April Preview Day 1#

Good evening! Welcome to April release preview day one. It is my privilege and honor to be able to participate in the previews for Gina K. Designs. WOW still pinching myself. LOL.
My first card here is Melanie Muenchinger new stamp set "Gifts from the Sea" This set is absolutely fabulous!


Here is a close-up view of the shell, I embossed the center of the shell to give it a glossy look.



Here is another card using "Gifts from the Sea"



Here is another card using Tami Mayberry's new stamp set "Oh Boy!" This is so cute and wonderful, perfect for the young set!!




Designers Participating in previewing tonight:

• Melanie Muenchinger - Gifts from the Sea illustrator


• Tami Mayberry - Oh Boy! illustrator


• Gina Krupsky


• Jessica Fick


• Carolyn King


• Cathy Tidwell


• Donna Baker


• Emily Giovanni


• Erika Martin


• Kurtis Amundson


• Lee Murphy


• Lynn Mercurio


• Theresa Momber


• Valerie Stangle


• Nina Brackett
  

The Release Party is this Thursday, April 22 on StampTV. There will be challenges, contest questions, chatter, as well as tons of samples from the Design Team members from 7-10 (central time) all leading to the new products being available in GinaK's online store at 10pm. We'd love to have you join us for our monthly party!

Supplies for cards:
card one:
Stamps: Gift from the Sea by Gina K. Designs
Clear embossing powder
Card stock is Gina K. Designs
Nestabilitie Labels 6 and EK punch
card two:
Stamps: Gift from the Sea by Gina K. Designs
card stock is Gina K. Designs, Ivory, chocolate kiss and kraft.
card three:
Stamps: Oh Boy! by Gina K. Designs
card stock is Gina K. Designs
colored with copic's
ribbon is Gina K. Designs.



Thanks for stopping by and have a good day.

CSS Creative Cookout Cookbook Hop

It's time for another CSS Blog hop!


Hi all,
Several of us members of the CenterStage Spotlight Alumni team have gathered some of their favorite BBQ Picnic recipes together for to make another cookbook! The cookbook will be available for FREE over on the StampTV Freebie page for you to download and print at your leisure.



Here is photo of my submission to the cookbook.



Here is my project I made for the cookbook. I picked up this little notebook at Michael's for one dollar in the dollar bin.



Here is the inside. My idea for this notebook is to jot down ideas and recipes to use for a picnics. But it can be used for a varieties of things.



I used Rupa Shevde's stamp set " King of the Grill" by Gina K. Designs. The image is colored with copic's and I paper pieced the bottom with glossy black . The ribbon, button and card stock is from Gina K. Designs. The sentiment is computer generated. The inside is Sweet corn card stock and image stamped with really rust.

I would like to thank Jessica and Gina for creating and producing this wonderful cookbook to share with you all!! They totally ROCK!!

(The projects are also included in photos on the recipe booklet as well.)


Please check out the links of all the participating designers and then download the Recipe booklet and let us know how you like them!

• Jessica Fick: Grilled Pizza


• Betty Neville: Mom's Chinese BBQ Ribs


• Joy Hadden: Whiskey BBQ Sauce


• Tina Gilliland: Homemade Enchiladas


• Sue Van deVusse: Midwestern Kabobs


• Melissa Shultz: Foil Babies


• Geri Utterback: Oven Baked Beans


• Pam Imholz: Foil Potatoes


• Sharri Seffens: Calico Beans


• Carla Suto: Grilled Vegetables


• Dawn Lusk: Roasted Corn and Black Bean Salad


• Peggy Wainman: Bean Salad


• Karen Knegten: Miss Lucy's Rice Salad


• Jennie Harper: Picnic Coleslaw


• Cheri Weston: Fiesta Pie


• Brenda Turner: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake


• Lori McAree: Dessert Pizza


• Giovana Smith: Peruvian Alfajores


• Carolina Buchting: Vanilla Cupcakes with Butter Cream Frosting


• Jen Charboneau: Dirt Cake

I hope you enjoy the cookbook as it was a lot of fun to participate it this fun challenge. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

April Book Challenge

Hello! I have another card for Gina's illustrator challenge over at Stamp TV. When Gina announced her challenge I knew I wanted to do Bambi. Back some years ago and I won't mention how many. A rancher had given my mom a baby deer because it's mom had been killed by a car and her baby was just days old. My mom raised the deer and called her Bambi. She had a calf called April, about the same age and they were best pals and I think Bambi thought she was a cow!! LOL I have some pictures of Theresa feeding her and will see if I can find them.



Here is my inspiration photo.




