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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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

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... Read more →

Paint the Town R29 Copic Blog Hop!

Christmas is coming and to get ready for the holiday, we suggest you double-check your stock of red markers. Already have all the reds? Then why don’t you try on Copic's nifty new t-shirt, hit the town with your fist full of markers, and paint the town R29 (which happens to be my favorite shade of Copic red)! Today the Copic design and instruction team is giving you a chance to win your very own Copic t-shirt! Leave a comment on this blog post to be entered to win your very own “Paint the town R29” shirt! My giveaway will be open until Wednesday, October 31 at midnight and I’ll choose and post the winner on Thursday, November 1. Be sure to visit the other Copic team member's blogs and enter to win on their blogs, too. You have lots of chances to win and I'm positive you'll find TONS of wonderful Copic inspiration at each blog, too! (Each blog may have different giveaway end dates): Colleen Schaan Debbie Olson Lori Craig Sherrie Siemens Cindy Lawrence Sharon Harnist <== You are here! Michele Boyer Marianne Walker Can’t wait to win? These t-shirts are exclusive to the Copic website. Stores can... Read more →

JustRite Papercraft-Petaloo Holiday Inspiration Week!

This week JustRite Papercraft is very excited to be partnering with Petaloo International to bring you a week of Christmas inspiration using Petaloo's new Flora Doodle flowers and JustRite Christmas stamps! Each day you can visit the JustRite blog and the Petaloo blog to see what each design team has created. Today, I used Petaloo's White Forget Me Nots: to trim my Christmas Peace Angel: The pattern for the angel can be found at the Martha Stewart website. She could decorate your holiday table or could also be used as a name card. I fancied her up a bit, by making her with Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circles One (all four graduated sizes of dies in the set, ranging from 6 to 8 inches) to die cut the circles and create her pretty layered dress, instead of a paper plate as the original instructions indicate. I used two different shades of alternating ivory and cream cardstock for the dress, which ends up also making her wings in the back: In her hands, she's holding a beautiful ornament from JustRite's Merry & Bright Cling stamp set: There are five different ornaments in this set and one of the smallest was just perfect... Read more →

Amazing Paper Grace Kit Club 3-November & 2013 Calendars!

It's time for a sneak peek of November's Amazing Paper Grace Kit from Becca Feeken -- and it is simply gorgeous! You are going to love this month's dies . . . an elegant set of Filigree Corner Dies: And Becca's A New Day stamp set is perfect for making calendar-based gifts, scrapbook pages, or cards! Here are all the projects you'll be able to make with this month's kit (designed by Becca): This month you can buy just the November Kit, or a Silver (6 month membership) or Gold (12 month membership). Please be advised that next month it is anticipated there may only be a few single month kits left after orders for the monthly subscribers are filled, so you may want to go ahead and choose one of the membershp options! Amazing Paper Graces Kits are not available for purchase on the JustRite site though, so to purchase any of the last three kits, click here to shop. Here's a project I made with the kit stamps and dies -- my November calendar, of course! I was so excited to see this wonderful stamp set that is perfect for calendar making! I die cut the Filigree Corners... Read more →

Copic Coloring Guide Level 3: People

Good morning and welcome to a very special blog hop! I am excited to announce my participation and publication in the new Copic Coloring Guide, Level 3: People! Authors Colleen Schaan and Marianne Walker have partnered up again with the team at Annie’s and some of the most talented artists and designers in the industry to bring you a quality publication packed full of techniques, theory, tutorials, and inspiration. The 64-page book is the next step in the Coloring Guide series, offering information and educational material for crafters of all skill levels. From the how and why behind choosing colors and coloring skin, to the tips and techniques for coloring hair, to the helpful hints on how to create realistic looking clothing and fabric, this book presents information in an easy-to-follow format. An included CD contains all of the hand-drawn images used in the tutorial section of the book, along with the assembly instructions for all of the projects, and a number of blank reference charts. Each participating designer is hopping today to give you a peak at their favorite project from the book -- and a chance to WIN your own autographed copy! I'm beyond thrilled and honored to... Read more →

Fall Rolled Felt Roses

Good morning and welcome to a fun Friday! This morning I have a tutorial to share with you over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom, on how to make these beautiful felt rolled roses . . . I hope you'll join me! I'll be back shortly with a fun blog hop and GIVEAWAY!! ~ Sharon Read more →

