GinaK Designs' May 2010 Previews, Day 3

Here we are for another day to preview some new GinaK Designs goodies. And we are featuring none other than the new Stamp TV Kit, Enjoy the Sunshine and Tami Mayberry's latest, Stars.

My cards use the Enjoy the Sunshine STV kit. The papers are Fly a Kite October Afternoon, GKD Lipstick Red and Ocean Mist. I also used two of the ribbons from the STV kit. The berries were colored with Copics and die cut with Spellbinders circle dies.

The bike and sentiment are from the STV Kit. The papers are Weathervane by October Afternoon and GKD Kraft.

This card uses the beautiful Geraniums image colored with Copics. The embossed background is the Victoria Cuttlebug Folder.


For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, check out these Designer's Links:

• Gina Krupsky *Enjoy the Sunshine StampTV kit designer
• Tami Mayberry *Stars designer
• Jessica Fick
• Theresa Momber
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Nina Brackett - you're here!
  
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Lee Murphy
• Donna Baker
• Lynn Mercurio
• Emily Giovanni
• Erika Martin
• Kurtis Amundson
• Colleen Schaan
• Kay Simmons *May's CenterStage Spotlight Team Member!*

Please make plans to attend our Release party this Thursday night, May 27th from 7-10 central time which will be held at StampTV. There will be contest questions, challenges, samples from several designers and lots of chatter all leading up to 10pm central, when all the new products and stamp sets previewed this week on our blogs become available online through GinaK Designs store!

Gina K Designs' May 2010 Release, Day 1

It's that time again when the GinaK Designs' crew previews the new amazing products, available at the GinaK Designs store on Thursday at 10PM CST. This is one exciting release with lots of new stamps, a StampTV kit, digital papers and cardstocks! Today, I am featuring the new Card Kit, Botanicals.

I think this is my favorite Card Kit stamp set so far. I liked it so much that I created a coordinating set of digital papers, Bright Botanicals, to go with it.

The background papers on the cards below are from this set of papers. The sentiment on this card is from the new StampTV kit, Enjoy the Sunshine, previewing on Wednesday! I am also showing here one of the new cardstock colors, Sweet Mango.

This is a bookmark insert. You can also adhere a gift card on the back of the bookmark for a perfect graduation gift.
Here's another card using the same digital papers, cardstocks and Botanicals set.

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, check out these Designers' links:

• Gina Krupsky
• Jessica Fick
• Theresa Momber
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Nina Brackett <-- that's me!
  
• Cathy Tidwell
• Lee Murphy
• Donna Baker
• Lynn Mercurio
• Emily Giovanni
• Erika Martin
• Kurtis Amundson
• Bev Gerard
• Colleen Schaan
• Sankari Wegman
• Suzanne Dean
• Valerie Stangle
• Kay Simmons *May's CenterStage Spotlight Team Member!*
  

Please make plans to attend our Release party this Thursday night, May 27th from 7-10 central time which will be held at StampTV. There will be contest questions, challenges, samples from several designers and lots of chatter all leading up to 10pm central, when all the new products and stamp sets previewed this week on our blogs become available online through GinaK Designs store!

Card Patterns and More Cards

My card for today is for Card Pattern's sketch this week:

Our sponsor is Paperworks Co. They are offering this VERY generous prize to one random participant, 4 stamp sets from the Rachelle Anne Miller collection, valued at $27.75. I hope you can join us.

Here are a couple more cards from the One Hour Challenge I posted earlier. My friend, Amy, who issued this challenge, has a give away on her blog if you want to try this out. It's really fun.

I used GinaK Designs Wine with Everything cardstock, Bo Bunny Jazmyne Collection and SRM Sticker Sentiments.

Happy Day Bird

If you're here for the SRM Stickers One Hour Challenge post, please go HERE.

It's been a bit gloomy here with the rain and clouds the last few days, so I was just happy to make this bright and cheery card for today's Friends with Flair with Unity Stamps.

I used my brand new Dear Lizzy papers. The stamps are from the Aug 09 KOTM. It's hard to see, but the bird and banner have glitter on them.

Make sure you check out the Unity blog for a list of participants. Happy weekend, everyone!

The One Hour Challenge

My good friend, Amy, issued a challenge to create as many cards as we can in one hour using SRM Stickers. I thought it was fun and a good opportunity to use up some paper scraps. I was able to create 5 finished cards and 3 half-way done in one hour.

It took me another 20 minutes to finish these:

Here are two of them close up:

Some tips when mass producing cards without them looking mass produced:

• Use simple sketches and use them on several cards.
• Use coordinating patterned papers, like those come in a collection.
  
• Pre-cut the patterned papers you're going to use. I cut them to 4" x 5.25" size, enough to cover the front of the card with a bit of the card base showing.
• Use different types of trims, decorative papers, etc, to cover the seams. In addition to lace and ribbons, I used Bazzill Bassics pre-cut borders on some of the cards above. They look like punched borders, but are already done and come in many styles and colors.
  
• Have lots of glue dots and Scor tape around. Use them to adhere quickly your embellishments.
• Add variety by rounding corners of some cards.
• Finally, SRM Stickers make it easy to add sentiments. You don't need to worry about stamp inking and cleanup.
  

I used the SRM Sticker Sentiments and the Bo Bunny Press Jazmyne Collection on all my cards. Amy will be posting her cards tomorrow. She's amazing and made more than I did. I can't wait to see what she came up with in a short time.