Thank You

Hi everyone!!  I thought I would share a card I made a couple weeks back that was for the SCS sketch challenge.  I ended up making this card monochromatic because I realized after I had most of it colored that I colored the leaves incorrectly!  But I do like how it turned out!!  I was intimidated by coloring this gorgeous flower from Melanie's Stately Flowers 3 set, I'm not sure why but sure glad I finally did, I had a lot of fun with it!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps:  GKD Stately Flowers 3

Paper:  GKD Pure Luxury Ivory, Chocolate Brown, Basic Grey

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics:  E41, E42, E43, E44

Wild Flowers

Hi everyone!!  Last night I decided to play along in one of the Fan Club challenges on Splitcoast.  They have a new challenge, word play.  The word is sewn and we are to use supplies that spell out the first letter.  I used Smooch Glitz, Embossing Folder, White and Navy.  Fun challenge!!  My card was inspired by Gina's video from yesterday, her card is so beautiful!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  GKD Wild Flowers

Paper:  Gina K Pure Luxury White & In the Navy

Ink:  Tim Holtz Faded jeans & Peeled Paint

Accessories:  Tim Holtz Embossing Folder, Enchanted Evening stitched ribbon.

Have a Wild Birthday!!

Hi everyone!!  Today Cat is challenging us to CASE Lee on Stamp TV!!  We all know how much Lee LOVES pink but I went the opposite!  And I went way back in her gallery and chose this card to CASE.  I kept the masculine theme but used different papers, stamp set and papers.  I may have to do another, it was hard to pick which card to case!!
Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Gina K Wild About You
Paper:  GKD Ivory, Chocolate Brown and Sundance Patterned Paper
Ink:  Versamark
Accessories:  Foam Tape, Gold Pearls, GKD Ribbon

GKD Inspiration Hop Day 4

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 deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!!

Our final day of the hops.  I'm kind of sad, this has been such a fun release, loved playing with all the sets!!  Today we have Great Sayings, this months Free with 3.  I love all the different fonts Gina used in this set.  I had to pick this one, it reminds me of a typewriter and back in the day I used to type on a typewriter!!!

And last is this gorgeous butterfly from the Believe in Yourself set.  I just love it!!!  I had so many different ideas but decided on doing the thumping technique using my Memento markers.  I just love it in green!!

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration:

Carolina Buchting

Cathy Tidwell

Deb Felts

Donna Baker

Emily Giovanni

Gina K

Giovana Smith

Jimmi Mayo

Lee Murphy

Lori McAree

Melanie Muenchinger

Michelle Woerner

Theresa Momber

Tina Gilliland

Vicki Dutcher

GKD Inspiration Hop Day 3

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 deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!!

Today we are featuring the new Petals and Wings Stamp TV Kit.  I am having a lot of fun with this kit, loving all of the images and fun sentiments!!  I love birds and we are starting to hear some sing around here with the beautiful weather we are having so thanks to them they inspired my card for today!!

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration:

Carolina Buchting

Cathy Tidwell
Deb Felts
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Gina K
Giovana Smith
Jennie Harper
Jimmi Mayo
Lee Murphy
Lori McAree
Melanie Muenchinger
Michelle Woerner
Sharon Harnist
Suzanne Dean
Theresa Momber
Tina Gilliland
Vicki Dutcher

GKD Inspiration Hop Day 2

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 deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!!

Today we are featuring Theresa's new set Wild About You.  I love everything about this set, it will be great for so many types of cards!!  I tried to think of something different for this card.  I love tree images and this one is no exception.  The Peace sentiment seemed to be a perfect pair! 

Next up is Rupa's new set, Blooming with Blessings.  This is my favorite image from the set, this duck is so cute and I love the fun happy look on his face!!  He looks like he is having such a great time!!  I stepped out of my comfort zone with this card and used colored cardstock for the base, hee hee!!

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration:

          Gina K

Theresa Momber
Carolina Buchting
Cathy Tidwell
Deb Felts
Donna Baker
Giovana Smith
Jennie Harper
Jimmi Mayo
Lee Murphy
Lori McAree
Melanie Muenchinger
Suzanne Dean
Tina Gilliland
Vicki Dutcher

GKD 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 deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!!

I wanted to step out of the box a bit for this card so I used one of the smaller images to create a background. I used clear embossing powder and randomly stamped the pattern.  This sentiment is one of my all time favorites so I could not resist using it!!  You can barely see it but there is a butterfly under!

