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Monday, February 16, 2015

Whimsical Cards With Rubbermoon Stamps

Hi! Lynne here with some "just because" cards (which happen to be my favorite kind of cards to give!) Creating these cards was interesting for me, as I very seldom venture into the wild world of stamping, but I had a lot of fun with these!

The chipboard frame and dragonflies were heat-embossed with Lindy's
Stamp Gang powder, then sponged with purple ink- I really love purple,
as you can see!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Flourished Frames Evie

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Rubbermoon Stamps

Steampunk Tag by Dianna

Hi
Everyone, Dianna here with a Valentine with a Steampunk Twist. I
really could not help myself as soon as I seen the Bo-Bunny Paper
"Star-Crossed" line, I just knew that it would look wonderful with
Gina's Designs Eiffel Tower and Clockwork Penny Farthing. I also wanted
to include a heart for the Gina's Designs February Craft Group
Challenge, so of course I went with a Steampunk heart.

I
covered a Gina's Designs X-Large Chipboard Tag with the Bo-Bunny Paper,
used Vintage Photo and Black Soot to distress the edges. I
used Black Soot on the Eiffel Tower as a base coat and then used
Stickles in three different colors to give it dimension. The card stock doilies were spritzed with Ranger Sparkling H20's in a spritzer with a
lot of water. I have having a heck of a time with clogging of the
normal Ranger Sprays so I made my own. I will let you know on my next
blog update if it worked or if that clogged too. The Steampunk Heart
and Clockwork Penny Farthing were "painted" with chalk ink in a bronze
color, then distressed and Stickled.

The
Julie Nutting Media Doll was colored with Copic Markers and Bo-Bunny
paper was used for her dress. The underdress was spritzed with water
and folded a couple of times (fan like) to get the ruffled effect. I
created a sleeve out of left over paper from the underskirt. The
opposite side of the striped paper is hearts (which is really cute). I
used red Stickles and dotted the hearts for extra sparkle. The
suitecases are from a really cute Stamping Bella Stamp that I stamped,
colored with Copic and cut out. The Gina's Designs Art Deco Border was
painted with gold chalk ink and spritzed and Stickled to create a
tarinshed look.

Sparkling
H20 was used on the Balloon and then brushed corduroy Stickles was used
to create a rope look. I Stickled the teal paper to give more depth to
the balloon. I included a couple of pictures of the balloon because
you really cannot see it well in the overall photo.

Finally, I stamped the RubberNecker Stamps on plain cardstock and distressed the edges with bronze chalk ink.

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Eiffel Tower 6 inch

Clockwork Penny Farthing

Steampunk Hearts

Chipboard Decorative Tags X Large

Art Deco Boarder & Corners

Hot Air Balloon Shape Set

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Desk Clock

Shanna here with a fun BRAND NEW piece to share with you all!

This is a new clock to the store! You can check RIGHT HERE for new items being added!

I covered the base pieces with some paper. The base the fence sits on was painted with a gold acrylic. Then I applied some gold rub n buff the to the clock face for a darker look.

All edges also got some Distress Ink to keep it grungy.

I left open space to add a picture behind the hand or add more embellishments to for a later time.

This is a wonderful piece that can be made into ANY theme possible. So remember get your chippies and have fun!

Here is the direct link to this fun clock ---> HERE!

Friday, February 13, 2015

Love You Valentine Layout by Kim

Hello friends and Happy Valentines Day tomorrow! I wanted to show a rather non traditional Valentine project today, and the XO XO Wall Hanging Kit was the perfect base for it! I used some of the Enchanted Garden paper from Bo Bunny as my base, then used some sprays in matching colors, and some texture paste and script stamp. This completed the background and I was ready to embellish.

The heart above is from the Build A Layout Love Birds Set which I embossed in a teal color and added some glitter for sparkle. The X and 0 from the wall hanging I also did the same treatment to just using a different color.

