...Gina K designs Blog Hop Day 1 - October release!

Hello and welcome to Day One of the Gina K designs blog hop!

A ton of gorgeous new sets have just been released over at Gina's and the DT are here today and tomorrow to inspire you with some ideas for how to use them!

Today we are featuring the Fabulous Holiday Labels stamp set by Melanie, and the Peaceful Holidays set by Theresa, both shown below:

Melanie's set co-ordinates with the Fabulous Rose Frame stamp set 

AND the Fabulous Labels Die set.

Made with Theresa's Peaceful holidays, I loved stamping the BG pattern with the gorgeous snowflakes!

Both above made with Peaceful holidays, can't get enough of those trees!

 I am loving creating tags with Melanies new Fabulous Labels stamp set, couldn't resist adding a little colour to the wee houses - just stamped the image again in red and trimmed out the houses with a knife and stuck them on top of the blue stamped image!

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.

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out the entire stamp and die sets as well as all of the new stamp sets by the illustrators from this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Be sure to stop by the DT for some eye candy using the newest sets:

Gina K
http://ginakdesigns.blogspot.com/

Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator for Fabulous Holiday Labels
http://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com/

Theresa Momber – Illustrator for Peaceful Holidays
http://craftingtheweb.blogspot.com/

Beth Silaika
http://silaika.blogspot.com/

Cathy Tidwell
https://catdidit.blogspot.com/

Chris Dayton
http://www.cattalesandpapertrails.com/…/…/Gina%20K%20Designs

Claire Brennan
http://waltzingmouse.blogspot.com/

Donna Idlet
http://myblogidlet.blogspot.com/

Juliana Michaels
http://www.17turtles.com/search/label/Gina%20K%20Designs

Karen Hightower
https://karenscreativemess.blogspot.com/

Laurie Schmidlin
http://justgivemestamps.typepad.com/

Rema DeLeeuw
https://paperpanacherd.blogspot.com/

Sean Fetterman
http://fettermandesigns.blogspot.com/

Sheri Gilson
http://papercraftyscreations.blogspot.com/…/Gina%20K.%20Des…

Silke Ledlow
http://silkeledlow.blogspot.com/

Susie Moore
http://www.thedieshaveit.com/

...Gina K Designs Stitched Leaves Mini Inspiration Blog Hop - Back in Stock TODAY!

 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new Gina K Designs Stitched Leaves mini kit which will be back in stock TODAY! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!
These stamp sets are so fun, versatile and you can make a variety of different cards and projects with or without dies! You will be creating with this stamp set and dies all fall long! Have fun and be creative!

 

I used that glorious maple leaf stamp for todays card - I inked up the solid shape in Sweet Mango and Cherry red (both Gina K Inks) using the rock and roll technique. Then I over-stamped the line image in brown. The leaves were then trimmed out with the matching dies! lastly I set them down on a piece of foam and rubbed over them with the rounded bottom end of a pen to make them curl before adhering them to my card base. I used a piece of patterned paper from my stash (it's from the Gina K Autumn wishes paper pack) The thankful die used to create the sentiment panel is also in this kit!

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?

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

Gina K. https://ginakdesigns.blogspot.com
Beth Silaika https://silaika.blogspot.com
Cathy Tidwell https://catdidit.blogspot.com
Chris Dayton http://www.cattalesandpapertrails.com
Claire Brennan https://waltzingmouse.blogspot.com
Donna Idlet http://myblogidlet.blogspot.com/search/…/Gina%20K%20designs…
Juliana Michaels http://www.17turtles.com/search/label/Gina%20K%20Designs
Karen Hightower https://karenscreativemess.blogspot.com
Laurie Schmidlin http://justgivemestamps.typepad.com/
Melanie Muenchinger https://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com
Rema Deleeuw https://paperpanacherd.blogspot.com
Sean Fetterman http://fettermandesigns.blogspot.com/
Sheri Gilson http://papercraftyscreations.blogspot.com/…/Gina%20K.%20Des…
Silke Ledlow http://silkeledlow.blogspot.com/
Susie Moore http://www.thedieshaveit.com/
Theresa Momber http://craftingtheweb.blogspot.com/

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out the entire stamp and die set as well as all of the new stamp sets by the illustrators from this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thank you for stopping by!

