Please come out and play

Good morning, the sun is out but it's cold out there! My card here was a lot of fun to make and I love snowmen and have lots of good memories of playing in the snow. I broke my own record and used four different stamps sets for this one.
Here is the list:
Happy Camper by Theresa Momber
Hip to be Square by Melanie Muenchinger
Just be -claws by Gina K.
Holiday Cheers by Gina K.
The trees are from Holiday Cheers stamp kit, The bucket is from Just be-Claws, the arms on the snowman is from Happy camper and the snowman is from Hip to be square.
Supplies:
Stickles
Copic's
Brads
MS punch
Black memento marker
The ink bashful blue and ballet blue from SU
white gel pen
Card stock is pure luxury from Gina K.
Technique: Sponging and masking
Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

A White Flower ( 3-D Challenge)

Good afternoon, all week I have been going to make a card for this challenge. Finally got it done.
This challenge is over at Just of Girls (JUGS) in this project we are to have a 3-D flower on our card. They even have a video on how to make these gorgeous flowers, a very easy project. Mona did a fantastic job on explaining how.
I decided to do a black and white card as I rarely make and not sure why because I really like them.
Supplies:
White tissue paper
Brad
Die cut
Card stock Gina K.
Stamps are by Gina K. "Signs of Autumn and Thanks a Million".

Hope your day is good and thanks for coming by.

Christmas Holly

Hi, we are having a beautiful fall day here, it did drop down into the twenties last night. We are expecting rain tomorrow though. Yesterday, my DH and I spent most all day in the yard getting ready for winter.
Today I made a card for Cindy's color challenge over at stamp TV. I just love the challenges there.
The stamp set I used is Theresa Momber's " Very Merry Christmas" from Gina K. Designs.
In this challenge we are to use blue, green and yellow.
I used Gina K. pure luxury " All spruced Up and Sweet Corn.
Su Night of Navy
The button and the ribbon is from Gina K.
The DP is from Memory Box.
I used copic's for coloring and went over that with Sakura Glaze pen to give it a shine.
Nestiabilities.
Hope your day is wonderful and thanks for coming by.

Embossed on Glass Ornaments

Hi, I'm back! I was going to spend today cleaning my stamping area and do some commenting. and if I had time maybe some house work!!
Didn't do any of that!! Noooooo, I played.
A few years ago my daughter Brenda showed me how to stamp on these ceramic ornaments. We spent a lot of time painting on them and they turned out very nice. I made a lot to give to friends.
I picked up some at Michaels the other day, they are $1.29 each. I embossed on them with super fine gold powder from Gina K.
You have to be careful, the glass does get a little hot.
The second photo from the top is a photo of whats on the back of each of the ornaments.
Supplies: embossing buddy, gold embossing powder, stones, and VersaMark
Stamps :
A Very Merry Christmas by Theresa Momber from Gina K.
"Holiday Cheer" stamp kit by Gina K.
"A Year of Flowers" by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K.
A tip about this make sure to use plenty of the buddy because the powder really sticks to it.
Have a good day.

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.

T P Candle Holders

Happy weekend everyone ! Hope it is going well with you all. We had a very nice day here in the mid seventy's and a day of raking leaves. But I still got in time to play as you can see.
I made these for a challenge over at stamp TV . Donna is hosting the monthly 3-D challenge and we are to use TP holder or paper towel holder in our project. I made these little candle holders out of TP Holders.
These are only suitable for flameless candles.
The stamp in my project is by Carolyn King called " Warm Winter Wishes" from Gina K Designs.
100% of the proceeds for the sell of these stamps are being donated to the Alzheimer's Association in honor of her grandmother's memory! A wonderful cause and a beautiful stamp set.

Supplies:
Warm winter wishes stamps
ribbon from Gina K.
Card stock is rocket red from GKD
Dp is from SU
nestiabilities
Snowflakes stickers and a heart button
Flameless candles ( You can get them at the dollar store)

Hope the rest of your weekend is great. Thanks for coming by

Golden Bells

Good evening, kinda of late for me to be doing a post but I was so excited about this card as I tried something new and I think it turned of fairly well. My friend Selma did this great tutorial on her blog about this type of embossing using nestabilities .
The stamp I used in my card is from Gina K Designs "Very Merry Christmas" by Theresa Momber .
I also made this for Kay's color challenge over at stamp TV. To use cranberry.green and lt. blue.
Supplies:
Nestabilities
metallic rub-ons
gold brads
Gold embossing powder
DP is from 7 gypies
Cranberry tart CS is from Gina K.
Old Olive is from SU

Thanks for stopping by.

