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Happy Black Friday! While you are doing your holiday shopping, don't forget the gift cards and making a cute holder for them! Today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom, I show you how to create this adorable pocket tag pull-out gift card holder: Darling snowman and fabulous die to create this pocket tag are from My Favorite Things colored with my Copic markers, of course. A couple of spots that should be on your shopping agenda this weekend are: . <== 25% off everything in the Copic online store thru Saturday night at 11:59pm Pacific ... WOW!! Just click the graphic at left to get started. . <== 15% off at Ellen Hutson LLC thru Monday at 12am Pacific! That should be plenty get you started with your holiday shopping! Happy Holidays! ~ Sharon Read more →

Christmas 2013 Countdown Calendar

Hi, Everyone -- Before the busy holiday season sets in tomorrow, I wanted to share my annual Christmas countdown calendar with you! As usual, the calendar is available as a free download over on my Downloads & Tutorials page (scroll down to Free Downloads) and prints on one sheet of 8.50" x 11" cardstock with approximately 3.50" of header space at the top for decorating. Or click this link to download the PDF printable file: Download 2013 DEC-Countdown-calendar_sharonharnist My decoration this year is this adorable You Shine My Favorite Things a' la mode girl, stamped onto an Inchie Arts ATC sized Ivory Art Square with Memento Espresso Truffle Ink Pad. She was colored with the Copic Sketch Markers shown below: Glossy Accents covers the light bulbs, to give them a realistic glow! Finishing out the header on my calendar, I used these My Favorite Things Die-namics: Blueprints 9 (scallop border & stitched banner/ribbon), and Accent It-December Memories -- I adore the font in this die set! An Ivory Inchie Square (currently marking November 27th) is used to move to each day for the count down. I inked parts of the You Shine girl stamp with Espresso Truffle Marker to stamp... Read more →

Advent Calendar Tags 2013

With the holidays quickly approaching, I'm trying to finish my 2013 Advent calendar as soon as possible and this week's Mix It Up Monday challenge over at StampTV helped a lot, as I'm hosting! You can read all about the challenge and the PRIZE here and these are the tags I created for it: The challenge is simple -- Monochromatic Stamping! Just choose one color of ink to stamp with, and one color of cardstock to do it on, some stamps, and you are off and running (your project does not have to be a tag)! You can find deatils about this year's previous tags I've created clicking on this link: Advent Calendar, or by choosing the Advent Calendar category from my sidebar, or direct links are below: - 2013 Advent Calendar Tag 13 - 2013 Advent Calendar Tags 1, 11, & 15-17 can be found HERE. - 2013 Advent Calendar Tags 18-25 can be found HERE. I've also added an Advent Calendar photo album in my right sidebar, with links to all 2013 and 2012 calendar tags. I can't wait to see what you create! {Supplies} - All from Gina K Designs, unless otherwise noted: GKD Stamps: Simple Numbers... Read more →

Thankful For You

Yes, you! I'm always truly thankful and appreciative of everyone who stops by my blog and wanted you to know that. So I put together this sweet little card and have all the instructions on how to create it over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom today . . . I hope you'll join me there! Read more →

Gina K Designs and Faber-Castell Blog Hop-Day 1!

Welcome to the first ever Gina K Designs / Faber-Castell Blog Hop … we are so excited to team up with the Faber-Castell designers! Both incredibly talented design teams are sure to WOW you with their many beautiful, creative ideas using Gina K. and Faber-Castell products together! As you hop through the blogs, be sure to leave comments on each of the projects because each day a Gina K. Designs stamp set of choice (up to a $24.95 value) will be given away. And be sure to pop over to the Faber-Castell Blog and leave a comment for a chance to win a Designing With Gelatos Kit each day as well! We have a full week of amazing inspiration to share with you, so let's get started! My project for today is a Thanksgiving card, using Gina K Designs Stately Flowers 5 stamp set by Melanie Muenchinger, colored with Faber-Castell’s Art Grip Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils and Gelatos: (Click on any photo for a larger view) I started by stamping the sunflower with Coffee Archival Ink onto an Inchie Arts Ivory ATC size Art Square. The art square holds up very well with the water blending I knew I would be... Read more →

Copic Fall Leaves

Hello and happy November! I adore all the deep, vibrant colors of Fall so today over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom I have a tutorial for you, on how to create these beautiful Copic Fall leaves out of a "polished stone" custom backgrond paper. I hope you'll join me! Read more →