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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January 2016 Inspiration Blog Hop

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our January Release!  We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along in the hop this month!  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.

here is a quick and simple card! White yardstick with a strip of the fun new designer paper from the kit! Love this new ink!

I used some of the fleur de lis stamps on the background with the beautiful sentiments!

This is the new lipstick color, which I toned down with white ink (sponged) with the heart stencil!  

Not a traditional valentine! 

 This is probably my favorite of the cards! I love this green!

This makes me long for a trip to Hawaii!

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

Gina K

Allie Gower

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Sean Fetterman

Silke Ledlow

Susie Moore

Thank you for stopping by! Don’t forget to stop by the Gina K Designs Store to purchase this awesome STV kit  at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

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Delicate Damask Mini Hop

My oldest two daughters are attending a France Peace Program [exchange], where they get to go stay in the outskirts of Paris early next month! I could not be more jealous supportive [ha ha].  They are visiting many historical sites and museums, and they have to keep a journal, so I purchased these Kraft cover journals at Staples last month.  I stamped with my Damask set along with Lots of Letters [karen, paris 2015] and Fleur de lis!  I made a similar one for Victoria in green and white with the damask and fleur de lis!  There is a ribbon that is attached to the journal which secures a pen!

 there are two little pockets in the front which can store their museum tickets, their receipts and their treasures!  The trip of a lifetime with some of their best friends! 

When I think of a new stamp design, I like to see if the concepts can go together.  Obviously the fleur de lis and damask flow nicely together. But can I pair it with something as extreme as a halloween set? I think it works.  I took the orange base and stamped it with the line of damask images to create a great background. Reminds me of wallpaper or a couch!  The main image is from Wicked - as is the sentiment.  I heat embossed it with gold and added a gem to the candelabra. It was yellow, so I colored it with a spectrum noir marker! 

I really hope you love the Delicate Damask set!

I love all of your feedback on my clean and simple style.  Starting next week, I will be making a regular blog posts with a CAS style card.  I hope to make this a regular feature - to give you some ideas on how to use your new and old stamps, to create cards that have a clean and simple flair!

Stop by Monday at 9 for the first CAS Monday on my blog!

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March 2015 Gina K. Inspiration Blog Hop: Day 3

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, 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.

Today I am featuring some cards with my newest set: Delicate Damask.  I have a great number of images and fun sentiments in this set. I hope you will like it as much as I do!

Did I tell you I have been on a watercolor streak lately? I have also had my heat embosser on a tear as well! This one I used the versamark on watercolor paper with white embossing powder and then used some watercoloring in greens and yellows to create the panel.  I mounted it on white to make the colors stand out! I love how the sentiment (from Lots of Lines) pops with black ink on the white. 

This is a tiny little gift tag with a clear embossed damask image. I stamped the image with versamark and then the sentiment (which is from Melanie's with black ink.  I poured over the clear embossing powder so that the image and sentiment would both be embossed.  I knew that I wanted the sentiment in black and if I clear embossed the damask, I couldn't stamp the sentiment over the top later! Luckily, the Gina K black ink grabs the embossing powder too! I added some white card stock under the green with some detailing provided by decorative scissors (talk about old school)! These are so easily replicable!~ 

This is a cute little window card I created! the inside has a glitter embossed image from the damask set along with the sentiment.  It was hard to photograph the glittered image - it comes out pink in the photo.

 here is a close up of the window! it is glitter in real life!

wouldn't that make a nice winter wedding invitation?

Stop back tomorrow for a few more samples with Delicate Damask!  One sample has an international flare! then starting next week  I will be starting a new weekly series:

it will feature cards with a clean style! cards which take very little time to make and are just as pretty as multi layer cards! Stop back every Monday for a new CAS card!

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

Gina K

Beth Silaika – Illustrator of Delicate Damask

Cathy Tidwell

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock
Laurie Schmidlin

Lee Murphy

Melanie Muenchinger

Sean Fetterman

Tricia Traxler

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

Remembering Gina K. Favorites Mini Hop: with bonus video

Last week during the mini hop, I promised a video on a watercoloring technique which I have been using with success on recent projects. While I love the cards I see on pinterest with all the bells and whistles, layers and eye catching baubles, I really have a hard time re-creating those in my craft room.  I wanted to get back to the basics of stamping and just create with what I have!  I have a small fortune invested in stamping products, but today's creations will allow you to keep your stamping budget within reason! 

