Gina K Designs September Inspirational Blog Hop Day 3!!!

Good Morning Everybody!  Hope you are enjoying the hop so far! :)

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our September Release! Boy, do we have some treats for you this month! We hope to inspire you with some eye candy as you hop along in the hop this month! Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies! !! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.
Today we are featuring two wonderful set from Gina K.
 "Wild Blossoms" & " You've Got A Friend In Me"

So First Up is "Wild Blossoms"

I Love the images in this set.

I used the Following Gina K. Designs Products:

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: White Heavy Base Weight, Fresh Asparagus.
• Patterned Paper Pack: Delicate Essentials
• Ink: White (for splatters on the inside
• Embossing Powder: Fine Detail White
• Vellum

Next Up!

Here is the list of Gina K. Designs Products I used for this one!

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Tomato Soup, Dark Chocolate, White Layering Weight
• Inks: Tomato soup
• Spectrum Aqua Markers

And Last But Not Least!!! This sweet Set:

You've Got A Friend In Me

On this first one I just had to use those cute little birds!  :) 

I used the Following gina K. Designs Products:

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: White Heavy Weight, & Ocean Mist
• Inks: Black Onyx
• Spectrum Noir Markers 
• Wink Of Stella on one of the birds

This was a fun one!

I made this one in Gina's Class at the Bella Craft Convention Last Week!
We had a lot of fun, Tons of Laughs and made new Friends and Wonderful Memories!

I used the Following Gina K. Designs Products:

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Prickly Pear, Dark Chocolate, White Layering Weight
• Patterned Paper - Autumn Wishes
• Spectrum Noir Markers
• Dk. Chocolate Twine  and Button 

Thanks so much for coming by and Have a wonderful day!

Now If you are ready for more wonderful inspiration 

check out the rest of the teams creations!  :)

Gina K          

http://ginakdesigns.blogspot.com/

Allie Gower

http://alliegower.blogspot.com/

Beth Silaika

http://www.silaika.com/

Cathy Tidwell
http://catdidit.blogspot.com/

Karen Hightower             You Are Here! 

http://www.karenscreativemess.blogspot.com/

Kendra Weitstock             Next Up!  

http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/search/label/Gina%20K

Laurie Schmidlin

http://www.justgivemestamps.typepad.com/

Melanie Muenchinger

http://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com/

Payel Ray

Sean Fetterman

http://fettermandesigns.blogspot.com/

Tricia Traxler

http://simplystamping.blogspot.com/

Gina K. Designs September Inspirational Blog Hop Day 2!!!

Welcome Everyone to Day Two!  :)
So glad you stopped by!!!  <3

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our September Release! Boy, do we have some treats for you this month! We hope to inspire you with some eye candy as you hop along in the hop this month! Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies! !! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop. We are fettering two sets today. One by Beth Silaika, and one by Gina K. 

First up is the New Stamp Set By:  Beth Silaika
"This & That"

This is really a fun set and can be used on it's own or combined with lots of other sets! 

I have found a good home on my desk for this one!  :)

I have this ready for my Anniversary for next year!  <3

On this card I used the following Gina K Designs Products:

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Jelly Bean Green, Black Onyx, White Layering Weight (on inside)
• Premium Dye Ink: Black Onyx
• Ribbon: Black Plaid
• Spectrum Noir Water Color Paper & Spectrum Aqua Markers

On this card I used: 

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Jelly Bean Green, Moonlit Fog
• Premium Dye Inks: Jelly Bean Green & Moonlit fog
• The Patterned Paper is from my stash

Next up is this Beautiful Stamp Set.

 By: Gina K.

"Simply The Best"

How I Love this set! <3

I wanted to do a water color! So I played around with it... 

and I Love that you always get a different background!  :)

After doing the Peach Bellini water color background I stamped the image & greeting

 then misted it with a little water.

Using the following Gina K. products to create this one!

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Heavy Weight Base-White, Tomato Soup
• Premium Dye Ink: Peach Bellini, Fresh Asparagus
• Twisted Twine: Tomato Soup
• Spectrum Noir - Water Color Paper

This is a wonderful image for a background!  Love It…

Ok, here are the products I used:

• Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Designs Card Stock: Cranberry Tart, Prickly Pear
• Patterned Paper Pack: Autumn Wishes
• Premium Dye Ink: Cranberry Tart
• Dies: Allison's Ribbon, Circle Stackers Layers, Stackers Nesting, Inverted Scallop

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Thanks so much for coming by and Have a wonderful day!

