Golden poinsettia

A quick post to show you a card I made for Gina's technique challenge  on StampTV to make a card using tone on tone embossing.  I choose to use the poinsettia from Melanie's A Year Of Flowers. I also used a scallop circle nestabilitie die to dry emboss, this was my first time and I was shocked at how easy it is.  The gorgeous gold paper is from Gina K Design's latest StampTV kit Holiday Cheer.  I added some tiny gold pearls to the center of the flower. Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: A Year Of Flowers GKD

Paper: pure luxury ivory, gold GKD

Ink: Versmark

Other: ribbon, detail gold embossing powder, nestabilitie, cuttlebug, gold pearls

Happy Birthday

I made this for a few challenges.  One for the sketch challenge on PaperCraft Planet, and the second for Joanne B's birthday challenge to make a card using her buttony bow technique.  If you haven't tried it yet you should head over and watch the wonderful video that Joanne made.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: eclectic summer, eclectic summer sayings- Gina K Designs

Paper: almost amethyst, barely banana

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: sorry I forgot to write them down

Other: ribbon, button, twine, pearls

You Melt My Heart

Hello everyone, sorry I went MIA again this week.  Work has kept me busy and my stamping room was a disaster leaving me with no creativity.  It felt good to get in here yesterday and make this card.  This is my design team card for Pile It On this week.  I love Melanie Muenchinger's Hip To Be Square  and Carolyn King's Warm Winter Wishes stamp sets from Gina K Designs and I couldn't wait to use them together to make this card.  I had this idea as soon as the sets were released. Here is the cool part, to make the snow for the shaker I used a technique I found on Holly's blog on making your own flower soft.  She even made a cool video you can check it out here.  I hope you have a wonderful day, I am planning on spending it stamping.  Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges

1. Pile It On: blue, yellow and green plus one other challenge
2. Project Tuesday: make a shaker card
3. Basic Grey: green, red and blue
4. Crazy for Challenges: go geometricthree different shapes
   
5. Paper Play: favorite embellishment
6. Stamp Simply: feeling square 
7. Cute Daisy May: love
8. Our Creative Corner: inspired by favorite book or movie (Frosty)
   
9. StampTV: let it snow
10. One Stop Craft Challenge: celebration (Christmas)
11. La La Land Crafts: sparkle (snowflakes and snow)
    

Card Details:

Stamps: Warm Winter Wishes, Hip to be Square, and Winter Foliage all Gina K Designs

Paper: pure luxury white-GKD, mellow moss, barely banana, Eskimo Kisses-Basic Grey

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: B00, C0, C1, C3, C5, G05, G28, R20, R24, R27, R29, Y15, YR04

Other: ghost snowflakes-Heidi Swap, raindots, styrofoam balls

Are you ready for this?

Okay but I warned you... Last week while driving down the highway with my husband I saw a bummer sticker that said "Save the Ta Ta's".  We both had a good laugh over it and forgot about it.  Later that night I was in bed unable to sleep when the idea for this card hit me.  I hope you like it.

I use two different stamps sets illustrated by Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K Designs.  The sentiment is computer generated.
Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Hip to be Square, Little Tees-GKD

Paper: pretty in pink, rose red, basic grey bittersweet

ink: memento tuxedo black, copics

copics: E57, RV21

Other: ribbon, scallop border punch, button

A Very Merry Blog Hop

I am so excited to share with you some cards I made using Theresa's latest stamp set, A Very Merry Christmas from Gina K Designs. This is an outstanding Christmas set, the fireplace is perfect for making a cozy Christmas scene. In my first card I stamped the fireplace without the window so that I could place a tree that I had cut out to the left of the fireplace. The wreath and the holly are stickers from Michael's. I also made this for Friday's pot luck challenge on StampTV to make a kick stand card.

For this card I stamped the bells and colored them.  Next I went over the whole image with a versamark pen and then clear embossed the image.  After that I sponged the background to a soft yellow with so saffron and apricot appeal.  The card base has clear embossed snowflakes.  It is a bit hard to tell in the photo, but below the sentiment are some gold pearls. This card is also for Whimsy Stamps Challenge to get punchy, to use punches or dies.

Finally I made this little tag.

All of the papers and ribbons are from Gina K Designs, StampTV Kit Holiday Cheer.

I would like to thank Theresa for asking me again to join in on her hop. 

For even more ideas with Theresa Momber's A Very Merry Christmas stamp set, visit her blog link below as well as the GinaK Idea Center here: A Very Merry Christmas. Theresa's tip sheet has been added to the Idea Center as a PDF so you can print out her tips and suggestions for a handy reference tool. We've also included her Copic coloring links too.

