Cards to Make People Smile!

Hi! Lynne here with some happy cards inspired by the Valentine-themed pieces in my latest goody box from Gina, as well as some of the other great items.

I love painting my chipboard, then stamping and heat-embossing it for  an ornate effect, like I did on the clock and large heart here:

For this one, I trimmed a birdhouse piece to become the jail cell (my friend and I call each other our partner in crime!) and added the lovely heart flourish piece as well:

This card is for a bird-lover's birthday, so the cage and the bird on the branch were perfect accents! I first dry-embossed the birdcage. I then covered it with crackle finish before heat embossing it. Texture paste was applied to the branch before I heat embossed that piece:

I placed the inside sentiments next to the cards to give you a better idea of the finished items (and the first two really wouldn't have made much sense without them!)
Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a wonderfully creative week!

Gina's Designs Products Used

Build a Layout-lovebirds
Ornamental Birdcages Shape Set
Bird on Branch Assortment
Skeleton Clocks
Clock Hands Shape Set

Other Items Used
BoBunny Avenues papers
Graphic 45 Raining Cats and Dogs papers
Marion Smith Posh papers

Secret Garden Fence Desk Clock

Hi Kathi here to share with you a new product ...a desk clock.

I love the whimsy feel of this! The curly birdcage worked out perfectly with this!

Gina's Designs:

Desk Clock Picket Fence

Curly Bird Cages

Birds Shape Set

Thanks for stopping by be sure to check out Gina's store at

 http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store 

Vintage Skating Layout By Donna

Happy 2015!!!!
So glad to see you here at Gina's today.
There are some new things coming to the store I know you are going to love!

I used one of Gina's new frame designs for this layout.

I painted the frame with white gesso and let it dry. I used a brown distress paint dabber and covered the frame, leaving a bit of gesso showing through. While the brown paint was still wet, I sprinkled on some embossing powder around the edge of the frame, and heat embossed it. I like the vintage feel and it goes so well with the photo!

I used white gesso on the birds on the branch and then painted them. I had fun painting the birds! Gina has quite a few bird shape sets that are really cute.

I used the same steps as the frame on the title.

Gina's Designs Products Used:

Flourished Frame Sienna (coming soon)

Bird on Branch assortment

Words and Phrases 1

Thank you for stopping by Gina's Blog today! There are some very cool, beautiful, and fun new items arriving in the store very soon. I can't wait for you to see them.

Winter tissue box by Lynne and Winter Layout by Donna

Good Morning Crafters! Today we have two fun projects up by our Design Team members Lynne and Donna.   First up is Lynne, with a fun take on a home decor item!

 Hi there and happy December! Lynne here, with a home decor piece.  I used a plain wooden tissue box cover to create this project and lots of wintery chipboard pieces from Gina's, as well as papers from the Authentique "Cozy" collection. I decided to use a winter theme rather than a Christmas one so I can leave it out for a few months rather than just for the Christmas season!

I painted the mug, then heat embossed a swirly pattern onto it for texture and a bit of shimmer...I can just smell that hot cocoa....mmmm!

The snowflakes were heat embossed with Aged Ivory, then rubbed with a bit of gold gelato to warm the tone a bit.

I covered the beautiful bird piece with texture paste, then painted it before spraying with opaque white mist.

I love these mittens!! I want more of them to use on Christmas cards now after seeing how cute they look! I painted them with acrylic paint, then dabbed on a little taupe ink to give them a vintage look, added a strip from the patterned paper and popped them up a bit for dimension.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and hope you're having a great time creating seasonal projects too!

Gina's Products used

Winter Shapes Set

Snowflake Shapes Set 

Bird on Branch Assortment

Other Products Used

Authentique Cozy papers

Stampendous Aged Ivory Embossing enamel

Mr. Huey's Opaque White mist

Now over to Donna, with her gorgeous layout!

It's here...the holiday season, and for some of us, winter! There are so many things to love about winter, especially in December! Gina's Designs has beautiful, cute, chipboard embellishments for your winter and/or Christmas projects!

I love to start a layout with a page frame. This circle page frame reminds me of swirling, blowing wind and snow in the winter. I primed the frame with white gesso, and randomly sprinkled green and gold glitter embossing powder, and heat embossed those areas.

I used Inka Gold on two of Gina's chipboard snowflakes. I added it directly to the chipboard, without priming with gesso, and love the vintage looking color.

I used the word "winter"  from the title piece Winter Wonderland. I think it's so clever that there is a snowflake on top of the letter "i". I primed the word with white gesso, then used white distress paint, and again used the Inka Gold directly on the chipboard snowflakes.

Gina's Designs

Page Frame Circle 2

Snowflake shape set

Winter shape set

Title Winter Wonderland

Other products

Prima flowers
Butterflies - Reneabouquets
Lightweight spackling
Gold micro beads - Reneabouquets
Green and gold glitter embossing powder
Anna Griffin papers

Have fun with your holiday shopping! Maybe pick up some of Gina's chipboard shapes for your scrappy friends! And don't forget about the fabulous 3D items in the store. I'm working on a really cute curio cabinet; the assembly is so easy and really fun to decorate!

Thank you for stopping by today!!!!!

Vintage Cards by Melissa

Hi everyone! Melissa here with two cards using Gina's Designs Chipboard. 

On the first card,  I used several products on the chipboard butterfly to give it lots of texture and interest including gesso, texture paste, silk acrylics, acrylic paint, lumiers, twinkling H20s,  Vintaj patina paint, stickles, and glass glitter. 

On the card itself I used texture paste and a stencil.  I painted the paper with acrylic paints, art deco pens, and inked at the end with chalk ink.

On the pink card I used liquid pearls over gesso on the chipboard . On the leaves I used gesso, watercolors, twinkling H20s, and chalk ink.  I used a leaf stamp to add detail but wound up making veins on the leaves by scratching the surface with a straight pin while the ink was wet.

Thanks for looking!

Gina's Designs Products used on lavender card:

Butterfly Of Gears

Gina's Designs Products used on pink card:

Steampunk Shape Set

Bird on Branch Assortment

Steampunk Borders

Other products used:

Prima Printery paper, and  buttons

Core'dinations paper

Prima flowers

A tiny bit of Tim Holtz and Vintaj

Tsuineko chalk ink

Toho glass beads

Sizzix  big shot