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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... Read more →

Gina K September Release Inspiration Blog Hop 2

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 Poster Board Christmas by Becky Oehlers and Lots Of Lines by Beth Silaika. Here’s the rest of the sneak peek project I shared last Thursday: I altered a wine bottle by spray painting it ivory and then made a chalkboard label by first stamping the pretty leaf wreath with Versamark and heat embossing it with white powder on Black Onyx Color Companions Cardstock. Next, I stamped the gorgeous sentiment with white chalk ink and die cut it. I finished the label by smudging a little of the white chalk ink around the edges of the label, accented the wreath with red gemstones and finished it with Cherry Red Wide... Read more →

Gina K September Release Inspiration Blog Hop 1

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 Let It Snow and Winter Blocks . . . I couldn’t resist making a snow globe card for Theresa’s darling Let It Snow-man! (Click on any photo for a larger view) He was stamped with Gina's new Moonlit Fog Color Companions ink onto Ivory Pure Luxury Cardstock and colored with these Copic markers: The snow was covered with Star Dust Stickles. The snow globe form is a Silhouette cut file (by Silhouette), cut from Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock, sponged with the fabulous new Gina K Designs Kraft Color Companions ink . . . ohh-la-la, I love this color!! The beautiful Let It Snow sentiment was embossed with vanilla embossing... Read more →

Birthday Wish Wheel Card

Today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom, I have instructions on making this fun, interactive spinning wheel birthday card using the Tim Holtz Picture Wheel die ... I hope you'll come visit me there, to learn how to make it! I hope you are enjoying your first Fall weekend . . . it's been cool, cloudy and rainy down here in south Texas, and I'm loving it! Read more →

Gina K Designs September Release Blog Hop

YOU'RE INVITED! Tonight is the night – Gina K Designs September stamp set release! We are all so excited to party with you from 7:00- 9:00pm Central in our Release Party Forum at StampTV.com! All of the fun starts right here: StampTV Release Party Forum Today, the Gina K illustrators and some of the design team have put together a little invitation hop for you . . . this hop features stamps that will be released tonight! So come hop along with us and don’t forget to add a comment on each blog -- we will pick a random winner to receive an awesome grab bag of Gina K Design goodies! Here’s a little sneak peek of a project I’ll share tonight at the party, using Becky’s Poster Board Christmas stamp set. I'm on a chalkboard craze and this set is perfect for it! Start hopping and be sure to leave a comment on each blog, for your best chance at winning! Gina K Becky Oehlers - illustrator of Poster Board Christmas Beth Silaika- illustrator of Lots Of Lines Melanie Muenchinger- illustrator of Beyond Baskets 2 Tami Mayberry - illustrator of Winter Blocks Theresa Momber - illustrator of Let It... Read more →

Happy September & Fall!

Hello, All . . . I'm finally finding my way out from under the moving boxes and located enough supplies to make something the past few days! Although there were a few moments of stopping and having to unpack a few more boxes because I realized I hadn't located my die cut machine yet . . . or sequins, LOL! But I managed to complete my September 6-inch calendar, mainly because it was driving me crazy not having it in my office/studio to know the date! I hope you'll join me over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom for all the details of how I created this custom stamped and Copic airbrushed background wth pretty Penny Black stamps! ~ Sharon Read more →