Gina K February 2013 Release Inspiration Hop-Day 3

The Gina K Designs design team welcomes you to day 3 of our fabulous February 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 Lots of Dots by Beth Silaika:

And this month’s 1 Free with 3 set, Petite Borders:

I combined them both on these two cards, along with Melanie's A Year of Flowers 2 from Monday:

For this card, I stamped the cool dotty circles with black ink randomly onto Gina’s Ivory Heavy Base Weight Cardstock and layered it onto a card base of Black Onyx, matted with Turquoise Sea . . . I think this is my new favorite color combination! The Petite Border is difficult to see in the photo above, but below you can see it a little better:

I stamped it with Versamark and clear embossed it along the bottom edge of the black piece. I like how it mimics Melanie’s A Year of Flowers 2 water lily shape. The flower was stamped onto White cardstock, die cut with its matching A Year of Flowers 2 Silhouette Cut File, colored with BG53 & BG49 Copic markers and popped up on Copic Foam Tape. Tami’s All Occasion Tags 2 sentiment was stamped with white pigment ink.

For a different background look on my next card, I used Faber-Castell Gelatos (green variety pack) to color the largest row of solid Lots of Dots, spritzed them with water, and stamped onto Gina’s Ivory Heavy Base Weight Cardstock:

The scalloped Petite Border was stamped with black ink on the Turquoise Sea cardstock layer at the bottom. Again, Melanie’s A Year of Flowers 2 daisy was stamped onto its coordinating A Year of Flowers 2 Silhouette Cut File, colored with Copic BG53 & YG23, and popped up on foam tape.

Below is a little bit different variation of the above background . . .

Our next featured stamp sets today are this month’s Darling Divas by Debbie Corbari (Mommy-to-Be, Day at the Park, Serenity):

My first card uses Serenity Diva and the same background technique as above, except I also added Beth’s outline circles in black ink, for a more defined look … the clear stamps make it a breeze to line them up, over the green Gelato dots:

Serenity was stamped in black ink onto a Spellbinders Classic Circle die cut of Ivory cardstock and colored with these Copic markers: (Y21 & E33-hair, E00 & E11-skin, R81-lips, YG13 & YG25-top, T4 & T5-pants, BG53 & BG49-mat, T0-shadow).

The background was an Ivory piece of leftover cardstock I used to die cut Monday’s All Occasion Tags 2 sentiment with Spellbinders Grommet Tags die.  I popped the whole background up over the Grass Green cardstock on which the sentiment was stamped underneath.  Ohmmmmmmm . . . 

And finally, my last card today uses Day at the Park Diva, for a very quick, clean and simple card.  I thought it would be fun to put Diva up in the air on a cloud – it’s the first thing I thought of when I saw this cute sentiment!

Ocean Mist and Jelly Bean Green cardstocks were used for the background. Washi tape was machine zig-zag stitched on the “grass”. The clouds were stamped with Ocean Mist Color Companion Ink Pad and lightly colored with Copic BG0000. Diva was stamped onto her coordinating Day at the Park Diva Silhouette Cut File and colored with these Copic markers:

Diva’s die cut was trimmed / modified a little (the picnic blanket cut out), then she was adhered to her cloud!

Thanks so much for joining the inspiration hops the past few days – I really appreciate you all visiting and leaving your wonderful comments!

Please be sure to check out all the amazing designs and inspiration the rest of the Gina K designers have for you today:

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

Thanks so much for joining us for February’s Release Inspiration Blog Hops!

~ Sharon

{Lots of Dots Card Supplies}
Stamps: Lots of Dots by Beth Silaika, Petite Borders, A Year of Flowers 2 by Melanie Muenchinger, All Occasion Tags 2 by Tami Mayberry
Paper: GKD Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-White, Ivory, Black Onyx, Turquoise Sea 
Copic Markers: colors listed above
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, white pigment 
Accessories: Faber-Castell Green Gelatos, water spray bottle, Copic Foam Tape, clear embossing powder, embossing heat tool

{Serenity Diva Card Supplies}
Stamps: Serenity Diva by Debbie Corbari, Lots of Dots by Beth Silaika,
Paper: GKD Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-White, Ivory, Grass Green, Black Onyx
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black,
Copic Markers: listed above + Black 100
Dies: Spellbinders Grommet Tags
Accessories: Copic Foam Tape, black satin ribbon

{Day at the Park Diva Card Supplies}
Stamps: Day at the Park Diva by Debbie Corbari
Paper: GKD Heavy Base Weight Cardstock-White, Jelly Bean & Ocean Mist
Ink: GKD Color Companion Ink Pad-Ocean Mist, Memento Tuxedo Black,
Copic Markers: shown above
Dies: Spellbinders A2 Cardmaker-Matting Basics A
Accessories: Day at the Park Diva Silhouette Cut File, MME washi tape, sewing machine, pinking shears

Comments

[Theresa]

1.

I always love your designs, Sharon! These are so beautiful!

[Sharon]

2.

LOVE the flower cards! The first is so striking with the black and turquoise! How neat the background for the second one with the flower to match.

