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Gina K Designs May 2013 Release-Day 3

The Gina K Designs design team welcomes you to day 3 of our fabulous May release Inspiration Blog Hops … Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! 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 grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a few days after the hops.

Our first featured stamp set today is Weather or Not by Beth Silaika:

I loved all the matching images and sentiments in this set and wanted to pair up a few of them, so I came up with a set of 3" x 4" Project Life cards for my scrapbooking. These could also be used as sweet lunch box notes for your kids OR they are also (near) ATC size!

(Click on any photo for a larger view)

I had so much fun with these!  I started by using Beth's coordinating Weather or Not Silhouette cut file and die cut Gina's Ivory Heavy Base Weight cardstock (I use a blade setting of 10). Then I chose some other colors of Gina's Heavy Base Weight cardstock to use as bases (Ocean Mist, Sweet Corn, Blue Denim, and retired Smokey Slate). Here are the details:

1-Umbrella was stamped with Memento Gray Flannel ink and then colored with Copic markers R20, R21, BG10, BG53, Y11, Y15, YG11, YG13 and T4. Raindrops were stamped with Gina's Ocean Mist Color Companions ink pad on Ocean Mist cardstock base and filled in with Star Dust Stickles.
2-Sun was stamped with Gina's Sweet Mango & Sweet Corn ink pads and filled in with Star Dust Stickles. Rain boot was stamped with Grass Green Color Companions ink pad. Tami's Simple Flowers and Carolyn's Stamp it Big 2 bird were stamped with Sweet Corn ink on Sweet Corn cardstock base.

3-Moon was stamped with Gina's Ocean Mist Color Companions ink pad and filled in with Star Dust Stickles. Stars (small flower from Becky's Bold Blooms) and sentiment from this set were stamped with white pigment ink. Diamond "star" border at the bottom is from Melanie's Pretty Patterns 2 set. 
4-Clouds and sentiment were stamped wtih silver metallic pigment ink (one with VersaMark). Small cloud filled in with Star Dust Stickles (if you click the photo for a larger view, you should be able to see the sparkle better).

Our second featured stamp set today is By the Sea 2 by Theresa Momber:

While I was on a calendar making kick this week, I went ahead and made my 6x6 June calendar -- I thought this set was perfect for it!

Remember, if you aren't in to making calendars, you could also use this same idea for a scrapbook page -- just replace the calendar with a photo! Or you could also use this same idea for a birthday card and circle the recepient's birthdate on the calendar.

I started by die cutting Gina's  Ivory Heavy Base Weight cardstock with Theresa's coordinating By the Sea 2 Silhouette cut file and then stamped the images with Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I colored the adirondack chairs with Copic E30, E31 and E42. The chairs and pelican are popped up on Copic Foam Tape. The grass, sentiment and birds were all stamped with Rich Cocoa ink directly onto the patterned papers (My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart-Be Amazing). I just tore the papers and layered them to resemble the ocean and sky.  I stamped Melanie’s Lots of Letters alpha with Ocean Mist Color Companions ink pad onto my computer generated calendar grid that I printed onto Gina's Ivory Layering Weight cardstock.

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

• Gina K
• Beth Silaika - Illustrator of Weather or Not
• Theresa Momber - Illustrator of By The Sea
• AJ Otto
• Becky Oehlers
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Latisha Yoast
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist <=You are here!
• Tami Mayberry
• Theresa Momber

See you back here tomorrow for our last day of May Gina K inspiration hops!

~ Sharon

 

Gina K Designs May 2013 Release-Day 2

The Gina K Designs design team welcomes you to day 3 of our fabulous May release Inspiration Blog Hops … Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! 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 grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a few days after the hops.

Our first featured stamp set today is Simple Flowers by Tami Mayberry:

Inspired by Melanie's "All 8 colors" card here, I used all 8 new Color Companion ink pad colors, plus existing Ocean Mist AND almost all of the stamps in this sweet set on this card!

These are the ink colors in order from the top left: Turquoise Sea, Passionate Pink, Grass Green, Sweet Mango with Sweet Corn on each side, Blue Raspberry below the Sweet Mango, then Bubblegum and the Ocean Mist. All were stamped onto Gina’s Ivory Heavy Base Weight Cardstock.

The fantastic zig-zag stitches and hello sentiment from this set were both stamped in the gorgeous new deep, dark Black Onyx Color Companions ink – I love how dark this black is!  And I'll be reaching for this zig-zag stitch a LOT! The tiny black flower stamp is from Becky’s Bold Blooms set. The panel’s corners were rounded and it is popped up on foam tape over the Black Onyx Heavy Base Weight Cardstock base.

Our next featured set today is Stamp it Big 2 by Carolyn King:

The square part of the house inspired me to incorporate a square photo I recently created of my youngest daughter, for this 6x6 scrap page:

I printed the photo to fit just inside the stamped lines of the bottom of the house, then stamped the roof with Gina’s new Grass Green Color Companion ink pad onto patterned paper, cut it out and popped it up on foam tape over the photo. The roof trim was colored with Copic YG23.

Those fabulous large sentiments, banner and bird were stamped with the new Passionate Pink Color Companions ink pad onto patterned paper (My Mind’s Eye Memorable 6x6):

(The speech bubble is the negative space left over from another die cutting session – I just positioned it over the stamped “You”). The bird’s heart was colored in with Copic R85 marker and Pink Atyou Spica Glitter Pen and her eye was made with Black Spica Glitter Pen. The arrow and butterfly from this set were stamped with Ocean Mist Color Companion ink pad and the cloud (from Beth’s Weather or Not set) was stamped with Turquoise Sea ink pad onto patterned paper and hand trimmed. Most all of the elements are popped up on foam tape.

