As this is being posted my brother and I should be on our way to a war-between-the-states reenactment in southern Iowa. After that that we’ll be working at our cousin’s house in Kansas so I may not be able to respond to emails as promptly as I would like, but I will have a few posts scheduled to pop up during the week so you shouldn’t miss me too bad.

I haven’t played with watercolor crayons or pencils in a while, so i decided to try watercoloring a scene using Theresa Momber’s Farm Life stamp set from Gina K. Designs. The tree and fence image was stamped onto Pure Luxury White cardstock using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then colored with watercolor pencils. I tried to blend yellows and green in the tree, aquas and blues in the sky, & browns and grays for the trees and fence posts. After coloring the image with pencils, I brushed over the colors with water to blend them together.

The sentiment was stamped onto a scrap of PL White cardstock and mounted to the cardbase with dimensionals. For a finishing touch, I added a length of linen thread to the top of the card.

Supply List

Stamps: Farm Life (GKD), Fanciful Tags (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Linen Thread (SU!), Dimensionals

This simple card was made using the new You Are Not Alone stamp set from Gina K. Designs along with the Fanciful Tag stamp set by Nina Brackett available from Gina K. Designs.

The main image was inked with Copic markers; YG95,  RV29, Y21, and W-3, and then stamped onto a piece of Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock that I saturated with the colorless blender Copic marker. I stamped the sentiment in Tuxedo Black Memento ink below the image and then secured a piece of Bella Fiber around the cardstock after I punched to edge of the paper with a 1/16″ hole punch to secure the fiber. The main image was then mounted to the PL Soft Sand cardfront.

Supply List

Stamps: You Are Not Alone (GKD), Fanciful Tags (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD)
Accessories: Copic Markers; YG95, RV29, Y21, W-3, 0 (GKD),  Bella Fiber (SU!), 1/16″ Hole Punch (SU!), Dimensionals

These are my two favorite projects that I designed for this release. I really like the simplicity of them, and the bold images work perfectly for one-layer-cards.

The two stamps sets being previewed today are “Lean on Me” and “You are Not Alone”, both by Gina K. I appreciate several of the thoughtful sentiments in the You are Not Alone stamp set as well as the circular floral images. The flower images in the Lean on Me set are also fun along with the cute text used on the sentiments.

Supply List – “Perfect Preparation”

Stamps: You Are Not Alone (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Copic Markers (GKD)

Supply List – “Polka-dot Floral”

Stamps: Lean on Me (GKD), Vintage Backgrounds (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), White (GKD), Rose Red, Summer Sun
Paper: PL Ocean Mist (GKD), PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Silver Shirt Pin, Cream Organdy Ribbon, Dimensionals

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, please check out these participating designer’s links:

• Gina *Illustrator of Lean on Me and You are Not Alone*
• Jessica *Designer of Lean on Me card kit*
• Melanie
• Theresa -
• Tami -
• Cathy
• Nina
• Lee
• Kurtis
• Suzanne
• Bev
• Colleen
• Valerie
• Sankari
• Miesje - *our CenterStage Guest Designer!*

You are invited to join us for our Release party tomorro night, August 26 from 7-10 central time for contest questions, challenges, and chatter along with tons more samples!  The party leads up to the new products featured this week on our blogs being available for purchase online through GinaK Designs at 10 pm.  See you there for all the fun!

Fall will be here shortly, and Gina has created the perfect Stamp TV Kit for this autumn season! As always, the Stamp TV kit has several stamp styles, and of course many sentiments suited for almost any occasion.

I used one of the floral images from the Stamp TV kit along with a sentiment from Nina Brackett’s new Fanciful Tags stamp set – I really like the size of her sentiments!

Supply List

Stamps: Autumn Splendor (GKD), Fanciful Tags (GKD), Vintage Backgrounds (GKD)
Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (GKD), Olive Vivid (GKD), Old Paper Ranger (GKD)
Paper: PL Fresh Asparagus (GKD), Pumpkin Spice (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD)
Accessories: Brown Ribbon (GKD), Copper Brad (GKD), Sewing Machine & Thread, Dimensionals

This card uses one of the bold images from the Stamp TV kit and demonstrates the versatility of the Stamp TV Kit.

