April Challenge for Gina's Designs Craft Group

Good morning and welcome to the April challenge for Gina's Designs Craft Group on Facebook!

For my project, I altered a canvas.

I started with a photo I took of my roses and one of Gina's large dollies. 

The butterfly has many layers. I used shredded burlap and black corrugated cardboard and one more layer of burlap. I finished it off with a piece of decorative tape.  

I used one of the word stackers - Inspire 

After adding the flowers and trim, I spattered white and black paint all over the canvas.

Don't forget to check out the challenge on Facebook. You could win a $10.00 gift card for Gina's Designs! Good luck!

Gina's Designs Craft Group

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Doily Set 8 Inch 

Word Stackers 2

other products used from

KraftSupplies4u

Mixed Media Tags by Shanna

Good day to you all. Shanna here excited to share my newest creations. I have been in tag making mode lately. I really love love love making tags. these turned out so textured and full of life. 

For this tag I used some 3d gloss gel and sprays. I added some glass glitter to the jar for even more shine. 

For my second tag I loved the colors I used. This time I used a matte gel and sprays. I painted the chipboard gears and added glass glitter as well as glass beads. So much fun and texture! 

These were messy and fun. I had no plan when I started, I just began spraying, painting, and gluing! 

Items Used:

Word Stackers 2

Gears Shape Set

Pen and Ink Shape Set

Steampunk 2 Shape Set

Mixed Media Art Journal by Kim

Hi Crafty Friends! Today I would like to share with you one of the new items coming very soon to Gina's Store. This is the new Art Journal, and I just love it!  I have always wanted to start an art journal and this was my excuse to give it a try.



 The Art Journal comes with 4 dividers, and some chipboard pages for you to get started. I have covered the divider pages with some random papers from my stash, which will each get some work done on them over time. I plan on using this book quite a lot! 

I really wanted it to represent me and my style, so I chose to do a lot of texture on the front and back covers and used tons of Gina's items on it.

First I layered on various chipboard pieces then I painted them over with gesso. Then used Shimmerz Sprays, Texturez and Paints on them to give them sparkle and nice color tones.

 Back of the Art Journal

 Inside of Art Journal

 Top View

 I got out some of my air dry clay and rolled out a rectangle and then used my stamp that says "create art", and made an impression in the clay for a focal point in the center of the journal. I used some black stayzon ink to make it pop out in the middle while just keeping to softer tones around the outside of it.

Below here you can see a close up of the texture, I have used some crushed up seashells I got in the nail art section on Ebay to add further texture. I just added them with a bit of glossy accents and they stuck down great.

I hope this will inspire you to keep an art journal of your own!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Gina's Designs Items Used

 Art Journal (Coming SOON!)

Say Cheese Shape Set

Clock Hands Shape Set

Butterfly of Gears

Word Stackers 2

Honeycomb & Bees Large

Music Symbols Shape Set

Tulip Scroll Corners

Butterflies & Dragonflies

Steampunk Doily

Banner Border Strip

Hinge Strap Shape Set

Other Items Used

Shimmerz Paints, Sprays & Texturez

Wild Orchid Crafts

Creative Air Dry Clay

Dark Room Door "Create Art" Stamp

Crushed Sea Shell Nail Art Decorations

Gesso

Various Papers from my Stash

White Seam Binding

Stazon Ink Black

New Paint Brush Caddy by Mary

Hello fellow crafters! As promised I have the new paint brush caddy from Gina's Designs! It is designed to fit into one of the top caddies on the art storage cabinet.  As I'm sure you have already figured out, I plan on using this as a free standing item.

While it may be designed to hold your paint brushes, I wanted to give you some other ideas of what you could place in this great caddy. The compartments are deep enough to hold your smaller scissors or bone folders!

This is one of the new Word Stackers in Gina's store. The other side of the box says inspire!

The wooden key is an element piece that Gina created and sent to me in my DT box!

Gina Design Products

 Brush Caddy

Word Stackers 2

Texture Sheet Diamonds

Other Products Used

Please visit my blog for the complete list!

Artist Trading Blocks by Deann and a Banner by Brigette

First up is Deann with more Artist Trading Blocks.  You will be seeing these from all of team members throughout the month.  So much fun!

Good morning, Deann here with a project for Gina's Designs. I had so much fun making the beach themed 

Artist Trading Blocks, I will definitely make more of these! The possibilities are endless.

You get 3 sizes of blocks in a pack, they are so easy to put together, I painted both sides of the blocks with gesso before putting them together. The light house is from the Beach Shape Set

I made a base out of chipboard and covered it with burlap. I then painted 4 mini wood spools white and glued to the bottom of the block then attached the block to the base. 

I glued the medium and small blocks together, left the top block open and added mini spools to the bottom block. I then attached the blocks to the base. The sea horse is from the Sea Horse Shape Set . I covered it with 3 shades of blue glitter. 

 The paper cut outs are from K&Company-Travel Die cuts.

I put a glob of hot glue on the base and covered the glue with seed beads, which made it look a bit like sea glass.

Gina Designs Product used:

Beach Shape Set

Sea Horse Shapes

Artist Trading Blocks

 Other products used:

Prima paper-Seashore

K&Company cardstock die cuts-Travel

Have an Awesome day!

(((HUGS)))

Deann

Next up is Brigette, another of our talented new members, with a gorgeous banner to share!

Hello crafty friends! I am here to share with you a project I created for my new spot on Gina's Designs creative team! Gina's shop is full of beautiful, versatile laser cut chip pieces for any occasion you can think possible! All the seasons are covered, the styles from shabby to steampunk shapes are offered as well as organizational pieces you can easily put together and so much more!

Today I altered these large pennants to create a banner for an art room or crafty space. I used borders, flourishes, phrases, and of course the fishtail banner pieces in this kit! The chipboard takes so well to simple spraying without prep work and they work well with embossing too.

Simple embellishments like die cut flowers and dangling trims finish off the banner.

 Gina's designs really shine with simple embellishing and enhance further a project embellished to the nines :)

Thank you so much for stopping by, I really appreciate the support!

Brigitte xo

Gina's Designs Items Used

Banner Builder Dove Tail Set

Banner Border Strips

Delicate Frame & Ornamental Shape Set

Word Stackers 1

Word Stackers 2