What I like to wear

Hi everyone!! I have new card to show you, it is for two different challenges. Lynn over at StampTV is hosting this weeks Potluck challenge and we were to make a card about our favorite things to wear. I have a lot but if you were to see every day mostly you would see me in this Tee shirt, tennis shoes and always earrings. I made the earring using gold pearl and I drew the wire with a Marvy gel pen. Trying to make it look like earrings on a card.
The stamps I used are by Melanie Muenchinger "Little Tees" and" School,Sports, Spirit"
Copics
pearls
ribbon
Su paper Pretty an Pink, Sage and basic gray
Basic Grey DP
Marvy gold gel pen
The color challenge at SCS is Pink. gray and sage. CC238.
Another preview tonight at StampTV and from what I have seen so far it is Fantastic! It's at 8:00 P.M.
Thanks for stopping by.

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.

Fruitful Harvest Blog Hop

Today we are having a blog hop to showcase Asela Hopkins new stamp set "Fruitful Harvest" From Gina k. Designs.
I knew as soon as I saw this set I would have to have it. In this card I selected the apple image for my card.
The supplies I used :
CB folder
nestabilities
copic's
scrap ribbon
self-adhesive brads
Gina K. Pure Luxury card stock, Chocolate kiss, Pumpkin spice and white
Basic Grey DP


For even more inspiration with the Fruitful Harvest stamp set, head over to Asela Hopkin's blog, the illustrator of this beautiful stamp set. She has also asked her friend Deb Felts to share a card with us tonight too!

Then, take the time to check out all the other GinaK Design Team Member's sharing projects tonight on their blogs:

Carolyn King

Emily Giovanni

Erika Martin

Gina Krupksy

Jessica Fick

Kurtis Amundson

Lee Murphy

Lynn Mercurio

Melanie Muenchinger

Theresa Momber

and our CenterStage spotlight designers:

Geri Utterback

Shelly Wilson

Hope you enjoy the hop and thank you for stopping by

What a Pair!

Hi, Here is a card I made for a sketch challenge hosted by Shelly over at StampTV . The stamp set is a new one by Asela Hopkins "Fruitful Harvest" from Gina K. Designs.
The supplies :
Nestabilities
Copic's
Basic Grey DP
Gina Pure Luxury card stock Chocolate kiss
Button Basic Grey
brads
I was real pleased with this card and hope you like it! Have a great day!

Caterpillars and Butterflies

Here is another card showcasing Melanie Muenchinger's new set " A Year of Leaves" . I love this verse about caterpillars and butterflies, it has a lot of meaning. I added the butterflies from Gina K. set "Take Flight" and I wanted smaller so I reduced the size in my scanner to 50% . I colored them and cut them out. I sponged on moonlit fog for the leaves and then stamped them.
If you didn't come here by way of Melanie's blog , you can see another card I made that she has posted on her blog using this same set " A Year of Leaves. I have more from this set coming soon.

The supplies I used on this card.
Gina K. Pure Luxury card stock
Chocolate kiss
Green apple
Moonlit fog

Other items I used are
Digital paper " All about Autumn"- Gina K
Nestabilities
Copic's

I hope your day is going well for you and thanks for stopping by.

Blog Hop for School, Sports, Spirit!

Hi everyone! I'm so happy to be included in the showing of Melanie's new set "SCHOOL, SPORTS, SPIRIT! This wonderful set has lots of images and is a great companion to"Sporty Accessories" Which is what I did here in my cards.
In the top card I wanted a football theme so I used the jacket, bag and shoes from School, Sports, Spirit! The football is from Sporty Accessories. Now with the jacket I stamped on a old pair of jeans, cut it out and went around the edges with Fray Check. I added some light blue for shading and then some self adhesive silver brads. The bag after I colored it, I made openings for the shoes.
Copic's
nestabilities
DP is from Gina K.
All card stock is from Gina K.

The bottom card here is made using the same two sets . The skates and saying is from " School, Sports, Spirit"! The rest are from " Sporty Accessories" I knew as soon as I saw this set I wanted to make something with those skates. Now if I can find those pictures I have of us trying to ice skate!! I will make a scrapbook page. Gina is have a challenge over at Stamp TV to make a card and a page using the same stamp set. I'm halfway there. LOL

Copic's
nestabilities
Self adhesive brads
Gina K. Pure Luxury card stock


For even more samples of the School Sports Spirit stamp set, please visit the Illustrator of the set, Melanie Muenchinger's blog. Melanie will be offering her new stamp set as blog candy tonight too - so we hope you'll take the time to comment on her blog for your chance to win this spectacular stamp set!

