Easter Tag by Dianna

Hi Everyone, Dianna here with a Easter Tag made with Gina's Designs X Large Tag, Easter Shape Set and Julie Nutting's Audrey Mixed Media Doll Stamp

The paper used is Doodlebug Designs "Hello SunShine".  I covered the tag and lightly distressed the edges.  I painted the Gina's Designs frame, lamb and chick with white acrylic paint. Texture paste dyed green was used to create the base for the "grass", which is actually green paper Easter grass. 

I wanted the chick to stand out, so I searched my stash of stuff and came upon white Flower Soft.  I spritzed the Flower Soft with a yellow Myra Mist and it worked.  Now, I had yellow fluffy stuff for the chick. (Note: a word of warning, I spritzed too heavily and it took two days to dry).  I used a yellow Copic Marker, colored the chicks body and used an orange for the beak.  I put glue everywhere, except the beak and spread the now yellow Flower Soft on the chick.  It dried pretty quickly, I had already cut out the egg shape so I used a chipboard spacer to give a little dimension between the egg and the chick.  A black gem for the eye and the chick is done!  The other two chipboard eggs were covered with paper and Prima chicks were used to decorate.  The edges were daubed with glitter glue.  Gina's "Basket Full of Joy" was inked in green and daubed with green and white glitter glue. 

I used white and gray Copic Markers on the the lamb then decided to cover the lamb in Flower Soft too, since it worked so well on the chick.  First I put glue all over the lamb except for the face and then covered the lamb in Flower Soft.  Now I have a fluffy white lamb!  Two gems for the eyes, a pearl for the nose and a hand drawn mouth finish the little lamb. 

Julie Nutting's new Audrey Mixed Media Doll Stamp was changed up a bit in order to hold the basket and sit down.  The skirt was cut at the bottom to the first pink band.  The legs were cut off and a chipboard filler piece was used under the feet and at the knees (this gave the legs the appearance of bending.  I used Julie Nutting's Strapless Dress Doll's other arm to create the arm holding the basket.  I gave Audrey more of a bust line in order to hide the fact that the arm is a little different.  I then stamped the bow from the Strapless Dress Doll and used nail gems for the neckline.  The Basket is a die cut and the flowers were cut from the Doodlebug paper, glitter glue was daubed on the flowers and gemstones were placed in the middle.  The cute blue bird is a brad from Doodlebug.  The stamp phrase is from Taylored  Expressions.  Gina's frame was daubed with green, white and pink glitter glue, while the glue was still wet I applied flaked glitter and seed pearls.  

Thank you for looking!

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Chipboard Decorative Tags X Large 

Easter Shape Set - coming soon

Other Items

Julie Nutting - Audrey Mixed Media Doll Stamp

- Strapless Dress Doll

Doodlebug Designs - paper

Taylored Expressions - basket die

                                          - stamp phrases

                                  - bird brad

Prima - baby Chicks

Halloween Witch X-Large Tag by Dianna

Hi everyone, Dianna here with a Halloween Witch just in time for October 31st. This is a cross-promo with Craftsupplies1.

Gina's Designs Large Tag was covered by black paper from Kitty's Scrap Post - O'Halloween. A spiderweb die cut was used to create the large orange spiderweb on the left hand side. The moon from Kitty's Scrap Post - O'Halloween was placed on scrap chip board and placed at the top of the spiderweb. Gina's Designs Boo! was painted with black gesso and distressed with orange and black Stickles. The witches hat and broom was from a Graphic 45 stamp set. The black copic marker was used on the hat, the green copic was used on the band and green Stickles.

The fence is from Gina's Designs Beach Shape Set, was painted with black gesso and distressed with gold and black Stickels. Pumpkins from Gina's Designs was painted with white acrylic paint and copic markers was used to create a rind effect on the pumpkins. The stems of Acrylic Orange and Brown flowers from Craftsupplies1 was colored with copic green marker and then curled with a pencil. The flowers were placed on the vines of the pumpkins.

Julie Nutting - Mixed Media Doll Stamp Tasha with Evening Dress was stamped on an old book and black paper, then a spiderweb was created with Stickles and a green glitter netting was placed behind her create a fuller dress look. A Gina's Designs Spiderweb was painted black with gesso and distressed with Stickles, a spider was placed next to both spiderwebs. There are two Cardstock Doily Set Intricates from Gina's Designs were distressed with black ink and placed under the witch. The Owl from Craftsupplies1 was colored with a black marker, just enough so that the gold shines through, two black rhinestones were placed in the owls eyes. The owl was placed right above the witch. The ribbons are from my stash of halloween ribbon.

