Two more previews tonight – “Candles On Your Cake” by Melanie Muenchinger, and “Hope Grows” by Theresa Momber.

Melanie’s set is FULL of all kinds of party stamps, and I utilized three of them on this card – the cupcake liner, the cupcake top, and one of the several sprinkle images.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Candles on your Cake (GKD)
• Ink: Pear Tart Memento (GKD), Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), Tuscan Tan Vivid (GKD), Aqua Vivid (GKD), So Saffron (SU!)
• Paper: PL White, PL Soft Sand
• Accessories: Nestabilities (GKD), Ribbon (GKD), Dimensionals

Theresa’s stamp set has several beautiful leaf images, and several animals, along with sentiments.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Hope Grows (GKD)
• Ink: Pear Tart Memento (GKD), Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), Olive Vivid (GKD)
• Paper: PL Turquoise Sea (GKD), PL Green Apple (GKD), PL White (GKD)
• Accessories: Black Ribbon (GKD), Silver Brads (GKD), Dimensionals

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For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, check out these Designer’s Links:

• Gina Krupsky
• Theresa Momber * illustrator of Hope Grows
• Melanie Muenchinger * illustrator of Candles on Your Cake
• Jessica Fick
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Lee Murphy
• Donna Baker
• Lynn Mercurio
• Emily Giovanni
• Erika Martin
• Kurtis Amundson
• Bev Gerard
• Kay Simmons *May’s CenterStage Spotlight Team Member!*

Please make plans to attend our Release party this Thursday night, May 27th from 7-10 central time which will be held at StampTV.  There will be contest questions, challenges, samples from several designers and lots of chatter all leading up to 10pm central, when all the new products and stamp sets previewed this week on our blogs become available online through GinaK Designs store!

I have a few more projects from the craft sale to show you. This one uses the “Sweetest Blessings” stamp set from Gina K. Designs.

The main image was stamped onto Pure Luxury White cardstock using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. I added some silver stickles to the frosting and then mounted the white cardstock to the PL Green Apple cardstock.

The cardbase is PL Soft Sand and the main image was mounted to it with dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment below the main image using Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Sweetest Blessings (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
• Paper: PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL White (GKD), PL Green Apple
• Accessories: Copic Markers (GKD), Silver Stickles (GKD), Dimensionals

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the first day’s sneak peaks on Gina K.’s blog. She posted a picture of the FABULOUS new cardstock color “Soft Sand”! It doesn’t have the green hue like some sand cardstocks and it doesn’t have the speckles in it like Kraft – But it does have the Pure Luxury feathery feel to it!

I used the Soft Sand cadstock as my cardbase for the 100% Sweet card above. This card features a cupcake design from Rupa Shevde’s latest set called “100% Sweet”. It’s full of sweet images that can be used for almost any occasion – birthday, thank you, invitation, get well, etc.

The cupcake image was stamped on Pure Luxury white cardstock and colored with copic markers: BG49, YG63, Y21, E31, YR31 and Y15. The image is  cut out using the nestabilities Label dies.

The striped cardstock was created with my Scor-Pal and a crimped border was added to separate the printed paper from the yellow carsdtock. The printed paper is from a digi paper kit that coordinates with Rupa’s stamp set.

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The next sample is using Theresa Momber’s new “Happy Camper” stamp set. It has several fun camping/outdoor related images and is a great one for guy cards!

I stamped the ‘marshmallow-on-a-stick’ image onto Pure Luxury white cardstock and colored it in with copic markers: E37, E57, Y21, and E50. The ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment was then stamped above it, and I layered the white cardstock onto a piece of Pure Luxury Black Onyx.

The black panel was then mounted to the olive cardfront and I added a copper brad and stamped the additional sentiment.

Be sure to check out the other design team members’ samples.

Blog Links for the Senior DT:
Gina, Cathy, Carolyn, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Jessica, Joanne, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, Melanie, Theresa,

Center Stage for June:
Carolina Buchting, Jennie Harper

I sent this notecard to my blog candy winners – Bette and Vickie – along with the scissors. It was a super simple card to whip up in a few minutes.

The cupcake image was stamped onto white cardstock in black ink, then colored with Copic markers: G000, G00, BG23, E50, E51 & E34.

I trimmed the polka-dot cardstock, and then sewed a border around three sides. I distressed the sides and adhered it to the cardfront.

I added some white ribbon, mounted my main image with dimensionals, and added two little pearls for an accent.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Bitty Basics (SU!)
• Inks: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
• Paper: Aqua Mist (PTI), 80lb. Pure Luxury White (GKD), Green Polka-dot
• Accessories: Copic Markers (GKD), Nestabilities, White Ribbon (SU!), White Pearls (GKD), Dimensionals (SU!), Sewing Machine and Thread