Outlawz POM Challenge

Happy Thursday my friends!

Today I have a card to entice you to pop over to The Outlawz POM Group and check out the challenge for this week.
Can you guess what it is? If you guessed embossing you are correct! The challenge is to use embossing folder(s) or embossing powder on your project. The rule we have for the POM challenges is that you can not use Alcohol ink markers on your project. Anything in your crafting arsenal of mediums is perfectly fine to use.

For my card I used both embossing folders and clear embossing powder. When I want to match my wet embossing to the colors of my project, I will first ink up my stamp with versamark and ink it again with the colored ink before stamping on the paper. Sprinkle clear embossing powder over the stamped image or sentiment and heat it as you normally would. Inking the stamp with versamark then with the colored ink will not harm your ink pad at all.

The sentiment is by Serendipity Stamps that I have had in my stash forever! The embossing folders are Cuttlebugs Swiss Dots and Sizziz Dots folders.

I hope you will visit us at The Outlawz and play along with this weeks POM Challenge!

Remember this month we have Digi Doodle Shop sponsoring us for the month with a $10 GC!!
Every submission will get you another chance at winning! Drawing will be June 2nd.

The Outlawz also has three sponsors site wide for the month of May!!
Rusty from Oozak.com is providing a $50.00 gift certificate.
Susana's Custom Art and Card Designs is offering a $25.00 gift certificate (store merchandise only).
Color Me Creative Classroom is giving one Copic class of your choice.

You can read all about these wonderful prizes right here on the main page along with all the information about our summer party and let me tell you, we have some awesome prized to give away at the summer party so be sure to check it out!

Thank you for stopping by!

Card Details:
Stamps: Serendipity Stamps
Paper: Gina K Designs, Misc
Ink: Versmark, SU
Other: Spellbinders - Squares & Lacey Squares, Ribbon, Pearls, Cuttlebug and Sizzix Embossing Folders, Clear Embossing Powder

CAS shimmer

Good morning!

How are you all today? Boy was it hard to go back to work yesterday after being off over the Holidays! Not only did I come back to over 1100 emails but the day just dragged! I am positive today will be better...it's one day closer to the weekend after all! lol!

I have another card I made for the Stamp TV countdown challenges. Hopefully you will not get tired of them because I have 5 more to share after todays card. *smile*.
This one is for the Shimmer Background challenge and Abbi made a card for this one too.
Here is my card...
I kept this card pretty simple.
After embossing the lighter blue cs with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder, I colored the flowers with a clear glitter pen and the flourished stems with a green Spica pen.
The sentiment is from You are not Alone. I cut it out and matted it with a few different spellbinders Dies - Circles, Blossoms 2 and Labels 14.
To be honest, I am not sure I like this one. I think it's the green flourished stems that I am having a problem with. Maybe if I had used the clear glitter pen for them I would be happier with it.

Here is Abbi's card...

She picked out her own papers but used the same design as I did for my card.

Have a wonderful rest of your day!

Rays of sunshine

Good morning crafty people!

I have a quick post for you this morning.

Stamps: Gina K

Ink: Distressed inks, Stazon,

Paper: Su, Gina K

Other: Ribbon, rhinestones, Spellbinders,

Sizzix ef, Cuttlebug EF

I sat down the other day and tried my hand at watercoloring with distressed inks. It has been ages since I have watercolored and I wasn't sure I remembered how to do it and I am thinking I need to practice some more. lol!

The flower image is from Gina K's Spring Florals stamp set and the sentiment is from her Labeled with Love set.

The Summer Sun cs was embossed with Tim Holtz's Rays embossing folder and the Always Artichoke cs was embossed with Cuttlebugs Forest Branches folder. I added a strip of ruffled ribbon and some rhinestones to finish off the card.

Thank you for visiting with me today! Have a wonderful rest of your day!

Woot Woot!! It's Friday!!

Hello Stampers!!

