Make sure you check out the Random Redhead Challenge at Gingersnap Creations today … in keeping with our fashion-themed month, it's stitching. The Design Team really knocked this one out of the park … absolutely gorgeous projects. Can't wait to see what you create.
The theme this month at the Gingersnap Creations Blog & Chestnut Challenge is Haute Couture, which is defined literally as high sewing, and more encompassing as trend setting fashion. We're inviting you to bring your fashion sense to paper crafting and show off your best designer art. For me, fashion trends have always meant … … Read more
Today's Color Challenge at the Gingersnap Creations Blog is Pumpkin, Avocado & Eggplant. Skip on over and see all of the fabulous designs. I think Dan's piercing Avocado eye is my favorite. Can't wait to see what you create.
This month's Goth-themed Random Redhead Challenge (GC75) at the Gingersnap Creations Blog is Gothic Arches. While I have admired this art form for quite some time, this is the first time I have attempted to make one on my own … and I loved the process. I cut my arch from Memory Box Blackbird Paper using … Read more
At Gingersnap Creations, we're all about all-things-ginger, so each new member of the Design Team made a card to show off our coppery-gingery skills. The background is a piece of copper striped specialty paper matted on bronze metallic cardstock. Stampotique's Moth Fab was stamped in Artprint Brown and painted with Luminarte Twinkling H20's in … Read more
This month's Spicy Supply Challenge (GC74) at the Gingersnap Creations Blog is Versamark (or any other brand of clear embossable ink). I slightly modified a a new (to me) technique called Gesso Resist for my designs. I started by tearing text-filled pages from various books and magazines and painting them with Gesso, allowing portions of the … Read more
Today is the Chestnut Theme Challenge (GC73 if you upload to a gallery) at the Gingersnap Creations Blog … and this months theme is Goth … and today's Challenge is Gothic Elements. We're challenging you to create something dark perhaps supernatural with an atmosphere of mystery, darkness, oppressiveness, fear, or doom. Basically, if you … Read more
I'm so excited to announce that I am one of the newest members of the Gingersnap Creations Design Team. Check out all of the awesome creative souls I have the joy of designing with: Creative Team Founding Femmes: Alison Manning - New England StamperSharon Briss - Ill Tempered Ink The Gingers: Dan - My Crafty LifeDebby Boltman … Read more
I love the gorgeous pine tree image in the new Sleigh Ride set from Artistic Outpost. For this card, I stamped it two times overlapping slightly in the center. Next I distressed the heck out of the edges of the ivory panel. I squirted Stickles Glitter Glue on my finger and dabbed it all over … Read more
The theme for this week's 52-Card Pick-up Challenge is White Space. An article from Zen Habits talks about translating the concepts of white space in design (legibility, luxury, balance, and more emphasis) into our lives by focusing on clarity, peace, balance, and emphasis on the important … a good reminder for us all. I knew … Read more