Monday, August 13, 2012

Gina K Inspiration Hop Day 1


The Design Team for Gina K. Designs welcomes you to another fabulous Inspiration Blog Hop!!! Gina and the Design Team will inspire you with many beautiful ideas! And as you hop through their blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each of them because we will choose a few random comments and those stampers will each win a grab bag of deeply etched, pre-cut Gina K. Designs stamps! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops!!

Today we're sharing cards made with Melanie's Basket Additions 3, and Theresa's Country Roads.  Such FUN sets to work with!


Here's a basket stuffed with spooks for Halloween!  These colors are some of my favorites to work with all year!  I added a creepy spider web to one corner, and lots of distressing.  I'd love to have a real live decoration like this in a corner of my house for Halloween!


This old truck from Theresa's Country Roads makes a great masculine card!  I chose to color the trees in varying shades of green with a red truck, but just as easily could've put the colors in reverse for Fall trees with a green truck instead!  I wanted to try something new for an embellishment...what do you think?  It is definitely different and was kinda fun to come up with!


Here's one more with Theresa's set and some new GKD paper.  This one needs a bit of green somewhere in the card to balance that green mat.  I think I'm gonna go back and color in a few of the stems and leaves to bring it into the designer paper.

Notes:
Gina K Pure Luxury card stock
Basket Additions 3 clear or rubber
Country Roads clear or rubber
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Tim Holtz tea dye, frayed burlap distress inks
Copic markers
GKD Sun-Kissed Autumn designer paper
tulle
May Arts jute thread
Spellbinders circles, ovals, labels 3 dies

Check out all the amazing designs and inspiration:

96 comments:

  1. Great designs, Deb! Love the layouts and your coloring is gorgeous!

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  2. I love the old truck and mailboxes stamps - I live in the country, so I can so relate. And it's nice to see some more masculine stamps/ideas, too.

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  3. love that "old" truck and the row of mailboxes

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  4. All 3 of your cards are gorgeous, but that Halloween card really caught my eye!
    Thanks for all the inspiration,
    Katherine

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  5. Oh man, this hop keeps getting better and better! Love your creations!

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  6. Great cards all but I love the 3-D effect on the truck thanks for sharing these with us

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  7. All nice, I love the last one with the mail boxes

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  8. They are all fantastic Deb! I do really like your embellishment on your truck card, it looks so neat!!

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  9. The truck card is my favorite! The embellishments are great!

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  10. Wonderful cards! I love the twine & knots!

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  11. Great cards, love the new Halloween stamps

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  12. Deb, as always your cards are perfection! Love the knots, the vintage Halloween and webby corner, everything!

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  13. your cards are stunning!! WOW! You are super talented!! gorgeous!!!

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  14. Your cards are amazing! Love the fun in your Halloween card and the beautiful scenes in the other two and I adore your knot tying embellishment! Thanks for another wonderful hop.

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  15. Love the Halloween card and the other two are great for masculine cards which is always so hard for me. Thank you for sharing.

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  16. Beautiful cards! I'll be spending more money to get these sets.

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  17. Such pretty cards - love the colors you used.

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  18. Great cards. I like your embellishment on the truck card.

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  19. Your first two cards are just beautiful

    Blessings,
    Kat

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  20. I was oooing over the second card and then scrolled down and saw the 3rd. I love the design of that one, there is just something very appealing about it. All 3 are great!

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  21. Great cards - really makes me think about Fall and cooler weather :)

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  22. Love the last two cards the best! That touch of twine, I think, is really great!

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  23. You ladies are so talented. Love all 3 cards, especially the country roads one's.

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  24. What Beautiful cards the old fashion car Card is super and would love that for my Hubby and Dad. super Beautiful attention to the Details. thanks for sharing and for the chance to win.

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  25. Great cards. I did love how you did the jute on the Halloween card. Great idea. I also loved your country road. The designer paper was perfect with that card. Great inspiration. Thanks!

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  26. great cards, Really showcased the stamps well. TFS!

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  27. Super cards.. Each layout was lovely, and colors so pleasing..Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us!

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  28. Great cards..very much liking the Country Roads set. Like the Halloween ones, too!

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  29. I love the design of the second card and your twine on the first one is fantastic! Will you please show how you tied them? Both cards are really pretty.

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  30. beautiful cards, love the third one a lot

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  31. Love those country cards, Deb! Blessings!!!

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  32. Love thesr cards especially the one with the basket of foblins

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  33. Wow! you out did yourself on these three, it's hard to say which one I like best. I really love the knots on the truck card. The designs of your layouts are fabulous. Great work.
    Hugs, Gretchen

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  34. Terrific job on all the cards. If I had to pick one I could not.

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  35. Awesome cards! Love the knots in the jute twine.

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  36. Deb....simply beautiful! Awesome inspiration! Thanks! Sean

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  37. The basket is just chock full o goodness!! And the country roads cards are beautifully masculine!!

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  38. Really like that truck image. On the brown card with white flowers, I like it just the way it is - looks white embossed. Great cards.

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  39. Your country roads cards are fabulous -- love that designer paper!

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  40. The Halloween card is just so much fun, and the country roads cards are gorgeous :-)

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  41. Your cards are simply outstanding. Thank you for sharing your inspiration. Alice Roushia

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  42. Wonderful job, Deb!!! Love the tulle and the great "knots" you created!!

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  43. Awesome cards and I like the embellishment on the truck card.

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  44. Love your cards and I thik those new knots are delightful, always looking for something new. thanks for inspiring me.

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  45. I love that knotted embellishment you did. Perhaps you'll share a little lesson on how it's made?

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  46. Great cards. Love the embellishment on the truck card and the way you've colored the truck. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  47. Beautiful cards! It's so much fun to see how everyone is using these new stamps!

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  48. Fantastic cards Deb!! Love the truck and mailbox!

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  49. All three cards are beautiful. And what an interesting layout in that last card.

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  50. Beautiful cards and I loved the last one. Wish I would come up with some neat ideas like you did.
    Loved it!

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  51. Love your darling Halloween card, Deb -- that web you drew in is just fabulous and I love the colors/layout! Wonderful coloring and layouts on your Country Roads cards, too!

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  52. Your cards are just beautiful. I love the masculine feel of the country roads cards!

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  53. I love all of these cards. They have such a good warm feeling to them. Even the spookie one.

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  54. Deb,
    Isn't it great to have the Country Roads stamps to make masculine cards? Also, your matting techniques in your second card are so very creative.

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  55. These are great cards. The one with the mailboxes is unusual and is so attractive.

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  56. I DOO like your unique embellishment on the truck card....NOW how did you do it.......I guess I reeeeaaallly neeeeed to study it more then I already have....
    I like both of your cards. Thanks for sharing.
    Jean McGee

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  57. AWESOME truck card - -fabulous coloring

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  58. Love the truck card! I really like your new embellishment idea. The other is cute too.

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  59. I really like the mailbox card. Looks good just like it is.

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  60. great cards, love the detail you put into each card. Thanks for sharing

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  61. love the cards, Three very different ideas.the earth tones make beautiful cards. TFS

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  62. Wow I love your cards! The ribbon on your second card is prefect. TFS AJ~

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  63. LOVE your Halloween card, and the fun orange ribbon! Also loving the way you tied your twine on the 2nd card, it adds such a wonderful accent!

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  64. Simply beautiful work! I am loving all the fall cards.

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  65. Oh, just love what you did with the twine! And all the autumn cards - love them!!!!

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  66. Great Card sketches. The cards are great!

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  67. Great cards- I love both these new sets thanks for sharing.

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  68. Wow all of your cards are amazing but the 3rd "sending thoughts" is truly inspired LOVE it!

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  69. Really hard to choose which I like best, they are all awesome, however, I am very partial to the basket set. Stunning cards.

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  70. Love love love them all! I want some of that dp paper. I guess I better get ordering.

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  71. Wonderful cards; love the colors in all, but the last one is great. Thanks for sharing

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  72. I always love your unique designs Deb! Awesome!

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  73. All the cards are so terrific, thanks for
    sharing.

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  74. Fantastic cards, Deb! Awesome designs!

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  75. Lot's of great ideas. Well done and thanks for sharing :)

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  76. Fantabulouso cards, hun! Awesome spider web! Love the twine knotted like that!

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  77. What great cards!!
    Angela
    http://angelascraftyspot.blogspot.com/

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  78. I must say your creativity is awesome.. wish I had an iota of that! Absolutely loved your design layout on your third card and your other cards are inspirational as well .. hope I can come up with something like that .. hope springs eternal! Thank you

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  79. Wonderful cards. I just love your creativity! Thanks for the great ideas!

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  80. These are just amazing. I love the orange tulle and the cording you used on the first two. The layout of the third is beautiful.

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  81. your cards are gorgeous. I really like your American made colors

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  82. love the country roads!! and the mailboxes are so sweet!
    great use of some really nice stamps
    thanks
    Holly

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  83. Love the halloween card. the black twine knot looks like a spider! Great job!

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  84. Absolutely gorgeous cards! Love that twine embellishment on your country roads card! So very well done!

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