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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Gina K. July 2016 Inspiration Hop, Day Two (Bella Elephant, So Cool, Sweet Thing)

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets from the July StampTV Release Party! 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 two stamp sets by Beth Silaika and Claire Brennan.

The first set we are featuring is Bella Elephant by Beth Silaika. Beth has created a super cute set with the sweetest images and matching sentiments to make the perfect card project!

Claire Brennan is releasing four amazingly beautiful stamp sets this release month! My Island is like a tropical get-away, Petite Patisserie is a sweet shop of goodness, So Cool is packed with yummy ice cream treats and Sweet Thing is a cupcake lovers dream! Beth and Claire have created some serious ‘cuteness overload’ in these sets!

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.

This set is named for my daughter, Isabella, who we call Bella.

The flag is one of the add on elements and this sentiment fits perfectly in it!

The elephant also comes with other elements such as flowers for Bella to hold! The sentiment is from Hippo Bird Day! <3

Here is a watercolored background card with Bella!

I found the fairy in the sweet thing set and fell in love - look how cute she is!

Here is the fairy again with a strip of stars

The So Cool Set has a bunch of adorable ice creams with matching sentiments. I watercolored this!

Same cute sentiment, but different ice cream cone. I used spectrum noir markers to color in the ice cream cone!

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

Gina K

Beth Silaika – Illustrator for Bella Elephant

Claire Brennan – Illustrator for My Island, Petite Patisserie, So Cool and Sweet Thing

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, August 1, 2016

Gina K. July 2016 Inspiration Blog Hop, Day One (Stately Flowers 10 & French Flair)

The first set we are featuring is French Flair by Theresa Momber. Theresa has created this wonderful set that will leave you feeling like you may be in Paris or strolling around the wine vineyards in Europe! Merci! You will have fun creating with this stamp set.

The second set we are featuring is Stately Flowers 10 by Melanie Muenchinger. Melanie is at it again! She has added another wonderful set to her Stately Flowers collection. This is set number 10 and what a wonderful set it is! You will be able to use all of Melanie’s flowers sets to fill the seed packet in this set as an adorable way to send the perfect message! The possibilities are endless for making beautiful cards for any occasion.

This first card made a great thank you note for a friend. Stamped with black ink and colored with spectrum noir markers.

Similar stamps, different colors and the look is so completely different. White ink on the rust card stock makes this thank you note pop!

The butterflies in the French Flair set make for coloring fun! These stained glass were simply made with stamping the butterfly in black and using spectrum noir to give each butterfly a unique look!

This clean and simple thank you note has a little sparkle with the help of a glitter pen!

This clean and simple sympathy card uses the butterflies stamped in white on blue. It uses a sympathy sentiment from a previous Gina K. Set.

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

Gina K

Theresa Momber – Illustrator for French Flair

Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator for Stately Flowers 10

Allie Gower

Beth Silaika <you are here>

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

Gina K. July 2016 Inspiration Blog Hop, Day One (Stately Flowers 10 & French Flair)

The second set we are featuring is Fill It with Flowers by Melanie Muenchinger. Melanie is at it again! She has added another wonderful set to her Stately Flowers collection. This is set number 10 and what a wonderful set it is! You will be able to use all of Melanie’s flowers sets to fill the seed packet in this set as an adorable way to send the perfect message! The possibilities are endless for making beautiful cards for any occasion.

This first card made a great thank you note for a friend. Stamped with black ink and colored with spectrum noir markers.

Similar stamps, different colors and the look is so completely different. White ink on the rust card stock makes this thank you note pop!

The butterflies in the French Flair set make for coloring fun! These stained glass were simply made with stamping the butterfly in black and using spectrum noir to give each butterfly a unique look!

This clean and simple thank you note has a little sparkle with the help of a glitter pen!

This clean and simple sympathy card uses the butterflies stamped in white on blue. It uses a sympathy sentiment from a previous Gina K. Set.

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

Gina K

Theresa Momber – Illustrator for French Flair

Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator for Stately Flowers 10

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, June 6, 2016

May 2016 Gina K. Designs Tiny Textures Blog Hop

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a special blog hop featuring the new Tiny Textures incentive stamp sets from the May StampTV Release Party! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!

Tiny Textures is a fun stamp set that allows you add a splash of something fun to your scrapbook pages or will help you to make a cool stamped background to your card projects. The “Just Because” sentiment from the set is ideal to add the finishing touch to a quick, but thoughtful card!

Here is a card I shared from last week's release party with Sophie Pig - it was a fun pink ombre background - super easy!

This card was a 30 second card for a last minute birthday gift. I used the sentiment from Lots of Lines and the tiny textures background. Clean and simple and quick!

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

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Gina K. Inspiration Blog Hop: May 2016, Day 2

The first set we are featuring is Sophie Pig by Beth Silaika. Beth has created a super cute set second set with the sweetest images and matching sentiments to make the perfect card project to make the card recipient smile or feel better right away! The second and third sets we are featuring are by our new Illustrator Claire Brennan. The sets are Old Country Roses and Fine Feathers. With Claire’s Old Country Roses set, you can create beautiful layered stamped images that make the most beautiful and soft roses that look like you have picked them right out of your own rose garden. Claire’s Fine Feathers set is a collection of fun feathers that are a perfect focal image to create a message of inspiration, hope, thanks and more! We are so very lucky to have Claire’s illustrator talents on our team!

Claire's stamp sets are now available at Gina K. Designs!

Here is my sample of Fine Feathers: I used black card stock with white ink for the feather, then brushed it with gold pearl ex powder. The photo makes it look blue, but in real life it shimmers.

Here is a card with Claire's Old Country Roses set - I forgot how fun it is to multi step stamp!

Now get ready for Sophie Samples! This is my sweet inspiration. Sophie has been obsessed with pigs since she was a baby, so I created this set for her (and it's being released on her birthday weekend). Happy 11th Princess Sophie!

Clean and simple with some grass from Country Roads 2.

The pig and cupcake are relatively easy to stamp and trim to layer!

the puddle is full of shimmering water, courtesy of glitter!

Who doesn't want to pig out on cupcakes for their birthday?

The incentive stamp provides a great background for Sophie Pig

I created 16 of these for Sophie's birthday thank you notes.

Super quick and simple!

Graduation card? complete with a cap and gold tassel (for honors of course)

Pig out in purple!

The incentive stamp makes a great background for Sophie!

Quick and easy stamping with Sophie!

A variation of colors for Sophie, just Pig-cause!

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

Gina K

Beth Silaika
Illustrator for Sophie Pig

Claire Brennan
Illustrator for Old Country Roses and Fine Feathers

Allie Gower

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, May 30, 2016

Gina K. Inspiration Blog Hop: May 2016, Day One

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets from the May StampTV Release Party! 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 two stamp sets by Theresa Momber and Melanie Muenchinger.

The first set we are featuring is Country Roads 2 by Theresa Momber. Theresa has created a second set to her popular Country Roads collection. Whether you are a country lover or an animal lover, you will be making creative and fun projects with this wonderful set.

The second set we are featuring is Fill It with Flowers by Melanie Muenchinger. Melanie is at it again! She has created another wonderful set that is incredible versatile and fun where the possibilities are endless for making beautiful cards for any occasion.