I am so happy it's finally Friday!!! It has been a long week at work, let me tell ya!

Tonight my Hubby and I are having a date night which is another reason I am happy gal today *smile*. I am not sure what we will be doing but I am sure it will be fabulous!

Today I am sharing a card I made for a couple of challenges, CPS and Paper Pretties. You can see the sketch for this weeks CPS challenge here. The Paper Pretties challenge for this week was to use the colors black and white with one other color. You can get all the details on the Paper Pretties Challenge here.

Stamps: Fanciful Fall, Lovely Labels 2, Labeled with Love

Ink: SU, Versamark, Copics

Paper: SU

Other: Embossing Folders, Spellbinders/Nestibilities,

Stickles, Ribbon, Clear Embossing Powder

I used a few Gina K stamps on this card. The flowers are from Fanciful Fall, the label is from Lovely Labels 2 and the sentiment is from Labeled with Love. The white panel was embossed with the Script Texture embossing folder and the pink oval was embossed with the Victoria embossing folder.
The flowers were colored with copics RV14, RV21, RV23, RV25 and covered in stickles to give them some sparkle.
The all the paper is SU - basic black, pixie pink, and white.

I hope the work day flies by today...I can't wait for my weekend to start, how about you?
Have a fabulous day and thanks for visiting!!

Challenge with Tilda

Good morning!

It has been forever since I have played along any of the challenge blogs out in blog-land. I follow several so when I saw this weeks sketch on the Friday Sketcher's blog I was immediately drawn to it and wanted to give it a try.  This is their sketch for this week.

And here is my take on the sketch.

Card Supplies:   Stamps: Magnolia, Gina K - Fanciful Tags

Paper: Gina K - Smokey Slate, Kraft, Ivory,

Innocent Pink, Basic Grey - Porcelain

Ink: Memento, SU

Other: Spellbinder Tags, Pearls, Cord, Eyelets,

Primas, Cuttlebug EF

As you can see I added a bit more to the basic sketch. Hopefully my card won't be tossed out because I did!
I used one of my adorable Magnolia Tilda images that I picked up at the Magnolia-licious store a while ago.
Tilda was colored with copics - R000, R00, R20, E000, E00, E27, E31, E41, E42, E55, E57, E59 and W3.
The papers are Gina K and Basic Grey. My sentiments were stamped on the tags before I tucked them behind the tilted square and can easily be pulled out by who ever receives the card. The tags were cut out with a couple different spellbinders tag dies.
The pink paper Tilda is standing on was embossed with Cuttlebugs Herringbone embossing folder. I embellished the card with pearls and and an assortment of prima flowers.
Now that I am posting the card I wish I would have added a bit of sparkle to Tilda's dress and a coat of crystal lacquer to her shoes. I think I will do that before I mail it out.

I am also going to enter this card in the Paper Pretties challenge this week which is to use pearls, Rhinestones, or glitter dots.

Thank you so much for stopping by! I really appreciate your visits and love to read your comments!
Have a wonderful Day!

Lose yourself...

Hiya!

I hope those of you with school age kids had a great start to the school year!

I have know I haven't post for a couple of weeks...did you miss me? I sure missed you!

It's been pretty hectic for me and I felt like I lost my mojo. Have you ever felt like that? I sat down at my table and stared at paper and stamps and had no juices flowing.

So I took a little break and now feel more energized and crafty again!

I will have some new projects to share with you this weekend but tonight I have a card to share that I made a couple of weeks ago for a Stamp TV challenge.

Card Supplies: Gina K Stamps, SU Paper, Memento's Ink, Copics, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, MS Border Punch, Spellbinders Labels 11

I used Gina K's stamp sets Aloha, Happy Camper and Hang in There.

The Flamingo was colored with copics, YR000, YR00, YR01, and YR02.

I embossed the background with Cuttlebug's Leaf Branch embossing folder and the leaf border is a MS border punch.

