Sunday, May 31, 2015

Winner Announcement of Gina's Designs Blog Hop!!!

Congratulations to the Winner of the Gina's Designs Birthday blog hop! Barbara Rankin won the Garden Fairies that I am giving away here on my blog. Congratulations!!! Please follow the steps below to claim your prize!
The Grand Prize winner has been announced over on the Gina's Designs Blog which you can find here http://ginasdesigns.blogspot.com/

1) Please email Gina at Contest@ginasdesigns.net
2) Place "Birthday Blog Hop Winner" in your email Subject line
3) Please state what blog you won on and the shape set you won
4) Please provide your mailing address

*****If we don't receive your email by Friday June 5th at 5pm CST a NEW Winner will be chosen****
Thanks to everyone who hopped along with us, and stay tuned for more from Gina's Designs Lasercuts!

Friday, May 22, 2015

Gina's Designs Birthday Blog Hop

Welcome to Gina’s Designs 3rd Birthday Blog Hop!
The Birthday Blog Hop will run from today, May 22, until May 29 at 8pm CST.  You should have just come from Nichola - Pixie Hill. If you didn't, don't worry! Just pop over to Gina's Designs Birthday Blog Hop post and follow all the blogs in order.
We are having two great giveaways associated with this blog hop.
The first one is the Birthday Prize Giveaway!

The Birthday Prize package includes:
To be entered into the Birthday Prize giveaway, you need to:
1. Stop at all 15 designers’ blogs for a secret word.
2. After you collect all of the 15 words, create a sentence.   
3. Email your answer Contest@ginasdesigns.net for a chance to win the
 Birthday Prize!
 This is why you will want to make sure you stop at each blog. That prize package is fantastic! 
Now the second giveaway will be done on EACH of the designers blogs. The shape set I am giving away is:


These lovely and whimsical pieces range is size from 2x2 to 3x2. They are so intricate and will add such a unique element to your projects! I paint them with gesso, then add a final coat that matches my project. Next, I saturate the pieces in versamark, melt some embossing powder all over the surface and add some chunky glitter. The final result is magical!!!

To be entered into my blog's giveaway,
1.  Subscribe to my blog. 
2.  Leave a comment on this blog post.
THAT’S IT! So easy!
So many great ways to win some fabulous chipboard pieces! My word for the Birthday Prize giveaway is "AND".
The next blog you will want to visit is Deann - CraftDee1.
If you get lost along the way, here is a list of all the blogs you need to visit to collect your word.
 

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Steampunk Mini Album

Hi everyone! Carla here with a fun tutorial using the Cutout Cover Mini Album- Steampunk from Gina's Designs!
The first thing I did was to take one of the pages and turn it into my cover, I used gesso all over it and with a foam brush, did pouncing movements to create this cool texture.
 After that was dried, I used different sprays in gold, brown and coffee shades to make it look antique.
Next I took the Steampunk cutout overlay and painted it with this acrylic gesso and let it dry.
Then I sprayed it with dark copper and bronze shades, using a mixture of flat and shimmery finishes.
When the two pieces are adhered together, you can see the cool effect!
Here are some more pictures of the inside pages. I used the Dragonfly FrameFlourish Frame SiennaFlourish Frame Sienna Mini and Dragonfly.


I love all of the details in this steampunk mini album. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and please check out the video on my YouTube channel. Please subscribe!!!


Gina's Designs products used:
Cutout Cover Mini Album- Steampunk
Scribble Frame Dragonfly
Flourish Frame Sienna
Flourish Frame Sienna Mini
Dragonflies Fancy

Other products used:
Gesso
Acrylic gesso
Lindy's sprays
Paper line,"Vintage Garden", by Kitty's Scrap Post