Gina K January 2013 Release Inspiration Hop-Day 2

The Gina K Design Team welcomes you back to Day 2 of our January release inspiration blog hops … 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 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.

Today’s first featured stamp set is Birds and Blossoms by Theresa Momber:

I always love Theresa’s gorgeous nature sets and this one has lots of great elements! No surprise here, I had to use the pretty flowers, with one of the great “grow” sentiments:

This is a gift box/bag and was a free cut file that came with my Silhouette Cameo. I cut it from Gina’s Cherry Red Heavy Base Weight Cardstock, with middle heart accents cut from Innocent Pink cardstock (LOVE this combination!). Here’s a side view, so you can see what I mean by box/bag:

I stamped the pretty floral spray with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Gina’s White Heavy Base Weight Cardstock and colored them with these Copic markers, starting with R20 and deepening the color with R32:

Next, I did some shading in the centers of the flowers with R35:

And my deepest shading was done with R39. The flowers were popped up on foam tape and the sentiment stamped with Jet Black Archival ink:

Gina’s new Color Companions Red Hot Double Stitched Ribbon (narrow) is tied through the cut out heart opening at the bottom of the box. The finished size is a little over 6" tall x 3.50" wide.

Our next featured set today is Spoon Me by Becky Oehlers – I love all the cute punny sayings and images in this set and the endless possibilities of combinations you can get from it!

I stamped the glasses with Gina’s new Red Hot Color Companions ink onto White Heavy Base Weight Cardstock that had been cut with Becky’s Spoon Me Silhouette cut file. Then I cut out the centers of the glasses and placed vellum on the back, to create lenses!

I also stamped the small chevron design from this set with Red Hot ink on white cardstock, to make the left border. Tami Mayberry’s Take Note set was used to make the notebook paper, by stamping the lines with the new Ocean Mist and Red Hot inks. See how perfectly the stamped lines match with my Ocean Mist 4-inch card base (love it!):

Those cut little hearts are from Becky’s set, too! The sentiment was stamped onto Becky’s Silhouette cut with Jet Black Archival ink and popped up on foam tape.

Our last, but not least, featured set today is Simple Hearts by Tami Mayberry:

I’m a little stuck on Valentine cards, can you tell?!! What can I say -- it's one of my very favorite cardmaking holidays!  So here’s another one that uses five of the patterned papers from Gina’s new Smitten 6x6 patterned paper pack –- I love how all the colors in the papers coordinate beautifully with our cardstock – here, I used Innocent Pink:

I stamped the darling LOVE sentiment and double heart with Gina’s new Color Companions Cherry Red ink, onto White Heavy Base Weight Cardstock, then used the larger solid heart stamp to stamp the insides of the hearts with Innocent Pink ink.

A 1-3/4” circle punch was used to cut out the double heart, which is covered in Star Dust Stickles and popped up on foam tape over the white paper heart doily. Gina’s new Color Companions wide Red Hot Double Stitched Ribbon ties everything together.

Be sure to leave comments on all of the blogs below, for your chance to win the Gina K grab bags!

• Gina K
• Theresa Momber - Illustrator Birds and Blossoms
• Becky Oehlers - Illustrator Spoon Me
• Tami Mayberry - Illustrator Simple Hearts
• AJ Otto
• Beth Silaika
• Carolina Buchting
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Latisha Yoast
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist <= You are here!
• Valerie Stangle

See you back here tomorrow for another day of Gina K inspiration!

~ Sharon

Comments

[Melanie Muenchinger]

1.

These are terrific! ( downloaded that same box! looks better in red though than the yellow my son cut it in!) Especially like how you trimmed the DP into little banners on the last card, love the snipped ends

[Janet Hindman]

2.

Lovely!

[Sean Fetterman]

3.

I love the gift box! Of course, the cards are absolutely beautiful as well! You are the BEST! Hugs! Sean

[cat]

4.

What a gorgeous gift box!! LOVe it Sharon! the Love card and those glasses, with the vellum for the lenses...just perfect!

[Marcy]

5.

Vibrant! Love them!

[Marianne]

6.

WOW...you certainly took these designs to the next level. Such talent and inspiration. Thanks for sharing.

[Connie Ludgate]

7.

Wow. That gift bag is awesome. All your cards are very pretty.

[Margy]

8.

