Funny Farm Blog Hop: Hogs & Kisses :)

Hi Everyone!


Happy 10-10-10  - what a special day in this century! How did you spend you're weekend? Ours was filled with family and friends and lots of yummy food! Tonight, over at Gina K. we are having a fun little blog hop featuring the sweeeeet and funny stamp set that was just recently released called Funny Farm. This stamp set is also part of Gina's card kit of the month so with purchase of this stamp set (for a limited time only!), you also receive a free card kit! Sweet!


I loved all the images in this sweet stamp set, but these little piggies totally captured my heart with their sweet expression that totally cracks me up! I wanted to make a card just of them - so I stamped them four times and then colored and cut them out and placed them on a vertical panel with some dimensionals.

The sentiment: "Hogs & Kisses" just cracks me up :)The red background is embossed with hearts and then I used an eyelet to pop the sentiment out. I cut the sentiment in a tag shape and attached little hearts to them and popped them up on the cardstock with some dimensionals. I finished it with some grass, some liquid pearls and a little bit of buttons. This was a fun card to make - and those little piggies still have me smiling! Hop on over with me and check out what all these wonderful designers have created with this fun stamp set!!!


For even more samples with the Funny Farm stamp set prepared for tonight's hop, please visit these designer's blog links:

• Jessica
• Colleen
• Karen
• Peggy
• Tera
• Shari
• Donna

Then, check out the StampTV gallery using this link: funnyfarm to see all the projects added there from our entire GinaK community.  It will continue to be filled with even more samples as new projects are being added!


******For a limited time, the coordinating card kit designed by Jessica Fick is included for free with the purchase of the Funny Farm stamp set.  To view the full card kit, visit Jessica's blog post here for all the details.


Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!
wishing you a great week ahead of you!
Hogs & Kisses ;)
Sankari :)

Gina K Previews and Blog Hop!

Hi Everyone!

Have you seen all the gorgeous previews that have started over at the Gina K blog! Today, I am excited to be able to show you samples from two new stamp sets that will be released this week called: Tea Time and Funny Farm!

I always adore all of Rupa Shevde's creations - her illustrations are perfect and gorgeous and I couldn't wait to play with the new Tea Time stamp set that she has created for Gina K - its beyond TEA-riffic (hee :). I love the stacked tea cup images in this stamp set and colored it in with the colors from the new Pixilicious DP from Cosmo. I added a little glaze to the teacups and then framed it with the labels nestie and finished it off with some ribbon and bling:

Card Ingredients:
Paper: Cosmo Cricket: Pixilicious
Stamps: Tea Time from Gina K.
Ink: Grape Jelly from Memento and Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Spellbinders Labels, Want2Scrap, borderedging stamp set, Eggplant Adirondack liquid pearls, ribbon from stash and glaze.


The second card that I created for tonight also comes from the awesome new stamp set called: Funny Farm that comes with a free card kit upon purchase! How awesome is that!! This stamp set comes with the following ingredients in the card kit:


Card Kit Contents:
* Card stock: Full sized sheet - white and black; 1/2 sheet: navy, little boy blue, red hot, innocent pink, sweet corn, and green apple
*1 yard 5/8" black gingham ribbon
* silver brads
* Instruction sheet (to create all the uber cute cards that are on Jessica's blog)


I used the Card Kit to create this card using the Funny Farm stamp set. Living in Iowa, I ADORE this stamp set - its full of adorable sentiments and cute images. I decided to use the image of the farm scene since this is exactly what I see everyday when I pull out of our driveway and drive out to work and back :) I created a little sky behind the image by masking it off and then sponging it with some sunrise sky colors :) 

I love the black and white gingham ribbon that comes with this card kit - its perfect for a card from the Funny Farm! lol! 


For more samples with tonight's new stamp sets, please visit these participating designer's blog links:

• GinaK
• Jessica
• Theresa
• Tami
• Melanie
• Nina
• Cathy
• Lee
• Lynn 
• Asela
• Bev
• Colleen
• Sankari
• Suzanne
• Valerie
• Tera *our CenterStage Spotlight Designer* 

The entire team would like to cordially invite each of you to our release party this Thursday night, September 30.  We'll have contest questions, challenges, chatter, and lots of samples with the new stamp sets to share during the party. Please make plans to join us from 7-10 central on StampTV!


Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)

GinaK Seeds of Kindness Card Kit Hop!

Hello Everyone!

Hope you are doing well and had a great weekend! Tonight over at Gina K - there is a fun blog hop with the gorgeous Seeds of Kindness stamp set that is part of this month's card kit! I love all the sentiments in this stamp set - they are so sweet and full of kindness - just like the title! I especially love this sentiment "It's the storm that makes a plant take deeper roots" - this is so true isn't it - sometimes after weathering storm - you come out stronger than you were before.

