Day 1 previews: March Release

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Good evening!

Previews begin tonight for March's new stamp sets being released by GinaK Designs and I couldn't be more excited!  We have such a fun line-up of stamps to showcase this month that I honestly couldn't stop stamping and playing with them the past week.  (Last count I have already made 25 projects to share with the new stamp sets!!  That's the most ever for me!)  I decided to only share one card for each stamp set tonight so that I'd have plenty of new samples to share during the Release party on Thursday night and then on my blog throughout the entire next week ... even though I can't wait to share them all with you!

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My first card was a labor of love and was made with three of Melanie Muenchinger's stamp sets: her brand new A Beautiful Life along with her Pressed Flowers and A Year of Flowers.  I absolutely adore how they all work so perfectly together!  She designed each of the images to be exactly the same size in all her floral sets just for that purpose - great job, Melanie!

I stamped the tulips from A Year of Flowers, shaded a bit with some Copic markers and then cut them out to be popped up and layered over the gorgeous tulip frame in A Beautiful Life...

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Card Details (card size - 5 1/2" square)

Stamps: A Beautiful Life; A Year of Flowers; Pressed Flowers

Cardstock: GinaK white; DCWV patterned papers

Ink: Versafine black; memento; vivid

Other: Copic markers; detail clear embossing powder; corner rounder; stickles; black pen; tafetta ribbon; pearls; scortape; Petite Oval Nestabilities

The inside of this card shows the Pressed Flowers tulips and leaves layered with the outlined images from A Year of Flowers - no stamp-a-ma-jig necessary!  Which is great for this lazy stamper...

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My next card was made with Theresa Momber's stunning Sending Sunshine stamp set.  Theresa has included such gorgeous images in her stamp set (as always!) so I decided to make a scene with several of them.  Between the outside and the inside of the card, I ended up using seven images and there are still lots in the set that I didn't use!

This card was inspired by a couple of trips my husband and I have made to Savannah, Georgia to see my good friend...

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Card Details (card size 5 1/2" square)

Stamps: Sending Sunshine

Cardstock: GinaK white; lavender; violet; chocolate; DCWV patterned papers

Ink: Versafine Black

Other: Detail embossing powder; Copics; Stickles; gold brads; Memento markers

Theresa told us that her tree was a Wisteria tree, so I used lots of lavender on my card ....

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Whenever I stamp on patterned papers, I always try to emboss the images to help them really pop against the patterns.  I think my favorite image of all from Theresa's new set is that bird bath - I just LOVE it!

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My last card tonight is from Tami Mayberry's new Fairy Tales stamp set.  She has such fun, whimsical images in this new sets of hers that I know I'll be using it a lot for cards for my daughter Ashley and her friends.

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I decided to go with a pink, white, and black color scheme - so I pulled out some glitter papers from a Die Cuts with a View paper pack and made this girly card...

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Card Details (card size 4 1/4" x 5 1/2")

Stamps: Fairy Tales

Cardstock: GinaK white, black; DCWV patterned

Ink: Versafine black

Other: Detail clear embossing powder; Fiskars border punch; GinaK ribbon; stickles; Copics; Quikutz dots embossing folder

Tami designed such a fun set for girls of all ages - from tweens like my Ashley all the way to mommy's like me! lol!

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Are you ready for even more inspiration?  

Start with Gina's Blog

Then, visit these Illustrator's blogs of these new stamp sets:

Melanie Muenchinger - A Beautiful Life

Theresa Momber - Sending Sunshine

Tami Mayberry - Fairy Tales

Finally, check out these Designer's blogs:

Jessica Fick *you are here!*

Nina Brackett

Carolyn King

Cathy Tidwell

Lee Murphy

Lynn Mercurio

Donna Baker

Kurtis Amundson

Emily Giovanni

Erika Martin

Colleen Schaan

Jennie Harper - our Guest Designer for this Month!

StampTV is celebrating it's first birthday and the festivities are in full swing with this month's release!  We'll be holding this month's Release Party on StampTV and couldn't be more excited about all that Gina has planned for everyone!  The party kicks off this Thursday, March 18th starting at 7pm and ends at 10pm (all times CST) when all the new products will be available for purchase in Gina's online store.

To keep informed of all the party plans and activities, check out this link:

Release Party Forum on StampTV

See you back here tomorrow night, where one of the sets we'll be featuring is the new card kit stamp set called Happy Spring!  I'm so excited to share the new kit with you!

Jessica