Karen's Creative Mess

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Gina K. Designs - October Inspirational Blog Hop Day 3


Welcome Back Everyone!  <3 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you
to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new
Home for the Holidays StampTV Kit and a
number of gorgeous stamp sets by our Illustrator team! 
We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop 
along to each of the designer’s blogs!

Today, we are featuring Beth Silaika’s new “Ian Moose” stamp set
and Claire Brennan’s new stamp sets: Nordic Winter, Noel, 
Festive Foliage and Compliments of the Season. 
Beth’s set, “Ian Moose” is the most adorable moose with cute
accompanying images and fun sentiments! 
Claire’s stamp sets are the best in classic and traditional stamps celebrating this holiday season! 

Today I'm featuring: 

Ian's Moose By: Beth Silaika
&

Noel  By: Claire Brennan 

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

Here are the two Card Projects I made with Beth's Set! :) 
I love this little moose!  <3
Here are the Gina K. Designs Products used for this card project:
*Stamp Set - Ian Moose  by: Beth Silaika
*Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering WeightCard stock, Red Hot, & Black Onyx
*Premium Dye Ink - Black Onyx
*Gingham Ribbon - Black Onyx
Other Items used - Spectrum Noir & Copic Markers, 3 D Foam squares, Mementos - Black,  Wink Of Stella,  Silver bling from my stash 

Here is the second card I made with Ian Moose stamp set!

Here is the list of Gina K. Designs Products used:
* Stamp Set - Ian Moose  by: Beth Silaika 
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & layering Weight, Black Onyx, & Cherry Red
* Premium Dye Ink - Black Onyx & Cherry Red
* Plaid Ribbon - Black Onyx
 Other Items used - Copic Markers, 3D Foam Squares, Wink Of Stella  bling from my stash


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Here are the two projects I made using Claire's
 Beautiful New Set - Noel!  :) 

This was fun to do. I wanted to do a little water coloring. 
So I did the watercolor background for this bold greeting! 
I put Wink Of Stells all over the back ground but avoided the greeting.  :) 

Here is the Gina K. Designs Products I used for this one:
* Stamp Set - Noel - by: Claire Brennan 
* Incentive set for the snowflakes on the background
*Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base Weight & Ocean Mist
*Premium Dye Ink - Black Onyx
*Other Items used-Versa Mark, Wink Of Stella, bling from my stash & Water Color Paper 

Second Card:
I love kraft and white so here is what I did! :) 


Gina K. Designs:
* Stamp Set - Noel - by: Claire Brennan
* Other stamp sets- Music Background & Home For The Holiday's (snow flakes) by: Gina K.
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Kraft
* Premium Dye Inks: Warm Cocoa -inside, and Dark Chocolate fro the music notes
* Gina K.'s Fine Detail Embossing Powder - White
Vellum, 3D Foam Squares 


Ready for more awesome creations?! 
Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:


Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thank you all for stopping by!
Hope you all have a great week! <3 :)

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Gina K. Designs - October Inspirational Blog Hop Day 2


Welcome Everyone!!!  :) 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you
to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new 
Home for the Holidays StampTV Kit and
a number of gorgeous stamp sets by our illustrator team! 
We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects 
as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!

Today, we are featuring 
Melanie Muenchinger’s new “Holiday Frame” stamp set
and Theresa Momber’s new “Dashing” stamp sets. 
Both Melanie and Theresa have hand-drawn these beautiful images 
that will allow you to make a card that is personalized with 
images that you will not find anywhere else!  

"Holiday Frame" By: Melanie Muenchinger

"Dasher" By: Theresa Momber

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team 
and then comment on each blog for your chance to
Win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! 
To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

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I am featuring projects using Melanie Muenchinger's "Holiday Frame" Stamp Set today!
 I used the following Gina K. Designs Products for this card:
*Stamp Sets: By Melanie Muenchinger - Featured Set -Holiday Frame, and Fabulous Holiday                           Fillers & Triple Play Holiday
*Pure Luxury Card Stock Jelly Bean Green, & White Layering Weight
*Premium Dye Ink: Black Onyx, Christmas Pine, & Ocean Mist, Cherry Red, Jelly Bean Green
Colored the frame with Spectrum Noir markers, and used 3D Foam squares to pop up the layer! 