Below is the Love You Script, also from the Love Birds set. I used just some fine white embossing powder, as there was enough color going on, and I wanted the sentiment to stand out.

The fairies are fussy-cut from the paper line and for their wings I used some butterfly stickers I was sent from a friend. They worked out perfectly.

Finally, in the top corner of the layout, I used the Butterfly Corner, which is a new piece from Gina. I painted it with some Silks Acrylic Glazes in different colors to pick up on the color theme I was going for. I added some flowers to the corner and also used some Prima Resin Butterflies throughout the piece to finish it off.

I really enjoyed making this piece. It was a lot of fun to think outside the box and use some very non traditional colors and themes for Valentines Day.

I hope you will pop over to Gina's Store and check out all the new pieces she has in stock!

Happy Valentines to everyone!

Gina's Designs Pieces Used

Build A Layout Love Birds

Butterfly Corner Top

XO XO Wall Hanging Kit

Other Items Used

Silks Acrylic Glazes

Prima Resin, Damask Stencil, Script Stamp and Metals

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Flowers from Kraftsupplies4U

Bo Bunny Enchanted Garden Paper

Bo Bunny Ephemera

Wow Embossing Powders and Glitter Tinsel

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Two Valentine Cards

Hi everyone! Melissa here for Gina's Designs. I think these chipboard pieces fit so well with the Valentine theme. On the hearts, swirls type, and the small piece of frame on the right side card I did the following:

1.Paint with white acrylic.

2. Paint hearts with pink Twinkling H20s and watercolors,mixed with Pearlex.

3.Paint swirls with a mix of brown watercolor, and green acrylic paint.

4. Dry brush liquid gold leaf paint.

On the white hearts I put stickles over white acrylic paint.

Here are the steps to make the green leaves on the right:

1. Prep with gesso.

2.Paint with green chalk ink.

3. While wet put on some green and brown watercolor.

4.Ink the edges with a green distress ink pad.

5. Apply a thick coat of crackle accent.

6. Brush on some purple Pearlex.

Thanks for looking!

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Build a LAyout Lovebirds

Flourish Frame Sienna Mini

Hearts Background

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Other Products:

White acryic paint, gesso

Prima and Graphic 45 papers

Luminarte Twinkling H20s

Windsor and Newton Watercolors

Lindys Stamp Gang

Perfect Pearls

Crafters Workshop Template

Plaid Liquid Leaf Gold Paint

Tsukineko Chalk Ink

Stickles

Viva Modeling Cream

Distress Crackle Paint

Prima and Petaloo Flowers

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Reliquary by Heather Hudson

Hello Friends!!

Heather here and today I am sharing my second Guest Designer Project using

Gina's Fabulous Chipboard Pieces!!

I have used Gina's Reliquary Tower Top, Stackable Labels Shape Set, Dangles, and Scribble Frame Bird Piece.

I used my Tiny Hearts in Pink Digital Paper to cover the back piece of the Reliquary frame. I used one of my Valentine Cherubs as my focal.

I used White Gesso on all the other chipboard pieces. I glued the top piece of the Reliquary to the bottom piece. I painted this turquoise, golden yellow and green (please refer to photo).

After I painted this piece I stamped it with Forget-Me-Not Archival Ink. The bird piece was painted brown, blue and pink. I did add some Pink Mulberry flowers and green dot glitter leaves.

The dangle was painted green, golden yellow, and pink. I used a number stamp and Carnation Red Archival Ink.

Coordinated glitters were added to the piece.

For the stackable label, I painted the base green and the top gesso with blue accents. Of course I doodled on the whole piece with a black pen.

I just added a couple magnets to the back, so it can hang on our back door.

I hope you find some time to break out your chipboard pieces and get creative!!

Thanks for visiting us at Gina's Designs!

Hugs!!

Heather

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Shabby Chic French Seamstress

Hello everyone, Kathi here to share an altered project with you, using a wooded suitcase, Gina's laser chipboard cutouts and paper by Kitty Scrap Post. This was a lot of fun to create.