Here's all the Designer's Blog Links to check out tonight:

Carolyn King
Cathy Tidwell
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Lee Murphy
Nina Bracket
Melanie Muenchinger

September's Center Stage Spotlight Team:

Giovana Smith
Janice Melton
Kay Simmons
Linda Payne
Lori McAree

and finally, Theresa's Guest Designers for A Very Merry Christmas:

Selma Stevenson
Sharri Seffens
Geri Utterback
Brenda Turner

Thank you for stopping by.

Card #1

Stamps: A Very Merry Christmas-GKD

Paper: pure luxury rocket red, all spruced up, white

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: C1, C3, E25, E29, E31, E33, E51, E57, G05, G09, G21, G28, R24, R27, R29, Y15, Y17,Y21,YG03, YG95, YR02, YR04

Other: Stickers-Michael's

Card #2

Stamps: A very Merry Christmas-GKD

Paper: pure luxury rocket red, all spruced up, white

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

Copics: E31, R24, R27, R29, Y15, Y17, Y21

Other: ribbon-GKD, gold pearls

Tag

Stamps-GKD

Paper: pure luxury rocket red, all spruced up, white

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: E29, E31, E57, G05, G28, R24, R27, R29

Other: ribbon

Merry Treats

A quick post to show this little pillow box I made for Gina's technique challenge this week on StampTV.  The challenge was to create a candy gift.  The only requirement was it had to incorporate some type of stamping or papercrafting.  This was super easy I just stamped one of the sentiments from  Holiday greetings. I layered that with rocket red and all spruced up then I wrapped the shear red ribbon around it.  All of the supplies are included in the Holiday Cheer StampTV kit from Gina K Designs. The hard part of this was staying out of the the peanut butter M and M's.  Have you tried peanut butter M and M's, they are so good.  Thank you for stopping by.

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

Celebrate Christmas

Sorry I went MIA this week, life just got super busy again and left me with no stamping time.  On to my card I made this for this weeks sketch challenge for Pile It On.  This card took way longer than it should have I guess I was a little rusty after not stamping for so long.  That fabulous topiary is from Theresa's latest set Very Merry Christmas from Gina K Designs.  This may be my favorite set of hers yet, there are lots a great images. I also have some other wonderful sets from the last release sitting here waiting to be cut and inked.  I also won Melanie's Hip to be Square set and I am working on a card with it, so stay tuned.  Thank you for stopping by.


Challenges

1. Pile It On: Aly's Sketch plus at least one other challenge
2. Cute Card Thursday: So Charming
3. Dutch Dare: Recipe-2 patterned papers, 2 cardstock, 2 flowers, 2 buttons or gems, 2 brads
4. Creative Card Crew: Celebration
5. Cooking with Katie: Use metal, a border punch and something alive
6. Cupcake Craft Challenges: Thanks a Bunch ( I did a bunch of challenges)
7. Cardvarks:  Do something wonderful with ribbon
   

Card Details:

Stamps: Very Merry Christmas-GKD

Paper: real red, very vanilla Dashing(RT) SU

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, copics

Copics: E25, E35, G05, G09, G28, T17, Y21, YG03, YG95
Other: ribbons, pearls, brads, border punch,charm, gold nail polish, glitter gel pen,prima flowers

Good Friends

This is my second post today so be sure to scroll down.  I made this card for Cat's challenge for the September release for Gina K Designs.  Cat's challenge was to make a card without layers, mu first thought was WHAT! I have a very hard time with only one layer.  I was trying to make it look like there are layers without adding any, not an easy thing to do for me.  I don't really care for this card much, as it didn't come out the way I had planned.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Inspiration Mosaic, Thanks a Million, Signs of Autumn-GKD

Paper: pure luxury ivory-GKD

Ink: memento tuxedo black, chocolate chip, copics

Copics: E13, E25, E29, E37, E51, E57

Other: pearls

Happy Holidays

A quick post to show you the card I made for Lee's color challenge over on SCS for the September release for Gina K Designs.  The colors are red, green and gold with white as a neutral.  These colors are Christmas to me so I made my first Christmas card for this year.  I am so very late getting going on these.  Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: A Year of Flowers, The Magic of Chrsitmas GKD

Paper: pure luxury white, green apple-GKD, Basic Grey Eskimo kisses

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics, encore

Copics: R27, R29

Other: ribbon, brads, nestabilities

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

Tee's Just my Style

Just a quick post, as Gina K Designs release party starts in a few minutes!  I mad this for the Potluck Friday challenge on StampTV and CPS sketch #135.  I am surprised that I didn't use any copics!!  Hope to see you at the GKD party on SCS.  Thanks for stopping by.

Card Details:

Stamps: Little Tee's Gina K Designs

Paper: Pure luxury ivoryand chocolate kiss-GKD, Basic Grey Marrakech

Ink: memento tuxedo black, chocolate chip

Other: scallop punch, ribbon-GKD