[cat]

3.

gorgeous Sharon! Love the black, and how it makes the colors just pop! And the touch of the stitches, perfect!

[dovescrapper]

4.

I am partial to black too. These are awesome cards. Very neat and classy

[Marcy]

5.

Darling Diva, Dots and Designs! The blue green combo was my favorite of the colors

[Sandy]

6.

Love your use of colors combinations!

[Sharyn Polesel]

7.

Your cards are so lovely. Great color choice.

[Pat]

8.

Awesome cards great use of color too.

[Eleanor Sharp]

9.

All are very pretty cards. Very bright and pretty colors. Liked the black/turquoise and black/green/turquoise combinations. The hand stitching on the chevron stamping was clever as well.

[Debbie G]

10.

Sharon, your cards are very pretty. Beautiful color combos.

[Tanja]

11.

Wow!! Gorgeous designs Love the first card definetly my favorite but all these are amazing thanks for sharing your talent iam hooked on your site and will be back often
Hugs Tanja

[Teri]

12.

Very pretty!

[Anouk]

13.

Love your cards with polka dots

[Donna R]

14.

I love the black and white cards with the pop of color. Very pretty. And the diva cards are so fun! Love those sets.

[Melanie Muenchinger]

15.

ALWAYS loved black white and turquoise, but your card makes feel it brand new!! LOVE!!!!!

[Val]

16.

Love your color choices, Sharon! The black and ocean mist POP!

[Connie Ludgate]

17.

My favorite is the turquoise and black. All the cards are very pretty.

[Sean Fetterman]

18.

These are so gorgeous Sharon! You are so incredibly talented! Thanks for the inspiration! Hugs! Sean

[Sherian Dixon]

19.

Love how you play with color on your cards. It is just beautiful!

[BeverlyBL]

20.

I especially love the black and turquoise. Yum!

[Beth Silaika]

21.

All of these samples are fantastic! The black and tq is so classy and elegant -- and I LOVE the diva on the cloud!

[Cheryl W]

22.

Your cards are wonderful. Love the colors you chose. These stamps are so versatile and fun!

[naneruth]

23.

Love the colors you chose! Beautiful cards, Sharon.

[sharon gullikson]

24.

Sharon, Sharon here...Your coloring is great. You used several different styles, which I love.

[Gabriele Juras]

25.

Oh, I just love your cards! My favorites are the ones with the 'year of flowers 2' and 'lots of dots' combinations. Absolutely gorgeous! Love the way you colored them, too, very creative!

[mermaid Fénicia]

26.

Those are lovely cards ^_^

[Betty]

27.

Brilliant ideas and wonderful colors.

[Lisa B]

28.

inner peace is my fav.

[Barbara Brenneman]

29.

Beautiful cards, beautifully colored and designed. Love the way you've used these new stamp sets.

[Ruth Ann Smith]

30.

What totally fun and colorful cards. Clever ideas for the new stamp sets. Makes it hard to decide the one I want first.

[Kathryn A]

31.

Lovely cards! Combining the flowers with the dots is becoming my favourite idea of all the blog hops.

[Julie Allen]

32.

Really like your cards, and your colors.

[Kathy Berger]

33.

I just love the different feel the black gave your floral cards. Such a strong, bold statement! Thanks so much for sharing this week. I have loved the hop!

[Pamela A]

34.

Loving your thank you card - the colors are beautiful. I'm sooo loving those dots!

[Sabrina Radican]

35.

Absolutely gorgeous!!

[Judy Ludwig]

36.

Absolutely loved the first card. Not just the stamps but the layout. The card was just stunning

[Janet Castle]

37.

Cute cards....really like the sayings!

[Rita]

38.

Love the circles. This stamp set has to go on my wish list.

[Ann lee]

39.

I really LUV your color choices on these cards!

[geri singer]

40.

coloring is gorgeous. love the dots and flowers.

[Cynthia Daversa]

41.

I ADORE all of your color choices! So stylish and fab!

[Debbie]

42.

So Sharon, I get this little giddy/excited feeling as I'm about to go to your blog...and you never disappoint me! I started out completely in love with your lots of dots card..and then you blew me away with serenity diva with the green and the black and the outlined circles. But then I saw day at the park Diva..floating on a cloud! And I actually said outloud 'are you kidding me?!'. You are an absolute creative genius!

[Faye]

43.

Gorgeous cards! The colors are beautiful!

[Catherine]

44.

Love your card designs! Each one gives wonderful ideas as to how to use these new stamps. Love the way you framed the sentiment on your serenity card.

[Rosy Newlun]

45.

I really admire your creativity Sharon, the way you are able to visualize and bring things to fruition. Wish I had a tad of your talents!!! Incredible cards!

[Barbara Campbell]

46.

Such stricking colors on the black and turquoise card. Just love it.

[Donna Phelan]

47.

Gorgeous cards! Your first one is sooooo elegant! Beautiful flowers! And I love your Diva's, they look great! TFS!!

[Wendy Kennedy]

48.

You chose beautiful color combinations. Thanks for your pretty cards.

[Susan Jacobs]

49.

I really like all of the cards. You are an inspiration.

[lacyquilter]

50.

Beautiful cards.