Gina K. Designs – Karen's Creative Designs

Gina K Designs Monthly Mix Challenge

Hi Everyone and Welcome to my Blog. 😊❤️

This month I am hosting the Monthly Mix Challenge over at Gina K. Designs Blog.

I thought it would be fun to do some ink smooshing and share two ways to do it. The Challenge is to do some ink smooshing and make it a fall themed card. I used my Gina K. Designs Mini Ink Cubes for this technique and some inexpensive watercolor paper.

I gathered my materials: ( I will have a link down below the cards so you can see all the times used for these cards. )

Stamp Sets, Ink Cubes, Dies, Card Stock and Watercolor paper, Glue and Tape Runner and Bling.

Here is how I put it all together.

I started out smooshing my ink cubes on my TH glass mat (you can use many different surfaces to do this on. Like a piece of acetate, glass, mix media mat, or anything that you would use to do watercolor on that is waterproof.) Then I smooshed my ink cubes in a area that was near the size of my piece of 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ watercolor paper.

Smooshed 4 different colors on my mat.

Spritzed with water so the colors would spread out some.

Then placed my watercolor paper over the wet ink. Rubbed my fingers over the paper and let it set for several seconds.

Then I lifted the paper…… and I am always surprised at the results. No two are ever alike! 😍

Giving it time to dry while I work on the second piece.

On This panel I used a stamping block I have had in my stash a long time. You can used any block you have. A round would one would be cool. I may have to try that one myself. ❤️ I smooshed the lights color first. This is Prickly Pear.

Then I added the Tangerine Twist sprinkled around.

Finished it off with smooshing the Fired Brick and the Coral Reef ink cubes.

Spritzed with a bit of water.

Once I got the ink wet I flipped my block over and placed it on the watercolor panel.

Gave them both plenty of time too dry.

Then Cut out with the Master Layouts Dies 2

Used the Skeleton Leaves Mini Stamp set & the Forever stamp set for the greeting on the first card. Then stamped the word Forever on the second one and used the Grateful Die.

Here are all the items used for these two cards!

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Gina K. Designs Forever Flowers – No Line Watercoloring Video

Hi everyone and Thank you for stopping by!

I am sharing a video made with Gina K. Designs Forever Flowers stamp set. I love doing no-line coloring and watercoloring is no exception.

Forever Flowers No Line Watercoloring

Here are the items used for this card project:

Thank you again for stopping by and I hope you all will take a little time to get inky!

(Hugs) Karen ❤️

GKD – Flashback Friday

Hi Friends! Welcome to my blog! Today is Flashback Friday and I have a couple of cards to share with you! First is this card that I did a little watercolor on!

Really enjoyed watercoloring this poinsettia and really like that there is a set of dies if you want to cut it out! ❤ It is a great size to watercolor.

Gina K. Designs Supplies Used:

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Other Items used: Twine, Watercolor Paper, Daniel Smith Watercolors

Next is a card made using stamp set: Very Merry Christmas

I love this set by Emily Loggans & I think I am going to have to pull this set out to create a few cards like this! I stamped the background music stamp on the White layering weight card stock using Kraft Premium Dye Ink the did a little ink blending with Sandy Beach over the whole panel. Adding a little more ink on the outer edges. I didn’t add to much of the Sandy Beach ink to the middle as I wanted to leave it more white so I could add the Turquoise Sea after I stamped the greeting in Embossing Ink & heat embossed it using GKD Fine Detail Embossing Powder. I also die cut the topper to the ornament and then added the embossing ink all over it and then heat embossed it in GKD Silver Embossing Powder. Stamped and Die cut the Holly leaves and foiled them using the Turquoise Sea Fancy Foil and I had a piece of the stripes left over from another project so those got added to the side! All product are listed below!

Supplies Used and links to find them!

Thank you so much for stopping by and looking! Remember tomorrow Gina K. Designs is having a Coupon Code for a discount. You can put any of these items on your wish list then grab the code and move them to your cart for purchase! 🙂 Have a great day and I hope you take a little time to get inky! ❤

Gina K. Designs New Release 9-2019

Hi there! I hope you are having a good week. I wanted to share a couple of cards with you from the Gina K. Designs Newest Release. I used the Card Kit Autumn Splendor stamp set – Colossal Cone Flowers and the Stamp Set – Majestic Peony.

