Gina's Designs DT Project: Create Banner

Hello everyone! I hope you are all well today. I have one of Gina's fun banners for you today. This is the C-R-E-A-T-E Dovetail Banner. I have the banner hanging over the area that I keep things I made or that others have made and sent to me. (Excuse the beam - yes my craft room is now in the basement.)

I started with painting the bottom layer in Linen. The next layer is painted with a mixture of Poodleskirt Pink and White. I then used a piece of paper from the Kellerkurtz & Company paper stack.

The doilies are from the Daily Box Sew wall hanging set. I inked them lightly with Vintage Photo and Antique Linen. The letters are embossed with a mixture of Aged Rose and Chestnut. I then 

attached them to the banner with pop dots. I punched a whole in each of the corners and the added eyelets. The banner is held together with twine from my stash.

Gina's Designs Products Used

C-R-E-A-T-E Dovetail Banner 

Doily Box Sew

Other Products Used

Gesso

Paint: Folk Art - Linen & Americana - Poodleskirt Pink & Craft Essentials - White

Embossing Powder: Stampendous-Aged Rose & Zing! - Chestnut

Ink: Tim Holtz Antique Linen and Vintage Paper

Eyelets: Stash

Twine: Stash

Gina's Designs DT Project - Let it Snow Artist Trading Block

Hello fellow crafters. My project today is featuring Gina's new artist trading blocks! There are actually three different sizes that come in the set, I am using the 3 and 2.5 inch size blocks.

I removed one of the sides on the bottom box and used the inside to hang snowflakes. All the paper was distressed with Black Soot. To get a true color of any of the techniques I used, I applied gesso to all of the chipboard pieces in this project.  The snowflakes are all glittered.

 I just love this little snowman stamp!

This is the back side of the box. Good thing I do not make my living as a photographer!

Here is one of the sides. The arms of the chipboard snowman are taken from the tree in the Winter Shape Set. Her chipboard hat and scarf are painted and I used flower fresh for the pom-pom on the top of the hat.

This chipboard snowman has a painted chipboard top hat. The nose is actually one of the icicles that is in the Winter Shape Set. The nose and chipboard mittens were colored with markers.

Please check out the blog to see what others have created using the artist trading blocks!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Artist Trading Blocks

Christmas Shape Set

Snowflake Shape Set

Winter Shape Set

Other Products Used
Paper: K&Company - Let it Snow
Snowflake Stickers: Jolee's boutique - Snowflake Repeats
Tim Holtz Distressed Ink - Black Soot
Snowman Stamp: Hampton Art Stamps - Relaxed Snowman
Glitter
Markers
Flower Fresh
Flocking Powder
Silver Thread
Paint

Gina's Designs DT Project: L is for Laundry

You know what today is? Today marks five months til Christmas! Just a friendly reminder to start on all the gifts you were going to make last year but ran out of time! Make sure you head over to Gina's Designs to check out some of the awesome hardwood and chipboard items that will make great gifts.

Today I have another new item in Gina's store, the new "letter your life". With these you get to custom make your word! That's right, crafters, the large letter will be the first letter in the word you ask for. Just think of the possibilities!

I guess I had laundry on my mind when I was asked to pick a word since that is what came out of my mouth.

I wanted it to be fun yet simple since it will be hanging on the wall in the basement. 

I covered the "L" with paper and embossed the word laundry.

 It will be mounted on the wall but I still need to paint it - my mom and I have only got the primer on.

I also used the new punchelements 1". These are stackable element sets that you are able to use your 1" punch with! I glued my punched paper to the plain circle. Once it was dried, I used my cleaned up any edges, distressed with Walnut Stain and glued it to the larger fancy circle. I then applied a coat of the liquid embossing to the top of the paper.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Have a great weekend!

