This card was created using the stamp sets Fanciful Tags and Grand Damask by Nina Brackett available from Gina K. Designs.

The grand damask image was stamped onto Pure Luxury Cranberry Tart cardstock using Champagne Dazzle VersaMark ink. I stamped the label frame image onto PL White cardstock  using Aged Mahogany Ranger ink, and stamped the sentiment inside of it using Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I added a length of bella fiber to the cardbase, mounted to label frame with dimensionals, and added two mini rhinestones for embellishment.

Supply List

Stamps: Fanciful Tags (GKD), Grand Damask (GKD)
Ink: Aged Mahogany Ranger (GKD), Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), VersaMark Champagne Dazzle
Paper: PL Cranberry Tart (GKD), PL White (GKD)
Accessories: Bella Fiber (SU!), Silver Rhinestones (GKD), Dimensionals

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!

This card was made to accompany a gift for a couple who married in January. I gave them a framed portrait which I photographed at their wedding, and which won 2nd place at our county fair.

The label frame was stamped onto ivory cardstock using brown ink and punched out with a label punch. The heart image was stamped onto ivory cardtock using red ink, trimmed and adhered to the frame.

I adhered a piece of textured ivory cardstock to a piece of brown cardstock and adhered the brown cardstock onto the blue cardfront that was covered with a piece of patterned paper. I added a length of cream string and a blue robbon to the cardfront, mounted the label frame with dimensionals, and stamped the word “cherish” ink brown ink. For embellishments, I added a shirt pin in the knot, two half pearls, and rounded the upper right corner.

Supply List

Stamps: Warm Words (SU!), Bursting With Joy (SU!)
Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento (GKD), Rose Red (SU!)
Paper: Soft Sky (SU!), PL Chocolate (GKD), PL Ivory (GKD), Natural, Patterned Paper (SU!)
Accessories: Blue Ribbon, Label Punch, String, Pearls, Pin, Dimensionals

One more stamp set to preview – the Lovely Labels stamp set by Nina Brackett. This is a very large set (fills two binder sheets) full of label images designed in a wide variety of styles.

I chose to make a little gift item filled with candy using a pillow box from Gina K. Designs. The pillow box is filled with white mints and then tied closed with a bow.

The label image was stamped onto Pure Luxury Smoky Slate cardstock using white ink and I stamped one of the word images inside the frame. I trimmed the label and secured it to the pillow box using mounting tape and Scor-tape. The flower embellishment was adhered with a glue dot and round brown button was added to the center of the flower.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Lovely Labels (GKD)
• Ink: White
• Paper: PL Smoky Slate (GKD)
• Accessories: Flower (GKD), Button (GKD), Yellow Ribbon (GKD), Pillow Box (GKD), Mounting Tape, Scor-tape

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The Lovely Labels stamp set coordinates beautifully with Spellbinders Labels 1, 4, 8, and 9. Nina has also designed a new digital paper pack called Spring into Spring that compliments the new Spring Assortment paper pack. For even more information on these new products, please visit the Lovely Labels Illustrator’s blog Nina Brackett.

Then, check out these designer’s links for even more samples made with Nina’s stamp set as well as the new Free with Three stamp set called Inside & Out as well as the Spring Florals card kit:
Gina Krupksy
Jessica Fick
Theresa Momber
Melanie Muenchinger
Carolyn King
Tami Mayberry
Cathy Tidwell
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mercurio
Kurtis Amundson
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Bev Gerard
Colleen Schaan

We’d love to have each of you make plans to join us tomorrow night for the big Release party over in Gina’s Forum on SCS! The virtual party starts at 7pm CST and is filled with contest questions from Gina, challenges from three of our designers, and tons more samples from the entire GKD team!

For some helpful tips on how Gina’s Release parties work on SCS, check out this discussion on StampTV.

I made this bag to package a wedding gift in for a wedding that Momma and Poppa went to on Saturday. The stamps are from the new “Wishing You” stamp set available from Gina K. Designs.

The flower and stem images were stamped onto the blue gift bag using White VersaMagic ink. I stamped the word images over the white ink using Memento’s Tuxedo Black ink.

Three little rhinestones (new from Gina K. Designs) on each side of ‘happiness’ add just the right balance and shimmer.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Wishing You (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD), White VersaMagic
• Accessories: Silver Rhinestones (GKD), Blue Gift Bag

Have you liked the previews so far? Well, there’s one more day yet of previews before the big release on Thursday, June 25th. Be sure to join us then in the Gina K. Designs forum over on Splitcoaststampers at 7:00 PM Central time for the big release party – it’s always a blast!

Today’s previews are Melanie Muenchinger’s new stamp set “Arranged with Love”, and “Bug Me Anytime” by Nina Brackett.

The card above uses the “Arranged with Love” stamp set – the floral image is one single stamp (the largest produced by Gina K. Designs). The flower image in this set coordinates perfectly with the floral images from Melanie’s “Year of Flowers” stamp set – I can see a lot of potential by combining both sets.

The set also includes several sentiments to stamp inside the little note rectangle. I chose the “To the Mr. and Mrs.” sentiment and am thrilled to now have a Mr & Mrs. that have capital letters – all of my other stamps have lower case letters and don’t look formal enough.

The floral image was stamped onto Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock and then colored in with Copic markers…I’ve forgotten where I used each one but here are the markers that were out on the table when I finished coloring: BV13, BV17, RV21, RV23, R20, R22, R29, YR23, Y21, Y38, YG03, YG63, YG67, G000, G21, G28, BG 93, BG96, and E43.

For a little (OK, a lot!) shimmer I added 26 mini rhinestones and 12 small rhinestones.

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The next card uses the “Bug Me Anytime” stamp set. It’s full of cute bugs and plants and several sentiments.

I stamped the little ladybug image onto Pure Luxury White cardstock and colored her body using R29. Her face was colored with R20, and I added a little blush to her cheeks with R22. I then stamped the sentiment below her and trimmed the white cardstock.

The white panel was then matted with a peice of Pure Luxury Black Onyx cardstock and two little pieces of red ribbon were secured with a black brad.

The Pure Luxury Soft Sand cardbase was stamped with mushrooms using VersaMagic white ink and the main image was mounted with dimensionals.

Don’t forget to stop by the rest of the Design teams blogs’ and check out their lovely samples!

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

Center Stage for June:
Carla Suto, Melisa Waldorf

Melanie Muenchinger’s Guest Designers:
Selma Stevenson, Denise Marzec, Dawn Lusk

I have one more card using the new stamps from Gina K. Designs, and this card uses Rupa Shevde’s “With This Ring” stamp set.

I started with a soft speckled moss cardfront and used a paint brush to paint a white rectangle on the front of the card. After the paint dried, I stamped the cake image in Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored the image with Copic markers. I was surprised at how well the markers worked on the white paint, and will probably use this technique again.

After I colored the flowers and leaves with Copic markers, I stamped the sentiment below the image. Overall I think the design worked, though I think I should have chosen a softer blue marker or a darker cardbase.

Supplies:

• Stamps: With This Ring (GKD)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento (GKD)
• Paper: Soft Speckled cardfront
• Accessories: Copic markers (GKD), White paint, Paint Brush