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

• Gina K
• Tami Mayberry - Illustrator of Simple Flowers
• Carolyn King - Illustrator of Stamp It Big 2
• AJ Otto
• Becky Oehlers
• Beth Silaika
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Latisha Yoast
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist <=You are here!
• Theresa Momber

We’ll be back again tomorrow with more May stamp set inspiration!

~ Sharon

 

Gina K Designs May 2013 Release-Day 1

The Gina K Designs design team welcomes you to day 3 of our fabulous May release Inspiration Blog Hops … Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! 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 grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a few days after the hops.

If you have saw Gina's previews last week or were at the Release Party last Thursday night, you may have seen mention of these fabulous new products:

8 pretty new Color Companion ink pads:

Left side: Bubblegum, Passionate Pink, Sweet Mango, Blue Raspberry; Right side: Sweet Corn, Grass Green, Turquoise Sea, Black

And 4 fabulous new Color Companion Button Collections:

Left to right: Pink Passion, Sunrise Smoothie, Berry Blues, Tuxedo Mix

Aren't those gorgeous?!!

On with our stamp set introductions for today . . . Our featured stamp sets today are Pretty Patterns 2 by Melanie Muenchinger:

and Bold Blooms by Becky Oehlers:

For my first project, I combined these two sets to create my 6x6 May calendar:

I stamped this gorgeous bloom onto Becky’s coordinating Bold Blooms Silhouette cut file (made from Gina’s Ivory Heavy Base Weight Cardstock) with Memento Gray Flannel ink and colored with these Copic Sketch Markers: BG53, BG57, Y23, Y26 and Copic Yellow Atyou Spica Glitter Pen, to coordinate with the Fancy Pants Park Bench paper I used.

The smaller blue flower accent at the top left is also from Becky’s Big Blooms set, stamped with Gina’s Ocean Mist Color Companions ink pad (also onto the coordinating Silhouette cut file) and the center accented with Star Dust Stickles.

Melanie’s herringbone/chevron design was stamped with Gina’s beautiful NEW Sweet Corn & Turquoise Sea ink pads, then hand trimmed to use as a border strip at the bottom of the calendar. For the month title, I used Melanie’s previous Lots of Letters alpha and Turquoise Sea ink pad. The calendar is my own 2013 Grid Calendar, printed onto Gina's Ivory Layering Weight Cardstock.

My next project is an A2-sized card that also uses both sets:

After using the Bold Blooms Silhouette cut file on Gina’s Ivory Heavy Base Weight Cardstock, I used the negative space that was left to create my card front. I stamped Melanie’s circular patterns with Gina’s new Color Companions ink pads in Bubblegum, Sweet Mango and Sweet Corn. Next, I stamped the bloom onto the die cut with Sweet Mango ink and then colored it with these Copic markers: Y23, YR01, YR03 and YR04:

I had no problems with the Sweet Mango ink smearing or reacting with the Y23 Copic marker that I base coated the entire flower with, coloring right over the stamped lines! The center of the flower is accented with Star Dust Stickles.  Next, I popped the background up with foam tape, over the bloom. The sentiment tag was made by stamping the single circle element from  Melanie's set with Sweet Corn ink and then stamping the “for you” sentiment from Tami Mayberry’s new Simple Flowers set with Memento Gray Flannel ink. I punched it out and tied it around the popped up frame with thin Sweet Mango organza ribbon. The card base is Gina’s coordinating Sweet Corn Heavy Base Weight Cardstock. I {heart} color coordinating products!

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

• Gina K
• Melanie Muenchinger - Illustrator of Pretty Patterns 2
• Becky Oehlers - Illustrator of Bold Blooms
• AJ Otto
• Beth Silaika
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Latisha Yoast
• Lee Murphy
• Michelle Woerner
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist <=You are here!
• Tami Mayberry
• Theresa Momber

Thanks for stopping by . . . we’ll be back again tomorrow with more May stamp set inspiration!

~ Sharon

JustRite May '13 Release

Today is the first day of JustRite's May release inspiration blog hops. The first new stamp set we have to show you is this floral beauty -- Irises Vintage Labels Four:

I used it to make this 6" x 5" Mother's Day card:

I used JustRite's coordinating Custom Vintage Labels Four Dies to cut the image, after stamping it with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto Neenah Natural White cardstock. These are the Copic Sketch Markers and Atyou Spica Glitter Pens I used to color the image:

I found Spellbinders' Labels 28 to be a nice complimentary die shape to the stamp image, so I die cut two coordinating patterns of My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart-Be Amazing 6x6 papers to layer on Copic Foam Tape behind the Iris. To help accentuate the die cut shapes, I used Copic YR23 and BG53 to outline the embossed edges of the patterned papers:

I stamped one of the sentiments, "Mom", onto the lower right corner of the card front and added a punched butterfly accent.

You can see more samples of this beautiful stamp set today from these JustRite designers:

JustRite Inspiration 
Debbie Olson
Kathy Jones
Marisa Job
Sharon Harnist <=You are here!
Angela Barkhouse
Michele Kovack
Margie Higuchi
Darsie Bruno  
Sheri Holt
Barb Schram

Thanks for stopping by today . . . happy Sunday!

~ Sharon

{Supplies}
Stamps: JustRite Cling  Irises Vintage Labels Four,
Paper: My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart-Be Amazing 6x6, Neenah Natural White cardstock
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Copic Sketch Markers: RV63, RV66, YG61, YG63, YG67, YR21, YR23, B000, BG53
Atyou Spica Glitter Pens: Turquoise & Yellow
Accessories:  Copic Foam Tape, Martha Stewart Butterfly punch