...Stamptember at Simon Says Stamp

It's always exciting to get new stamps, but a week or two ago I got a very special package from Simon Says stamp - in it was this set - it's a new Gina K set produced in collaboration with Simon Says Stamp for their Stamptember event!

There's a blog hop going on today to celebrate and I would encourage you to visit the other DT folks blogs to see what they've made with this cracking set:

Beth Silaika
Cathy Tidwell
Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan - me (You are here)
Donna Idlet
Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Melanie Muenchinger
Rema Deleeuw
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore- 
Theresa Momber

I created this card to celebrate the launch of this set - thought it would be fun to have the snowmen playing hide and seek in the trees. The trees are clear embossed onto white card and then I sponged shades of blue over them to create an evening sky background. I sliced down the side of some of the tree trunks and slotted in my fussy cut my snowmen. Love these guys!

This is a cracking set and I cannot wait to see what everyone else has done with it. This set is exclusively available from Simon says Stamp and there are matching dies which may be purchased separately - but you need to scoop these up quick, it's my understanding that when it's gone, it's gone!

...Gina K August 2017 – Inspiration Blog Hop - Day Two

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 new stamp sets by Beth Silaika and little old me!

First up is Beth's set - Todd Turtle:

My card for this set features that cute crab! LOL, that is gonna be such a useful sentiment in this house... I used the Water droplets stencil from Gina K to create the background, perfect for this stamp set! this little set is jam packed with punny sentiments and cute critters!

Next up is my set - Perfect Poinsettia: It's a layering set and I have a little cheat sheet showing you how to layer these easily. Feel free to screenshot this for future reference!

If you have this set, you will notice that I kept the centres of each of the layer stamps as similar as possible so that you can just line these up over each other to get a perfect match - the video is coming tho if you need a little visual!

I have two cards for this post, for which I created a red poinsettia and a white poinsettia. Gina's inks are great for layering and you could create just about any combination of colours!

I made the green leaves behind the flowers by just re-stamping the main flower in shades of green, super simple!

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:

Ready for more awesome creations?! 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.
Thank you for stopping by!

...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. 

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: 

My first card features Melanie's new set, Fabulous Rose Frame:

I stamped the largest image onto white cardstock and coloured it with copics. I then trimmed it out with the matching die. I went round the outside of the image with a black copic marker so that when I mounted it on a black card base, the flowers and leaves would look like they were floating in the black. I like this look it reminds me of toleware.

The stamp has space in the centre for a sentiment and for my second card I thought I'd colour in the centre space black as well and then use the small oval die from the matching die set. I sliced around the 4 central leaves and popped them open a little so I could slide in the oval, which I gently curved. I like how this looks also.

My second set of cards features Theresa's new set The Wetlands 2:

 

I stamped the simple tree shapes in versamark and clear embossed them on white card and then I got out the sponges and went crazy sponging with Gina K Inks, Passionate Pink, Wild Dandelion, Jellybean Green and Sweet Mango, I love these shades together. I wanted a nice cheery card to reinforce the feel better soon sentiment, also from the set. I sponged the card base to match and popped the image up on white and pink mats.

I couldn't resist gold embossing the dragon fly image several times on a white card front, I thin gold embossing looks fab coloured with shades of teal and green, which I used here on the dragon flies. I love this sentiment, also from Theresa's set!

Hope these tickle a little, I can't wait to get around all the other DT posts!! Don't forget to comment on all the DT posts to be in with a chance of winning a $50 Gina K Designs gift certificate!

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!