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October 31, 2012

Gina K October 2012 Release Inspiration Hops-Day 3

Hello and welcome back to Day 3 of Gina K Designs October Stamp Set Release Inspiration Hops! Remember, Gina and the Design Team will inspire you today with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through the blogs listed below, 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 Gina K Designs Grab Bag that could have anything from stamps to paper to embellishments in it! To see the list of winners check the Big News Forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!

Our October Release featured stamp sets today include this year’s holiday StampTV kit, which includes TWO gorgeous stamp sets! Merry Little Christmas:

And City of David:

And our final featured set today is this month’s 1 Free With 3 set, Holiday Tags:

I also used the coordinating Silhouette Cut Files: Merry Little Christmas, City of David, Holiday Tags. Of course, all of today’s stamp sets were absolutely PERFECT for my Advent calendar, too! I forgot to give you my tag dimensions yesterday -- the colored mats are: 2.75” x 4.25” and the cream (Sandy Beach) portion is a little smaller. Now on to today's Advent calendar tags:

Tags #15 & #21 use Merry Little Christmas (click on any photo for a larger view):

15-Fa-la-la: Go Christmas caroling. Holly berries colored with Copic R22, R24, R27 and covered with Star Dust Stickles.
21-There’s no place like home for the holidays. Traditional favorite family holiday movie night at home – “The Polar Express”. Colored with Copic markers E25, E31, YG95, R24, Y23, R24. Silver jingle bell secured with silver cord.

#2 & #25 use City of David:

2-Wise men still seek Him: Star Dust Stickles on the stamped star.
25-For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord: Self-explanatory – the reason for the season. :) Star Dust Stickles on the star colored with Copic Y15.

#22 uses Holiday Tags:

22-From Our Family To Yours: Deliver homemade holiday cookies and candy to neighbors.

Finishing Details:
All of the tags are secured by small wooden clothespins (spray painted), to a picture frame (which I'll show you a little later). The inside of the frame opening measures 11.50” x 17.50” and was just an old recycled frame that I spray painted red.

I'm sorry I don't quite have all my Advent tags finished yet -- I'll be back this weekend to share the rest of them with you!

Be sure to check out these Gina K designers who also have projects to share with you today:

Thank you SO much for visiting the past three days! I hope you’ve enjoyed these October holiday inspiration hops . . . be sure to remember and leave comments on everyone’s blogs, for your chance to win some goodies!

Don't forget you still have until this evening to enter my Copic R29 t-shirt giveaway,a few posts below this one!

~ Sharon

{Advent Calendar Additional Supplies}
Cardstock: Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-Sandy Beach, Ivory and Winter Whimsy Cardstock Assortment (Fresh Asparagus, Ocean Mist, Red Hot or individual packs)
Paper: Gina K 6x6 Patterned Paper Packs-Blizzard and Winter Whimsy; LilyBee Design 6x6 Tiny Tablet-Christmas Cheer (numbers);
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Love Letter, Bamboo Leaves, Dandelion; ColorBox Metallic Pigment Ink Pad-Silver; Versamark Dazzle-Frost;
Copic Markers: R22, R24, R27 (#15 holly berries); E25, E31, YG95, R24, Y23, R24 (#21 house); R24 & Red Spica Glitter Pen (#22 penguin scarf)
Dies & Punches: 1” & 1.25” circle punches, 1.50” scalloped circle punch;
Accessories: Silhouette Cameo machine & Tag Cut File; Red Baker’s Twine; Silver cord; Red seam binding; Jingle bells; Ranger Star Dust Stickles; Scalloped scissors; Copic Foam Tape; Miniature wood clothespins (Hobby Lobby); Red spray paint, 11.50” x 17.50” wooden picture frame

Posted by Sharon Harnist at 07:55 AM in Christmas, Copic, Gina K Designs | Permalink | Comments (64)

October 30, 2012

Gina K October 2012 Release Inspiration Hops-Day 2

Hello and welcome back to Day 2 of Gina K Designs October Stamp Set Release Inspiration Hops! Remember, Gina and the Design Team will inspire you today with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through the blogs listed below, 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 Gina K Designs Grab Bag that could have anything from stamps to paper to embellishments in it! To see the list of winners check the Big News Forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!

Our October Release featured stamp sets today include Deck The Halls by Beth Silaika:

Simple Snowflakes by Tami Mayberry:

And Mistletoe Memories by Becky Oehlers:

I decided to combine all of today and tomorrow’s fabulous holiday/October Release stamp sets into an Advent calendar! Most of the tags for my calendar use these Gina K 6x6 Patterned Paper Packs – Blizzard and Winter Whimsy:

And new this month, Merry Little Christmas, along with Gina’s Winter Whimsy Cardstock Assortment:

Now, on to the Advent tags I made!

