Gina K. Designs Incentive: Coffee Therapy Set

Welcome to the Gina K. Designs Incentive (Coffee Set) blog hop!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a special Inspiration Blog Hop featuring our new incentive stamp set called, “Coffee Therapy”. With this stamp set you will be able to make fun friendship cards to send to your favorite coffee buddy! 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 an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies!!!  To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

This coffee set is FREE with a $75 purchase at Gina K. Designs.  Do you have anything on your wish list? As a little temptation, I have included a bonus card....

 I made this clean and simple card with the latest StampTV kit and a sentiment from my Fleur De Lis set! I love this sweet simple sentiment against the bold colors of the designer paper. It uses the awesome designer paper from the kit and the new apple green color card stock.  I used some brads which I colored with my spectrum noir markers.

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.

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

Gina K

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstockhttp://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/2016/02/gina-k-inspirational-blog-hop-with.html

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Sean Fetterman

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Thanks for stopping by!

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CAS Monday: Many Thanks sunset

Another CAS Monday and another thank you note.  I had to make a TON of thank you notes the other day!  Making them with a watercolor wash is super easy, plus you can add just about any sentiment.  This  watercolor base pre folded card is perfect for those quick thank you notes. It is a wash of yellows and oranges, with a few sequins and a black ink sentiment from Lots of Lines. Drying time took a bit of time, so this wasn't a super quick card. But you can easily mass produce this card if you have the pre-folded cards and the patience to watercolor several at a time!

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CAS Monday: Triple Rainbow thanks

Thanks for stopping by for another Clean & Simple Monday.  I created this rainbow thank you card with my Lots of Thanks stamp set.  I stamped the sentiment three times in black ink after creating the rainbow wash on watercolor paper. I love the way this card turned out!

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CAS Monday - Mother's Day

Thanks for checking back in for another Clean & Simple Monday.  Today - I am sharing a card which I created for Mother's Day with the beautiful new Gina K Stamp TV kit.  

I used white ink on yellow card stock - the sentiment is done in black ink!  This was a 30 second card!  Took longer than that to clean the stamps!

Later this week, I will be sharing more cards created with the Gina K. Stamp TV kit

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CAS Monday: Tulip Thanks

Welcome to another CAS Monday! 

Another Monday, another watercolored thank you card. I had a stack of cards to make for everyone involved in the elementary school production of Annie, Jr. It was so fun to watch and I was in charge of creating gifts for the directors/helpers. Each person got a handmade card and each was slightly different. This card was done on a watercolor base. I stamped the flower from Theresa's Elegant Florals 2. I watercolored everything with a watercolor brush and then stamped the sentiment in black (Lots of Lines). 

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CAS Monday: Merci

Welcome to another CAS Monday! 

Today I am showing another watercolor card. This is on a watercolor 5x5 ivory base. The colors of the background were done first.  I used the flowers from Elegant Florals 2 from Theresa.  I used the sentiment "Merci" which is from Lots of Thanks. Once I stamped the image, I went back with my watercolor brush and colored in the petals on the flowers to make them pop a little against the background!

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I have been doing a lot of watercolor cards lately.  I promise you in the coming weeks, I will change up the colors! 

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CAS Monday: thanks so much

Thank you for popping in for another 

Today I am showing a card which I mass created for the First Communion thank you notes for Sophie & Genevieve. There is a coordinating envelope using the same color image from Delicate Damask.  Sentiment stamped in black.  

Super simple - easily mass produced!

What do you think?

I am not getting many comments on the Clean and Simple Monday series. Do you enjoy these posts?  I enjoy your feedback - let me know what you think and if I should continue the series!

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Mini Inspiration Hop & CAS Monday: hello friend

Some of the Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another Mini Inspiration Blog Hop (and today is also Clean & Simple Monday!)

 Make sure to leave a comment on each blog because we will choose one random comment and that stamper will win a Lots of Washi Stamp Set! 

To see the full list of winners check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hops. Notice I said HOPS because some of the team will be hopping tomorrow too!

Today I am showing off two cards with my recent stamp set: Delicate Damask.  

This first card is stamped on an ivory pre folded card base. I stamped the medium damask image in a rainbow of colors, slightly overlapping. The sentiment from the set is stamped in black.  

The get well soon sentiment would work really well with the rainbow of images too! 

This second card is bold, while remaining clean & simple. I used a purple card base with black ink. The images are from Delicate Damask  and the sentiment is from Lots of Lines. I aded a few black gems to the card at the edge of the flourish. 

Please stop by the other blogs and give them some love too:

Beth Silaika (Illustrator of Delicate Damask)

Cathy Tidwell

Laurie Schmidlin

Sean Fetterman

CAS Monday: Get Well Soon

Thanks for stopping by for another CAS Monday! I never stamp with orange. I am not sure why, because is is such a happy color!  I created this card with Delicate Damask on an ivory piece of card stock.  It is layered on an ivory base with a hint of orange polkadot ribbon. The damask images are offset from the card. I splattered the orange on the background using a watercolor brush.  The sentiment is also from Delicate Damask!

This could be easily replicated in any color! I may try it with blue, purple or yellow and maybe some bakers twine! 

Stop by next Monday for another CAS Monday sample! Thanks for popping by!

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CAS Monday: Have Faith

Welcome to the second CAS Monday!I am so glad you stopped by!

The last stamp release from Gina K. featured three stamp sets (Triple play frame, Elegant Florals 2 & Delicate Damask). I was making samples for all three and decided that I wanted to try and make a card featuring all of them together. 

The large flower and leaves are from Theresa's set, the sentiment and butterflies, plus the small flower is from Melanie's set & the damask is from my set. I think the black gingham ribbon really pops the colors! I love these colors together. 

Tune in next week for another C&S sample!



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CAS Monday: With Sympathy

Welcome to the first Clean & Simple Monday.  Everyone hates Mondays - so I thought that it would be something we can both look forward to: a new C&S card for you to view - and an outlet for me to create and share!  so grab a cuppa and kick up your feet!

Finding the right words when someone has suffered a loss can be so difficult.  This card is perfect to send to anyone going through a trying time.  

The Gina K. kraft base is 4.25 x 5.5.  I stamped the large damask image from Delicate Damask with Gina K white ink. I let it dry a few minutes before stamping the sentiment (also from Delicate Damask) on top with black ink. The sentiment could easily be anything from the set! It is a 2 minute card which is so quick to replicate - but the clean look of the white on kraft is timeless!

Stop by next Monday for another card on Clean & Simple Monday!


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