I just had to make a shaker... Still learning those! :) 


So I grabbed a few items, and here is what I used:
Gina K. Designs:
* Stamp Set: Holiday Frame by: Melanie Muenchinger
* Pure Luxury Card Stock: White Heavy Base, Blue Denim & White layering weight
* Premium Dye Ink: Ocean Mist, Moonlit Fog, Black Onyx, Cherry Red, Fresh Asparagus, 
   Jelly Bean Green & Lovely Lavender 
* Prismatic Glitter - Frozen
Gold Twine,  Gold Foil

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I had fun with the Pattern Paper and this stamps set!

I used these items for this project:
Gina K. Designs:
* Stamp Set - Holiday Frame By: Melanie Muenchinger
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base Weight
* Pure Luxury Pattern Paper - Home For The Holidays
* Premium Dye Inks - Turquoise Sea, Ocean Mist, Jelly Bean, & Christmas Pine
 Other items - Copic & Spectrum Noir Markers

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This one uses Melanie's Holiday Frame 
and the Incentive set - Holly Jolly
I used the following items for this Wintery Christmas Card:
Gina K. Designs:
* Stamp Sets - Holiday Frame  & Holly Jolly
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - Blue Denim, White Layering Weight
* Premium Dye Ink - Blue Denim, Fresh Asparagus, Jelly Bean, Red Hot,  & Powder Blue 
* Gingham Ribbon - Red Hot
  Other items, Silver Foil, 3D Foam Squares,  Copic Markers, Glue Dot, 2 way Glue Pen 

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I made on with Theresa's Set - Dasher
I love this set and can't wait to get it really inky!  :)
I love all the color poinsettias but I really like the White ones too! 
Here are the items I used for this one!  :)
Gina K. Designs:
* Stamp Set - Dasher  By: Theresa Momber
*Pure Luxury Card Sock - white Heavy Base & Layering Weight
*Premium Dye Ink - Moonlit Fog
* Gina K. - Silver Sparkle Ribbon
* Metallic Card Stock - Silver
 Other Items - Copic & Spectrum Markers and some sequins 


Ready for more awesome creations?! 
Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Have a great week! <3 :)

Monday, October 17, 2016

Gina K. Designs - October Inspirational Blog Hop Day 1


Hi Everyone and Welcome!!! 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs Welcomes you
to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the New
Home for the Holidays StampTV Kit and a number
of gorgeous stamp sets by our illustrator team! 
We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you 
hop along to each of the designer’s blogs! 
Today, I am featuring three of the stamp sets from the kit 
and the new ‘Tis the Sea-Sun stamp set.

“It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas” around Gina K Designs! 
Gina K and the illustrator team have been extremely busy preparing the most
fun stamp sets with a variety of images and sentiments to make so many 
incredible cards and holiday projects!

Today I'm featuring:

Christmas Greenery Music Background

Christmas Magic 'Tis The Sea-Sun


Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team
and then comment on each blog for your chance to 
Win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! 
To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

So Let me start with Christmas Greenery!
I love this set!  :) 

I used the following Gina K. Designs Products for this project! 
* Stamp Tv Kit Stamp Set - Christmas Greenery by: Gina K.
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Ocean Mist
* Premium Dye ink - Ocean Mist, Christmas Pine
3D Foam Squares & Gray marker, Embossing folder Bling from my stash
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On this one I used 3 different Pattern Papers:
                    
Here are the items I used for this card!

