Category: Gina Marie Designs

Beautiful Heart Celebrate

This is another lovely layering stamp from Altenew that really makes a beautiful statement on a card. I make this for a young couple’s wedding and loved the way it turned out with the rose gold sentiment.

Products Used:

  • Altenew Beautiful Heart
  • Altenew Inks: Dusk, Ocean Waves, Sea Glass; Evergreen, Forest Glades, Frayed Leaf
  • Turquois Stickles
  • Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder
  • Gina Marie Designs Scalloped Rectangle
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Simon Says Stamp Burnished Rose Mirror Cardstock
  • Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
  • 3M ½” Foam Tape
  • Penny Black Celebrations Die

Hello Darling Thinking of You

Purple and yellow are opposites on the color wheel and make a striking contrast. I added some flowers and leaves from LDRS Creative If Friends Were Flowers around the sentiment and love the way it turned out.

Products Used:

  • Simon Says Stamp Hello Darling Stamp
  • LDRS Creative If Friends Were Flowers Stamp
  • Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle Die
  • Gina Marie Designs Scalloped Rectangle Die
  • Darice Basketweave Embossing Folder
  • Altenew Inks: Soft Lilac, Lavender Fields, Deep Iris, Midnight Violet; Bamboo, Parrot; Fresh Lemon, Maple Yellow
  • Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Nuvo Glitter Pen
  • Nuvo Crystal Drops Dandelion Yellow
  • Darice Sticky Back Foam
  • Silhouette Cameo PIXScan Mat

Scripty Hello

This scalloped rectangle die from Gina Marie Designs is one of my favorites and the Mama Elephant Script Hello is so elegant and pretty.

Products Used:

  • Mama Elephant Script Hello Die
  • DCWV Happy Day 12 x 12 Paper Stack
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Gina Marie Designs Scalloped Rectangle Die
  • My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle
  • Darice Sticky Back Foam
  • Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Daisy Bouquet Birthday Wishes

For this version of a birthday card with Gina Marie Designs’ Daisy Bouquet the cardstock was ink blended with Oxide Inks and then the bouquet was die cut. Since the sentiment was heat embossed with silver embossing powder, a border of silver mirror cardstock was added.

Products Used:

  • Gina Marie Designs Cut In/Cut Out Daisy Bouquet Die
  • Altenew Birthday Greetings
  • VersaMark Ink
  • Distress Oxide Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry
  • Laromni Toothbrush Makeup Brushes
  • Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Labels
  • Ranger Super Fine Detail Silver Embossing Powder
  • My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle
  • 3M ½” Foam Tape
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# and 110# Solar White Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Paper Accents Vellum
  • Doodlebug Design Cupcake Assortment Sprinkles
  • Darice Sticky Back Foam

Daisy Bouquet Happy Birthday to Wonderful You

I love this daisy die from Gina Marie Designs. For this version I ink blended the background with Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Inks and then stacked several layers of the die for visual interest.

Products Used:

  • Gina Marie Designs Cut In/Cut Out Daisy Bouquet Die
  • My Favorite Things Twice the Wishes Stamp
  • VersaMark Ink
  • Distress Oxide Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry
  • Laromni Toothbrush Makeup Brushes
  • Ranger Super Vine Detail White Embossing Powder
  • My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle
  • Darice Sticky Back Foam Sheet
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# and 110# Solar White Cardstock
  • Paper Accents Silver Mirror Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Doodlebug Design Cupcake Assortment Sprinkles

MFT Summer School Repetition, Symmetry, and White Space Beautiful Day

This morning when I went into my craft room these beautiful leftover butterflies from a card I created yesterday were calling my name.  I knew I needed to use them on a card.  I love the way it turned out.  Maybe even better than the card I created earlier.

Since these are the smaller butterflies, I knew I needed a smaller focal area, so I ran a piece of Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock through the Big Shot with the largest My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle and then again with Gina Marie Designs Peekaboo Rectangles.  It created a pretty frame for these gorgeous butterflies.

For added dimension, I die cut another stitched rectangle as a base and then added 3M 1/2″ Foam Tape to the back of the frame.  I laid the butterflies in place to determine where to stamp the sentiment from Altenew’s Beautiful Day with Hero Hues India Ink Black.  I then glued the butterflies in place with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.  I’ve learned that Yupo Paper reacts a little differently with glue because it is a non-porous paper.  The images need more time to dry and you have to be careful that they don’t move around until it’s set.

