Thank You, Spellbinders!

The Gina K Designs team would like to welcome to you this special Spellbinders Thank You Blog Hop!!  Spellbinders generously gave each member of our Design Team the amazing new Grand Calibur!!!  What an exciting gift!  It was really hard to keep quiet about it until now (I actually squealed when I opened it!), but the time has finally come to publicly/collectively say "thank you!"   I am SO enjoying this fabulous machine!!

Our GKD design team has made some special cards and projects to showcase the new Grand Calibur and why we love it so much!!  Thank you so very much, Spellbinders!!!

You should have arrived from Cat's blog!  If you arrived from elsewhere, you might want to head to AJ's to start at the top!

It's hard to know where to start when it comes to sharing the wonderful things about the Grand Calibur!  I love that it is wide enough to accommodate Spellbinders' larger "grand" dies for making non-traditional shaped cards or for scrapbooking, but that is not my favorite thing about it.  I *love* the deep etching of the embossing it makes and that you can cut multiple dies in one pass on its larger cutting surface.  Crisp, clean edges and the time-savings are high on my list, something that matters on an everyday basis when I'm in the studio on a tight timeline.  I can hardly wait to get my order of new dies!  I've had a growing wishlist for a while, but soon it is gonna be reality!  :)

Our theme for today's hop is Spring, and Melanie's Spring Basket provided the perfect Spring image!  When I was growing up my mom had lots of day lilies in our yard, so this basket of tulips and lilies makes me smile!  I wanted the colors to represent the warm sunshine and lovely emerging greens of Spring, so I reached for some coral, golden yellow, and various green Copic markers along with a warm and elegant print from Basic Grey's Curio 6 x 6 designer paper.

I used a few favorites from Spellbinders along with a new border that a dear friend gave to me just because!  Thank you so much!  I am so grateful!  xoxo

Notes:
Spring Basket, Lovely Shelf (sentiment)

Pure Luxury Card Stock in Fresh Asparagus, Sweet Corn, Wine with Everything, Ivory

Basic Grey Curio designer paper

Memento ink

Tim Holtz distress ink in tea dye, tattered rose

Copic markers

Basic Grey rhinestones

Spellbinders

• classic circles
• eyelet circles
• fancy tags
• long rectangles
• banner basics 2, which recently debuted at Winter CHA in Los Angeles

I am looking forward to seeing you again soon!  Release Party is Thursday, so hopefully I'll see you there!  Right now, you're headed to Donna's!  Enjoy!