Ringing in the New Year Melanie Muenchinger style!

Today, 25 designers are helping celebrate Melanie’s 2nd Anniversary illustrating with Gina K. Designs!  I have been having so much fun designing with her stamps – from the very beginning!  She is one of the best illustrators out there, hand drawing most of her images, because she’s good like that!  Her sets are so versatile and they are very fun to mix & match too!  Here are a few of my favorite projects and a never before seen one at the end! 

First up is her 2nd Set, Just So Hoppy that I had so much fun with – I made a huge pop up card using all of the characters. For close up views of the hoppys please see my post The Gang’s All Here


I made this tin for Melanie’s 2nd contest using What’s in Your Tin 2  – What Cancer Cannot Do (click to read the post about the recipient). 







Here is a project I made last month, most of the gifts we give are handmade, it saves us money (since we’re building a house and have been on  a perpetual budget) and I love making things!  2 of my brother-in-laws in California are big Raider fans so I made them fleece scarves.


Here is a close up of the tag I made, using Just so Sporty and Sporty Accessories.  I LOVE having sets to make projects that appeal to the men in my life!



Can you tell he liked it?  He nearly always wears some form of silver (grey) & black, showing his team spirit, so as soon as he opened it, he modeled it for us! 
Next, be sure to hop through the following designers' blogs using every set she has created since January 2008, from the first to the 25th! Then go to Melanie's'
blog to leave a comment for a chance to win a number of different prizes! So let's get hopping!
Here we go!
Just So Hippy-Charmaine
Just So Hoppy- me!!
What's in Your Tin 1 & 2- me!!
Hip Hop Accessories-Bee
Jumping for Joy-Barb
Cuddles and Hugs-Jessie
Little Tees-Cat
Just So Sporty-Pam
A Year of Flowers-Theresa
Say it with Flowers-Selma
Have a Cookie-Carolina
Tee Talk-Gabby
Hand in Hand-Ally
The Best Things in Life-Shannon, Sankari
A Charmed Life-Cathy
Wee Tees-Libby, Laura Jean
Arranged with Love-Selma
Sporty Accessories-Tina
Inspiration Mosaic-Jennie
School Sports Spirit-Melissa
A Year of Leaves-Geri
Hip to Be Square-Karen
Festive Frame-Linda
Tech Talk- Lee

Finally, Nina and Jessica from the GinaK Senior Design Team have joined in, too!
You can also get in on the hop yourself and increase your chances of winning a prize by creating your own project with any one of Melanie's sets and linking it in the Mr. Linky in her post, see full details here.

Hope you can join the fun! Enjoy your first hop of the year!