Karen's Creative Mess

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Gina K Designs - Foil-Mates Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 3

Welcome Back to Day 3  
So Glad you have joined us!  :) 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a very special blog hop celebrating the new line of Foil-Mates products with Gina K Designs and Therm O Web. As of Monday, May 1, the entire product line of Foil-Mates products are available in the Gina K Designs Store at www.ginakdesigns.com. We are so excited to show you our projects and inspire you to jump into the foil craze!


Creating cards is never more easy and beautiful when you work with this new line of foil products. From beautiful pre-printed Foil-Mates, to stunning colors of Fancy Foils, when you combine them together the outcome is stunning! Discover how many various combinations of different cards and invitations you are able to create with Gina’s Foil-Mates products. With many of Gina’s most popular signature colors now available in foil, coordinating with Gina K Designs card stock and ink has never been easier!

Join us and discover ideas that you can take away for your own cards and projects!






Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog. We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop from a combination of all three days of comments and that person will 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:

Look how pretty the Grass Green & Wild Lilac Foil Look together! <3

I used the New Gina K. Designs Products for Therm-o-Web
Foil-Mates: Invitations - Wedding  and Elegant Damasks
Fancy Foils - Grass Green and Wild Lilac
Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base Weight, Grass Green & Wild Lilac
Sheer Satin Fancy Ribbon - White / Gold
Die Sets - Small Circle Double Stitched and Large Circle Single Stitched and the heart included in the Small Circle set

*Next I used this Gorgeous Turquoise Sea & Silver Sequins Foil... Love this stuff



Gorgeous New Gina K. Designs Products for Therm-O-Web
Foil-Mates: Invitations - Save The Date  and Swirls & Flourishes
Fancy - Foils: Turquoise Sea  and Silver Sequins
Our Luxury Cardstock -Turquoise Sea and Black Onyx  and White (on the inside ) 
Die Sets - Large Oval Single Stitched and Small Oval Double Stitched 

I hope you have enjoyed all the shine!!!  :) 
Thank You so much for stopping by and have a Blessed Day! <3 


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 for stopping by!






Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Gina K Designs –Foil-Mates Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 2

Hi!! 
Welcome to Day Two of the Hop :) 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a very special blog hop celebrating the new line of Foil-Mates products with Gina K Designs and Therm O Web. As of Monday, May 1, the entire product line of Foil-Mates products are available in the Gina K Designs Store at www.ginakdesigns.com. We are so excited to show you our projects and inspire you to jump into the foil craze!

Creating cards is never more easy and beautiful when you work with this new line of foil products. From beautiful pre-printed Foil-Mates, to stunning colors of Fancy Foils, when you combine them together the outcome is stunning! Discover how many various combinations of different cards and invitations you are able to create with Gina’s Foil-Mates products. With many of Gina’s most popular signature colors now available in foil, coordinating with Gina K Designs card stock and ink has never been easier!

Join us and discover ideas that you can take away for your own cards and projects!
Look at these fabulous Backgrounds!!!! <3
Then Gina has these wonderful Sentiments Sets!!!  Oh the Possibilities!  :) 

And then check out these Beautiful Ribbons! Wow! So Elegant!
Then there is This..... These are Luscious!!!! Some of My Favorite Colors in Foil... 
Wow! I'm one happy girl!  <3 

 And just when I thought I couldn't get any Happier!!! Lookie These Dies are AWESOME!!!!  <3 They work Perfectly with this line of Foil-Mates and have some great added dies in the sets!  :)

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog. We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop from a combination of all three days of comments and that person will 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:




I used the New Products By: Gina K. Designs for Therm-o-Web
Foil-Mates: True Friend  and Dots & Strings
Fancy Foils: Wild Dandelion and Gold Sequins
Pure Luxury Cardstock: Black Onyx &  Wild Dandelion 
Premium Dye Ink: Wild Dandelion  (I did a little sponging around the Sentiment) 
Sheer Satin Fancy Ribbon: Black/Gold
Die Sets -  Large Rectangle Single Stitched and Small Double Stitched Rectangle 


