Crafty Friends Blog Hop featuring Gina K Designs

 

Welcome!  

It's time for the Crafty Friends Blog Hop!  We’re a group of amazing stampers that share similar paths…and we want to share our crafty projects with you!    We’ll be hopping each month featuring a specific company or brand…and this month’s favorite is Gina K Designs!  

Check below for a code to use at Gina K Designs for THREE days only!!

I have used the AMAZING Wreath Builder Stamps & Stencil Bundle to create FIVE cards.  This product is fantastic and so easy to use!!

I won't go into detail on my cards since I mixed and matched several Gina K stamp sets but I will say that all the inks used were from Lawn Fawn.

Supplies:

Wreath Builder Stamps & Stencil Bundle

Hello Friend

Heartfelt Hydrangea

Watercolor Flowers

Becky Roberts

Sandi MacIver

Sue Plote

Sara Sherlock

Lydia Fieldler

Jill Hilliard

Jen Timko

Amy Kolling

Jenny Hall

Tanya Boser

Ilina Crouse

Maria Willis

Hero Arts / Spring 2020 Release / Blog Hop

 

I'm excited to share inspiration using some of the new products that are available NOW over at Hero Arts.  This is part of the Hero Arts Catalog Blog Hop going on today!

I had so much fun creating with these sets that I have three cards to share!

Shop the entire Hero Arts Collection.......HERE!

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My first card uses the Paper Layering Plant and Stand for a masculine card for my husband.  He recently won an award for writing a commercial for radio.  This will be perfect!  

I die cut many of the leaves from three different colors of cardstock along with some free hand stems.  My pot was die cut and distressed with some grey ink.  It was added with foam adhesive nestled inside the triple layered cardstock for the plant stand.  Everything was adhered to a white notecard that was ink blended with Broken China Distress Ink and a thin cardstock strip to ground my image.  I added a simple black die cut 'Congrats' from the Congrats Happy Stamp & Cut.

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My second card uses Zest Wishes........this set just screams SPRING to me and fresh lemonade!

 

I kept this incredibly CAS by using some black/white washi tape for grounding my images.  The lemons were Copic colored and die cut.  On the black dots of the lemons, chunky glitter was added.  My lemon slice was adhered with foam adhesive.  A few tiny gems were added and a simple sentiment was stamped below the washi strip.

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My last card uses the Watering Can and Flowers Fancy Die to create a card for any occasion!

My white notecard was prepped using Broken China Distress Ink but masking off the bottom two inches.  Doing this does two things.  It leaves a spot to stamp the sentiment and creates a CAS area to add my watering can embellishment.  The tulips were Copic colored and arranged in the watering can along with some die cut leaves.  To keep them in place, they were taped to the watering can on the back.  The watering can was adhered with foam adhesive since there was so much dimension already from the tulips/leaves.  To finish this, a simple sentiment, from Hello Stamp & Cut, was stamped in black ink.

Shop the entire Hero Arts Collection.......HERE!

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***PRIZES***

There can't be a blog hop without prizes!  Hero Arts will giveaway 3 $50 shopping sprees to people who comment along the hop. Comment on as many blogs as you'd like - more comments means more chances to win! Comment by Wednesday Feb 19 at 11:59pm PST. The winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog.

Hero Arts Blog

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Channin Pelletier

Debi Adams

Michelle Short

Caly Person

Emily Midgett

Janette Kausen

Ilina Crouse

Yana Smakula

Daniel West

Lydia Fiedler

Wanda Guess

Seeka

Laurie Willison

***Amy Kolling***

Erica A-B

Nichol Spohr

Jennifer McGuire

Libby Hickson

Avery Elle / Peek-a-Boo Jungle

Hi everyone! 

Since Valentine's Day is just a few days away, I thought I'd share a card I made using the new Peek-a-Boo Jungle set which is perfect for masculine cards! 

 Using some watercolor paper, I watercolored some circular areas using Peeled Paint and Forest Moss Distress Inks. I also added some paint splatters too while I had my palette out. I set this paper aside to fully dry. 

 

Using the new Leafy Frames Elle-ments, the circular frame was die cut four times....twice out of a lighter green cardstock and twice out of a complimentary darker green cardstock. Once done, the dark frame was layered over the lighter frame giving it some a "fuller" look. I adhered these frames over the watercolored cardstock circles from earlier offsetting them just a bit to show some of the watercolor on the outside of the frames. The cute zebra and lion were Copic colored and added to the frames with foam adhesive. The sentiment banner (included in the Peek-a-Boo Jungle set) was a perfect fit between my jungle scenes. To complete my card, a few red die cut hearts were added. 