Thanks you so much checking in with me and have a wonderful rest of your evening!

Snow Day

Hello!

Last month at CHA Super Show, one of the booths I stopped by was My Favorite Things.  I really like their stamps and dies so I bought a couple of things...well more than a couple things. *wink*.
This week I sat down with one of my new stamps and dies and made this winter card.

The image is called Snow Day from the Pure Innocence line of stamps. The tree is one of the Die-namics dies.  Here is a close up so you can see the embossing on it.

 
Card Supplies:

Stamps: MTF - PI Snow Day

Ink: Mementos - Tuxedo Black, Copics - c3, c6, c7, c9, n5, r32, r35, r37, e99, e33, e40, e41, e42, e43, e000, e00, yr23

Paper: Gina K - White, Smokey Slate, Cranberry Tart, SU - Always Artichoke, Basic Grey - Wassail

Other: Swiss Dots CB Folder, Nestibilities - Circles, Spellbinders - Fancy tags, Labels, MFT Die-namic die, Crystal Lacquer, Glitter, Ice Clear Roxx

I colored the image with copics, added a bit of flock to her hat and top edges of her boots then covered her boot with crystal lacquer to make then nice and shiney.

Can you see the sparkle on the snowballs? Those are covered with glitter and I added a line of Ice Clear Roxx alone the botton of the tree. I found those at a LSS and they are by Judi-Kins.

Thank you so much for visiting and stop back soon!

Simple thank you

Hi!

I apologize for being quiet here on my blog this week. I have been struggling with an ear infection and it has affected my equilibrium. I am hoping the antibiotics will kick in soon so I can play with all my new goodies I got while I was at CHA.

I have a CAS card to share with you today. I had made this up before I left for CHA.

The card base is Gina K's Creme De Menthe. I used her Lovely Lavender with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder for SU for my background. The flower was punched out then embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. The center is stamps from Gina K's Fun Year Round stamp set. I finished off the card ribbon and a bow.

Thank you for stopping by!

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Fun Year Round
Ink: SU
Papers: Gina K - Creme De Menthe, Lovely Lavender, White pl
Other: Ribbon, Embossing folders, Marvy Flower Punch, Marvy Leaf Punch

Purple Botanical

Hi!

Today I have another card to share using the Botanicals stamp set.
The design may look familiar to you . I shared a card yesterday with a design very much like today's card.
I love my new Kassie's Brocade cuttlebug folder! All the papers are Gina K's and from my scraps.
I have to go shopping for birthday presents today. My oldest daughters birthday is Saturday. I can not believe she is going to be 24! Boy does that make me feel old! lol!

I appreciate you stopping in today and hope you visit again soon!



Card Supplies:
Stamps: Botanicals
Paper: Gina K - Vibrant Violet, Lovely Lavender, White PL
Ink: Memento - Grape Jelly, New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves
Other: Ribbon, Labels 8, Cuttlebug ef

Sunny colors

Hi!
I hope you are enjoying your weekend. This afternoon I have going to visit my daughter at work and be pampered with a pedicure. I can't wait!

Before I head out, I wanted to share a card I made last month but had not post here on my blog.
I used Gina K's Botanicals stamp set. All the papers but the darker green are Gina K. The darker green is SU. For the background I used cuttelbug's script embossing folder. What do you think of the color combo? This one was derived from whats left in my scraps of paper and at first I was not sure I liked it but the bright sunny yellow and green has kind of grown on me.

Thank you for stopping by today! Enjoy the rest of your day!

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Botanicals

Paper: Gina K - Wild Dandelion, Creme De Menthe, White PL, SU Old Olive

Ink: Mementos - Bamboo Leaves, New Sprout, Dandelion

Other: Prima, brad, leaf branch punch, labels 8, round it all

Quite a Catch blog hop

10Hello!

