...Gina K Designs –Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 1

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 Melanie Muenchinger and Theresa Momber. 

Theresa's set is called Framescape - Tropical Skies

Melanie's set is called Pressed Flowers 2

These stamp sets are so fun and versatile! You will be able to create amazing card projects using each individual set or by combining the images and sentiments from multiple sets from this release. Have fun and be creative!

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then 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? Here are a few of the projects I have created for today’s hop  - I'm going to keep the waffle to a minimum, but all inks, cardstocks and stamps are from Gina K Designs, just pop a comment on here if you need to know the details.

I made a set of 3 cards with Melanie's new set - Pressed Flowers 2 to create backgrounds with stamping and sponging - I used the tiny versions of the flowers from Fabulous flowers to create the focal points on the white panel. The sentiments are in a lovely calligraphic font, also from the new set Pressed Flowers 2.

Here they are separately:

 My next card also uses Melanie's set, this time I stamped the large flower in Sweet Mango and used a brown colouring pencil to add some shadows. The background panel was stamped in Sweet Corn, and some Honey Mustard Ink and cardstocks were used for the darker tan tones on the die cut leaves and border. The matching dies are such a boon to this set!

My next samples are made with Theresa's set Framescape - Tropical Skies

I used the main frame for this card and stamped in in black. I did all my sponging before stamping the setting sun in versamark and adding some white embossing powder. Then I took a white gel pen and added some highlights to my silhouetted images.

Been on a bit of a sponging bent and so created this background with some yummy shades - Wild Dandelion, Passionate Pink and Sweet Mango. Dropped some water splats because that's what all the cool kids are doing these days and I like how it looks. I cut a rectangle from the centre of the panel and then stamped my palm trees and setiment on it. Added a black mat and stuck it back in position. Fast card, but nice impact.

Super simple one, a simple strip of Wild Dandelion cardstock sponged around the edges with sweet mango - then stamped with a small island image and some birdies and a simple sentiment.

The black cardstock base was run through the embosser with one of the newest Gina K products - a stencil called Water droplets - it embossed quite well even though that's not really what it is intended for. Try it!

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:

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

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.

Thank you for stopping by!

...Simple Lilies

Morning folks and a very Happy 4th July to all my USA buddies! 

A wee simple set of cards today for you, using just the solid stamps from the Lovely Lilies stamp set this time, I left off the outlines and I love how this looks. Been playing with my Gina K Inks, layering them up and there are some fab combos to use, I have used:

Cherry Red, red Hot and Innocent Pink - the stamen is stamped in black and then clear embossed.

The Blue Lily uses Blue Lagoon and Ocean Mist, I only stamped two layers on this flower, Stamen was in Christmas Pine.

 

 

The Yellow Lily is stamped in Sweet Mango, Wild Dandelion and Lemon Drop. This time the Stamen was stamped in Cherry Red. All sentiments were stamped in Black ink and co-ordinating cards from Gina K were used, I love matching inks and cardstock! :)

Here's the complete set and a wee graphic to show how you can layer the stamps to get the look you like.

... Bold Lilies

I'm in shock, it's the first of July! How in heck? I really don't think I experience time the way everyone else in my house does, feel like I've just gotten squared up after Christmas... anywhoo...

Today I have another card, this time a set, that I shared at the release party - there was quite the scramble on the StampTV website at the release party and the whole thing sort of froze so I'm popping my cards up here for anyone who wanted to see them. Gina has just released a cracking new bunch of goodies, to see what's new click here.

Among the goodies is my new set Lovely Lilies (above), and in contrast to yesterday's card, I made this quick set of more contemporary styled cards using just two layers of the lily flowers plus the stamen. I used Wild dandelion ink and Sweet mango on white card and the stamens were stamped in Cherry Red Gina K ink. I made the card base from Sweet Mango Card.love the matchy matchy.

While I was at it I had fun playing with other inks from my Gina K collection. I love a stamp set that I can use to whip up fast cards!

Using Passionate Pink and Bubblegum Pink, again Cherry Red for the stamens.

 Jellybean Green, Grass green and Christmas Pine.

Hope they tickle!

...Lovely Lilies

Morning! Last night we had the Gina K new stamp release - there's a ton of new goodies available over at Gina's - to see all the new stuff pop over here.

My new set is called Lovely Lilies and it's a layering set that you can use in a few different ways. Here's what it looks like:

The main Lily image comes broken down into three solid layers plus a line art outline, plus a separate stamen stamp, and you can use all of these together or you can use only a couple of the layers, or maybe just the lineart outline - that's a good option if you like to colour with copics or pencils, or maybe watercolours.

Just in case you could use a little help putting these together I have a little graphic for you:

I'm still working on a video, but I can tell you right now that my favourite way to stamp these is to begin with the darker colour first and then stamp the medium tone over that finishing up with the lightest tone, it is way easy to line them up when you do it this way. Thanks for popping in, if you have any questions, just leave me a comment :)

...Gina K Designs –Sentimental Summer StampTV Kit Inspiration Blog Hop

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fantastic blog hop celebrating the new Sentimental Summer StampTV Kit. Contained in the kit are:

24 sheets of Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Card Stock including Passionate Pink, Turquoise Sea, Layering White, Black Onyx, Heavy Base Weight White, Wild Dandelion and Sweet Mango
Petite Patterns 6X6 pattern paper pack
Dazzling Dahlia stamp set
Your Own Kind of Beautiful stamp set
Set of 13 dies that coordinate with images from the two stamp sets

Today, the Cast & Crew has prepared some fabby projects to share with you! Join us by hopping along on all of the Cast&Crew blogs to see the wide variety of samples. These will give you ideas as you create your own projects when you receive the set for yourself. Make sure to leave a comment on the blog because we will be giving away a prize!

Don't forget there is a super new incentive set - Rose Garden which will ship out FREE to folks ordering over $75 see here for details.

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog. We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop and that person will 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? Here are a few of the projects I have created for today’s hop:

I love the sentiment "Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn" and I'm going to stick this card up on my wall and leave it there! lol. Those little cacti are just perfect for this sentiment and I heat embossed them with white embossing powder before 'watercolouring' them. I smooshed some Gina K Inks onto a sheet of clear acetate and loaded up my paintbrush with a little water before picking up the ink colours to fill in my embossed image, this is a great way to get that watercolour look and to have it match your cardstock exactly! It takes the guesswork away and you have a nice watercoloured image!

For this next card I stamped the solid images in Sweet Mango Ink (Gina K) and then went in with some colouring pencils to add a little shading.

I die cut the images using the matching does included in the set and then arranged them around a circular sentiment panel that I had cut out with the Gina K/Thermoweb stitched circle dies. 

For both of my card background panels I couldn't resist taking some of the petite patterns papers and running them through my laminator with some of those foils. They came out beautifully! There's a great selection of designs in this set that will work for any occasion and you can really stretch the value of this pack by using them with your foils.

Ready for more awesome creations?!
Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:

Gina K

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton

 
Claire Brennan

 
Donna Idlet

JulianaMichaels 

 
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.

Thank you for stopping by!