Tag - your it!!

Hiya!!

I am tonight this evening to share a tag I made for this weeks My Favorite Things Stamp Club challenge. You can read all about the challenge here.

Stamp: My Favorite Things

Ink: Memento, Copics

Paper: Gina K, Basic Grey, Copic X-press It

Other: Spellbinders, Nestibilities, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Ribbon, Twine, Eyelet

I used Spellbinders labels 17 for the tag base. I ran red labels 17 tags through my cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder and did the same with the long rectangle behind my image. The image is the A La Modes Birthday Girl and I colored her with copics, R02, R22, R24, R20, E07, E35, E51, E53, Y15, Y17, Y28, C5, C6, and C7. I paper pieced the cupcake liner with Basic Greys Cupcake paper. The icing on the cupcake is white liquid applique before I puffed it up with my heat tool, I glitter sprinkled on liquid applique. I also added glitter to her crown and used my clear glaze pen to add some shine to her shoes and gloves.
I gave her a pearl necklace and earring using some very small white pearls that I got as a gift.

Here is another view of this glammed up gal.

Since this tag is fairly big, I decided I would use it not only for a tag on a gift but could also use it for the card as well so I finished off the back.

Thank you so much for stopping by tonight! Have a wonderful rest of your evening!

Did you hear?

Good morning Stampers!

I wanted give a shout out to my dear friend Jessica Fick. Jess is moving on to new opportunities and I wish her all the best and much success in her new ventures!

I also want to encourage you to visit her blog and read all about her iEmbellish Virtual Card Kits. I got a peek at one of the kits and they are fabulous! She should really call them a mini magazine because they have so much packed into them, much more detail than the kits she designed for Gina K Designs. If you loved her Gina K card kits, you are gonna flip over these!

Congratulation Jess!!
Hugs,

Fun with Flowers

Hello stampers!!

I have another quick post for you this morning to share another card I made a while ago but have not posted on my blog.

Stamps: Fun Year Round

Ink: Memento

Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury, Vellum

Other: Prisma pencils, OMS, Ribbon, Brads Flower Punch, Circle Punch

I randomly stamped the flowers from Fun Year Round on a piece of vellum with fresh snow ink. After the ink dried, I flipped the vellum over and colored the backside of the flower with prisma pencils and oms. I love how this turned out and can see doing this again for a stained glass effect.

The cardstock is all Gina K's Pure Luxury papers, White, Lovely Lavender and Vibrant Violet.

I finished off the card with brads, ribbon and a punched out flower to hold me sentiment which is also from the Fun Year Round set.

Thanks for checking in with me today!!

Sweet Treats for you.

Hello Stampers!

I have a Halloween treat holder to share with you today. Originally I had made this for the MFT Stamp Club but read the challenge wrong. The challenge was to decorate a gift sack or treat bag. Well I made a treat holder that is not a bag. LOL!  I will have to make sure I read those challenges carefully next time.

I used Spellbinders Labels 16 to make the box. I cut out 5 labels using the biggest die and took 4 of them and lined them up on my score pal with he center points at 4 1/4 then scored the label at 5 1/2 and at 3 inches. The last die, I scored diagonally at each corner. Before gluing the sides together, I ran each label through the cracked embossing folder. The folder is a Tim Holtz sizzix one. I just love the look of this one, don't you?

On the cover I used 3 different Dienamic dies. The Rolled Rose, the Leaf Trio which comes with the Sheltering Tree die and the Oval Chain Border dies which I cut in half and rolled around a pencil to make it look like a vine.

Here is a picture with the top on the treat holder.

Supplies: Spellbinders labels 16,

Sizzix Cracked Embossing Folder,

Dienamic dies 

As soon as I finished taking pictures of this, my daughter claimed this little basket of treats as her own and I haven't seen it since! lol!

Thanks you so much for stopping by, I appreciate it!!

Honey, Grow old with me

Hiya!

Did you all survive your Monday? It was tough but I survived! hee hee!

Today I have a card for you that I made for the 7Kids College Fund Challenge. The challenge was to user layers and flowers. A very easy challenge for me since I love layering and flowers!





Stamps: Stampavie, Gina K - Love Notes & Vintage Backgrounds

Paper: Basic Grey, SU, Copic X-press It

Ink: Memento, Vivid, Copic - B91, B93, B95, B97, R14, R17,

R21, R22. BG93, BG96, Y17, W4, W5, W6, W0, W00,

E000, E00, E25, E27, E30,E31, E34, E40,

E41, E42, E43, E44, E50, E51, E53

Other: Prima & Paper Flowers, Leaf Branch Punches,

Ribbon, Twine, Spellbinders Tags, and Rectangle Nestibilitities.