Supply List

Stamps: Autumn Splendor (GKD)
Ink: Aged Mahogany Ranger (GKD), Aqua Vivid (GKD), Pear Tart Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL Chocolate (GKD), PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Sewing Machine & Thread, Dimensionals

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, please check out these participating designer’s links:

• Gina
• Jessica
• Melanie
• Theresa
• Cathy
• Lee
• Kurtis

You are invited to join us for our Release party this Thursday night, August 26 from 7-10 central time for contest questions, challenges, and chatter along with tons more samples!  The party leads up to the new products featured this week on our blogs being available for purchase online through GinaK Designs at 10 pm.  We hope you’ll make plans now to be able to join us in all the fun!

Today I will be previewing two stamp sets, one by Theresa Momber, and another by Tami Mayberry.

Theresa Momber’s new stamp set “Farm Life” has many farm related images that lend themselves perfectly to masculine designs or those who like the outdoors.

Supply List

Stamps: Farm Life (GKD), Fanciful Tags (GKD)
Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (GKD), Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL Grass Green (GKD), PL Smokey Slate (GKD), PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Koh-i-noor Pencils & OMS (GKD), Linen Thread

Tami Mayberry has designed a stamp set “Faithful Florals” with several beautiful bold flower images, along with several lovely sentiments. I chose to use just one of the flowers from her set and a sentiment from Nina Brackett’s new Fanciful Tags stamp set.

Supply List

Stamps: Faithful Florals (GKD), Fanciful Tags (GKD)
Ink: Aqua Vivid (GKD), Pear Tart Memento (GKD), Aged Mahogany Ranger (GKD), Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Silver Rhinestones (GKD), Dimensionals

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, please check out these participating designer’s links:

• Gina
• Jessica
• Melanie
• Theresa - *Illustrator of Farm Life*
• Tami - *Illustrator of Faithful Flowers*
• Cathy
• Lee
• Lynn
• Kurtis
• Carolyn
• Asela - *Illustrator of Boo!*
• Suzanne
• Miesje - *our CenterStage Guest Designer!*

You are invited to join us for our Release party this Thursday night, August 26 from 7-10 central time for contest questions, challenges, and chatter along with tons more samples!  The party leads up to the new products featured this week on our blogs being available for purchase online through GinaK Designs at 10 pm.  We hope you’ll make plans now to be able to join us in all the fun!

Today is the first day of the Preview Week for the Gina K. Designs Release! The Design Team will be showing many beautiful projects using the stamps designed by our fabulous illustrators. Be sure to follow the links at the bottom of this post to see the projects from the rest of the Design Team.

The first stamp sets that I am previewing are “Grand Damask” and “Fanciful Tags” by Nina Brackett. The Grand Damask stamp set includes the damask and several beautiful flourishes, and the Fanciful Tags set has over two dozen sentiment images as well as several label images for creating fun tags.

Supply List – “Praying For You”

Stamps: Grand Damask (GKD), Fanciful Tags (GKD)
Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD)
Accessories: Cream Oragandy Ribbon, Dimensionals

Supply List – “Just Because”

Stamps: Grand Damask (GKD), Fanciful Tags (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), Olive Vivid (GKD), White
Paper: PL Green Apple (GKD), PL Smokey Slate (GKD), PL White (GKD)
Accessories: White Ribbon (GKD), Silver Rhinestones (GKD), Dimensionals

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, please check out these participating designer’s links:

• Gina
• Jessica
• Melanie – *Illustrator of Wild at Heart*
• Nina - *Illustrator of Grand Damask and Fanciful Tags*
• Theresa
• Cathy
• Lee
• Lynn
• Kurtis
• Carolyn
• Colleen
• Miesje - *our CenterStage Guest Designer!*

You are invited to join us for our Release party this Thursday night, August 26 from 7-10 central time for contest questions, challenges, and chatter along with tons more samples!  The party leads up to the new products featured this week on our blogs being available for purchase online through GinaK Designs at 10 pm.  We hope you’ll make plans now to be able to join us in all the fun!

I used the “Friends are Forever” and “Botanicals” stamps sets from Gina K. Designs to create the CAS card.

The Flower images were stamped in black ink onto PL White cardstock and colored with Copic markers; RV10, RV13, Y02, YG00, YG03. I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of PL White cardstock, trimmed it and mounted it to the cardbase with dimensionals.

Supply List

Stamps: Friends are Forever (GKD), Botanicals (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Copic Markers (GKD), Dimensionals