Gina K Designs Illustrators December 2013 Blog Hop...and You're Invited!!

You're Invited!!

Tonight is the night! We are all so excited to party with you from 7:00- 9:00 PM Central Time in our forum at StampTV.com! All of the fun starts right here:

StampTV Release Party Forum

Today, the Illustrators and some of the Design Team have put together a little invitation hop for you! This hop features stamps that will be released tonight! So come hop along with us and don't forget to add a comment on each blog...we will pick an random winner to win an awesome grab bag of Gina K Design Goodies!!

Start hopping and be sure to leave a comment!!

I tried to keep it simple with this set - to allow for some clean & simple card designs! I was on a pink/black kick!

I had a ton of punched out stars from Karen's birthday cards, so I stamped the star from Lots of Lines in pink on the scrapped star. I used the "I love it!" sentiment from Lots of Thanks.  Very simple!  Endless possibilities with color combinations!

This card was simple and customizable for my needs.  I stamped the Thank You in pink, the rest in black and simply took a pink marker and checked off the boxes.  The card is now perfect for a friend who was there for me! 

 Stop by next week to see more samples, but for now - check out these fabulous blogs!

• Gina K
• Becky Oehlers - Illustrator of It's The Little Things
• Beth Silaika- Illustrator of Lots Of Thanks
• Carolyn King - Illustrator of Elegant Flourishes
• Debbie Corbari - Illustrator of Celebration Diva
• Melanie Muenchinger- Illustrator of Stamper's Favorites
• Theresa Momber - Illustrator of Vertical Greetings
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Lee Murphy
• Sean Fetterman

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

Sneak Peek: Lots of Thanks

I am always looking for that perfect stamp to make thank you notes! I am constantly making thank you notes for the kids. I try my best to make them send out a thank you note before they actually use the gift. From now on, this set is going to be my GO-TO thank you note set! It has some fun details in it which will allow you to make "cool" thank you notes for teens/tweens and elegant thank you notes for yourself.

Birthday Thank You Notes

I can hardly believe it is November!  October flew by and there were many birthday parties (we have so many October birthdays in our house).  Victoria even had a group of her very best friends throw her a surprise party, so I spent yesterday creating special thank you notes for her to give to those friends.  Victoria is a green girl, so I used some green card stock with some custom silhouette files. The clean & simple card also features a stamp from Lots of Lines and Gina K's new white ink.  I had a stash of this beautiful, wide, white satin ribbon, which was simply tied in a knot and tucked behind the green layer. I tried to keep it as simple as possible since I had to make 20!  

Next week I am tackling the 50 sweet 16 thank you cards which I have to make for Karen's friends!  Slow Down November!

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

paper: white, green (PTI)
stamps: Lots of Lines
ink: white 
misc: white ribbon (unknown), silhouette cut files (butterfly, edge)

Moxie Fab Blog Hop: Thank You Cath!

My bff Debbie shared this lovely Blog Hop challenge with me and, like Voldemort is to Harry Potter, I will never back down from a challenge! Watch me wave my magic wand!

Cath: AKA Moxie Fab is such a vital part of the paper craft industry! Sadly, the Legend has left the building!  She will be missed!

 I used a Gina K. white card stock base and added some powder blue on top, with a fancy cut edge from the silhouette machine.  I punched a star and stamped the star in powder blue with the star from Lots of Lines. "Many Thanks" sentiment in white Gina K. ink.  The white satin ribbon is tied in a simple knot and adhered behind the powder blue layer. I used some blue dew drops to the bottom of the card and then some stickles atop the star!

A little bling and many thanks to Cath for her years of cheering everyone on in the stamping and scrapping community! Bon Voyage!

<Hop Details>

You came from Ginny Henriquez {Stamplandia blog}

You are now here at Freckled&Fun {Beth Silaika}

and you will continue on to Joyce Mehrberg's {Cards By The Sea Blog} 

You can keep hopping from there!

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all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

stamps: Lots of Lines

paper: white, powder blue
ink: white, powder blue
misc: ribbon (kar'ma), dew drops, stickles, punches, silhouette 



MTT don't let the door hit you in the kiester baby!

Gina K / Faber-Castell Blog Hop Day 5

 

 

Welcome to Day 5 of the Gina K. Designs/Faber-Castell Blog Hop!  We've got another incredible day of inspiration for you, so lets get started! Don't forget to keep those comments coming to enter to win a Gina K. Designs stamp set of your choice (up to a $24.95 value)

 

 

Pop over to the Faber-Castell Blog and leave a comment for a chance to win a Designing With Gelatos Kit, too!

 So I looked at the package of Faber-Castell 50's Diner gelatos and I had to decide how I could tackle this latest designing hurdle:  figure out how to use these products and then make something that will not be totally embarrassing! I watched a few Youtube videos and decided that it was going to be simple!  I took a piece of Gina K. white card stock and punched out the snowflakes.  I colored with the Aqua Dolce gelato and then smeared it with my fingers. It was like a hazy misty sleet background! Not Bad. I kind of like it!  I adhered it with foam squares on top of the kraft, with small pieces of white behind the main image.  I covered the negative images with stickles and stamped "celebrate" from Lots of Lines in black ink.  A few dew drops and I was pretty happy with the result!  What do you think?


Here was the hop order (just don't want you to miss any of the "Fab"er-Castell projects (get it FAB!)

• Lee Murphy
• Sean Fetterman
• Debbie Corbari
• Beth Silaika <= you are here!

 

all items from Gina K. Designs unless otherwise noted

paper: kraft, white
ink: black
stamps: lots of lines
misc: Faber-Castell 50's Diner Gelatos, dew drops, stickles, punches
 

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

Gina K. Designs October Release Inspiration Hop (Day 1)

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.

Here are the super cute stamps that come with the kit! I {love} the awesome sentiments! And there are SO many images to choose from! 

 This nested snowflake is awesome - it's like a 3 in one stamp!

Here are the cards I made with the kit:

This first card was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest, where they used the bakers twine to hold up a stocking. I thought it was a great use for the bakers twine, so I tried something similar with this elegant ornament.  I love the details of the ornament.  I am a sucker for snowflakes! The Gina. K cranberry ink is very rich and pairs nicely with the ivory card stock.

inspired by an Amy Wanford card I saw on pinterest

This second card allowed me to try out the new Gina K. white ink. It is so thick and fabulous and just clings to the card stock like a monkey to a banana tree! The sentiments in this set are so beautiful! I love the elegant script!

Love the white ink by Gina K. - it's fab!

I am a paper hoarder. I have a hard time using the designer paper because I keep thinking - what if I need it later.  Don't put off to tomorrow people! Cut that paper!  This card could easily be mass produced and you can get several banners out of one piece of Gina K. paper.  It is so easy to match up the papers with the fabulous new ink colors.

a trio of new inks with the beautiful new papers in the Stamp TV. kit

I hope you enjoyed these samples! Now you must go check out all the amazing designs and inspiration with my fellow design team members:

• Gina K
• AJ Otto
• Beth Silaika <= that's me!
• Carolina Buchting
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Latisha Yoast
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist
• Valerie Stangle

all items from samples can be purchased at Gina K. Designs (unless otherwise noted)