Gina K. inspiration hop: Perfect Pennants, Cute as a Bug & Lovely Labels 3

Welcome to our Gina K inspiration hop for March’s release!  For my first card, I used Tami’s Perfect Pennants set, which coordinates nicely with the Spellbinders pennants dies!  But, you don’t have to have the dies to make fun & easy cards like I have here, since they are straight lines, they are easily trimmed with a cutter or scissors!  I made a banner with the large polka dot pennants, stamping them with versamark, sprinkling with clear embossing powder and heat setting with a heat fun.  I strung them up with some yellow cotton thread and finished them off with some turquoise buttons as accents!   

My next card was a barrel of fun to make – a bee hive with the cute bee from Cute as a Bug by Rupa Shevde!  It was real easy to make the beehive, I just cut strips of cardstock, rounded the corners, sponged the edges for depth and stacked them on top of each other.  Then I die cut an oval and sliced off the bottom for the door! I put lots of stickles on the bee’s wings and had to put some googly eyes on him – he’s too cute!

My last card is one of my favorites – uses Nina’s Lovely Labels 3 set, which coordinate with Spellbinders label dies 18, 20 and 21.  But again, you don’t have to have all the dies in order to enjoy using the set!  I don’t have the die that coordinates with this stamp but it was very easy to cut it out and I don’t think it looks badly at all!  Do you like the green & ivory flower at the bottom of the label stamp?  I made that!  It was so easy – I’ve been getting back into sewing and thinking of ways to incorporate with my stamping!

Here is a list of all the designers who have awesome creations to share with us today – be sure to leave a comment on each blog because we are going to draw three randomly chosen winners from all of the blog comments who will each get a stamp set of their choice valued at up to $24.95!

• Gina K
• Nina Brackett
• Sharon Harnist
• Suzanne Dean
• Tami Mayberry
• Tina Gilliland
• Theresa Momber
• Vicki Dutcher
• AJ Otto
• Carolina Buchting (wish the Birthday Girl a happy day!)
• Cathy Tidwell
• Colleen Schaan
• Deb Felts
• Donna Baker (you’re here!)
• Emily Giovanni
• Giovana Smith
• Janice Whiting
• Jennie Harper
• Lee Murphy
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Michelle Woerner

don’t forget -
We have hired a Stamptv Talentscout who will be cruising galleries on Stamp TV!  Every Monday this Scout will feature a gallery on the Stamp TV TalentScout page for the entire week! An Emmy Award Winning Gallery that is!  Various GKD only cards will featured throughout the week and Gina will send a little surprise Grab Bag to the Featured Stamper!  So show us your best work and fill your gallery with Gina K. gorgeousness!!!!  And check each Monday on our Facebook Fan Page to see who the Next Big Stamp TV Star will be!

card #1 details
Stamps: Perfect Pennants
Cardstock: White, turquoise sea, red hot, wild dandelion, bubblegum pink
Ink: memento tuxedo black
Accessories: turquoise button jar, circle punches, red brad,  versamark pad, clear embossing powder

card#2 details:
Stamps: Cute as a Bug
Cardstock: White, Black onyx, Wild Dandelion
Ink: memento tuxedo black, wild honey distress ink
Accessories: stardust stickles, corner rounder punch, gold brads, black glimmer ribbon, oval punch

card#3 details:
Stamps: Lovely Labels 3
Cardstock: Ivory, Green Apple, My Mind’s Eye Lush
Ink: memento rich cocoa
Accessories: cinnamon stickles, ivory brad, spellbinders labels 7