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Spooky Shape Set

Pumpkins

Chipboard Decorative Tags X-Large

Spiderweb Shape Set

Beach Shape Set

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Craftsupplies1

Antique Gold Owls

Acrylic Orange Flowers

Acrylic Brown Flowers

Kitty's Scrap Post

O'Halloween

Steampunk Scarecrow Girl by Dianna

Hi everyone, Dianna here with a my take on Gina's Designs Chipboard Scrarecrow.



I decided to really change it up and make it a girl.



I trimmed the waist and curved the chest of the main form and the jacket.



I stayed traditional with the face and pants by using burlap paper. Burlap is so much easier to use as a paper and still allows for the nice fraying on the edges. The hair was made up of burlap ribbon and some springy ribbon from Paper Studio. The eyes are two gears from Gina's Designs with brads as centers of the eyes and nose. I distressed the edges of the face with Tim Holtz, Distressed Ink. The main body was covered with a metallic gold paper and inked with bronze chalk ink.

The ruffle was made by punching with a ruffle 1-1/2 inch on metallic bronze paper. The circles were squirted with water folded in half and folded fan like then dried. Once dried, the half circles were inked and glued on the main body of the scarecrow. Found some really cool paper at Hobby Lobby and used that for the jacket and skirt. The jacket was inked with bronze, silver and gold chalk ink and then glued to the main body. The gears, crow and keys from Gina's Designs were painted with white gesso, then painted with bronze and gold paint and finished with inking with brown. Copic markers N8, N6, N4 and W4 were used on the crow to get the feather effect. I liked how the bronze showed through the grays that I did not add gears to the crow. Scrap braiding was used for the edges of the jacket and the keys were used to close it.

The skirt was punched with a scalloped punch, squirted with water and fan folded while damp. After drying, the skirt was glued on to the inked pants. Gears were glued on the pants as patches and the ruffles at the ends of the pants and jacket were left over scalloped circle punches from the ruffle shirt.

The body was then glued to a Gina's Designs large tag that had been covered with burlap paper and inked with bronze, brown and gold chalk ink. The large black gear is from Gina's Designs and the burlap flower was made fom a Tim Holtz Sizzix die. Each section of the flower was inked with Tim Holtz Distressed Paint in bronze, silver and gold. The face of the scarecrow was glued last and everything was spritzed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist-Gold.  Ribbons from The Paper Studio were used as tassels.

Items Used

Gina's Designs
Scarecrow Wall Decor
Gears Shape Set
Keys and Plates Shape Set
Chipboard Decorative Tags X Large
Fall Shape Set

Hobby Lobby
Burlap Paper - Paper Studio
Ribbon - Paper Studio
Bronze Paper
Gold Paper
Decorative Papers

Dew Drop
Brilliance Ink
Cosmic Copper
Starlite Silver
Galaxy Gold
Pearlescence Rust

Tim Holtz
Distressed Inks and Paints
Vintage Photo
Black Soot
Antiqued Bronze
Tarnished Brass
Brushed Pewter

Tattered Angels
Glimmer Mist - Gold

Tags - Tea and Chandelier by Dianna

Hi Everyone, I'm lovin the tags and everyone that I give them to loves them as well. The Tea Tag went to my sister-in-law and the Chandelier was a Birthday Tag to my new niece (she just married my nephew).

Chandelier



Gina's Designs Chandelier was used as the center piece for this Tag. I used gesso on the chip board first, then stamped with ColorBox - Swimming Pool (Teal) then used Copic E37 - Sepia on the sides and added some low lights. Then to get an old effect on the chandelier I used Stickles - Icicle and dobbed it on with a sponge dobber ( it gave it an non-uniformed look). Then gemstones were placed at the bottoms of the candles. The Julie Nutting Prima Stamp, Mia was stamped on Readers Digest page and colored with Copic E00 - Skin White, Hair - Y21-Buttercup Yellow, E15-Dark Suntan, YR24-Pale Sepia, YR27-Tuscan Orange, Dress BG72-Ice Ocean.



