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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Gina K Designs – October Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 3

October 2016 – Ian Moose and Claire’s sets

Inspiration Blog Hop - Day Three

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new Home for the Holidays StampTV Kit and a number of gorgeous stamp sets by our illustrator team! 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 Beth Silaika’s new “Ian Moose” stamp set and Claire Brennan’s new stamp sets: Nordic Winter, ‘Tis the Season, Festive Foliage and Compliments of the Season. Beth’s set, “Ian Moose” is the most adorable moose with cute accompanying images and fun sentiments! Claire’s stamp sets are the best in classic and traditional stamps celebrating this holiday season!

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.

The first card with Claire's set is from Nordic Winter

Clean & Simple all the way!

This next card was exactly what I saw when I first saw the set - a 1980's winter sweater that I wore to a retreat in the Adirondacks with my church's youth Group. Stamped image and then trimmed out the v neck collar and added the collar detail. Buttons finish the design!

This uses those beautiful fonts from 'Tis the Season

Faint images of snowflakes in the watercolored area (from the incentive set)

The pretty fonts pair so nicely with the designer paper which Gina is releasing this month!

Are you ready for Ian? He was named after my sister's son (who turns two this week)! They have a mutual love of moose and the Adirondacks!

I wanted to show that Ian can also be used for love notes or valentines!

The moose antics continue with other images in the set - these cardinals love to stir up fun!

I made this simple tag with a strip of the designer paper from Gina's set and some fun coloring!

I made sure that Ian was dressed warm - he has ear muffs and can even be dressed in an ugly sweater for the holidays!

Here is a card made with the Holly Jolly Incentive set!

This is also made with the Holly Jolly incentive set - pairs so well with the designer paper from this month's Gina K. release!

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

Gina K

Beth Silaika illustrator of Ian Moose

Claire Brennan -
Nordic Winter, ‘Tis the Season, Festive Foliage and Compliments of the Season

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, October 18, 2016

Gina K Designs – October Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 2

October 2016 – Holiday Frame and Dashing sets

Inspiration Blog Hop - Day Two

A special birthday wish today to my beautiful Isabella Ray (Bella) - {as in Bella Elephant}

Today, we are featuring Melanie Muenchinger’s new “Holiday Frame” stamp set and Theresa Momber’s new “Dashing” stamp sets. Both Melanie and Theresa have hand-drawn these beautiful images that will allow you to make a card that is personalized with images that you will not find anywhere else!

I am happily donating all these cards to the troops! Please keep them & their families in your prayers this holiday season!

With Theresa's Dashing set, I felt a little Krafty!

There is nothing better thank a Clean & Simple set to showcase

Mel's sets are always fun to play with. I made a simple wreath with the images in her set and added a simple bow with a glue dot!

This little snowman was fun to color! I feel like he was either preparing for a snowball fight or he was creating a friend to keep him company!

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

Gina K

Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator of Holiday Frame

Theresa Momber – Illustrator for Dashing

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

Monday, October 17, 2016

Gina K Designs – October Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 1

October 2016 – Home for the Holidays StampTV Kit and ‘Tis the Sea-Sun sets

Inspiration Blog Hop - Day One

“It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas” around Gina K Designs! Gina K and the illustrator team have been extremely busy preparing the most fun stamp sets with a variety of images and sentiments to make so many incredible cards and holiday projects!

Tis The Sea-Sun is a fun set - love these little penguins!

This reminds me of spending the holidays in Florida

This month's StampTV kit has so many options for creating holiday cards!

This uses the tree and snowflake images from Ian Moose along with a sentiment from Christmas Magic

More Christmas Magic!

This is from Christmas Greenery

More Christmas Greenery

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

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

Monday, November 2, 2015

Sparkling Christmas StampTV kit Inspiration Hop

Welcome to the fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop with Gina K's Design Team! This blog hop is for the brand spanking new StampTV Kit, Sparkling Christmas. The colors in this kit include: edible eggplant, fresh asparagus, prickly pear, cherry red, lovely lavender and white! There are some great designer paper options and the super fun snowflake dies!

