Quail Birthday

Hello everyone:

Today I have a fun wilderness card for you - as you can tell I love making scenes with my stamp sets - its so fun to put things together that remind me of all of Gods beauty!

I started with the mountain stamp - stamped it once then masked it to stamp it again to look like a range of mountains.  Then I stamped the row of tress in front of my mountain range.  I then sponged the sun, sky and water.  I colored the mountains, added the shore line and colored.  The bird is stamped on scrap paper cut out and place on the scene with small pop dots.  I added some extra grass also along the shore line.  This was so much fun to keep adding things to in order to get the scene I had pictured in my mind.

Supplies:
Stamps - GinaK Designs - Mountain Wilderness (mountains, trees, bird), By the Sea (grass), Follow Your Dreams (seashore), King of the Grill (Happy Birthday)
Card stock - GinaK designs

Thanks for stopping by:
   Marcia

Riley Birthday Picnic

Hello Everyone:

I have a fun picnic card for you today - great for all those summer holidays coming up also.

I stuck with a traditional red, white, and blue theme.  This is picnic Riley, which I colored with a red check tablecloth.  Then I found this scrap piece of pattern paper that went so well with the tablecloth I colored.  I added some red pieces and mounted it all on a blue card base.  Classic but fun picnic.

Supplies:
Stamps - Riley picnic
             - Happy Birthday (not sure just one I picked up somewhere - it has no label on it anymore)
CardStock - SU
Pattern Paper - scrap from my bin (can you tell I'm on a mission to use some scrap up)

Thanks for stopping by:
   Marcia

Mother's Day Card

Hello Everyone!

Today I have a card I made for my mom for mothers day.  My mom loves to look out at a relaxing lake and watch sailboats.  So I created a little scene to mimic what she loves.

Here is the inside:

I am absolutely loving creating window scenes with this window die - it is so easy.  I sponged the background water and sunset with momento ink then stamped the boat and seal gulls in black.  The boat is colored in dark grey to give the silhouette look.  For the window frame itself, I used my wood grain stamp then cut out the window.  I really love how this turned out!

I made a couple more similar cards as I needs some birthday cards.  Basically the same, just slightly different looks.

Supply list:

Stamps - GinaK Designs - By the Sea

               Cornish Heritage Farms - Wood grain background stamp

Card Stock - GinaK Designs Pure Luxury

Pattern Paper - Some scraps from my scrap bin

Window Die - Grand Madison Window die

Nestabilities

Thanks for stopping by:

  Marcia

Hunter Birthday Card

I needed a card for a teenage boy's birthday and I had nothing in my stash.  He is a hunter (as are most of the men and boys in the UP), so I thought a little scene with this buck would be perfect for him.

I created the sky using momento ink and some sponge daubers.  A great resource for how to create sky backgrounds is Theresa Mombers blog - she does picture tutorials.  I try to recreat the look here and added mountains in the background.  I stamped the buck then masked him off and sponged a hill shape for him to stand on in black ink.  When stamping the buck I got a sumdge next to him, so I added grass with my Copic marker to cover it up.  I then stamped the cute little sign and cut it out.

All stamps are from Gina K designs.

Thanks for stopping by:

Marcia

Happy Anniversary

This morning I have a quick card for you that I created as an anniversary card.  I give so many anniversary cards to friends, but always have a difficult time coming up with something that is appropriate.  I recently got this cute stamp set and it made the prefect card.



I stamped the stamp in versamark ink then embossed with black embossing powder.  The background paper was a piece of scrap that I had in my scrap bin.  I have been on a mission to use paper from my scrap bin before even looking at other paper.  Its been fun and rewarding to be using so many of my scrap papers.

Supply list:
stamp - GinaK design -
background paper - scrap I had
Card stock - GinaK designs pure luxury

Thanks for stopping by:
    Marcia

Emerging Flower Pot

I have another card that used a fun technique:

For this card I started by stamping a background image.  Then I stamped the flower pot over the background with versamark ink and added clear embossing powder.  After I set the powder with my embossing gun, then I sponged over the image with brown ink.  You can see the background image under the pot.  I then layered the image on pink, brown, and cream card stock.  The brown and pink background pieces were embossed with a cuttlebug folder.

Supply list:
Stamps - GinaK designs - Timeless Textures, Fresh Start
Card Stock - Brown, pink, cream
Momento ink
Cuttlebug folder

Thanks for stopping by:
     Marcia

The Play Date Cafe PDCC125

Hello Everyone!

I made a quick card for the Play Date Cafe Challenge.  The challenge was to make a card using black, white and a touch of brown.  You can find the contest here.

Here is my creation:

I used a window die to cut out the window frame - I love this die - it makes window scenes so easy!  The touch of brown is the wood on which the pelican stands.

Supply list:
Stamp: By the Sea - GinaK designs
Cardstock - GinaK designs pure luxury
Pattern Paper - a scrap I had in my scrap bin
Window die - Grand Madison Window die

Thanks for stopping by:
   Marcia

Sponged Layer Sailboat

I love to look out on the water on a warm summer day and see a sail boat drifting by. 

For this card I started with my white card base.  Then I got out a nestabilities die to use as a shape and sponged my water and sea inside the die.  I added my boat and birds to the water scene and colored the boat in with copic markers.  I stamped my pelican once on the card base and them on another piece of card stock.  I colored the image and cut it out (bird only - legs and pier are on card base), then I place it over the image I had stamped on the card using pop dots.  The red corner piece were added to cover up a smudge, but I really liked how it added a pop of color to the card that I thought it needed.

Supply list:
Stamps - GinaK designs - By the Sea
Momento ink
Copic markers


Thanks for stopping by:
     Marcia