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Season's Givings Blog Hop 3!

Welcome to the third year of the Season’s Givings Blog Hop! This hop is a little 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 on each blog ... Really, really easy! Just tell me something you are (or were) grateful for this holiday season (it can be as short & simple as "Family") in the comments below and you'll be entered into my giveaway! Each papercrafting 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 4 at midnight and I’ll announce the WINNERS back here on Monday, January 5. Here’s the package of paper crafting goodies I’m giving away -- the entire collection of 29 Gina K Designs Premium Dye Ink pads, split between TWO recipients! Again, thank SO MUCH for visiting my blog over the past year and I hope you'll be back again during 2015 for... Read more →

Copic Emboss Resist & Faux Bleaching Techniques

Hello and happy Monday! Today over at StampTV in the All About Copics Forum, I have a full tutorial for these two Copic techniques: Emboss Resist and Faux Bleaching. If you are not already a member of StampTV, you may have to register (it's free) in order to see the tutorial. I hope you'll join me there and try out these techniques! Related articles Crocus Flower Coloring Tutorial & Copic Classes April '14 Calendar Read more →

Crocus Flower Coloring Tutorial & Copic Classes

Hi, everyone! I just wanted to you let you know I have a Copic coloring tutorial over at the Copic blog today that features the Fade-to-White coloring technique for these pretty Crocus flowers (beautiful Signs of Spring stamp set by Theresa Momber for Gina K Designs). I hope you'll join me there for all the details! Also, I have updated my Copic Classes page with both Standard and Intermediate Certification Classes, along with lots of fun new 2014 Copic Color & Ink Workshops leading up to summer. I hope to see you the end of May in Dallas for two really fun workshops my sweet friend Lori will be teaching! You can find descriptions of all the workshop classes over on my Copic Class page, too. Read more →

April '14 Calendar

Hello, As promised, I'm back again today with another project using the new Shabby Spring StampTV Kit -- my April calendar: I absolutely can NOT believe we are almost done with a fourth of the year already! Is it flying by as fast for you? But I am excited to start seeing pretty Spring green grass and flowers and that's what helped inspire this calendar. In my effort to actually use up some of those scraps I have left over from other projects (and just can't throw away!), the piece of kraft background "paper" I created with a stencil, stencil embossing paste, and airbrushed with a sunny Copic marker was the jumping off point for this project. I love it paired with my favorite Turquoise Sea Gina K Designs Color Companions cardstock color. A piece of pretty Sweet Corn cardstock helps to accent the yellow flower centers in my kraft paper. To create the scalloped border on the bottom of the Sweet Corn background piece, I stamped the small lined leaf from the kit with Sweet Corn ink. I printed the calendar onto Layering Weight White Color Companions cardstock, to fit on the free Tiara Frame Silhouette die cut. The... Read more →

Gina K Spring 2014 StampTV Kit

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop with the amazing new Shabby Spring StampTV Kit! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas. And as you hop through the blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose THREE 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 hop. Here’s a look at everything you get in this wonderful, new, huge kit: Cardstock colors are: Charcoal Brown, Wild Lilac, Tomato Soup, Ivory Heavy & Layering Weights, Turquoise Sea, Fresh Asparagus, Lemon Drop. Ribbons are 5/8" Fresh Asparagus Double Stitched, Kraft Double Stitched, Tomato Soup Grosgrain, Wild Lilac Grosgrain, Fresh Asparagus Organza, Ivory Organdy; and 2 yards of thin (3/8") Ivory Organdy. Brads are brushed copper. Other new products new this month are: Vintage Cuts -- precut die cuts are included with the kit FREE! You can view Gina's video presentation of these die cuts here. You can view Gina’s whole kit presentation video... Read more →

Gina K Feb 2014 Release Inspiration Hop 3

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew and Guest Designers, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And 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. Today's featured stamp set is Just A Note by Rupa Shevde -- what a perfect set for any music lover! Looks like our choir teacher will be the recepient of many personalized gifts and cards this year, starting with this sticky note cover! These are super easy to make -- Just cut a piece of White Pure Luxury Heavy Base Weight cardstock 3.50" x 7", then score at 3.25" and 3.75". This makes a nice and sturdy base, then decorate the cover any way you'd like. I covered it with a piece of Passionate Pink Color Companions cardstock and a Silhouette musical frame cut file, cut from Black... Read more →

