Gina K Appreciation IG Hop

Hello again friends; I'm back to share a card I made as part of a Gina K Appreciation Hop over on Instagram.  As you know I love Gina K Designs products and use them (especially her ink pads) on practically every card I make so it was a no-brainer to join the hop once again this year (you can see last years card here).  

Gina is one of the OG creators and YouTubers. She has thousands of hours of video tutorials and is endlessly creative. We wanted to take a day to highlight @ginakdesigns and her amazing products and send her lots of crafty love. On the odd chance that you haven’t heard of her yet, we hope you will be inspired to check her and her fabulous team out on all the social media spots!

I have been so inspired by Gina’s 3D embossing bundles that I had use one on my card today. However I didn't use the embossing folder on my background, I only used it for embossing a couple of extra flowers.  I'm loving the dreamy no-line colouring look of stencilling the flowers directly onto my panel and used Gina's favourite colour combo - teal and black.  The card base is 5" x 6 1/4" as I didn't want to chop anything off the edges lol!  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the gorgeous florals:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began with a 5" x 7" panel and stencilled the gorgeous flowers using two shades of teal ink and the leaves in two shades of green ink.  I decided to leave the flower centres white as it went with the soft, dreamy look I was going for.   I die cut the three flowers from the bundle with white card and again using the stencils, coloured them the same way.  I trimmed the panel down to 4 1/2" x 5 3/4" and added a thin black mat layer behind with double sided tape.  I white heat embossed the sentiment onto black card and used the coordinating die to cut it out; I also cut an extra 2 from black card so that I could layer them up.  I added the sentiment to the left of centre with liquid glue and two of the embossed flowers were added with foam squares.  I finished off with some black pearls.  I added some scrap white card behind my panel and adhered it to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel 4 1/2" x 5 3/4" and again added a black mat layer with double sided tape.  I lightly ink blended some sea glass ink to the bottom of the panel and added the one remaining embossed flower to the bottom right corner (before I stuck it down I stencilled a couple of leaves peeking out from behind it).  The panel was then adhered to the card base with liquid glue.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

* to be updated *

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #ginakappreciationhop to see all the gorgeous creations.

Enjoy your weekend; I appreciate you stopping by.

Love and hugs

card supplies:

*Gina K Designs products:

blooming branches 3D embossing folder, stencil & die bundle

picture perfect greetings stamp (for outside sentiment)

birthday cheer mini stamp (for inside sentiment)

ink pads - sea glass, ocean mist, jelly bean green, fresh asparagus

white pigment ink cube

black, gold & silver metallic pearl mix

other products:

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 220gsm black card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

WOW! - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 

Thank you x