Look at the Passionate Pink and Jelly Bean Green together!  <3

Using the New Gina K. Designs Products for Therm-o-Web
Foil-Mates: Wedding & Anniversary  and  Elegant Florals
Fancy Foils: Passionate Pink  and Jelly Bean Green 
Pure Luxury Cardstock - Passionate Pink, and White Heavy Base Weight
Sheer Satin Ribbon - White / Gold
Premium Dye Ink - Jelly Bean Green (Sponged the Background layer) 
Die Set - Large Single Stitched Circle and Small Double Stitched Circle 


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 for stopping by!

Monday, May 1, 2017

Gina K Designs –Foil-Mates Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 1


Hi Everyone!
Welcome to our Foil-Mates Blog Hop!  :) 

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a very special blog hop celebrating the new line of Foil-Mates products with Gina K Designs and Therm O Web. As of Monday, May 1, the entire product line of Foil-Mates products are available in the Gina K Designs Store at www.ginakdesigns.com. We are so excited to show you our projects and inspire you to jump into the foil craze!

Creating cards is never more easy and beautiful when you work with this new line of foil products. From beautiful pre-printed Foil-Mates, to stunning colors of Fancy Foils, when you combine them together the outcome is stunning! Discover how many various combinations of different cards and invitations you are able to create with Gina’s Foil-Mates products. With many of Gina’s most popular signature colors now available in foil, coordinating with Gina K Designs card stock and ink has never been easier! 


Join us and discover ideas that you can take away for your own cards and projects!

Check out these fabulous Die Set!  Wow!!!  They are so wonderful and lots of fun to create with!  <3
And these Wonderful Foil-Mates Backgrounds 

And then Check out the Invitations Sets!  Wow! These will make some Gorgeous Invites!  <3 

Love this set of Sentiments too! 

Then Look at these Fabulous Colors of Foils!!!! 
Recognize the Gorgeous Colors? Yes, They are some of  Gina's Card Stock Colors. 
They are such Fabulous colors! You will love adding the extra shine to your card!  <3 


Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog. We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop from a combination of all three days of comments and that person will 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 couple I made:

New Gina K. Designs Products for Therm-o-Web
Foil-Mates: You’re Invited and Polka Party
Fancy Foils - Sweet Mango and Grass Green (for the Ballons)
Die Sets - Square - Large  Single Stitched  and Small Double Stitched  
     The Star from the Lg. Rectangle Set
Pure Luxury Cardstock - Sweet Mango  and Black Onyx
*On this card - the piece of Sweet Mango foil that I used to foil the dots, I reused it and just glued it to a piece of white cardstock and then added a Black layer behind it. Foiled the Invite in the Sweet Mango and the Balloons in Grass Green then layered with the Black Onyx cardstock as well! 


I used the New Gina K. Designs Products for Therm-O-Web
Foil-Mates: Birthday Essentials  and Stars & Stripes
Fancy Foils - Red Velvet and Silver Sequins
Die Sets - Squares  Large Single Stitched and Small Double Stitched, a candle from the Small Rectangle Set and a Star from the Lg. Rectangle set
Pure Luxury Cardstock - Red Velvet and White (on the inside)
 You can see the Red Velvet lines on the inside, 
that was the piece I used to Foil the Foil-Mate strip piece.
I love how you can use the left over foil of the inside or another layer too! :) 


Thank You for hopping by and I hope you have a Inky day!  :)  <3 

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 for stopping by!

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


Friday, March 17, 2017

Stamp Tv Kit Addicts - Friday Funday tutorial

Here is the link to the Friday Funday Tutorial. I hope you enjoy the tip!  :) 
http://stamptv.ning.com/group/stamp-tv-kit-addicts/forum/topics/stamp-tv-kit-friday-funday-tutorial-circles-for-a-boarder