World Card Making Day with Joy Clair!

Hello everyone!

I hope you have been enjoying all the World Card Making Day festivities! I hope you have been able to join a challenge or make a card to celebrate today!  To celebrate World Card Making Day Joy Clair will be offering 20% off your entire order October 7th and 8th.  The coupon code is JCWCMD2017.  So please hop over to the store and get all the stamps you have been wanting.  Also Joy Clair will be having challenges and surprises all day long!  So be sure to check back to see what they are.

All day Joy Clair will be sharing a card of inspiration.  My card for today was to make a card for a friend!  My card is for a dear friend Avis that I have known for almost 30 years.  She is a wonderful christian friend and is always there when I need her.  I know I can call her and she would be right there for me.  My card is perfect for  her, because I know she will always be sweet on the inside.  

Here is my card I made with Avis in mind!

I started off with an A2 card.  I used some flowery design paper I had in my stash and added it to my card.  I die cut a panel and added it to my card.  I die cut two circles and stamped the sentiment on the white cardstock.  I stamped the pineapples from the Joy Clair Color By Faith set called Be a Flamingo.  I colored them with copics and used foam tape to pop them up on the white circle cardstock.  To finish off my card I added some black dots from Nuvo Black Drops.

Here is a closer look of the pineapples.

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Thanks so much for stopping by, enjoy WCMD and good luck on winning a surprise.

Gina K Designs Stitched Leaves Mini Inspiration Blog Hop - Back in Stock TODAY!

Hello everyone!

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new Gina K Designs Stitched Leaves mini kit which will be back in stock TODAY! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs!  These stamp sets are so fun, versatile and you can make a variety of different cards and projects with or without dies! You will be creating with this stamp set and dies all fall long! Have fun and be creative!

You will have so much fun creating with these images and sentiments. Here is everything that comes in the kit:

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to 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 card is an A2 card, the base of the card is GKD Tomato Soup card stock,  I added GKD Charcoal Brown, Fresh Asparagus, Tomato Soup and Honey Mustard inks with a blending tool on the right side of my card, I used the same colors on a piece of GKD White Heavy Base Weight paper stamped some leaves with versamark and heat embossed the leaves with GKD Gold embossing powder, I die cut the leaves with the GKD Stitched Leaves Die Cuts, I adhered the leaves with foam tape, stamped the "friend" with GKD Black Onyx, and stamped the sentiment on GKD layering white paper and cut it out and adhered it to my card with foam tape.

Closer look at my card.

My second card, is also an A2 card, I used the GKD Fresh Asparagus card stock as my base.  I used the Honey Mustard as my layer and embossed it with Darice Foliage embossing folder, I used the same paper that I inked up for the card above and stamped it with GKD Charcoal Brown ink and then stamped it with versamark ink and heat embossed the leaf with GKD clear embossing powder and then die cut it from the GKD Stitched Leaves Die Cuts .  I die cut the "thankful" out and used some glossy accent to it to give the word some definition.  To finish the card off I added some enamel dots.

Closer look at the leaf.

My last card is a CAS card, I stamped the leaf with  GKD Charcoal Brown, Fresh Asparagus, Tomato Soup and Honey Mustard inks, I cleaned the leaf off and added some versamark ink and heat embossed the leaf with GKD clear embossing powder, I stamped the "friend" with GKD Tomato, die cut it out with the friend die from the kit, stamped the sentiment and die cut it out and added it to my card with foam tape.  I finished the card off by adding some spatter with the Fresh Asparagus.

Did you miss the Release Party a couple of weeks ago?  Here is another card I showed.


I used the GKD Tomato Soup card stock on my card.  I embossed the layer and added it to the base.  I due cut a piece of GKD White layering card stock and stamped the leaf with GKD Warm Cocoa and GKD Charcoal Brown.  I used the "thankful" die cut and die cut some black foam and added it to the word to give it some dimension.  I added the sentiment with GKD Charcoal Brown.  

Closer look at the dimension of the word Thankful.

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 the entire stamp and die set as well as all of the new stamp sets by the illustrators from this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thank you for stopping by!