Karen's Creative Mess

Monday, February 13, 2017

Gina K. Designs - February Inspirational Blog Hop Day 1

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp release for February 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 the stamp sets by Melanie Muenchinger and Theresa Momber.


These stamp sets are so fun and versatile! You will be able to create amazing card projects using each individual set or by combining the images and sentiments from multiple sets from this release. Have fun and be creative!




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. Ready for some inspiration? Here are a few of the projects I have created for today’s hop:

Starting with Melanie Muenchingers New Set:
Fabulous Flowers
This set will be used a lot in my crafty room!  
I love that we get to have a solid image and a sketchy one! 


Gina K. Designs Items Used:
Stamp Set - Fabulous Flowers  By: Melanie Muenchinger
Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Weight & Layering Weight White, Jelly Bean & Wild Lilac
Pattern Paper Pack - Sending Love
Premium Dye Ink - Wild Lilac, Lovely Lavender, Fresh Asparagus, & Jelly Bean
Fine Detail Embossing Powder - White

Button, Versa Mark, Nuvo - White,  Purple bling, 3D Foam Squares


Feels like spring! :) 


Here are the items I used:
Stamp Set - Fabulous Flowers - By: Melanie Muenchinger
Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight White, Bubble Gum Pink
Pure Luxury Paper Pack - Made With Love 
Premium Dye Ink - Bubble Gum, Passionate Pink, Fresh Asparagus, & Jelly Bean
Twisted Twine - Passionate Pink

Copic #N2 for a shadow, 3D Foam Squares


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This one was from the Release Party!  <3  

Made with Gina K. Designs:
*Stamp Set - Fabulous Flowers By - Melanie Muenchinger
*Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Edible Eggplant
*Premium Dye Ink - Wild Lilac, Edible Eggplant, Jelly Bean Green & Fresh Asparagus
*Twisted Twine - Black Onyx

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Next up is Theresa Members New Framescape - Simply Spring 
This set makes creating a scene so much easier! 



Gina K. Designs Items Used: 
Stamp Set - Simply Spring  By: Theresa Momber
Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base Weight, & Grass Green
Premium Due Ink - Moonlit Fog, Dark Chocolate, & Black Onyx
Twisted Twine - Black Onyx
Colored With Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers, and N2 for shadow under the dog and girl

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The One from the Release Party! 

I used Gina K. Designs:
Stamp Set - Framescape - Simply Spring  and  I used Winter Trees for the Bird Images  By: Theresa Momber
Pure Luxury Card Stock - Wild Dandelion, White Layering Weight
Premium Dye Ink - Ocean Mist, Blue Lagoon, Jelly Bean, Fresh Asparagus, Grass Green, & Black Onyx
Copics, 3D Foam Squares, Black Enamel dots

That's all from me today... <3 

Have fun on the rest of your hop, & are You Ready for more Awesome Creations?! 
Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:

Melanie Muenchinger  - Illustrator of Fabulous Flowers 
Theresa Momber - Illustrator of Framescape - Simply Spring

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 for stopping by!

61 comments:

Theresa said...

Wonderful designs, Karen! Gorgeous shading on your scenes!

Sharon said...

Great colors and fun designs!

MiamiKel said...

Fantastic little hop through your cards Karen ! Your style card making is so elegant and cheerful :) TFS and *blessings!*

Silke Ledlow said...

Karen, you are rocking these new sets!!! Beautiful cards my friend!!!

Lagene said...

Wonderful cards and great new stamp sets!

Unknown said...

Sweet cards, the pink and green is a great combination

Kathleen said...

Love the kids in the spring frame set. So fun.

Lisa K said...

Beautiful cards! Love what you created with the flowers. It makes me want to shop again. Love the Framescape cards you created. It looks almost 3 dimensional they way your greens blend. I even see a bit of clouds in the sky making it look so realistic.

Heidi MyLittleStampingBlog said...

All your cards scream of spring! TFS!

Sissyc said...

These are so cute. I love the bakers twine accents on these cards.

Tish said...

Love the dog in the peaceful scene.
Great idea you have...thank you.
Tish

Unknown said...

Stunning cards Karen, I love that you add little extra details that sets your cards off, you always inspire me!

Becky said...

Love your color combos. Great cards. Thanks for sharing.

Daria said...

Terrific cards! I especially love the scenic cards. Beautiful coloring.
TFS.

Dee Earnshaw said...

Wow, these cards are stunning, Karen - love the spring colors you used to create them:)

Mary Kay Werry said...

