Where have I been? Well, I havn’t been in my stamp room. Our family went down to Missouri for the weekend to see my Grandmother, my First Cousin Once Removed, and her mother, my Great-Aunt from Australia. We were doing a bit of geneology research and needed my Grandmother to identify people from old photographs.

But, now we’re back and I have a few cards to post. Today is a card for the Gina K. Designs Blog Hop – usign Melanie Muenchinger’s “Year of Leaves” stamp set.

I chose to do something very simple – and look at the color – it’s RED!! I don’t know that I have ever used red as a cardbase before…but it was the perfect color to coordinate with my yellow leaf.

The leaf image was stamped on Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored with Copic Markers: R. The image was then cut out and embossed with a rectangular Nestabilities die.

The Ivory panel was then mounted to the PL Rocket Red cardbase (the striped texture is horizontal) using dimensionals and a bit of twine was wrapped around the cardbase and secured in a knot. Two copper brads were added for a little more detail.

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For even more inspiration, please visit our Illustrator of the Year of Leaves stamp set, Melanie Muenchinger’s blog. You’ll want to leave a comment on her blog because she is hosting a drawing for her gorgeous stamp set there tonight!

Melanie has asked her two guest designers to join in on her blog hop too:
Selma Stevenson
Karen Knegten

Also showcasing Year of Leaves stamp set samples tonight are these GinaK Designers:
Gina Krupsky
Carolyn King
Donna Baker
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Lee Murphy
Theresa Momber

as well as our CenterStage Spotlight Designers:
Geri Utterback
Shelly Wilson
Tina Gilliland

Did you enjoy the previews so far this week? Here are two more projects that use the new sets, and the first card below uses the the color “Pumkin Spice” which was only available in the Stamp TV kit last month. As you can see on the second card, it also coordinates with many of the other colors already available from Gina K. Designs.

There are three stamp sets that are being previewed today; Autumn Beauty by Theresa Momber which I used on the first card, Tropical Blooms by Gina K. which I used on the second card, and Elegant Verses which I used for the sentiment on the second card.

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To see more inspiration with the stamps previewed today, visit Gina‘s blog, the illustrator of Tropical Blooms as well as Theresa Momber, the illustrator of Autumn Beauty, and Nina Bracket , the illustrator of Elegant Verses.

For even more projects with tonight’s two stamp sets, these Senior Design Team Members are participating in previews today: Asela, Carolyn, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika Jessica, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, and Melanie as well as our CenterStage Spotlight Design Team members:Shelly Wilson and Charlene Merrick

Our Release Party starts Thursday night at 7 pm CST. Please join us for contests questions, challenges, lots of chatter as well as a ton more samples shared by the Senior Design team members and our CenterStage Spotlight team too. See you tomorrow night!

This months release from Gina K. Designs is fabulous! All of the illistrators did a fabulous job this month with the beautiful designs that are being released.

The release party will be this thursday  in the Gina K. Designs forum on Splitcoaststampers from 7:00 -10:00 pm CST. Be sure to follow the links at the bottom of this post to see what the rest of the Design Team made with these sets.

The two sets that are being previewed today are “Year of Leaves” from Melanie Muenchinger and “Fruitful Harvest” from Asela Hopkins.

The samples above also use a lovely new color being released this month Moonlit Fog. It’s a lovely gray that has a very slight blue hue and it coordinates beautifully with many of the other colors from Gina K. Designs – here I have it paired with Black Onyx, Ivory, and Green Apple.

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For more inspiration with the stamps previewed today, visit Gina‘s blog as well as Melanie Muenchinger, the illustrator of Year of Leaves and Asela Hopkins, the illustrator of Fruitful Harvest.
For even more projects with tonight’s two stamp sets, these Senior Design Team Members are participating in previews today: Carolyn, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Kurtis, Jessica, Lee, Lynn, and Theresa as well as our CenterStage Spotlight Design Team members: Denise Kelemen and Geri Utterback

Our Release Party will be held once again over on SCS starting at 7pm CST on Thursday, August 27th. There will be contests, challenges, lots of chatter as well as a ton more samples shared by the Senior Design team members and our CenterStage Spotlight team too! You won’t want to miss it!

If you haven’t already seen it, be sure to check out this weeks Stamping Lifestyle weekly online. It’s all about Photography and Editing – a must read for any craft blogger.

link: Stamping Lifestyle Weekly

The design team did a fantastic job collaborating all of the info in there – Everything from composition to lighting to editing…and there’s instructions to create your own infinity board.

I made this card for invites to a hymn sing that our family is having. I needed something easy that I could mass produce, but still something with detail – I think I was able to pull it off.

The main image is part of the hymn “How Firm A Foundation” that I printed out onto Gina K. Designs Pure Luxury Soft Sand cardstock. I mounted it to the PL In the Navy cardstock using dimensionals and wrapped some of the rustic woven linen that’s included in the “Signs of Autumn” StampTV kit.

The navy panel was then layered onto the lovely PL Green Apple cardstock and an ivory flower was added along with a 3mm nail head.

Supplies:

• Paper: PL Green Apple (GKD), PL In the Navy (GKD), PL Soft Sand (GKD)
• Accessories: Ivory Sateen Flower (GKD), 3mm Nail Head (GKD), Woven Linen Fiber (GKD), Printer, Dimensionals

I needed a “thinking of you” card to send to someone so I grabbed the “Signs of Autumn” Stamp TV kit and whipped this up yesterday:

The sentiment from Nina Brackett’s “Elegant Post” stamp set was stamped on Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock using Rich Cocoa Memento ink. I used four copper brads from the kit to embellish the corners.

I used several autumn colored markers to ink the maple leaf image from the “Signs of Autumn” stamp set and stamped it onto PL Ivory cardstock. The leaf was trimmed and then adhered to the large Ivory panel.

The cardbase is made from the new Green Apple carstock and I stamped a aspen leaf in the lower right corner using Pear Tart Memento ink. The Ivory panel and leave image were mounted to the cardfront using dimensionals and I added a piece of double-stitched ribbon (from the kit) around the cardbase.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Elegant Post (GKD), Signs of Autumn (GKD)
• Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (GKD), Pear Tart Memento (GKD), Markers (SU!)
• Paper: PL Green Apple (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD)
• Accessories: Copper Brads (GKD), Double-stitched ribbon (GKD), Dimensionals

When I posted my card sample using the apple basket stamp from the “Signs of Autumn” stamp set, I received a few requests for a tutorial on how I colored the image. I mentioned in the party thread last night that I wouldn’t have time until Monday, but I didn’t have to work at the orchard yester, so I am able to get this photographed and posted.

COLORING WITH COPICS

Supplies:

• Rubber stamp image
• Copic proof ink (Memento is my preference)
• Cardstock (Pure Luxury White or Ivory are my favorite)
• Copic markers (I used Y02, YG00, YG23, YG95, E31, E53, E57, W-3, 0)

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