SCT Class - Gina K Designs

Ahh, I am doing the SCT classes in order, and I finally reached Gina K. I really do love her cards. She was so generous with supplies for the class. There was a full-sized stamp set with dies, the oval stencils, and also the background stamp. We used the "kissing" technique with the silhouette stamps and the background stamp.

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Gina K-Designed Cards

Gina K made some cards like this on one of her recent videos. So simple and pretty. You mask off the stripes around the edges and then use stencils and ink-blending. The sentiments are from my parts and were done with the Glimmer Hot Foil system. They are popped up, of course. I added three really old Martha Stewart gems to each card.

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Butterfly Thank You

The butterfly on this card is left-over from my SCT card class. The die and the patterned paper are from Pink and Main. I ink-blended a whole lot of colors over the top layer to try to match the plaid background! In the end I was pretty happy with the color results. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. The patterned paper for the background is from Gina K.

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Thinking of You

This card was inspired by my friend, Vicki. She has made several of this fold lately. It's so simple but really adds a lot, I think. She has used very pretty papers, though, and I just used some fairly plain patterned paper. The sentiment is from Gina K. The flowers are from Altenew and were in my card parts book. I actually did some paint splattering for the background of the flowers.

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Using Up More Parts

These card panels were pretty much made and laying on my table ready to be put together and finished. The patterned paper is from a matstack from Recollections that I had been working with a while back. Then I added some pre-foiled sentiments from my little box of sentiments.

The gold-embossed-on-vellum butterfly on this first one was also in my card parts. The sentiment and the butterfly are popped up on foam squares.

This sentiment is from Gina K. I added three Nuvo drops.

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First Christmas Card for 2025

When I was wrapping my calendars earlier this week, I found this center panel in with my tags. I didn't think I would ever use it for a tag so I took it into my stamping room and made this card. I had cut the center out of it, so I silver-embossed the sentiment on a scrap of white cardstock to place behind it, and I added three gems. I popped that panel up and added some Gina K paper for the background. I have my first Christmas card for next year! You can't tell in the photo, but the swirls on the center panel are foil-y and the matting for that piece is shimmery.

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November Calendar Page

Here is my calendar page for the month of November. The image is from Inkadinkado. I embossed it, and the sentiment which is from Gina K, with gold embossing powder and colored with Copic markers.

Well, I'm making progress. Earlier this week, I finished up my calendars, got them put together, packaged up and even wrapped with Christmas paper. Yahoo!! Now to get on with my other tasks. MAYBE I'll even have some time to work on my "class cards." That would be wonderful.

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Eighteenth Anniversary

Today is our son and daughter-in-law's 18th anniversary, and here is the card that I made for them. It's a design by Gina K, and the stencil and sentiment are by Gina K, also. The flowers are from Taylored Expressions.

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Halloween Cards for the Grandkids

I got the grandkids' Halloween cards done a couple days ago. They are all the same, except for the patterned paper background. They are gate-fold cards. The stamps are from Gina K. The paper is from Recollections. Simple enough.

I'm slowly getting some things caught up. Going through photos for our 50th anniversary party was a task that I'm glad to be done with. In some ways digital photography is better than printed photos, but in some ways it's not!! At any rate, I have gone through enough of them and now our son will take over. :-) My calendars are half done, but at least I have time for them. But, time is racing by!! I still find time to do some golfing, but it seems like my friends are done for the year and it's getting harder to convince Jim to get out on the course with me! Anyway, sorry about getting behind on my blog visiting again. Computer time has very much taken a back seat for me. 

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September Calendar Page

Welcome, September! For this calendar page, I used Gina K stamps. I stamped with white pigment ink and embossed with white powder. Then I ink-blended over that, masking off the bottom part of the page.

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Embossed Birthday

I met my friend, Cheryl, for lunch last week to give her a bunch of cards I had made for her to bring to the thrift store she volunteers at. She brought me a 3D embossing folder that she had accidentally gotten two of. Thanks, Cheryl! So, I had to make a card right away using it. I decided to rub an ink pad over it in each direction, and then matted it. The sentiment, from Gina K, is matted and popped up.

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Happy Birthday Friend

A simple birthday card for a friend. I matted the patterned paper that I had sitting out and added it to an ivory card base. The sentiment panel was cut using Spellbinders dies. The stamps are from Gina K. The sentiment panel is popped up on foam squares and I added three enamel dots. 

