A Center Stage Spotlight Design Team Blog Hop

Jessica, DT Coordinator for Gina K Designs, organized this fun hop to keep the retired CSS girls and current ones working together, showing just why we were chosen as guest designers! It's a good way to keep us active... This is just the first of many to come.

This first one was to make a Christmas card using any Gina K Designs set and use the sketch Jessica sent us. A Year of Flowers is one of my favorites and this poinsettia was perfect for this challenge!

I stamped 2 flowers on GinaK Pure Luxury cs (80#) with Versamark, sprinkled on Detail Gold Embossing Powder by Ranger and heat set it. Then using Twinkling H2O's and a waterbrush, watercolored each flower. When I cut each one out, I cut several of the petals almost to the center to add dimension when I put them together. Gold Liquid Pearls by Ranger was added to the center.

For the leaves, I stamped the flower 4 or 5 times, turning the stamp a 1/4 turn each time. (Versamark and gold ep as the flowers). The leaves are also painted with Twinks.

As I attached the two flowers together (with a pop dot), I curled the petals by running my fingernail underneath... like curling ribbon.

Embossing with Cuttlebug folders, trimming with Martha Stewart border punches and layered on Spellbinders dies made this 5x5 card simply done and elegant looking!

Now, here are the girls participating in this hop, first the current CSS team:
Deb Felts 
Diana S Queen
Karen Knegten
Melissa Cash
Sue VanDeVusse

And the past CSS girls:
Brenda Turner
Carla Suto
Carolina Buchting
Charlene Merrick
DeeMarie Kelemen
Geri Utterback
Giovanna Smith
Janice Melton
JenMarie Taylor
Jennie Harper
Joy Hadden
Kay Simmons
Linda Payne
Lori McAree
Melissa Waldorf
Pam Imholz
Selma Stevenson
Shannon Bracken
Shelly Wilson
Sue Walsh
Tina Gilliand

Some of the Senior Design Team Members and Illustrators wanted to get in on the fun tonight too:
Asela Hopkins
Carolyn King
Cindy Lawrence
Jessica Fick
Lee Murphy
Lynn Mercurio
Nina Brackett
Melanie Muenchinger

Along with Nina Brackett's Guest Designer: 
Lisa Hjulberg

And Gina too!

All of these gorgeous cards from the entire team will be added to the StampTV gallery throughout the next few days with the tag CSSJF1.

These sketches are also the sketch challenge for this week, so be sure to check out all the information in the discussion in the Challenge Group over on StampTV Thursday morning.  We'd love to see your cards with the sketch too!

Enjoy and Thanks for stopping!

Dawn