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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Gina K. Designs Blog Hop: StampTV Kit (Grateful Heart)

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.

Today I am showing off the StampTV Grateful Heart kit!

This clean and simple card is done with Gina K. black ink and the new faded brick card stock.

This autumn blessings card was done with some fall colors on a kraft base. I used a strip of the new designer paper!

The stamps in the kit are adorable!

and the designer paper pack is PERFECT for fall cards!

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration on these blogs:

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Gina K. Designs Blog Hop: Spooktacular You Mini Stamp Set

Today I am showing off some of the Spooktacular You Mini Stamp set!

I used some of the new designer paper and the fun images from this stamp set to create a clean and simple halloween card!

This card uses the new faded brick card stock, paired with some black, to create this festive card. I used a sponge and a variety of ink colors to create the sponged background - then stamped the images and sentiment in Gina K. black ink - which offers such great coverage. I used the button to represent a full moon!

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration from these team members:

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Monday, August 19, 2013

Gina K Inspiration Blog Hop: Incentive Stamps

Today I am showing off some of the super cute Incentive Stamps for this month!

I created this simple card with Kraft CS and designer paper from the StampTV kit. I used chocolate ink (memento) because the new inks from Gina K. have not yet arrived! I cannot wait to get the new Gina K. inks in Kraft & Dark Chocolate, which will surely work so well those papers!

This card was created with the sentiment from the $25 incentive stamp set, along with some of the designer paper which is being released this month. I stamped the background with the dots from Lots of Dots using versamark. Star is punched with designer paper and the button is black -- the bakers twine is purple.

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration:

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Fabulous Stamped Frames Hop

Good morning! Today several members of the CardMaker Blog team and Gina K. Designs team are showcasing stamps used in Melanie Muenchinger's newest book Fabulous Stamped Frames, published by Annie's. This cardmaking tutorial book features 36 projects using seven of Melanie's bold and line art frame stamp sets from Gina K. Designs. These versatile sets each contain a frame stamp large enough to fill an A2 card front, which can be rotated portrait or landscape style, along with coordinating images and sentiments, that allow both beginners and advanced crafters to enjoy endless design possibilities for year-round themes, occasions and styles. Not all sets are needed to get a ton of instruction and ideas from this book! Melanie challenged us to each put our own spin on one of the sets, so we hope you enjoy what you see today! She and Gina will be sharing videos as well to show more of the book and some of the stamps in action.

Here is what I made:

I have been on a clean and simple kick lately and found that this stamp set allowed me to make quick C&S cards.

I used some Gina K. designer paper for the banner and then used some punched flowers, which I stamped with the circle stamp from Lots of Dots using blue raspberry ink. I used the same ink on the sentiment.

For this next card, I stamped the mosaic background in black ink on red card stock. I also stamped it in black ink on white card stock and trimmed out the two rectangles. I stamped the polkadot background from from Lots of Dots using red ink and turned it into a birthday present using Gina K. Ribbon. The sentiment is from the inspiration mosaic set.

Finally, I created this card using the sentiment from inspiration mosaic. I love the sentiment and immediately thought of using the moon from Weather or Not and the star cluster from Wicked. I colored the moon with copic markers and added stickles to the stars and moon to give it some glitz!

Finally, I created this card for our Pastor's wife who recently celebrated her 50th anniversary as a Deaconess in the church. I used the sentiment from Inspiration mosaic. I used the stamp from the latest Theresa Momber set Up and Away. I stamped in the flower bunch in sweet corn and then went over it with white ink, slightly off to give the flowers some dimension. Super simple card!

I hope you enjoyed my samples from this wonderfully versatile set! I love how I can pair it up with some of the other Gina K. sets which I have in my collection.

Here are the images that are included in the Inspiration Mosaic stamp set:

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Inspiration Mosaic

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There is also a prize! A gift certificate to use on any sets, templates, digital paper or studio cut files in Melanie's line of Gina K. Designs products. To enter, leave a comment on the blogs in our hop today. One commenter will be randomly chosen and posted Friday on Gina's Blog. The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win. Finally, all seven sets frame stamp sets are all on sale for the first time ever. Take this opportunity to stock up on your favorites or complete your collection. See full details for the prize and the sale on Gina's blog.

Please enjoy the hop! Good luck on winning the gift certificate! Thanks for hopping today!

What is better than a SALE? Click HERE for the sets at Gina K. Designs included in this special offer:

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Friday, July 26, 2013

50th Anniversary Card

Can you imagine being married for 50 years to the love of your life? Wow! I recently learned that it was our Pastor's 50th wedding anniversary with his wife and made a quick and easy card with some Gina K. stamps! I used a kraft base and some of the latest designer paper called Fishy Fiesta. I stamped the adirondack chairs in Theresa's By the Sea in versamark The 50th Anniversary sentiment is from Tami's Simple Numbers set.

Todd and I recently celebrated our 20th anniversary. We met in high school in 1985! How long have you been with your significant other?

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Lots of Dots Alphabet Graduation Card

It was super easy to customize this graduation card with school colors. I used christmas pine card base and then stamped the sentiment using Lots of Dots Alphabet

using northern pine ink.

What were your school colors? We were silver & red (the Silver Warriors of Niskayuna). My kids are white and green (Plainsmen).

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Gina K. Designs Blog Hop: Beautiful Banners & Darling Divas

Who doesn't think this would be a great card for someone who is constantly on Facebook?!?! It uses Becky's woodgrain background along with the "like-thumbs up" and letters from Lots of Dots.

I used the & from Becky's set, along with the letters from Lots of Dots in the wedding colors -- to create this simple wedding card!

Now on to the Diva's!

Using this set makes me want to go back to Hawaii and eat mango!

This "tag" card was super easy to make using the smaller images from the set! Wouldn't this be cute to give to someone heading to Hawaii for vacation...or someone moving away!

I used the sentiment and iron along with the frame from Lots of dots to create this CAS card!

I found humor placing the wrinkled ribbon under the sentiment "Thanks for helping me iron it out!"

I don't run. If you see me running

call the police (or animal control, because there is probably an alligator on the back of a shark on the back of a bear...which is chasing me) and start running yourself!

So many of my friends run -- and I think this would be a great thing to give to them the day before the big race (along with a basket of treats to devour after the 5K or marathon). The frame from Lots of Dots alphabet makes a cute tag!

Gina K
Becky Oehlers-Illustrator of Beautiful Banners
Debbie Corbari-Illustrator of the Darling Divas
AJ Otto
Carolina Buchting
Cathy Tidwell
Latisha Yoast
Laurie Schmidlin
Lee Murphy
Melanie Muenchinger
Sean Fetterman
Valerie Stangle

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