Stamp TV CSS Blog Hop

Happy Friday and welcome to a color combination challenge blog hop hosted by members of the Gina K Design CSS Alumni team.

If you came by the way of the very talented Miejse you are right on track. If you just popped in for a visit, I am glad you stopped by and invite you to check out the blog hop from the beginning right here!

As I mentioned this month we have a color combination challenge and I had the opportunity to pick the colors that the girls were to use for their projects. I went with fall colors, Pumpkin Spice, Fresh Asparagus and Sweet Corn plus neutral colors (white, ivory, black, and brown) could also be used.

Along with the color challenge, we are also featuring hand drawn stamp sets designed by Melanie Muenchinger and Theresa Momber. 

I made two cards to share with you tonight. The first card uses sets from both Melanie and Theresa.

The jar is from Buds and Vases, the sunflowers and sentiment are from Autumn Beauty and the grass stamped in the jar is from Hang In There. The sunflowers are colored with copics - YR20, 21, 23, 27/Y21/G40, 43, 82, 85/E25, 27/B0000, 000.
I added stickles to the petals on the sunflowers for a bit of sparkle.
The papers I used are Gina K's Pure Luxury Pumpkin Spice, Sweet Corn and Dark Chocolate.

I grabbed my brayer, post-it notes and sponges to create my next card.

All the images and sentiment are from the Wild About You stamp set.
I used the brayer to add the sky and ground, then added in the hills with torn post-it notes and sponges.
The giraffe was stamped on a separate piece of cardstock, colored with copics and cut out. I wanted to have the grass around the giraffe's feet in the scene. To do that I cleaned the stamps, covered all but the giraffe's feet and grass with a post it note, inked the feet and grass and removed to post-it note before stamping.
The papers I used Gina K's Pure Luxury Fresh Asparagus and Black Onyx.

Now make sure as you hop along you leave a comment on each designer's blog because on Tuesday morning (September 25), we will randomly choose two comments from all the blogs and two lucky individuals will receive a Gina K. Designs Stamps set each (the winners will receive either a set designed by Melanie Muenchinger or Theresa Momber).

Now I am going to send you on your way to Tera's blog to see her fabulous creation!
Enjoy the rest of the hop!


Autumn Card Supplies:
Stamps: Hang In There, Autumn Beauty, Buds & Vases
Ink: Memento
Paper: Gina K Designs, Copic Blending, Basis Grey - Archaic, MME - A Beautiful Life
Other: Copics, Pearls, MFT Dies - Fresh Cut Grass, Fishtail Flag Stax, Spellbinders - Labels 28.


Wild About You Card:
Stamps: GKD - Wild About You
Ink: SU, Memento
Paper: Gina K Designs
Other: Copics, Post-it Notes, Sponges

Stamp TV CSS Alumni Hop

Welcome to the monthly Stamp TV CSS Alumni blog hop!

If you came from Miesje's awesome blog, you are right on track.  If not, please head over to Stamp TV to start at the beginning so you do not miss any of the wonderful creations the girls have made to share with all of us.

This month Melissa Cash provided us with a great sketch to follow while creating out projects.

Here is my take on the sketch. This time I was not a rebel and pretty much kept with the sketch :)

I used the Bold Flowers Stamp and the kissing technique for the top square panel. The sentiment is from Pleasant Plurals. I added a bit of stitching around a couple of the layers and finished off the card with pearls.
Now before I send you on your way to fabulous Tera's blog to see what she has to share with us, I want to remind you to leave a comment on each designer's blog as you hop along. On Tuesday morning (July 17), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs and that lucky person will receive a huge grab bag of fabulous Gina K Designs Stamps!  

Enjoy the rest of the hop!

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Gina K Designs - Bold Flowers & Pleasant Plurals
Ink: SU, Distressed Inks
Paper: SU, Gina K Designs, Bazzill, Basic Grey - Hopscotch
Other: Pearls, PTI Double Ended Banner, Sewing Machine

Gina K Designs April CSS Hop

Welcome to the Stamp TV's CSS hop!

