GinaK Sneak Peek Preview Day #2 - using stamps on your scrapbook pages!

I don't know which scrapbook page to show you first. I'm so excited about both of them!

As promised, I'm showing you more scrapbook pages using my GinaK Designs stamp images. The more and more I remind myself that my stamps are a major scrapbooking tool, the more fun I'm having creating layouts with them. Of course, the diversity of GinaK stamps makes it really easy to find images that go with so many subjects.

This page was created using the new set by Melanie Muenchinger, called "Have a Cookie." Gina and Melanie couldn't have planned a better release time for this set, with the holidays coming up and all the baking that so many of us do. In fact, I'll be baking tomorrow and I'm planning on showing a fun project created with cookies and this new set at the GinaK November Release Party on THIS Thursday night (11/13) from 7-10pm (CST). You don't want to miss it! They're always a blast to take part in.

I've had these pictures of my daughter that were taken in our old apartment (YAY for a new house!) for quite some time now, just waiting for the perfect items to scrap them with. Gina and I were talking on the phone one day not that long ago about using this set on a scrapbook page and I knew I had the perfect pictures to go with it.

I used the little chocolate chip stamp to create a background on the cardstock and then I swiped around the edge of my cardstock with Creamy Caramel ink so that it looks like one big giant cookie. I stamped the cookie, milk and rolling pin images on Very Vanilla cardstock with Basic Brown ink and then watercolored them and trimmed them out.

I popped up the top cookies on both the top and bottom of the layout using pop-dots. I did the same thing with the glass of milk.

The title for this layout was created by layering small Scrabble tile stickers on Very Vanilla cardstock.

Now that we have our own house, my daughter is even MORE into baking than she was at the old apartment. More counter space means more room for rolling out dough. I bought her a big bucket of 50 cookie cutters so that we didn't have to use a pairing knife to cute the designs out. And a bigger kitchen usually means a bigger mess. But....a cup of cocoa or chai makes the clean up process easier. Especially when Girly serves it from her silver tea pot and tray. And yup, my mug really DOES say "Stamping is my Business!"

This next page also uses another of Melanie Muenchinger's new sets. It's called "Tee Talk" and it's a companion set to the popular Just so Sporty and Little Tees that Melanie created.

For this page, I used the shirt and "TENNIS" images from the Just so Sporty set. The "GIRL image on the shirt is from Mel's new set that is being released this Thursday, "Tee Talk." Again, there is a ton of versatility in the GinaK line. How often do you find a tennis shirt that will go with a picture of your daughter playing tennis? And how often can you use that same shirt image and create a ton of other combinations?

I stamped the shirt image on watercolor paper with Staz-On ink and watercolored the image with Barely Banana and Baja Breeze ink refills that I diluted with a couple drops of water. I used pop-dots to give the shirt some dimension off the page. I mounted the shirt on Certainly Celery and trimmed around it to leave a small border.

The patterned paper comes from the Pocketful of Posies paper stack from Die Cuts with a View. I love the little bits of glitter on the papers!

The title was done on my printer. I used the "Wavee Weekend Double" font and printed it out in an aqua colored ink and trimmed around the words.

I used the same color ink to print out the journaling and cut it into strips to attach to my layout.

The buttons on the bottom of the layout were threaded through with Linen thread and mounted on with glue dots. They're not going anywhere! Love those glue dots!

I hope these pages will give you ideas and inspiration to use your stamps on your scrapbook pages. When you do, email me and let me know! I'd love to see your pages! Who knows....I might even ask to showcase you here with your page as a guest artist!

Make sure you check out the other fantastic creations by the GinaK Design team using these two sets:

GinaK
Asela Hopkins
Carolyn King
Donna Baker
Courtney Fowler
Emily Giovanni
Jessica Fick
Kurtis Amundson
Melanie Muenchinger

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

Comments

[Jessica]

I'm getting into scrapbooking layouts (slowly) so I really appreciate seeing how I can integrate my lovely stamps into the bigger form factors. Great job and beautiful kids.

[Melanie Muenchinger]

FABULOUS pages Erika!!(but I am partial to the cookie one, it just SPEAKs to me!! (pardon me please while I go find somehitng to eat now)great journalling!!

[Mary Anderson]

I *love* using stamps on scrap pages. I really like that you used the chocoalte chip as a backgrounder to your cookie page. The Tennis T is perfect for your second scrap page. Awesome pages Erika.

Mary

[Carolina]

Love the way you used this set on your layouts...just wonderful pages!

[Adela]

Love the Cookie Monster picture! Precious!

[Kurtis Amundson]

What cute pages...I really need to get into scrapbooking...I started one for my Momma but it's still sitting half finished.

[asela]

I wanna scrap like you! These pages and the ones before this are all gorgeous!!!

[Le@nne (Scrapshare)]

Oh my! This could be my second dd! She loves to cook, and can't play tennis but wants to be amongst it all.
Great layouts, thanks for sharing :)

[Sharri]

Your pages are awesome! I also love to use stamps for scrapbooking. I do not think I could scrapbook without adding some stamped image to a page!

[Carolyn King]

ohhhh...GREAT pages Erika! I love what you do with stamps on your pages--awesome!

[Tanya]

Oh I love both pages! Your cookie ideas are fabulous!

[Queen Mary]

Erika, these are both fantastic! This weekend for sure -- of course I have to send out the Thanksgiving invites (preferably BEFORE thanksgiving), and work on my Soulology pages, but I am SO diggin' the t-shirts and cookies! Mary

[LuvLee]

Ohhh these are FABulous!!! I do love seeing how stamps can be used in scrapbooking!!!

[Jessica]

Whoo hoo!! I love your pages, Erika! So awesome... both of them!!

[Donna B]

wow! fun pages - I LOVE them, it's so fun to incorporate your love of stamping with your love of scrapping. Your daughter looks like she's having a ball & congrats on your new home!

[courtney]

Oh, now THAT is the CUTEST cookie monster ever!

[AJ]

LOVE these pages!!! Her personality totally shines. :)

[Linsey]

OH Wow, Erika! I LOVE your fabulous and wonderful scrapbook pages! It's so cool to see a different take on Gina's stamps--scrapping + stamping = a good good thing!!! It doesn't hurt that your little cookie monster is super adorable! I love seeing the versatility--cards, scrapbook pages, gifts...this DT's creativity knows no bounds!!! So inspiring, tfs! :) xoxo hugs~