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Hello in Blue with Flowers

I was determined to use up the things on my stamping table, and I finally did it! Well, I have to admit that I simply filed a few pieces back into my "card parts" book. :-) I had a few of these white rectangles sitting out, and also some pieces of this patterned paper. So I matted the patterned paper with the white and popped up the panels on foam squares. The hello die and shadow are from Gina K, and it is popped up, also.

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Bleach-y Background

A while back, I spritzed a piece of dark green cardstock with bleach. This is the result. It's been sitting around for all that time and I finally put it on a card to get rid of it. I cut it down and matted it with black. The sentiment, from Gina K, was heat-embossed. I die-cut the leaves, dabbed them with Versamark ink and heat embossed them, too.

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Single Birthday Flower

I had a few of these flowers left on my stamping table from a few weeks ago. I used this one and tossed the others. I also had this cork circle on my table, along with three others of different colors. We put these little cork pads on our cabinet doors so they would close quietly. But, we bought 2000 of them!! I thought maybe I could color them with markers and use them on my cards. I probably won't do that, but here is one, anyway. I also had the little scraps of black and white. And I had the left-over part after cutting a scalloped circle, which I used as a stencil. They all came together to make this card. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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Patterned Cardstock Cards

I have no idea why, but every once in a while, I get an email from Michael's giving me a five-dollar voucher. It's not because I've earned a "reward," since I don't spend any money there. But, I do like to spend the voucher. We went camping "up north" last weekend, and the mosquitos were HORRIBLE!!! So, we went into town to have some ice cream and get away from the mosquitos. Well, they had a Michael's, so we went there, too. And they had exactly what I was hoping for - a 12 x 12 pad of patterned cardstock for - you guessed it - five dollars! I don't even get charged tax on it, so it's completely free. Can't beat that! So, I have my routine. First I take all the sheets out of tablet form. I sort out the smaller patterned ones and set them aside. I put the ones that need cutting aside and one or two sheets that I know I won't use/can't really cut down, and I set them aside for a scrapbooking friend. Then I cut the sheets apart that need it. Here are six cards that I made using some of the cut-apart pieces. All of the stamped sentiments are from Gina K. All of the papers, including matting and borders, are from the stack that I just got. I made two of each of these cards.

There are a very few sheets that have gold foil on them. I used a thin border piece cut in half for the edges of this card. The "HELLO" was also included. It's popped up on foam squares. You can see the gold better in this photo.

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Snowman Christmas

When I saw this card from Cheryl (Paper Panacea) I accepted the challenge to make one. LOL! This looks like a "topper" card, but the "topper" is actually still connected to the card base. It started out really well, but then I realized a couple things along the way. At any rate, I did get the card made with some modifications along the way. It turned out fine, and now I could make more, using this one as a template.

 

Here is the inside - I think you can see the score lines. (Two sets of them! Oops!)

The image and sentiment are both from Gina K. I added some "Winter Wonderland" embossing powder to a torn piece of a circle for the "snow."

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Wreath Builder Christmas

While looking through my stamp sets, I noticed this little pine branch/bough in one of the Gina K sets. I thought it would work well for using with the wreather bulder template, also from Gina K. I stamped it with two colors in two different directions. Then I added the red circles using two stamps from the wreath builder stamp set. I matted and popped up the image panel. The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder and then matted.

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One Embossing Folder - Two Ways

I used the same embossing folder from Altenew for both of these cards. For this first one, I simply covered the flat side of the folder with ink using a brayer beofre embossing. I matted with black, and added a sentiment from Gina K, popped up on foam squares.

For this one, I used the debossed side. I used the coordinating stencils to add color to the image. Then, after adding the color, I used a black ink pad directly on the cardstock. The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.

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Sending Love

The middle section of this card was done with a die from Altenew, I believe. I embossed with it and it cracked the paper into two pieces. I didn't want to toss it, so I separated the two pieces onto black matting. I think it looks pretty cool. I ink-blended some light colors on each piece. I think it would have probably looked better if I had done the colors continuously down the page instead of doing the same pattern on each piece, but ... The stamps are from a Gina K set that came with my SCT kit. I think I've pretty much used the pieces from the kits, other than the patterned paper that came with it. I may add some coloring to the butterflies later.

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