Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! To all my on-line friends and followers, to have a warm and wonderful day and may you be surrounded by friends and family!!!
This card is for Joan's #24 challenge over at Joan's Gardens.
1. Create a Thanks giving card
2. Use something Fallish such as Leaves, Pumpkins or Indian Corn (if you don't have a stamp use a leaf from your tree.
3. The color Green.
4. Some kind of swirl or vine.


Supplies:
Stamps: Wheat and sentiment are MFP and the leaves are Year of leaves by GKD
Ink: Memento,
Cuttlebug folder, Smooch from MFP, nestabilities and CS GKD.

Joan has some really great sales over at her blog!!

Again, have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Paper Rose

Hi, I had a lot of you wanting to know how to make the paper rose I used in my last post. So here is my version of it. I don't remember where I found the instructions for this, I think in a craft magazine. But I couldn't find it, so here is my attempt of instructions.

The supplies you will need:
3 different sized flower punch
card stock
Water mister
Hole punch
Brad
Punch out 4 of each size


Stack each group on top of each other and punch hole in the center.



Turn layers to stagger them.



Mist the flower to soften the paper. Pull up each layer kinda of scrunching toward the center.



Continue this way until all layers are scrunched up. Here is the finished rose plus another color to show you what that would look like.
The card stock I used is Cranberry tart and sweet corn by Gina K. Designs. The leaves are from Melanie Muenchinger set " A year of Leaves by Gina K Designs.





If you have any further questions just ask and I would love to see what you come up with.
Thanks for stopping by.

Melanie Muenchinger's illustrator Hop

Hello! I was delighted when Melanie ask me if I would showcase one of her sets. I was her GD for " A Year of Leaves" and that is what I decide to showcase here today. I love this ! It is great staple to have on hand. It is so perfect to use with flowers that I keep some made up just to have on hand. Like the ones I have scattered at the bottom of the card. I used Copic's to color them using G07 and G14. The rose was made out of Cranberry tart PLCS by GKD and a punch. Let me know if you would like more info on making the flower, it's real easy. I curled the leaves gently around a pencil part way to give them more of a 3-D look..



My all time favorite set of Melanies is " A Year of Flowers" and I just could not resist doing a card using that set. I colored the rose with copics. The CS is Gina K. Designs and Basic Grey for the DP. I made the rose smaller by copying and reducing the image using my printer.



Tonight Melanie
Muenchinger has several designing friends sharing samples they
created using some of their favorite sets from Melanie, take a look!

Brenda
Turner

Carla Suto

Carolina
Buchting

Geri
Utterback

Karen Knegten

Libby
Hickson

Linda
Payne

Melissa Shultz

Selma Stevenson

Sharri
Seffens

Sue Van DeVusse

Tina Gilliland

I hope you enjoy the hop and thanks for stopping by

Aloha!

Good morning! Don't you just love that greeting? I sure, do it reminds of sweet tropical breezes and warm sand.

I have two cards to show you this first one is for Carla's color challenge over at Stamp TV. I used Theresa Momber's new set " Aloha" by Gina K. Designs. I love this set and it has become a favorite already.



My card here is for Melissa's sketch challenge also at Stamp TV. I used Gina's "Enjoy the Sunshine" for the strawberries and the sentiment and Melanie Muenchinger's stamp set " A Year of Leaves. by GKD. I love these leaves, they go so well with flowers and fruit.


I used a small Marvy punch for the flowers and a drop of Stickles in the center. Both cards were colored with copic's. I used Memento ink for sponging and the card stock is by GKD.

Hope your day is wonderful and thanks for stopping by.

Melanie's Anniversary Hop

Hello! I have two cards to show you. Back in August Melanie Muenchinger ask me to be her guest designer to showcase her wonderful set "A Year of Leaves" Need I tell you how excited I was! Once again I get to show off her set again.
For this card I used the sentiment, acorns and some leaves from "A Year of Leaves".
I made this because I can't wait for spring!



I know it's not the time of year, but I love the fall colors.

Congratulations Melanie, on two years of creating such wonderful and gorgeous stamps for us. I am looking forward to more gorgeous sets! Way to go my friend!!

Melanie
Muenchinger is celebrating two years of blogging and
illustrating for Gina K Designs, and today she has invited 25 designers
and YOU to join the party! First hop through the following
designers' blogs using ev
ery set she has created since January 2008, from the first to
the 25th! Then go to Melanie's'
blog to leave a comment for a chance to win a number of
different prizes! So let's get hopping!

Here we go!

Just So Hippy-Charmaine

Just So Hoppy-Donna

What's in Your Tin 1 & 2-Donna

Hip Hop Accessories-Bee

Jumping for Joy-Barb

Cuddles and Hugs-Jessie

Little Tees-Cat

Just So Sporty-Pam

A Year of Flowers-Theresa

Say it with Flowers-Selma

Have a Cookie-Carolina

Tee Talk-Gabby

Hand in Hand-Ally

The Best Things in Life-Shannon, Sankari

A Charmed Life-Cathy

Wee Tees-Libby, Laura Jean

Arranged with Love-Selma

Sporty Accessories-Tina

Inspiration Mosaic-Jennie

School Sports Spirit-Melissa

A Year of Leaves-Geri


Hip to Be Square-Karen

Festive Frame-Linda

Tech Talk- Lee



Finally,
Nina and Jessica from the GinaK
Senior Design Team have joined in, too!
You can also get in on the hop yourself and increase your chances of
winning a prize by creating your own project with any one of
Melanie's sets and linking it in the Mr. Linky in her post, see full details here.
Hope you can join the fun! Enjoy your first hop of the year!