I used an adorable stamp from Stampavie called Crush on You. I colored the kids with copics and added a bit of shimmer to the girls flower on her shirt and her hair tie with a glitter pen. I also added a coat of crystal lacquer to her shoes so they are nice and shiny.
The pattern paper is from Basic Grey's Boxer pack. The sentiment is from Gina K's Love Notes stamp set.
Thanks for checking in with me today and have a wonderful day!

Mmm ice cream

Hiya!

Have you every made a card for challenge and completely forgot to submit it? Can you see my hand waving?
I have done that a few time...not gonna say how many but a few *wink*!

My card I am sharing today is one of them.

Stamps: MFT Here's the Scoop

Ink: Memento - Rich Cocoa, Versamark

Paper: SU, DCWV

Other: Spellbinders - tags, labels, clear embossing powder

This was suppose to be for the My Favorite Things Stamp Club Challenge, which was paper piecing. I used the MFY Here's the Scoop stamp set and DCWV Citrus pattern papers. I love this stamp set because one of my favorite foods is ice cream. Yum!

The only thing I did not paper piece is this gals skin and the floor. I colored her skin with copics E000 and E00. For the floor I did the wood graining technique.

I did not add any embellishment because I thought it might be a little much with all the paper piecing going on.

I appreciate you visiting today! Have a wonderful rest of your day!

Thank you blog hop!!!

Hello!

Tonight we are having a special blog hop to thank our recently retired StampTV Challenge Hostess Team members:

Carla Suto
Melissa Schultz
Brenda Turner
Linda Payne
Giovana Smith

These 5 designers have provided StampTV with a challenge each week during the months of June, July and August.
I made a card for each one of these talented ladies to thank them for their hard work and the inspiration they shared with each challenge.
Since there are several stops on the hop tonight, I will keep my chatter to a minimum so you can get on your way.

My first card is for Linda Payne. Linda hosted the Blast from the Past challenges and I made a card for her using her STVBLASTLP7 challenge which was to make a gate fold card using scrap paper.

Thank you Linda!!

Stamps: Buds and Vases

Ink: Memento, Copics (G40, G82, Y17,

E11, E13, E15, E17, YR0000, YR000, YR00, YR01)

Paper: SU, Misc dp

Other: Spellbinders Labels 1 & 16, Sizzix EF - Rays

The next card is for Brenda. Brenda hosted the Inspiration Challenges and I chose to do Brenda's STVINSPIREBT4 challenge. Check out the link here to see the picture Brenda used for the challenge. I went with the colors and circle theme from the picture.
Thank you Brenda!!

Stamps: Tea Time

Ink: Versamark, Mementos, Copics (E40, E41, E42, E43, W00, W0)

Paper: Gina K, Basic Grey - Gypsy

Other: Circle Nestibilities, Spellbinders Tags, Pearls, Clear Embossing Powder

This card is for Carla. Carla hosted the color challenges and I chose to do Carla's STVCOLORCS10 challenge which was to use the colors red, yellow and orange.
Thank you Carla!!

Stamps: Lean on Me

Ink: Vivid, Mementos, SU

Paper: Gina K, DCWV - Citrus

Other: Oval Nestibilities, Ribbon, Pearls, EK Border Punch,

Spellbinders Labels 16

This next card is for Melissa. Melissa hosted the sketch challenge and I chose to do Melissa's STVSKETCHMS4 challenge. You can see the sketch and read about the challenges here.

Thank you Melissa!!

Stamps: Signs of Autumn

Ink: Mementos, Copics(E44, E47, E49, Y13,

Y15, Y17, W0, YG17, YG21, YG23, YG25)

Paper: Gina K, SU, October Afternoon

Other: Spellbinders Labels 7 & 17, Ribbon, Stickles, Pearls

And my final card tonight is for Giovana. Giovana hosted the Christmas Challenge. I chose to do Giovana's STVXMASGS9 challenge which was to use stitching.

Thank you Giovana!!

Stamps: Holiday Hospitality

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Gina K, Basic Grey - Jovial

Other: MS Branch Punch, EK Border Punch, Ribbon,

Cuttlebug EF, Glitter Pen, Gold Embossing Powder

We have a special StampTV Challenge Magazine Volume 3* located on the Freebie Tab, where all of their challenges are shared in a download PDF that you can save to your computer and print out at your leisure! 

Please join in our Thank You Discussion on Stamp TV and feel free to play along and say thank you with your own take on one of their challenges!!!



Your next stop on the hop is Shannon's blog.

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

Sharri

Love you bots!!

Hiya Stampers!

I wanted to share this card over the weekend but I came down with the flu late Saturday night. I am finally starting to feel a bit better this afternoon, enough so that I can finally post about my card ;o)

I made this card for my husband for Sweetest Day, which was last Saturday. I also entered it in last weeks My Favorite Things challenge, which I just found out today that I was drawn as the winner! Woot Woot!!