Tonight I am joining several other Gina K Designers and CSS Alumni in a blog hop for the Quite the Catch stamp set. This stamp set come with a free card kit designed by Jessica Fick.

There are lots of blogs to visit tonight so let get right to the cards. All my cards tonight are made with some of the current challenges in mind going on over at Stamp TV this week.

My first card is for the color challenge which is Turquoise Sea and Innocent Pink. I used Bubblegum Pink instead of Innocent Pink. I really like this color combo!

Don't you just love the goldfish and starfish in this set? The goldfish looks like a princess and I love the big happy smile on the starfish! Both are colored with copics and I added some stickles for a bit of sparkle. The pattern paper is October Afternoon's Ducks in a Row.

Here is the finished inside.

My second card is for the Anything by a Card Challenge. The challenge is to create a matchbook. I used some of the fun pattern paper included in the card kit. The base of the matchbook is Gina's Green Apple and the red is her Red Hot. Behind the fish I used a Cuttlebug Mess embossing folder then sponged versamark ink over it then pearlescent chalk over the versamark. The circle sentiment is from Gina's Holiday Greetings stamp set.

This is what the inside of the matchbook looks like. The sentiment is included in the Quite a Catch stamp set.

And finally the last one...

This card is for this weeks Blast from the Past challenge. I am challenging everyone to create a project using the Cracked Glass technique.

I actually wanted the fish bowl to look like it was cracking under the weight of the kitten sitting on top of it so I used a piece of acrylic to do the cracked Glass on. As you know acrylic can melt and curl when heated to it was rather tricky to do but I really like how it turned out. I framed the 'cracked glass' with big scalloped circles, attached the seaweed along the inside bottom of the glass and popped it up over the fish to look like he was in a fish bowl. I used the kitten from Purr-fectly Delightful to perch on top of the fishbowl. The papers are Gina K's Smokey Slate and White PL. The pattern paper is Basic Grey's new Basic White.

Here is a closeup of the cracked fishbowl. Doesn't the look on that fish face say it all? Hee Hee!

Here is the inside. I used a sentiment from the Friends stamp set. I hope you will join me for this weeks Blast from the Past challenge. If you do be sure to upload your project to the stamp TV gallery using the tag STVBPSLS10.

Visit these designer's blogs tonight for even more samples with the Quite a Catch stamp set

• Jessica Fick


• Bev Gerard


• Colleen Schaan


• Suzanne Dean


• Valerie Stangle


• Cathy Tidwell


• Lee Murphy


• Theresa Momber


• Geri Utterback


• Tina Gilliland


• Sharri Seffens


• Vicki Dutcher


• Jennie Harper


• Melissa Shultz


• Brenda Turner


• Joy Hadden


• Linda Payne


• Jen Charboneau

Cheri Weston

To see the adorable samples in the StampTV gallery, check out this link: quiteacatch

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!!

Color Challenge Card:

Stamps: Quite a Catch

Ink: Tuxedo Black, Copics (R81, R83, R85, R32, R43, Y35, Y38, Y23, Y20, B93, BG10, BG11, BG13, BG49, YG63, YG67

Paper: Gina's Turquoise Sea, Ivory and Bubblegum Pink PL. October Afternoons Ducks in a Row.

Other: Circle Nestibilities, Spellbinders Labels 10, Ribbon, Pearls, Stickles, EK Border Punch

Matchbook Supplies:

Stamps: Quite a Catch, Holiday Greetings

Ink: Tuxedo Black, Vivid's Red, versmark, Copics (Y00, Y02, Y04, Y06, B02, B04, B05, B06)

Paper: Green Apple, Red Hot, White PL, DP - Card Kit

Other: Ribbon, Brads, Circle and Square Nestibilities, Pearlescent Chalks. EK Border Punch, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder.