Gina's Designs Products

Letter Your Life

PunchElements 1" Scalloped

Other Products Used

Paper: Prima - Lyric & MME: Lost & Found - Madison Avenue
Embossing Powder: American Crafters Zing! - Chestnut
Lace and Doilies: Stash
All Night Media: Liquid Embossing - Clear Glass Finish
Ink: Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Mini Clothes Pins

Gina's Designs DT Project - Cards

Happy Thursday!! Today I have for you two cards I made for a double celebration this past Sunday; my mom's birthday and my niece's graduation from college!
For the first card, I took a piece of scrap paper, inked it with Walnut Stain and attached to the card base. I embossed the "happy birthday" and used my watercolor crayons on the balloons.I glued the "happy birthday" to the card and the balloons where attached with pop dots.

The second card is my graduation card. I first stenciled purple and yellow chalk to the card base.

The chipboard pieces were embossed before placing them on double mat. Both pieces of the mat were edged with ink. I attached all three chipboard pieces with pop dots.

I also took a small stamp that said "congratulations" and randomly stamped all over the front of the card. I used VersaMark - Dazzle for that. I know the pictures do not show it, but I did like the way it turned out.

Here is a look at them side by side!

 Thanks for stopping by my blog! Please take a peak at Gina's Designs! You never know what you will be inspired to create!

Gina's Designs Products

Birthday Shape Set

Graduation Shape Set

Other Products Used

Paper: K&Company

Watercolor Crayons: Stampin' Up!

Embossing Powder: Stampendous Aged Ivory and Ranger Black

Ink: Walnut Stain & Dusty Concord by Tim Holtz, White Chalk Ink (Studio G)

Chalk

Stencil

Gesso

pop dots

Gina's Designs DT Project: Lace Banner

Hi everyone. Today I have designed a "lace" sign from Gina's Designs LOVE wall art kit! I plan on using it in my craft room to mark my lace area. When I have decided were that area will be, I will then make the decision on how I will attach it. For now I will just stand it up according style!

I lined the back chipboard with paper from Prima's Delight after edging it with Walnut Stain.  The corrugated squares were light touched with gesso. For the letters, I took the "O" and cut a small section from it to make a "C".  After a coat of gesso and embossing with Madonna Robe Blue Gold, I turned the "V" upside down and attached the little piece left over to form the "A."

The cutouts are from the paper line. I use a croched doily from my stash under the "A" and one of Gina's Designs under the "E". 

 The panels were attached together with a lovely piece of lace from CraftSupply1. I took out the ribbon that was woven through it. I then used one of my Tim Holtz Blending Tools and used it to drag the lace over the Antique Linen ink pad.

 Below are the before and after pictures of the blue and the flatter-brown flowers from CraftSupplies1.

For the blue flowers above, I simply applied a light coat of gesso to them.

The top flowers (as well as the flowers on the "C" and "A") all started out looking like the flower on the bottom. I first used gesso on them and then Placed around. the one on the left has Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder on it . The flower on the right has a little Lindy's scattered on it and then the stampin up! clear embossing powder over the entire flower. The one in the middle was inked and then embossed with clear. This gives another way to color them besides using alcohol inks.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!!!

Gina's Designs Products
LOVE Wall Art Kit
Cardstock Doily Set Intricate

CraftSupplies1
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Other Products
Paper: Prima - Delight
Embossing Powder: Lindy's Stamp Gang - Madonna Robe Blue Gold
Stampin' up! - Clear
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Walnut Stain, Sage Green, Antique Linen and Pine Needles
Gesso: Studio 71 - white
Flower Buds and Leaves: Wild Orchid Crafts
Doily: Stash
Flat back Pearls and Bling: Stash
Butterflies with Bling: nail art.

Gina's Designs DT Project: Trim Organizer/Cross Promotions with CraftSupplies1

Welcome to my blog today everyone. I have my first cross promotion project for the month for you featuring CraftSupplies1! After putting this one organizer together, I realized I was going to need MANY more! You get a great box with 12 cards to wrap your choice of trim around. The box is very easy to put together. I used Aleene's Tacky Glue to assemble it. Once the glue was dry, I used gesso on the entire box and on the cards. The box (inside and out) and the cards are trimmed with the KellerKurtz & Company paper stack. Have I mentioned that I am in love with this stack? :) I used Mod Podge to adhere the paper to the box. This paper is a bit on the thin side so I did have some wrinkles that did not come out of the paper.  I used that to my advantage and went with a vintage look. I took my Walnut Stain ink pad directly to the paper on the box and buffed off the excess.