Some general information about all the tags:
The tag bases were made with Gina’s Sandy Beach Heavy Weight cardstock (I love the warm cream color!), layered onto mats of the above colored cardstock. I used a free Silhouette tag cut file that came with my machine, to cut the tags. To make the tags a little easier to assemble, all of the numbers were punched (1” circle) out of a piece of LilyBee Design 6x6 Tiny Tablet-Christmas Cheer patterned paper, but you could easily cut them with your Silhouette or use chipboard or sticker numbers. The numbers were matted with either Red Hot or Fresh Asparagus punched circles (1.25” circle), layered onto a scalloped circle punch (1.50”).

The back of each tag has a fun holiday tradition our family likes doing each year or a task to help keep us on track for the season -- those are noted below each photo (click on any photo for a larger view):

Each day of December until Christmas, a tag is removed from the calendar frame and hung as an ornament on a nearby Christmas tree (sorry, I don’t quite have the tree put up yet for a photo, so this small tree will have to suffice for now!):

Tags #1 & #23 use Deck The Halls:

1-Deck the halls: Decorate the Christmas tree. Silver metallic ink used for ornament hangers and string.
23-Merry & Bright: Drive around looking at Christmas lights. The bulbs were colored with Copic markers and covered with Glossy Accents.

#4 uses the mistletoe from Melanie Muenchinger’s Stately Flowers 5 that we showed you yesterday:

4-Merry Christmas: Hang the mistletoe. Colored with Copics YG91, YG93, YG95 and berries covered with Star Dust Stickles.

#3 & #20 use Simple Snowflakes:

3-Winter Wishes: Take family photo for Christmas card. Silver metallic ink used for large snowflake.
20-Warm Wishes: Go ice skating and drink hot cocoa.

#8 & #24 use Mistletoe Memories:

8-Sealed With a Kiss: Mail Christmas cards.
24-Mistletoe Memories: A kiss (or two!) under the mistletoe Christmas Eve.

I’ll be back tomorrow to show you the remainder of my Advent tags, made with the rest of October’s holiday stamp set releases and the frame that brings them all together!

These Gina K designers also have projects to share with you today:

Thanks for stopping by today and for all your kind comments yesterday!

~ Sharon

{Advent Calendar Additional Supplies}
Cardstock: Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-Sandy Beach, Ivory and Winter Whimsy Cardstock Assortment (Fresh Asparagus, Ocean Mist, Red Hot or individual packs)
Paper: Gina K 6x6 Patterned Paper Packs-Blizzard and Winter Whimsy; LilyBee Design 6x6 Tiny Tablet-Christmas Cheer (numbers);
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Love Letter, Bamboo Leaves, Olive Grove, Summer Sky; ColorBox Metallic Pigment Ink Pad-Silver;
Copic Markers: BG45, R24, Y15, YG23 (#23 bulbs); YG91, YG93, YG95 (#4 mistletoe);
Dies & Punches: 1” & 1.25” circle punches, 1.50” scalloped circle punch;
Accessories: Silhouette Cameo machine & Tag Cut File; Red Baker’s Twine; Ranger Star Dust Stickles & Glossy Accents; Scalloped scissors; Copic Foam Tape; Miniature wood clothespins (Hobby Lobby); Red spray paint, 11.50” x 17.50” wooden picture frame

Posted by Sharon Harnist at 08:00 AM in Christmas, Copic, Gina K Designs | Permalink | Comments (74)

October 29, 2012

Gina K October 2012 Release Inspiration Hops-Day 1

The Design Team for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop, with the October release stamp sets! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through the blogs listed below, 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 Gina K Designs Grab Bag that could have anything from stamps to paper to embellishments in it! To see the list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!

Our first featured stamp set today is Stately Flowers 5 by Melanie Muenchinger:

If you love flowers as much as I do, you can find Melanie’s other four Stately Flowers series stamp sets HERE! I thought I’d switch gears to Thanksgiving with my first card today:

(CLICK ON ANY PHOTO FOR A LARGER VIEW)

I stamped both sizes of sunflowers in this set with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto Gina’s Sandy Beach Heavy Weight cardstock and then colored them in subdued hues of Copic markers (listed below). Gold Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen was used on the flower centers.

The colored panel was matted with Ivory cardstock and then adhered with Copic Foam Tape to a card base of *brand new* pretty Christmas Pine Heavy Weight cardstock. The scalloped edge is a Silhouette Studio cut file (a freebie, I believe, that came with the machine), cut from Sweet Corn cardstock.

