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Gina K Designs May 2013 Release-Day 4

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 sets today are: The 3 Darling Divas by Debbie Corbari – Green Thumb, Mr. & Mrs., Rainy Day:

And the new 1 free with 3, A Little Something. Just look at this sweet set -- can you believe it's FREE?!!

I used them both on this 12" Project Life scrap page of my youngest daughter back in the Fall of 2009, when she was 7 (click on any photo for a larger view):

The Rainy Day Darling Diva started it all -- she reminded me of these photos I hadn't scrapped!  

This pretty piece of My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing-Honey roses paper matched well with the umbrella my daughter was playing with in the rain, so I stamped the sentiment directly on the paper by using Memento Markers (Black, Rose Bud & Gray Flannel) to ink it in different colors:

The Diva was stamped with Memento Gray Flannel (I'm loving this color when I don't want a really bold black) onto her coordinating Rainy Day Diva Silhouette cut file (on Gina's Ivory Heavy Base Weight cardstock) and colored her with these Copic markers: R81, R83, R85 (umbrella); E00, E11 (skin); E33, E35 (hair); T3, T5 (boots & slicker accents). The clouds and rain were also lightly stamped onto the patterned paper.

I also used the other sentiment in this Diva set (stamped with Memento Gray Flannel) on the journaling card I made with Tami Mayberry's Vintage Notes stamp set (stamped in Color Companions Bubblegum Pink ink).

Since I had the roses on this page, I thought the flowers & vase from A Little Something would work nicely with some other photos I have of my daughter bringing me some flowers (which I have yet to dig out of the black hole of my computer!).

I stamped the flowers & vase onto its coordinating A Little Something Silhouette cut file with Memento Gray Flannel and colored it with Copic markers R81, R85, YG61, YG63, Y15, Y18. I cut apart the sentiment stamp so it would fit on the Passionate Pink oval die cut (Lori Whitlock Card Kit-Ornate Flower Silhouette cut file). The flowers and heart were accented with Star Dust Stickles. The die cut frames were layered onto a Bubblegum Pink cardstock mat.

Be sure to check out what these Gina K designers have to show you today with these stamp sets:

• Gina K
• Debbie Corbari - Illustrator of The Darling Divas
• AJ Otto
• Becky Oehlers
• Beth Silaika
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Latisha Yoast
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist <=You are here!
• Tami Mayberry
• Theresa Momber
• Valerie Stangle

Thanks for joining us this week!

~ Sharon

 

Spring Scrapping

Today over in Ellen's CLASSroom, I have this Spring scrapbook page to share with you . . . I hope you'll visit me there to find out all the details!  Happy weekend!  

~ Sharon

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:

• Gina K
• AJ Otto
• Beth Silaika
• Carolina Buchting
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Deb Felts
• Emily Giovanni
• Giovana Smith
• Lee Murphy
• Lori McAree
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Sharon Harnist <=You are here!
• Tami Mayberry
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher

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

For My Love ...

I totally missed this 8-inch scrapbook page of mine making an appearance over on the Copic blog this week (on Valentine's Day)!  It's a love page of my oldest daughter.  I hope you'll join me there, to see how I used Copic products on almost every single piece of this page!  

I forgot to mention in the post about the paint chip being the inspiration for the page -- I loved all the shades of pink (her favorite color!) and the paint color names associated with them: pink chintz, springtime bloom, fuchsia kiss & hot pink . . . all very girly, springy and reminded me of love and her!

A very happy (belated!) "Day of Love" to you all!