If you came from the talented Tera's blog you are right on track. If not, please head over to Stamp TV to start at the beginning so you do not miss the eye candy that the girls have created to share with all of  you.
This month Melissa provided us with this fun sketch for our inspiration.

I decided it would be fun to flip the sketch....so that's what I did ;D

This fashionable lady is from the Sew Pretty stamp set. I paper pieced her dress and apron with the same pattern papers I used on the card which is Cosmo Crickets Material Girl. She reminds me so much of June Clever so I could not resist adding pearls for her bracelet, necklace and earring.

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Gina K Designs - Sew Pretty
Ink: Memento
Paper: Gina K Designs - Pure Luxury, Cosmo Cricket - Material Girl, Copic Blending
Other: Spellbinders - Rectangles, Sewing Machine, Copics - R11/E000, 00, 31, 35/YR20, W00, 0.

Now before I send you on your way to the amazing Miesje's blog, I want to remind you to leave a comment on each designer's blog as you hop along. On Tuesday morning (April 24), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs and that lucky person will receive a huge grab bag of fabulous Gina K. Designs Stamps!

Enjoy the rest of the hop!

Gina K Designs CSS Alumni Hop

Hi and welcome to the March CSS Alumni bloghop!

If you came to my blog by the way of the very talented Miesje's blog, you are right on track. If not, I hope you will start at the beginning of the hop HERE so you can enjoy some fabulous creations by my talented CSS friends.

For this month we were given a color challenge to use for our creations. These are the colors -

Aren't they great?!
I usually make some type of treat holder for Abbi to pass out to her classmate before their Easter break. Since that is approaching fast I decided to use these colors and make an Easter basket.

The basket is made using Sizzix Big Scalloped Envelope. I cut out 4 of the envelopes and attached them together to form the box. The handle is an EK Border Punch. I threaded ribbon through the lattice to make it a little sturdier. The blue strip around the box was embossed with Cuttlebug's Dots EF.

The little chicks and eggs are from the Basket Blessing stamp set as is the sentiment. I colored the chicks and eggs with copics. I ended up using quite a few colors on that little image and listed the colors below in the supply list.

Basket Supplies:

Stamps: Gina K Designs - Basket Blessings

Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury - Lemon Drop, Green Apple, Turquoise Sea

Ink: Memento, Copics - Y000,00,11,13,35, 38/YG61,63,91,93/B000,00/BG53,57/G00/E31/W00,0,1

Other: Cuttlebug EF, Ribbon, Sizzex Big Scallop Envelope, EK Border Punch, Glitter Pen, Stickles, Crystal Lacquer, Spellinders - Circles, Big Scalloped Circles, Lacey Pennants.

As you are hoping along, make sure to leave a comment on all of the designer's blogs because on Tuesday morning (March 20th), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all of the blogs and that person will receive a huge grab bag of fabulous Gina K Designs Stamps! 

Your next stop on the hop it to Tera's fabulous blog.

Enjoy the rest of the hop!

Sharri

CSS Inspiration hop

Hiya!

Welcome to the February GKD CSS Alumni hop!
If you came from the Tera's wonderful blog you are right on track. If you just popped in, I encourage you to start at the beginning of the hop right here. I wouldn't want you to miss out on all the fabulous creations the girls are sharing tonight.

This month we were given this fabulous picture picked out by our very own Karen Knegten to use as our inspiration.

I made two card for you tonight. What jumped out at me most was the colors and the different shapes. The shapes of some of the buildings was the inspiration for this card -

I used  the Dogwood and Butterfly stamp set. The dogwood branch is colored with copics - E23,25,50,51,53/R20,22,24,27,29/YG03,63.

The roof is embossed with a checkerboard embossing folder. The card base is embossed with a wood grain impression plate.

The paper is Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, Rocket Red and white.

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Gina K Designs - Dogwood and Butterfly
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury, Copic Blending
Ink: Memento, SU
Other: Sizzix Embossing Folder - Checkerboard, Wood Grain Impression Plate, Spellbinders - Squares & Postage Stamps, Pearls

For my next card I drawn to the blues and tans in the picture.

