Day 3 Previews: Spring Mix Kit & Friends

Good evening!

Tonight we are showcasing GinaK's new Spring Mix StampTV kit!  If you haven't yet, pop over the StampTV to view Gina's video introducing the new kit.  It will be on the main page of StampTV along with her weekly project video.

My first card uses several images in the kit along with October Afternoon's patterned papers...

Card Details
Stamps: Spring Mix StampTV kit

Cardstock: GinaK white; chocolate; October Afternoon Ducks in a Row

Ink: Memento black

Other: Nestabilities - plain circle & scallop circle; GinaK Ribbon; Copics, Stickles, corner rounder; button, EK Success circle punches

Isn't that little bird adorable?  The little note is the perfect size for me to sign my name!

My next project uses a couple of more images from the kit too.  I decided to make a little tag that I can use later for a card or a gift bag...

I paper pieced the goose on some patterned paper and then shaded a bit with Copics.  Then I had to pull out my little straw speckles (or saw dust as Gina likes to call it! lol) for the goose to walk on...

Tag Details

Stamps: Spring Mix Stamp TV kit

Cardstock: GinaK; October Afternoon Ducks in a Row

Ink: Memento cocoa

Other: Judikins straw speckles; GinaK and SU ribbons; brads; jumbo eyelet; Nestabilities: Rectangle & big scallop rectangle; Marvy flower & rectangle punches; EK success circle punches; paper piercer

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My last sample tonight was made with Gina's new Free with Three stamp set called Friends.  I'm a sucker for sentiment stamp sets and this one is no exception!  I LOVE having more sayings to put inside my cards and use on my scrapbook pages.

Isn't this patterned paper divine?  It's included in the Spring Mix StampTV kit!

Card Details

Stamps: Friends; Happy Spring

Cardstock: GinaK 

Ink: memento cocoa

Other: Nestabilities - Labels 12; Copper Nailheads 3mm; Fiskars border punch; EK Success flower punches; pearl brad; corner rounder

I stamped the flower pot with the seed packets from the Happy Spring stamp set on the inside very lightly so that I could write over it with a quick note.

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For more inspiration with tonight's featured stamp sets:

Check out Gina's Blog

Then, visit these Designer's blogs:
Jessica Fick  *you are here!

Melanie Muenchinger 

Theresa Momber

Nina Brackett
Carolyn King
Tami Mayberry

Cathy Tidwell

Lee Murphy
Donna Baker

Kurtis Amundson

Emily Giovanni

Erika Martin

Jennie Harper - our Guest Designer for this Month!

Tune into StampTV for this week's video from GinaK featuring the new Spring Mix StampTV kit!

Mark your calendars for the Release Party 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

Thanks for checking on on me today!  I'll see you back here tomorrow night when we'll be showcasing new stamp sets by Nina Brackett and Rupa Shevde!

Jessica 

Day 3: Eclectic Summer StampTV kit

The long awaited day is finally here: we get to show off the highly anticipated brand new StampTV kit! YAY! Gina is calling her kit, Eclectic Summer and it's complete with 2 stamp sets, fun ribbons & brads as well as Pure Luxury Cardstock in three colors: White, In the Navy, and Red Rocket cardstocks! Aren't those fun names? lol!

I have three cards to share today with the stamps from the new kit and they are all quite an eclectic mix of cards - so you'll see why she's named her kit that way! First up is an anniversary card in honor of my husband Brad and I celebrating our 13th anniversary today...

Isn't that fun? I paired the couple image with a sentiment from Rupa's new With this Ring stamp set (I've been begging for an anniversary sentiment from Gina and am thrilled we have one in this set!) along with the fireworks found in Gina's WhooHoo stamp set. The water is Gina's Navy cardstock torn and layered to make waves. And, check out those buttons... they are Stampin Up buttons, but I stamped them with a new stamp image that we'll be sharing in tomorrow's previews - so you get an early sneak peek!

Next up is this fun summery card showing off some of the patterned papers included in the StampTV kit along with an image from the sentiment set too...

I'm so excited to have this image in my collection! I sponged the background with some Distress Inks and some torn papers - it looks like it has layers of cardstocks, but it's really all GinaK's Pure luxury cardstock and ink! The balloons were colored with copics and then using the Quickie Glue pen and Doodlebug's colored glitters, I got them to sparkle like crazy!

Gina has a great video she uploaded to StampTV last week showing how easy it is to use Colored Glitters to embellish your images.

Finally, my last card shows off some new digital papers that are new to GinaK as well as more of the StampTV kit...

There are actually 3 different digital papers used on this card. The gorgeous green paper is from a new collection designed by Emily Giovanni called Bright Summer Grunge and I LOVE it!! The colors and patterns are so fun and perfect for summer!

The orange papers that I used for the focal image mat and to paper piece the butterflies (which by the way are SO adorable, aren't they!?) are from the new Sunlit Summer digital papers which is part of my Fun with Glitters Online StampTV class.

And finally, the purple paper is from Gina's Summer Fabrics digital papers. This paper is so cool - it's actually designed to be printed on GinaK's Pure Luxury White cardstock and then colored with Copics or shaded with inks to appear like fabric. I used some Purple Distress inks to shade the paper and loved how it turned out. It will be fun experimenting more with this paper.

There's lots of fun stuff going on today - more sneak peeks to check out as well as some new videos on StampTV to tune in to see. Gina will be explaining more about her StampTV - so be sure to tune in and hear it all from her!

Here's the links to check out:

Gina, Theresa, Carolyn, Joanne, Erika, Melanie, Melissa, Emily

See you tomorrow morning for one last day of previews before the Release Party!

Jessica