Monday, March 21, 2016

Gina K. Designs Inspiration Hop: March 2016 {Handmade Botanicals}

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a special Inspiration blog hop featuring the new incentive stamp called "Handmade Botanicals". These stamps would be a beautiful compliment to a Gina K. Designs stop set, to add the perfect accent or to make a card on its own. Plus, the "Homemade by" stamp is wonderful to add your own personal touch! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!

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.

This first card is quite simple. I watercolored a die cut shape and then simply stamped in black ink. The die cut is adhered to the white base with foam squares. This will make a great sympathy card.



This card is actually on a pale grey base.  I cut it to a 4x4 square card and double scored it in two spots on the card to just give it something other than a plain base. The circle was watercolored, then I stamped the fern in green and added the sentiment in black (the sentiment is from last month's incentive set). 


The other 4x4 base was sitting on my desk along with Genevieve Giraffe, when I decided she wanted to go to the jungle. I stamped the ferns in a variety of greens and simply stamped her behind it (I did create a post it note with a v cut in it, then filled in more ferns. The giraffe was colored with SN markers. I love when my stamps work well with other sets! It makes them more versatile! 



Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

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!


all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted



Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Gina K. Designs February 2016 Inspiration Blog Hop: Day 2 (Genevieve Giraffe & Scripty Sayings)



The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamps from the February Release Party. 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 set “Genevieve Giraffe” by Beth Silaika and the incentive set “Scripty Sayings” by Gina K. Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!!  To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

Genevieve Giraffe was inspired by Gina telling me "do another set like the hippo! People loved it!"  I really love giraffes, and decided this one was as cute as a button, so I named it after my youngest daughter Genevieve.  She likes ducks, so I added the cute little bird (which kind of looks like a duck!)



This first card has a tag and sentiment banner.  Tags are great fun to make, and coordinating the color with the green designer paper from Gina K was fun! Next time you are stuck somewhere (say a three day swim meet), bring some stamped images and markers to color.  You can always add them to cards later! Makes the time go quickly!



Window cards are fun to make - I simply stamped the images multiple times and trimmed them and put their faces in the windows! 


Here is another version of a window card. The giraffe is easy to pop into a variety of places on cards! 


This window card has some nice bold graphic Gina K. paper in it! I punched out a scrap with a heart punch for the corner of the card. 


It is fun to experiment with nontraditional colors with Genevieve. There are some great sentiments for baby's - so you can make your own personalized baby cards!

Next, the Scripty Sayings incentive set goes with all the stamps released this month! I put the little bird on the edge of the scripty saying!  



Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Gina K – Illustrator for Scripty Sayings
Beth Silaika – Illustrator for GenevieveGiraffe

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!






all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted



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