I used the Dogwood and Butterfly stamp set again for this card. And colored the flowers and butterfly with copics - B21,23,24/E25,30,35/Y21/YR21/YG03,63.

The papers are navy and tan leather Pure Luxury Papers.

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Gina K Designs - Dogwood and Butterfly
Paper: Gina K Designs - Pure Luxury, Copic Blending
Ink: SU, Memento
Other: MS Border Punch, Rhinestones, Ribbon, Doily, Spellbinders - Ovals

Make sure to leave a comment on each blog as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (February 14), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs and that person will receive a huge grab bag of fabulous Gina K. Designs Stamps! Wouldn't that be a great Valentine's Day present?!

Now I am going to send you on your way to the talented Miejse's blog. 

Enjoy hopping and we will see you back at Stamp TV.

GKD CSS Alumni hop

Hi and welcome to the Gina K CSS Alumni November blog hop!!!

You should have come by the way of the Miesje's fabulous blog. If you just stopped by to visit, I encourage you to start at the beginning of the hop here. These talented girls have some gorgeous eye candy to share tonight!

Carolina picked out this festive picture as our inspiration piece for creating our projects.

A few things I noticed right away in the photo was the colors and the circle shapes. The next was some of the decorations on the boxes such as the bows, the simple sentiments and the poinsettia.
My first card uses the pink and blue colors.

I used the tree from the Spirit of Christmas stamp set. I colored right on the stamp with memento markers to get the branches green and the trunk brown. I decorate it with pink rhinestones and a sparkling star. I finished off the card with a big pink bow.

For my next card I used circles and some of the darker colors from the picture.

I used pattern papers and a border die that went with my circle theme. The poinsettia is from A Year of Flowers and was colored with copics, E40, E41, E42, G82, G85, G94 and YR20. I covered the petals with crystal stickles and the leaves with rock candy stickles. In the center are three pearls. I finished off the card with a couple of simple sentiments and a bow.

Make sure to leave a comment each of the blogs in the hop because on Tuesday morning (November 22), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs and the prize will be a stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95!

After you are done hopping please stop back at Stamp TV and if you are inspired, we would love for you to join us by creating a project using the inspiration photo.

Now I am going to send you on your way to Tera's beautiful blog.
Enjoy the rest of the hop!!


Tree Card Supplies - Blessed is the Season, Spirit of Christmas, Spellbinders, Ribbons, Rhinestones, Stickles, Basic Grey - Eskimo Kisses, GKD Pure Luxury Papers, Memento Ink.

Poinsettia Card Supplies - A Year of Flowers, Spellbinders, Banner Die, Lacey Eyelet Border Die, Stickles, SU & Memento Inks, SU & GKD Pure Luxury Papers, Basic Grey - Wassail, Copics, Seam Binding Ribbon

Inspiration Hop

Hi!

Tonight is the first Gina K CSS Alumni blog hop for September!

If you came from Peggy's wonderful blog you are in the right spot! If you are just visiting or happened by, I encourage you to start at the beginning of the hop right here to see all the fabulous creations the gals are sharing tonight.
I will keep my post short and sweet so you can keep moving along :)

Tonight we all created projects using this photo from Pier 1 Imports for inspiration.
The first thing I noticed about the photo was the colors and the diamond pattern on the quilt and the headboard.

My first card uses the diamond pattern and the colors Ocean Blue, White and Kraft Pure Luxury Papers.

The flowers and sentiment are from Gina's Enjoy the Sunshine stamp set. I stamps the flower and sentiment on Gina's Kraft paper with white ink. I added a bit of shading under the flowers with my white prisma pencil. I paired the kraft paper up with Gina's Ocean Mist.


Card Supplies:
Stamps: GKD - Enjoy the Sunshine
Ink: PTI Fresh Snow
Paper: GKD Pure Luxury
Other: Pearls, Ribbon, Spellbinders - Rectangles & Ribbon Tags, Cuttlebug EF


For my second card I used the colors Pumpkin Spice, white and Turquoise Sea Pure Luxury Papers.

I used Gina's Friends are Forever stamp set. The flowers are colored with copics - YR12, YR14, YR18, Y17, YG63, E23, E25, BG0000. I added stickles to the petals for a bit of sparkle.