I grabbed one neglected item from my stamping closet - a watercolor brush - to create this technique.  You can use a regular brush or one with the fancy reservoir with water - it doesn't really matter!  There are other items which you need, but certainly can find either in your stampers stash or in your kitchen (reusable craft sheet (Ranger makes one), or even parchment paper, wax paper or large acrylic block). You will also need a spritzing bottle!  You can buy a mini mister (they come in 3 packs) or use an old bottle of hairspray (cleaned out of course). You may want to grab your heat gun, just to speed up the drying process!

Here are some of the projects I created with this technique I call watercolor smash.  For this card I used two colors of pink Gina K. inks and one red.  I also used Gina K. white ink.  The images were stamped on watercolor paper and adhered to a base of Gina K. ivory!

  

The best thing about this technique: you do not need to use watercolor paper! I used Gina K. ivory and white paper on these projects! 

The final project was done with ocean mist and turquoise sea!

Here is the video I made showing how to use your Gina K. image stamps to create this watercolor look! Also, be sure to check out the Spectrum Noir tutorial from Kendra!

Let's see what other projects the design team has in store!

Beth Silaika <you are here>

Cathy Tidwell

Debbie Corbari

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock *Spectrum Noir tutorial*

Tricia Traxler

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

All projects use the Gina K. Fleur De Lis for both images and for sentiments
All projects use Gina K. paper (first project uses a piece of watercolor paper, which is available in most craft stores by the multi-pack). 
All projects use Gina K. inks 
Extra items - sequins, black pearls and crystal gems

Remembering Gina K. Favorites Mini Hop!

Good morning! 

Today some of us from the Gina K. Designs team are showcasing some past favorite sets from Gina K. illustrators Debbie Corbari and Beth Silaika.  Another mini hop to start your Monday right, we hope it inspires!  Grab your cuppa'!  We also have another prize today: the Fleece Navi-Baa stamp set by Debbie Corbari!  So be sure to comment on the blogs as you hop through for more chances to win!  Winner announced Tuesday in the StampTV forum.

Here is a little card I created with Let's Talk by Debbie Corbari! It is super simple, using patterned paper and the colors from the paper. I used a fun angle on the pattern paper layer. Bubble words were stamped and gently trimmed, then adhered with foam dots!

I am also showing you some cards with my Fleur de lis stamp set. I can honestly say that this set has become one of my favorites.  I took a little stamping break, cleaned off my desk and found some supplies which I had not used in a while (watercolor brush). I started playing with the set and created some cards which I love. Sometimes I am my harshest critic.  I can honestly say I made these cards and I was GRINNING! It has been a LONG time since I have been happy with a

stack of cards.

  

This first flour de lis card was stamped with a pice of ivory base, along with a piece of die cut Gina K. Ivory. This is the key, I stamped the flour de list image with black ink and used clear embossing powder on it immediately, heat set it and it gave a raised embossed look. Then, I used ink pads and a watercolor brush to blend the background. I washed the card with blues and greens (ocean mist, artichoke, turquoise sea) simply picking up the color on the brush.  I added some extra deep color inside the our de lis image. I dried it with my heat gun and then added the sentiment and some gems.

I created the next card the same way, adding embossing powder to the black stamped image to make it slightly raised. I used the watercolor brush to color in the images.  

While the cards are clean & simple, there may be some of you who say that they are techniques that hard to do! Next week the Gina K. Design team will host another mini hop and I will actually share a fun technique which will allow you to use this stamp set to achieve some unique results! 

So dig into your supplies and pull out your watercolor brush! That is all you need! See you Friday!

Now please continue to enjoy the hop and have a fabulous day!

Debbie Corbari

Beth Silaika <= you are here!

Sean Fetterman

Melanie Muenchinger

Laurie Schmidlin

Lee Murphy

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Gina K. Designs: Sneak Peek: Fabulous Fleur de lis (And Golf Diva)

 I know you are just as excited as I am about the upcoming Gina K. Release!  I am thrilled about this latest stamp set!  The possibilities with these pretty images make my heart flutter!

Here is a quick card which I created using the stamp set! It is a simple ocean mist/dark chocolate combo that is perfect for giving to a man or woman!  Keep a stash of these in your desk drawer for those nice hand written cards! I am making Todd a stack of them for work!

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to all those people who truly make the offices run!  For me - I have to give a shout out to Carol, Cory, Sue & Barbara at Todd's office! They are incredible ladies who make Todd so successful!

BFF Debbie Corbari has created a tee-riffic stamp set for all you golf fans! Check out the sneak peek on her blog!

Visit Debbie here- Doodle Designs

 

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