Art Storage Cabinet by Kathi and Composition Box by Debbie

Hi Crafters!  Today we have two talented Design Team members on the blog.  Both team members are sharing their cross-promotional projects, part of our August cross promotional with Kitty's Scrap Post.  First up is Kathi.

Hi Everyone, it's Kathi here!  This is my project for the Kitty's Scrap Post cross promotional with Gina's Designs. I chose to work with the Time Traveler Kit.

This is the first time I have used digital design paper.  The really great part about printing it yourself is that I only had to print just what I needed for this project, and I could choose the size of the paper.

Video of Art Storage Cabinet

Products Used:

Gina's Designs Lasercuts:

Art Storage Cabinet

Skeleton Clocks

Gears Shape Set

Sreampunk Heart

Butterfly of Gears

Dressform & Wings Shape Set

Antique Bike Set

Alarm Clock Frame Ups

Design Paper by Kitty's Scrap Post
Time Traveler

embellishments from my stash

Tim Holtz

Kaiser crafts

Thanks tor stopping by!

Next up is Debbie sharing our Composition Box in a fun and different way.  You will be seeing all sorts of fun ways to decorate these boxes by the team throughout the month of August.

Hello everyone!  Debbie with you today to share my August cross promotion project with Gina's Designs and Kitty's Scrap Post.  I'll tell you a little about  my composition box..I did something different with it.  I love jewelry and when I get home from work I tend to just leave it on my bathroom vanity so I decided my composition box would make a great place to keep the jewelry on my counter contained. To begin this project I painted everything in a pale pink I also added a little embossing powder to some of the chipboard. and then added the gorgeous Kitty Scrap Post French Seamstress digital papers.

I wanted to make this more like a tray so I added some metal handles to the sides and also added some metal pedestal corners so that it sits up off the counter.

Gina's Designs Laser Cuts Used:

 Composition Box - 25

 Butterflies & Dragonflies

Wrought Iron Set

Design paper by Kitty's Scrap Post

French Seamstress Kit

Thanks for stopping by the Gina's Designs blog today!!

Be sure to check back in for more inspiration from our amazing design team!!

Debbie

Family Heritage Photo Frame by Kim and a Patriotic Layout by Donna

First up today is Kim, with an awesome heritage styled altered frame.

Hi Friends! Today I would like to share with you my Family Heritage Picture Frame. I have this photo showing four generations of my family, with my Great-Great Grandparents in the front, my Great Grandmother in the back left and my Grandmother in the back right. The baby in the photo is my mother. This was taken around 1934.  I wanted to feature this photo and Gina had such lovely pieces for me to use to make this special frame, as this is the only family photo like this that I have.

 The Art Deco Borders & Corners were perfect to add to this frame to give it the heritage style that I was going for. I embossed them with some Stampendous Shabby Ivory embossing powder.  Below you can also see one of the wooden charms from Gina's Store that I have used.  I thought that the word "memories" was apropos.

Below I have used the antique bike, and keeping in the color theme embossed it with more of the shabby white embossing powder, with just a touch of some gold to make it stand out.

Finally, here is another shot of the art deco corners around the photo and on the top of the frame you can see the border. I just love how they have framed out my special photo.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you will check out these goodies in Gina's Store.

Gina's Designs Items Used

Art Deco Corner and Border

Antique Bike

Wooden Charm Memories

Other Items Used

Laces and Trims from MissGardenGrove & Lavish Laces

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts

Stampendous Embossing Powders

Buttermilk Americana Paint

Next up is Donna, one of our new DT members!

Hi everyone,  I'm Donna, and this is my first project for Gina's Designs! I am so grateful for this opportunity to create beautiful things!  I am really impressed with the quality of her products, and all the beautiful shapes, home decor and storage items.

Now on to my first project.  Is everyone excited about the upcoming fireworks?  We live next to a high school that puts on an amazing fireworks show each 4th of July, so we are looking forward to that again tomorrow night!  We just sit in the front yard...everyone is invited! Bring a lawn chair!

I love items that frame a photo. I used the chain and gears frames for both photos. I simply cut off the gears for this layout. I painted the frames with gesso, and used fired brick crackle paint. Not so much for the crackle, but because of the color/texture. I dabbed some red ink to brighten up the color. I did the same thing on the two stackable labels under the bow. I debated about leaving the chipboard natural. I love that look and I think it would have worked well with the burlap and the bow.

Ginas Designs Products

Chain and Gears Frames

Stackable Labels

Other products used

K&Co Americana paper

Distress crackle paint-fired brick

Gesso

Bone and red floss

Red ink pad

Vintage brown ink pad

Round pop dots

Thank you so much for taking a look! Have a fun, safe July 4th weekend!

The Robin's Nest Projects

As we wrap up the month of July we thought we'd share a few more projects that our designers creating combining The Robin's Nest Papers and Gina's Designs!

First up Rashida combines vintage elegance with modern sparkle in her altered wooden tissue box cover. Glittery and bold pink zebra stripes complements the pearls, lace, and soft floral spray. Gina's Designs chipboard Parisian set are the perfect embellishments to add a feminine touch. This altered tissue box would look great on display in any bedroom or bath.

Supplies Used:

Gina's Designs Parisian Set

The Robins Nest Paper

Websters Pages Trims and Ribbons

Deann created this fold out album using an ATC Shrine

Kathi's used the robin nest paw print paper to design this layout, Kathi used Nancy's ivy corners from Gina's designs & placed them on two opposite corners. The corners painted with distress paint..

 Kathi then placed a photo inside the mirror along with silver paper to look like a mirror then placing black bling around the silver paper.Bailey is a beautiful little lady. Under the mirror intricate doily's were placed.

 Two phrases from "Word &Phrases 2" was painted and placed on the layout.  Bailey 

has a way to make people around her smile.

 Kathi made a photo pocket out of this photo that was placed on a double mat. 

The journaling tag has her name, date of birth & birth place.

A red bling heart was placed under the phrases' 

                                                                                                          

On the second layout using  The Robin's Nest elephant paper, The giraffe was cut from one of the Robin's Nest papers and then placed under the gate from Gina's designs

 On this layout a film strip from the film strip 1 shape set was added to the top of the layout photo were added . A phase from the "Word & Phrase 2 shape set" Enjoy the moment was painted with distress paint and placed under the film strip.

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 Tickets from the Zoo were added under the gate. Then letters were added to the gate. 

 A photo was placed on the gate using two the the post as anchors for the photo. Trees were added to both sides of the gate. The gate was painted with two different colors of green distress paint.  The trees are from Gina's store.  An antique bike from the antique bike shape set was placed to the right of the gate.

Supplies used:

Filmstrip 1 shape set

Antique Bike shape set

Words & Phrases 2

Cardstock Doily set Indicates

Mirror 1 shape set

Nancy's Ivy Borders