The pattern papers are MME Stella Rose - Mabel.


Card Supplies:
Stamps: GKD - Friends are Forever
Ink: Memento, SU, Copics
Paper: GKD Pure Luxury, MME Stella Rose - Mabel
Other: Stickles, Ribbon

Your next stop on the hop is to Tera's fabulous blog.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and be sure to join us back at Stamp TV!

CSS Treasure Chest Hop

Hi and welcome to my blog!
The Gina K CSS Alumni girls have put together another blog hop just for you! If you came from Vicki's awesome blog, you are right on track. If you just happened by, I encourage you to start at the beginning of the hop right here.

Tonight we are getting wordy!! Gina K. Designs is known for including some of the best quotes and sentiments in their sets so we wanted to highlight some of these fabulous quote by using them our main focal point.
My brother's twins graduated this year and in Gina K's Inside and Out stamp set there is a quote that I felt was perfect for a graduation card.
My first card is for my nephew Tyler.

I made this card into a more masculine card by using the twine and hardware for my embellishments. The pattern paper is Cosmo Cricket's Wanted pack.

Now for my niece Katie I went with a more feminine touch.

I still used the same quote from the Inside and Out set but went with ribbon, lace and pearls for my embellishments. The patten papers on Katie's card are from Basic Grey's Hopscotch pack.

Make sure to leave a comment on each blog as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (June 28th), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs who will get to choose a free stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95!

Now I am going to send you on your way to Peggy's fabulous blog.

Enjoy the rest of the hop!

Tyler's Card Supplies:

Stamps: Inside & Out

Ink: SU

Paper: SU, Cosmo Cricket

Other: Spellbinders - Labels 5 & Squares, Twine, Hardware

Katie's Card Supplies:

Stamps: Inside & Out

Ink: SU

Paper: SU, GKD, Bazzill, Basic Grey - Hopscotch

Other: Ribbon, Lace, Pearls, Spellbinders - Fleur De Lis Squares/Lacey Squares/Squares

Gina K's May CSS Alumni Hop

Hello and welcome to our GKD CSS Alumni May blog hop!
If you came from the ubber talented Tera Fujan, you are right on track. If not, please head on over to Stamp TV to start at the beginning. The girls have some awesome cards they created just for you and I would not want you to miss a single one!

Tonight we are getting sketchy! Melissa provided us with this fabulous sketch to use for our projects. I LOVE shaped cards so this sketch was right up my alley!

The base of my card was made with the Grand Circle and Scalloped Circle Nestibilities. The pattern papers are a combination of Basic Grey's Olivia and Hopscotch papers.

The image is from Gina K's Purr-fectly Delightful. I colored the daisies with copics - ROOO, R01, R20, G21, G24, G85, E23, E25, B0000, B000 and B00. I added stickles to the petals for some sparkle and a thick coat of crystal lacquer to the vase and centers of the daisies. I finished off my card with some lace and pearls.

Make sure to leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (May 17th), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs who will get a stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95!

Now I am going to send you on your way to the fabulous Miesje Flach. I know she will have an amazing project for you!

Enjoy the rest of the hop!!




Card Supplies:
Stamps: Gina K Designs
Paper: SU, Bazzill, Copic X-Press It, Basic Grey
Ink: Memento, Copic
Other: Spellbinders - Grand Circles, Circles & Mega Ovals, PTI Banner Dies, Lace, Pearls, Stickles, Crystal Lacquer

Gina K CSS Alumni Hop

Hi!
The Gina K Designs CSS Alumni girls have put together another fabulous hop for you this evening! I am your first stop tonight so sit back and enjoy all the eye candy that gals have created just for you!

If you get lost along the way head on over to Stamp TV, you can find a list of all the participants in the hop right here.

This time around the theme for our blog hop is Treasure Chest and in the treasure chest we found all of the Stamp TV kits so off we went to create projects using any of the Stamp TV kits.