Tami's new set is perfect for any type of masuline card you will need!  To me this image was just screaming bold primary colors!!  I tried to give the look of each layer "jumping off the page" but still a single layer.  I haven't ever tried this before but it seems to look a bit like that to me!  I scored lines at the bottom and used my stars embossing folder for the top portion.  

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration:

Gina K

Melanie Muenchinger
Tami Mayberry
AJ Otto
Carolina Buchting
Cathy Tidwell
Deb Felts
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Giovana Smith
Jennie Harper
Jimmi Mayo
Lee Murphy
Lori McAree
Michelle Woerner
Theresa Momber
Tina Gilliland
Vicki Dutcher

You're Invited!!

The Gina K. Design Team is excited to invite you to another fabulous Release Party tonight!!! The party starts at 7:00 pm Central Time in the Stamp TV Release Party Forum. Join us for Challenges, Contest Questions, Design Team Samples, Full Stamp Set Reveals and, of course, party chit chat!!! Everything will go "live" at 7:00 pm Central in Gina's Store so there won't be any long wait to start shopping! Hope to see you there!

If you came from Lee Murphy's blog, then you're right where you should be. If not, please go to Stamp TV where you will find a list of all those participating. Here's a sneak peek of one of the cards I will be sharing with you at the party tonight:

Go to Melanie Muenchinger's blog, to continue the hop and see you tonight at the party!

3 challenges!!

Hi everyone!!  I had a chance to stamp tonight so I made a card combining 3 challenges!!  I haven't done that in a while!!  I used this weeks SCS sketch challenge and the Way's to Use It challenge which was jeans.  The final challenge was for Betty's Mix it up Monday challenge to use black, white and one other color.  Oddly enough I picked blue but that was because of the jeans and this gorgeous new paper from Gina K Designs Pool Side.  This pattern seemed perfect!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  GKD Garden Silhouettes

Paper:  GKD Pure Luxury White, Black Onyx, Pool Side Pattern Paper

Ink:  Tim Holtz Faded Jeans

Accessories:  Jeans, Foam Tape

Hi everyone!!!  My card is for today's featured stamper on Splitcoast, catcrazy.  Congrats Janice!  I chose this card to CASE.  I kept the layout but changed the theme, shape, colors, embossing folder and used ribbon instead of twine.  I had colored this image earlier in the week and was so excited when I received my new Sundance paper pack from Gina and it matched!!  Love this paper, it is gorgeous!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  GKD Stately Flowers I & Stenciled Spring

Paper:  GKD Pure Luxury White, Onyx Black, Sundance Paper Pack

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics:  YG06, YG09, YR12, YR15, YR18, Spica Sand pen

Accessories:  Foam Tape, Apron Lace Punch, Black Twill Tape, Black Flower Soft

Chase your Dreams

Hi everyone!!  Today's card is for Regina's challenge on Stamp TV and this weeks CPS sketch!!  Regina's  challenge for us is to have distressing on your card and add a tag!  I love distressing so I was excited when she told me what her challenge would be!  I used Theresa's new set Whimsical Spring, such a fun set!!!  I started out by stamping the outline stamp with Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap Distress ink, using my Stamp a Ma Jig, I offset the solid leaves a bit using TH Peeled Paint.   I used my distress tool around the edges and rubbed with Frayed Burlap.  For the circle portion the sketch calls for I pierced.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

love u

Hi everyone!!  My card is for 2 challenges, today's Inspiration challenge on Splitcoast and this weeks CAS-ual Fridays challenge to use ribbon.  Initially I got an idea to cut the ribbon with my dies but that didn't work very well and the ribbon started to unravel so plan be was to cut paper with the letters and run a strip of ribbon along the back.  My inspiration came from this heart, which gave me the idea of the love u and my heart punch. The card needed something more so I added the lines around the sides, the bling and scored the main layer.  Fun challenges!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  none!

Paper:  Gina K Pure Luxury White, PTI Pure Poppy

Ink:  none!!

