Gina K's CSS DT hop

Welcome to our first Center Stage Spotlight Design Team Blog Hop!

Jessica Fick, the Design Team Coordinator for GinaK Designs has issued a challenge to all of the past and present team CSS team members to make a Christmas card with one of these sketches:



Lets get right to the card shall we? I used the first sketch for the challenge.
I used 4 different stamp sets on this card. Festive Frames, Winter Foliage, First Christmas, and Vintage Borders. The cardinal from First Christmas, was stamped with tuxedo black on white pl paper and colored with copics. The branches from Winter Foliage were inked with bamboo leaves and rich cocoa inks, stamped on white pl and cut out with a circle nestibility. The ornaments from Vintage Borders were stamped with versamark on white pl and heat embossed using gold ep, colored with copics, cut out and glued to the branches. I added a bow made out of gold thread to the tops of each ornament. I popped up the cardinal to sit on the branches.

The sentiment is from Festive Frames and was stamped in versamark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I did not have any green or red buttons to match the green and red papers I used, so I colored them with my copics to match. I was not able to color them so they looked like a solid green...the ink kept moving instead of covering and they ended up having a cool marbled look to them.

Here is a closer look at all the layers and dimensions. What do you say, should we go hop the night away?

First, here are the links for GinaK's Current CSS Team Members:
Deb Felts
Diana S. Queen
Karen Knegten
Melissa Cash
Sharri Seffens
Sue VanDeVusse

and the links for all of the past CSS Design Team members participating:

Brenda Turner,
Carla Suto,
Carolina Buchting,
Charlene Merrick,
Dawn Lusk,
DeeMarie Kelemen,
Geri Utterback ,
Giovanna Smith,
Janice Melton,
JenMarie Taylor,
Jennie Harper,
Joy Hadden,
Kay Simmons,
Linda Payne,
Lori McAree,
Melisa Waldorf,
Pam Imholz,
Selma Stevenson,
Shannon Bracken,
Shelly Wilson,
Sue Walsh,
Tina Gilliland

Some of GinaK's Senior Design Team Members and Illustrators wanted to get in on the fun tonight too:

Gina K
Asela Hopkins
Carolyn King
Cindy Lawrence
Jessica Fick
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mercurio
Nina Brackett
Melanie Muenchinger

along with Nina Brackett's Guest Designer: Lisa Hjulberg

All of these gorgeous cards from the entire team will be added to the StampTV gallery throughout the next few days with the tag cssjf1 (which stands for center stage spotlight jessica fick 1)

These sketches are also our sketch challenge for this week, so be sure to check out all the information in the discussion in our Challenge group over on StampTV Thursday morning. We'd love to see your cards with the sketch too!

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Winter Foliage, First Christmas, Vintage Borders, Festive Frames

Ink: Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Rich Cocoa, Bamboo Leaves

Paper: Real Red, Fresh Asparagus, White Pure Luxury

Accessories: Copics (R22, R24, R29, E33, Y23, Y28, N6), Branch Punch, Gold Thread, Gold Pearls, Gold ep, Buttons, Ribbon, Circle Nestibilities, Oval Punches, Border Punch