I made two cards to share with you tonight.
My first card uses the Elegant Flowers Stamp set. I colored the iris's with copics, RV63, RV66, YR20/BG93, BG96. The pattern papers are Basic Grey's Sultry - yes, I still have some of that paper left!

My next card uses the Bold Flowers Stamp set. I stamped the largest flower on my focal image panel of white paper. I stamped the smaller two flowers on a piece of scrap paper and punched them out using the Marvy 6 petal flower punches before layering them on top of the larger stamped flower on my focal image. I used all scrap paper to make this card.

Now I am going to send on your way to the very talented Miesje Flach's Blog. I am sure she has something fabulous to share with us!!

Enjoy the rest of the hop!!!

Elegant Flowers Card:

Stamps: GKD Elegant Flowers stamp set

Ink: Copics, Memento, SU

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

Other: Spellbinders - Oval Nestibilities, Labels 18, Fleur De Lis Squares, EK Success - Border Punch

Bold Flowers Card:

Stamps: GKD Bold Flowers

Ink: Memento, SU

Paper: SU, GKD,

Other: Banner Tag Die, Ribbon, Black Nailheads, Marvy Flower Punches, Quickcuts EF

Gina K CSS Alumni Hop

Hi and welcome to the Gina K CSS Alumni blog hop.
If you came from Peggy's wonderful blog, you are right on track. If you are just stopping by, please head over to Stamp TV to start at the beginning of the hop so you do not miss any of the eye candy the CSS gals have created to share with you tonight.

Tonight we were challenged to make a project using the colors for this weeks color spotlight challenge on Stamp TV.
I also played along with the Moxie Fab World Challenge - which is to incorporate stamping with markers technique.
When I saw the color for the challenge I thought they were perfect to use with Theresa Momber's newest stamp set, Little Critters. I colored the mushroom scene and turtle with copics - E42, E43, E44, E47, E49, E81, G82, G85, G94, W00, W4/YG21, YG63, YG91, W6.
The pattern papers are an assortment of Basic Grey and K&Company. The cs is of course Gina K Pure Luxury.

Now I am going to send you on your way to the talented Tera Fujan's blog.

Thank you so much for hopping along with us tonight and be sure to stop back at the Stamp TV forum to visit with us. We would love it if you played along with us. If you do, be sure to upload your photo to the Stamp TV gallery with the tag STVCSP15 so you are entered in the drawing for a free stamp set of your choice.

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Gina K - Little Critters
Ink: Memento, Copics
Paper: Basic Grey, K&Company - Julianne, Gina K - Soft Sand, and Fresh Asparagus, Copic X-press It
Other: Spellbinders Labels 11, MS Picket Fence Border Punch, Buttons, Twine, Corner Chomper, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots EF

Gina K CSS Inspiration Hop

Hiya!!

Tonight the Gina K CSS Alumni gals have put together another blog hop for you. If you came from the talented Miesje Flach's blog you are right on track! If not, please go to Stamp TV and start at the beginning so you do not miss any of the fabulous projects the gals have created for you!

The challenge is to create a card or project based on this inspiration piece from Southern Living provided by Miesje:
When I looked at this photo I knew right away that I wanted to make a Valentine's Day treat holder for Abbi so that is what I did!

I found a tutorial on SCS called Santa's drawer's that I used as a starting point for my treat holder. You can find the tutorial here.

Bare with me as I have a few photos of my finished treat holder so you get the full effect of my Valentine Drawers! *wink*!

The original tutorial had two smaller drawers on top but I wanted it to look more like the dresser in the picture so I made two of the larger ones. All the papers I used are from my 12x12 stash of CS and DP.

I decorated my drawers with images from Gina K's Heartily Yours Stamp set.

Here is a view from the top. The back of the dresser is made with Heart Nestabilities. I added a lace runner across the top of the dresser and made a little Valentine's to sit on top of it.

Here is a side view so you can see how I attached to lava lamp to the dresser and the sentiment banner.

Here is a picture with the drawers open. The knobs on the drawers are Tim Holtz's Idea-ology Hitch Fasteners.

Now I just have to figure what Valentine treats I want to fill those drawers up with!

Now I am going to send you on your way to the uber talented Sue Morris.

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