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

Comments

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1.

So gorgeous Sharon! Really love that sunflower one!

[Carolyn King]

2.

Beautiful Thanksgiving card---love your coloring on that! Fantastic card with Ts set...so clever and i love the unique color combination!

[maria mendoza]

3.

beautiful cards

[Cheryl Rotnem]

4.

Bothe cards are great, but the second is my fav!!!
TFS

[Andrea brown]

5.

Sunflowers are my favorite but your other card really grabbed my attention too! Great job!

[Lori M]

6.

Amazing cards Sharon!!

[vicki dutcher]

7.

Awesome samples!

[Christy Q]

8.

Both are gorgeous cards - I especially love your Thanksgiving card. It looks like it could be the centerpiece in its own right!

[Theresa]

9.

Wow, Sharon! Your cards are just off the charts. The sunflowers are beyond stunning and I love the fun idea with the words on the vases!

[Beate]

10.

Great cards, Sharon!
Hugs and smiles

[Judy Woodland]

11.

Such beautiful warm colors Sharon. Lots of inspiration here, thanks so much for sharing.

[ColleenB.]

12.

Both Beautiful cards but myust say; that sunflower card is really a show piece
ColleenB.

[Sherry L]

13.

Love the sunflower card thanks for including the copic colors.

[Cathy Homan]

14.

Cute cute cards. Great job!

[Jennifer S.]

15.

Great cards! Love the warm colors ont he Thanksgiving one. And the clean and bright colors on the vases is just perfect!

[Melanie Muenchinger]

16.

ohhh, Sharon, drool! that sunflower print you've made is amazing! sigh...wiping chin...so creative to put the words on he vases too, love!!

[Ruth Ann Smith]

17.

Sharon the sunflower is beautiful and what lovely shading you did. I love, love the vases. How nice.

[Bridget Willis]

18.

GREAT JOB! I loike the colors you used on card 1, and the boarder. And card 2 is so cute! Great Job!

[Karen Knegten]

19.

Lovely samples, Sharon! Your techniques are inspiring!

[Betty]

20.

I REALLY like your ideas. Thanks so much for sharing your talent!

[Verna Angerhofer]

21.

I really love both the cards, but I must say that sunflower one has me just loving it. Great design indeed!

[Lagene]

22.

Great cards! I especially loved the sunflowers!

[Lynne Ingram]

23.

Lovely sunflowers

[Robin]

24.

These are so pretty !!!

[conniecrafter]

25.

very pretty stamping and coloring in your first card!

[Sherian Dixon]

26.

Your sunflowers are strikingly beautiful!

[Marsha D]

27.

Very pretty cards. Thanks for the ideas.

[Sonya van Stee]

28.

Wow, I just love love LOVE that sunflower card! You really put some tender love and care into colouring all those sunflowers! And it's layered perfectly too! The vase card is simply adorable! Great layout!

[Joan V]

29.

Sharon, just beautiful. I absolutely love your coloring on the flowers. And the second card, I am going to CASE for a page in my journal. I love the words on the vases. Thanks for sharing.

[Linda Carson]

30.

Stunning artwork!

[Emily Thubbron]

31.

Oh man, that sunflower card is sheer perfection. Beautiful..Stunning cards. TFS

[Giovana]

32.

Both cards are fantastic!! Love your coloring :)

[Marcy]

33.

Really great ideas!

[sharon]

34.

Your sunflowers are just beautiful!
Cute design for the vases!

[Snoopy]

35.

Ooh! These are so pretty! Thanks for the inspiration.

Hugs,
Snoopy :D

[Holly]

36.

the sunflowers are gorgeous!
and I love the modern look of the vases
thanks
Holly

[Linda Grady]

37.

Love your cards. My fav is the sunflower one; love that layout of surrounding the outside with the image and sentiment inside. Very nice!

[Louise]

38.

Your sun flowers are exquisite.

[Leta]

39.

LOVE the sunflower card...you never cease to amaze me with your talent...thank you for sharing

[Bevb]

40.

Wow fantastic. I especially love your 1st card thanks

[AJ]

41.

amazing cards Sharon!

[Carol B]

42.

Great projects! I love the new sets, they are so pretty!

Carol B
ciaoitalia2007(at)gmail(dot)com

[Rosy Newlun]

43.

Fabulous cards, Sharon. Your coloring fascinates me :) Beautiful sunflowers and love how you stamped the sentiments onto the vases in 2nd card!!!

[Barb Tarbell]

44.

Sharon, Beautiful cards!!! The sunflower card is lovely. I love how you stamped the words on the vogue vases. Great job!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Barb

[Kathy A]

45.

I'm really loving these two sets, can't wait for mine to get here so I can play

[Nancy]

46.

Thanks for sharing the Copic colors....

[Riette]

47.

I agree with everyone! Those sunflowers are amazing! I would want to frame it.

[naneruth]

48.

Great ideas! I am so loving that sunflower and can't see enough ideas with it. Your card is beautiful.

[Donna Phelan]

49.

I am drooling all over your sunflower card--so sorry for that! :) And how clever of you to use the inspirational words, stamped them right into the vases....fabulous!

[Anita Braddock]

50.

Wow how Super Beautiful love the sunflowers and the colors are perfect great details thanks for sharing.