Karen's Creative Mess

Friday, October 2, 2015

Gina K Designs September Inspirational Blog Hop Day 3!!!


Good Morning Everybody!  Hope you are enjoying the hop so far! :)

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our September Release! Boy, do we have some treats for you this month! We hope to inspire you with some eye candy as you hop along in the hop this month! Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies! !! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.
Today we are featuring two wonderful set from Gina K.
 "Wild Blossoms" & " You've Got A Friend In Me"

So First Up is "Wild Blossoms"

I Love the images in this set.
I used the Following Gina K. Designs Products:
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock: White Heavy Base Weight, Fresh Asparagus.
  • Patterned Paper Pack: Delicate Essentials
  • Ink: White (for splatters on the inside
  • Embossing Powder: Fine Detail White
  • Vellum

Next Up!
Here is the list of Gina K. Designs Products I used for this one!
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock: Tomato Soup, Dark Chocolate, White Layering Weight
  • Inks: Tomato soup
  • Spectrum Aqua Markers


And Last But Not Least!!! This sweet Set:
You've Got A Friend In Me
On this first one I just had to use those cute little birds!  :) 
I used the Following gina K. Designs Products:
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock: White Heavy Weight, & Ocean Mist
  • Inks: Black Onyx
  • Spectrum Noir Markers 
  • Wink Of Stella on one of the birds

This was a fun one!

I made this one in Gina's Class at the Bella Craft Convention Last Week!
We had a lot of fun, Tons of Laughs and made new Friends and Wonderful Memories!

I used the Following Gina K. Designs Products:

  • Pure Luxury Card Stock: Prickly Pear, Dark Chocolate, White Layering Weight
  • Patterned Paper - Autumn Wishes
  • Spectrum Noir Markers
  • Dk. Chocolate Twine  and Button 

Thanks so much for coming by and Have a wonderful day!
Now If you are ready for more wonderful inspiration 
check out the rest of the teams creations!  :)


Gina K          
Allie Gower

Beth Silaika


Karen Hightower             You Are Here! 

Kendra Weitstock             Next Up!  

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger


Sean Fetterman


Tricia Traxler

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Gina K. Designs September Inspirational Blog Hop Day 2!!!


Welcome Everyone to Day Two!  :)
So glad you stopped by!!!  <3
The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our September Release! Boy, do we have some treats for you this month! We hope to inspire you with some eye candy as you hop along in the hop this month! Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies! !! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop. We are fettering two sets today. One by Beth Silaika, and one by Gina K. 
First up is the New Stamp Set By:  Beth Silaika
"This & That"
This is really a fun set and can be used on it's own or combined with lots of other sets! 
I have found a good home on my desk for this one!  :)
I have this ready for my Anniversary for next year!  <3
On this card I used the following Gina K Designs Products:
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock: Jelly Bean Green, Black Onyx, White Layering Weight (on inside)
  • Premium Dye Ink: Black Onyx
  • Ribbon: Black Plaid
  • Spectrum Noir Water Color Paper & Spectrum Aqua Markers


On this card I used: 
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock: Jelly Bean Green, Moonlit Fog
  • Premium Dye Inks: Jelly Bean Green & Moonlit fog
  • The Patterned Paper is from my stash

Next up is this Beautiful Stamp Set.
 By: Gina K.
"Simply The Best"

How I Love this set! <3
I wanted to do a water color! So I played around with it... 
and I Love that you always get a different background!  :)
After doing the Peach Bellini water color background I stamped the image & greeting
 then misted it with a little water.
Using the following Gina K. products to create this one!
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock: Heavy Weight Base-White, Tomato Soup
  • Premium Dye Ink: Peach Bellini, Fresh Asparagus
  • Twisted Twine: Tomato Soup
  • Spectrum Noir - Water Color Paper

This is a wonderful image for a background!  Love It…
Ok, here are the products I used:
  • Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Designs Card Stock: Cranberry Tart, Prickly Pear
  • Patterned Paper Pack: Autumn Wishes
  • Premium Dye Ink: Cranberry Tart
  • Dies: Allison's Ribbon, Circle Stackers Layers, Stackers Nesting, Inverted Scallop
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Thanks so much for coming by and Have a wonderful day!
Now If you are ready for more wonderful inspiration 
check out the rest of the teams creations!  :)


Gina K
Allie Gower

Beth Silaika


Karen Hightower            You are here!

Kendra Weitstock               Up Next

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger


Sean Fetterman


Tricia Traxler