Gift box is great! And that Valentine - well, i know my hubby is going to love it. At least I'll love making it! LOL

[Mary Sara P.]

9.

Love your "eye" card and the colors. Love your copic coloring and shading.

[Cathy Homan]

10.

Projects are great -- makes me wish I had a Silhouette!!! Thank you for sharing.

[Jennifer S.]

11.

Wow! Love the heart box! So beautiful!

[Theresa]

12.

Sharon, your coloring on the flowers is amazing! Stunning projects!

[Nana Donna]

13.

So pretty, love your two cards. Your gift bags is gorgeous, what a great way to use the flower stamp

[Carla]

14.

Just wonderful!
I toooo like your giftbox with the lovely colouring.

[Sonya van Stee]

15.

fabulous creations! Your colouring on the stately flowers is superb and makes me want to actually feel the petals!

[Sonya van Stee]

16.

oops, I meant to say the flowers from birds and blossoms, not stately flowers!

[Verna Angerhofer]

17.

What awesome projects, but that box/gift bag is so very lovely. How delighted anyone would be getting a gift inside that beauty!

[Judy]

18.

What a great gift box. Now I have to get a Silhoette. Love everything.

[Katherine Marcantoni]

19.

love, love, love. the color combinations are beautiful.

[Conniecrafter]

20.

such sweet little bag and just love the coloring of the flowers!!

[Angie Hall]

21.

It is obvious that you think, desgn and then craft.Your projects are so clever. Thanks

[mermaid Fénicia]

22.

love those items ^_^

[Sharon]

23.

The gift bag is AWESOME! and really like the cards - such cute design on each!

[Kat Wishard]

24.

Luscious inspiration! Thanks for sharing, Kat

[Susan]

25.

That notebook paper card is too cute. Thanks for sharing!

[Elizabeth Garcia]

26.

Fantastic projects. Love that valentine's box.

[Kathryn A]

27.

Wow! Your gift box/bag is awesome! So is your Valentine's card.

[KIm Neff]

28.

WOW- you have really inspired me to get making some thing! The gift box is just beautiful! Is there anything that machine can't do-lol You always leave me going...WOW!

[Debbie Corbari]

29.

Oh my word I totally have to CASE those vellum lensed glasses!!

[Audrey]

30.

I like everything, especially the valentine card ,

[Zehra]

31.

wow, these are gorgeous and so vibrant, love them

[Ann Nye]

32.

Love your cards! That vibrant red gift box is gorgeous!

[Anita Braddock]

33.

Wow how amazing. I love love the gift box super neat love the heart cut out for the top would love to make that. love the cards and the layering and colors are perfect. thanks for sharing

[naneruth]

34.

I love how you put the flowers on the gift box. Nice colors used.

[Luanna]

35.

I loved your cards, but, oh my, the valentine gift box is gorgeous!!

[Kathy Berger]

36.

All I have to say is… Wow! Thank you for sharing.

[Sylvia Rivera]

37.

Wow! I love everything you created. You're work is awesome. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

[Julie S]

38.

Thanks for sharing, these projects are beautiful!

[Holly]

39.

wow- that is one gorgeous gift bag! and I like that the eyeglasses have clear lenses!
thanks
Holly

[Golda]

40.

Oh, Wow! That's all I can come up with and it definitely covers it.

[Brenda Lee]

41.

Sharon....again, just a stunning job on your projects. I especially love the gift box. Perfect for Valentines Day.

[Doris W.]

42.

Fantastic creations! The gift box blows me away!

[Linda K]

43.

Great, great cards and box. Like how you attached the ribbon to the box front. Very creative work.

[Carol B]

44.

Beautiful stamp sets and lovely projects, thanks for the inspiration!

Carol B
ciaoitalia2007(at)gmail(dot)com

[Susan Sieracki]

45.

My goodness, that gift box is incredible. I love my silhouette too!

[VERNA GARRISON]

46.

Your just full of great ideas my dd will love the pretty red box,,thank's so much..

[sherry b]

47.

love the red heat box, great ideas here. TFS.

[Sharyn Polesel]

48.

Everything is beautiful, but I especially love the box. Thanks so much for showing how you colored the flowers.

[Kathleen]

49.

Beautiful samples

[MaryAnn]

50.

AWESOME!Beautiful work...