April 2019 – Karen's Creative Designs

Gina K. Designs Card Kit and Illustrator Blog Hop Day 2 April 2019

Welcome Back to Day 2 of our Blog Hop! We are so glad you hap hopped in for a visit and some inspiration! The team is rocking this hop as We are Featuring some more Fabulous sets.

Here are the cards from the Release Party!

First up we have Gina K. Designs New Card Kit – Elegant Aster. Love this kit!!! The beautiful flowers and that oh so pretty Butterfly! ❤ I can’t wait to see all the cards made with this set in the gallery. It comes with those lovely script word dies as well as the fun Wishes set. We also have the Fun and Fabulous New Set – Hugs & Wildflowers by: Lisa Hetrick

Be sure and leave a little love on each of the blogs for your chance to Win a $50.00 Gift Certificate to Gina K. Designs! Winner will be announced on Friday the 19th. On Gina K. Designs Blog. I am loving creating cards with these new sets! ❤

Here are the mini sets in this release:

Smile Stamp set
Heart Stamp Set
Hugs Stamp set

Look at all the fabulous word dies too!

Spring Joy
Spring Joy

First up is the New Card Kit – Elegant Asters. The flowers and butterfly in this set are fabulous to create with! Here is my card for today! ❤

Gina K. Designs:
Stamp Set – Elegant Asters
Dies – Elegant Asters
Card Stock – White Heavy Base and Layering Weight, Black Onyx, Sweet Mango
Premium Dye Ink – Sweet Mango
Amalgam Ink – Jet Black
Adhesive Dot Runner
Connect Glue
Foam Squares
Embossing and Watermark Ink
Fine Detail Embossing Powder – White
Velum and Bling

So while creating and playing with my Alcohol Ink and Gina K. Fancy Foils, I decide I wanted to try using Gina K.’s Amalgam Ink on one of the panels. Well, I inked up my stamp and after I stamped it, I though… it didn’t work. But what I didn’t realize, was that what ever the Amalgam Ink was made of, it reacted to the Alcohol Inks. I was able to do a Ink Lift with Gina K. Amalgam Inks. I was so excited to share it with you! Here is a video I made to share the fun with you all! I do hope you will try it soon! 🙂

Here are two cards I did some ink lifting on!

Elegant Asters / Ink Lifting
Elegant Asters / Ink Lifting

Up Next is Hugs and Wildflowers Stamp Set and matching Dies! I love creating with this New Set by: Lisa. I wanted it to look like watercolor and a bit whimsical so I did off set on the flowers line art and the solid image.

Hugs and Wildflowers Stamp Set w/ Matching Dies

Here are the Supplies I used to make this one!

Gina K. Designs:
Stamp Set – Hugs and Wildflowers
Dies – Hugs and Wildflowers Single and Double Stitched Rectangle sets
Card Stock – Black Onyx, White Heavy Base, White Layering Weight
Premium Dye Ink – Red Velvet, Dusty Rose, & Jelly Bean Green
Amalgam Ink – Jet Black
Adhesive Dot Runner
Connect Glue
Foam Squares
Other items: Twine, & Sequins

Thank you for hopping by and spending some time with me today! Up next is Melanie Muenchinger with her Fabulous Creations!

Gina K. – Elegant Aster Card Kit

Lisa Hetrick – Hugs and Wildflowers

Karen Hightower – You Are Here! 🙂

Thank you and I do hope you have a Wonderful Day and get to get a little inky! To Shop Click > Gina K. Designs or on the words of the stamp sets and supplies I used listed above. Thank you so much for your support! ❤ Hugs, Karen

Gina K. Designs Card Kit and Illustrator Blog Hop April 2019

Hi Everyone and Welcome! Thank you so much for joining us today on our hop! Today we are Featuring a couple of new stamp sets! We have the New Set By: Melanie Muenchinger – ” Puppies Galore” This set… is Lots of fun and sweet puppies can be made with it. I love that you can change the ears and have a different puppy. It was like playing with my paper dolls and changing the clothes. You get to change the ears with this set and add a collar, or a scarf! 🙂 Then we have the New Set By: Beth Silaika – “For the Grad”. Love the greetings in this set and I think this set will be great to use for someone you want to send a encouraging card to. If it is a pre schooler or a Collage Grad and every thing in between! I also used the Smile Stamp set and Smile Die on the cards in the Gallery Above. Also the Heart Stamp Set and Die for the card Featured Below.

