StampTV CSS August Blog Hop~Inspiration

 Hello and welcome to another StampTV CSS blog Hop. You should have arrived from the very talented Betty's blog.  If you get lost along the way you can find the complete list Here at StampTV.  This month Geri gave us this gorgeous photo of a lovely Autumn porch.

Here is my card:

I used the sunflower from Autumn Beauty, the sentiment is from Fanciful Fall.  I was inspired by the sunflowers and colors in the photo.  I also used the door and door mat as inspiration for my layout.


Make sure to leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (August 28), 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!  Good Luck!!

 Your next stop is the incredibly talented Cheri.  Thank you for stopping by.

The Cuttlebug Spot Thanksgiving Dinner Invite

The challenge this for The Cuttlebug Spot is to make a Thanksgiving Dinner Invite.

I used Autumn Beauty from Gina K Designs and illustrated by Theresa Momber (my sister for those of you who don't already know).  I love working with this set as it is Autumn and I get to use many of my favorite colors.  I choose the sunflower, after coloring it I cut it out and placed it on top of a ivory piece that I ran through the cuttlebug and sponged with memento desert sand ink.  The base is Pure Luxury chocolate brown and a mat and tag in pumpkin pie.

Make sure you head on over to The Cuttlebug Spot and check out the rest of the Design Teams gorgeous Thanksgiving invites. And don't forget to play along this week.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

Heart To Heart Card Drive

I made the card today for Carolyn Kings challenge for her Heart to Heart card drive.  This is a very special challenge and Cammie's third year doing it.  Cammie lost her grandmother to Alzheimer’s and has been doing this challenge to honor all of the wonderful work the Alzheimer caregivers.  My husband grandfather died of Alzheimer's.  I am way late getting this done as the challenge ends in just a few hours.  If you have a chance even after the challenge to make a card for someone that works with patience's with Alzheimer's please do and let them know how much you appreciate all that they do.

I also worked in a few other challenges as I like to do.  First off Cat has a recipe challenge on StampTV.  To make a card following this recipe.
1. No designer paper.
2. One layer only plus the base
3. 2 rounded corners on the base
4. At least 3 blings

OK I can do no designer paper, no problem.  The rounded corners, piece of cake.  Three bling, a walk in the park.  BUT no DESIGNER PAPER, are you kidding me?  I love my layers and this made this a true challenge for me.  I had to think a bit and then came up with if I can do layers then I can at least do faux layers!!!! So then I took my stamped scene and with a ruler and a brown copic marker made a brown layer he he. 

The next challenge is for Mark's Finest Papers.  Speedy's challenge this week is the use buttons and bows.  If you look in the bottom left corner I have a small button with a bow.


That is all I have for now.  Make sure to come back on Monday morning for my first card as a Designer for The Cuttlebug Spot.

Thank you for stopping by.

Fall Memories GKD Challenge

Today I am sharing a couple of cards I made for Gina's Challenge to make a card inspired by a favorite Fall memory.  My First card is inspired  by one of my favorite trips to the pumpkin patch.  My son was getting close to not wanting to go to the patch with his parents anymore when the patch we would take him to added a Corn Maze.  We had so much fun that the next weekend when my Mom was visiting that we went back this time at night. There were four of us my DH, DS , my mom and myself. We decided that it would be fun to pair up boys against girls and race to the finish.  It was some of the most fun I have every had. We raced through the maze hiding on occasion to scare each other.  I wasn't the most successful as I kept getting a case of the giggles. Here is my card inspired by that fond memory.

Now considering that I was married in October I couldn't pass up that wonderful and happy memory, so I made a card for my hubby.

I rarely make CAS cards, but I have the base on my desk from a rejected card from a few days ago and decided to see if I could make something of it.  I wasn't sure how copics would color on kraft, but they did fine.  I like how the green leaves of the tree came out.  Over all I don't care that much for how it turned out, but we can't love them all can we.

Card Details

Card #1

Stamps Autumn Beauty Gina K Designs

Paper: Pure Luxury kraft, fresh asparagus, lipstick red

Ink: memento tuxedo black, summer sky, danube blue

Copics:  sorry I lost track

Other raffia

Note: This card was made totally of scraps!

Card #2

Stamps: Farm Life Gina K Designs

Paper: Pure Luxury kraft

Ink: memento tuxedo track

Copics:E25, E31, R27, Y38,  YG95, YR04

Other: ribbon

Happy Fall y'all

I am back with a second card I made for my inspiration challenge this week on StampTV.

