Gina K Designs Patriotic Blog Hop

Hallo,
Welcome to this special July 4 Gina K. Designs Hop!!!!  Some of the Design Team and the Center Stage Spotlight Team have some fun cards and projects to share with a patriotic theme and flair!!!  And Gina has a special sale incentive too!!!  Check out these 2 new Duos:



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Come hop along for some Patriotic inspiration to help kick off your Fourth Of July festivities!!!

Gina
Lee
Laurie
Cat
Sean
Carolina
Latisha
Tami
Val
Sharon
Cheri
Miesje
Vicki
Lori
Tera
Melissa C.
Geri
Karen
Brenda

I had fun with the patriotic theme - I ended up doing 2 cards!!

   The sets I used for the first card  is 'Happy Camper' from Theresa Momber and the second card uses 'Just so Sporty' and Sporty accessories' both from Melanie Muenchinger.
  I colored both with prismacolor pencils and used some starry DP and a patriotic ribbon.
   We used to do a lot of camping as kids on holidays weekends and we often had a flag  set up at the campsite so of course I had to do that :)
   Well its a rainy morning here so may not be any fireworks  for us tonight but I see some craft time for me today :)
   Have a great 4th of July!!!
         Tera

CSS Inspiration blog Hop

Hallo,

Welcome to the Gina K CSS Alumni blog hop. Our inspiration for this round was this first photo.

If you are following the hop then you came to me from Sue's wonderful blog - www.suessentiments.com/wordpress?p=5177


I admit to being truely challenged with this one (and by my big ol lead balloon head and yukky stuffy/runny nose.....bleh).

I love the wall mirror and it reminded me of winter trees/twigs so here is what I came up with....



This first card uses stamps from 'Mugs and Kisses' and 'Tree silouettes'.

I stamped and embossed the trees with white powder onto white cardstock and then sponged some light gray ink around them.

The mug I stamped onto red DP and then stamped and embossed the trees with black, cut it out and layered it on top.



With this second card I was thinking of a bigger wall decor item so instead of a twig-like mirror, I did the trees....

The couch was paper pieced from the same red DP as the mug and the dressor, lamp and books were all stamped and embossed. The trees were embossed this time with copper embossing powder and again sponged with gray ink....
I am once again the end of our blog hop but if you have jumped into the middle you may want to start at the very begining of our hop here - http://www.stamptv.ning.com/forum/topics/center-stage-alumni-blog-hop-130

I am sure there is a ton of Awsomeness to be found!!!!
All for today
Have a great weekend!!!
Tera

CSS blog hop - sketch

Hallo,
Welcome to the CSS blog hop - if you have been following along then you came to me from Sharri's blog - http://istamp4u.blogspot.com/2010/12/css-sketch-challenge-hop.html

And if you haven't been you may want to as the Gina K CSS gals have alot to show you tonight!!!
And you will find that I am the end this time - last but hopefully not least :).
We were challenged to follow a sketch this time and I also challenged myself to use as much scraps and other card parts laying on my desk as possible. (card parts = stuff you made for something else that just didn't quite fit so you set it aside...)
I was on a roll once I got started this am....
This first card my oval turned into an ornament shape. The inside ornament was a 'card part', the frame was a left over piece from and ornament shape that I cut out and the gold snowflakes are using my Speelbinders dies on a gold Christmas card from last year :). An lastly the pearls that serve as an ornament hanger are left over from a swirly that I cut apart to use on other cards.


On my second card I followed the sketch a bit closer. The mitten is stamped on scrap DP and the background DP is also scrap. The frame is leftover from cutting out an oval for my last card and is cut from a thin piece of wood - which comes from the inside bottom of an old cigar box (cigar boxes being an addiction of mine :).

This last card uses the 'blank' from the large Spellbinders snowflake die (I used the snowflake on a clear ornament that is still 'in process') and I layered the oval cut from the thin cigar box wood on top after stamping and embossing the mitten with distress powder. I also cut the snowflakes from the last pieces of the thin cigar box wood and then brushed them lightly with embossing ink and embossed with silver - I wanted some of the wood to show (rustic ya know...).

I hope you all enjoyed our hop - I am hopping off to work tonight so will have to go through the hop tomorrow after a little nap....

Have a great evening!!!!

Tera

CSS Alumni blog hop

Hallo,
Time for another CSS Alumni blog hop - an inspiration challenge this time. The first photo was our inspiration this time.
If you are following the hop then you came to me from Peggy's blog - http://www.heartfullstamping.blogspot.com/2010/11/css-inspiration-blog-hop.html
where I am sure she had some wonderful eye candy for you!!!
My first card starts with a white card base which I did some faux stitching in red, then the red gingham DP with some faux stitching in white.
I then stamped and embossed with white, the snowflake from this months 'One free with three' set onto the DP.

I used this weeks sketch over at Stamp TV for my layout.
The phrase is from the Heirloom Ornaments set and the main image is also from the 'One free with three' set.
I colored the main image with prismacolor pencils.
The main image is cut out with the Spellbinders tree die and the phrase with a labels die.
My second card starts with a white base and same DP both are faux stitched in red. And again I used this weeks sketch from Stamp TV.
The main image is from the new 'Winter Mittens' set and both ribbons I bought this am (about 6am actually) at Micheals. I only went to 2 places this am - Micheals and A.C.Moore - and really the only reason I actually got up to go shopping is because my old meowing one woke me at 4 am and I couldn't get back to sleep :). Silly old cat is literally 20 years old and she didn't let us sleep much last night....
I cut out the mittens with the coordinating Spellbinders die and added some red and green rhinestones.
All for me today - off you go to Tina's place - http://www.tinagmemories.com/2010/11/css-inspiration-blog-hop.html
for more fabulous inspiration
Take Care
Tera