Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Gina K Designs – December Inspiration Blog Hop – Day 2




The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp release for December 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, we are featuring the stamp sets by Beth Silaika and Claire Brennan.

These stamp sets are so fun and versatile! You will be able to create amazing card projects using each individual set or by combining the images and sentiments from multiple sets from this release. Have fun and be creative!





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 StampTV a few days after the hop. Ready for some inspiration? Here are a few of the projects I have created for today’s hop:

This is a fun card using the Toucan from Beth's Xavier Zebra set.  My toucan is colored with Prismacolor pencils.  The leaf is stamped in Versamark on a Faded Brick card base.  The gold edge of the white piece is just dipped in Versamark and heat embossed with gold.


Xavier the Zebra is such a cute little guy.  Here I just added a tiny bit of shading with a gray Copic Marker and added him to my embossed patterned Wild Lilac card panel.




For this Half Pint Heroine card, I finally opened the pack of Copper Metallic card stock that I bought in October.  That shimmer is so pretty.  My little girl is stamped on a white panel and colored with Copic markers.  I carried the copper cardstock inside the card, and finished the sentiment with a flexible mirror that I had in my stash of supplies.  Loved the sentiment, and knew just what little girl needed to see herself as amazing.




In this card, I also used the Once upon a time sentiment with the large elephant image.  This card is also colored with Copic markers.


Obviously, I love to color.  And the fun images from Half Pint Hero give lots of opportunity!
This party invite uses all the face options in the "Polaroid" photo.  The whole "photo" was covered with Versamark ink and clear embossing powder and heat embossed to give it the shiny gloss.  



My final card is sponged with Ocean Mist, Blue Lagoon and Turquoise Sea inks.  The submarine is colored with warm gray Copics and covered with a clear Spectrum sparkle pen.  Recognize the coral and the aquatic plants?  I cheated.  I used a few of the addition images from Theresa's new Framescape Winter Trees set that we featured yesterday.  They are embossed with some crazy neon embossing powders that I found in my drawer.  But the neon makes perfect coral to complete the scene!



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


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.

Thank you for stopping by!




31 comments:

  1. Elephant card is my fave! I love those flying pigtails!

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  2. So cute!!! My fav is the mirror inside - what a positive message to send!

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  3. Such cute cards! Love the group photo card. Great inspiration.

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  4. The cards are adorable - love the elephant and upside down zebra!

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  5. Great cards. I love the mirror on the inside. Great touch. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Wow, they are all so darn cute. You nailed each and every one. Thank you.

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  7. You don't think out of the box you just turn it up-side-down. So fun.

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  8. Adorable kids cards. I am in love with that little girl!

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  9. Love the upside down zebra and the mirror on the inside of the Half Pint Heroine card.

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  10. So Soviet but the upside down zebra is fabulous!! You are so creative and make it look so easy:) thanks...gabbylou@live.com

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    1. That should say so super cute..not Soviet..auto correct grrrr;)

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  11. Great coloring on all your cards. My favorite card is the upside down zebra.

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  12. Wow love your designs and coloring of your cards. They are so stylish:)

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  13. Haha... using the trees for coral ... Brilliant !

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  14. Great cards. Love your upside down zebra. How fun to use the trees for underwater plants and coral. Love the toucan too.

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  15. so stinkin' cute. every single one. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  16. My favourite would be the submarine card, such a happy face sailing by.

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  17. WOW such wonderful cards Chris! My favorite is the zebra upside down card!!! I just love the sentiment and how you put him upside down ... just so cute!
    Hugs,
    Jo

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  18. Great cards! especially loved the invitation with all the different colors of faces gave me a UN kind of feeling I liked it

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  19. Great cards, your upside down Zebra made me chuckle. The party invite is super cute, love the idea.

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  20. Great ideas. Love the invitation idea.

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  21. I love your cards, they are so cute!

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  22. Beautiful layouts and choice of colors and ideas are fabulous!

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  23. Love your imagination and creativity.

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