Gina K Designs New Release Blog Hop Day 1

The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop!!! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!!

 Hello! This week the Gina K Designs Design Team are blog hopping with inspiration from all our newly release stamp sets. First up is my card above using Melanie Muenchinger's fabulous new Pretty Patterns stamp set. You are going to love all the creative ways you can use this set. The first thing I though of when I saw it was how quick and easy it would be to make my own Washi inspired (faux) tape using paper scraps! I'll show you how I did it below. 

Next up is Tami Mayberry's gorgeous new set, Grand Tags. I love the elegant images in this set and they fit Spellbinders™ Nestabilities® Labels Twenty-Two! I sponged Memento Grape Jelly ink on white card stock, then stamped the labels image and trimmed around the outside lines. For the center, I stamped the sentiment, also from Grand Tags and cut it out with my Spellbinders Classic Circles die template. I sponged lightly with Memento Grape Jelly ink, while still in the die template, then stamped the dragonfly (from Follow Your Dreams), also with Grape Jelly, but stamped off on scratch paper first to make the image lighter. I added a band of Parisan Garden designer paper and some branches cut with Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms. The card base is Pure Luxury Sandy Beach.

For more inspiration from the design team, be sure to check out the following links...

• Gina K
• Tami Mayberry – Illustrator Grand Tags
• Melanie Muenchinger – Illustrator Pretty Patterns
• AJ Otto
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Deb Felts
• Giovana Smith
• Jimmi Mayo
• Lee Murphy
• Lori McAree
• Michelle Woerner
• Theresa Momber (you are here)
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher

To make my faux Washi tape, I grabbed some scraps I have laying around. I always seem to have a bunch of these narrow bands of card stock and pattern paper.

I stamped four of the border images from Pretty Patterns using Memento inks. The top was with Memento Morocco on Pure Luxury Just Peachy, next was Memento Peanut Brittle on a piece of designer paper, then the chevron pattern with Memento  Rose Bud on Bubblegum Pink and finally, Memento Blue on Ocean Mist card stock. Don't you just love that chevron pattern?

My card base is Pure Luxury Kraft and sized at 5 ½ by 4 ¼ inches. I stamped another of the patterns using Memento Rich Cocoa, but I stamped off the image on scratch paper first to make it lighter. 

I tore the faux Washi tape into pieces and adhered to my card base. I only used two of the patterns on this card, so I have the other two ready to go for another project.

I added the vertical sentiment (from Mountain Wilderness) and some bakers twin with a button to embellish. This was so fast and fun to make!

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

Pretty Patterns Stamp Set from Gina K Designs	Grand Tags Stamp Set from Gina K Designs	Parisian Garden Designer Paper Gina K Designs	Circle Nestabilities
Pop Dots	Memento Ink Pads	Jumbo Sponge Dauber	Pure Luxury Card Stock

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