Blast From the Past Challenge Card:

Stamps: Purr-fectly Delightful, Friends, Quite a Catch

Ink: Versamark, Tuxedo Black, Copics (T2, T4, T6, W2, W3, W5, YR12, YR14, YR15, YR16, Y32, Y35, Y38, YG63, YG67, B93, R20)

Paper: Smokey Slate, White PL, Basic Grey - Basic White Paper Pad

Other: Thick Embossing Powder, Black Pearls, Acrylic, Circle and Square Nestibilities

Polishing up on this weeks Blast from the Past

Hi !

I know I have been a bad blogger again this week. The weather has been just gorgeous here (Woo Hoo it's finally spring!), and I been outdoors enjoying it with my family. Is it just me or do you also think that everyone is much happier when the weather finally warms up after a long winter?

Anywho, I wanted to share with you my Blast from the Past Challenge for this week. We are going to do some polishing by revisiting Gina's "Polished Stoned" video, which can be found here.
This is one of my favorite techniques. You can leave the polished stone as just a background for a card, you can stamp an image on it and color the image (I usually use reinkers to color the image), add a pattern to it by embossing it once it dries with an embossing folder or emboss an image on it like I did for my sample this week.
I used Ranger Alcohol reinkers to create my polished stone for my card but I also have used regular reinkers and rubbing alcohol from my medicine cabinet for this technique too.

The rose image is from Gina K's Friendship's Garden stamp set and the sentiment is from her Inside and Out stamp set. I stamped the image and the sentiment with versamark and heat embossed with Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder.

The papers I used are Gina K's Pure Luxury Lemon Drop, Passionate Pink and Innocent Pink.

I hope you will join me this week for the Blast from the Past Challenge. Remember if you do, your will be entered in the drawing for a chance to to win a free stamp set of your choice.

Make sure you upload your projects to the Stamp TV gallery with the tag of STVBPSLS05 so you are entered in the drawing for the free stamp set.

You can find all the information about the Blast from the Past Challenge and all the other challenges here on StampTV.

I appreciate and thank you for stopping by today!

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Friendship's Garden, Inside and Out

Ink: Ranger Alcohol Inks, Versmark

Paper: Gina's Lemon Drop, Passionate Pink, Innocent Pink

Other: Gold EP, Ribbon, Rectangle Nestibilities, Fancy Tags, MS Border Punch

Join me for a Blast from the Past!

Happy Friday my stamping friends!

Today is the day I kick off my term as the Hostess for StampTV's Blast from the Past Challenges. I would love for you to join me and if you do, there is a prize drawing for a free stamp set. You can read all about the challenge in the challenge discussion on Stamp TV.

My first challenge is to make a project that used the shaving cream technique as a background. Check out the Shaving Cream episode here on Stamp TV and then go grab your shaving cream, and create a project with me.

This is my card for the challenge.The flower image is from Gina's Eclectic Summer stamp set. I stamped it on white pl and colored it with copics. The reinkers I used with the shaving cream for my background are Certainly Celery, Mauve Mist and Perfect Plum. After the background paper was dry, I covered with versamark using the direct to paper method and heat embossed it using iridescent ice embossing powder. This gave is a lot of sparkle and made the ink colors pop. Love that look!

I can't wait to see all of your projects! Be sure to upload your project to the Stamp TV gallery using the tag STVBPSLS01 so you are entered in the prize drawing!

Have a fantastic Friday!!!

Card Supplies: Stamps - Eclectic Summer. Ink- Certainly Celery, Mauve Mist, Perfect Plum, Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Copics. Paper - Creme De Menthe, Lovely Lavender, Elegant Eggplant, White PL. Other Supplies - Spellbinder Blossom dies, Gina's Buttons, Silver Cord, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots EF, SU Border Punch, Iridescent Ice EP.

Seeing stars...

Hello!

I wanted to share the last project from Sunday but the picture I took of it ended up looking terrible when I uploaded it to blogger. We have had snow everyday this week so it has been a challenge to get a good picture. They are forecasting a bright sunny day tomorrow so I have my camera sitting out all ready to go! Hee hee!