Great cards - just so much fun and springlike. Love them

Marsha said...

Lovely cards with these new sets.

jeb said...

Such pretty cards. You did a great job of creating different ideas. Thanks for sharing.

Josie Cox said...

Love the colors on all your cards. Wowzer!

Jane M said...

Beautiful cards! I love all of these new stamps.

Judy Inukai said...

What wonderful and inspiring cards. Love 'em all.

Bonnie said...

You and Cat always know what to add and when to stop adding. Just perfection.

debraben said...

I love your use of coordinating papers and embossing folders!

Diana said...

Karen, your cards are always awesome - these are stunning! Love all of them. Thanks for sharing.

Dawn S. said...

Beautiful! I love how the Jelly Bean Green goes so well with all the colors and seems to say that Spring is getting close!

Verna Angerhofer said...

All so beautiful. It surely speaks of Spring to see all those lovely cards.

Marilyn said...

Karen,
Your cards are wonderful, the designs really make each card stands out. The "Thanks" card is the one that is most inspiring. Thanks for sharing your great talents.

Lynn Cromrich said...

I really like your cards. I love the way you use layering in your designs.

Sheri Gilson said...

Beautiful cards, Karen! Love the bright & cheery spring time designs!

Unknown said...

Wonderful cards - love your background techniques coupled with these great stamp sets

Barb Thompson said...

The purple and green look amazing together. I love your use of the floral stamps!

Sharon said...

Gorgeous cards Karen!

Rema DeLeeuw said...

These cards are fabulous Karen! Thanks for the inspiration.

Unknown said...

Hi Your cards are beautiful. You all inspire me. And you are fun and positive. How'd you all get to be so good?

Unknown said...

I love them all, butt my favorite is the first one.

Liz H. said...

Can't pick a favorite on these cards. They are ALL GREAT!!!

Robin said...

Wonderful cards. All are so pretty.

Johanna said...

Great cards Karen - You always come up with something beautiful and I don't where you get your inspiration from but I sure love to see what you do.

Beverly R said...

These are beautiful, Karen. I especially like the colors in the hot air balloon card.

Cindy said...

Your cards are wonderful. Love the new release. Thank you for sharing.

Unknown said...

Lime and lavender=sensational! Pink and green totally pops!Lilac and green is elegant with that wonderful matting! Framescape is perfection! Hot air balloon is sweet spring! Love your personalcard designs plus matting and layering as well as special touches that make your cards so unique! TYFS! I'm a new fan!

Macimbalo said...

I love that gingham card so much! They are all wonderful, but that's my fav!

Sue D said...

Lovely colors on all of these cards.

Deb said...

Beautiful as always!! Love your flower cards, but the frame ones call to me even more, which is odd with how much I love flowers. Thanks for the inspiration!!

Jo Williams Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator said...

These are all beautiful cards Karen! I really love both sets but I have to say, that simply spring is my favorite!! Would love for you to link these gorgeous cards up in my weekly challenge! I have an always anything goes challenge every Friday with lots of prizes up for grabs! Check it out through my blog link below!
Thanks for sharing!

Hugs,
Jo
♥ Jo's Scrap Shack ♥

Unknown said...

Green plaid AND purple ... go so well together! (Plaid may be my all time favorite). Like seeing the variety of options you prepared and shared. Thank you!

Sherry said...

beautiful cards!! the 2 green ones are my fav tho

Retta said...

Karen, you never disappoint! Beautiful cards with terrific ideas!

Patty said...

Love the color choices! Bright and Springy!

Golda said...

Beautiful examples! I really like the purple and green together.

Unknown said...

Just Lovely as usual Karen!!

Unknown said...

FABULOUS florals, Karen....love your creations, so Spring-like!!!

Patty said...

Beautiful cards Karen! I really love the colors you used on the floral cards...so pretty!

Nana Griffin said...

Love the colors used with the greens on the first cards and your scenes are marvelous.

Mitzi said...

Your pink and lime green card really cried "Spring!" to me. Love it.

Dottie said...

I so enjoyed looking at your adorable little peeking rabbit card. I can just see this with other critters too. Thanks for the inspiration too!

Melanie said...

These are all just darling! My eye really goes to the pink design! And I love how you colored the grass and trees!

Sue Wareham said...

Fabulous card inspiration for these fantastic stamp sets Thanks

Chris said...

Fabulous scenes! And flowers.

creative lady said...

Karen, love all your cards!

Unknown said...

Beautifuk, bright springy cards. Love it.