A Mod Squad Challenge, A Thank You Card & Gina K Designs

 

Hello Crafts! This month the Mod Squad Challenge Blog is giving thanks to their sponsors and this week the thanks goes to Gina Krupsky of Gina K Designs. It is so appropriate that this card is for Gina since I started following Gina, watching her weekly videos, making cards along with her (and buying as much as I can hide from my DH 😂), and joining her online group at the very start of the lockdowns last year 😷! Through all of this and with Gina's creative inspiration it really helped me get my mind off of what terrible things were going on in the world. So I am grateful for Gina being so uplifting and motivating me to continue to create. I am very honored to make a thank you card for her!

I used Caring Flowers and Sketched Flowers Stamp Sets to create this card. I stamped the flowers from the Caring Flowers set in GKD Black ink. I then colored the entire image with my Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. If you've never colored with pencils and gamsol you need to watch this video. Gina shows you exactly how to do this!

After coloring, I used a black glaze pen and a white Gel Roll pen (both by Sakura) to define the stamens in the center of the three flowers. I die cut the panel down with a Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables die and die cut a black cardstock layer with a GKD Master Layout #1 die.

I then stamped the sentiment from the Sketched Flowers stamp set in VersaMark and heat embossed it with GKD black embossing powder. 

I adhered the top two layers onto a Tranquil Teal card base. I always love to add a little something to finish my cards off so I grabbed Gina's Clear Dew Drops and glued a few here and there on the card using Connect Glue!

I stamped a sentiment on the inside from the Friendship Blooms stamp set and stamped two of the inside corners with the Caring Flowers stamp in Tranquil Teal. I even stamped the front corner and back flap of the envelope with the same stamp. 

 

My Thank You card is finished and ready to send to Gina! She gives so much of herself to all of us each week and I'm just giving her a small bit back to let her know that everything that she does is very much appreciated. 

Thank you also goes to the Mod Squad Challenge Blog for this great challenge!

So until next time, Happy Crafting!

Supplies used: 

Stamps - Caring Flowers, Sketched Flowers, Friendship Blooms

Cardstock: GKD White, Black, Tranquil Teal 

Pencils: Prismacolor

Gamsol

Pens: Sakura Black Glaze, GellyRoll 

Embossing Powder: GKD Black

Ink: VersaMark, GKD Black

Dies: GKD Master Layout #1, Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

GKD Clear Dew Drops

Foiled Butterfly Slimline Card

 Hey Crafters! Today I have a card that I created for the Beautiful Butterflies Mod Squad Challenge. This challenge gave me the chance to use a new (to me) product - Gina K Designs/Therm-O-Web Stamp N Foil Foil-Mates Detail Sheets. I recently purchased a laminator, toner sheets, and a lot of foils! These Foil-Mates are called Butterfly Kisses and also has a stamp set and die set that comes separately (but of course I had to have them all!)

I decided to make a slimline card so I could put more of those butterflies on my card. I ink blended four colors onto my card front - Gina K's Passionate Pink, Sweet Mango, Turquoise Sea and Wild Lilac. Part of the butterfly wings come ready to foil but I stamped them in the same inks that I used on the card front and then I ran them through my laminator with the same color of Gina K Fancy Foils. It is so hard to see the beautiful and shiny foil in photographs unfortunately.

I used a sentiment from Lawn Fawn Butterfly Kisses (just a fun coincidence that both companies have the same name!) and heat embossed it with white embossing powder from Gina K. 

I die cut the sentiment and the postage stamp shape from Gina K Designs Master Layout #4. All of the elements are popped up on pop dots. 

I hope that you like my card for today! My new laminator has been getting a workout and I will post more cards that I've made using foiled elements and more info on the laminator itself. I will be adding this card to the Mod Squad Challenge! Thanks so much for visiting!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Thankful, Grateful, Blessed

Hello Crafters! I have a Thanksgiving card to share today. I really enjoyed creating this one because I used some new (to me anyway) tools and techniques. Most of the supplies are from Gina K Designs - my new favorites! 

Gina has a Wreath Builder system that is so easy to use but the results are spectacular! 

Here is the link to the Wreath Builder Templates:

 

Gina K Designs Wreath Builder

With these two templates you can create the most beautiful stamped wreaths for cards and so much more. Gina has several wreath builder stamp sets to go with the templates but you can really use any stamp set that has small to medium stamps included.

So here is the Thanksgiving card that I made with the Wreath Builder -

Along with the Wreath Builder Template I used the Wreath Builder Stamp Set, the Autumn Wreath Builder Stamp Set, the Take Care Stamp Set and Gina K inks to create the gorgeous wreath at the center of my card. I stamped the sentiment and the circle border - both from the Autumn Wreath Builder Stamp Set  - then cut it out with a circle die cut which I popped up with pop dots in the wreaths center. 