I had one butterfly leftover for the font of the envelope and then this creation was done.

Products Used:

  • Paper Smooches Butterfly Duet
  • Altenew Beautiful Day
  • Tim Holtz Alcohol Blending Solution
  • Ranger Alcohol Inks: Shell Pink, Flamingo, Watermelon, Wild Plum, Mermaid
  • Ranger Yupo Paper
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Ranger Multi Medium Matte
  • 3M 1/2″ Foam Tape
  • My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle
  • Gina Marie Designs Peekaboo Rectangle

MFT Summer School Primary Colors and Symmetry Celebrate You

For this card I combined both the Primary Colors and Symmetry instructions.    I could probably fall in white space as well, but I decided to focus on these two elements.  Red, blue, and yellow really do make a card that is pleasing to the eye, and when keeping the rule of thirds in mind it is even more enhanced.

I had created a card not long ago using My Favorite Things Stitched Flowers.  In that card I keep all the flowers white, but I thought it could be equally as pleasing to the eye using the primary colors.  I die cut the flowers and their centers from scraps of red, blue, and yellow cardstock.  I arranged the flowers in the top two-thirds of the card and used the bottom third for the sentiment.  The flowers were arranged in a pyramid formation, which is also pleasing to the eye.

A side folding A2 Cardbase was made from Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock.  The flower were adhered together using Ranger Multi Medium Matte, with the exception of the center flower which was adhered using 3M 1/2″ Foam Tape.  I added a little Copic Marker Y17 to the flower centers for a little added visual interest.

The sentiment is from My Favorite Things Celebrate You.  I went through my swatch book to try and find a matching blue ink to stamp the sentiment.  The closest that I had was Gina K. Designs Blue Raspberry.

After the card was assembled I decided to pull out some gold rhinestones from my stash and add them to the centers of the flowers.  Not sure if I liked it any better, but it does add some bling.

I had enough flowers left over that I made a second card using the rule of symmetry.

I decided to adhere the flowers to a smaller scalloped rectangle cut from Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock with a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Scalloped Rectangle.  Darice Sticky Back Foam was added to the back.

The cardbase was made from Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock and the front was embossed using the Darice Basketweave Embossing Folder.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things Happy Hellos.  It was cut from both red and blue cardstock and adhered together on a slight offset.

Products Used Card #1:

  • My Favorite Things Stitched Flowers
  • My Favorite Things Celebrate You
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Red, Blue, Yellow cardstock scraps
  • Gina K. Designs Blue Raspberry Ink
  • Ranger Multi Medium Matte
  • Gold Rhinestones

Products Used Card #2:

  • My Favorite Things Stitched Flowers
  • My Favorite Things Happy Hellos
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Red, Blue, Yellow cardstock scraps
  • Gina Marie Designs Stitched Scalloped Rectangle
  • Darice Basketweave Embossing Folder
  • Darice Sticky Back Foam
  • Gold Rhinestones

 

Flower Bouquet Cutout Happy Birthday

I recently purchased the In Out Daisy Bouquet die from Gina Marie Designs.  It makes a really pretty card.  I like the way you can cut around the flower, as well as just cut them the center of a panel.  For this card I used both the border and flower die.

I cut the bouquet from a rectangle of Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock which had been die cut with a My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle.  I then cut the bouquet an additional four time so that I could stack the flowers and add dimension to the card.

I found some pretty pink cardstock in my stash and cut a rectangle 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ so that it would cover the entire front of a top folding A2 cardbase made from Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock.  It was adhered using Kokuyo Dotliner Adhesive Long.  This created a beautiful background color for the flowers in the bouquet.  I inlaid the bouquet into the cutout with Ranger Multi Medium Matte and love the way it popped on the page.

For the sentiment I die cut the Lawn Fawn Birthday Border from the same pink cardstock, using only the words “happy birthday” and adhered it under the bouquet with the same liquid glue.  The secondary sentiment is from Winnie & Walter Sentimental Birthday and was stamped with Hero Hues India Ink Black just below the die cut sentiment and the card was done.

A clean and simple card that was easy to create.