Gina K Feb 2014 Release Inspiration Hop 2

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew and Guest Designers, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And 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. Today's featured new February 2014 stamp sets are Folk Filigree by Becky Oehlers and Signs of Spring by Theresa Momber (click the graphics below to see these sets in the Gina K Designs store): A coordinating Folk Filigree Silhouette free cut file download is available on the Freebies page at StampTV, here. I used it on both of these cards. What a fun set with tons of elements, to build any kind of floral scene you'd like! (Click on any photo for a larger view): On my first card, I stamped the Thanks a Bunch sentmient and triple banner in Turquoise Sea Color Companions ink and added some... Read more →

Gina K Feb 2014 Release Inspiration Hop 1

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew and Guest Designers, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And 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. Today's featured stamp sets are Stately Flowers 8 by Melanie Muenchinger and Lots of Washi by Beth Silaika (click on any photo for a larger view): Both great sets, aren't they?!! Here's my first card, using the beautiful iris from Stately Flowers 8: Be still, my heart ... you know how much I ADORE flower images -- I had SO much fun coloring this beauty! The flower and sentiment were stamped with Memento Gray Flannel ink onto Copic X-Press It Blending Card and colored with Copic markers (colors listed below). Copic BG000 was airbrushed around the edges of the image while it was still in the die I... Read more →

February 2014 Calendar & Copic Tutorial

I bet you thought I forgot about my February calendar? Just a little delayed with a lot of big changes at my day job, but here it is! You may have expected a Valentine theme, but February seems to be a really BIG birthday month amongst a LOT of my friends (including myself!), so I went with a birthday theme this month! I have a Copic coloring balloons / transparent objects tuturial over at StampTV for this cute little bird and his balloons (from the current Journey of the Heart StampTV kit). You can find the tutorial HERE. Thanks for stopping by! {Supplies} GKD Stamps: January 2014 Journey of the Heart StampTV Kit (Party On set), Lots of Letters (numbers) by Melanie Muenchinger, Simple Numbers (February month) by Tami Mayberry, Calendar Grid Digital Stamp (printed at 75%), GKD Pure Luxury Cardstock: White Layering Weight GKD Color Companions Ink: Black, Innocent Pink, Passionate Pink Copic Sketch Markers: BV00, BV01, TV21, RV23, Y00, Y02, YG01, YG03, B00, B01, YR01, YR02 Other: Copic Foam Tape, Authentique Smitten 6x6 paper, MME Enamel Dots Related articles January Calendar 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 →

Gina K December '13 Release Inspiration 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 first featured stamp set is Lots of Thanks by Beth Silaika. You will never need another thank you stamp set again ... look at all the fantastic fonts and thanks expressions in this set, along with beautiful accents! I arranged all of the thanks sentiments from this set (which were only about half of the total stamps in this set!) on an acrylic block (use a grid one, such as this to make sure everything is straight) and stamped them with Gina's Black Onyx ink onto Ivory Heavy Base Weight Cardstock, to create a posterboard effect (stamp it in white on black and you'll have a chalkboard effect!). Then I stamped the... Read more →

Gina K December '13 Release Inspiration 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 Stampers Favorites by Melanie Muenchinger -- what a great, year-round set that contains exactly the name of the set, every favorite image and sentiment stampers love and use most frequently! When I first saw this set I knew I wanted to color this sweet hummer: Isn't he beautiful?!! I stamped him on watercolor paper with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored him with these Copic markers: For the background, I used Copic BG0000 Various Ink Refill to "watercolor" the sky, using a water reservoir brush filled with Copic Blender Solution while the paper was still in the die, so I would be left with a white edge around... Read more →

Gina K December '13 Release Inspiration 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 first featured stamp set is Vertical Greetings by Theresa Momber. Here's my card: To make the wreath, I die cut a 3-inch circle from cardstock, then used the template to lightly "score" around the shape with my bone folder on the card front. This will make a slight indentation in the card base -- enough to act as a guide to stamp the sprig with Grass Green ink and make it into a wreath! The berries were made with a dot from Beth's new Lots of Thanks stamp set we will debut on Wednesday, stamped with Red Hot ink. The sentiment was stamped with Warm Cocoa ink and Kraft ink was sponged... 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 →