First card I used the Colossal Cone Flowers Stamp set & the Majestic Peony Stamp Set for the greeting! I smooched Distress Ink on a craft Matt a Yellow color and a green, then spritzed with water and placed a piece of watercolor paper on top of the ink. I deliberately left a area open at the top so I could add a blue to look like a sky. Did the same smooching technique! 😉 When it was dry I placed it in my Misti and inked up the Image & the Greeting with Obsidian – Amalgam Ink. Finished it off with some bling from my stash.

Colossal Cone Floers

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Colossal Cone Flowers
Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base, Black Onyx
Premium Dye Ink -Honey Mustard on the inside.
Amalgam Ink – Obsidian
Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue, & Foam Squares

Other Items:
Watercolor Paper (Arches Cold Press), Bling from my stash, & Distress Inks

I have a feeling this set will be used a lot! ❤

The second card is one made with the Majestic Peony Stamp Set. I heat embossed it using Gina K. Designs Silver Embossing Powder and Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Majestic Peony
Pure Luxury Card Stock– White Heavy Base, & Black Onyx. Amalgam Ink – Obsidian
Adhesive Dot Runner, & Connect Glue
Fine Detail Embossing Powder – Silver
Embossing & Watermark Ink
Anti Static Embossing Pad
Bling and Zig Clean Color Realbrush Markers, Bristol Smooth Paper to color on

Such a Fabulous Release. 🙂 ❤ To Shop Click > Gina K.Designs or if you want to look around! Have a great day and see you next week! I Hope you get to take a little time to get Inky! ❤

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

Hi Everyone and Welcome back to day two of our Gina K. Designs Card Kit and Illustrator Blog Hop Day 2! I am so glad you have stopped by. Today we are sharing the New Card Kit – Autumn Splendor. I know you have seen some amazing cards along your journey so far! ❤ So let me show you the kit again… ❤ Love this kit!

This Card Kit is Lushes. ❤ Those flowers and leaves and dies Oh my! Then that awesome Stencil! I can’t wait to use it much more really soon! ❤ You have come from the oh so talented Hannah Drapinski‘s Blog. Be sure to spread some love and comment on the blogs for your chance to Winning a $50.00 Gift Certificate from Gina K. Designs. Winner will be announced on Gina K. Designs blog several days after the hop. Here are the cards I made with the New Autumn Splendor Card Kit stamp sets for the release last night!Couldn’t wait to do some watercoloring and some layering! ❤

Colossal Cone Flowers
Layered Leaf Prints

My My I do Love these Flowers in this set! They are really large and so much fun to color. This Stamp set is called: Colossal Cone Flowers

Gina K. Designs:
Stamp Set – Colossal Cone Flowers
Dies – Rectangle Large Single Stitched and Small Double Stitched sets
Pure Luxury Card Stock– White Heavy Base, Layering Weight White, Black Onyx
Premium Dye Ink – Turquoise Sea, Ocean Mist, Tranqual Teal, Sandy Beach, & Kraft
Amalgam Ink – Obsidian
Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue, & Foam Squares
Fancy Gingham Ribbon – Black/White
Bling form my stash

The Second card is made with these beautiful Layered Leaves. Such a great way to get the watercolor look with ease! I stamped the leaves on watercolor paper with Distress Inks and then used a waterbrush to blend the colors, added some splatters and a greeting! This Set is Called: Layered Leaf Prints

Supplies Used:

Gina K. Designs:
Stamp Set – Layered Leaf Prints From the New Card Kit “Autumn Splendor”
Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base & Black Onyx
Amalgam Ink – Obsidian.
Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue, Foam Squares
Watercolor Paper, Distress Inks, & Bling From My Stash

I hope you have had lots of inspiration along your way today! Next up on the Blog Hop is the super talented Arjita Singh. Check out her awesome creations and Have a great day! I Hope you take a little time to get inky! ❤

To Shop Click > Gina K. Designs or you can click on any of the blue words! Thank you for your support and Happy Stamping! ❤

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Gina K. Designs Card Kit and Illustrator Blog Hop Day 1 September 2019

Welcome to this months Gina K. Designs Card Kit and Illustrator Blog Hop. Today we are Featuring two New Stamp Sets. Majestic Peony by: Hannah Drapinski. Look at those Gorgeous Flowers! Wow! I can see lots of techniques to be done with this set! Second we have – Happy Fall by: Emily Loggans. What a fun & fabulous set. Look at the Large Greetings, Along with that banner and the coordinating die! ❤

Magestic Peony
Happy Fall
Happy Fall Dies

These are the cards from the Release Party!

