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Gina K Mid-Month Release And Sale!

Welcome to a surprise mid-month stamp release from Gina K Designs!  The Gina K design team is hopping today, to show you projects made with FOUR fabulous new stamp set duos now available (Top-Merry Tree, Penguin Joy):

 

(Below-Snowman Wishes, Ornamental Holiday):

 

These will certainly help you get in the holiday spirit!  And each of these new stamp set duos has a Silhouette Cut file available for the main image! You can find those in Gina's store HERE.

Here’s a start on my Christmas card stash, using the Merry Tree . . . I adore the beautiful font of this sentiment!

The beautiful green cardstock I used is Gina’s Fresh Asparagus and the tree is stamped on Ivory. The images were cut with Spellbinders Decorative Labels Eight.

In conjunction with this release and over the long holiday weekend (beginning RIGHT NOW!), ALL stamp set duos are 50% off, including these four brand new duos, so you can get a jump start on your holiday stamping projects!  These duos are available in deeply etched pre-cut cling rubber only.

And just to push you over the edge, ALL Gina K Designs patterned paper packs are now 25% off including TWO brand new packs: Blizzard and Winter Whimsy (squeal . . . aren’t these adorable?!  I can’t wait to get my hands on them both!).  Stock up now and save!

Sale good from Thursday August 30th through Monday September 3rd, 2012 at 11:59pm Central.

Gina will also be offering a new card stock collection pack called Winter Whimsy. The colors will be: Red Hot, Ocean Mist, Fresh Asparagus and Blue Raspberry. This collection will coordinate with BOTH new patterned paper collections!  You can find it HERE.

Check out more inspiration with these awesome new duo stamp sets today from these Gina K design team members:

• Gina K
• AJ Otto
• Beth Silaika
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Giovana Smith
• Lee Murphy
• Lori McAree
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist <-You are here!
• Theresa Momber

And I hope you have a fabulous holiday weekend!

~Sharon

New Fall & Holiday Lockhart Stamps!

I hope you'll join me today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom to see how I made these Inchie Arts Twinchie Halloween magnets with some of Karen Lockhart's new Fall images from her latest holiday release . . . so much fun!

Happy Friday!

~ Sharon

Gina K Designs Cardstock Matches to Copic Markers

Happy Tuesday morning, All!  It actually feels like Autumn here in N. Texas today ... raining and only supposed to be 80 degrees -- yay!  Cooler weather always puts me into reorganize and cleanup mode, so I've been cleaning out and rearranging my studio and came across this Copic chart I made but never got around to coloring OR distributing ... sorry about that!  :)  

The chart has Copic matches to Gina K Designs' fabulous Pure Luxury cardstock colors (with space for you to color a Copic sample), including the newest 2012 cardstock colors, and also has space for you to put a sample swatch of the cardstock, too.  Just click the link below to download and print the PDF:

Download GinaKCardstockCopicMatches2012_SharonHarnist

The download link will be permanently available over on my Copic FAQ, Color Charts & Tutorials page (link located below my blog banner above), for quick future reference.

Enjoy! ~ Sharon

Amazing Paper Grace Kit Club 1-September

Have you heard about Becca Feeken's new Kit Club?  If not, you can find Becca's announcement post and can read her kit club story here.

These two products are only available in the September Kit Club. There are a limited number of kits available for this month that can be purchased without becoming a kit club member. For all the details on the Silver & Gold Memberships click here.

This is the exclusive clear stamp set by JustRite Papercraft that you will receive in the kit:

And this is the exclusive JustRite Custom Die set made by Spellbinders you will receive in the kit:

This Two by Two Postage Die is so much fun to work with -- you'll find TONS of uses for it!  I happen to absolutely LOVE postage stamp images and die cuts, so I was beyond thrilled to get to play with these awesome new kit club products!  I thought the postage die cuts would make good photo frames, so I used them on this 6-inch magnetic scrapbook page for my fridge:

Actually with the outer postage frame, the page turned out to be 7 inches.  That frame was created with Spellbinders Classic Edges One (Postage Edge) Edgeabilities die. I stamped the pretty rose sentiment from Becca's Signed Sealed Delivered stamp set with Memento Rich Cocoa onto Natural White cardstock and colored it with Copic markers.  I love all the different little images and sentiments in this stamp set that fit inside the postage frame!  I airbrushed Copic BG13 around the outside edges (you can see a close-up by clicking on the photo):

Becca's postage stamp die is the perfect size for scrapbook journaling & accents OR cardmaking -- it's about 2" x 2-1/2", with the interior rectangle cut-out being 1-1/4" x 1-7/8".  The paper roses were created with Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms dies that JustRite is now carrying!  The little date journaling tag and orange tabby at the top right of the photos are also little dies included in the Two by Two Postage Die set.

The JustRite design team has more inspiration to show you today, after you finish recreating Becca's September Projects (you receive all the necessary papers and embellishments in the kit to create both of Becca's amazing projects)! 

Check out more inspiration from these wonderful ladies:

JustRite Inspiration
Marisa Job
Debbie Olson 
Sharon Harnist < -- You are here! 
Kathy Jones 
Barb Schram
Angela Barkhouse

Thanks for stopping by today . . . happy Friday!

