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Gina K. Designs New Illustrator & Card Kit Release Aug. 2020 Day 2

Welcome everyone! I am so glad you stopped by today!

It is day two of Gina K. Designs New Release Blog Hop August 2020.

I know you all will be getting a lot of inspiration as you hop along today, as the team as made some fabulous samples to share! ❤

Today we are featuring the New Stamp Sets 1.) Welcome Home by – Beth Silaika 2.) Love Conquers by – Emily Loggans & 3.) Delightful Blooms by – Arjita Singh. With all these sets there is so many techniques you can do! ❤

Here is a look at the Stamp Sets and the coordinating Die Set for Welcome Home

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Enjoy all the inspiration as you hop!

Here are the cards I created for todays Hop!

First is the Welcome Home Stamp & Coordinating Die Set :

I love making my own Patterned Papers and this set was fun to do that with. I used a panel of GKD layering weight White card stock and a stamping block to stamp one of the birds in Sea Glass and the smaller dot, Stamped the single leaf and larger dot in Apple Mint. Then on a different piece of the layering weight card stock I used the stencil ( Fizzy ) from the Peace, Love & Sushi Card Kit and inked it up in the same two colors. Next I used the New Master Layouts 2 Die set to cut the two panels out in the stitched die and the back layering die I used Black Onyx. Attached the layers with adhesive. Stamped the birdhouse in Amalgam ink and colored with Copic Markers. Then die cut the pole. Fussy cut the birdhouse because I got out of lines! 🙂 I grabbed my Misti stamping tool and stamped the Welcome greeting on the stenciled panel and stamped the Home on a piece of scrap paper. Attached it with foam squares cut in half. Attached the learns together and on the card base. Popped up the bird house and added bling with connect glue.

Here are all the Supplies I used:

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Then I have a card made with the Stamp Set – Love Conquers

This is a quick card that as fun to create and turns out great. Card Base 4 1/4″ X 11″ scored at 5 1/2″ Using a piece of White Layering Weight Card stock I prepped for heat embossing. Put in my Misti and placed the greeting on the panel in the center. Stamped with Embossing Ink and then added the White embossing powder and heat set. Grabbed a blending brush and Apple Mint ink and blended the ink over the greeting and going lighter on the edges of the greeting. Next I inked up the Fizzy Stencil that comes in the Peace, Love & Sushi Card Kit with Sea Glass ink and blending ink light around the panel. Used a micro fiber cloth to remove any ink residue from the heat embossed greeting. Grabbed the Master Layouts 2 set and die cut the stitched panel and a Black Onyx panel with the larger of the two. Wrapped twine around the bottom area of the panel and added the little Heart embellishments. Used foam tape and attached the panel on a tilt.

Here are the items used for this card:

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And the last sample is made with Delightful Blooms

I couldn’t wait to color this image with my white pencils. I used Stormy Sky Card Stock and heat embossed the Delightful Blooms Flower image in White Fine Detail embossing powder. Then I used a White Prismacolor Pencil to color in the flowers. I used a N5 Copic marker for the dark area under the flowers. Used some velum and Heat embossed a greeting in Black Embossing Powder and wrapped around the corner of the panel. Attached it on the back with adhesive and then Layered it with a piece of Black Onyx Card Stock. Attached that on to a White Heavy Base Card Stock 4 1/4″ X 5 1/2″ Card Base.

Here are the Items used for this card:

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That is all I have today, I hope You have enjoyed the cards and we will see you tomorrow.

Next up for more inspirations is Lisa Hetrick with some fabulous cards to share with you!

Enjoy all the inspiration ahead! 🙂

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Thank you so much for stopping by and I Hope You take a little time to get Inky~ ❤

Hugs, Karen ❤

Gina K. Designs New Illustrator & Card Kit Blog Hop January 2020 Day 3

Welcome!!! Welcome!!!! Day 3 of The New Release Hop. I’m so Happy you have joined us again today! ❤ Today we are featuring the New – “A Big Hello” Card Kit! This Kit is Full of Amazing Stamp Sets and Dies, with Card Stock to create lots of cards with!

Isn’t that an Amazing Card Kit? Wow! Love it! ❤ For your chance to Win a $50.00 Gift Certificate From Gina K. Designs leave a comment on the blogs along your hop! Winner will be posted on Gina’s Blog and in the News Letter. You can sign up over at Gina K. Designs. Create a account and you will receive a new letter so you don’t miss any new or sales! Click the lock and create your account! ❤

Here are my cards Featuring this Months Card Kit – A Big Hello! ❤ I Love this set and look forward to making a lot of card with it!