Majestic Peony
Happy Fall

You should have arrived from the Super Talented Sheri Gilson’s Blog. Remember to Leave a little love on the blogs for your chance to Win a $50.00 Gift Certificate From Gina K. Designs! I am excited to share with you the cards I made for today!

The first card is made with the Majestic Peony Stamp Set. I really enjoyed coloring on this big bunch of flowers!

Supplies Used:

Gina K. Designs
Stamp Set – Majestic Peony
Pure Luxury Card Stock– White Heavy Base, Black Onyx
Amalgam Ink – Obsidian, & Whisper
Adhesive Dot Runner & Connect Glue
Watercolor Paper (Arches Cold Press), Bling From My Stash, Daniel Smith Watercolors

Next up is the Happy Fall Stamp Set! I couldn’t wait to use the Wreath Builder Template With these leaves in this set! ❤

Supplies Used:

Gina K. Designs:
Stamp Set – Happy Fall
Pure Luxury Card Stock– White Heavy Base, Layering Weight White, Black Onyx
Premium Dye Ink – Fresh Asparagus, Prickly Pear, & Tomato Soup
Amalgam Ink – Obsidian
Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue, & Foam Squares
Wreath Builder Template
Misti
Bling from my stash

I hope you are enjoying the hop! Next up is the Amazingly talented Arjita Singh.

Thank you so much for spending some time with me today and I hope you take a little time to get inky! <3. To Shop Click > Gina K. Designs

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Stamp N Stencil Mix ‘N Mingle Gina K. Designs W/ Therm-O-Web Blog Hop

Hi Everyone and Welcome to this fun Blog Hop Celebrating the New Release of Gina K. Designs & Therm-O-Web! We are featuring two Brand New Stamp n Stencils Set *Autumn Wishes & *Wishing You Joy. There is also Two New Colors in the Glitz Glitter Gel Line! Pumpkin Spice & Holiday Pine. WOW!!!! What Wonderful New Products to create with! Here are the sets.

Autumn Wishes
Wishing You Joy

Pumpkin Spice Glitz Glitter Gel
Holiday Pine – Glitter Glitter Gel

Would You Like a Chance to WIN a Prize? Gina K. Designs and Therm-O-Web each will randomly pick a Winner. Comment on the blogs for your chance, the more you comment the more chances you have! The Prize is a $50.00 Gift Cert. from the company that draws your name. Winner will be announced on the companies blog on September 11th. So be sure to check both places. Tomorrow we will also have a Instagram Hop. Come join us over on Instagram for more fun and inspiration.

Here are my card projects & a Video for today! ❤ This one is made with the New Autumn Wishes Stamps, Stencil, and Sweet Mango Glitz Glitter Gel.

Gina K. Designs / Therm-O-Web

StampnStencil – Autumn Wishes Stamp Set

StampnStencil – Autumn Wishes Stencil.

Glitz Glitter Gel – Sweet Mango

Adhesive Dot Runner

Gina K. Designs Supplies Used:

Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base, White Layering Weight, & Black Onyx

Premium Dye Inks – Wild Dandelion, Sweet Mango, & Coral Reef

Amalgam Ink – Obsidian

What fun these sets are!!! Next we have the Wishing You Joy – Stamp n Stencil – Stamp Set & Stencil. I really am enjoying the stencil with this fabulous set!

Gina K. Designs / Therm-O-Web Supplies:

Stamp n Stencil – Stamp Set – Wishing You Joy

Stamp n Stencil – Stencil – Wishing You Joy

Sheer Satin Fancy Ribbon – White & Silver

Foam Squares, & Adhesive Dot Runner

Gina K. Designs Supplies:

Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base, White Layering Weight, Turquoise Sea

Premium Dye Ink – Turquoise Sea

Pastillage Texture Past

Fine Detail embossing Powder – Silver

Embossing & Watermark Ink

Be sure to leave some love on the blogs for your chance to Win one of the $50.00 prizes that will be given away!

