Bird Hugs

Happy Saturday! It's the last weekend before my girls start school again. So, we're packing in as much fun these next two days.

Today's card is for Card Patterns #97. The image is by Tiffany Doodles, this week's sponsor. The sentiment is SRM Stickers' We've Got Your Sticker Sweet. The papers are Pink Paislee. The felt bird is by Maya Road and the flower is by SU. I also used Spellbinders Circle and Scalloped circle dies.

Here is the sketch. I hope you can play along with us next week.

Finally, check out my friend Melanie's blog today. She's collaborating with Operation Write Home and giving away two copies of her latest set, Where Your Heart Is.

Introducing Gleefully Yours

I'm so excited to share this Gleefully Yours set with you all, which was inspired by my girls' love for music paired with my affinity for anything vintage.

Here is a card made using this set. The colors are inspired by StampTV's Color Spotlight #7. The sentiment is from GinaK's Love Notes set. The background paper is from Cosmo Cricket's Togetherness collection. I also used my Spellbinders Lacey Circles die. The cardstocks are GinaK Turquoise Sea, Sweet Mango and Rocket Red.

I'm Filled with Glee

...as I preview my first 2011 GinaK Designs stamp set, Gleefully Yours, today. This one was several months in the making. It was inspired by my girls' love of singing (you can see my post of them at their school's Supertalent show HERE), but I just had to add elements from one of the most popular TV shows in the US right now (can you guess which one? There's a hint on the first card's sentiment). We don't have it in Croatia (that I know of), but I am aware enough that many of my Facebook and paper crafting friends love it. I hope they will love these stamps, too. :-)

Both my cards use the Pink Paislee Cupid Collection. The first one has the vintage jukebox from Gleefully Yours that was colored with Copics and framed with a GinaK Grass Green die cut (Spellbinders' Labels 17) and a SU's Cameo Coral flourish tag (Spellbinder's Fancy Tags). Some buttons, glitter and ricrac finished the card.

This next card has the antique piano image, which goes well with my "Just a Note" sentiment from Lovely Labels 2 set. This set will also work well with the music background from my Vintage Backgrounds set.

Are you ready for more inspiration? Make sure you check out the GKD DT's blogs and be prepared to be impressed. The team is also previewing the new Free with Three set, Smile. Start with Gina's blog, for more info about the free stamps up for grabs during today's hop.

• Carolina Buchting
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Colleen Schaan
• Deb Felts
• Emily Giovanni
• Giovana Smith
• Janice Whiting
• Jennie Harper
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner
• Nina Brackett <<-- you're here
  
• Theresa Momber
• Tina Gilliland
• Vicki Dutcher
• Latisha Yoast - Guest Designer

Finally, make sure you check out my NEW YEAR BLOG CANDY. It includes many of my favorite things.

New Year Blog Candy

Before I show you my very first blog candy of the year, here's a card using my well-loved stamps, GinaK Designs' Many Wishes (dandelions), Vintage Backgrounds (text) and Heartily Yours Additions (sentiment). The papers are Webster's Pages. Speaking of Gina K Designs, the previews have begun for our January release. Go to Gina's blog for more info.

Just a little tidbit about my Heartily Yours Additions set: I designed the sentiment on my card below with my girls in mind. I had always wanted to be a mom and God blessed me three times that way. The reason I haven't shared anything creative in awhile on my blog is because I've been enjoying just hanging out with the girls while they're on Christmas break. And we don't start school again until next week, which makes me a happy mama :-).

Now, on to my first blog candy of the year to celebrate 500+ blog followers, 900+ email subscribers and 228K hits! I will be doing some more of this later on that will include my new stamp designs and dies! I've been blessed by your regular visits and kind comments and I hope this little giveaway will bless you back somehow. Thank you!

This little giveaway includes some of my favorite things:

• 18 yards of hand-dyed seam bindings (in 6 colors, 3 yards each)
• 2 yards of European lace (one cream and one white)
• a stack of paper doilies
• a dozen mini red roses
• 3 pink small roses
• 2 big tea roses
• 3 paper wheats
• 40 yards of red twine
• 40 yards of blue twine
• a copy of my latest Gina K Designs, Gleefully Yours (previews start on Thurs, available for sale on Thurs, Jan 6th) OR if you purchase this set on Thurs, you can pick another of my GinaK stamp sets.

How do you win? There are three ways:

• Simply leave a comment telling me how you found my blog. I'm just curious :-)
• Leave another comment if you are or become a follower.
• If you want to, leave another comment if you post the photo of my giveaway with a link to this post on the sidebar of your blog.

I will pick the winner randomly on Tuesday, January 11 and post it on my blog. Have a great day!

Happy new year!

Hello, stamping friends. I hope you had a wonderful holiday celebration. I'm still enjoying the break since my girls are still off this week. Do you find it hard to go back to routine after a long pause? I know I do, so I'm just going to enjoy my time adjusting this week before school starts on Monday.

I do have cards to share because it's GinaK Designs' preview week. But, first I have a card to share for StampTV's sketch challenge today. I used my well-loved sets, Grand Damask and Heartily Your Additions stamp sets. The papers are Pink Paislee's Cupid.

Finally, I haven't forgotten about my giveaway. I have so many things new this month that I was having a hard time to decide if I should wait till I am able to share about them all with you. Some of my new designs will have to wait until CHA at the end of the month (and I hope you will like them like I do). So, I decided since I can't all share my new designs at once, I'll divide my giveaways over the next few weeks.

My first giveaway will be tomorrow that includes my new GinaK Designs stamps to be released on Thursday, Jan 6th. So make sure you all come back. :-)