Gina K Preview Day 1

Happy Memorial Day!!! Today is such a wonderful day in America to honor those who serve or who have served our country. I am so thankful for all those (especially my husband) who are willing to serve to protect all those values we hold dear. I just want to take a minute and mention that Cards for Heroes is collecting cards for the service members so that they have cards to send home to their families when they cannot be with them. I created a card for the CCEE challenge today to send to them and I just wanted to pass along the info in case you were looking for an excellent way to support the troops with your hobby!

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Welcome to Gina K Designs Preview Day 1! Get ready for a week full of fantabulous previews of all the new sets that will be released at Gina K Designs on Thursday night! Today, the design team is working with the newest set from Melanie Muenchinger called Sporty Accessories--it is SUCH a great set that can be paired with her Just So Sporty set or used all on its own....

Here is my first card:

The banner and words, bat, glove and ball are all from the new set. I stamped them all on Gina K Pure Luxury cardstock, colored them with Copics and cut them out. I paired these images with the jersey from Just So Sporty to make a great birthday card for a baseball lover. (You can personalize it further by adding his jersey number too!) I framed the images by creating a score line with my Scor-Pal and then stamping the baseball border in grey.

This card also features some of the new digital paper that will be released on Thursday too. The red striped piece is from the Red Stars and Stripes and the Canvas background is from Summer Fabrics.
I love them all together!

Materials used: Stamps-Just So Sporty, Sporty Accessories (Gina K Designs); Memento black ink; Copic markers; grey ink (SU!); digital paper-Stars and Stripes, Summer Fabrics-digital downloads (Gina K Designs); Pure Luxury white cardstock (Gina K Designs); black brads (Making Memories); dimensional foam tape.

And here is another card I created with this set:

Heeeheee! I couldn't resist....sorry! These adorable converse sneakers are part of this set as well and I wanted to demonstrate that this set is NOT just for sport themes. Many of the images can be used for other fun card themes....

"U Stink"
"We Fit Like a Glove"
"Love You" with the bull horn
"Cheer Up" with pom poms and uniform...etc.

I found the leftover iron-on letter on my counter and thought it would go perfectly. I added on the "stink" part with JustRite Brayton Font.

Materials used: Stamps- Sporty Accessories (Gina K Designs); JustRite Brayton font; Memento black ink; cardstock-Pure Luxury (Gina K Designs); ribbon; stapler; designer paper- Frenzy-Whirl-White Out collection (We R Memory Keepers) ; notebook punch (SU!); slit punch (SU!); black marker (Copic).

If you would like to see some more fun stuff created with this set...just venture over to these amazing blogs:
Cindy Lawrence
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Theresa Momber
Melanie Muenchinger
Melissa Shultz (In the Spotlight Designer)
and, of course, Gina!

Hope you will join us for lots of challenges, prizes and fun at the Gina K Designs release party on Splitcoaststampers on Thursday, May 28 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Central time! This release is HUGE--you don't want to miss any of the fun!

AND....in case you haven't heard...Jessica Fick has an awesome new class called Fun with Glitters in the Classroom on StampTV. You can check it out HERE!!!

Stay tuned....another preview tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by!