Love is...

Happy Monday!

I apologize for being quiet the last few days. I am busy getting ready for Christmas. My entire family will be coming to my for Christmas and I have tons to do to get the house in shape especially the lower level. We hardly use our finished basement so it has become a catch all for anything we do not need anymore or have are not decided what to do with yet. It has become quite packed let tell ya! lol! I need to get it cleaned out and organized so the older kids can go down there and play pool, darts or just hang out away from the adults.
Maybe if I organize it well I will be all set for a garage sale in the spring...ya right! LMBO! I say that every year! I will probable shove everything to the storage side and forget about it for another year - lol!

I do have a card to share with you today. It was inspired by this weeks Color Spotlight challenge on Stamp TV. The colors for this week were Innocent Pink, Chocolate Brown and Ivory. These colors remind me of Valentine's Day so I made a Valentine card.

Stamps: Gina K - Love Notes, Vintage Borders

Ink: SU

Paper: Gina K, Basic Grey

Other: Stitching, Pearls Ribbon, Nestibilities

The musical notes are from Vintage Borders and the sentiment is from Love Notes. Both are stamped on Ivory paper with SU Early Expresso ink. I love this color of ink - it is my new favorite brown ink! I used a couple of the newer nestibility dies to cut each of them out. The sentiment is cut out with the Diamond dies and the musical notes are cut out with the Wonky
Square dies.
The patter papers are Basic Grey's Bittersweet and I added stitching around the edges. I did not want to take away from the sentiment so I added some ruffled ribbon and pearls to finish off the card.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a marvelous Monday my friends!

CSS Alumni blog hop

Hiya Stampers!

Welcome to another Stamp TV CSS Alumni blog hop. If you came from Miesje's blog you are right on track (wasn't her project fabulous?!). If not, please go to Stamp TV and start at the beginning. I don't want you to miss any of these fabulous projects the gals are sharing tonight!

Carolina gave us a color challenged for this hop. The colors we were to use are white or ivory, light blue, yellow and brown. I have been trying to start on my Christmas cards so I was bound and determined to make a Christmas card using these colors. I think I succeeded! What do you think?
I am submitting this card for a couple of challenges, Paper Pretties which was to use embossing and No Time to Stamp which was to use non-traditional Christmas colors.

Stamps: Gina K

Paper: Gina K

Ink: Memento, SU, Versamark

Other: Spellbinders Labels 16, Lace,

Prima, Cuttlebug Allegro EF, Clear EP, Branch Punch

I used all Gina K Pure Luxury Papers, Ivory, Tan Leather, Sweet Corn and Little Boy Blue. The stamps are Lovely Labels 2, Vintage Borders and the sentiment is from First Christmas.

I stamped both the label and border with versamark then with Desert Sand before stamping them on the paper. I heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. I did the same for the sentiment using the blue ink. I like doing this when I use softer ink colors because it make the colors more vibrant.

Originally I did not have the flower on the card but after looking at it for a bit I decided it needed a bit more yellow so I add the prima flower with a bit of lace and branches behind it.

Your next stop on the hop is Tera's blog. You're gonna love what she has to share with us tonight!

After you finish the hop, please join us back at Stamp TV.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!!

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

Vintage Border in green and gold

Hi!
I hope everyone had a fantabulous weekend!

I don't know about you but my family starts to complain when they think I am spending too much time at my crafting table. I have not quite figured out what they deem as too much time because we are all in the same room when I am at my table but anyway I took the weekend off from blogging and crafting to spend time my family. I did not sit at my table at all this weekend. We had a great time...took in a movie, did some Christmas shopping, went to the zoo and a few meals out.
Tonight I have a card to share using Nina's new set Vintage Borders. If you were at Gina's release party in October this card may look familiar...I share it at the party. Can you believe I still have a few more cards from the party I have not shared?!

The scalloped borders were stamped with versamark on Gina's Good as Gold paper and heat embossed with ranger's gold embossing powder. I cut them out and framed the Feliz Navidad
border with them. That border was stamped with London Fog ink on Ivory PL. The ornaments were stamped with versamark on Gina's All Spruced up paper and embossed with the rangers gold ep. They were cut out with the square nestibilities and matted on Good as Gold and Ivory pl. The DP is from my stash and it has been there quite awhile so I can not even tell you who it belongs to.

Have you started your Christmas shopping? After we went Christmas shopping this weekend, Abbi asked if she could look through my closet and downstairs in the storage room for "stuff". So everything I bought I had to wrap right away so she wouldn't find it! Now I feel like I need to put my trees up to put the gifts under it! Good thing the Santa stuff I have picked up is small enough to hide in places where she can't get to!

Have a great rest of your day!
hugs,

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Vintage Borders
Ink: Versamark, London Fog
Paper: All Spruced Up, Ivory pl, Good As Gold
Accessories: Gold ep, Square Nestibilities.