For this card I used one of the flowers and embossing ink to stamp and get the tone on tone color for my patterned paper! Here are all the supplies used for this card! ❤

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This card was fun to create and I have a video on it as well! Doing some editing now. I did some masking on this one! Here is a video I am popping in here so you can how it is masked and colored! ❤

I Colored the images with Copic Markers and the rest of the items used are here:

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The Last card from me today is this fun Gal-entines card for a girlfriend of mine! ❤ I use the Stencil from the kit to create a soft heart background and I just love the little envelope in this sets too! ❤

Here are all the ingredients for this card!

Now!!!! Are You Ready for More Inspiration? Up Next is Lisa Hetrick!!! There is a lot of Inspiration ahead! If you need to see the full hop list You can Click > Gina K. Designs. If you need to shop you can click here> Gina K. Designs Have a Great day and I hope you take a little time to get Inky! ❤

Gina K. Designs Illustrator & Card Kit Blog Hop Day 1 October 2019

Welcome! So Glad You Have Joined Us! ❤ My goodness, we have so much fun & inspiring things to share with you this week! You should have landed here from Sheri’s blog. To start at the beginning or to see the full list, you can go to Gina K. Designs Blog.

Today we are featuring the New Stamp Sets: Holiday Trees by: Beth Silaika, Pallet Christmas by: Melanie Muenchinger, & Christmas Script by: Emily Loggans. These sets are fabulous for so many wonderful cards. So many ideas and not enough time to make them all! LOL. There are also Two New Background Stamps – Tall Pines and Tall Birch. Then if that isn’t enough, Gina K. has a couple of new & Gorgeous Stencils – Snowflake Mandala and Stellar Snowflake. Then with a qualifying purchase you will receive the Seasonal Greetings Incentive Stamp Set for Free.

Be sure to comment on all the blogs for your chance to be in the drawing to Win a $50.00 Gina K. Designs Gift Certificate. The Winner will be announced on Gina K. Designs Blog.

There are so many fabulous sets and stencils I couldn’t hardly decide what to do first! 🙂

From the Release Party: Holiday Trees, Pallet Christmas, & Christmas Script Click below to see all three.

Here is a card made using the New Stamp Set Holiday Trees by: Beth Silaika I have really enjoyed playing with this set. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to make some Poppin’ Pink Trees. So this is how it turned out! ❤

I lined up the tree in my Misti and stamped that fun tree 5 times to fit on the 2 1/8″ x 5″ White Layering Weight Panel with a Black Onyx under it. The Greeting is stamped in Obsidian Amalgam Ink on a 1″ x 3 6/8″ panel and backed with Black Onyx Card Stock attached with foam squares over the ribbon. All this sits on tip of a 4″ x 5 1/4″ White Layer that was stamped with the Diagonal Stripe Background stamp Inked up in Popping Pink Electro Pop Neon Ink.

Here is the supplies I used to make this fun Christmas Card.

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Then I pulled out the New set Pallet Christmas by: Melanie Muenchinger along with her Perfect Pallets set. All the little images in this set allow you to create a wonderful scene and of course pair with the Perfect Pallet set for some really great cards! Lots of ides for this set!

I Love this Pallet set and the Pallet Christmas has been fun to create all kinds of cool cards! I did the Ink Dragging Technique that Gina Shared recently in a video. After I stamped the Line art image of the pallet in Warm Cocoa, I used the solid image of the same pallet and used Sandy Beach to drug across the stamp. Then I did a little dragging of Kraft on the ends of the stamp so it would be a little darker. On the little trees I did the same technique. Stamped in the Greeting & Snowflakes then used the Fancy Labels Dies to die cut this panel. Added some twine and then popped it up on a embossed panel.

Supplies Used for this card:

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I couldn’t resist using the Christmas Script stamp set along with the Tall Pines Background stamp set to create a snowy scene! I first made some snow hills by lightly blending some blue ink around the edge of a mask. Moved the mask up a bit and blended more ink. Then blending ink around the edges and towards the center. Stamped the background stamp using the Ink Dragging Technique and some Fresh Asparagus Ink. I used a gel pen to add some snow to the trees. Put the panel in my Misti and stamped the Greeting with Obsidian Amalgam Ink. 🙂

Here are the goodies I used for this card:

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I Love this Glitz Glitter Gel! Here are the items used on these two cards!

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I hope you have enjoyed your visit!!! Thank you for stopping by and spending a little time here on my blog! ❤ Next up on this journey for inspiration is the very talented Cathy (Cat). She always has some very creative cards to share! 🙂 ❤

Be sure and leave some love on all the blogs for your chance to win that Gift Certificate. To Shop Click > Gina K. Designs Have a great day! (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! ❤

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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Gina K. Designs – Monthly Mix Challenge

This month Sheri Gilson is the Host of the Gina K. Designs Monthly Mix Challenge. Her Challenge is to make a Masculine Card

So I used the stamp set – By The Sea 2 from Theresa Momber for my Masculine Card! This card could be for anyone but I have someone in mind for this card and I think he will like it! 🙂

This is my card for the Challenge!

I used Gina K. Designs Premium Dye Inks for the sky and water.

Supplies Used:

Gina K. Designs –

Stamp Set – By The Sea 2

Premium Dye Ink – Ocean Mist, In The Navy, Blue Lagoon, Wild Dandelion, Sweet Mango, Coral Reef

Amalgam Ink – Obsidian ❤

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

Sassy Stripes – Stencil

Foam Squares, Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue

White marker, Copic – C-3

To Join in the Challenge you can Click Here> MMC 8- 2019

To Shop you can click here> Shop Gina K. Designs

Stamping Friends Trifecta Blog Hop

Hi Everyone!!! Thank you for joining us today for this Awesome Collaboration with Gina K. Designs, My Sweet Petunia and Picket Fence Studio. How exciting is it for three wonderful companies to come together to share some Fun and Inspiration!?!

Todays We are showcasing some amazing items. Some Fabulous Gina K. Designs Stamps and Dies. The incredible Misti and the New Cut-Align Tool from My Sweet Petunia. What wonderful tools these are. Along with the Life Changing Brushes from Picket Fence Studios and a couple of their Wonderful Stencils. I have to say, I don’t think I’ll ever use a sponge dauber for blending ever again! ❤

These Three Fabulous Companies are Each giving a $50.00 Gift Certificate to their Shops! That is 3 – $50.00 Gift Certificates, and you have a chance of winning one of them! What do you have to do? Well… Leave Comment on all the blogs in the hop and Winners will be announced on the company blogs no later than June 7th.

For my first card I had fun with this beautiful Peacock Stencil and my Blending Brushes! I used my Pixie Spray to hold down the stencil and then I grabbed some Gina K. Designs Premium Dye Inks and got to blending! Then I used a piece of Velum and my Mini MISTI and stamped the word Best and heat embossed it. I used my Cut-Align tool to trim it down to a nice small strip to go across my card! I do love that I can easily cut my greeting into small strips.

I then used the word Die – Wishes and cut out the word across the peacock. Then 1 in Black & 3 in white card stock. Glued the words together so they are stacked. I couldn’t get enough of the Peacock and the Blending Brushes so I stenciled some on the inside of the card to dress it up as well. I masked off around the stencil so I could just get the side of the peacock stenciled in and still leave some space to write.

The finished card and Items Used

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Wishes (I used the word “Best”)

Word Die – Wishes

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

Premium Dye Ink – Key Lime, Jelly Bean Green, Sea Glass, Turquoise Sea, Blue Raspberry

Fine Detail Embossing Powder – Clear

Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue

Other Items:

Gina K. Designs, My Sweet Petunia – MISTI

Gina K. Designs, My Sweet Petunia – Cut A Line

Gina K. Designs, Picket Fence Studios – Life Changing Brushes

Picket Fence Studios – Peacock Stencil

Pixie Spray – Gina K. Designs

Versa Mark Ink – Black, Velum

My second card was a fun one to create as well! I started by using Picket Fence Studios Stencil – Pineapple Collage. A piece of White Layering Weight Card Stock and some Pixie Spray – stencil spray. Then I used the Life Changing Brushed and Gina K. Designs Dye Inks to get this stenciled inked up! I love the little brush because I used a smaller one and I was able to get in to the top of the pineapple and add the green color! ❤

I used this panel for a background on my card. I also Die cut a tag and then ran the stencil and the tag through the embossing machine. I did leave a area at the bottom so I could stamp my greeting. I blended some ink on the tag and placed it in my Misti and stamped the greeting “Summer” at the bottom. Then I used the Hello Die and Cut out 3 from a piece of Black Onyx Card Stock and glued them together to give it more dimension.

Items Used for this card are:

Gina K. Designs:

Stamp Set – Wishes Used the word (Summer)

Die – Hello

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

Premium Die Ink – Wild Dandelion, Jelly Bean Green, Tiny bit of Fresh Asparagus, Prickly Pear, and Black Onyx

Decorative Tag Die

Adhesive Dot Runner, Connect Glue

Fancy Blk/ White Gingham

Gina K. Designs, My Sweet Petunia – Cut A Line

Gina K. Designs, My Sweet Petunia – Mini MISTI

Picket Fence Studios – Pineapple Stencil

Gina K. Designs, Picket Fence Studios – Life Changing Brushes

Pixie Spray – Gina K. Designs

I sure have had fun with our Friends and so much inspiration in todays hop! Enjoy and Remember to comment on all the blogs for your chance to Win! Next up is Ilina Crouse.

Thank you for stopping by and spending some time here on my blog and Happy Stamping! 🙂 ❤ To shop > Gina K. Design, My Sweet Petunia, Picket Fence Studios