    Your cards are all awesome. Love how you did the whale spots,
    genius. All of your floral cards are beautiful. I love the
    colors of the last card.

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  4. What beautiful cards!!! Thanks for sharing.

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  5. I really like the dolphin and fishes, but your lily has taken over my life. It creates the most amazing cards. Thank you.

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  6. Wow! Day 2 of the hop is as wonderful as Day 1. Love the colors in your cards. I especially like the flower cards.

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  7. Such beautiful lillies! Love your dolphin and whale cards.

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  8. Love your cards! And this new set - have been playing with it and embossing powder! And your whales are so cute! Thanks for sharing!

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  9. My lilies set is on the way and I want to thank you for such a wonderful stamp set. I love the cards you made using both of the sets today and love the beautifully done backgrounds on those blended ones.

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  10. All of the cards are great! I love the lily especially

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  11. Wow your cards are seriously GORGEOUS. Love how you make the backgrounds they really make the images POP!!

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  12. Beautiful lilies and fun dolphins! I like the card with the dolphins going around in a circle.

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  13. Love the water spouts on the whales.
    Great cards.
    thanks for sharing.

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  14. Love the lilies. Glue and glitter for whale spouts is so clever.

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  15. Your cards are all so pretty! Love all those backgrounds.

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  16. Super cute take on the Dolphin set! I really loved playing with your Lily set...so many awesome possibilities! Your samples are proof of this beautiful set!

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  17. Such beautiful blended backgrounds and they really showcase the stamped images front & Center! I'm in love with both the sets, there is no way to pick just one!
    Blessings,
    Melitta

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  18. I love the first card you created with the lilies! It's the perfect summer color combo! The bright colors make me happy :)

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  19. Love the vibrant colors Claire. So electrifying!

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  20. Love the lilies in front of the scene.

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  21. Great flowers - so pretty when done! And the sea critters are so cute!

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  22. Love all your designs, great job!

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  23. Wonderful cards all of them. Those sweet little dolphins have stolen my heart! Love that subtle background too. Great release! Cant wait to get mine.

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  24. Such adorable cards, and your lilies are gorgeous. Great use of those stamp sets, thank for the inspiration!

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  25. You make the most wonderful cards Claire. So many ideas for me to play with.

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  26. Your whales are so cute swimming together! I love how you positioned your dolphins on their card, as well! They are clearly having a good time! Each of your lily cards are beatiful!!

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  27. Beautiful and elegant and then fun and care-free...love your cards.

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  28. Your dolphin card is cute, but I really LOVE your lily cards...especially that last one! Thanks for the inspiration!!

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  29. Thank you for the wonderful ideas. Love the embossed stencil idea. Your lilies are very lovely. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  30. Fabulous cards! Love your beautiful new Lillies set!

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  31. Clair, your stamp set is exquisite! I can't wait to get me hands on it. That said, the colors on your cards are so vibrant and beautiful! Lovely!!!!

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  32. Beautiful cards! I love your new lily set.

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  33. Your lily set is gorgeous - so much elegant detail. Thanks for including the tip sheet. Love your whale card and how you did the spouts - so inspired.

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  34. wow, such pretty cards. I love them all. Thanks for sharing and inspiring us.

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  35. Gorgeous cards love the colors

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  36. Love how bright your cards are!

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  37. Love the look of your cards. Great Inspiration.

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  38. Love your flowers...beautiful!

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  39. Flowers are my favorite thing to stamp, your tip sheet for the Lovely Lilies set is a masterful idea. Thanks for sharing your ideas. I love the way you use the same stamp to create a background.

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  40. Love all your cards your ink blending is fantastic and so is your new stamp set.

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  41. Claire, love your new stamp set! I see me going for this one a lot. Love your cards....thanks for the inspiration!

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  42. Lilies are my favourite flower. Love this design and your backgrounds are really neat, too.

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  43. You're so creative. Thanks for sharing.

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  44. Incredible samples - I especially love the polka dotted whale

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  45. This lily set is amazeballs, Claire. As are all your samples!

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  46. Fabulous cards! The lilies are gorgeous.

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  47. Claire, your layering lilies are terrific! I love that you can leave the outline on or off, too!! Your cards are GORGEOUS and your dolphin and whale cards are sweet as can be!

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  48. Wow! I love all the vibrant colors and beautiful designs.

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  49. I like the vibrant colors!

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