Gina K Preview - Botanicals and Beach Bum

Hello! It's preview time at Gina K Designs and we some some amazing stamp sets to share with you this week. First up today is Botanicals. I love the beautiful silhouette florals and gorgeous scripted background in this set.

The other set I have to share with you today is Beach Bum, from Rupa Shevde. This set has a wonderful assortment of things you would find at the beach. This will be a great set for scrapbooking those fun vacation photos. The sentiments will work perfectly for scrapbooking, too!

I just love this surfboard and covered it with Cystal Lacquer to make it shiny. I'll share the step by step details for this card in a few days.

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, check out these Designer's Links:

• Gina Krupsky


• Jessica Fick


• Theresa Momber


• Melanie Muenchinger


• Nina Brackett


• Cathy Tidwell


• Lee Murphy


• Donna Baker


• Lynn Mercurio


• Emily Giovanni


• Erika Martin


• Kurtis Amundson


• Bev Gerard


• Colleen Schaan


• Sankari Wegman


• Suzanne Dean


• Valerie Stangle


• 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!


To make my Botanicals card, I started by sponging Memento Desert Sand ink on Pure Luxury White cardstock.

I inked the scripted background with Memento Rich Cocoa, then stamped off once on scratch paper before stamping on my cardstock.

Stamped the silhouette with Memento Bamboo Leaves.

I decided the background needed a little more sponging, so I sponged a bit of Rich Cocoa around the edges.

To add a bit of dimension to the botanical image, I added some shading with Copic marker YG99. I just made a quick swipe with my marker along the edge of the stem and along the right side of each of the berries.

Then I did the same with YG95, placing my swipes just to the left of the YG99, to blend just a tad.

Then I added some highlights with my white gel pen, on the right side of each berry.

I layered with Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, Ivory and Tan Leather. I stamped the sentiment from Botanicals, with Rich Cocoa ink and cut it out with circle and scallop circle Nestabilities. The ribbon is from a past StampTV kit and the button is from the Neutrals Button Assortment and I used Jute Twine to tie a bow on the button.

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