GKD Previews Day 1

Hello! Today the Gina K Design Team is previewing three new stamp sets to be released this Thursday night. First up is a wonderful new stamp set from Melanie Muenchinger, called A Beautiful Life.

I used this beautiful little butterfly, stamped several times, colored with Copics and cut out. The sentiment is also from the new set. I cut the oval with Nestabilities and sponged while still in the die. I layered with Pure Luxury Black Onyx and White (sponged with Memento inks). The card base is a brand new Pure Luxury color, called Baby Boy Blue. Love this new color!

Next is a fabulous new set from Tami Mayberry, called Fairy Tales. You are going to love the whimsical images in this set!

I used stamped the flower three times, colored with Copics and cut out the flower and leaves. I added Doodlebug glitter to the centers of the flowers. The background was sponged, then stamped with the three flowers. Then I popped up the cut out images, using Pop Dots.

I layered with Pure Luxury Passionate Pink and used another new PL color, Bubblegum Pink, for my cardbase and tied my bow with White Organdy Ribbon.

The next set is one I illustrated, called Sending Sunshine. This set is a medley of spring images that can be used as focal images, or for scene building.

Are you ready for even more inspiration?

Start with Gina's Blog

Then, visit these Illustrator's blogs of these new stamp sets:

Melanie Muenchinger - A Beautiful Life

Theresa Momber - Sending Sunshine

Tami Mayberry - Fairy Tales

Finally, check out these Designer's blogs:

Jessica Fick

Nina Brackett

Carolyn King

Cathy Tidwell

Lee Murphy

Lynn Mercurio

Donna Baker

Kurtis Amundson

Emily Giovanni

Erika Martin

Colleen Schaan

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

To make the daffodil card, I stamped the image, from Sending Sunshine, with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then colored with Copic markers. I started with Y17 where I wanted the deepest color.

Blended out from the previous color with Y21, then colored a little around the edges of the petals.

Filled in with Y000 then added just a bit more shading with Y17.

For the foliage, I filled in completely with YG07, then used YG93 to add some shading. I used my blender pen to push some highlights back in.

After coloring, I used my oval Nestabilities die to to trace an oval around the image using a pencil, letting the image over-lap the oval in a few places.

Then I cut around the oval, being careful to cut around the image wherever it extended past the oval. Next, I used B00 to add some gentle shading along the outside edges of the image.

For the background panel, I sponged some Memento New Sprout.

Then sponged some Memento Bamboo Leaves. After sponging, I embossed with my Swiss Dots CB folder.

I layered with Pure Luxury Black Onyx and used a Pure Luxury Lemon Drop card base.

Thanks for stopping by. I'll be back tomorrow to preview two more wonderful new stamp sets. Have a great day!}