Gina K Design Team Inspiration Hop April 2014 Day 1

Good Morning! Today is the first day of the Gina K Designs Inspiration Hop for the April 2014 Release over at StampTV.

The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop! Gina, along with the Cast, Crew, and Guest Designers, will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them, because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of Gina K. Designs products! To see the full list of winners check the BigNews Forum at StampTV a few days after the hops.

  I am BEYOND flattered and absolutely thrilled to be a Guest Designer for the month of April.  It's SUCH an honor for me!  Thank you so much, Gina and Crew!  Special thanks to Lee for holding my hand and walking me through this, and to my fellow Guest Designers Karen Hightower and Nancy Leppek. We have had a great time carrying out our duties!!

The stamp set we have for you today is Lots of Letters 2, illustrated by the very talented Melanie Muenchinger. Here is her wonderful set:

Just take a look at all those wonderful shapes in this set! Love the flowers and borders!!! I had so much fun making some cards for you.

First up is this card:

For this card I stamped and heat embossed the image with white powder on vellum, and colored the flower centers on the back side with Copics. Then I just adhered a strip of polka dot paper from Recollections Bold Basics to the GKD Pure Luxury White card base, and attached the vellum overlay with white brads. Oh, and I added a butterfly in vellum as well.

Here's my second card:

This card is definitely more masculine. Papers are GKD Pure Luxury Kraft, In the Navy, and Turquoise Sea. I stamped the banner border with GKD Inks In the Navy and Turquoise Sea, cut them out, and layered them along the bottom of the card. Background is embossed with the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. The little flower is stamped with In the Navy and fussy cut. Sentiment is from the new Out West 2 stamp set by Theresa Momber.

And finally, this card:

I decided I wanted to do some kind of pattern with those cute flower stamps, and I came up with this design. I stamped them with Bubblegum Pink, Powder Blue, Sweet Mango, Sweet Corn and Powder Blue GKD inks. The little yellow dots are actually the golf ball stamp  from Debbie Corbari's new stamp set called Golf Diva. Then I decided to cut the paper in two and re-adhere it with that sentiment in between, stamped on the Innocent Pink underneath. The sentiment is from the Out West 2 set. Card base is GKD Pure Luxury White.


Check out all the amazing cards and inspiration the Design Team has come up with using these sets:

The Design Team:
Gina K
Melanie Muenchinger - Illustrator of Lots of Letters 2
Beth Silaika
Cat Tidwell
Debbie Corbari
Laurie Schmidlin
Lee Murphy
Sean Fetterman

The Guest Designers:
Judy Woodland
Karen Hightower
Nancy Leppek

 Stay tuned, because tomorrow we will have a brand new hop with two more amazing stamp sets. And head over to StampTV, because today I'm hosting the MIUM Challenge. Hope you can play along.

Thanks for stopping by  - and happy stamping!!