Gina K Designs - Fun with Fabulous Foil-Mates Blog Hop

Hi everyone! 

Gina K and the team have received such amazing feedback on the new Foil-Mates, Fancy Foils and dies that we have decided to put together a special hop for you today! This blog hop is a blend of a video blog hop featuring tutorials from Gina K and a few members of the team and a traditional blog hop featuring beautiful cards from other members of the team. 

Over the past few weeks, the Foil-Mates products have been flying off the shelves at Gina K Designs. Please be assured that if they are out-of-stock, they will quickly be back on the shelves again soon. In fact, Gina just stocked the shelves with a fresh batch of Foil-Mates, Fancy Foils and dies and more will be on the way.

If you are new to Foil-Mates, they are used to step-up the shimmer and shine in your card projects! Creating cards is never more easy and beautiful when you work with this new line of foil products. From beautiful pre-printed Foil-Mates, to stunning colors of Fancy Foils, when you combine them together the outcome is stunning! Discover how many various combinations of different cards and invitations you are able to create with Gina’s Foil-Mates products. With many of Gina’s most popular signature colors now available in foil, coordinating with Gina K Designs card stock and ink has never been easier!

We would like to thank Therm O Web for being such a great partner in the Foil-Mates line of products.

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog. We will be selecting one lucky commenter at the end of the hop and that person will win a $50 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop. Ready for some inspiration? Here are a few of the projects I have created for today’s hop:

My first card features the Birthday Essentials Foil-Mates Sentiments set.  I cut the image out using the Foil-Mates Rectangle Large set and foiled it with Passionate Pink - Fancy Foil.  I then used the Stars and Stripes foil Mates and used Passionate Pink - Fancy Foil for the polka dots and the Turquoise Sea Foil - Fancy Foils for the stripes.  I am in love with all these foils, it sure does make a classy card for anyone you want to send one to.

GKD Supplies Used:

Birthday Essentials Foil-Mates

Polka Party Foil-Mates

Stars & Stripes Foil-Mates

Turquoise Sea Foil - Fancy Foils

Passionate Pink - Fancy Foils

GKD Pure Luxury Cardstock - White, Black and 

Passionate Pink

Small & Large Rectangle Foil-Mates Die Sets

Thermoweb 3D1/4" Foam Squares

Thermoweb Sticky Dot Runner

Here is a closer look of the card.

My next card, I am using the Birthday Essentials Foil-Mates Sentiments set again. The background, I used the Stars & Stripes Foil-Mates, I foiled the stars with Jelly Bean Foil - Fancy Foils and the stripes with Turquoise Sea Foil - Fancy Foils.  I used the negative that I foiled from the card above.  It's so nice that you can use every piece of the foil if you have   To the Deco Foil Toner Sheets.  Gina K has a nice video you can watch if you are not sure how to use the Deco Foil Toner Sheets.

GKD Supplies Used:

Birthday Essentials Foil-Mates

Stars & Stripes Foil-Mates

Turquoise Sea Foil - Fancy Foils

Jelly Bean - Fancy Foils

Passionate Pink - Fancy Foils

Wild Lilac - Fancy Foils

GKD Pure Luxury Cardstock - White and Black 

Small & Large Oval Foil-Mates Die Sets

Thermoweb 3D1/4" Foam Squares

Thermoweb Sticky Dot Runner

Closer look of the card, here you can see the colors very well.

My next card is a very clean and simple card, again I used the negative piece that I foiled with the Deco Foil Toner Sheet, I also die cut the butterfly with the Toner Sheet and foiled it with Turquoise Sea Foil - Fancy Foils.  The sentiment if from the Gina K Massive Messages.  

GKD Supplies Used:

Polka Dot - Foil-Mates

Turquoise Sea Foil - Fancy Foils

Jelly Bean - Fancy Foils

GKD Pure Luxury Cardstock - White and Black 

Thermoweb Sticky Dot Runner

Closer look of the card

My last card I have lots of elements on this card.  I embossed the background and layered it with the GKD layering black cardstock.  I then used the negative from my second card which was the Stars & Stripes Foil-Mates using the Toner Sheet.  I die cut the stars with the small and large foil mates die sets.  I die cut the True Friend - foil-Mates sentiment and then foiled it with the  Jelly Bean Fancy Foil.  I added all the elements to my card.  I finished it off by die cutting the stars from the Large Rectangle Foil-Mates Die Set and adhered them to my card.

GKD Supplies Used:

True Friend Foil-Mates

Stars & Stripes Foil-Mates

Jelly Bean - Fancy Foils

GKD Pure Luxury Cardstock - White, Black 

and Jelly Bean Green

Small & Large Circle Foil-Mates Die Sets

Large Rectangle Foil-Mates Die Set

Thermoweb 3D1/4" Foam Squares

Thermoweb Sticky Dot Runner

Closer look at the card.

Ready for more awesome creations?! Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast & Crew:

Gina K

Beth Silaika

Cathy Tidwell

Chris Dayton
Claire Brennan
Donna Idlet

Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin

Melanie Muenchinger

Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore

Theresa Momber

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thank you for stopping by!