Thanks for stopping by,

The Promise

Good morning! We have snow in the Trinity Alps and on Mount Shasta showing with a promise of things to come! Fall is in full swing! I love the beauty of it but dread the cold.
My card is for a stamp TV friend who's DH is really ill and needs encouragement. So with him in mind I made this card for the challenge Lee has for potluck Friday.
We are to use words only , no stamped images. I love this sentiment from Melanie's set "A Year of Leaves" and thought it would be perfect for my card.
I think the shiny paper is from Michaels called platinum. I stamped the sentiment and using a mask from Tim Holtz sponged with creamy caramel from SU. The DP is from memory box and the self stick brads are from Gina K.
The button is basic grey and some scape ribbon finished off my card.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

A Year of Leaves!

Good evening! Wow can you believe how fast this month went? This my final week with Melanie Muenchinger! I so enjoyed working with her and this fantastic set "A Year of Leaves" I'm kinda sad for it to be over. I still have lots of ideas for this set.

Some info on my cards starting with the top card.
No coloring on this card other I did some sponging around the top edges. The leaf is stamped on "All about Autumn" digital DP from Gina K. Designs. Then I cut it out, so easy. The punch is by Friskers and the card stock is from Gina K. pure luxury pumpkin spice and black and white. The ribbon is from a craft store in Oregon . Nestabilities and MS punch.

The bottom card is another wreath of acorns I did. I colored the acorns with copic's and cut them out.I made a ring of card stock and arranged the acorns around it. The cord is from Gina K. The card stock is Gina's digital "All bout Autumn" and SU. I added self adhesive pearls.
If you haven't been to Melanie's blog she has posted some more of my cards.
A huge thank you! Melanie!

Thanks for visiting my blog and do come on back.

Life

Good evening, I'm having so much fun being a guest designer for Melanie Muenchinger . I love showcasing this set "A Year of Leaves" . The sunflower in the top card is from Melanie's set " A Year of Flowers" and caterpillar and leaves are from "A Year of Leaves". The card just below it is the inside of the card. I love this wonderful sentiment from this set! You can find both sets available here.
You might also want to check out Melissa, she is guest designer for Melanie, showcasing "School, Sports, Spirit!" Here.

A few of the supplies I used:
Copic's
Self stick Brads ( from Gina K. Designs)
Digital paper pack (All about autumn) from Gina's
Card stock is from Gina's
Nestabilities

Thank you all for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Whisper of Leaves

Good evening! I'm so excited to show you some cards I made using Melanie Muenchinger's new stamp set "A Year of Leaves". I'm still learning how to post on here so please bear with me.
I really do love this set, there are so many ways to use it. In the very top card I also used Melanie's set "Inspiration Mosaic".
The basket of apples in the bottom card is from Gina K. "Signs of Autumn" The rest is from "A Year of Leaves. For a larger view you can click on photo.
Supplies:
All cardstock is Gina K
Copic's
Dp is digital from Gina K. Designs called "All about Autumn".
Nestabilities

For even more inspiration, please visit our Illustrator of the Year of Leaves stamp set, Melanie Muenchinger's blog. You'll want to leave a comment on her blog because she is hosting a drawing for her gorgeous stamp set there tonight!

Melanie has asked her two guest designers to join in on her blog hop too:
Selma Stevenson
Karen Knegten

Also showcasing Year of Leaves stamp set samples tonight are these GinaK Designers:
Gina Krupsky
Carolyn King
Donna Baker
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Lee Murphy
Theresa Momber

as well as our CenterStage Spotlight Designers:
Geri Utterback
Shelly Wilson
Tina Gilliland

Thanks for stopping in.

Yum! Tomato

Good morning, hope you all are having a great day. I'm so thrilled to be guest designer for Melanie Muenchinger illustrator for Gina K Designs. The card I'm showing here today is from her newest set "A Year of Leaves" I just love this set it can be used so many different ways. It is just the perfect set to use with other sets to change a look and give more uses to your set. My card is an example of this. So I combined "A Year of Leaves" with a set by Gina K "Summer Harvest" I used the tomato from summer harvest and drew in a longer stem and the rest is from A year of leaves.
I colored with copic's and embossed the caterpillar and used stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the leaf right over the caterpillar, I then colored and cut out the leaf.
I could just that caterpillar eyeballing that tomato.
Supplies:
copics
self adhesive pearls
ribbon
DP is Basic Grey-June Bug.
Cardstock is rocket red from Gina K Designs.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you come back again.

A Plant for You!

Hi everybody!
Did you get to Gina K Designs release party over at SCS forum. All the new wonderful sets! I must have them all!! The previews were just gorgeous! I was so excited to be able to preview Melanie Muenchinger's Gorgeous new set "A Year of Leaves".

So about my card , I wanted to make a philodendron plant and this is what I came up with. I colored the leaves with copic's , a light yellow is what I used here (Y11) then I went over it with a med. green leaving spots of yellow, then cut them out. To make the vase I used a oval nestablities and cut the top and the bottom off. The paper for it, is some glossy black card stock I have had for some time. The rest of the paper is all from Gina K Designs including her newest Pumpkin Spice.
I added some self adhesive brads and ribbon.

Melanie Muenchinger's newest set "A Year of Leaves" is now available for purchase! (You can see the full set under "What's New!" at Gina K Designs.) This is a year round set including an assortment of leaves and nature images with coordinating quotes and greetings to suit any occasion.


You can see more samples today using "A Year of Leaves" on Melanie's blog, and from the lovely and talented Sharon Johnson, Laurie Schmidlin,
This set has a lot versatility and I can see many ways to use it. This set diffidently is a must have!!


Thank you so much for sharing your time!