Gina K Preview - First Christmas and Vintage Borders

Hello! Today I have projects to show you for two new stamp sets being released this Thursday from Gina K Designs. This first one uses First Christmas, illustrated by Asela Hopkins. You are going to love the classic holiday images in this set! Check out the gorgeous new Tan Leather textured cardstock! (you can click on the image to see it larger) It's just one of the new Pure Luxury colors being released this month and part of a new Neutrals Assortment Pack. Those buttons are from the new Neutrals button assortment!
Next up is Vintage Borders, illustrated by Nina Brackett. The gorgeous border images in this set are going to be wonderful for making holiday cards, but I see many possibilities for cards all year long. I used Pure Luxury Cranberry Tart, Ivory and Chocolate Chip for my layering and the new Pure Luxury Leather for the card base.

For even more inspiration, please visit the Illustrators of the stamp sets featured tonight:

Asela Hopkins: First Christmas
Nina Brackett: Vintage Borders

Tonight, we have several of our Center Stage Spotlight Designers joining in the previews. Here are their blog links:

Deb Felts
Sharri Seffens
Melissa Cash

Finally, stop by these GinaK Designers' blog for even more projects with tonight's stamp sets:

Gina Krupksy
Carolyn King
Cathy Tidwell
Cindy Lawrence
Erika Martin
Emily Giovanni
Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mercurio
Melanie Muenchinger
Tami Mayberry
Donna Baker

Our Release party will be held Thursday night over on SCS in GinaK's Forum from 7-10 pm CST. We'd love to have you join in the fun! There will be contest questions, challenges, chatter, and lots more samples from our designers throughout the party! See you then!

Here are the details on my cardinal card...

I started by using R29 Copic marker on the cardinal from First Christmas.

Added R24.

Used my blender pen.

After blending, I went back with R29 to deepen the shadows.

Then added a little N5 to deepen the shadows even more.

Used E33 and Y23 on the beak and then I cut out the bird.

Next, I stamped the cardinal a second time. I didn't really need to color the bird again since I planned to pop up the first bird over him, but I went ahead and colored over him very quickly so that there wouldn't be any white peeking out from under the popped up bird.

I colored the foliage with YG95, then used an opaque white gel pen to add highlights. After coloring, I used my Versa Mark pen on the whole image and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

I cut out the second image using oval Nestabilities. I intentionally chopped off the poor bird's head, so he would extend past the oval after I placed the first bird on top. then I sponged around the image with So Saffron ink.

Sponged with Creamy Caramel around the edges.

I used Pop Dots to adhere the first bird over the second and layered with Pure Luxury Black Onyx. Added a layer of Ivory that I embossed with my Snowflake CB folder, layered with Rocket Red, Black Onyx, Tan Leather and used an Ivory cardbase.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!