Puppies Galore
For The Grad
Smile Die
Smile Stamp set
Heart Die
Heart Stamp Set

Gina K. Designs will have a $50.00 Gift Certificate for someone that comments on our blogs. Be sure to comment for your chance to win! ❤ Gina K. Designs will post the Winner over on her Blog on Friday April 19th.

First up is Puppies Galore By: Melanie Muenchinger This little Puppies Galore Set is just so sweet. Here is the card made for todays hop.

Puppies Galore / Heart Die / Heart Stamp Set

This sweet little pup was stamped in Stormy Sky and colored with Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils. I used the Heart Stamp Set and Die to finish out this card along with the Furever stamp from the Puppies Galore Stamp Set. Below are the items used for this project! ❤

Gina K. Designs:
Stamp Set – Puppies Galore and Heart Set
Dies – Heart
Card Stock – White Layering and Heavy Base, Black Onyx
Premium Dye Ink – Sea Glass, Red Hot, Stormy Sky & Black Onyx
Adhesive Dot Runner
Connect Glue
Crystalline Drops for his nose and eyes
Colored with Copics and Pencils

Next up is the card I made with For The Grad. By: Beth Silaika

What a great set for the grad in your life! For the Collage Grad or the Preschool Grad this set will fix you up!

Supplies used for this card:

Gina K. Designs:
Stamp Set – For the Grad
Dies – Single Stitched or Double Stitched Circle
Card Stock – Black Onyx, White Heavy Base and Layering Weight
Amalgam Ink – Jet Black
Adhesive Dot Runner
Connect Glue
Foam Squares
Fancy-Foils™ – Sparkling Silver
Foil-Mates™ – Where’s The Party
Toner Paper, Bling

Hope you enjoyed the cards, and Next we have Ms. Lisa! ❤ Enjoy the rest of the teams creations and don’t forget to comment! ❤

Gina K. Designs

Melanie Muenchinger – Puppies Galore

Beth Silaika – For The Grad

Karen Hightower – You are Here! ❤

Thank you for stopping by and spending a little time with me. I am so glad you did! 🙂 I hope you take a little time to get inky! To shop you can click on the blue words or you can click Here > Gina K. Designs

See you tomorrow! 🙂 Hugs! Karen ❤

Monthly Mix Challenge!

This Months Challenge is Hosted by: Mindy Eggen!

Her challenge is to create some Ombre Inked blending for your card. Here is what I came up with! I used Gina K. Designs Bold and Blooming Stamp Set

Along with some Oxide Inks for my background. I Blended them together with Picket Fence – Life Changing Blending Brushes.

I love how easy these brushes are to blend ink and to clean up! I don’t have the full set of Oxide Inks but I do have some and here are the three I used for this card! Fossilized Amber, Twisted Citron, & Peacock Feathers.

I used a little water and some reindeer – Black Onyx to add the droplets on the background!

There is still a couple of weeks left to join us in the Monthly Mix Challenge, and remember there will be 3 winner picked! Gina K. Designs a $25.00 Gift Certificates for those winners! ❤ To Join in the Challenge click – Gina K. Designs Monthly Mix Challenge

This is my card for the challenge! Good Luck to all the entries! Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day! Hope you take a little time to get inky! ❤

Ink On 3 Release

Welcome to my blog today! I was asked to Guest Design for Ink On 3 for their New Release using the New Stamp Set – Heels To You!

Ink On 3 has a couple of Coupon Codes for everyone for this release.

US – Free Shipping on Orders Over $35.00 Use Coupon Code – USfreeship35

International ~ Get $4.10 off total order with orders over $35.00 Coupon Code ~ int410inkon3

Coupons Valid Wednesday April 10th to April 17th

So many ideas running through my head with this set. I love that sweet Magnolia in this set. I made two cards and the first one is done masking off the flower and stamped in Fadeout Ink then did some watercoloring!

Supplies Used:

Ink On 3

Stamp Set – Heels To You!

Ink – Fadeout

Ink – Blackout Hybrid

Liquid Pixie Dust

Watercolor Paper, Daniel Smith Watercolors

Gina K. Designs Supplies:

Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base, Black Onyx, & Tomato Soup

Adhesives – Connect Glue, Foam Tape, Masking Magic

For the second card I made, I used the Coordinating Dies with this set! Stamped it with the Juicy Clear Embossing Ink and Die cut the words out 3 times. Stacked them together using Gina K. Designs Connect Glue!