Close-up of Chandelier

The Gina's Designs Scroll was painted the same way as the chandelier, however it was daubed with Tim Holtz - Distress Stickles, Brushed Corduroy and Pine Needles. Flowers were made with Spellbinders Majestic Blooms Dies.. Paper - Hobb


Items Used

Gina's Designs

Chandeliers
Parisian Shape Set



Tea Tag

The Gina's Designs Tea Time Shape Set & Border Set for my sister-in-law who loves tea. I used Graphic 45 - Botanical Tea paper. I glued the paper on the Tea Cup and Tea pot shapes and then to soften the effect I used gesso then added dimension with Copic E29-Burnt Umber and Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Peeled Paint.

Gina's Designs Birdwatching Shape Set was used underneath the teapot.

Three Gina's Designs Cardstock Doily Set Intricates were used to give it more of a Tea a the Ritz feel. Flowers were made with Spellbinders Majestic Blooms Dies

Gina's Designs Tea Time Border Set was used on the side.

Items Used

Gina's Designs
Tea Time Shape Set and Border Set
Birdwatching Shape Set
Cardstock Doily Set Intricates


For more instructions see Dianna's Crafts Blog



Birthday Tags by Dianna

This is my first post as part of Gina's Designs team and I am so excited!  I had two birthdays this month to make cards for and descided to make the cards actually tags.  Both Birthdays were on the same day. One was my daughters 21st Birthday and the second one was a friend who loves all things vintage and Paris.  You will probably figure out which one is which. :) 

The list for each tag will be at the bottom of the pictures. Please scroll down for second Tag.

 

                                                               



                                                                 The 21 Tag!

Full tag photo - I misted the Julie Nutting stamp skirt (pink paper) (alot) to get it to fold so that it would be "puffy".   FYI: When I stamped I should have not inked the lines on the inside of the skirt since I was going to fold it.  Used glossy accents on the lines of the bottom skirt.  I did not think that the skirt had much dimension so I dobbed the folds with Jim Holtz, Distress Ink in Tea Dye.  Then I misted the polka dot paper (just the large sides) and rolled it on a pen to get it to "puff" out.  I used two different Gina's Design Cardstock Doily Set Intricates behind the Stamp because I liked the look. The top two butterflies are Gina's Design and I used coordinating paper and glued the paper on the lazer cuts, fussycut around them and used the Tea Dye around the edges.  Everything was glued down with Beacon 3-in-1. 

I colored Gina's Designs "Happy Birthday and bottom butterfly" pink with a Copic Sketch RV55 - Hollyhock.  The stamp was Julie Nutting by Prima -  Skin - Copic Sketch E02 - Fruit Pink.  Hair - Copic Sketch YR24 - Pale Sepia, Copic Sketch YR27 - Tuscan Orange and Copic Ciao Y21 - Buttercup Yellow.  I really do not use a blender but use the lighter color as a blender.  I outlined and colored first in Y21 then used YR27 to outline the inside lines. YR24 was used then to go over the darker color.  I picked several sections of hair and used YR24. Then I went over everything again in Y21. 




The Happy Birthday and the bottom butterfly after colored were glittered with Stickles (Icicle).  I either leave the back of the tag unfinished or just cover it with a coordinating paper.  When I use these as gifts I write a message on the back of the tag.  When I use them in books I have found that people pull the tags out to look at them and the back will get torn up if there is
alot of embellishments on it.


The Paris Tag!

Full Tag Photo - I knew I was doing something with the Effle Tower, a Julie Nutting's Stamp and a dress pattern but that was it.

