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 :)

54 comments:

Theresa said...

These are all so beautiful! The white on kraft is so striking!

Unknown said...

oh fabby cards Karen, I love the wee birdies with their string of lights!! so fun!

Melanie said...

Great job today!! I love the music design and the gray moose with the stubble (hee) especially!!

El said...

Love them all but the last one is my favorite. Great cards to CASE. Thanks for the ideas and the inspiration.

Anonymous said...

Kraft with notes in Dark Chocolate and snowflakes in white, so perfectly beautiful.

Judy Inukai said...

Super cards! I love the last one using the sentiment on vellum over the Music background.

Cat Tidwell said...

All are so awesome as always! Totally loving the design of the one with the music and kraft!

Crafting with Jeanne said...

Beautiful cards!! I LOVE LOVE the music behind the circle and the vellum sentiment across...one of the best cards on the hop. Seriously gorgeous!

Karen (TLgirl353) said...

I am definitely partial to your MOOSE cards, Karen. Lovely!

Barbara said...

Oh My! I am CASEing a lot of these. So cute!

Unknown said...

Loved your gray moose.

Sandie said...

All are awesome, but the music card is singing to me! I mean....just talented you are!!!

Unknown said...

Love your designs, Ian looks fabulous in the black and red, the red makes it pop!!

Lisa K said...

Love your row of lights! The moose is so cute. I like what you did with the Noel set, especially the Kraft one.

Diana said...

Awesome cards again! Love the little moose!

cardscookiecarrotcake said...

I love the watercolor, great for mass producing cards. But your white on Kraft sent me over. Love, love it. So being CASEd. Thanks for the inspiration.

Rema DeLeeuw said...

Fabulous array of cards Karen! Love the one of Ian with the birds on his antlers.

Sheri Gilson said...

Fabulous cards, Karen! I especially love both of your Ian cards and your great coloring!

Gabi said...

Beautiful cards. Your Ian cards are absolutely adorable! Great job on the coloring.

Sherry said...

very pretty! I really like the kraft and white one!

Mary Holshouser said...

that moose is so cute.
Love the birds hanging out on
his antlers.
thanks for sharing some
wonderful cards.

Verna Angerhofer said...

All the cards are so very beautiful. I am sure getting into a festive mood now.

Pennie said...

I think my favorite card is the music notes

Macimbalo said...

Love all your cards!!! The music one is so special!!!

Rose Mary Smalley said...

Great Cards!!!! ...I especially loved those little birds with the light strand....on Ian's Antlers....that was adorable....thank you so much for sharing your talent....

Becky said...

That Ian Moose is just adorable. All your cards are so beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Dee Earnshaw said...

Ooooh love your cards today, there are so many inspirational techniques and ideas here - thanks for sharing!

itsablingfling said...

The Kraft and white music background in the window looks amazing!!!

Johanna said...

Wow - you are awesome in how many ideas you can come up with. Love these cards Karen. So many to CASE when I have time.

Jean said...

WOnderful cards! Thanks for the inspiration!

Sharon said...

Beautiful! Love the notes and white embossing on kraft!

Talitha said...

This moose is more versatile than I originally thought. Thanks.

Retta said...

You sure do get the most out of the patterned paper, Karen! Love all the cards, but I think my favorite is the turquoise card! Simple and stunning!

Unknown said...

Great Job Karen!

Tina's Crop Shop said...

Karen, all of your cards are Fabulous but I adore the last one with the sentiment heat embossed on the vellum... so gorgeous! Thanks for the inspiration!

Clare said...

Love your cards. You do such beautiful work.

Gayle said...

Beautiful cards and such fun Ian moose cards.

Dawn S. said...

Beautiful cards! Too hard to pick a favorite!

Sharon said...

I always love your use of do Karen your cards are beautiful

Unknown said...

Pretty, pretty cards, Karen! That moose lol his face, love it!

Unknown said...

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!! That moose totally makes me smile.

Unknown said...

Love them all! Especially the music note and the moose with the Christmas lights!

Kay S said...

You always have so many things to inspire me, Karen! Your moose cards are adorable, and I am really knocked out by the kraft and white card! Love how you used the music background.

Paper-Ink-Cards said...

Wonderful cards and so full of character or is that characters?

Lynn Cromrich said...

I love both of these cards so much. Wonderful work!

Golda said...

Great cards! I can't even imagine how you got your bow so perfectly straight on the first one.

Silke Ledlow said...

Karen, your moose cards make me smile...super cute! Your sentiment cards are fab too!

Sue Wareham said...

Great cards love this release

cjgusloff57 said...

Great cards! Cute Moose and especially like the card with the music and snowflakes.

kittykat3308 said...

Beautiful cards

Kathleen

ShelleyV said...

Great cards, Karen, and I love how you used all the little elements with Ian Moose to make a fun, and colorful card.

creative lady said...

Karen, love all your creations!

wannabcre8tive said...

Karen, your cards are beautiful and I love the designs. The moose is my very favorite.

Nancy said...

Your creativity and talent amazes me! Great cards!