Gina K Inspiration Hop Day 1

Hello! It's time for a new release and the Gina K Design Team  has put together a blog hop featuring two of our new sets from this release, Holiday Basket and Under The Weather. All the new stamp sets are now available at the store.

My first card uses images from Holiday Basket, a fabulous new set illustrated by Melanie Muenchinger. These gorgeous images all coordinate with the ever popular A Year of Flowers and her Basket series of sets.

Next is a super sweet set from Rupa Shevde called, Under The Weather. These adorable images are perfect for any kind of get well or pick-me-up card. Love that sad little bear. I will post the tutorial for this card next week.

And now, for more inspiration, be sure to check out what the rest of the team has to show you...

• Gina K
• Melanie Muenchinger-illustrator Holiday Basket
• Sharon Harnist
• Suzanne Dean
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher
• Carolina Buchting
• Cathy Tidwell
• Deb Felts
• Donna Baker
• Emily Giovanni
• Giovana Smith
• Jimmi Mayo
• Lee Murphy
• Theresa Momber

 To start, I stamped the sunflower basket filler with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Next I filled in the center of the sunflower with my E19 Copic marker, then used the blender pen to push in a highlight.

I used Y17 to fill in the highlight. 

For the petals, I started with YR07.

Added Y17.

Then filled in with Y11. 

I colored the remaining flowers the same way, then started with YG99 on the leaves.

 Added YG95, leaving some highlights. After coloring with YG95, I used my blender pen to soften the highlights, but didn't get that step photographed.

 

 I colored a second set of sunflowers and then cut out the images, also cutting between the flowers to get them into smaller segments.

I cut an oval using Nestabilities, then sponged Memento Cantaloupe ink. I stamped the sentiment, also from Holiday Basket, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The sentiment is a long one and I wanted to fit it in the oval, so I carefully snipped it between "you" & "and."  I made the cut into a "V" so the two pieces would easily fit right back together for when I to use it longer.

 Sorry for the blurry photo. I stamped the single sunflower using Memento Desert Sand to create a subtle look in the oval.

I cut a piece of Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown to 5.25 by 3.75 inches and then used the bleaching technique to create the pattern on the background. I folded up a paper towel, placed it on an old plastic lit and poured a small amount of bleach on it.  Then I "inked up" my stamp with the bleach, stamping it in a random pattern and "re-inking" each time. You can see a video here ,by Gina, using this technique.

I layered my sunflower segments along the bottom of the oval and adhered using Pop Dots. I layered with a Pure Luxury Tan Leather scallop oval. I also layered with Pure Luxury Sweet Corn and used a Tan Leather card base. I used self adhesive nail heads in the corners.

Thanks for stopping by. We'll be back tomorrow with another fun inspiration hop. Have a wonderful day!