Karen's Creative Mess

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Gina K. Designs and My Sweet Petunia Blog Hop!



Hi Everyone! 
Welcome to Karen's Creative Mess! :)
Gina K. Designs and My Sweet Petunia
have joined together for a Super Blog Hop!  
Today we are featuring the BoHo Flowers Mini Kit
From: Gina K. Designs
and the MISTI
From: My Sweet Petunia
So much inspiration and a tip or two along the way!
Do You want a chance to Win a MISTI or the New Stitched Leaves Mini Kit?
All you have to do is Comment on Every Blog in the Hop for your chance to win!
You have until September 5th at Noon Central Time to comment.
Winners will be posted on My Sweet Petunia blog winners page and on Gina K. Blog no later than Friday September 8th.

I used my Original MISTI to help me make this card,
using the BoHo Flowers Mini Kit.
Items used for this card are:
* Original MISTI 
Gina K. Designs - 
*Stamp Set - BoHo Flowers and the Die from the kit to cut the You out
*Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, & Black Onyx
*Premium Dye Ink - Jelly Bean Green, Turquoise Sea, and Black Onyx 
*Die Set - Large Rectangles Single Stitched
Ribbon from my stash

Here is the link to the video I made to show how I used my MISTI:


I hope you have enjoyed the video,
and there is so much more Creative Inspiration ahead!
So get to hopping and be sure to leave a comment for your chance to win.
Have a good day and I hope you get to get a Little Inky! <3

Next up is - Stephanie Severin

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Gina K. Designs Inspirational Blog Hop Day 2

 Welcome to 
 Karen's Creative Mess!!!

 The Cast and Crew for Gina K. Designs, 
Welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop 
celebrating the new stamp  sets from Gina K. Designs! 
The three sets are Wise Old Owl, Peony Wishes,
 & the new incentive set Grand Greetings. 
 We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects
 as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!
You will have so much fun creating so many varieties of cards using these images and sentiments. Here is everything that comes in the kit:

 Wise Old Owl:
Peony Wishes:
Grand Greetings:

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $50 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:


First Up is - Wise Old Owl:
 I used one of the flowers from the BoHo Flowers Kit 
to stamp the background then made a woodgrain panel for the background.

Gina K. Designs: 
  • Stamp Set - Wise Old Owl  BoHo Flowers 
  • Die set - Wise Old Owl
  • Prue Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Jelly Bean Green
  • Premium Patterned Paper Pack - 
  • Premium Dye Ink - Turquoise Sea, Black Onyx, Kraft, Dark   Chocolate                                                                            Other Items - Versa Mark, Twine, Memento-Black, Colored With Copics 



On this one I used a couple of pieces of Patterned Paper
 to add color and fun to this background and added the flourish stamped 
on the Turquoise Sea layer for added interest.


Gina K. Designs: 
  • Stamp Set - Wise Old Owl 
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight White, Black Onyx, Turquoise Sea, & Jelly Bean Green
  • Premium Dye Ink - Black Onyx
  • Premium Patterned Paper Pack - Made With Love
  • Fancy Ribbon - White / Gold Ribbon
Versa Mark, Bling 



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Now for the Beautiful - Peony Wishes Set:
I was stuck in a orange flower mode on this flower!  LOL. 
I love this stamp set! <3 


Gina K. Designs:
  • Stamp Set - Peony Wishes
  • Die - You
  • Pure Luxury Card stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight White, Jelly Bean Green, Turquoise Sea, & Black Onyx
  • Premium Dye Ink - Moonlit Fog
  • Fine Detail Embossing Powder - Clear
Versa Fine - Black, Ribbon and Bling from my stash, Colored with Prismacolor Pencils






 Gina K. Designs:
  • Stamp Set - Peony Wishes 
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Sweet Mango, Black Onyx
  • Fine Detail Embossing Powder -  Clear
Versa Fine - Black, Memento Ink - Black, Copics, Ribbon and Bling from my stash




This was a fun one to do the Spot Light Technique on this stamp image!  :) 


Gina K. Designs:
  • Stamp set - Peony Wishes
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight 
  • Premium Dye Ink - Black Onyx
Colored with Prismacolor Pencils, and Bling from my stash


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GRAND Greetings!!!!  :) 
I am loving this set <3 


Gina K. Designs: 
  • Stamp Set - Grand Greetings  Incentive Stamp set
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - Powder Blue, White Layering Weight
  • Premium Dye Ink - Dark Chocolate, Kraft, & Powder Blue
Twine, & Bling

 Video - using the Grand Greetings
 Incentive Set and Gina's Floral Stencil






and this is the one from the party! :) 

Gina K. Designs:
  • Stamp Set - Grand Greetings
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - Turquoise Sea, White Layering Weight
  • Premium Dye Ink - Ocean Mist, Turquoise Sea, Jelly Bean Green, Fresh Asparagus, & Dark Chocolate
Spectrum noir glitter pen, bling



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