Gina K Inspiration Blog Hop Day One: Home For The Holidays Kit

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop featuring the new Home for the Holidays Stamp TV Kit and a number of gorgeous stamp sets by our illustrator team!  We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer's blogs!  Today, the team is featuring stamp sets from the Kit and the new 'Tis the Sea-Sun stamp set.  Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate!  To see who won, check the Big News Forum at Stamp TV a few days after the hop.

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" at Gina K Designs!  Gina K and the illustrator team have been extremely busy preparing the most fun stamp sets with a variety of images and sentiments to make so many incredible cards and holiday projects.

I am a thrilled to be participating in today's blog hop as a new member of the design team.  What a month to begin!  This release is amazing.

Today, I am featuring two of the stamp sets from the new Stamp TV kit, Home For The Holidays.   SO much loveliness in this kit!  I love it all.

My first card uses a few of the small images from the Christmas Greenery set, designed by Gina K.

 

 

I stamped my sentiment in Charcoal Brown ink onto a heavy weight Ivory panel.  I then stamped three of the tiny poinsettia images in Lipstick ink.  I also stamped the poinsettia three times on a piece of Post-it tape, and fussy cut them to use as masks.  I placed the tape masks on top of my images on my card panel, and randomly stamped the small pine sprig images first in Jelly Bean Green  and again in Fresh Asparagus ink.  I removed the masks from my flowers used my colored pencils to add a bit of shading and color to the flower centers.  I used a ruler and a pencil to lightly draw in a candle.  I used my Copic markers to color the candle, adding a bit of extra detail to the flame with colored pencil.  I assembled my card with a Charcoal Brown mat with a Kraft card base.

My next project is a tag made with the Home for the Holidays set.  

I made a folded tag using a 2 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of heavy weight white cardstock and colored it with Copic Markers.  Don't you just love the heavy weight white for Copics?  I love how it doesn't bleed through!

I made my first ever video to show you how I cut this tag.  I know I have lots to learn about filming and editing, but I decided I needed to start somewhere!  I hope you enjoy.

Links to products are provided in the descriptions above.  Just click on the colored product name for the direct links to the products I used in the examples above.  All products are available for purchase now from Gina K Designs.

Ready for more awesome creations?  Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:

Gina K

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton - you are here

Claire Brennan

Donna Idlet

Karen Hightower

Kendra Wietstock

Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Sean Fetterman

Sheri Gilson

Silke Ludlow 

Susie Moore

Theresa Momber

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thanks so much for visiting today.  

I'll be back tomorrow for Day Two!

Have a wonderful day!