After visiting Melanie, hop over to her guest designer Melissa Shultz's blog for a special card she'll be sharing with us tonight.

Melanie has also asked a few members from StampTV to join us in showcasing her new set, so please check out her friends' blogs here:

Mary Anne


Sharri Seffens

Then, stop by these GinaK Design Team Members' blogs participating in Melanie's blog hop tonight:

Gina Krupsky

Carolyn King

Donna Baker

Erika Martin

Jessica Fick

Lee Murphy

Theresa Momber

GinaK's CenterStage Design Team Member's blogs:

Geri Utterback

Tina Gilliland

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the hop!

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!

Autumn Beauty Blog Hop

This is the inside:
Hi, tonight I'm honored to showcase a few cards for you using Theresa's Momber's new set "Autumn Beauty" from Gina K. Designs.
A beautiful and versatile set with 17 images and sentiments. A wonderful fall collection.
All card stock is from Gina K. designs and well as the DP ,which is a digital paper pack called " All about Autumn". In the middle card I also used another set by Theresa "Happy Camper".
All images are clickable.
Supplies for all:
Copic's
brad
ribbon
rhinestones
Nestabilities
Card stock: Chocolate kiss, pumpkin spice, and vanilla all from Gina K. designs


For more inspiration, please check in on our Illustrator of Autumn Beauty, Theresa Momber. She has also designed a beautiful digital paper pack called All About Autumn that is available for purchase as well. Be sure to leave a comment on Theresa's blog for a chance to win this stamp set!

Theresa has asked several guest designers to join in on the blog hop tonight:
Pam Imholz
Karen Knegten
Jennie Harper
Melissa Shulz
Brenda Turner

Then stop by these Designers' blogs to see the projects they are sharing tonight on their blogs:
Gina Krupsky
Carolyn King
Emily Giovanni

Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mecurio
Melanie Muenchinger

And finally, check out our CenterStage Spotlight Designers joining us with cards tonight:
Geri Utterback
Shelly Wilson
Tina Gilliland


Hope you enjoy the blog hop and thank you for coming by.

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.

Where the corn grows

Hi everyone hope you had a great weekend!
I wanted to show you a card I did doing the preview at Gina K Designs. This stamp set is Theresa's newest called "Autumn Beauty" This set is just fabulous and I love it!
The supplies I used are
copic's
MS punch
crimper nestabilities
Gina K cardstock
rhinestones
ribbon
Hope you like this, I will be have more soon.
Have a good afternoon

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!

Gala Apples

Hi,

New card to show you. I got this stamp set in a kit that Gina K designs has and I just love the basket of apples. Since Gala Apples are my favorite that's what I had to make, Right?
I used copic's to color and then cut it out. Basic grey is the DP and ribbon and some brads. I also did this for the sketch challenge over at SCS. SC243.
Thanks for stopping by!

The Whisper of leaves

Hi everybody!
I'm really excited about this stamp set by Melanie Muenchinger called " A Year of Leaves". From Gina K. Designs for which I'm previewing here. In this card, I used one of the leaves from the set, colored them with copic's and cut them out. I used nestabilities to make the squares, the Pure Luxury card Stock is all from Gina K Designs. Chocolate kiss, Ivory and Pumpkin Spice. The brown ribbon is from my scrape pile. I used dimensionals to pop them up.

Melanie has done it again! This set is just wonderful and I love it!!
You can click on the card if you want a larger view.

For more inspiration with the stamps previewed today, visit Gina's blog as well as Melanie Muenchinger, the illustrator of Year of Leaves and Asela Hopkins, the illustrator of Fruitful Harvest.

For even more projects with tonight's two stamp sets, these Senior Design Team Members are participating in previews today: Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Kurtis, Jessica, Lee, Lynn, ,
and Theresa as well as our CenterStage Spotlight Design Team members: Denise Kelemen and Geri Utterback

Our Release Party will be held once again over on SCS starting at 7pm CST on Thursday, August 27th. There will be contests, challenges, lots of chatter as well as a ton more samples shared by the Senior Design team members and our CenterStage Spotlight team too! You won't want to miss it!

Thank you for stopping by my blog and sharing the preview with me.