Day two of the Gina K. Designs preview brings a new set from Theresa Momber, “Gone Fishing”. Several masculine images that relate to the outdoors are in this set along with several sentiments.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Gone Fishing (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), White
• Paper: PL Moonlit Fog (GKD), PL Black Onyx (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD)
• Accessories: Copic Markers, Oval Nestabilities Dies, Silver Brads (GKD), Cuttle Bug, Dimensionals

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• Theresa Momber - Gone Fishing illustrator
• Jessica Fick - Quite the Catch card kit designer
• Gina Krupsky
• Cathy Tidwell
• Donna Baker
• Emily Giovanni
• Erika Martin
• Kurtis Amundson
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Bev Gerard
• Colleen Schaan
• Suzanne Dean
• Sankari Wegman
• Valerie Stangle
• Geri Utterback - our Center Stage Spotlight Designer!

The Release Party is this Thursday, April 22 on StampTV.  There will be challenges, contest questions, chatter, as well as tons of samples from the Design Team members from 7-10 (central time) all leading to the new products being available in GinaK’s online store at 10pm.  We’d love to have you join us for our monthly party!

Day two of the Gina K. Designs Release Preview brings you two more lovely stamp sets.

You don’t always have to use a sympathy stamp set to make a sympathy card – I used the koi fish image from Asela Hopkins’ new “By Your Side” stamp set to make a masculine themed card.

Supplies:

• Stamps: By Your Side (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
• Paper: PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL White (GKD)
• Accessories: Copic Markers (GKD), Lemon Ribbon (GKD), Silver Rhinestones (GKD)

One of Gina K.’s new sets this month is “Happy Spring,” a cute gardening set with garden sentiments. I used the water pump image and Pure Luxury Tan Leather cardstock to make a rustic themed card.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Happy Spring (GKD) Lovely Labels (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink (GKD)
• Paper: PL Tan Leather (GKD), PL Chocolate Kiss (GKD), PL White (GKD)
• Accessories: Copic Markers (GKD), Silver Rhinestones (GKD), Sewing Machine & Thread, Dimensionals

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Are you ready for even more inspiration?
Start with Gina’s Blog

Then, find out more information about the new Card Kit here:
Jessica Fick
Finally, check out these Designer’s blogs:
Asela Hopkins {Illustrator of By Your Side}
Melanie Muenchinger
Theresa Momber

Nina Brackett
Cathy Tidwell
Lee Murphy
Kurtis Amundson
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Bev Gerard
Colleen Schaan
Sankari Wegman
Valerie Stangle
Jennie Harper – our Guest Designer for this Month!

StampTV is celebrating it’s first birthday and the festivities are in full swing with this month’s release!  We’ll be holding this month’s Release Party on StampTV and couldn’t be more excited about all that Gina has planned for everyone!  The party kicks off this Thursday, March 18th starting at 7pm and ends at 10pm (all times CST) when all the new products will be available for purchase in Gina’s online store.

To keep informed of all the party plans and activities, check out this link:
Release Party Forum on StampTV

First off, I’m sorry for anyone who came to my blog yesterday hoping to see a preview of “Perfectly Polished” or “The Best Things in Life”. My stamps didn’t arrive until today so I wasn’t able to make up a sample with those sets – but don’t worry, I’ll have some for the release party on Thursday.

Today’s preview is the “Best Fishes” stamp set from Gina K. Designs. The coordination of all the images is fantastic – perfect for creating a scene or using individually, plus there are several sentiments to choose from!

I chose to create an underwater scene with three of the images in the set. I stamped the main fish image along with the hook and worm image onto the 120lb. Pure Luxury White cardfront and also stamped the grass images.

I used several sticky notes to create a masked border around the card and also made a mask for the fish and the grass. To create the lighter colored grass and fishes, I stamped off onto scrap paper once before stamping onto the cardfront – this made the image a shade lighter and gives the appearance of distance.

The fish in the upper left corner and the one in the bottom right corner were stamped using a “reverse image stamp” but that didn’t work out so I had to cover it up with the ribbon and sentiment. Since the reverse image stamp didn’t work, I stamped the fish in the top right upside down to appear as if it was going to the right.

After stamping all of the images I colored the scene with Copic markers. I used so many that even if I did remember which ones I used, I wouldn’t want to write them all down.

The polka-dot ribbon that I added is from Papertrey Ink and I used my Stampin’ Up! word window punch to punch out the sentiment.

Be sure to check the rest of the design team’s blogs for more sneak peaks: 

• Gina Krupsky
• Carolyn King
• Donna Baker
• Emily Giovanni
• Erika Martin
• Jessica Fick
• Joanne Basile
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Theresa Momber
• Mary Anderson (in the Spotlight)

Supplies:

• Stamps: Best Fishes (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
• Paper: 120lb. Pure Luxury White (GKD)
• Accessories: Copic Markers (GKD), Dark Chocolate ribbon (PTI), Word Window punch (SU!)