The lower background looks like patterned paper, doesn't it? Nope, its plain white cardstock that I used a stencil on. It's the Gina K Designs Sassy Stripes Stencil (love that name 😊)

Gina K Designs Sassy Stripes Stencil

I turned the stencil so that the stripes were vertical, taped the paper to it and, using a blending brush, blended the ink onto the cardstock. Always start blending with a very light hand and if you need more color just add a little more ink but use that light hand. Trust me, a lighter touch is key to blending!

Since I don't have some of those 'fancy' dies, I took a die that I do have and used it in a different way! The bottom scalloped on the top two layers was cut using a Lawn Fawn Scalloped Rectangle die. I put the corner of my two top layers into the corner of the die making sure that the rest of the card was on top of the die as it went into my Vagabond.

 

For a finishing touch, I added three coordinating buttons and some twine. 

Here is a peak inside my card. I love putting a little something on the inside to make it look just as nice as the front of the card. I used the same stamps that I used in the wreath on the front and stamped them on the bottom inside corner.

I hope that you enjoyed seeing this card as much as I enjoyed making it! So until next time, Happy Crafting! 

A Unicorn Card for Someone Special

I was gifted this unicorn stamp and die set from my friend Cindy whom I met in one of my favorite Facebook groups, Gina K Designs & StampTV Friends. I knew exactly what I was going to use it for - my grandnieces birthday. Fairy-Tale Friends Stamp and Die set is from My Favorite Things. After stamping the images I colored them with my Copies and added some glimmer with a clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen. For the background I used the cloud stencil from Lawn Fawn and Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks in Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac to create the rainbow-colored clouds & then added a few iridescent sequins. I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of clear vellum with Hero Arts Unicorn White pigment ink then embossed it with clear embossing powder. After embossing the sentiment I realized that it disappeared in front of the card so I used a blending brush to rub a little Shaded Lilac on the back of the vellum and that made the sentiment pop.  

Usually I have more trouble with the inside of a card but this one was fun to decorate and embellish. I just hope my grandniece loves glitter 😁

Until next time, Happy Crafting

Halloween Cards

Yes, I know, Halloween is over but I'd still like to share the cards that I made for my and my friends grandchildren this year. 

For this first card I used Gina K. Designs Haunts and Harvest stamp set for the trio of ghost and the sentiment and used the coordinating die set to die cut the ghosts. Gina's inks were used with her Fizzy stencil to create the orange and purple background and I then cut it out with the Master Layouts 1 Die Cut set along with a piece of black cardstock. I layered those two onto a tent fold 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" base. 

To add a demential element, I glued googly eyes to the ghosts with Gina K Connect Glue.

 

Did you really think that I could stop there? Of course not! I had to add an Action Wobble behind the three ghosts to make them even more interactive! My grandson loved it!

For the next two cards I used my beloved die set from Lawn Fawn - the Magic Picture Changer die set. I still love using this set and I can always find so many different ways to incorporate other stamp sets with it. Gina K's stamps from Haunts and Harvest were used again along with the fence die from Tim Holtz and the grass border die from Lawn Fawn.

The Magic Picture Changer is an interactive set so once you pull up the tabs at the top you get this:

The last card is created using a technique similar to partial die cutting. I created a side opening, landscape card base and after scoring and folding it I cut about 1/3 off of the top front. I then cut out the ghosts again from Haunts and Harvest in white cardstock then used the die to cut the bottom portion of the die from the front of the card base. I layered pieces of patterned paper to the front and inside. The sentiment is heated embossed in white.

I hope that you enjoyed seeing these late but cute Halloween cards! I'll be posting more of my cards and other crafty projects soon and more often. Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Lawn Fawn Picture Changer Die Set!

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted something but I’m going to try and post more often here. I’ve been crafting more and I’d like to share some of those projects that I’ve made with you.

Right before I went to the Scrapbook Expo back in February, a friend told me about a new (at the time) die from Lawn Fawn called Magic Picture Changer. It didn’t sound like something I was interested in but by the time I got to the Expo I HAD to have it! After I bought it (and a few other die sets to go with it from shopping online, I finally made my first Picture Changing Card - but it’s definitely not my last! This die is so much fun to use and the longer I have it the more ways that I’m thinking of using it. So here’s the first one. I used Lawn Fawn's Picture Changer Die Set and the Add-On Die Set, the Rain or Shine Before N After Stamp Set and colored my images with my Spectrum Noir Alcohol markers.

Then I made this 2nd Picture Changer Card that I like so much better!
I used the Lawn Fawn Butterfly Kisses stamp set, Simple Wavy Banners die set, Magic Picture Changer die set, and the Add-On set. I stamped and also colored the images with my Spectrum Noir alcohol markers.

Isn’t this the coolest thing ever? And it will be so much fun for the person receiving this card because it’s interactive! You’ll need to create two different ‘scenes’ so the picture will ‘change’. 

 It was fun ‘telling a short story’ with these supplies. There will be many more of these in my future!

Thanks for visiting and taking a look. I hope you are inspired!  

Until next time, happy crafting!