I stamped and copic-fied my cute little plant (not sure if this is true to life accurate! lol!) and then sponged it and cut it out with my oval nesties which were sad that they haven't been used :). I added a little outline of liquid pearls around the card and some bling in the scallops and the flowers:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket and Gina K Pure Luxury

Stamps: Seeds of Kindness stamp set from Gina K

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Rosebud and Spring Green

Accessories: Oval nesties, liquid pearls, clay grosgrain ribbon, pink bling,

For even more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, check out these amazing designer's links:

Jessica Fick

Collen Shaan

Suzanne Dean

Bev Gerard

Lee Murphy

Melissa Shultz

Giovana Smith

Sharri Seffens

Linda Payne

Carla Sutlo

Brenda Turner

Janice Whiting

Then for even more inspiration be sure to check out the Idea Center for all the samples that everyone has shared in the Stamp TV gallery.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope your Monday starts off an amazing week for you!

big hugs,

Sankari :)))

Gina K Previews and Blog Hop!

Happy Sunday Everyone,

Today is the start of some wonderful sneak peeks over at Gina K Designs and you won't want to miss all the yumminess and sweetness of the stamps that Gina is releasing this month! Tonight, I get to preview the stamp set: Botanicals. This stamp set is part of the Card Kit - where if you buy this stamp set - you will also release the following cardstock: Red Hot, Fresh Asparagus, Chocolate Brown, Sweet Corn and Heavy Base White along with gold brads and a printed instruction sheet with measurements on how to make the set of three beautiful cards that Jessica created with this gorgeous set.

I love stamping with silhouette stamps - there are so many different techniques that you can use. One technique is to emboss them (you can emboss, then brayer and wipe off for that wonderful Zindorf look! which is something that I could never do and have it look just right). I thought it would look nice to stamp on the dark chocolate cardstock - so I stamped the image in Versamark and then embossed with some some polysparkle gold EP powder:

Here is another card that I made by stamping the silhouette stamp one color and then stamping it again immediately right next to the main "dark" stamped image - this gives it a little faded color - which is a nice way to give some dark/light shade in your card:

Tonight you will see two stamp sets that are being previewed!!! The Botanicals stamp set (like above) and the Beach Bums stamp set - you don't want to miss any of the fabu creations from these Designer's Links:

• Gina Krupsky
• Jessica Fick
• Theresa Momber
• Melanie Muenchinger
• Nina Brackett
• Cathy Tidwell
• Lee Murphy
• Donna Baker
• Lynn Mercurio
• Emily Giovanni
• Erika Martin
• Kurtis Amundson
• Bev Gerard
• Colleen Schaan
• Sankari Wegman
• Suzanne Dean
• Valerie Stangle
• Kay Simmons *May's CenterStage Spotlight Team Member!*

Please make plans to attend our Release party this Thursday night, May 27th from 7-10 central time which will be held at StampTV. There will be contest questions, challenges, samples from several designers and lots of chatter all leading up to 10pm central, when all the new products and stamp sets previewed this week on our blogs become available online through GinaK Designs store!

Thanks so much for stopping by tonight! Hope you had a fabulous weekend!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Gina K Previews and Blog Hop!

Happy monday Everyone!

Its sneak peek time over at Gina K. and you might have seen a peek at some of the new sets that were peeked yesterday (so beautiful!) and today, we are showing you some more sneak peeks from the stamp sets: you seen all of the wonderful preview: Happy Spring stamp set and By Your Side stamp set by Aslea Hopkins.

The stamp set that is part of the Card Kit this month is the Happy Spring stamp set! This month there is a change in the card kit where each kit will receive the Happy Spring stamp set and instruction sheet along with 4 sheets of pure luxury cardstock, 1 sheet of exclusive patterned paper with 4 different designs, 1 yard of ribbon and brads (the cardstock will not be precut). The card below uses the digi paper that will be available through GinaK. and I have to say that I love the fact that it is already measured to the A2 size - so all you have to do is print and cut :).

The Happy Spring stamp set comes with such sweet sentiments and images and I love this image of the well and the water coming from it - I couldn't help pair it up with the sunny sentiment: "Hey Sunshine" :)

The second card is from the stamp set that is being sneaked peek is from the "By Your Side" stamp set that is illustrated Aslea Hopkins. I LOVE the images in this set, especially the sweet little Koi fishes - and the sweet sentiment: By Your Side Always:

I used the pure luxury papers for this card and I love how heavy it is to hold up my super layered koi pond :). Here is a closer look at the Koi pond (after coloring it in, I popped up a sheet of embossed acetate so that it would reflect some shadows into the "pond" :

I absolutely loved working with these darling stamps and can't wait to ink them all up :)

Tonight, we are having a blog hop that is featuring creations from these two stamp sets and I know that these ladies are going to blow you away with their gorgeous creations!!!