I am also entering this one in mom's challenge on Speedy the Cat and Stamptacular Sunday Challenge.  For all the info on all of the challenges see this post.  Thank you for stopping by.

Stamps: Autumn Beauty, Signs of Autumn, Hip To Be Square

Paper: Pure Luxury Ivory, Sweet Mango, Lipstick Red

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Dandelion, Cantaloupe, Tanglo

Copics: B02, B06, B21, E31, E35, E37, G05, G14, Y15, Y21, YG63, YG95, YR02, YR04, YR07

Wednesday Inspiration Challenge 8/25/10

Today I am sharing with you my last Inspiration Challenge for StampTV.  I have had so much fun doing this challenge each week.  Thank you Gina and Jessica for the chance to be a hostess, it has been awesome!

So for my challenge this week I went to Martha Stewart.com for an inspiration piece. This couple of weeks Fall and Halloween cards have been popping up in Blogland and getting me in the mood to make fall themed cards, so that is the direction I took for my last challenge.

Here is the photo I picked.

Here is my card I made.

If you would like to give my challenge a try here is the link on StampTV.  If you  play you have a chance to win a stamp set valued at 24.95 or less and if you use Gina K Designs stamps you get your name in TWICE!  This is a great week to win as there are some fabulous new sets being release tomorrow.

I am also entering my card into my Mom's challenge for Speedy the Cat  this week to make a Harvest Themed card. I had no idea that she was having a challenge this week or that it would be something that tied in with mine.  I can tell this is the kind of thing that happens with both my mom and sister.  I guess it tells you how much we all think alike.  Speaking of my sister she has an awesome stamp set that will be released tomorrow for Gina K Designs.   Next I am entering this card in Stamptacular Sunday Challenge to use two or more stamped images.   Thank you for stopping by.

Stamps: Signs of Autumn, Autumn Beauty

Paper: Pure Luxury Ivory, Chocolate Brown, sweet mango, Basic Grey Max and Whiskers

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Cantaloupe, Rick Cocoa

Copics: E31, E35, E57, Y21, YR02, YR04, YR07

Other: nestabilites, twine

Field of Dreams

I made this card for Artful Sentiments Copic challenge.  I used Melanie's Hip to be Square and Theresa's Autumn Beauty both from Gina K Designs.  Tonight there is a blog hop for Melanie's set, if you would like to check out what I am sure to be some fabulous eye candy head over to her blog at 10:00 p.m. central.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: Hip to be Square, Autumn Beauty-GKD

Papers: pure luxury pumpkin spice, chocolate kiss, ivory-GKD, Mellow-Basic Grey

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics, pumpkin pie, so saffron, apricot appeal

Copics: B21, B24, B26, E29, E31, E35, E51, G 21, R24, R29, YG03, YG06

Other: buttons, ribbon-GKD

WCMD Sunflower

I hope everyone had a great time yesterday celebrating World Card Making Day.  I was not able to enjoy it as I was on a "date" with my husband.  So today I was able to squeeze in a little stamping time to make this for Gina K Designs challenge on SCS.  The challenge was to use the colors pumpkin, chocolate and ivory easy one for me as I have been ina fall/halloween card kick of late.  The other challenge I was able to work in is the sketch for CPS#136.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Autumn Beauty_ GKD

Paper: pure luxury pumpkin spice, chocolate kiss and ivroy, Basic Grey Mellow

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: E29, E37, G99, Y15, Y17, YG03, YG95

Other: cuttlebug, embossing folder, ribbon

Harvest Time!

With the cooler mornings and the feel of the being of fall, there are several challenges with a fall theme.  This works perfect with my latest favorite stamp set Autumn Beauty designed by Theresa for Gina K Designs. I have the challenges listed below.  On to the card, I started by stamping the scarecrow, wheelbarrow, and pumpkins.  I colored them with  copics and then cut them out.  Next I stamped the corn stocks on some pure luxury ivory card stock and colored with copics, I then sponged the background with so saffron and always artichoke.  The embossed background was done with my newest embossing folder.  Thank you for topping by.

Challenges

StampTV: Color challenge to use pumpkin spice, green apple, so saffron and a neutral
A Spoonful of Sugar: Fall into Autumn
Our Creative Corner: Fall/Autumn card
Crafty Creations: embossing

Card details:

Stamps: Autumn Beauty-Gina K Designs

Paper: pure luxury ivory, pumpkin spice, and green apple-GKD, Basci Grey June Bug

Ink:Memento tuxedo black, so saffron, always artichoke, copics

Other: pearls, embossing folder, cuttlebug