Are You Ready for a lot more Inspiration? Well Get ready… Next up is Mona Toth ❤

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Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you take a little time to get inky! ❤

Stamptember with Gina K. Designs

Hi Friends! Welcome to my blog. We are Helping Celebrate STAMPtember. Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember collaboration with Gina K. Designs. Today I am featuring the New Festive Flower stamp set for Simon Says Stamps. This set is exclusive to Simon Says Stamps and will be available for a limited time! So hurry and get yours before they are all gone! 🙂 Here are the cards I made using the New Festive Flower set!

Supplies Used:

Simon Says Stamp – Festive Flower

Gina K. Designs – Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base Weight, & Black Onyx

Amalgam Ink – Obsidian, and Whisper

Other items: Bristol Smooth Paper, Bling from my stash, Zig Clean Color Markers

I can’t wait to make more cards with this set, I have really enjoyed creating with it. I used Gina K. Designs Wreath Builder Template for this card.

Supplies Used:

Simon Says Stamps – Festive FLowers

Gina K. Designs – Wreath Builder Template (I used the 4″)

Background Stamp – Diagonal Stripes

Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base, White Layering Weight, & Black Onyx

Premium Dye Ink – Fresh Asparagus, Red Velvet

Amalgam Ink – Obsidian

Other items – Gold Twine & Copic Markers

That is all from me today! I hope you all have a wonderful day and take a little time to get crafty! ❤ To do some shopping for the Exclusive Stamp Set Click Here> Simon Says Stamps To Shop @ Gina K. Designs Thank you so much, Karen H. ❤

Gina K. Designs Card Kit & Illustrator July 2019 Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome!!!! It is Day Two of our Gina K. Designs Blog Hop! I am so glad you have stopped by today! We are Featuring the New Stamp Set – “Main Squeeze” by – Hannah Schroepfer. Along with the New Card Kit – Pop Art Flowers! This Kit is Full of fun things to create lots of fabulous cards with! You should have came from the super talented Susie Moore’s Blog. Her cards are Fabulous! ❤

Main Squeeze
Main Squeeze Dies
Pop Art Flowers

Here are a few other New Items that are going to be used a lot. The New Amalgam Ink – Obsidian will have a home on my desk forever! ❤ The Electro Pop Colors are so cheerful I know if I just need a little happy, I just have to stamp something in these colors! 🙂 The New Texture Paste is something I am looking forward to creating with. I used it on a card I shared at the release party and it was fun mixing it with some of the Electro Pop Colors!

Would You Like a chance to Win a $50.00 Gift Certificate from Gina K. Designs? Leave a little Love on all the Blogs and a Winner will be Randomly Picked on Friday and posted on Gina K.’s Blog

Here are a few cards from the Release Party Tuesday Night!

First for this Hop, I am sharing a card made with the Main Squeeze Stamp Set. What a great set and the fruit are great that you can layer them to create fun and realistic fruit! 🙂 ❤

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Main Squeeze

Dies – Main Squeeze Dies, Large and Small Circle Stitched Dies, Large and Small Rectangle Stitched Dies

Card Stock – White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Sea Glass

Premium Die Ink – Sea Glass, Lemon Drop, Wild Dandelion, Jelly Bean Green, & Grass Green

Sheer Satin Fancy Ribbon – Silver/White

Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue, Foam Squares

Next Up is the Pop Art Flowers Card Kit:

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Electro Pop with Coordinating Dies In The Pop Art Flowers Kit

Electro Pop Inks All Colors

Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Black Onyx

Amalgam Ink – Jet Black

Stencil – Sun Spots

Adhesive Dot Runner, Foam Squares

The second card from the kit for todays hop! ❤

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Pop Art Flowers with Coordinating Dies In the Pop Art Flowers Card Kit

Dies Elegant Oval

Stencil – Funky Flourish

Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base and Layering Weight, & Black Onyx

Amalgam Ink – Jet Black

Premium Die Ink – Peach Bellini, Coral Reef, Faded Brick, Key Lime, Jelly Bean Green, & Fresh Asparagus

Fancy Gingham Ribbon – Black / White

Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue, & Foam Squares

Bling for my stash

This Line art flower is so Beautiful! ❤

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Wrapped In Love Card Kit – Pop Art Flowers