Supplies:

Peek-a-Boo Jungle

Peek-a-Boo Jungle Elle-ments

Leafy Frames Elle-ments

Shop for all your Avery Elle products HERE.

SugarPea Designs / Mix it Up Challenge #64

This month's Mix It Up Challenge from SugarPea Designs is all about celebrating LOVE and has a CAS sketch to go along with it!

***To shop, click this link:  SugarPea Designs***

Here's my version using Heart Prints along with the sketch and colors.  Such a great anytime sketch to have around if you want a CAS card!

Go check out the challenge details over on the SugarPea Designs blog!  

Reverse Confetti / February Blog Hop

Welcome to the Reverse Confetti February Blog Hop!

  

Make sure to check out the Reverse Confetti blog for all the details of this hop and for a full list of inspiration and information.

SHOP for Reverse Confetti HERE!

This month we are bringing you inspiration using the adorable CRITTERS from the last release!  

I combined the cheerleading kitty from Cheerful Pals and the tiger from Flowers for a Friend.  My images were Copic colored and die cut.  I stamped the OMG sentiment in Piggy Bank, Flamingo, Tangerine Reverse Confetti inks.  After adhering a die cut black frame from All Framed Up Confetti Cuts, the OMG were adhered with foam adhesive as well as the critters..  I think these critters look so cute sitting and standing on the OMG sentiment!  To finish my card, a sentiment from OMG was stamped under the frame.

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Make sure to visit more of the design team for inspiration using Reverse Confetti!

Reverse Confetti Blog

Amy Kolling

Tricia Barber

Lisa Henke

Heather Hoffman

Amy Tsuruta

Kathy Schweinfurth

Jeanne Jachna

Deanne Kuntz

Michele Ferguson

Olga Moss

Olga Matyushevskaya 

Ali Farmer

Pam Sparks

Avery Elle / Spring Release Blog Hop / Giveaway

 

Welcome!

  It's release week for Avery Elle Spring Release!

If you have followed along this week, Avery Elle has shown inspiration using their adorable new release but today we are celebrating with even more inspiration!

All products are available for purchase in the Avery Elle store right now.  You can check them all out HERE!! 

Using some of the small images from Beary Good Friends, I created this fun scene card incorporating the new large sentiment die---Make a Wish Elle-ments.

To create the ombre look to the large sentiment, several colors of Distress Inks (Lucky Clover, Cracked Pistachio, and Twisted Citron) were blended over a panel of cardstock.  From this ink blended panel, the Make a Wish Elle-ments was die cut.  After adhering the sentiment to a white note card, several images from Beary Good Friends were Copic colored, die cut, and added with foam adhesive incorporating them into the sentiment.  A white heat embossed sentiment was added with foam adhesive as well.  To finish, a few tiny die cut stars (done using the Star Frame Elle-ments) were done from the negative die cut and some from silver glitter paper.

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****BLOG HOP****

To celebrate our Spring 2020 Release Blog Hop, Avery Elle is giving away a stamp set of their choice to 3 winners.  To enter to win just comment on this post.  There is no purchase necessary and you must be 18 years of age or older to enter.  This giveaway is void where prohibited.  You can also do options 2, 3 and 4 of the following to increase your chances of winning. You have until midnight Sunday, February 9th 2020 to enter.  The winner will be announced on the Avery Elle Blog on Monday, February 10th .  All products are available for purchase in the Avery Elle store right now.  You can check them all out here. 

To enter to win you can do 1, 2, 3, or all 4 of the following to increase your chances:

1. Comment here on the Avery Elle Blog
2. Follow / Tweet us on Twitter (we are @averyellestamps )
3. Follow / Share us on Facebook (we are www.facebook.com/AveryElle ) .
4. Follow / Comment on Instagram (we are https://www.instagram.com/averyellestamps/).

Avery Elle  

Caryn Davies

Heather Campbell

Yainea

Melania Deasy

Katie Gehring 

Amy Kolling 

Ashley Marcu

Elena Roussakis

Reverse Confetti / You are simply amazing

Hi friends!  

I am here to share a bit of sunshine during these dreary days of winter that I shared over on the Reverse Confetti blog.  If winter gave us sunshine every day, I may like it more!  ☺

Please visit the Reverse Confetti blog for all the details!

Shop for all your Reverse Confetti HERE!!

Thanks for sharing a part of your day!