Gina K September Release Inspiration Blog Hop 3

The Design Team for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas and as you hop through their blogs, 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 StampTV a few days after the hops.

Today’s featured stamp sets are Beyond Baskets 2 and Christmas Joy. With both of these great holiday sets, I decided this year’s installment of Advent tags were in order!  I decided to keep the tags monochromatic -- I love the look of red and ivory for the holidays!  Generic details about all the tags are listed at the bottom of this post.

With Melanie's Beyond Baskets 2, I created tags 18 and 19 (click on any photo for a larger view):

18 - I altered the box bottom just a little, by giving it a corner (just drew the vertical line with a Copic Red Atyou Spica Glitter pen) and trimmed off a little of the box lid on the right side so it would fit on the tag a little better. The sweet little tag in this set was popped up on foam tape and tied with red baker's twine -- I love all the little sentiments that fit in it! 

19 - I used Melanie's coordinating Basket Additions set to fill the "Santa" sack! I just stamped each image (the topper and the sack) separately, cut them out and pieced them together. The "celebrate" sentiment fit perfectly along the bottom of the generic layout I chose for these tags (I love it when a plan comes together!)

And with Rupa's Christmas Joy set, I used just about every stamp in this fabulous set to create these six tags:

All such great images, with beautiful coordinating sentiments!

Details for all tags: Tami Mayberry's Simple Numbers stamp set was used for the numbers and the stitched line at the bottom of each Ivory Heavy Base Weight Pure Luxury Cardstock tag, stamped with Cherry Red Color Companions Ink. The tags are hand cut 5.50" tall x a little over 2.75" wide, yielding six tags per 8.50" x 11" piece of cardstock. The bottoms were trimmed with scalloped scissors and hole reinforcers were made from Cherry Red Pure Luxury Cardstock using 1/4 and 1/2-inch cirlce punches. Snowflakes were punched from Ivory Layering Weight Pure Luxury Cardstock and the centers accented with Mini Glue Dots and glitter. Each tag is finished with Red Hot Double Stitched Color Companions Ribbon.

I guess this means I have to finish the other 17 tags now, right?  :)  Look for those in the coming weeks . . . thank goodness it's not even Halloween yet!

Be sure to check out all the amazing designs and inspiration from these Gina K designers participating in today’s hop and leave comments on all of them, for your best chance at winning!

• Gina K
• Melanie Muenchinger- Illustrator of Beyond Baskets 2
• AJ Otto
• Beth Silaika
• Carolina Buchting
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Debbie Corbari
• Latisha Yoast
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lee Murphy
• Sean Fetterman
• Sharon Harnist
• Theresa Momber
• Valerie Stangle

Thanks for visiting this week!

{Supplies}

#18 - #19 Advent Tags:
GKD Clear Stamps: Beyond Baskets 2 & Basket Additions by Melanie Muenchinger; Simple Numbers by Tami Mayberry (July 2013)
GKD Pure Luxury Cardstock: Ivory & Cherry Red 
GKD Color Companions Ink: Cherry Red
GKD Red Hot Double Stitched Color Companions Ribbon
Other: Tag corner punch, snowflake punch, 1/4 & 1/2-inch circle punches, scallop scissors, red baker’s twine, Mini Glue Dots, Star Dust Stickles Dry Glitter,

#20 - #25 Advent Tags:
GKD Clear Stamps: Christmas Joy by Rupa Schevde, Simple Numbers by Tami Mayberry (July 2013)
GKD Pure Luxury Cardstock: Ivory & Cherry Red 
GKD Color Companions Ink: Cherry Red
GKD Red Hot Double Stitched Color Companions Ribbon
Other: Tag corner punch, snowflake punch, 1/4 & 1/2-inch circle punches, scallop scissors, Mini Glue Dots, Star Dust Stickles Dry Glitter, 

Comments

[Melanie Muenchinger]

1.

Your tags always inspire me SO much!!! I love these monochromatic ones!! Want to go CASE these red and white versions with my set RIGHT! NOW!