I used Theresa Momber's newest stamp set "Sending Sunshine" by Gina K. Designs.
Other supplies :
DP is Basic grey
Card stock is from Gina K. Designs (Fresh Asparagus and Creme De Menthe
Colored with Prisma pencils.
Ribbon and button is from Gina K. designs

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Sunrays Tutorial

Hello! This is my first attempt at doing a tutorial!! Yikes!! Anyway ,because I have gotten some E-mails requesting instructions on how to do this Sun-ray technique, I decided to give it a go. It is a real simple technique and I want to give my daughter Theresa credit , she showed me how to do this.
Supplies:
A sponge, I used a jumbo dauber
Ink pad, I used Memento's cantaloupe
Post-it note, I used 4x6
card stock, I used 41/4 x51/2 piece. You can use any size you wish it to be.



Picture of the supplies I used.



I put two pieces of post-it down across where I want my sun ray to stop.



I put dot to mark about the middle of the end of horizon, then using another post-it , place the corner on the dot, as shown it the photo.



Decide how wide you want your rays ( I just eyeballed it). Then sponge on the ink staying mostly to the edge of your post-it.



Keeping your finger on the corner where the dot is, lift and pivot the post-it up for another ray.



Keep doing the same , hold , lift and pivot.



On the last ray, I removed the post-it and sponged right on the horizon post-it.



Here it is all done!


I hope I made this clear and not confusing. I would love to hear back on how you liked this !
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

A Goose that lays Golden Eggs!

Hello! Gina has challenged us to make a card or project using a favorite children' s book. This the card I was inspired to make. I got the idea for making the sun rays from a card Theresa Momber did and you can find it here.





Jack in the Beanstalk was a favorite book of mine when I was little and my girls enjoyed it as well.
I always loved the part of the story where Jack finds the goose that lays golden eggs which is the part that inspired me to make this card. Another part of the story I liked was the giant saying this.
Fee-fi-fo-fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishman?
Be he 'live, or be he dead,
I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
Kinda gruesome, huh?



The supplies for my card:
Stamps: Gina K. Designs "Spring Mix" by Gina.
DP is Basicgrey
Ink: memento black and canaloupe
Ribbon and nestabilities
Card stock is from Gina K. Designs

The winner of this challenge will get to be a DT member for the month of April!! You can find all the info on this the illustrator challenge .

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Pink Queen Anne's Lace

Hi I'm back with another post! My card is for two challenges : Vicki's sketch challenge "stvscvd06" over at Stamp TV and SCS challenge ways to use it "WT265".


Stamps: The sentiment is from Gina K. Designs "Notes to Mom" and the flower image unknown brand,
Card stock is from Gina K. Designs, Wine with everything and Innocent pink.
The ribbon is also from GKD and I also used a corner rounder and nestabilities.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

A Mouse Told Me!

Hello! Hope you all had a great spring break! It snowed on Easter here but it was really wet and melted fast! But sun is out and signs of spring is everywhere!!
The card I have is a sketch challenge card for Vicki's challenge this past week.
The cute little mouse image is from Gina K. Designs "Spring Mix" It is part of a kit that Gina is offering right now. The circle and sentiment is also part of the set.


DP is Basic Grey, the scallop circle is nestabilitie and the rest of the supplies used are from Gina K. Designs. The image was colored with pencils and copic R20 around the inner edge of circle.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Theresa is Featured Stamper on SCS!

Hello! Hope you all had a great day today!!
Some exciting news Theresa Momber is the Featured Stamper over at SCS!! Now being her mom, I'm so excited for her!!! That I sat right down and made this card. I decided to case her Peachy Daisies card. Theresa also has a tutorial on her blog. I love all of Theresa's cards, so it was hard to pick just one!!!!


The things I changed are:
Different stamp set: I used Theresa's newest set "Sending Sunshine" by Gina K. Designs
Different DP: I used Basic Grey Kioshi.
The rest is a copy of Theresa's card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Frazzled! #52

Hello! Happy Friday to ya!!

I have another challenge card here. Vicky's over at Stampin' B's challenge is to make a humorous card. I love fun cards, so I dug around in my stamps that I have had, forever and found this cutie. There isn't a name on it but it is by Art Impressions U-1842. The card stock is by SU and I colored the image with copic's. Ribbon and DP is from JoAnn's . I used an oval nestabilitie and sponged with SU Creamy Caramel.


If you would like to join in this challenge hop on over to the Stampin' B's for all the details.
Happy Easter and thanks for stopping by.

Bunny Basket

Hi all! Happy Easter to all of you!! I find it hard to believe it is here already.
My project here is for a challenge over at TMITA. This week Sue is Challenging us to use the digi image with a basket. Isn't that little bunny just the cutest?. I colored him with prisma pencils. I found the directions for the basket here. The punch for the handle is M.S as is the DP.



Hope the sun shines on you all for Easter and thanks for stopping by.