start with

Gina's Blog

and then find out more about the card kit here:

Jessica Fick

and then check out these designer's blogs:

Aslea Hopkins: By Your Side Illustrator

Melanie Muenchinger

Theresa Momber

Nina Brackett

Cathy Tidwell

Lee Murphy

Kurtis Amundson

Emily Giovanni

Erika Martin

Bev Gerard

Colleen Schaan

Sankari Wegman (that's me!)

and Jeanie Harper

(our guest designer for this month :)

StampTV is celebrating it's first birthday and the festivities are in full swing with this month's release! We'll be holding this month's Release party on StampTV and couldn't be more excited about all that Gina has planned for everyone! The party kicks off this Thursday, March 18th starting at 7pm and ends at 10pm (CST) when all the new products will be available for purchase at the GinaK Designs Store!

To keep informed of all the party plans and activities, check out this link:

StampTV Release Party!

Thanks So much for stopping by tonight!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Spring Florals Blog Hop from Gina K!

Hi Everyone!

Tonight over at Gina K. we are doing a fun blog hop using the Spring Florals stamp set. If you haven't seen these stamps yet, you are going to love them, they are so sweet have perfect sentiments and are fun to color in :) For tonight's hop, I created this creation using the sketch of my talented peep Karen Giron, for her Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge today (waving Hi, to you Karen! :)

Card Details:

Paper: Prism cardstock, Cosmo Cricket

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Ladybug red

Stamps: Spring Florals by Gina K.

Accessories: bling by Want2Scrap, EK success punch, ribbon, gel pen, spellbinders, liquid pearls, eyelets, dimensionals,

I was enjoying myself so much making this card and kept going and made this very simple card using the Hope is Faith stamp set that Gina created to help with the relief efforts in Haiti. I love how quickly and easily it is to create a card with this stamp set:

so I created two :) I love the idea of kraft and pink and white together and as a total kraft newbie - i was nervous to "kraft" it up - but I did try and like how it turned out :)

Card Details:

Paper: kraft and Luxury Pink from Gina K.

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Hope is Faith by Gina K.

Accessories: bling, white gel pen, circle punch, dimensionals, button from stash

I had a lot of fun creating these cards and love just the thought of spring as I made these cards! I am so ready for the snow to go and for spring to bloom forth! YAY! Please hop on over and check out all of these amazing designers and their gorgeous Spring Florals Creations:

Jessica Fick

Bev Gerard

Colleen Schaan

Suzanne Dean

Sharri Seffens

Tina Gilliand

Giovanna Smith

Melissa Cash

Carolina Buchting

Jennie Harper

Brenda Turner

There are many more projects that can be found in the Stamp TV gallery by Clicking on this tag: SpringFlorals.

Enjoy all the samples tonight! If you haven't purchased this stamp set yet, please take note that the free Card Kit will be included with each purchase until March 18th. At that time, the next card kit stamp set will be released. I can't wait to surf on over!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Gina K Previews and Blog Hop!

Good Evening Everyone!

Have you been seeing all of the gorgeousness that Gina K has for your stamping pleasure for February!! I have been just in awe of all the beauties that have been created and am so excited to be part of tonight's previews where two new stamp sets are going to be previewed - the gorgeous Spring Florals stamp set and the adorable Dream Birds stamp set! These two stamp sets, along with the rest of the stamp sets will be available for purchase at the Gina K store on Thursday night (Feb 11) after the release party!

For a limited time, a free Card Kit will automatically be included with each purchase of the Spring Florals stamp set which is illustrated by Gina K. The entire kit includes the stamp set, a binder sheet, the instructions and materials to make 3 complete cards for $19.95. For more details on the card kit, please make sure to visit Jessica Fick's blog! I loved stamping these gorgeous flowers - and created this birthday card from this set:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Cosmo Cricket and Deep blush Prism paper

Stamps: Spring Florals by Gina K

Ink: Memento Ladybug Red

Accessories: SU! scallop and circle punch, EK succes punch, Kaiser bling, sponger, corner rounder, copics, white gel pen, fiskar's square scalloped punch, kaiser pearls, dragonfly hardware, ribbon from Gina K (pure luxuary gold-lined ribbon)

The second card uses the Dream Birds stamp set illustrated by Aslea Hopkins - these birdies are BEYOND cute and the sentiments are so inspiring! I loved this sentiment especially: "Don't lose hope, when the sun goes down, the stars come out" - how true that sentiment is! To create a night time feel, I stamped this on a gray piece of paper and then colored the tree branch and the leaves with my Sakura metallic gel pens and then colored and cut out the sweet birdie, the stars and the flowers:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Black and gray construction paper and grass from K&Co.

