Karen's Creative Mess

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Gina K Designs –Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 3



The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K and the illustrator team from Gina K Designs! 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 My Anchor Mini Kit. 

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:

This is such a wonderful set that you can create really great masculine cards with.
This is the first one I made.   :) 
I used these products for this card:
Mini Kit  - My Anchor  By: Gina K. 
Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Layering & Heavy Weight, Kraft, In The Navy
Premium Dye Ink - In The Navy
Fine Detail Embossing Powder - Clear
 I Did the Partial Embossing that Gina Shared recently 


This card is a small card, measures 3 1/4" X 4 1/4" 

Here are the items I used for it.  
Mini Kit - My Anchor  By: Gina K.    and Stately Flowers 11 By: Melanie Muenchinger
Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base Weight 
Premium Dye Ink - Black Onyx, and Moonlit Fog

Colored with PrismaColor Pencils 

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




Thank You all for stopping by and checking out what I made with this fabulous set! 

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.

Thanks again & I hope you all get to get inky soon!  :)  

(((Hugs))), Karen <3 


Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Gina K Designs –Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 2





The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K and the illustrator team from Gina K Designs! 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 Beth Silaika - Vicky Mermaid, Claire Brennan - Cottage Garden and the Botanical Blocks Incentive set. 

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!
Vicky Mermaid: Beth Silaika

Cottage Garden: Claire Brennan


Botanical Blocks:  Gina K. 


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:
Beth's - Vicky Mermaid stamp set! 

I used the following items:
Stamp Set - Vicky Mermaid
Pure Luxury Card Stock - Turquoise Sea, White Layering weight, & Black Onyx
Premium Dye Ink - Turquoise Sea, & Jelly Bean Green
Colored with Copics

 




Then I used Claire's - Cottage Garden stamp set

Stamp Set - country cottage - By: Claire Brennan
Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy weight & layering weight, Turquoise Sea
Premium Dye Ink - Ocean Mist & Jelly Bean Green
Colored with Copics




I love this Incentive set! You can use these images with all sorts of greetings as well! :) 
This is what I used:

Stamp Set- Botanical Blocks  By: Gina K.
Pure Luxury Card Stock - Black Onyx, Turquoise Sea, and White Layering Weight
Fine Detail Embossing Powder - Clear
Versa Fine - Black
Copic Markers


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

Beth Silaika - Illustrator for Spring Fling
Claire Brennan - Illustrator for Fabulous Flowers
Juliana Michaels


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! 
I hope you have a wonderful day and 
are encouraged to get a little inky!  :)  <3 


Monday, April 10, 2017

Gina K Designs –Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 1



The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K and the illustrator team from Gina K Designs! 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!

Please join us in welcoming Juliana Michaels to the Cast & Crew for Gina K Designs. Juliana has been a project designer in the paper craft/scrapbook industry since 2007 and has worked for many top manufacturers in the craft world.  Her projects have been published in a variety of magazines and idea books. You will instantly fall in love with her projects! 
Check out these two fabulous stamp sets that we are featuring today! :) 

Stately Flowers 11- By: Melanie Muenchinger 

Daisy Delight - By: Theresa Monber


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.

I LOVE the flowers in both these set... 


The Postal images are so much fun to play with... 
I will be using this set often I do believe! ;)  LOL
and wait until you see how big that daisy is... wow!  

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


First I have Stately Flowers 11- By: Melanie Muenchinger
Stamp Set -Stately Flowers 11  By: Melanie Muenchinger
Pure Luxury Card Stock - Lipstick, Black Onyx, White Layering Weight
Colored with Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils 






Next up I have a Watercolor card to share using Daisy Delight - By:Theresa Momber.  :) 



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


Melanie Muenchinger  - Illustrator for Fabulous Flowers
Theresa Momber  - Illustrator for Framescape – Simply Spring
Chris Dayton
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 and Happy Stamping!  :) 
Find a little time to get inky!  <3