Vintage Cardinal

Hello my friends!

Yay!! It's Friday!!!
I am still in awe from Wednesday night CSS past and present blog hop! There was so much eye candy to see. I hope you were able to check it out...especially if you are looking for Christmas card ideas. I also would like to thank everyone that stopped by my blog and for the wonderful comments!!! I loved reading each one of them and it means a lot that you took the time to comment! :o)

I have another card to share from the release party. This one uses Vintage Borders and First Christmas. I used my favorite images in both of these sets. Can you guess which ones they are? They are the cardinal and music notes border.

The music notes are stamped on ivory pl paper with London Fog ink. I tore the edges and rubbed Old Paper distressed ink on the edges before matting it on Gina's new Smokey Slate paper and also tore the edges of the Smokey Slate paper. The buttons in the corners are from Gina's new Neutral button assortment.

The cardinal was stamped with Tuxedo Black in on white pl paper and colored with copics. I recolored it with a versamarker and heat embossed it with clear ep.

The ornaments were stamped with versamark on Good As Gold paper and heat embossed with rangers gold ep. After I cut them out, I thought they would look cute with the ornament hooks.

I popped up the ornaments, added the peace sentiment to the smaller ones and popped the cardinal up on the bigger one so it looked like he was sitting on top of it.

Thank you for poppin' in today and have a fabulous rest of your day!

Card Supplies:

Stamps: First Christmas, Vintage Borders

Ink: London Fog, Versamark, Old Paper Distressed Ink

Paper: Smokey Slate, Ivory pl, White pl, Good As Gold, Basic Gray - Porcelain

Accessories: Buttons, Copics, Branch Punch, Gold ep, Gold Cord, SU Label Punch, Gold Wire, Clear ep.

Polished Ornaments

Hi!
Did everyone have a nice Monday? Mine was a quiet day, which I like.

I have a card to share that I made for the release party sketch challenge issued by Cindy Lawrence over on SCS. I love this sketch! I used the polish stone technique for the ornaments. I forgot to write down what color inks I used for the technique. The inks were the Ranger Alcohol inks. After the ink dried, I rubbed my embossing buddy over it, stamped the ornaments with versamark and heat embossed with Rangers gold embossing powder. The white circle is Gina pure luxury paper and I stamped one of the borders from Vintage Borders stamp set on it in soft sand ink. You can click on the picture to get a closer look at the border.

I added some stitching around the rectangle and circle. Have you ever tried stitching in a circle? I am surprised it turned out as well as it did! LOL! While stitching, I honestly thought it was going to be a mess!

Thank you for stoppin' in and have a wonderful rest of your evening!


Card Supplies:
Stamps: First Christmas, Vintage Borders
Ink: Soft Sand, Versamark
Paper: Fresh Asparagus, Chocolate Chip, White PL, White Glossy, SU DSP
Accessories: Ranger Alcohol inks, Gold ep, Gold cord, Gold Pearls, Sizzix ef, Stitching, Circle and Wavy Nestibilities

Color challenge card

Happy Friday!

I am all partied out! Wednesday night I went to a Lobster Boil dinner and last night was the Gina K release party. The release party was hopping. I am still amazed at how fast that party moves! There was so much eye candy shared last night that my head is still swimming! If you want to check it out you can find the thread here.

During the party members of the design team issue challenges. The card I am sharing tonight is for the color challenge. The challenge was to use Cranberry, Black, Ivory and Gold.
This picture looks small to me but remember you can click on it and it to take a closer look.
I used Nina Brackett's newly released set called Vintage Borders. I love the borders and sentiments in this set! It's very faint and I did that on purpose but there is a watermark of hanging ornaments behind the sentiment. To create the watermark, I inked up the ornaments with London Fog ink, stamped off on scrap paper then stamped on the cs, which by the way is Gina's Ivory Pure Luxury paper. I stamped the sentiment over the watermark with Tuxedo Black ink. The sentiment is cut out using the wavy rectangle nestibilities. Next is a layer of cranberry tart using the Octagon nestibilities then another wavy rectangle nestibility in Black Onyx.
The music was stamped with London Fog on Ivory Pure Luxury paper. It is matted on Gina's new Smokey Slate paper and Cranberry Tart.

If you have a chance we would love for you to play along with the challenge. You can find it here.

Have a fabulous Friday evening!
hugs,


Card Supplies:
Stamps: Vintage Borders
Ink: Tuxedo Black, London Fog
Paper: Cranberry Tart, Black Onyx, Ivory pl, Smokey Slate, Good As Gold
Accessories: Gold Pearls, Gold Ribbon, Nesitbilities - Wavy Rectangle and Octagon, flourish punch.