Inspiration Blog Hop- Day 2

Hi Everyone!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by the illustration 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 and Claire Brennan

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!

Beth Silaika has created an adorable addition to her cute animal series! With cute little images and quippy greetings, Karen Dolphin is the perfect sea life set for cards for all ages!

Here is a look at Beth's new set:

Claire Brennan has knocked it out of the park with her new layering flower set, Lovely Lilies! Create beautiful lilies in all different color combinations for beautiful bouquets that are timeless!

Here is a look at Claire's newest set:

Enjoy the card projects from the team and 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 awesome projects? Just click on the links below to begin the hop:

Beth Silaika  - Today’s featured illustrator

Claire Brennan - Today’s featured illustrator
Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Donna Idlet

Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore

Theresa Momber

Don’t forget to stop by the Gina K. Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” category athttp://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Enjoy today's inspiration and Happy Stamping!
Hugs,

Gina K.

Inspiration Blog Hop - Day 1

Hi Everyone!

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

Melanie Muenchinger's newest set, Pressed Flowers 2 also has a coordinating die set that cuts out these flowers and leaves and will also cut out the flowers and leaves from A Year of Flowers 2! 

Here is a look at Melanie's newest set:

Theresa Momber's newest set, Framescapes- Tropical Skies, is the next edition in her popular Framescapes series. This one will have you making beautiful scenes throughout the summer and beyond!

Here is a look at Theresa's newest set:

Enjoy the card projects from the team and 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 awesome projects? Just click on the links below to begin the hop:

Melanie Muenchinger  - Today’s featured illustrator

Theresa Momber - Today’s featured illustrator

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet

Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore

Don’t forget to stop by the Gina K. Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” category at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Enjoy today's inspiration and Happy Stamping!
Hugs,

Gina K.

Sentimental Summer

Hi Everyone,
I am so excited to be able to share a blog hop with you featuring the new Sentimental Summer StampTV Kit! This kit is filled with stamps, dies, patterned paper and card stock that will help you create beautiful cards throughout the summer and beyond!

I have already share two videos with you featuring the Dazzling Dahlia stamp set from the kit. If you haven't had a chance to see these videos, here are photos of the cards with the StampTV Video link underneath each card.

First, I showed you the kit and how to use colored pencils and gamsol to color the flowers. (I will be showing you the watercolored version soon!)

Click here to watch this video:

Sentimental Summer- Colored Pencils and Gamsol

Then, I created these cards using the Dazzling Dahlia stamp set along with embossing powder. This technique is fun and different and surely worth a try! 

Click here to watch this video:

Sentimental Summer- Metallic Dahlias

I was out in New York visiting my daughter, and although I couldn't bring my whole stamp room, I managed to bring a few things to color. Here is a peek of some of the coloring I did for my next video coming later this week.

This is just one of those kits where I get so many ideas in my head, I can't decide what to make first! So I end up making two to three cards at a time. Haha! Are any of you like that? 

You can get your new Sentimental Summer StampTV kit by clicking HERE

(We are starting to run low and we have more supplies on order however, once they sell out, it will be about a three week wait until they are restocked. I just wanted to keep you updated in case you don't like to wait.)

So now it's time to hop! 

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 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.

You can start hopping here:

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger  

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore

Theresa Momber

Enjoy all of today's inspiration and thanks so much for joining us!

Hugs,

Gina K.

Another Fun with Foil Blog Hop!

Hi everyone,

We have received such amazing feedback on the new Foil-Mates™ line that we have decided to put together another special hop for you today! We are sharing a combination of videos and traditional blog posts and we hope you are inspired to FOIL ALL THE THINGS! :)

The Foil-Mates™ line contains everything you need to create beautiful cards that shine. Included in the line are beautiful foils by ThermOWeb™ in Gina K. Designs™ colors, pre-printed sentiments, invitations and backgrounds that bond with the foil when using a laminator, dies that work together to perfectly cut out your sentiments and invitations, and ink, card stock and ribbon that will pull it all together.

I'd like to personally thank ThermOWeb™ for giving me the opportunity to bring this line to you and for providing my team the beautiful tools to share projects and keep you inspired. 

As you hop through the blogs, make sure you leave a comment because one lucky person will be chosen from all the comments and will take home a $50 Gina K. Designs™  Gift Certificate! Look for the winner in the BIG NEWS forum at StampTV.com a few days from now. 

In my post, I wanted to share several of my past videos featuring the different components of this line and how they work. Since these videos are all here in this blog post, you can book mark it and easily find the video you want by stopping by here.

To learn the basics of foiling with the Foil-Mates™ line, watch this video. This videos how you how to foil and how to use the negative pieces of foil to create additional projects.

To learn fun ways to use the dies from the Foil-Mates™ line and to see fun inking techniques, watch this video.




And then, to see how to use the new Deco-Foil™ Transfer Gel with stencil, stamps and glitter, watch this video.