 

 The wide piece of lace from my stash was attached first followed by a gorgeous Venice heart lace from CraftSupplies1.

 The heart trim comes in a bright white and as you can tell, it can be colored! I use a combination of the Tea Dye Refill Ink watered down and coffee.

The filigree heart is part of the Filigree Frames Shape Set available at Gina's Designs. I used Magic Moon Pearls on the outside heart first followed by Orbit Olive Gold on the filigree. The inside of the heart was first inked with Sage Green followed by embossing with Clear from Stampin' Up. I used my script stamp over the top while the embossing was still hot.  All the fabulous flowers are from Craftsupplies1. I did spray some of them with my Tea Dye water mixture.The road metal filigree circles are also available from CraftSupplies1.

The upper edges of the box were lined with pearl trim - another fun product available from CraftSupplies1.

As you can see, I have decided to use this box for my laces (okay some of my laces).

After I cut out paper to line both sides of each card, I mod-podged (yes I am using a proper noun as a verb!) them down. Once dried, I distressed the cards with a file (not an easy task to try and rough up the heavy chip!) and Walnut Stain. As you can see in the picture above, I tore off some of the paper in various spots and on various cards. I buffed the cards to remove any remaining ink so it would not come off on the laces. 

 Each of the cards was stamped with a vintage sewing object. I then wrapped my lace around the cards and used a pin to keep them in place.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Don't forget that Gina's Designs is having a sale until March 15, 2014!  Please use the code WINTERBLUES15!

Gina's Designs Products

Trim Organizer

Filigrees Frames Shape Set

CraftSupplies1

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Heart Venice Lace

All Flowers

Metal Circles

Other Products

Gesso: Studio 71 - white

Paper: KellerKurtz & Company (thePaperStudio carried at Hobby Lobby)

Stamp Set: TPC Studio - Vintage Crafting

Inkadinkado - Script

Embossing Powder: Lindy's Stamp Gang - Orbit Olive Gold & Magic Moon Pearls

Stampin' Up! - Clear

Embossing Ink: Ranger - Tinted Embossing Ink (refill)

Ink: Tim Holtz - Walnut Stain, Sage Green

Memories - Black

Ink Refill: Tim Holtz - Tea Dye

Coffee: Foldgers

Lace - from my stash

Leaves - from my stash

Mod Podge

Gina's Designs DT Project: March Sketch Challenge - Believe

Happy March! This has to mean spring is right around the corner, right?  This layout is using the March Sketch Challenge.

As always, the chipboard pieces are first given a coat of gesso. The "believe" was inked with black soot distressed ink and then embossed with Lindy's Stamp Gang Midnight Brown. For the candles, I colored the flames with yellow and orange markers, embossed the the two end flames with Iridescent Sparkle and the middle flame with Stampin' Up! - Clear. The candle is painted white and the holders are embossed with Pirate Gold and I sprinkled a bit of Gold Tinsel while the embossing was still hot.

For the ornate side pieces, I took the square-like frame and cut it apart. I used Cocoa, Walnut Stain, Jumbo Java,  & Cosmic Copper inks before covering it with Hampton Art embossing powder - Clear. The same technique was used on the leaf pieces except I used Tea Leaves, Jumbo Java, & Hint of Pesto.

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to upload your March Sketch Challenge to the gallery for a chance to with $10.00 from Gina's Designs!

Gina's Designs 

 Candlesticks

10 Words

Fanciful Elements

Other Products Used

markers: Bic
gesso: Studio 71 - white
embossing power: Stampendous - Pirates Gold & Gold Tinsel
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Midnight Brown
Stampin' Up! - Clear
Craft Essentials - Iridescent Sparkle
Hampton Art - Clear
ink: Tim Holtz Distressed - Black Soot, Walnut Stain & Fire Brick
Color Box - Cocoa
Dew Drop - Tea Leaves, Jumbo Java, Hint of Pesto & Cosmic Copper
paper: The Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby) - Faith
velum paper
ribbon: The Crafters Haven - Velvet Ribbon