This card is another I made using my scrap papers. The stars are from Gina K's Lazy Days of Summer Stamp set and are heat embossing with a couple of different embossing powders. The sentiment is from her Best Fishes stamp set and is cut out using one of the spellbinders double ended labels. The background of the card is embossed with the star cuttlebug embossing folder.

I hope your Thursday has been filled with many blessing that have carried over into the evening!
hugs,

Card Supplies: -Stamps: Lazy Days of Summer, Best Fishes -Ink: Rich Cocoa, Versamark -Paper: DCWV and scraps -Other: Star Cuttlebug EF, Embossing Powders, Spellbinders Double Ended Label, Brads

A matching set

Good evening!

Anybody else crazy busy getting ready for the holidays? I am having a hard time believing next week is Christmas!!! Yikes!!! I am not ready!!!
There have been many times when I am making a card it will end up being bigger than any envelope that I own...every have that problem?
Tonight I am sharing a card with a matching envelope that I made. There are a couple of great tutorials on how to make an envelope using your scor-pal. One is on the scor-pal site under the techniques section and the other is on Stamp TV.
All the papers used to make the card and envelope are from my scraps. The DP is scraps from my Basic Grey's Bittersweet pack.
The cold weather that we are experiencing here was inspiration for the matching card. In cold weather I love to curl up on the couch with a good book and a nice cup of hot tea.

I used a few different stamps to create my living room scene. The couch is an Alota stamp that I purchase from Magnolia-licious. The table is from the SU set called Scene in a Garden and the Teapot, cup and cloth is from Gina k's Lovely Shelf stamp set.

The couch, teapot, cup and cloth are paper pieced using the Bittersweet dp. I wanted to create a wood floor for the couch to sit on so ran a piece of the brown bittersweet dp through the distressed lines cuttlebug folder. I added another piece of bittersweet dp above the "floor" for the wall and separated them with a dark brown piece of ribbon to look like the baseboard of the floor.

I store my couch stamp with my Magnolia stamps and when I was digging it out for this card, I realized that I have sorely neglected my magnolia stamps! Can you imagine?! My more little Tilda's! They are now sitting on my table waiting to be inked up. Now I just need life to settle down so I can give them some love!

Thank you for visiting me tonight!
Hugs,

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Couch - Alota, Table - SU's Scene in a Garden, Lovely Shelf

Ink: Rich Cocoa, Versamark, Copics

Paper: Basic Grey - Bittersweet, White PL

Other Materials: Ribbon, Clear Embossing Powder, Cuttlebug EF

Technique: Paper Piecing

Green and Ivory Christmas

Hello my Friends!

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and weekend. I know I ate waaayyy to much this past week and weekend. It is so hard to resist all the good food around the holiday's isn't it?
We had a busy but very nice weekend. I got to spend time with both my husbands and my family which is always nice. I did not get much time for stamping the past few days which seems to happen when it gets to be this time of the year. Anyone else have a hard time fitting stamping into your days at this time of the year?

I already shared this card over on Stamp TV but had not shared it on my blog yet. I made it for the Monday color challenge a couple of weeks ago. The colors for the challenge were green and ivory.
The stamps, cs and ribbon are all Gina K. The ornament is from he Holiday Hospitality stamp set and the Sentiment is from Holiday Greetings. The cs is All Spruced Up and Ivory pl. The Ribbon is from one of the Stamp TV kits.
The ornament was stamped in versamark on All Spruced Up paper and heat embossed with Bridal embossing powder...I love that stuff!