Here are the Monthly Incentive Stamps!

Today, Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a  random comment and that stamper will win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

Card 1:

Would you like to see some of those "Incentives" in action? I used the 3D foam snowflakes and Snowflake sequins along with a sparkle button from my collection on this first card. Simply place the foam snowflake on your card and add any other embellishment you want (I added a light blue sparkle button to the center of the snowflake). Then you simply sprinkle it with glitter. I stamped the sentiment from the kit in white and added more glitter (the white ink grabs the glitter!) The base is edible eggplant!

Card 2:

The great thing about the kit is you have the perfect base colors to get paired with the designer paper. I used the tree paper along with the fresh asparagus and cherry red. I used white ink on the punched circle!

Card 3:

The next two cards are done with white and kraft. This first one has a splash of red, which just POPS! I stamped the tree images along the bottom, then took a wet watercolor brush (almost drippy wet) and picked up the white color left on the stamp. A couple of flicks of the brush and it created a nice snow effect. I doused the wet white ink trees and droplets with glitter. I stamped the sentiment on white with cherry red ink. (little secret, I tried to stamp it right on the card, but it smeared when the ink hit the glitter. instead of tossing the card, I simply added a small white sentiment block. YES~! Card saved!). I love the hint of red in the bakers twine!

Card 4:

When you have another half of the card cut, why not make another white and kraft card. I wanted to make a blizzard background. There are a few cute snowflakes in the kit, so I stamped them all over the background and then again, wet my watercolor brush and picked up the white from the stamps. I flicked the water to create spots which really filled in the blank spaces. A sprinkle of glitter and boom - blizzard effect! I stamped the sentiment in kraft ink on the white card stock. I used a piece of white velvet ric arc under the sentiment and then tied on a piece of rustic twine.

Ready for more inspiration?

Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Gina K

Allie Gower

Beth Silaika <= you are here

Thank you for stopping by! Don’t forget to stop by the Gina K Designs Store to purchase your StampTV Kit at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

Friday, October 25, 2013

Gina K. October Release Inspiration Hop: Day 2 (Fleece Navibaa and Cheers)

The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hops.

Let's see what we have in store today.

I really enjoy the holidays, but I am not ready for them quite yet. Took me a little while to get in the holiday card zone. I think that Debbie's Fleece Navibaa did just that - made me holiday happy! Look at this little sheep! Ewe are so adorable! I used a CAS layout to create this one:

Here is a cute, yet simple tag idea which is easily replicable (well, maybe not for the amount of Tags I need for the holidays)
I used the Happy holidays sentiment and Just for Ewe! Ha! That sheep cracks me up!

I had some grey card stock on my craft table (shocker - it's still not clean) and I paired it with some of this polka dot designer paper (also in the pile of crap on my desk). Found the button stuck to the bottom of a bottle of glue, so I slapped that bad boy to the card! Probably left over from another project, because it was already sportin the bakers twine! Do you ever do that - start a project and put an element aside and lose that little bugger? I do it all the time!

Finally, I used some leftover designer paper from a previous project (also on the desk, which is still not clean because I am doing this blog post). To me, those white dots look like bubbles going up in a champagne glass - so it made perfect sense in my brain to pair it with *this* stamp! Cheers! I think I need a drink!

I need to go clean my desk!

While I am doing that, why don't you take a gander at what the other design team members have in store!

Gina K
Debbie Corbari -- my BFF & Illustrator of Fleece Navibaa
AJ Otto
Beth Silaika <= me
Carolina Buchting
Carolyn King
Cathy Tidwell
Latisha Yoast
Laurie Schmidlin
Lee Murphy
Melanie Muenchinger
Michelle Woerner
Sean Fetterman
Sharon Harnist
Valerie Stangle

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted