Karen's Creative Mess

Monday, October 16, 2017

Gina K. Designs Illustrator Blog Hop Day 1



Hi Everyone and Welcome!!!
We all are so excite for these Christmas Stamps 
and all the Fun and creative things you can make with them! 
 Fabulous Holiday Labels by: Melanie Muenchinger 
is a wonderful set to make cards and labels and tags. 
Just look at all the wonderful images and greetings! 
Then, Peaceful Christmas by: Theresa Momber 
it is a beautiful set with the doves, trees and snowflakes.
 I love the little dear in this set, 
 it will be easy to create a scene too.






Here is the two sets we are featuring today!
Fabulous Holiday Labels 


Peaceful Holiday

So if you are ready, sit back and relax and enjoy the hop. 
Remember to comment on each team members blog for your chance to win a $50.00 gift Certificate from Gina K. Designs. 
Then in a few days check the 
Big News Forum at StampTV 
to see who won!  :)  

Ok, lets get started. On this card I used Fabulous Holiday Labels and did a little embossing so I would have
 silver bells & snowflakes! 

Gina K. Designs: 
  • Stamp Set -Fabulous Holiday Labels By: Melanie Muenchinger
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base Weight & Layering Weight, Red Velvet 
  • Premium Dye Ink - Red Velvet, Grass Green 
  • Embossing Powder - Silver
other items - bling from my stash, versa mark, embossing magic pad

Here are a couple of simple tags made with this set. 



This label/tag was shown at our release party! <3 
The cookies inside were yummy!  ;) 

Gina K. Designs:
  • Stamp Set - Fabulous Holiday Labels  by: Melanie Muenchinger
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base Weight
  • Premium Dye Inks - Grass Green, Red Velvet
  • Fabulous Label Die
Twine, Sm. Whole Punch, and pre-made bag 


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Next up is Peaceful Holidays 
This one is colored with Prismacolor Pencils

Gina K. Designs: 
  • Stamp Set - Peaceful Holidays  by: Theresa Member
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Turquoise Sea
  • Gina K.Designs - Die set - Decorative Label Set  from Therm-o-web
  • Ribbon - White W/ Gold 
Colored with Prismacolor Pencils




I really like having the choice to color or not color this dove! <3 

Gina K. Designs:

  • Stamp Set - Peaceful Holidays by: Theresa Momber 
  • Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Black Onyx, & Kraft
  • Premium Dye Ink - Black Onyx                                                                                                                                      Versa Mark, Copic markers, sequins, 3D Foam squares 
I hope you are feeling as inspired as I am 
by everyones blog... 
 <3 
Ready for more creative cards? 
Next up is Laurie











Thank You for stopping by and visiting!  
I hope you all take a little time to get inky! ;)
((Hugs)) Karen <3 


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.

67 comments:

D Surma said...

So much fun! Fabulous release! Thanks for sharing.

Cat Tidwell said...

oh my! you so rocking this release even with all your traveling! I totally loving the one dove, no line coloring one, tis gorgeous!

Arianna Barbara said...

Wow! Beautiful and elegant Xmas projects!!!

Melanie said...

What gorgeous pencil work here and I loved that dove carrying the greeting at the party so much! The pearls on the diamond accent is a really nice touch!

Silke Ledlow said...

Karen, these are all so beautiful!

Debbie Rumpza said...

Great release, and great projects. Thanks for sharing.

Lisa K said...

Your dove cards are beautiful! Love both and so different. The tags are nice also.

Retta said...

Love the way you stamped with red for the first card! Going to be borrowing that idea, for sure. Darling tags and great coloring! Wonderful, as usual!

Lagene said...

AWESOME cards, Great Release, I especially love your Peace on Earth card on Kraft background!

WJ said...

Great cards. I especially enjoyed your Merry Christmas and Happy New Year card...loved the color scheme. Thanks for sharing!

Diana said...

Your cards are always beautiful! These are exceptional! Thanks for sharing!

Unknown said...

Stunning. And wow...Fabulous coloring on the dove with the prismacolor pencils.

Beth said...

Love the tag! The kraft card is divine!

Where Imagination Takes Me said...

Definitely inspired by your cards and all of the cards I have seen so far on the blog hop. Thanks for sharing.

Marcy H. said...

Fabulous Projects!

Johanna said...

Beautiful and creative that is what you and your cards are.

crazycricut said...

Wow, awesome job!

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

What a wonderful bunch of cards!!!!!

Dee Earnshaw said...

stunning cards. LOVE the dove cards they are just gorgeous:)

Robin said...

Amazing, beautiful card and labels.

Debbie B said...

Love everything you did! That dove with the pool colored die cut is gorgeous! These two stamp sets give us SO MUCH to work with. Can't wait to get mine!~ Thanks for sharing. Love this blog hop!

JoAnn said...

Lovely group of cards. TFS

Rema DeLeeuw said...

Beautiful cards and coloring Karen!

cropmom66 said...

Beautiful cards!!! Your dove card is gorgeous!

Nana Griffin said...

Wonderful ideas. Very pretty.

Kay S said...

These are all lovely! I really like the first card because it is deceptively simple with just one layer, yet it looks like more.

mtscrapgal said...

Thanks for showing us cards and tags using the great new release, The 2 dove cards are my favorites.

Judy Inukai said...

Awesome cards.I love the silver bells and snowflakes. Your doves are awesome.I also appreciate the fact that they can be colored or not. Makes for quick, elegant cards. Your tags are wonderful too. So much wonderful inspiration. Can't wait until I have time to play with my sets.

LindaB said...

They are all wonderful, my favorite is the dove "peace on earth"

Unknown said...

Loved your cards and tags. Thanks for the inspiration!

tycodmom said...

Loved the turquoise card. Fabulous

Miesje Flach said...

Very, very pretty! I love the dove card.

JAS424 said...

I love all the silver on the Labels card. On the Peaceful card, I like how you placed the sentiment in the beak of the dove. Creative creativity. Good job.

Verna Angerhofer said...

Oh, my! So much awesomeness in your post showing how you used those stamp sets. I love all of them.

Gayle said...

Love the tags and your creativity with the doves.

Auntie Em said...

A lovely collection of pretty cards and tags. I like the resist on the brown paper with the beautiful dove over top. Wonderful idea!
Thanks for sharing! :)

Trina P. said...

Sweet project ideas. Loving the Peaceful Holidays set b

Dawn S. said...

So many pretty cards and tags!

Unknown said...

Your dove card looks like a photograph , would love a video on it!

Pattie J. said...

Christmas on the way with these. Beautiful.

Sue Wareham said...

Fabulous projects

Susie G. said...

Great projects!

Marilyn said...

Karen,
I don't see a mess, but I do see wonderfully made card projects. The blue dove card, looks 3D, my favorite. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

Debbie said...

You are so creative!! Love your designs.

quilt4fun2 said...

Beautiful job on your cards and tags! Love the pencil one with the ribbon and the background on the kraft is so pretty.

Crafty Math Chick said...

Such lovely projects! I love how you used the little bell image on the first card - I thought those were brads the first time I saw them - MUCH more festive and perfect!

Leanne said...

Beautiful projects!

Sue D said...

Cute tags and beautiful cards.

TAS said...

Lovely cards and tags! Thank you for the inspiration.

Theresa said...

Beautiful projects, Karen! I love your coloring on the dove.

Golda said...

These are all great. The dove on the blue is gorgeous.

Stacey Kowbel said...

Fabulous projects! I love your dove card! The background is fantastic.

El said...

Love them all, especially the second dove one.
Thanks for sharing with us.

Janie said...

Love your cards.

Tracy said...

Love your dove cards, so pretty.

Unknown said...

Love how you used the patterned paper in your card. Has to be my favorite one. So creative.

Jeanne Beam said...

Love the wonderful cards and label. Thanks for sharing....

Marjorie DUMONTIER said...

All your cards are great !!

Judie said...

What beautiful creations! Your colouring is gorgeous!

Lydia Hallum said...

Making your own background is a great idea for special cards. I also like the use of nontraditional colors for cards.

Jean said...

Wonderful and creative projects!

Sharon said...

All are beautiful but the dove card and your pencil colouring…Wow!

Unknown said...

What beautiful work. My favorite is the last dove card.

froggers said...

Such fabulous samples and examples,

Iris said...

Such lovely projects.

Helen Gullett said...

Beautiful projects.
Love each of them.
Thank you for the inspirations.

Ruth said...

Love the gingham background Christmas card! So unexpected.