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!!
First up.....
I'm so much of a "literal" kind of girl sometimes and when I see the "basket" word, I think "ok... this NEEDS to be used with a basket"! But noooo.. not this time!! This time I decided I can do this WITHOUT "following the rules". Hee
I used Pure Luxury Sweet Mango card stock for my base and added a small layer of Wild Dandelion. I stamped the Halloween "basket topper" and used my Kooh-i-noor pencils to color the image and some OMS to blend out the colors a bit. I love that the card LOOKS Halloween but with a little message of love so even my dear hubby can have a small "treat" this year when the kids head off trick or treating. ;-)
I decided to go "outside the box" again with this card using Theresa's set. This time I went for a single layer card but.. I water colored my image. I haven't done that for quite some time and I forget that using water colors is such a nice "forgiving" technique. If you add to much color, you can correct it so easily with just a bit more water! I thought the bridge would look even more "distressed" and older if I water colored it as well. ;-)
My card base is Pure Luxury Heavy Base Weight White. I stamped my image using Memento Tuxedo Black before water coloring it. I really like how it came out and I think every image in Theresa's set can easily be water colored for a nice "set" of cards to package up as a gift!
Now check out all the amazing designs and inspiration from the rest of the Design Team:
- Gina K
- Melanie Muenchinger - Illustrator Basket Additions 3
- Theresa Momber - Illustrator Country Roads
- AJ Otto
- Beth Silaika
- Cathy Tidwell
- Deb Felts
- Giovana Smith
- Jimmi Mayo
- Lee Murphy
- Lori McAree
- Sharon Harnist
- Tami Mayberry
- Tina Gilliland - You are here!
- Vicki Dutcher
Come back tomorrow for another day of inspiration from the Design Team! *HUGS*
80 comments:
What a fun spooky card! Love both cards. Fantastic coloring!
beautiful creations - thanks so much for sharing and inspiring!
I love that covered bridge. You did a great job with your watercolors.
Love your spooky card and your painting on the bridge is super thanks for sharing these
Great coloring! Thanks for sharing.
Great cards! I enjoyed the coloring on both.
Katherine
Simplicity, I love simplicity
Fantastic water coloring!
I've never been good at watercoloring but yours is beautiful!
These are wonderful cards. Like being able to use the toppers both with my basket and without. Your coloring of the bridge is beautiful.
love the halloween card!! Awesome!! The watercolored card is gorgeous!! so simple and pretty!!! Great job!
Love them. Great coloring on both of your creations.
Love the Halloween image on the Wild Dandelion! The watercoloring is great on the covered bridge!
Well done Tina!Love the colors!
Great cards! Love the bright yellow on the Halloween card. And the coloring on the covered bridge is just gorgeous!
Those are lovely made cards ^_^
Your covered bridge makes me wish I was there too!
The only way I approve of Halloween is to make it fun - not scary, and you nailed that! The coloring on the bridge is so great!
Loce both cards, coloring is perfect
That Love card is so cute! Your watercolored bridge card is beautiful. TFS.
Great cards. I like your coloring on the Country Roads card.
Wow Awesome cards love the layering and the attention to details is perfect you have blended your colors and it looks like a very old barn. just wonderful and the Halloween card is super goolish love the layerin thanks for sharing and for the chance to win.
Loved the sentiment on the first card...great use of this stamp!!!super cool!!! The second card was just lovely...it left me wishing too!!!
Great cards. I loved your choice of colors on the Halloween card. I also loved the country road card. It made me wish I was there too! Thanks for sharing.
great cards Tina- love the CAS!! :)
Your cards are lovely.
Blessings,
Kat
Thanks for the giggle with your first card. Putting "I love you" with "so much it's scary" is the best! Both cards are great!
the bright yellow fits perfectly for hallloween, love the coloring on the country road card
I particularly love the water colored image. Beautifully done, Tina! I want you to know how much I appreciate you. I hope you have a wonderful birthday. God bless!
nice work. Love that bright yellow and your out of the box thinking.
Oh the halloween card is too cute to spook.
Love the cards
OH the stamping and coloring on the yellow is awesome!!! And how do you make that one layer card look anything but one layer! Awesome my friend!!
Nice job! Great colors! Thanks! Sean
Your cards are so cool! But I must say I love how the Halloween images are peeking over the top of the ribbon details. That is very clever. And great ribbon I might add as well!
I love the look of watercolor--and it really suits the look of an old, covered bridge! Great cards.
Love the look of your halloween card; great ribbon choice. The watercolor look of the bridge is nicely done.
The coloring on the covered bridge is awesome. Thanks for the great inspiration. The Halloween card is great too.
I am glad to see that you watercolored the bridge card. Love watercoloring and now that copics have appeared on the scene we see less watercoloring. Thanks
Both cards are beautiful Tina!
Fun Halloween card.
Gorgeous cards, love the halloween card and the country roads is beautiful :-)
Great job on the cards.
Wonderful coloring on your "love" card, Tina -- great option with these cute Halloween characters! And your watercolored bridge is fabulous -- one of my favorite techniques, too!
Oh wow love the bright and fun colors of your Halloween card and your water coloring looks amazing. Thanks for the inspiration I can't wait to be able to use these stamps!
Hi! Very nice cards! Love them!
So much fun to be different....Neat cards! Thanks for sharing!
awesome cards!
Pretty cards!
Nice work. Liked em both.
Cute cards. Very nice coloring on your second card. The Halloween card is a real eye grabber...just love yellow & orange.
I really like your cards. The bright yellow on the first card really makes the stamps pop. I also love the covered bridge.
Great barn card~
Just love these! The halloween card is so bright & cheerful! Love. I love the look of your barn, it is beautiful--excuse me bridge house!
The water color technique was great on this card.
Love your red covered bridge!! I saw a spider similar to your the other day on my porch but I stepped on it!!
Great cards, bright colors and good ideas. TFS
Super cool Halloween card and the other is so pretty.
great ideas, thanks for sharing
lol THAT'S a fun card! Well done. Hey hope you're feeling better too!
Great cards and techs on these :)
I love both your cards -- but the "I love you" is my favorite! Great job on both!
Great cards but I'm always partial to watercolored cards. I love them so much and yours is no exception. TFS!
love your take with the Halloween images on the card and the bridge is just so pretty- thanks for sharing
Great work water coloring! Yes, it makes the bridge look distressed a bit more :)
Lovely card! I love the use of the ribbon. TFS AJ~
These are just so pretty and spooky(HA)
Awww love the sentiment on the first card, it caught be unexpectedly! Great job on both
Such gorgeous coloring!! Love the fun halloween one especially!
Fabulous cards; love the colors and details on the 1st one. Thanks for sharing
Love both of your cards and the coloring is great. Thanks for sharing.
Love the water coloring and the saying on the front of the first card :)
GReat cards..love your covered bridge.
Both of your cards are great, but I think I am partial to the covered bridge card. Thanks for sharing your inspiration, Alice Roushia
Wonderful cards! You did a great job with the water coloring!
Such creativity! I love the "weathered" look of the water colored covered bride. I'm going to dig out my watercolor pencils, you are definitely inspiring me!
I love your watercoloring!
Beautiful cards!
your watercolors are lovely!
thanks
Holly
your halloween card is great! such fun images!
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