PRODUCTS USED:

  • Gina Marie Designs In/Out Daisy Bouquet
  • Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday Border
  • Winnie & Walter Sentimental Birthday
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
  • Neena Classic Crest 110# Solar White Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Pink Cardstock from Stash
  • Pearls from Stash
  • Hero Hues India Ink Black

Let’s Party

Michael and I decided to invite fourteen of the single women in our church over for a backyard barbecue.  Since I would need to make so many invitations I wanted something that would be fairly quick and easy.  I decided to use patterned paper and Lawn Fawns Party Balloons dies.

I pulled mint green and white cardstock, with a hint of gold accents from The Paper Studio Mint to Be Fab 12″ x 12″ Paper Pad and Fancy Pants Trend Setter 12″ x 12″ Paper Pad.  While it doesn’t show well in the photograph, a few of the triangles on one of the papers are gold foil and so I decided to die cut the word “party” from Winnie & Walter’s The Big, The Bold, and Party stamp and die set from Paper Accents Gold Mirror Cardstock.

To add visual interest a rectangle was cut from Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock using a Gina Marie Designs Scalloped Rectangle.  For the balloon strings I pulled out the Honey Bee Celebration Box stamp set.  I laid the balloons on the scalloped rectangle to determine where to stamp the strings and then placed it into my MISTI.  This allowed me to have a production mode of stamping all fourteen panels with the strings, which were stamped with Brilliance Galaxy Gold Ink.  In my Mini MISTI I placed the secondary sentiment from Winnie & Walter’s The Big, The Bold, and Party and stamped it with Hero Hues India Ink Black.

Now it was time to assemble the invitations.  I added adhesive to the back of the balloons using the Kokuyo Dotliner Adhesive Long and placed them on the card front.  The gold mirror sentiment was adhered using Tombo Mono Multi Glue.

Darice Sticky Back Foam was cut 1/8″ smaller than the scalloped rectangle and it was adhered to a top folding A2 card base made from Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock.

It went pretty quick and I love the way it turned out.

PRODUCTS USED:

  • Lawn Fawn Party Balloons
  • Honey Bee Celebration Box
  • Winnie & Walter The Big, the Bold, and Party
  • Fancy Pants Trend Setter 12” x 12” Paper Pad
  • The Paper Studio Mint to be Fab 12” x 12” Paper Pad
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
  • Gina Marie Designs Scalloped Rectangles
  • Brilliance Galaxy Gold Ink
  • Hero Hues India Ink Black
  • Darice Sticky Back Foam
  • Be Creative Tape
  • Kokuyo Dotliner Adhesive
  • Tombo Mono Multi Glue

Layered Daisies Hi

This is the third card I made with Gina K. Designs Layered Daisies Stamp and Die set.  To add visual interest to the card front a rectangle of Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock was cut using a Gina Marie Designs Loopy Rectangle.  I love the way it draws the eye to the beautiful flower arrangement.

The flowers were stamp on some Neena cardstock with Gina K. Designs inks (listed below) and then die cut with the matching dies.  The flowers were adhered in the lower left corner using Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.  The top flower and leaves were adhered using Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive and the others with 3M 1/2″ Foam Tape.

The sentiment is one of the dies from the My Favorite Things Happy Hellos.  It was cut from Paper Accents Gold Mirror Cardstock and again from Darice Sticky Back Foam.  I had to place it a little higher on the card front than desired because it just didn’t fit in the lower right.  It was adhered using Ranger Multi Medium Matte.  I’m still please with the overall design.

A top folding A2 cardbase was made from Gina K. Designs Base Weight Fresh Asparagus Cardstock.  Darice Sticky Back Foam was added to the back of the loopy rectangle and it was adhered to the cardbase using Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.  Nuvo Crystal Drops in Ebony Black were added to the center of the daisies for added dimension and interest and the card was done.

PRODUCTS USED:

  • Gina K. Designs Layered Daisies
  • My Favorite Things Happy Hellos
  • Gina Marie Designs Loopy Rectangles
  • Gina K. Designs Ink: Sea Glass, Ocean Mist, Peach Bellini, Coral Reef, Fresh Asparagus, Jelly Bean Green, Grass Green
  • Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
  • Gina K. Designs Base Weight Fresh Asparagus Cardstock
  • 3M ½” Foam Tape
  • Darice Sticky Back Foam
  • Nuvo Crystal Drops Ebony Black
  • Ranger Multi Medium Matte