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Cupid Love Tag

Today over in Ellen Hutson's CLASSroom I'm sharing all the details on how to create this tag, with sweet glittery Cupid and a faux-embossed background. I hope you'll join me there for all the details on how to create this Love tag! Happy Saturday! Read more →

Fun New Copic Class!

There's a new Copic Workshop coming to town! Here's a video to learn a little more about it: February 15, 2014: Tracing Memories - Portland, OR 9am-1pm, or 2pm-6pm Class Overview: This class is perfect for beginners and those who don’t consider themselves artistic. With the Tracing Memories program, you convert your own photographs, so you don’t have to draw. For this workshop you will learn on photographs provided by the instructor, and you will leave with three finished images and the technique to repeat the process at home. Now, your favorite photographs will become priceless works of art -- and you are the artist! Instructor: Marianne Walker $99 CLICK TO APPLY & DOWNLOAD THE DETAILS More of the Tracing Memories classes will be scheduled across the country soon -- register to receive Copic newsletters here (blue box on the far right), to be informed of upcoming classes! Also, more Standard and Intermediate Copic Certification classes have been opened -- You can find the complete list of currenty available classes over on my Copic Classes page, or over on the Copic website, here. I'll be back with a CLASSroom project later today/tomorrow morning! Related articles Copic in the Craft Room... Read more →

January StampTV Kit Inspiration Hop

Good morning! The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop ... Gina and Cast and Crew will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! As you hop through the 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! Here's everything you get in this fantastic Journey of the Heart kit -- what a great variety! You'll be able to make everything from get well, anniversary, love and baby cards, to sympathy, birthday, thank you, thinking of you, congratulations (and more!) cards AND scrapbook pages! My first card uses the Bundle of Love stamp images from the kit -- aren't these little love birds adorable?!! I stamped them with Gina K Cherry Red ink onto patterned paper (click on any photo for a larger view): The branch was inked with Memento markers, stamped, and then the branch and hearts were all glittered with Clear Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen. Some... Read more →

January StampTV Kit is Here!

Available beginning NOW at Gina K Designs, the brand new Journey of the Heart StampTV Kit (click on graphic below, to view in store): You can view Gina's new kit presentation video and find out what all is included in this fabulous new kit over at StampTV. Then join us for an inspiration blog hop next Wednesday, January 22 ... I'll see you then! Read more →

January Calendar

I bet you thought I forgot about my January calendar, didn't you? No -- just a very busy first few days of the month delayed it a little! Here he is ... one of the cutest snowmen (from My Favorite Things) I've ever seen: I created a fun custom die cut and Copic airbrushed background for him ... you can find all the instructions to create it over in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom today. Also, a few of you asked about my calendar downloads for this year. I won't be offering them this year -- I just haven't had the time to create them and you can find plenty of free downloads, particularly on Pinterest. I opted to use a great stamp set this month, instead! Happy weekend! Read more →

Desktop Large Photo Memory Cube & Giveaway Winner

Hello -- With school starting back today, it seems like the first of the year again, doesn't it?! It was also back to work for me, so I apologize for the delay in announcing the winner of my Season's Givings giveaway ... more on that below. First, I wanted to let you know I've done a little updating to my blog this year and added icons of all the social networks you can easily follow me/my blog on, if you wish. They are the little blue buttons located in my right sidebar under my photo, over there ==>. Just click on one of them to find/follow me there! I also wanted to let you know that I updated one of my studio photos in the Copic in the Craftroom / My Studio Tour post directly below this post. I had forgotten to take a photo of one wall/area of my studio before the blog post went live and then was out of town. So the last photo is now an updated one (as of this morning)! It sure was nice to come home back home this weekend to a tidy desk and studio ... now if I can just keep... Read more →

Copic in the Craft Room Blog Hop & 2014 Studio Tour

(Please note -- New Copic Certification Classes and 2014 Workshops have been announced and updated on my Copic Class page.) Today, each member of the Copic education and blog team will be joining up for a virtual tour of their crafty spaces in celebration of a new Copic program, Copic in the Craft Room! Copic in the Craft Room is a new community brought to you by Imagination International Inc., the distributor of Copic products in the United States and Canada. (To visit us, click the logo at left, or one of the blue hyperlinks above). Our program goals are: • To Inspire Copic crafters, both new and experienced, to use their Copic products and get crafty. • To Educate crafters, no matter their skill level, teaching proper product use for success and new ways to use Copic products. • To Grow both as a community and as individual crafters. Since getting crafty can take place anywhere, we thought it would be fun to share our own crafty spaces with you! As some of you may know, my family just moved the first of this school year (August) to a new city. Until we can get our new home built,... Read more →

Season's Givings Blog Hop 2014!

Welcome to the second year of the Season’s Givings Blog Hop! This hop is a little bit different -- every single person on the list below is giving something away, to thank all of our blog readers for supporting us all year long! All you need to do to be entered for the chance to win each person’s individual giveaway package is leave a comment here on this blog post at my blog, then go to each of the other blogs listed below and leave comments there, too. Really, really easy. Now grab your favorite beverage, relax and start hopping and commenting! Each paper crafting blogger will have their own giveaway end date, choose their own prize package winner, and announce their winner on their own blog. My giveaway will run through this Sunday evening, January 5 at midnight and I’ll announce the winner back here on Monday, January 6. Here’s the package of paper crafting goodies I’m giving away -- a whole slew of JustRite clear and cling stamp sets! Here's a little closer view of the SIX clear sets: And the EIGHT cling rubber backgrounders and stamp sets: And just for a little eye candy, here are a... Read more →