UPDATE: FYI -- When you click over to see Becca's September Kit Club options to purchase on THIS PAGE, you'll see that the "Purchase by the Month" option is already sold out.  But that does NOT mean the kits are sold out under the 6 or 12-month membership options!  So having a membership definitely has more benefits in that sense, too!

~ Sharon

{Supplies}
Stamps: JustRite Clear-Amazing Paper Grace Signed Sealed Delivered (available only in the September kit)
Dies: JustRite Custom Two by Two Postage Die by Spellbinders (available only in the September kit); Spellbinders Classic Edges One (Postage Edge) Edgeabilities & Bitty Blossoms, Grand Calibur die cutting machine;
Paper: Authentique 6x6 Bundle-Gathering patterned paper; Neenah Natural White cardstock; Gina K Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-Dark Chocolate, Tomato Soup & Turquoise Sea; 
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa & Bamboo Leaves; 
Copic Markers:
Accessories:  Copic Airbrush System & Sparmax Windstorm Airbrush Compressor; Copic Foam Tape; Orange seam binding & Bow Easy from Stamp Simply Ribbon Store; 

Gina K Designs July Release August Inspiration Hop3!

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’s first featured stamp set is the new Sun Kissed Autumn StampTV Kit . . Oh, My!

Just look at all the fabulous images in this HUGE kit! Autumn is my absolute favorite time of year and this kit epitomizes the whole season! I had so many ideas racing through my head, I couldn’t decide which one to make for you today! Here’s what I settled on – a 5” x 7” framed Autumn piece:

I used the three leaves and stamped them onto some Copic Polished Stone paper I previously made. You can find Gina's tutorial video for Polished Stone over at StampTV here and my version with Copic Various Ink Refills here. 

I cut out the leaves and popped them up with foam tape onto three Inchie Arts Inchie + (1.50”) Dark Cream matboard squares. Strips of Tomato Soup & Sweet Corn cardstock were placed behind the squares.

One of my favorite sentiments is stamped onto one of the fabulous new Sunkissed Autumn cardstock colors (Tomato Soup) and die cut with Spellbinders Grommet Tags dies. It is popped up over another die cut of Gina’s gorgeous Good as Gold Metallic cardstock. The polished stone background is framed with the wonderful new Cherry Red Sunkissed Autumn cardstock color. (These colors are available in the pack I’ve linked to above, or if you need more of it, they are also available individually in 25 packs here).

I can’t wait to use more of the fabulous images in this set over the next few months!

Our next featured set of the day is the new One Free with 3 set, Fall Foliage . . . can you believe this set is FREE?!!

I adore the distressed leaves in this set and the sentiments are so useful for so many different card giving needs. I made up this quick card I needed in a hurry:

I used the Rock ‘N Roll technique on the leaves, using Memento Tangelo and Rhubarb Stalk and stamped them onto Gina’s Ivory cardstock.  The clear stamps really make this technique easy to see exactly where the ink is going with this technique!

Another one of my favorite sentiments was stamped with Rich Cocoa ink. The piece was framed with one of Spellbinders new A2 Card Creator die sets, Fancy Postage Edge, cut from Gina’s Chocolate cardstock. Again, I used two of my favorite new Sunkissed Autumn cardstock colors, Tomato Soup and Cherry Red (I’m a happy girl, with all of these gorgeous new red cardstock colors)!!

Thank you all so much for dropping by today – I am always so humbled with all of your very kind and sweet comments, I love reading them all!

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration these Gina K designers also have for you today:

• Gina K
• AJ Otto
• Beth Silaika
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Deb Felts
• Giovana Smith
• Jimmi Mayo
• Lee Murphy
• Lori McAree
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Sharon Harnist < – You are here!
• Suzanne Dean
• Tami Mayberry
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher

Thanks for visiting today!

~ Sharon

{Autumn Photo Frame}
Stamps: Gina K Designs Sun Kissed Autumn StampTV Kit;
Dies: Spellbinders Grommet Tags dies & A2 Fancy Postage Edge Card Creator dies; Grand Calibur
Paper: Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-Cherry Red & Tomato Soup from Sunkissed Autumn cardstock pack; Good as Gold Metallic; Glossy White cardstock (for polished stone background)
Ink: Memento Espresso Truffle; Ranger Archival Ink-Jet Black
Copic Various Ink Refills: E25, R39, YR24 & Colorless Blender Solution
Accessories: Inchie Arts Dark Cream Inchie + Squares; Ranger Alcohol Ink Applicator; Copic High-Tack Foam Tape 1/4”; 5” x 7” black photo frame

{Blessings Card}
Stamps: Gina K Designs One Free with 3 set, Fall Foliage,
Dies: Spellbinders A2 Fancy Postage Edge Card Creator dies & Grand Calibur
Paper: Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-Cherry Red & Tomato Soup from Sunkissed Autumn cardstock pack;
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tangelo & Rhubarb Stalk ink pads
Accessories: Copic High-Tack Foam Tape;