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Tuesday 11 April 2017

... Gina K Designs Inspiration Blog Hop Day 2


The Cast and Crew for Gina K Designs welcomes you to another fabulous blog hop celebrating the new stamp sets by Gina K and the illustrator team from Gina K Designs! We hope to inspire you with some beautiful card projects as you hop along to each of the designer’s blogs! Today, we are featuring the stamp sets by Beth Silaika, Claire Brennan (me!) and the Botanical Blocks Incentive set.

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Vicky Mermaid from Beth Silaika


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Botanical Blocks Incentive set
(This stamp set ships free with any $75.00 order! 
This set ship automatically without adding to your cart.) For further details click here.

Enjoy the gorgeous inspiration samples from the team and then comment on each blog for your chance to win a $20 Gina K Designs gift certificate! To see who won, check the Big News Forum at StampTV a few days after the hop. Ready for some inspiration? Here are a few of the projects I have created for today’s hop:

First up is my Mermaid card made with Beth's adorable set Vicky Mermaid
I created a watery background by stamping off some Blue Lagoon and Jelly Bean Green ink pads onto some clear acetate (front cover of a stamp set is great for this). I spritzed it heavily with water and then laid my watercolour paper on top of it and kinda smooshed it around. Once dry I cut it to size and stamped and coloured some of the seaweed details from the set. The mermaid and seahorse were stamped on Gina K luxury card, coloured with copics and then fussy curt - I use a scalpel.

OK I have rather a lot of cards for you, some you may have seen at the party and some you might have spotted in the video for my Cottage Garden set.

This is the card that is featured in my video - an Introduction to Cottage Garden. It's a card that looks complicated but is actually very simple to create - You can see how in the video here - if you haven't subscribed to my youtube channel - I invite you to do so, I have another video for Cottage Garden in the works that you might find helpful :


Most of my Cottage Garden cards featured today can be made using the example in the video so it's well worth a watch. 

for this card below I use the cottage, trees and hedges only. It's very simple but quite a pretty layout and depending on the colours you choose it can be made to suit any time of the year or the mood of any occasion.


You don't have to use the cottage, the garden gate works perfectly well on it's own. I used a shape from the cutting files (available from my dropbox here) to mask the cloud shape and just sponged lightly around the edge.


I used the same masking technique as in the video to add the large tree behind the house.

The cottage looks pretty set into an aperture and you can go mad with the colours - the vintage styling on the set really lends itself to off-the-wall colour choices.

Ready for more awesome creations?! 
Just click on the links below for more from Gina and the Cast &Crew:

Gina K
Beth Silaika - Today’s featured illustrator
Claire Brennan - Today’s featured illustrator (that's me!)
Cathy Tidwell
Chris Dayton
Donna Idlet
Juliana Michaels
Karen Hightower
Laurie Schmidlin
Melanie Muenchinger
Rema DeLeeuw
Sean Fetterman
Sheri Gilson
Silke Ledlow
Susie Moore
Theresa Momber

Don’t forget to pop over to the Gina K Designs Store and check out all of the new products available this month in the “What’s New” section at http://www.ginakdesigns.com.

Thanks for stopping by!


48 comments:

  1. Love your cottages and gardens - so bright and cheery!

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  2. Love all you cards, I think my fav is the pink one - love the way your framed it all!

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  3. The cottage, gardens, gate all awesome! I like how that set can be colored in any colors and look great! Love your mermaid card also.

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  4. I really enjoy looking at your work!

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  5. Love all your fun, colorful cards!

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  6. Love all of your cards and that Cottage Garden stamp set!

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  7. Love your garden stamp, anxious to play with it today. Thank you for your creativity and giving us such fun, cute cards to CASE.

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  8. Love the many versions of the chalet.
    The different color palettes and ways
    of showcasing them are fantastic.
    thanks for sharing.

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  9. Wonderful job on your cards...I like how pretty the cottage looks in so many colors. Your mermaid card is adorable...the way you stamped the seaweeds is so pretty.
    quilt 4 fun 2 at hot mail dot com

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  10. Claire, I loved working with your Cottage Garden stamp set! So many possibilities, and your cards are beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  11. Cottage Garden is so cheery. Love all the elements and how they work together or separately.

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  12. The sweetest! LOVE your Cottage Garden set--in my head, this is how I think my place looks lol

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  13. Stunning cards and Ilove your coloring

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  14. Love your cards! And love this set of stamps! Playing with them today! Thanks for sharing!

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  15. I love the Cottage Garden set Claire! Your cards are fabulous!

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  16. Wonderful cards! Loved the mermaid!

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  17. Incredible samples - LOVE the watercolor background you created for Vicky!

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  18. Such beautiful cards and that is another lovely stamp set you designed too.

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  19. Such pretty cards - thanks for sharing them with us:)

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  20. I wasn't sure I would be able to use this set, but you have inspired me! Who would think - pink trees! Love it!!!!!

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  21. Claire,
    Your cards are absolutely enchanting. Brilliant color and style! I really enjoyed my walk through your garden. Thanks for sharing

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  22. I love the way you are using the bright green! The pink and green card is stunning!

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  23. These are beautiful! I really like the mermaid scene you created.

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  24. Oh my, these cards, tags are all amazing! Such cute sets

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  25. Wow Claire this stamp set is so versatile thanks for all the great inspiration I love the card with just the fence and flowers tfs Liz

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  26. Your cottage set is beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  27. Fabulous cards, Claire! You have been busy! Love your new Cottage Garden set...lots of possibilities!

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  28. Love all of these, but can't stop looking at the aperture card in particular! Would you mind sharing what die it is that you used for that opening? It's a perfect combo of tiny details.

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  29. Your cottage garden set is amazing but more than a little overwhelming for me. You samples are beautiful

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  30. WOW these cards are wonderful.

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  31. I could listen to you talk all day long! I love your cards and vintage cottage stamp set! I see Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne in the scene. Thank you - waiting for the mail lady to bring me the set ❤️

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  32. You have created an amazing stamp set and a wonderful bunch of cards to showcase it. Fabulous designs.

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  33. Love your cards, especially that sending happy thoughts card with the birds! That set is just so cool...for sure on my wishlist!

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  34. LOVE, love, love these. Sooooo much inspiration. Your stamp set is so adorable....and very creative!

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  35. LOVE your sweet cottage set, Claire. Your card designs are so beautiful, thanks for the inspiration.

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  36. Your various use if the cottage and scenery have sold me on this set thank you for video. Love your color choices

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  37. Such beautiful cards! Love all the beautiful cottage scenes you created and the gorgeous color combos! Sweet mermaid stamp set, and fabulous underwater scene and coloring!

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  38. Such beautiful, colorful, inspiration! Thank you!

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  39. Thanks for all the great inspiration with this set. I can't wait for mine to arrive so I can start playing with it. I can't decide which I like better--the adorable cottage or the beautiful garden gate! This set makes me think of Snow White or Cinderella with its whimsical nature. Thanks for a fun set!

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  40. These are all so pretty and I love the scenes that you can create with your set! ❤️

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  41. This cottage set is lovely! I'm already hoping for Cottage Garden 2!!!

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  42. Love this cottage stamp and how you created the different cards using this Stamp set amazing idea!!!

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  43. All of these are just wonderful!

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  44. Love your cards...so pretty!

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  45. WOW, fabulous cards. Your backgrounds are great and make your images shine

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  46. I need to order the cottage garden set. The cottage, trees and gate are just too beautiful ! I like all the cards you made, especially the pink cottage one. Pink and green are just stunning ! And would you please tell us which die you used for the circle opening ? It will be highly appreciated. Thank you!

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