The Gina K. Design Team has another blog hop challenge this month! The theme is Autumn memories, so I used Theresa Momber’s “Farm Life” stamp set to create a weathered outdoor scene inspired by the orchard that I worked at for several years – after the leaves fell off the trees, all the old farm equipment was visible throughout the property and looked really neat. Check Gina K.’s blog to find the details on entering your project in the hop.

I stamped the watering can image on Pure Luxury White cardstock, masked over it, and then stamped over the mask with the fence and wheel image. I then colored the image with Copic markers: C-1, C-3, C-5, C-7, E08, E43, E47, YG91, YG95, W-3, W-5, YR23, Y28, G000, G00, BG10, and 0.

I tore the right side of the cardstock and after rolling the edges, I layered it on a piece of PL Black Onyx cardstockl. I wrapped a length of twine twice around the PL Green Apple cardbase and then mounted the main image with dimensionals. I finished the card by stamping the sentiment on a piece of PL White cardstock, trimmed it out, and then mounted it to the main image with dimesnionals.

Supply List

Stamps: Farm Life (GKD), Fanciful Tags (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL Green Apple (GKD), PL Black Onyx (GKD), PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Copic Markers (C-1, C-3, C-5, C-7, E08, E43, E47, YG91, YG95, W-3, W-5, YR23, Y28, G000, G00, BG10, 0) (GKD), Hemp Twine, Dimensionals

For all the information about how to enter your card into this month’s challenge, please visit GinaK’s blog, then check out these participating designer’s blogs for more inspiration using the newly released stamp sets available through GinaK Designs:

• Jessica Fick
• Theresa Momber
• Nina Brackett
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Tami Mayberry
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Lee Murphy
• Kurtis Amundson
• Miesje Flach – our CenterStage Spotlight designer!

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

One more day of Blast From the Past, and we are featuring the illustrators Tami Mayberry and Gina Krupsky. After you view the projects made with their beautiful illustrations, join us on StampTV for a virtual release party!

Tami Mayberry

Supply List

Stamps: Special Delivery (GKD), Take Flight (GKD), Spring Mix (GKD)
Ink: Black Soot Ranger (GKD), Peeled Paint Ranger (GKD), Aged Mahogany Ranger (GKD), Frayed Burlap Ranger (GKD)
Paper: PL Grass Green (GKD), PL Smokey Slate (GKD), PL Cranberry Tart (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD)
Accessories: Cream Ribbon (GKD), Sewing Machine & Thread, Metal Clip, Dimensionals

Gina Krupsky

Supply List

Stamps: Winter Trees (GKD), Punchy Words (GKD)
Ink: VersaMark (GKD), White
Paper: PL Ocean Mist (GKD), PL Green Apple (GKD), PL Smokey Slate (GKD), PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL White(GKD)
Accessories: Decorative Fiber (GKD), Borderabilities Die (GKD), White Embossing Powder, Metal Clip, Dimensionals

Supply List

Stamps: Baskets of Blessing (GKD), Punchy Words (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL Grass Green (GKD), PL Pumpkin Spice (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD)
Accessories: Copic Markers (GKD), Decorative Fiber (GKD), Silver Rhinestones (GKD), Dimensionals

Gina K. Designs also has a coupon code for $10.00 off any order of $35.00 or more!

For even more samples of some of our favorite ‘Blast from the Past’ GinaK Designs stamp sets, check out these participating designer’s blogs:

• GinaK
• Jessica
• Melanie
• Theresa
• Tami
• Nina
• Cathy
• Lee
• Lynn
• Kurtis
• Bev
• Emily
• Erika

The entire GinaK Designs team would like to invite you to the virtual Release party we’ll be having tonight (Thursday, August 5th) on StampTV.  It will be a bit different than our usual release party, but we’ll still have challenges, contest questions, and designer samples that you won’t want to miss out on!  See you there for all the fun!

Instead of releasing new stamps this month, Gina K. Designs has decided to motivate your creativity with the Gina K. Designs stamp sets you already have in your collection. It’s called the Blast From the Past and each day, the Design Team will be posting projects created from stamp sets from various illustrators. Today we are featuring Theresa Momber and Rupa Shevde.

Theresa Momber

Supply List

Stamps: Out West (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), Tuscan Tan Vivid (GKD)
Paper: PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL Chocolate (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD)
Accessories: Koh-i-noor Pencils and OMS (GKD), Sponge, Paper Piercer, Dimensionals

Supply List

Stamps: Timeless Treasure (GKD), Many Happy Re-turns (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
Paper: PL Green Apple (GKD), PL Moonlit Fog (GKD),  PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Silver Eyelets (GKD), Linen Thread, Edge Distresser, Dimensionals

Rupa Shevde

Supply List

Stamps: King of the Grill (GKD)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), Olive Vivid (GKD)
Paper: PL Grass Green (GKD), PL Red Hot (GKD),  PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL White (GKD), PL Smokey Slate (GKD), PL Chocolate (GKD)
Accessories: Dimensionals

For even more samples of some of our favorite ‘Blast from the Past’ GinaK Designs stamp sets, check out these participating designer’s blogs:

• GinaK
• Jessica
• Melanie
• Theresa
• Tami
• Cathy
• Lee
• Lynn
• Donna
• Kurtis
• Emily
• Erika

The entire GinaK Designs team would like to invite you to the virtual Release party we’ll be having this Thursday, August 5th on StampTV.  It will be a bit different than our usual release party, but we’ll still have challenges, contest questions, and designer samples that you won’t want to miss out on!  More information on that event will be shared by GinaK soon, so stay tuned to her blog for all the details this week.

The Gina K. Design Team is having a blog hop tonight featuring techniques shown on StampTV. I chose to use the “Coloring with colored pencils and OMS” technique with the Aloha stamp set by Theresa Momber.

The images were stamped onto Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then colored with Koh-i-noor pencils and OMS. The sentiment was stamped onto a piece of PL Ivory cardstock, layered onto a piece of PL Smokey Slate cardstock and then mounted to the cardfront with dimensionals.

Here is the video tutorial, and be sure to follow the links at the bottom of this post to see more projects from the rest of the Design Team!

Coloring With Colored Pencils and OMS

Supplies:

• Stamps: Aloha (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
• Paper: PL Ivory (GKD), PL Smokey Slate (GKD)
• Accessories: Koh-i-noor Pencils (GKD), OMS (GKD), Dimensionals

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For more projects from the other designers participating in the hop tonight, please check out these links:

• GinaK
• Jessica
• Theresa
• Melanie
• Nina
• Tami
• Cathy
• Lee
• Donna
• Kurtis
• Emily
• Erika

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 wanted to try a different color scheme with the same layout as one of my previous cards…The black trees are a little difficult to see on the chocolate cardstock….maybe they should have been embossed with clear EP to bring them out more.

The tree image from Theresa Momber’s Gone Fishing stamp set was stamped with black ink onto Pure Luxury Chocolate cardstock and I stamped the sentiment from Gina K’s Picture It! stamp set over the image with white ink.

I wrapped some green ribbon (from the holiday ribbon pack) around the PL Soft Sand cardbase, mounted the main image with dimensionals, and added a white sateen flower with a silver rhinestone.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Gone Fishing (GKD), Picture It! (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), White
• Paper: PL Soft Sand (GKD), PL Chocolate (GKD)
• Accessories: Sateen Flower (GKD), Silver Rhinestone (GKD), Green Ribbon (GKD), Dimensionals