Stamps: MFT - Love Machine

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Copics

Paper: Gina K, Basic Grey, Copic X-press It

Other: Rectangle Nestibilities, Ribbon, Spellbinders Ribbon tag,

Brads, Die-namics Cloud Template, Circle Punch

The challenge was to create a project with a boy or masculine theme. I used the MFT Love Machine set. I colored the bot with copics N1, N2, N3, N4, N5. The pattern paper is Basic Greys Ambrosia and I paired it up with Gina K's Pumpkin Spice and Smokey Slate. The moon was punched with a circle punch and the clouds were cut from vellum using the die-namics cloud template. I finished off the card with star brads and ribbon.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your evening! I am off to see what the MFT challenge is this week!

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!!

Colorful leaves

Hello!
I had a chance to play along with Card Patterns Sketch 85 challenge this week.

Stamps: Fanciful Fall

Ink: Memento, Copics

Paper: SU, Cosmo Cricket

Other: Spellbinders Labels 10 and 11, Copper Cord

I used Gina K's Fanciful Fall stamp set for the image panel. The leave branches were colored with copics E07, E08, E93, E95/E30,E31, E33/E34, E37. I cut the image out using spellbinders labels 11 and before I removed the image from the die I sponged a bit of Desert Sand ink around the image and sentiment.
The pattern papers are Cosmo Crickets Nutmeg. Isn't it perfect for the oak leaf branches? The cardstock is all SU, chocolate chip, dusty durango and kiwi kiss.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope you stop back again soon!

You're Special

Hiya crafting friends!!!

I have a quick post for you today before I head off to work.

Stamps: Gina K - Fun Year Round, Pretty as a Peacock

Ink: Memento

Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury

Other: Glitter, Glue Pen, Square Nestibilities, Rhinestones

I made this card a couple of month ago but have not shared it here on my blog. The flowers are from Fun Year Round and I stamped them in a line on Lovely Lavender paper with grape jelly ink before cutting them out into a border. The peacock image is from Pretty as a Peacock and I covered her with purple and turquoise glitter to make her all sparkly. The card base is Lovely Lavender and on top of the base is Vibrant Violet that I embossed with the Victoria embossing folder. I finished off the card by adding purple rhinestones to the center of the flowers.

Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Funny Farm Blog Hop

Hello my friends!!

Tonight I am hopping with the talented Gina K designers to show you a fun stamp set called Funny Farm. This set has the cutes images, especially the animals! I love their expressions!

For a limited time, the coordinating card kit designed by Jessica Fick is included for free with the purchase of the Funny Farm stamp set. To view the full card kit, visit Jessica's blog post here for all the details.

Lets take a look at the cards I made to share tonight.

Stamps: Funny Farm

Ink: Copics, Tuxedo Black, Ladybug

Papers: Gina K Pure Luxury

Other: Spellbinders Double Ended Labels, Labels,

Sizzix Embossing Folders, ribbon, Silver Nailheads

The farm scene n the background was colored with copics, E39, E31, E33, E34, E35, E37, YR17, YR25,YR21, YR23, YR24, YG91, YG93, YG95, YG95, YG97, R24, R27, C0 , C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, and C7. The animals are colored with Kohinoor pencils and oms. The papers I used are Gina's Pure Luxury Red Hot, Sweet Corn, Grass Green and White. I used the Checkerboard embossing folder on the Green Apple and the Square Lattice on the Sweet Corn.

I almost did not include my next card in my post because I did not like how the lamb looked in my picture. But I did decide to include it and share why the lamb looks as he does. *smile*

Stamps: Funny Farm

Ink: Memento, Copic

Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury

Other: Die-namic Dies, Spellbinders Labels 16 & 17,

Flock, Glue Pen

All the papers are Gina's Pure Luxury. The tree and grass were cut out with Tan Leather and Green Apple. The card base is Little Boy Blue and the lamb was stamped on white. I sponged a bit of Bamboo leaves behind the grass and some summer sky above that for the sky.

Before talk about the lamb I have a question for you...Do your kids or Grandkids sit and stamp with you or hang out with you while you stamp? Well Abbi was sitting with me making cards and chatting up a storm. Given that, let me explain the lamb. I colored his feet, ears, and tail with C4 and C5. His nose with R000, R00, and R11. I used C0 and C1 to add a bit of shadow for his wool and while doing that I decided to cover it with flock after I blended out the shadow. Well Abbi was quite chatty at this point and instead of grabbing my colorless blender, I grabbed my quickie glue pen. Now as you know glue pens do not blend copics so my poor little lamb has a harsh line to him even after I covered him in flock. I plan to fix the lamb by stamping another image and popping it up over the one on the card. Remember, there are no mistakes in stamping! *wink*

For even more samples with the Funny Farm stamp set prepared for tonight's hop, please visit these designer's blog links:

• Jessica


• Donna


• Sharri (That's me!)