Stamps: Dream Birds stamp set by Aslea Hopkins

Ink: Memento Tuxedo black

Accessories: corner chomper, white gel pen, yellow stickles, green glimmer ribbon

You might have already heard of the Hope is Faith stamp set that Gina has created to help Haiti - this is a beautiful mini stamp set will retail for $9.95 and was created to raise money for the Red Cross to help with the devastation in Haiti. $2.00 of every purchase of this stamp set will be sent directly to the Red Cross throughout the month of February. This is such a wonderful way to help out and support the Red Cross in all of their efforts to bring relief. This butterfly in this stamp set is in one word: gorgeous! I love how easy it is to use - just stamp it directly and color or you can paper piece it and cut it out - either way - it creates a gorgeous butterfly! I paper pieced it with MME's papers in this card:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: MME and black bazzil papers

Stamps: Hope is Faith from Gina K

Ink: Memento Tuxedo black

Accessories: white gel pen, may arts ribbon, black spica glitter pen, W/S black pearls, circle punch and black glaze pen from Sakura and dimensionals.

I loved working with these gorgeous stamp sets! Please be sure to check out the amazing creations that each of these designers, illustrators and beautiful ladies have created:

Aslea Hopkins: Dream Birds Illustrator

Gina K: Spring Florals Illustrator

Theresa Momber

Melanie Muenchinger

Nina Brackett

Caroline King

Tami Mayberry

Cathy Tidwell

Lee Murphy

Lynn Mercurio

Kurtis Amundson

Donna Baker

Emily Giovanni

Erika Martin

Sankari Wegman (that's me!)

Valerie Stangle

Thank you so much for stopping by! To all my East Coast friends and family - stay warm! Hope you have lots of hot cocoa and marshmellows to melt away the winter blues!

Big hugs to all!!

Sankari :)

Card Club Sneak Peeks for Gina K.

Good Evening Everyone!!!

I am so excited to be part of the Card Kit Design Team for GinaK where every month with the purchase of a stamp set, a card kit with precut card stock and instructions to make 3 cards will be included at no extra cost! This month, the Card Club stamp set is Alicia's beautiful stamp set: Wishes and Dreams. This is such a great way to have beautiful papers, precut cardstock, etc. all in one kit ready to go!

I loved this little image of the sweet little fairy lying on a mushroom - so sweet - and the sentiments in this stamp set are so inspiring - I LOVE the sentiment: "If you can dream it, you can do it." It can be for so many different occasions.
Card Ingredients:

Paper: GinaK Pure Luxury cardstock Ink: Memento Ladybug Red Stamps: Wishes and Dreams by Alicia for GinaK Accessories:Ribbon from GinaK, Ek Success and Martha punches, Spellbinders and Embossing folders, bling, liquid pearls, Sakura gel pens, dimensionals, stickles.

I loved coloring in this sweet little fairy girl, that I couldn't resist making one more little something with her :) I used the sentiment "Dream Big" and dreaming big always makes me want to run in the warm sunshine - so I made this card bright and sunshiney :) I was going to give it away to a friend of mine - but I think I might just keep it right next to me on my craft corner to remind me to dream big :). I also used the challenge to do cheater bows for this card:

Card Ingredients: Paper: Sassafrass Lass, GinaK Pure Luxury Ink: Memento Aquamarine and Ladybug Red Stamps: Wishes and Dreams by Alicia for GinaK Accessories: bling and ribbon from my stash, dimensionals, stickles, sponger & spellbinders

Tonight, Tami Mayberry is also showing sneak peeks of her beautiful stamp set called Happy Hearts. I love all the fun designs of the hearts and all the interchangeable words that can create your own perfect sentiment :) My favorite sentiment for Valentine's day is "Happy Heart Day" - my good friend and I used to send each other cards for Valentine's day with that exact sentiment signed on the inside -so I was so excited to make a card for her with that sentiment :)

Card Ingredients: Paper: GinaK Pure Luxury Cardstock
Ink: Memento Aquamarine and Tuxedo Black and Ladybug Red
Stamps: Happy Heart by Tami Mayberry for GinaK Accessories: Ribbon from GinaK, bling from K&Co., dimensionals, EK sucess punch, Marvy heart scalloped punch, corner rounder.

It was so much fun to play along with these sweet stamp sets! I can wait to see what everone has created for these sneak peeks! Check out all of the other links to the GinaK designers for more sneak peek yumminess!

Tami Mayberry {Illustrator of Happy Hearts}

Gina Krupsky

Jessica Fick

Nina Brackett
Aslea Hopkins

Melanie Muenchinger

Theresa Momber

Carolyn King

Cathy Tidwell

Lee Murphy

Donna Baker

Lynn Mercurio

Erika Martin

Emily Giovanni

Colleen Schaan

Sankari Wegman <--- that's me! :)

Valerie Stangle

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!
Hope you had a wonderful weekend and have a great start to your first official week in the New Year!! YAY!!!
Hugs!
Sankari :)