Our second featured set today is Vogue Vases 2 by Theresa Momber:

Which is a follow up to Theresa’s popular predecessor, Vogue Vases. Imagine all the possibilities of these two sets combined! I recently took the plunge and ordered some Project Life scrapbooking supplies and decided I would start making some inserts for my scrapbooks in a 4” x 6” size … so you’ll probably start seeing a lot more projects from me in that size! This is one of them:

I stamped three of the solid vases with jewel toned inks onto their respective Vogue Vases 2 Silhouette cut file cut-outs. The blue ink I had was too dark for the stamped word to show up on it, so I used the outline version of the tall vase, stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto Gina K Heavy Base Weight Cardstock Ivory cardstock and colored it with Copic B66. I love that Theresa put both versions (outline and solid) stamps in this one set! The tree branch & flowers were colored with Copic Sand Atyou Spica Glitter Pen and R85/R89 (flowers), YG93 (leaves):

Since I wanted to keep this Project Life insert as flat as possible for my scrapbook, I got creative with flat layering –- I used the same Silhouette scalloped edge cut file as above to cut both colors of cardstock (Fresh Asparagus and *new* Warm Cocoa) and then layered the Asparagus negative cut on the top portion of the card. Before I adhered the Warm Cocoa scalloped layer to the bottom part of the card, I made sure adhesive would show thru the scallops. After adhering the Cocoa cardstock, I sprinkled Ranger Stickles Star Dust Dry Fine Glitter into the scallops. A little machine stitching around the top and a bit of ribbon & button complete this card.

These Gina K designers also have projects to share with you today:

Thanks so much for visiting today . . . I’ll be back tomorrow with Day 2 of Gina’s October release!

~ Sharon

{Happy Thanksgiving card supplies}
Paper: Gina K Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-Sandy Beach, Ivory, Christmas Pine, Sweet Corn
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa & Rhubarb Stalk
Copic Markers: YR21, YR23, G21, G24, E23, W2; Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen-Gold
Accessories: Silhouette Cameo machine & scallop edge Silhouette cut file; Copic Foam Tape

{Inspire-Create-Imagine-Dream Vase Project Life card supplies}
Paper: Gina K Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-Ivory, Fresh Asparagus & Warm Cocoa
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; ColorBox Cat’s Eye Stack Dye Ink-Coffee House
Copic Markers: B66, R85, R89, YG93; Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen-Sand;
Accessories: Silhouette Cameo machine & Vogue Vases 2 Silhouette cut file; Stickles Star Dust Dry Fine Glitter; green twill ribbon; brown button; Copic Foam Tape; sewing machine + ivory thread

Posted by Sharon Harnist at 07:55 AM in Copic, Gina K Designs, Project Life, Scrapbooking, Silhouette | Permalink | Comments (81)

October 27, 2012

Copic Coloring Guide Level 3: People Winner!

Before I announce the winner of my Copic Coloring Guide, Level 3: People giveaway, I wanted to share another sweet Saturated Canary image with you -- Ava (she was available temporarily as a free download, but you can find other great images at the Saturated Canary site, including some other free downloads). I've had her lying around almost completed for a few months and decided today she needed to be finished!

This sweet Ava image uses some of the techniques you'll find in the awesome Copic Coloring Guide, Level 3: People book! And I colored her like my youngest daughter would probably dress . . . if I let her, LOL! A definite hodge-podge of colors! If you haven't had the good fortune to win a copy of this book, Ellen Hutson LLC has all three levels of the Copic Coloring Guides in stock!

The reason I wanted to complete Ava is this:

As you know, October is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness and this year, the kind people down under at the Copic Oz (Australia) blog are doing their small part to help support and find a cure for this terrible disease. I'm sure most of us have been affected by Breast Cancer in some way, either personally or have seen a friend or family member fight it, so get a little creative and help them raise funds for the McGrath Foundation this month by joining us in the PINK CHALLENGE! For EVERY card entered on this Copic Oz blog post, $5 will go to the McGrath Foundation which does amazing work supporting those affected by Breast Cancer. The donations will be generously donated by X-Press Graph-X -- the Australia distributor of Copic products! Won't you help, by making a pink project (or linking to a previously-made pink project) and posting it there by 6pm Monday, October 29 Australia time (I believe that roughly converts to 3am Monday, US Central time zone!) . . . you still have time! And if they get 100 entries (they are currently at 92), X-Press Graph-X will DOUBLE their donation . . . Now THAT is FABULOUS!

Now, on to the winner of my Copic Coloring Guide, Level 3: People . . .

Random.org chose number:

Who is:

142 - Sue Morris said...

Hi Sharon! what a beautiful card. Your shading is just perfect. I've been working on mine and trying to perfect it. I like your techniques.

Reply October 20, 2012 at 07:02 PM

Congratulations, Sue!! You have an email from me -- if you will respond, I will get your Coloring Guide in the mail to you!

I'll be back on Monday with Gina K's October Release Inspiration Blog Hops!

~ Sharon

{Ava Supplies}
Copic Markers: E31, E33, Y23 (hair); E00, E11, R20, B21, B23 (skin & eyes); RV09, RV55, V04, V15, YG61, YG63, Y23, E40, E42 (dress, socks & shoes); RV00, RV02, RV55 (balloon)
Paper: Copic X-Press It Blending Card; Simple Stories 6x6-Fabulous
Dies: Spellbinders Curved Rectangles
Accessories: Light pink seam binding dyed with Copic Various Ink Refills-RV52 & RV55; Copic Double-Sided Foam Tape;