Now If you are ready for more wonderful inspiration 

check out the rest of the teams creations!  :)

Gina K

http://ginakdesigns.blogspot.com/

Allie Gower

http://alliegower.blogspot.com/

Beth Silaika

http://www.silaika.com/

Cathy Tidwell
http://catdidit.blogspot.com/

Karen Hightower            You are here!

http://www.karenscreativemess.blogspot.com/

Kendra Weitstock               Up Next

http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/search/label/Gina%20K

Laurie Schmidlin

http://www.justgivemestamps.typepad.com/

Melanie Muenchinger

http://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com/

Payel Ray

Sean Fetterman

http://fettermandesigns.blogspot.com/

Tricia Traxler

http://simplystamping.blogspot.com/

Gina K. Designs September Inspirational Blog Hop!

Hi Everyone!
The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! This blog hop is for our September Release! Boy, do we have some treats for you this month! We hope to inspire you with some eye candy as you hop along in the hop this month! Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win an awesome grab bag of GKD goodies! !! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.
                Today we are Featuring two new sets. One By:Melanie Muenchinger
The other is by: Theresa Momber
                        Starting with Melanie's "Triple Play Holiday"

I love all the images in this set. Lots of fun cads to be made with is one. 

It also fits with the Triple Play Frame stamp set that Melanie Illustrated. 

I used the following products to make this card! 

         Gina K. Designs:

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Fresh Asparagus, Tomato Soup, & White Layering Weight
• Premium Dye Inks: Fresh Asparagus, Tomato Soup,  Honey Mustard, & Black Onyx 
• Spectrum Noir Marker & Pencils

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Black Onyx, White Layering Weight
• Premium Dye Ink: Black Onyx
• Embossing Powder: Fine Detail Silver
• Spectrum Noir Marker

I also used a embossing folder with snowflakes, and a piece of Silver foil Paper

Next up we have Theresa Momber's "Vine & butterfly"

These images are so great to work with!

That vine is Large and I'm so in love with the Flower! 

Oh heck. The Butterflies too!  :)

The Following Gina K. Design Products were used!

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Fresh Asparagus, Honey Mustard, Black Onyx, White Layering Weight
• Premium Dye Ink: Fresh Asparagus
• Embossing Powder: Fine Detail Black
• Spectrum Noir Pencils
• Cheery Lynn Designs - Alison's Ribbons Die 
• Momentos Black Ink 
• Velum

• Pure Luxury Card Stock: Powder Blue, Fresh Asparagus, & White Layering Weight for the Butterfly
• Premium Dye Inks: Powder Blue, Ocean Mist, & Fresh Asparagus
• Spectrum Noir Pencils, & Water Color Paper
• Wink Of Stell (on the Butterfly & in some of the Vine)

Be sure to leave a comment as you hop along for a chance to
win a bag of goodies from Gina K. Designs!

 In addition to our blog candy, I am going to give away ONE of my cards I shared in my post! Leave a comment telling me *which* is your favorite for a chance to win! Then go through rest of the hop for inspiration.

Ok, Are You Ready For More Awesome Creations?!

 Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Allie Gower

http://alliegower.blogspot.com/

Beth Silaika

http://www.silaika.com/

Cathy Tidwell
http://catdidit.blogspot.com/

Karen Hightower             You Are Here

http://www.karenscreativemess.blogspot.com/

Kendra Weitstock             Next Up! 

Laurie Schmidlin

http://www.justgivemestamps.typepad.com/

Melanie Muenchinger

http://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com/

Payel Ray

Sean Fetterman

http://fettermandesigns.blogspot.com/

Tricia Traxler

http://simplystamping.blogspot.com/

Gina K. Designs - Autumn Wishes Inspirational Blog Hop Day 2...

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! 

This blog hop is for the brand spanking new StampTV Kit, Autumn Wishes. 

  Did you know we have a special group that you can join if you are a member of StampTV? 

  It’s called StampTV Addicts!  Tricia has all kinds of good advice and inspiration in there too! :)

  Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! 

And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a a  random comment and that stamper will win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! 

To see who won,  check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

Today we are show casing the second stamp set "Friend's Til The End"
 in the New StampTv Kit "Autumn Wishes"

          I Love the little critters in this Kit! So Precious!