I knew that I wanted something more old fashioned that what came with the Julie Nutting - Halie metal dies and cling stamp. So I went through everything that Gina from Gina's Designs supplied and found a good fit (I had to trim down a little since it is not designed for this purpose) in the Dress Forms and Corsets Shapes Set. I used Jim Holtz, Distress Ink, Peeled Paint (olive color) on the chipboard (daub lightly so that a lot of the brown still comes through). Note: when I daub ink I use an old Ranger wooden square blender with foam squares). Then I sewed the ties with white thread (the holes are designed for a regular needle so it was very easy). Then I used the Peeled Paint on the thread too.  The Gina's Designs Eiffel Tower was daubbed with Jim Holtz, Distress Ink in Black Soot and Stormy Sky (lightly dob you want the color from the chipboard to come through).  The flower is Jim Holtz, Alterations, Sizzix, Tattered Flower Garland . Gina taught me how to make the petals curl, you use a scoring stylus with two small ends and a foam square (think dollar store). You place the unassembled flower pieces on the foam and start drawing veins and pressing down in the center with either the small or larger ends of the styles.  This really works!! Then I sprayed both the flower (after assembly) and the Eiffle Tower with Luminarte, Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist (this takes a while to dry).  I used a crown design from KittysScrapPost's Shop, its on Gina's Designs bottle cap set.  The frame for Paris is from Gina's Designs (Zots 3D) and is daubed in Peeled Paint, I could not find what I was looking for so I wrote it.  

Hair - I started with Copic - Y21 - Buttercup Yellow everywhere, then outlined in E09 - Burnt Sienna, made curls with E15 - Dark Suntan, then colored curls with YR27 - Tuscan Orange, blended everything with Y21 and YR27.

Skin - Copic E00-Skin White over white card stock paper, did not like how that turned out so I stamped a "word" stamp (looks like french cannot be sure) on top of the copic colored paper and liked how that turned out.  Will keep this in mind if I can not find paper with wording or a book I do not like (lets face it, it is really really super hard to cut into a book.  I almost find myself sick everytime I do it). This maybe a better choice for me.

The Happy Birthday is from Gina's Designs and is daubbed with Peeled Paint.  The skirt was cut from an old clothing pattern and the Julie Nutting Aurora stamp used in the 21 tag. I did not ink the inside of the skirt (I learned). The skirt was daubbed with Peeled Paint, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo all Jim Holtz.  The Gina's Design Doily was daubed with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo. Everything with glued down with Beacon's 3-IN-1 glue.



Thank you for looking!

List of items for the 21 tag.

Gina's Designs

     
Tag
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=283



Cardstock  Doily Set Intricates
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=96



Butterflies and Dragonflies
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=18_43&products_id=49

Happy Birthday was a special order along with other phrases.  I highly suggest if you do not see something on Gina's website that you contact her.
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=contact_us


Julie Nutting - Prima
Doll Stamp
Aurora with Crown - Mixed Media Stamp
Hobby Lobby
The Paper Studio
Uptown Flair (Paper for Dress)
Pink Glitter Aphabet Sticker (21)
Stickles
Icicle
Jim Hotlz
Distress Ink
Tea Dye
Copic Markers
Copic Sketch RV55 - Hollyhock
Copic Sketch E02 - Fruit Pink
Copic Sketch YR24 - Pale Sepia
 Copic Sketch YR27 - Tuscan Orange
 Copic Ciao Y21 - Buttercup Yellow
Beacon
3-IN-1
Advanced Craft Glue
Boheme Paper Pad
My Mind's Eye (used for tag cover and butterflies)




Paris Tag

Gina's Designs


Tag
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=283


Dress Forms and Corsets Shapes Set
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=18_41&products_id=53


Parisian Shape Set
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=18_46&products_id=67


Doily Set 8 Inch
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=230

Happy Birthday was a special order from Gina's Designs.
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=contact_us

Bottle Cap Set will be carried next month but currently is a special order from Gina's Designs
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=contact_us

Small Frame Set (Paris) is a special order from Gina's Design
http://www.ginasdesigns.net/Store/index.php?main_page=contact_us


KittysScrapPost's Shop
Crown Print
http://www.zibbet.com/KittysScrapPost/artwork?artworkId=2304624

Julie Nutting - Prima
Halie - Metal Die Cut with Cling Stamp
Aurora with Crown
 Copic
 Y21 - Buttercup Yellow
 E09 - Burnt Sienna
  E15 - Dark Suntan
 YR27 - Tuscan Orange
E00-Skin White
Jim Holtz Distress Ink
Vintage Photo
Peeled Paint
Tea Dye
Black Soot
Stormy Sky
Jim Holtz, Alterations, Sizzix
 Tattered Flower Garland
ZOTS
3D
HOBBY LOBBY
The Paper Studio
KellerKurtz - back for tag
Ribbon - Brown
Tuesday Morning
Lost & Found - Paper
Madison Avenue - Flower


 If you have any questions please ask.