JustRite October 2012 Release-Day 3

Welcome to our final day of JustRite Papercraft's October stamp set release. Today we have a beautiful Cling Embroidered Background Stamp to show you: Along with Cling Friends Antique Labels One: After reorganizing and redecorating my studio/craft space recently, I thought this 7" x 9" photo frame could use some updating to my new color scheme of black and raspberry (and I wanted to keep one of my favorite photos of me and my girls from about 6 years ago!): So I stamped this beautiful background a few times, to cover an 8.50" x 11" piece of cream cardstock, and black embossed it. Then I decoupaged it to the front of the MDF frame (Michaels). Next, I stamped the largest label from the Friends Antique Labels One set with cranberry ink onto rose red cardstock and layered the coordinating smaller label frame, stamped in black, on top of it. To accent the frame, I die cut a rose (Spellbinders retired Flower Creations 3, but their new Rose Creations would be a close match, I think) out of the same rose red cardstock and then accented the edges of the petals with Copic R56 marker, to give it depth and definition:... Read more →

JustRite October 2012 Release-Day 2

Hello and welcome to day two of JustRite Papercraft's October release! Today we're fast forwarding to the holidays, with this beautiful cling stamp set -- Holiday Cheer Ornaments: Each of the ornament stamps in this set coordinate with Spellbinders Heirloom Ornament die sets from the past three years, including 2012's! I chose to use the largest ornament stamp and 2010's Ornament Dies for my holiday card: I stamped the ornament with Memento Love Letter ink onto Neenah Natural White cardstock, die cut it, and while the cardstock was still in the die I airbrushed it with Copic E42 to give it a bit of an antique look: (I ended up not using the die cut greeting shown above!) Then I stamped the pretty "Holiday Cheer" greeting on the same Neenah Natural cardstock and die cut it with JustRite's Custom Antique Tags One die that matches the center of the ornament. Next, I airbrushed it with Copic BG53, so it would pop against the ornament. The outer edges of the die cut were glittered: The pretty turquoise die cut panel is Spellbinders A2 Fancy Ribbon Threader -- I hand stitched the holes around the perimeter with red Baker's twine and then... Read more →

World Card Making Day 2012 in the CLASSroom

All the World Card Making Day festivities are in full swing today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom (scroll down past the first post for the most recently posted challenge)! Two challenges have already been posted and now it's time for my challenge . . . a sketch! Here's a little sneak peek of my card: I hope you'll join me and join in all the other challenges, too, for chances to win some fabulous gift prizes! And don't forget about the WCMD sales going on, too -- they are listed in the post below this one! ~ Sharon Read more →

World Card Making Day 2012!

Hello Everyone . . . Just a few public service announcements today, on some great World Card Making Day sales I wouldn't want you to miss out on! Starting Saturday, October 6: Ellen Hutson will be kicking off our World Card Making Day celebration! We are so very excited about what we have been working on and we hope that you will join in our excitement! To start off our celebration, on Friday, October 5th and Saturday October 6th save 15% on ALMOST EVERYTHING (Copic products excluded) in the store! This offer is good on in stock items only, so be certain to shop early for best selection. Just click on the banner above to get started shopping! Then upon reaching the checkout page you will find the box to insert the following promo code - please type the code, rather than copying and pasting, exactly as shown WCMD2012. And guess what?!! Ellen's stock of the brand new Copic Coloring Guide Level 3: People is in stock! And since it's NOT a Copic product, it will be on sale, too! Just click the photo at left to get yours! Have I told you yet how giddy I am to have... Read more →

Gina K Designs September 2012 Release Inspiration Hop 3

The Design Team for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop, with the September 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! Today’s first featured stamp set is Primitive Blessings by Gina K Designs: I love the style of this set! Here’s my primitive holiday card: Once again, I used the Primitive Blessings Studio Cut File to make this card quicker to assemble (can you tell I’m hooked on my Cameo?)! The darling house was stamped on Gina’s Ivory cardstock and colored with the Copic markers listed below. It and the cute sheep are popped up on foam tape. {Primitive Blessings Additional Supplies} Paper: Gina K Designs Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-Sandy Beach & Ivory; Authentique 6x6-Festive Ink:... Read more →

Gina K Designs September 2012 Release Inspiration Hop 2

The Design Team for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop, with the September 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! Today’s first featured stamp set today is Wicked by Beth Silaika: I wanted to make a subway art style framed home décor piece and Beth’s coordinating Wicked Studio Cut File made this project a breeze! I just cut all the images with Gina’s Heavy Base Weight White Cardstock (with a blade setting of 10), and then placed them on a 5”x7” piece of white cardstock and moved them around until I was pleased with the layout. Then I stamped the images in alternating ink colors. I think I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it... Read more →