Card Stock – Sea Glass, White Heavy Base & Layering Weight

Fine Detail Embossing Powder – White

Sheer Satin Fancy Ribbon – White/ Silver

Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue, and Foam Square

Sequins from stash

That is all from me today! Next up on the hop is the super talented Sheri Glison . Enjoy the Fabulous Inspiration from the team & I hope you have a wonderful day and take a little time to get inky! ❤

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Gina K. Designs Card Kit & Illustrator Blog Hop July 2019

Hi Everyone, Welcome to Gina K. Designs New Release! We are so glad you have joined us for our Hop! You just came from Mindy Eggen’s Blog. She does such fabulous work! ❤ Today we are featuring three new stamp sets “Perfect Pallets” – By Melanie Muenchinger, “Beautiful Balloons” – By Beth Silaika, and “Your Wings” – By Lisa Hetrick.

Here are a few of the cards from the release party!

Perfect Pallets & Main Squeeze Stamp Sets

Beautiful Balloons and the New Pastillage Paste Tinted with the New Electro Pop Inks

There are so many new and fun things in this Release! Gina K. has Released Rina K.’s New Electro Pop Inks. They are so much fun to create with and the colors are all so vibrant! ❤ Gina has also Release her Newest Amalgam Ink- Obsidian. It is a Deep Dark Pitch Black. ❤ Also Gina K. has a New texture paste called Pastillage. There will be lots of usage with that for sure! 🙂 Beautiful Balloons has a coordinating Die for the Stamp Set!

How would you like a chance to win a $50.00 Gift Certificate to Gina K. Designs? Be sure and leave some love ❤ on all the blogs and a winner will be randomly selected on Friday August 2nd. on Gina K. Designs Blog! ❤

It was so much fun creating with the New Set from the Illustrators and with the new products from Gina & Rina! ❤ First up is “Perfect Pallets” By: Melanie Muenchinger. When I used the Electro Pop Inks, I didn’t wipe off my stamp completely as I wanted the colors to blend together. I love the different colors I got when I stamped them. I inked up with the Raging Red, then the Hello Yellow, it gave me a orange color, then inked up with Hello Yellow Again and then with the Loud Lime. Followed by the Blaring Blue.

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Perfect Pallets

Electro Pop Neon Inks – Raging Red, Hello Yellow, Loud Lime, Blaring Blue, & Poppin’ Pink. I let the ink on the stamp mix with the next color I used to get a blend of colors!

New Amalgam Ink – Obsidian

Adhesives – Foam Squares, Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue

Pure Luxury Card Stock – White Heavy Base & Layering Weight, Black Onyx

Bling From My Stash

This card Features the Beautiful Balloons Set By – Beth Silaika This card was fun to make. I used one of the twine stamps in this set to make a boarder frame and die cut the balloon and popped it up! 🙂 Stamped 3 on the Inside as well.

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Beautiful Balloons

Beautiful Balloons Die

Card Stock – White Heavy Base Weight, Layering Weight White and Black Onyx

Electro Pop Neon Ink – Raging Red

Premium Dye Inks – Black Onyx

Adhesives – Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue, Foam Squares

Twine and Splatter paint from my stash

And Featuring “Your Wings” By: Lisa Hetrick. After smooshing some Sandy Beach Ink onto a mat and spritzing with water I then placed the watercolor paper on the ink and moved it around to pick up the ink. I let it dry then heat embossed the Butterfly Wings on Watercolor Paper and stamped the greeting and Body in the New Obsidian Amalgam Ink. Added the leaves at the bottom and added the shadow with a Copic Marker.

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Your Wings

Card Stock – White Heavy Base Weight, & Black Onyx

Amalgam Ink – Obsidian

Electro Pop Neon Ink – Raging Red & Loud Lime

Clear Fine Detail Embossing Powder

Premium Dye Ink – Fresh Asparagus, Sandy Beach

Adhesive Dot Runner, & Connect Glue

Bling from my stash, Zig Clean Color Markers, Watercolor Paper, Anti Static tool, Heat Gun, Copic – W2

Thats all from me today and I hope you are getting lots of Inspiration… Just wait until you see what the rest of the team has in store for you! See you tomorrow 🙂

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Up Next is…. Emily Loggans

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