   

Ready for more inspiration? Start hopping here:

Beth Silaika
Cathy Tidwell
Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet
Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin
Melanie Muenchinger
Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore
Theresa Momber

Thank you so much for all of your support! It seems no matter how much of this line we order, it flies right off the shelves! We have lots in stock and lots more on the way including the transfer gel which should arrive within the next couple of days.

Enjoy all of today's inspiration and Happy Stamping!
Hugs,
Gina K.

Guest Designer- Justine Hovey

We have a wonderful guest designer today at Gina K. Designs! 

The talented Justine Hovey has joined us and she is sharing 5 beautiful cards she made using Melanie Muenchinger's A Year of Flowers 2 stamp set! 

These same techniques can be applied to many of the flower sets including the original A Year of Flowers, Pressed Flowers and Melanie's latest Fabulous Flowers for a more petite version of Justine's beautiful cards! 

To see Melanie's entire stamp collection, visit our online store HERE.



You can visit Justine's blog HERE
And you can visit her YouTube Channel HERE

And a HUGE thank you to Justine for sharing her talent with Gina K. Designs today! (I will be adding her video to the library at StampTV.com.)

Enjoy today's inspiration!
Hugs,
Gina K.

Exciting News and a Special Classroom Series!

We have three winners!
1. Chrisann MajernikMay 4, 2017 at 10:14 AM

Wow! Congrats to you. It's like Charlie's Angels of the cardmaking world! Crossing my fingers for a win 💛

2. Katherine Frasher Schmitt Much easy to leave a comment here! I love online craft classes! On the blog, I scrolled and scrolled to through comments...never did reach the end in order to make my comment there?.just sayin...

3. Joy BlandMay 4, 2017 at 11:43 AM
I absolutely LOVE all three of you gals! Watch your videos all the time. And I love glitter and anything shiny. Would love your classes! I am a 72 year old great gramma and teach all the grandkids and greats crafting!

Please send me your email address so I can forward that onto to customer service at OCC and they can get you set up for your class! You can email me at gina@ginakdesigns.com.

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Hi Everyone,

OUCH! Did you hear that? THAT was the sound of me pinching myself because I am SO excited to share this news with you about a very special classroom series!

Several months ago, I got a very special email from my friend Jennifer McGuire. She told me that she and her partner Kristina Werner wanted me to be one of the instructors for their Online Card Classes website and asked me if I would participate! 

Of course I said YES! (I'm surprised you didn't hear me!)

I will be teaching one of the courses in the Sparkle & Shine Online Card Class series!

You can register now for the class by clicking here: ONLINE CARD CLASSES

They also have tons of other fabulous classes and these aren't just YouTube videos. These are in depth courses where you will learn at a much deeper level! 

Here is just a little bit about what you get in the SPARKLE & SHINE CLASS:

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ONLINE CARD CLASSES’ SPARKLE & SHINE INCLUDES:

• 18+ videos and cards in a variety of styles.
• PDFs with step-by-step written instructions that you can print out and take anywhere.
• A forum for discussion between students and teachers
• A student gallery to show your work!
• Discount codes for shopping
• When you register for class, you have lifetime access to all class materials!

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And guess what? I am giving away THREE classes! 

So leave a comment here and I will be choosing three winners tomorrow evening who will win an Online Card Class!

I hope you will join us for this series! We are going to have so much fun together!

Hugs,
Gina K.

Foil-Mates Blog Hop- Day 3

Hi Everyone,
Today is our final day of Blog Hops for our new line of Foil-Mates™, however, it is just marking the beginning of my video series using these fun products!

If you head over to StampTV today, you will find my latest video called Foil-Mates™- 3 Ways to Use the Dies. If you are reading this here on my blog and not through a Blog Feed, email or Blog reader, you can watch right here on my blog:



In this video, you will learn a few of the many ways to use the new dies that are part of the Foil-Mates™ line to make beautiful cards that shine!

Here is a photo of the complete set of dies from this collection:

These dies are the most versatile dies I have ever used! They perfectly coordinate with the Foil-Mates™ Sentiments and Invitations sets plus, they are filled with other fun smaller dies to expand your creativity and options! And, they layer together to form perfect mats while working well with just about all of your stamps to create beautiful framing options.

Here are the projects I am featuring in today's video.

All of these projects were so much fun to create!

And no matter how many times I pull that foil away, I always say "OOOOOHHHHHH" out loud and then laugh at myself. But I can't help it because it NEVER gets old! It's always amazing!

Today, the team has more beautiful Foil-Mates™ projects to share featuring the this new line that I know you will LOVE! As you go through the blogs, leave a comment on each one along with way because we will be picking a winner from all the comments who will win a $50 gift certificate to the Gina K. Designs™ online store!

You can find the Foil-Mates™ line at local retailers, you favorite online stores, www.Thermoweb.com AND now at www.ginakdesigns.com,

Ready for more inspiration? You can start hopping here:

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger  

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Susie Moore

Theresa Momber

Enjoy all of today's inspiration and thanks for coming on this fun, shiny journey with us! Next week, I will be featuring the new Deco-Foil™ Gel so hold on to your hat! 

Make it a great day and Happy Stamping! 

Hugs,

Gina K.