Ok, Here are the Items I used on this card:

*Pure Luxury Card Stock - Prickly Pear, Ivory Layering Weight, 

Honey Mustard, & Cranberry Tart

*Premium Dye Inks: Dark Chocolate, Fresh Asparagus, Cranberry Tart, 

Prickly Pear, & Honey Mustard

*Spectrum Noir Markers  *Velum

I then added Bling & Raffia that I colored with Spectrum Noir Markers! 

I also used Velum to stamp the leaves on for my background!

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This was a fun card to make…Isn't that Bee the Cutest?  :)

I couldn't help but to do a Yellow, Black & White Card with this little cuttie! 

The following Gina K. Designs Products were used for the one!

*Pure Luxury Card Stock - White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Black Onyx, Lemon Drop

*Premium Dye Ink - Black Onyx

*Spectrum Noir Markers  * Black & White Ribbon

I used a White Gel Pen, and Black & Yellow dots from my stash!  :)

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Here are a couple of cards from the release party also! 

 

This New Stamp Tv Kit "Autumn Wishes "

 Is available at Gina K. Designs

Thank You so much for hopping by!  

Have a wonderful day and don't forget to leave your comment..  :)  <3

NOW are You Ready for more awesome creations?! 

Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Gina K
Allie Gower
Beau Monde
Beth Silaika
Cathy (Cat) Tidwell
Karen Hightower - You are Here!
Kendra Weitstock
Laurie Schmidlin
Melanie Muenchinger 
Sean Fetterman
Tricia Traxler

Gina K. Designs - Autumn Wishes Inspirational Blog Hop! Day 1

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! 

This blog hop is for the brand spanking new StampTV Kit, Autumn Wishes.

 Did you know we have a special group that you can join if you are a member of StampTV? 

It’s called StampTV Addicts! Tricia has all kinds of good advice and inspiration in there too!)

 Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! 

And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a random comment and that stamper will win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products!

 To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

Today we are Featuring the stamp set Autumn Wishes.

It is one of the sets in the New Stamp Tv Kit "Autumn Wishes"

I used the Following Gina K. Designs Products for this card:

*Pure Luxury Card Stock - Ivory Heavy Base Weight,  

Fresh Asparagus, & Prickly Pear

* Patterned Paper Pack  -   Autumn Wishes

*Premium Dye Inks - Dark Chocolate & Honey Mustard

Brads, Eyelet & bling is from my stash!

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I made a Gift Card Holder, and just so happens my Starbucks
card has a garden theme. LOL

This gift card is made with the following Gina K. Designs Products:

*Pure Luxury Card Stock - Prickly Pear, Cranberry Tart, & Ivory Layering Weight

*Patterned Paper from the 6x6 Autumn Wishes set

*Premium Dye Inks - Prickly Pear, Cranberry Tart, & Fresh Asparagus

*Stamp Set - Autumn Wishes 

*Spectrum Noir Pencils on the flowers

I Dry Embossed the Cranberry Tart Layer and

 Used a lot of Wink Of Stella on the centers of the flowers.

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 These two are from the Release Party Last Night! Details will be on the cards when uploaded to Stamp Tv!

This StampTv Kit is available at Gina K. Designs

Thank You so Much for Stoping by. Don't forget to leave a comment…  :)
Have a wonderful day and see you back tomorrow!  :)  <3

Ready for more awesome creations?!

 Just click on the links below for more from the Illustrators and Design Team!!

Gina K
Allie Gower
Beau Monde
Beth Silaika
Cathy (Cat) Tidwell
Karen Hightower  -  You are Here
Kendra Weitstock
Laurie Schmidlin
Melanie Muenchinger 
Sean Fetterman
Tricia Traxler

MIUM-STV15MON34!

Hi Everyone!!!

I'm so Happy to Host this weeks MIUM.

This weeks Challenge is to do a Masculine Card!  :) 

Just think of all the Men - Husbands, Brothers, Uncles, Dads, Cousins, Nephews, & Friends…

They all have birthdays, and other events that they need a card for!  You know they like to get a little note that reminds them how much you love them or to let them know that you are thinking of them!  Guys really do Love Getting Cards!  :) I love to slip a little note card in my Hubbies Lunch, or even  drop one in his front seat of his car before he leaves for work!!!  :)  <3 

Ok,  Lets Fill the Gallery with Wonderful Cards for those Wonderful Men!!!!  <3

 I made two cards!

The first one is a little note card! (3 1/2 x 3 1/2 )

I used the Following Gina K. Designs Products for this card:

 Mini Stamp Set - Harvest Of Wishes By: Gina K.

Beyond Baskets By: Melanie Muenchinger (Greeting)

Pure Luxury Card Stock: White Heavy Base Weight, Dark Chocolate, & Red Hot

Premium Dye Ink: Dk. Choc.

Dk. Chocolate - Gingham Ribbon

Spectrum Aqua Markers & Spectrum Pencils

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For my second card:

Here is the list of Gina K. Designs Products I used on this card:

Pure Luxury Card Stock - Powder Blue, White Layering Weight, & Kraft

Patterned Paper from the 6x6 paper pack - Casual Friday

Stamp Set - Country Roads By: Theresa Momber

Background sponged with Inks: Powder Blue, Blue Denim, Grass Green, & Fresh Asparagus

I used Spectrum Noir Markers & Pencils to color Images!

Greeting is stamped in Black Onyx Ink!

I used the Blue Denim Twine and a Embossing folder on the Kraft layer!

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Here is a Look at the Stamp Sets I Used:

These Stamp Sets and other wonderful Items are available over at Gina K. Designs!

I hope you will join us over at Stamp Tv for this Weeks Mix It Up Monday Challenge!

Happy Stamping!  :)  <3

Gina K. Designs-Back To School Blog Hop

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to a special BACK TO SCHOOL blog hop! Gina, along with the Cast and Crew, will inspire you with many fun cards and projects for your favorite student, their teacher or your friends that are in the teaching profession! 

As you hop through Gina and the Cast & Crew blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a random comment and that stamper will win their choice of a

Gina K Designs stamp set with a value up to $23.95! 

To see if you are the winner, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop.

There are a number of stamp sets from Gina K Designs that you can use to create a welcome, thank you or back to school. Today, our featured sets are Melanie Muenchinger’s Basket Additions 3, and Beth Silika's "Keep Calm ". There are some great stamps to color and the perfect sentiment for Back to School! ☺

Melanie Muenchinger’s Basket Additions 3 stamp set

It’s not too late to make your project or special cards because students and teachers will be back in the classroom soon! If you do not have this set in your Gina K Designs stamp collection, visit the Gina K Designs store at http://www.shop.ginakdesigns.com/product.sc?productId=1323&categoryId=-1. 

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Here is the projects that I made for today’s hop:

Apple & Chocolate for Teacher:

The following Gina K. Designs Product I used to create this project are:

Stamp Set- Basket Additions 3 By: Melanie Muenchinger 

* Patterned Paper  "Delicate Essentials"

*Premium Dye Ink & Pure Luxury Card Stock-Dusty Rose & White

Added Ribbon for a little handle to open the box to get to all these goodies I added to the inside!

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The Stamp Sets I used on this are both Melanie Muenchinger's 

"Basket Additions 3" & "A Year of Flowers 2"

I used Pure Luxury Card Stock - Faded Brick, Kraft, & Black Onyx

Water Colored Image with Premium Dye inks - Faded Brick, Peach Bellini, 

Sweet Mango, Lemon Drop, Grass Green, & Fresh Asparagus

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On this last card I used Stamp Sets:

 "Basket additions 3" by: Melanie Muenchinger 

Mini Stamp Set:"Autumn Blessings" By: Gina K. Designs

"Lots of Letters" By: Melanie Muenchinger

This one is Made with Pure Luxury Card Stock - Red Hot. White layering weight, & Black Onyx

I used Premium Pigment Ink-White for the sponging & stamping the images! 

Red Hot button and ribbon! 

Hope you are enjoying the hop so far… and Now Get Ready for More Creations & Inspiration from the rest of the Cast & Crew!

These are the Featured Sets:

Keep Calm by: Beth Silika  & Baskets Additions 3 by: Melanie Muenchinger!

Gina K. 
Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator of Basket Additions 3 
Beth Silaika
Cat Tidwell 
Karen Hightower - You are here! 
Kendra Wietstock - Next up!

Laurie Schmidlin 

Sean Fetterman 
Tricia Traxler 

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen  :)  <3