GinaK Sneak Peek - Day 3 - Enjoy the Sunshine StampTV kit

Here's a few things you might not know about me:

I like short necklaces.

I love butterflies.

I like to use my stamps to make jewelry.

All of these things are a great combination for using the butterfly image in the new StampTV Kit: Enjoy the Sunshine. After all, stamps aren't just for papercrafts! 

Polyshrink plastic is a wonderful medium for creating your own custom jewelry with your stamps. I stamped 9 of the butterfly images on white Polyshrink with a Staz-On black in pad and let them dry before trimming them out with precision tip scissors. I punched a hole at the edge of one of the wing tips with a 1/8 inch hole punch and then shrunk the pieces in the oven according to the directions on the pack of Polyshrink.

When the pieces came out of the oven, I colored them in using Souffle pens (Sakura brand), which gives a pretty pastel 3-dimensional look when it's dry.

I had some clay beads that a friend gave me that I put onto wire and added glass beads to. The butterflies were fitted with jump rings and put on a silver chain.

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, check out these Designer's Links:

• Gina Krupsky  *Enjoy the Sunshine StampTV kit designer
• Tami Mayberry  *Stars designer
• Jessica Fick
• Theresa Momber 
• Melanie Muenchinger 
• Nina Brackett
• Carolyn King
• Cathy Tidwell
• Lee Murphy
• Donna Baker
• Lynn Mercurio
• Emily Giovanni
• Erika Martin
• Kurtis Amundson
• Colleen Schaan
• 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!

Comments

[LuvLee]

How totally fun Erika!! It's just beautiful!

[Theresa]

Erika, this necklace is fabulous! The butterflies are so beautiful!

[Mary C. Anderson]

Your necklace is absolutely gorgeous! I did not know that you loved butterflies. Me too. :) Although your banner has a butterfly on it so I thought you might like them.

Mary

[NinaB]

I love your necklace, Erika. What a great idea for gifts.

[christine]

I love the necklace. Where do you get the pens from? I love the way they pop with the color.

[melanie]

gorgeous necklace, I recognized the butterfly charms immediately in your first pic! :)

[cathy tidwell]

Oh wow Erika! That necklace ROCKS! Makes me want to dig out my jewelry supplies!!

[Jan A.]

Erika, this is absolutely beautiful!!!

[Carolyn King]

that is too freaking cool Erika! LOVE your design...might have to shrink some butterflies for my dd!

[Lynn Mercurio]

Fantastic idea and it turned out perfectly. Wouldn't this make such a great gift. You selected perfect images for springtime fashions.

[Bee]

That's pretty cool! My attempts at Polyshrink haven't be so successful yet. LOL When it started looking ugly I would stop heating, not knowing that it gets worse before going flat!... ;-)