Mini Inspiration Hop: day 2

A few members of the Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcome you to another Mini Inspiration Blog Hop! Make sure to leave a comment on each blog because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a Bring The Bling Stamp Set! 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!

Do you ever get the "Mom I need a card now!" panic from your kids?  I usually respond with "What's their favorite color?"  The Delicate Damask set allows you to create a card in no time!  The longest part was tying the bakers twine!

I wanted to create something for today's hop with Theresa & Mel's sets too! 

I stamped images from all three sets in versamark ink and embossed it with clear.  I used red and pink watercolors to paint the background and resist the images. The sentiment is from Theresa's Elegant Florals 2 as is the larger fern. The miniature butterfly and the smaller fern and flower are from Melanie's Triple Frame. I mounted everything on a layer of black to make the sentiment pop, then added some sequins. 

Do you enjoy Clean and Simple Cards? Every Monday I feature a new Clean and simple card in my Clean & Simple Monday series on this blog! Subscribe to my feed or simply stop by when you pour your Monday morning coffee. It starts off you week right!

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted


Do not forget to leave a comment to get a chance to win that Bring the Bling stamp set! And stop by the other blogs to give them some love too!

Karen 

Lee

Melanie 

Beth <=me 

{you are already here!}

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

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

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted