Happy 40th!

Hello!! Hope you are enjoying your week. I have been running around this week--enjoying great lunches with friends and spending my birthday gift cards. FUN! Thank you for all the wonderful birthday messages on FB, by email or on my blog. It really warmed my heart and made me feel special.

I am now working to finish up a few publication projects before I can start packing up my stamp room :(

In the meantime...here is a card I created for a friend's 40th birthday using the MFT Build a Birthday Card template I helped to design! Designer paper is by Echo Park!

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!!
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Build a Birthday Card

Hello! Happy Sunday! Yesterday was my son's 8th birthday....we had a great day...just cannot believe eight years have come and gone so fast :(

I have a fun little card design to show you today. I created this with the new template from My Favorite Things called Build a Birthday Card that I helped to design! Woohoo! It is so easy to use this template alone OR with your Cricut Expression, Silhouette, Wishblade, Pazzles or KNK machines.

and here is the inside:

What do you think? Such a fun template. I have more designs created with it to share soon!

Don't forget...you have until 8 p.m. tonight to enter to win the BE MINE collection from Echo Park. See post below!

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Big Ole Flower Purse

Hello!!! Hope you had a great weekend. I did....got a new minivan, went for a few runs, played outside with the kiddos and went to a school carnival. Fun times!

I created this little gift card holder using my Perfect Purse template (Gina K Designs) and some tan leather cardstock (love this stuff!): This time, instead of making the bag really elaborate...I kept it super simple so I could add this fancy flower.

The flower is created from designer paper from Jillibean Soup. I used the blossom die from Spellbinders and cut five layers for the flower and then just scrunched each layer. I cut a flower from another piece of designer paper from Jillibean for the center. Then I cut the leaves. (Sigh! Love this paper!)

Tip: Make your paper go further---the patterned paper I used for the leaves says "Happy Holidays" but I cut the shape so that just the word "happy" shows.

Materials used: Designer paper- Old World Cabbage Soup Paper:brown rice, Grandmas Christmas Soup:Can Tomato Soup (Jillibean Soup); Perfect Purse template (Gina K Designs); brad and eyelets (Making Memories); Blossom cutting dies (Spellbinders); cardstock-tan leather, chocolate kiss (Gina K designs); caramel stamp pad (SU!).

Did you know that Stamp TV turns one this week??? Keep checking Gina's blog for fun stuff all week long and snippets of the new stamps coming next week!!!

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Gina K Preview Day 3

Hi everyone! Thanks for all the great sympathetic comments on yesterday's spill. Today has been MUCH better. I noticed that my purse had some sticky stuff all along the side of it today (?)....which got me thinking how old it was and that I am sure my kids would LOVE to buy me a new purse for Christmas....so they did. They just don't know it yet! (I can make lemonade outta anything!)

Tonight, the Gina K Design team is previewing the new set Sweetest Memories (the new one FREE with three). I came up with a SIMPLE design to showcase one of my favorite quotes ever (that just happens to be in this set!)

This is literally a five minute card! Gotta love that. For some reason--I DO love it...all that white space and the color blocking---yum! I paired this set with the boat from Lazy Days of Summer. I stamped the boat image on three pieces of cardstock (two are the new colors that Gina K will be releasing Thursday night--Ocean Mist and Crème de Menthe!) and I added some orange. Simple!

Materials used: Stamps-Sweetest Memories, Lazy Days of Summer (Gina K Designs); Memento black ink; cardstock-white, ocean mist, Creme de Menthe (Gina K Designs); dandelion (American Crafts); ribbon striped pumpkin pie (American Crafts); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories).


AND......................

The next thing I want to share with you is a new addition to Gina K Designs....Perfect Patterns. A few months ago I posted a gift card (money) purse on my blog and was inundated with emails from people wanting the template. So, the first template being offered through Perfect Patterns is my Purse Gift Card Holder.


Here is a gift card holder I created with the template:

I used some tan leather cardstock, some neutral buttons, some chocolate kiss cardstock and the stamp set-Signed with Love! (for the tag!)

This was easy to create with the template and it will be the perfect way to present gift cards and money to all the ladies/girls on my list.

You can now purchase the pattern HERE!

Materials used: Perfect Pattern-Gift Card Purse Perfect Pattern template (Gina K Designs); stamps-Signed with Love (Gina K Designs); caramel ink (SU!); neutral buttons (Gina K Designs); cardstock-tan leather, chocolate kiss (Gina K Designs);eyelets; Cropadile; paper piercing tool.

Now head on over to Gina's blog to check out more designs with her set-Sweetest Memories:

GinaK {Sweetest Memories}

Then, visit the designers participating in the previews tonight:

Cathy, Emily, Erika, Jessica, Lee, Lynn, Melanie, Nina, Tami, Theresa

****Our Release party will be held tomorrow night (Thursday!) over on SCS in GinaK's Forum from 7-10 pm CST. We'd love to have you join in the fun! There will be contest questions, challenges, chatter, and lots more samples from our designers throughout the party!

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