Accessories:  PTI dies, Pure Poppy Grosgrain Ribbon, Want 2 Scrap bling, Martha Stewart Punch

Way Back Wednesday

Hi everyone!!  Today's card was a lot of fun for me to make!  The Splicoast Product Focus group was sent some fun coloring mediums!!  For my card I made my background using Faber-Castell Gelatos.  I haven't ever used these before but it was so fast and easy!  I just ran the Gelato along the paper and when I had all the colors down I rubbed over with my finger to smooth it out and blend the colors.  I really like the effect!!  I chose this image from an old Gina K Stamp TV Kit, Eclectic Summer, this image sold me on the whole set, I just love it but for some reason don't use it much.  I thought it was perfect for hubs Valentine card!!  My sentiment is from a small Verve set but I wasn't able to find it on the website.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  GKD Eclectic Summer & Verve sentiment

Ink:  Versamark

Paper:  GKD Pure Luxury White & Black

Accessories:  Foam Tape, Gelatos, Heart Punch, White Wrinkle Ribbon, Want 2 Scrap Bling

Valentine

Hi everyone, happy Valentine's day!!  Just a quick card I made last night!  I love this cute image from Flourishes Tokens of Affection, actually I like the whole set, so cute!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Flourishes Tokens of Affectoin

Paper:  Gina K Pure Luxury White, Red Hot, unknown silver

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics:  C1, N4, N5, Red, Clear & Green Sakura Gelly Roll Pens

Accessories:  Hearts Embossing Folder, Pure Poppy Grosgrain Ribbon, Foam Tape

*smooches*

Hi everyone!!  I was looking around SCS last night and found a really fun sketch from Taylored Expressions!!  I'm glad I found it when I did because the deadline is today!!  When I saw the sketch I immediately thought of my Chubby Chums set from Paper Smooches, love this set, it is so cute!!  I want to get a couple of valentines done and this set fits the bill perfectly!!  In the lower right corner I wanted to add something but couldn't figure out what, then I remembered this stamp I have from Amuse.  It is an old one but one I can't part with, I say this to my hubs and boys!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Paper Smooches Chubby Chums, Amuse

Paper:  Gina K Pure Luxury White & Red Hot, PTI Fine Linen

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark,  Copics:  E41, E42, E43, E44, R24, R29

Accessories:  White Embossing Powder, Twine, Circle & Heart Circle Nestabilites, Want 2 Scrap red bling, Glossy Accents (eyes and tongue)

Happy Birthday Gina!!!

Hi everyone!!  Welcome to a very special birthday blog hop for a very special lady, Gina K!!!  Happy Birthday Gina, I hope it is the best one yet!!!

I'm so excited to be able to participate in this hop, as many of you know it has been a dream of mine for a very long time to be on Gina's team!!  She is the most kind and generous person and I am so happy to be a part of this hop!!  LOVE you Gina!!!  *smooches*

For Gina's card I decided to go with Theresa's Dogwood and Butterfly set.  It was so hard choosing which set to use!!  I also don't know what her favorite color is so I went with my favorite (and Lee's too!!) pink!  I hope I didn't go wrong *giggle*

You will want to be sure to hop along, a couple of the girls have some blog candy!!  And don't forget to stop and say Happy Birthday to Gina on her Stamp TV wall or Facebook Page!!!

Carolina Buchting

Cathy Tidwell

Donna Baker

Emily Giovanni

Giovana Smith

Jennie Harper

Jimmi Mayo

Lee Murphy

Lori McAree

Melanie Muenchinger

Michelle Woerner

Tami Mayberry

Theresa Momber

Tina Gilliland

Vicki Dutcher

Supplies:

Stamps:  GKD Dogwood and Butterflies

Paper:  GKD Pure Luxury White, Bubblegum Pink

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics:  R81, R83, R85, YG21, YG23

Accessories:  Foam Tape, Sakura Clear Gelly Roll Pen, Pinking Shears, Gingham Ribbon

A Year of Flowers Book Hop

Thank you for hopping along today with the Gina K. Design Team!! If you arrived here from Lee's blog, then you're right where you should be. You can always go to StampTV to start from the beginning.  The inspiration for today's hop came from Melanie Muenchinger's new book called, A Year of Flowers.

While you can make every design in the book with Melanie’s all occasion “A Year of Flowers” set, today’s samples showcase her coordinating florals, which can also be used with the book's tutorials and designs, and provide endless options and more value for your money. We are excited to share cards and projects we created using some of our favorite flower sets designed by Melanie! We love her new book and know you will too - don't miss out on getting your very own copy which you can purchase HERE!

My sample uses Spring Basket.

I kept my card simple, the basket and flowers are so beautiful, I don't want to take anything away from them!!  I used a polka dot embossing folder on the back layer and pierced around the top layer.

Leave comments along our hop today to enter to win one of Melanie's coordinating floral sets of your choice. The more comments you leave the more chances to win! Melanie will draw a name randomly from one blog and post the winner tomorrow morning. She is also giving away her Crazy Daisy digital patterned paper FREE if you link Gina's video or her post, please see Melanie's blog for details! Good Luck!
 