• Colleen


• Sankari


• Karen


• Peggy


• Tera

Then, check out the StampTV gallery using this link: funnyfarm to see all the projects added there from our entire GinaK community. It will continue to be filled with even more samples as new projects are being added!

CSS Alumni blog hop

Hiya stampers!

It's time for another Gina K CSS alumni blog hop! If you came from the amazingly talented Shannon Hawkins blog you are right on track! If not, please go to Stamp TV and start at the beginning of the hop...don't want to you to miss a single one of the fabulous projects tonight!

For this hop we were challenged to create a card or project based on the this sketch...

I had a lot of fun with this sketch and made two card with it.

Stamps: Tea Time

Ink: Mementos, Copics, Atyou Spica Pens

Paper: Cosmo Cricket, Old Olive, Lovely Lavender

Copic X-press It

Other: Labels 10, Scalloped Tags, Swiss Dots EF,

Ribbon, eyelets, Die-namics

For my first card I used new Tea Time stamp set. When I saw this set I fell in love with the little tea cups all stacked up so of course I had to use that image! I colored the cups with copics using colors to match Cosmo Crickets Pixie-licious pattern paper. The colors I used are YG21, YG23, YG25, V12, V15, V17, BG11, BG13, BG15, YR00, YR01, YR02, Y11, 13, and 15.
Let check out my next card...

Stamps: Buds and Vases, A Beautiful Life

Ink: Copics, Mementos, Tempting Turquoise,

Copic X-Press It

Paper: Cosmo Cricket, Tempting Turquoise, Misc Coral

Other: Labels 6, Pearls, Stickles, Long Rectangles

I used a couple of stamp sets for this card. The jar is from the new Buds and Vases stamp set and the sentiment and butterflies are from A Beautiful Life. I used some more of the Pixie-licious pattern papers for this card and colored the butterflies to match using YR000, YR00, YR01, YR02, Y00, Y11, Y13, Y15, and Y17. I added stickles to the wings and colored the bodies with a black Atyou Spica pen. The jar was shaded with BG10 and BG11, the lid was colored with C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5.

Are you ready to continue on your way through the hop? Your next stop is to the fabulous Sue Van DeVusse. Wait till you see what she has to share!!

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

Autumn is in the air

Happy Thursday stampers!

One of my favorite things about Autumn is the colors. Here in Wisconsin the trees are turning color and they are gorgeous!
My card today was made with those fall colors in mind.

Stamps: Fanciful Fall

Ink: More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust

Black, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke

Paper: Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip,

Gina K - Sweet Mango, White PL

Other: Spellbinders Labels 16, Square Lattice EF,

Prisma/Kohinoor Pencils, OMS, Copper Nailheads

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All the images and the sentiment are from Gina K's Faniciful Fall stamp set. I colored directly on the tree stamp with memento markers before stamping it on the paper. I recolored the tree and leaves with a versamarker before heat embossing with clear embossing powder. Next I added my sky by brayering more mustard, then I masked the sun using a circle punched from a post-it-note and brayered pumpkin pie but not quite covering the more mustard. Lastly, I brayered really rust but not quite covering the pumpkin pie.
I covered the sky and brayered on the ground using mellow moss and always artichoke. I sponged a bit of black along the bottom of the ground for a bit of shadow. I matted the scene on barely banana and chocolate chip that I first embossed with the square lattice embossing folder. The card base is Gina K's sweet mango.
The sentiment was stamped with pumpkin pie and the grass with always artichoke then cut out using spellbinders labels 16. The pumpkin was colored with prisma and kohinoor pencils and oms.
I finished off the card with a few copper nail heads in the upper right hand corner.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed Autumn inspired card!

Thank you from the Funny Farm

Hello stampers!
I can not believe it's been whole week since I last posted! I have been having problems with my blog. Not sure what is going on but I keep getting a server error. I just have to find the time to look into it. Arrgghh! It took me a while but I was finally able to get a post to publish!

Tonight I would like to share a card that I made for a challenge over on Stamp TV. The challenge was to make a note card using these dimensions - 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches.

I used a stamp from Gina K's Funny Farm which was released last week. The images are in this set are so fun! My daughter has been having fun stamping with them too!
I stamped this little farmer gal on Copic X-press It paper and colored her with copics R11, R20, R21, R22, R24, R27, E000, E00, E21, E25, E27, E30, E31, E41, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9, W00, W0, and W1. I cut the image out with Spellbinders Labels 3 and 16.

The paper is Gina K's Red Hot and Black Onyx. I embossed the red hot with Tim Holtz's Regal Flourishes embossing Folder. The pattern paper is Basic Grey's Olivia. I finished off the note card with a ruffled ribbon and brads.

Thank you so much for checking in with my tonight and have a wonderful rest of your evening.