Thank you for visiting with me tonight!
hugs,


Card Supplies:
Stamps: Holiday Hospitality, Holiday Greetings
Paper: All Spruced Up, Ivory pl,
Ink: Versamark, Handsome Hunter
Accessories: Bridal embossing powder, Circle Nestibilities, Ribbon, Holly Ribbons embosing folder, MS border punch

Vintage Borders Blog Hop

Hi!
We are hoping again tonight! In the spotlight is Nina Brackett's new stamp set called Vintage Borders. I love all of Nina's stamp sets but I have to say this one is my favorite so far.
I have two cards to share with you tonight.
The first card uses just the sentiment in set.
I started out with a 8 1/2 x 4 1/4 piece of In the Navy paper and folded it in half. I added the layered ovals using In the Navy and Silver Lining paper to the top which makes the size of the card the normal 4 1/4 x 5 1/2". Across the center of the oval is a daisy border punched with one of my new border punches using Silver Lining paper. The scalloped square was embossed using a sizzex ef and added to the front of the card with foam pop dots. The sentiment was stamped on white pl with inky blue Vivid ink and cut out using the labels 9 dies and layered on Silver Lining cut out using the same Labels 9 die then backed with In the Navy cs cut out using the Labels 5 die. I embellished the card with ribbons, buttons and pearls.

Here is the other card...

For this card I heat embossed the images on Gina K's Chocolate Kiss and Fresh Asparagus using Bridal embossing powder. The ornaments were cut out with oval nesties and then double matted with Rocket Red, White PL, and Fresh Asparagus also cut out with oval and scalloped oval nesties. I cut out the borders by hand. I embellished this card with ribbon, pearls and a ribbon slide.

How about some more inspiration with the Vintage Borders stamp set? First, check in with the Illustrator of this versatile stamp set, our Senior Designer Nina Bracket and her friend Lisa Hjulberg joining in the blog hop tonight.

Then, stop by these GinaK Designer's & Center Stage Spotlight blogs for even more samples:

Asela, Carolyn, Cindy, Emily, Erika, Jessica, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, Tami, Theresa, and Melanie

Deb, Melissa, Karen, Sharri, and Sue

Before you finish hopping, be sure to check in on GinaK's blog to enter your comment for a chance to win Nina's Vintage Borders stamp set. If you already have purchased Nina's set, you can substitute any GinaK Designs stamp set valued at $23.95 or less.

For those of you are who looking for a quick and easy Christmas card idea, check out the Vintage Borders Card Kit available online in GinaK's store tonight. The Kit includes the step by step tutorial as well as all the card stock cut to the exact measurements needed to make 4 cards. For more details and photos of this card kit, see Jessica Fick's blog link as well as this Class Kit link.

Thank you for stopping by and have fun hopping tonight!

Sentiment Card Supplies:

Stamps: Vintage Borders

Ink: Inky Blue Vivid

Paper: Gina K - In The Navy, White PL, Silver Lining

Accessories: Pearls, Oval & Square Nestibilities, Spellbinders - Labels 5 & 9, Cuttlebug ef, MS Border Punch, Buttons, Ribbon

Ornament Card Supplies:

Stamps: Vintage Borders

Ink: Versamark Paper: Gina K - Rocket Red, Fresh Asparagus, Chocolate Kiss, White PL, SU DSP

Accessories: Bridal ep, Pearls, Ribbon Slide, Ribbon, Oval Nestibilities

A card for Noah

Hello!

Have you heard about Noah? He is 5 years old and in the last stages of a 2 1/2 year battle with Neuroblastoma Cancer. He is not expected to survive to Christmas. The family is celebrating Christmas next week and when asked what he wanted for Christmas Noah's request was to get lots of Christmas cards.
So lets get him some, please send cards to:Noah Biorkman 1141 Fountain View Circle, South Lyon, MI 48178. Here is a video link of Noah,

This is the card I sent out to Noah and is also was made using the colors for Monday's StampTV color challenge issued by my fellow CSS DT member, Sue VanDeVusse. The colors to use were purple, black and gold.
I had picked up a couple of new scalloped border punches last month and wanted to use one of them. After I the border punched, I was looking at it and thought to myself that it looked a bit like a snowman...so that is what I made it into. I used the eyes, nose and mouth from Hip to be Square, the sentiment is from Holiday Greetings and the holly leaves are from A Very Merry Christmas. I wanted to use the hat from Hip to be Square but it was too little for my snowman's head so I cut one out using black onxy cs. The buttons and holly berries are gold and black pearls and the scarf is black satin ribbon.

I hope you will be able to send a card to Noah and help us swamp him with Christmas cards!

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Hip to be Square, Holiday Greetings, A Very Merry Christmas

Paper: Black Onxy, Good as Gold, Vibrant Violet

Ink: Versamark, Only Orange

Accessories: Gold ep, Black ep, Clear ep, Black Ribbon, Glitter, Black Pearls, Gold Pearls, copics, Scallop Border Punch, Cuttlebug ef,

First Christmas Preview

Good evening!


OMG! Weren't the last nights previews for Melanie's Festive Frames awesome?!!!
Tonight I am so excited to be joining in the previews for Asela Hopkins First Christmas stamp set.

I just adore the images Asela included in the First Christmas. I especially love this little teddybear! Isn't that hat and scarf perfect for paper piecing? I could see using this little guy for many different occasion and not just for Christmas.

I stamped this little guy and the ornament on white pure luxury paper, colored them with copics, paper pieced the hat and scarf, cut 'em out and tried to make it look like he was holding the ornament. The papers are Basic Greys Eskimo Kisses, Fresh Asparagus and a red from my scraps. The layered flowers behind the teddybear are spellbinders blossoms 2. I did add glitter around the edge and pom pom of the hat but it does not look like it all in the picture.

My next card uses the ornaments in the set.

I was in a paper piecing mood so I also paper pieced these ornaments. I think they would like great used with the polished stone technique and hope to be able to make a card with it before Thursday night so I can show you at the release party.

The foliage behind the ornaments are from Gina K's Winter Foliage stamp set and was stamped on White Pure Luxury paper with Always Artichoke ink and cut out with spellbinders labels 9. The ornaments are hanging from silver cord. The sentiment is stamped in real red ink on a fancy labels. I added stitching around the edges and some silver pearls and punched branches for embellies.

For even more inspiration, please visit the Illustrators of the stamp sets featured tonight:
Asela Hopkins: First Christmas Nina Brackett: Vintage Borders

There are other Center Stage Spotlight Designers joining in the previews. Here are their blog links:
Deb Felts and Melissa Cash

Finally, stop by these GinaK Designers' blog for even more projects with tonight's stamp sets:
Gina Krupksy Carolyn King Cathy Tidwell Cindy Lawrence Donna Baker Erika Martin Emily Giovanni Jessica Fick Kurtis Amundson Lee Murphy Lynn Mercurio Melanie Muenchinger Tami Mayberry Theresa Momber

Our Release party will be held Thursday night over on SCS in GinaK's Forum from 7-10 pm CST. We'd love to have you join in the fun! I have several more samples to share using all the new stamp sets and there will be contest questions, challenges, chatter, and lots more samples from our designers throughout the party! See you then!

Hugs,

Sharri

Teddybear Card Supplies:

Stamps: First Christmas

Ink: Cranberry Crisp, Tuxedo Black

Paper: Fresh Asparagus, Misc Red, Basic Gray Eskimo Kisses

Accessories: Blossom 2 nestibilities, Spellbinder Tag, Ribbon, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Glitter, Copics, Gold Wire, Corner Punch

Ornament Card Supplies:

Stamps: First Christmas, Winter Foliage

Ink: Real Red, Always Artichoke, Versamark

Paper: Baja Blue, Real Red, Always Artichoke, White Pure Luxury, SU DSP

Accessories: Tinsel ep, Silver Pearls, Ribbon, Silver Cord, Spellbinders Labels 9, Fancy Tags, Eyelets, Cuttlebug ef, Branch Punch, Janome Sew Mini for the stitching