• Hope you're finding some great inspiration and wonderful designs to get your creativity jump-started!  You can find the newest stamp sets and lots of wonderful accessories in Gina's Store.  And then join us on Stamp TV for the challenges and surprises and crafty videos galore!!!
• Go to Sharon's blog, to continue the hop!

Supplies:

Stamps:  GKD Spring Basket

Paper:  GKD Pure Luxury White & Chocolate Bronw

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics:  #55, E57, E59, R24, R27, R29, R81, R83, R85, Y04, R06, R08, YG21, YG23, YG25, YR12

Accessories:  Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Paper Piercer

Inspiration Hop Day 3

Hi everyone!!!  Today we are showing the new Free with 3 set!!  I've always loved the Free sets and this one is no exception, fun fun fun!!  I truly had a hard time deciding which image and sentiment but went with this one because I love birds and thought this sentiment went so perfectly with it!!  I knew I wanted to incorporate Key Lime, I really like this color and I think it goes so well with the kraft.  I wanted to do something different with that layer but made an accidental discovery that I really like!!  I was running the layer through my crimper (haven't used that thing in ages!!) several times and then for whatever reason decided to turn it and this is how it came out, I think it is a great texture layer, I love the look!!  The colors look kind of funny in the picture but coordinate much better irl!

You'll want to hop and see all the fabulous Inspiration the Design Team has in store!!  And don't forget to leave comments along the way!!  2 commenters will be chosen randomly to win a Grab Bag of fabulous Gina K. stamps!!

Gina K
Giovana Smith
Jennie Harper

Jimmi Mayo

Lori McAree
Melanie Muenchinger
Sharon Harnist
Theresa Momber
Tina Gilliland

Vicki Dutcher
AJ Otto
Carolina Buchting

Cathy Tidwell

Donna Baker

Emily Giovanni

Thanks so much again for hopping along and leaving your sweet comments, they are truly appreciated!!!

Inspiration Hop Day 2

Hi everyone and welcome to day 2 of the GKD Inspiration Hop!!!  

My first card is from Theresa's Whimsical Spring set.  Such a gorgeous and versatile set!!  And the name makes me happy with "spring" in it :)  I used the sketch from this weeks sketch challenge on Splitcoast, thought it worked so well!!  I haven't gone white on white for a while so I thought it was time again :)

Next is my card from Girl Talk.  What a fun set this is!!  Love all the fun sentiments to!!  I colored the girl, cut her out and popped her up with foam tape.  I added a little glossy accents to her glasses and small gold pearls to the center of the flower and her necklace.  I scored around the panel twice, love scoring!!

Thanks so much for hopping along with us!!!

You'll want to hop and see all the fabulous Inspiration the Design Team has in store!!  And don't forget to leave comments along the way!!  2 commenters will be chosen randomly to win a Grab Bag of fabulous Gina K. stamps!!

• Gina K
• Tami Mayberry – Illustrator Girl Talk
• Theresa Momber – Illustrator Whimsical Spring
• Sharon Harnist
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher
• AJ Otto
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Donna Baker
• Emily Giovanni
• Jennie Harper
• Lori McAree
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner

Inspiration Hop Day 1

Hi everyone!!  Did you have fun last night at the release party?  I always do, they are so much fun and don't like when they end!!  First up I have a card to share with you from Melanie's new set Stately Flowers 3, another fabulous set in her series!  I chose to color the Forget Me Not's, fun!!!

Next up is from Rupa's new set Mehndi Wishes, gorgeous set!  I  did a bit of research before coloring this image and found most of them aren't colored but I couldn't help myself!!  Normally I am not a big horse person but this image spoke to me!  My sketch is from last weeks challenge on SCS which worked perfectly as I wanted to use 2 types of dp!!  I just love this paper, I hope you had a chance to order some!

You'll want to hop and see all the fabulous Inspiration the Design Team has in store!!  And don't forget to leave comments along the way!!  2 commenters will be chosen randomly to win a Grab Bag of fabulous Gina K. stamps!!

• Gina K
• Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator Stately Flowers 3
• AJ Otto
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Donna Baker
• Emily Giovanni
• Giovana Smith
• Jennie Harper
• Jimmi Mayo
• Lori McAree
• Michelle Woerner
• Sharon Harnist
• Suzanne Dean
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher