...Make Your Holiday Shine with Foil-Mates™

Good morning folks and welcome to our Holiday blog hop - today the girls at Gina K designs are showing you how to make your Holidays shine with Foil-Mates™

My post is a little pic heavy so I'm keeping the ramble to a minimum, but the products I used are listed below and you can scoop them all from HERE at the Gina K. Designs store:

 Holiday Flora Foil Mates

Tag Tidings Foil Mates

Onamental Holiday Foil Mates

Festive Labels Foil Mates

Radiant red Foil

Glittering Green Foil

Decorative Tag Die Set

Decorative Label Die Set

I adore how everything co-ordinates, it makes it soooo super easy to create pretty things so quickly! My card above features one of the larger label designs from the Festive Labels Foil Mates

 Festive Labels

I foiled it in that glorious red shade before layering it onto two different backgrounds that I made with the Ornamental Holiday and Holiday Flora Foil Mates. I used plain black card for matting and filled in around the outer area of the label with a black marker to make my large label co-ordinate with the black mats. It was super simple, but very effective!

I created a little Holiday packaging for my next project and I wanted to show you a neat way to incorporate those pretty foils into other areas using double sided tape. The pics are pretty self explanatory, but basically I used strong double sided tape to add to co-ordinating striped to my plain red tin. I picked up the stripe design from the background tag that I had foiled with the ornamental holiday candy stripe Foil Mate sheet. Here's a series of pics to show you how:

Start with a plain tin, or box.

Add your design with double sided tape.

 Peel off the top of the tape.

layer the foil onto the sticky tape, colour side up. Smooth it well.

Peel off the foil to reveal your foiled design - I went for a tone on tone look with red on red.

Add your tag. you're done! Custom packaging.

I die cut the tags with the gorgeous Decorative tag die set, I'm loving the tags in this set. The label sentiment is from Tag Tidings and was foiled with the Radiant Red foil. I sure hope you like what I did with the foils, they are super easy to work with!

Tag Tidings

Now just in case you haven't been everywhere else already here's the hop list - enjoy all of the other samples from the DT:

Gina K.
Cathy Tidwell
Donna Idlet
Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin
Melanie Muenchinger 
Rema DeLeeuw
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore
Theresa Momber
Claire Brennan (You are here)

It's worth leaving a comment everywhere you hop - I hear Gina K. Designs will be giving away a $25.00 gift certificate and the winner will be posted in the Big News Forum a few days after the hop!!

Thanks for popping in!

...Gina K Designs Inspirational Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to Day Two of the Gina K Inspiration blog hop! We'd some high winds here yesterday and the electricity was in again out again for a while, so I'm still surfing yesterdays hop, but WOW! the DT are such a creative force, the things I've seen so far have me reaching for the cardstock this morning, hope you feel it too!

 

Todays sets are Purrfect Christmas from Chris, isn't this fun! I chose to have my putty cat dreaming of his Christmas plans but there are so many other options for scene creation in this set! I coloured my cat like a ginger tabby, cos that's my fave, but you can create any kind of feline buddy that you want!

And this adorable mouse - Noelle Mouse set from Beth - another super scene builder - I popped her in front of a Christmas tree, also in the set and gave her a candy cane, she looks suitably happy! The tiny little motif stamps in this set are great for creating backgrounds and accents, I used the mini holly to frame the aperture!

 

I hope you've enjoyed my samples, now it's time to pop off and visit the DT - and 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.

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.

 

Here's the DT - go get'm:

Gina K

Beth Silaika
 
Chris Dayton
 
Cathy Tidwell

Claire Brennan (you are here)

Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels
 
Karen Hightower

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Rema DeLeeuw

Sean Fetterman

Sheri Gilson
 
Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Theresa Momber

...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!