Gina K. Designs:
* Stamp Set - Christmas Greenery from the New Stamp Tv Kit - Home For The Holidays
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - Ivory, & Red Velvet
* Pure Luxury Pattern Paper Pack - Home For The Holidays
* Premium Dye Ink - Red Velvet,  & Turquoise Sea
  Gold Twine & 3D Foam Square
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This is from the release party

Here is a fun project I made: 
I Love to make gift bags and I just couldn't help myself! 
Here I used the Music Background with the Christmas Greenery


Here are the Gina K. Designs items used for this one! 
* Stamp Tv Kit Stamp Set - Christmas Greenery & Music Background by: Gina K. Designs
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Layering Weight  6 3/4"  X 4 3/4" 
* Premium Dye3 Ink - Kraft, Fresh Asparagus, Cherry Red
* Twisted Twine - Dk. Chocolate
Other items - Wink Of Stella, Gift Bag about 8" not counting the handles 

Then I needed a tag to go with the bag!  LOL
So I used a pre-made tag from my stash and used the following
 Gina K. Designs Items to make it match the bag! 
* Stamp Tv Kit Stamp Sets - Christmas Greenery, & Music Background
* Premium Dye Ink - Kraft, Warm Cocoa, Fresh Asparagus, Dark Chocolate
* Twisted Twine - Dark Chocolate
      other item Wink Of Stella   

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Then I carried the music background and sponging over to this card!  :)
Here are the Gian K. Designs Items I used for this card! 
* Stamp Tv Kit Stamp Sets - Christmas Greenery & Music Background by: Gian K. 
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight for the inside, & Kraft
* Premium Dye Ink - Kraft, Warm Cocoa, Dark Chocolate, Fresh Asparagus, Powder Blue, 
     Ocean Mist,  & Bubblegum Pink
* Gingham Ribbon - Dk. Chocolate
Other items: 3D Foam Squares, Wink Of Stella,  & Bling from my Stash

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On the next Project I used the Stamp Set:
"Christmas Magic" 
From the New Stamp Tv Kit 
"Home For The Holidays"
When I saw this cute fairy I knew I wanted to make this holder for candy!
This was so much fun making!  :) 
I used the following Gina K. Designs for this one! 
* Stamp Set - Christmas Magic - from the New Stamp Tv Kit Home For The Holidays 
* Pattern Paper Pack - Home For The Holidays  
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Layering Weight
* Dies from the new Kit - Home For The Holidays 
* Premium Dye Ink - Turquoise Sea & Black Onyx
* Plaid Ribbon - Black Onyx
    Colored With Copics & Spectrum Noir, Gelly Roll Glitter Pen, 3D Foam Squares,
    & the red trim was a piece of scrap that came from my Cherry Lynn - Ribbons Die 


Then I have this cute Santa! 

The PP is what I had left from a card that I made using the circle.
Here is the items I used to put this cute little guy together with!
Gina K. Designs: 
* Stamp set - Christmas Magic     Dies from the Kit 
* Pattern Paper - Home For The Holidays 
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - Christmas Pine & White Layering Weight
* Premium Dye Ink - Ocean Mist, Charcoal Brown,  & Jelly Bean
* Gold Twine 
  Colored with Copic & Spectrum Noir Markers, 3D Foam Squares,  & 
    bling from my stash 

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Then I had fun inking up this fun and tropical set. 
'Tis the Sea-Sun
The penguins are just the cutest, and I love the palm image!  :) 
Here are a few card projects I made with this one

See, isn't he just the cutest?  LOL

Here is what I used for this one:
* Stamp Set - 'Tis the Sea-Sun  by: Gina K.
* Pattern Paper - Home For The Holiday
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - Ivory Heavy Base & Layering Weight,  Christmas Pine, and 
    White layering weight for the penguin.
* Premium Dye Ink - Charcoal Brown
* Gold Twine
This set is awesome for the tropical holidays!  :) 

Here are the Gina K. Designs items I used for this project:
* Stamp Tv Kit Stamp Set - 'Tis the Sea-Sun by: Gina K.
* Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Kraft, Black Onyx & Ocean Mist
* Premium Dye Inks - Black Onyx, Warm Cocoa, Kraft, Ocean Mist, Powder Blue, Dk. Chocolate,
      White & Bubble Gum Pink
* Twisted Twine - Kraft
 3 D Foam Squares, Embossing folder

Ready for more awesome creations?! 
Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:



Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Have a Wonderful Day! :) <3