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Monday, November 5, 2018

Gina K. Designs November 2018 New Release Blog Hop: Day One

Welcome to the Gina K. Designs November 2018 New Release Blog Hop! Today we are featuring two sets:

Reasons to Celebrate and Old Fashioned Christmas

The first set is by Gina and it features some adorable MINI images that have coordinating sentiments. Might I even call them MICRO images. They are adorable. Almost as adorable as new puppies. I have had two friends get puppies this past month, so I used this release as an excuse to make a puppy card! This is an A2 card using innocent pink. The sentiment and paw prints are stamped in black! I colored the paws in light brown. The twine I used on the top reminded me of a chew rope!

The second card features the snow covered vintage car from Hannah's Old Fashioned Christmas set. I stamped the image on a kraft A2 card base and colored with copic markers. I used poster paint for the snow because my gel pen dried up! (note to self, buy another white gel pen!)

What do you think of my samples? Leave a comment below, then stop by and see a few others by amazing designers! You will be in the running for a $50 gift certificate! Wahooo!  Buy a white gel pen!

Hannah <-- (she made the Old Fashioned Christmas set)

Gina K.

(She made the Reasons to Celebrate set) 

Arjita

(you came from her blog)
Beth 

(you are here)

Cat

(you are going here)

Donna

Emily

Karen

Lisa

Melanie

Mindy

Rema

Sheri

Susie

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

Monday, October 16, 2017

Gina K Designs October 2017 Inspiration Blog Hop: Day 1 (Fabulous Holiday Labels & Peaceful Holidays)

Today, The Cast and Crew for Gina K.Designs welcomes you to a blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by the illustration team from Gina K. Designs! 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 $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? Here is the project I have created for today’s hop:

This emboss resist card features the snowflakes from Peaceful Holidays. I embossed them on watercolor paper and then used watercolors to create the background. The sentiment is stamped on black card stock and embossed with white embossing powder.

The background of main image is created with topics on glossy paper. The peace dove and sentiment was stamped in dark chocolate.

The Fabulous Holiday Labels set was fun to work with. I used the Merry Christmas sentiment and the holly leaves from Mel's set. I used the white pop dots and some chunky red glitter to create the berries. I fussy cut out the leaves and attached them next to the berries.

The second card uses kraft base with some fussy cut, embossed snow. I stamped the snowflakes with white ink and the sentiment and reindeer with dark chocolate.

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 (linking to the Gina K Designs Store

Gina K

Melanie Muenchinger

(illustrator for Fabulous holiday labels)

Theresa Momber

(illustrator for Peaceful Holidays)

* Bethann Silaika *
Cathy Tidwell
Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Green
Juliana Michaels
Laurie Schmidlin
Karen Hightower
Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ludlow
Susie Moore

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

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