[Theresa]

2.

What gorgeous tags, Sharon! I love them so much!

[Donna Phelan]

3.

FANTASTIC tags.....you inspired me to make (at least) 12 of them last year as a set! :)

[Beth]

4.

I thoroughly enjoy your Christmas tag posts -- I would benefit from having these on Christmas eve when I am chopping up card stock like a mad woman creating tags from the big guy!

[cat]

5.

LOVE those tags! It makes me think of what is called 'Red Work' in embroidery that I did ages ago!

[Barbara Campbell]

6.

Love these tags, so clever. I could do this! Thanks for sharing.

[KathR]

7.

Love these CAS tags they're gorgeous!

[auntie em (emily)]

8.

Your monochromatic advent tags are so pretty! A beautiful way to count down the big day! :)

[Dee]

9.

These tags are beautiful. So simple yet quick and eye catching. Thank you for sharing

[Julie Allen]

10.

What beautiful CAS tags.

[Kathy]

11.

We can all use lots of tags for the season. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[Lagene]

12.

Great date tags, great idea!

[Susan White]

13.

I love your Tags. I may just have to make some of my own!!

[Verna Angerhofer]

14.

I love your tags! Cool way you stamped them and awesome color choices.

[Karen Knegten]

15.

Super nice Advent tags!

[Cheryl]

16.

Very nicely done! Thanks.

[Kay]

17.

What a great idea! These tags are beautiful!

[Lorraine Groves]

18.

Your tags are gorgeous. I belong to a sewing group and we exchange gifts before Christmas. What a nice surprise that would be in one of our grab bags. Loved them all. Thanks.

[Judy I, St. Louis MO]

19.

Gasp! Your tags are wonderful. The Mother and Child are perfect for Dec. 25. I'm anxious to see the rest of the tags. Thanks for the great inspiration.

[Elizabeth Garcia]

20.

These tags are stunning. What a fabulous idea.

[Conniecrafter]

21.

They are all great!!

[Elizabeth Tang]

22.

Love the red and white tag designs.

[sherry butcher]

23.

Wonderful tags with the red and white colors. Good luck on the other 16 tags! TFS.

[naneruth]

24.

Great tags!

[Cynthia Daversa]

25.

I am such a fan of tags, and yours totally rock! Love that you used red and white!

[Terri]

26.

Awesome tags. Love them!

[Golda]

27.

What fantastic tags! Great work!

[Sharon]

28.

What a fun idea - love the tags!

[Glenna Anderson]

29.

Beautiful tags!

[Anita Braddock]

30.

Beautiful Tags the stamps are super. thanks for sharing

[Susan Bugalski]

31.

Great tags - love the idea.

[VERNA GARRISON]

32.

Such wonderful ideas love all the tags..

[Sean Fetterman]

33.

You are totally rockin' the tags Sharon! Love them!!!! Hugs! Seanie

[Linda Osterwise]

34.

Advent tags... what a concept! I love how you incorporated the stamps and coordinated them into the tags. Thanks for sharing.

[Dawn Skene]

35.

These are great! Can't wait for the other 17!

[Carole Renneker]

36.

Oh my tons of tags and all lovely! Thanks for sharing.

[tammie]

37.

Lovely tags great ideas with the stamps.Thanks for sharing and hugs:)

[kramomma]

38.

Nice looking tags.

[Sue D]

39.

Love these tags!

[Cindy Miller]

40.

I think the monochromatic ideal for your tags was a splendid ideal, they are stunning!!

[Kathleen]

41.

All of your tags are beautiful. Thank you

Blessings,
Kathleen

[Pat Jandacek]

42.

These tags are wonderful. Love the two-color cohesiveness of them.

[Joan Garlough]

43.

What darling tags you have there. Too pretty to ever throw away, that is for sure. Thanks for sharing.

[Anna Jernigan]

44.

Gorgeous elegant tags! Simple, yet absolutely stunning. Love them all! That stamp set is just beautiful, and you have used it well! TFS!!!