A Year of Flowers Book Hop

 Thank you for hopping along today with the Gina K. Design Team!! If you arrived here from Giovana's blog, then you're right where you should be. You can always go to StampTV to start from the beginning.  The inspiration for today's hop came from Melanie Muenchinger's new book called, A Year of Flowers.

While you can make every design in the book with Melanie’s all occasion “A Year of Flowers” set, today’s samples showcase her coordinating florals, which can also be used with the book's tutorials and designs, and provide endless options and more value for your money. We are excited to share cards and projects we created using some of our favorite flower sets designed by Melanie! We love her new book and know you will too - don't miss out on getting your very own copy which you can purchase HERE!

My sample uses Pressed Flowers:

I did a bit of kissing with the solid floral image using one of the backgrounds from Timeless Textures.  I stamped the flowers with Memento Summer Sky and kissed prior to stamping with Memento Rich Cocoa ink.  I added some additional color by using the same "kissing" stamp by stamping randomly using Memento Desert Sand.  Melanie's floral stamp sets are amazing and love the detail she gives to these beautiful images.

• Hope you're finding some great inspiration and wonderful designs to get your creativity jump-started!  You can find the newest stamp sets and lots of wonderful accessories in Gina's Store.  And then join us on Stamp TV for the challenges and surprises and crafty videos galore!!!
• Go to Lee's blog, to continue the hop! 
• Leave comments along our hop today to enter to win one of Melanie's coordinating floral sets of your choice. The more comments you leave the more chances to win! Melanie will draw a name randomly from one blog and post the winner tomorrow morning.  She is also giving away her Crazy Daisy digital patterned paper FREE if you link Gina's video or her post, please see Melanie's blog for details! Good Luck!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Blessings, 

Free For All Friday - DIY Patterned Paper on Stamp TV

 I am hosting the Free for All Friday Challenge on Stamp TV this week.  I love to use stamps to create a patterned paper and my challenge is DIY Patterned Paper using Stamps.  I used Branching Out, Timeless Textures and the sentiment from Follow Your Dreams.  I used Ivory and Innocent Pink card stock and the center of the flowers was made using pink Liquid Pearls.  Here is a close-up of the patterned paper I created....

Quite a fun design and one I use again with other colors.

Hope you can play along with my challenge, you have until 8 pm (CST) Thursday, May 19th to upload your card to the STV gallery and tag it: STVFRIJH1

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Blessings,

GKD April Release Inspiration Hop

Welcome to the Gina K. Designs April Release Inspiration Hop!  We are excited to share with you two of the stamp sets released last night.

First up is Garden Silhouettes, the One free with 3 stamp set:

I used Red Hot, Black Oynx and White cardstock.  I embossed the white panel with the Floral Fantasy Cuttlebug folder and smeared it with a yellow gelato.  The image was stamped using markers and then I sponged over the die-cut with Memento Cantaloupe ink.  I framed it with Fancy Tags.  One of my favorite ribbons from GKD is this Black Gingham, just a fun width and it makes the prettiest bows :)

Next is Timeless Textures, which I also paired with Garden Silhouettes. There are no limits to this fun set...I have so many ideas floating around in my head and need more time in my day to create....

This was a fun set to put together using two shades of ink.  They would make a nice card set and since they are very CAS, mailing these wouldn't require any extra postage which is a big plus nowadays!

Here is one close up:

For even more samples of these new sets, please visit each of the GKD Design Team blogs listed below and leave a comment. The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have of winning!  Tomorrow Gina will announce on her blog the randomly chosen winners who will each win one of these fabulous new stamp sets!

• Gina K
• AJ Otto
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Deb Felts
• Donna Baker
• Emily Giovanni
• Giovana Smith
• Janice Whiting
• Jennie Harper
• Jimmi Mayo
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner
• Sharon Harnist
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Valerie Stangle
• Vicki Dutcher

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Blessings,