CSS Blog Hop

[Carla Suto]

Welcome to our first Center Stage Spotlight Design Team Blog Hop!

Jessica Fick, the Design Team Coordinator for GinaK Designs has issued a challenge to all of the past and present team CSS team members to make a Christmas card with one of these sketches:



I am so excited to join the entire CSS Team to participate in this special Christmas blog hop!
Here is the card I made with Jessica's sketch:

I stamped the poinsettias and leaves from Melanie's A Year of Flowers with Memento Rich Cocoa onto Gina K. Pure Luxury 80 lb. White and colored them with Copic markers. I cut everything out then popped up all the layers on Pop-Dots. I used part of a sentiment from Theresa's A Very Merry Christmas. The circles and ovals were cut with Nestabilities and popped up also. I added Liquid Pearls to the scalloped edges and adhesive pearls to the flower center, the sentiment and the corners. I finished it with a double-loop bow made with my Bow Easy.

You're going to LOVE what everyone has designed for the blog hop tonight!

First, here are the links for GinaK's Current CSS Team Members:

Deb Felts
Diana S. Queen
Karen Knegten
Melissa Cash
Sharri Seffens
Sue VanDeVusse

and the links for all of the past CSS Design Team members participating:

Brenda Turner,
Carla Suto,
Carolina Buchting,
Charlene Merrick,
Dawn Lusk,
DeeMarie Kelemen,
Geri Utterback ,
Giovanna Smith,
Janice Melton,
JenMarie Taylor,
Jennie Harper,
Joy Hadden,
Kay Simmons,
Linda Payne,
Lori McAree,
Melisa Waldorf,
Pam Imholz,
Selma Stevenson,
Shannon Bracken,
Shelly Wilson,
Sue Walsh,
Tina Gilliland

Some of GinaK's 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

Be sure to check out Gina's blog tonight, 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 (which stands for center stage spotlight jessica fick 1)

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

[Sue D]

This is gorgeous--I love the colors you chose.

[Karen Knegten]

Carla- wonderful card for the Hop.

[Diana S. Queen]

Carla...your card is very beautiful! The coloring, the dp,just a gorgeous card!! ;D Diana

[Lisa Hjulberg]

Gorgeous card! Your coloring of the poinsettia is fabulous, and I love the pearls!

[Melisa Waldorf]

Carla this is a beautiful card! I love the pearls!

[Sue]

Oooooh,,,wow....this is drop dead GORGEOUS! I love the all the pearl accents too. Perfect for this image.

[Lee Murphy]

Ohh wow Carla!! This is just gorgeous!!

[Pat Jandacek]

My word for this card is "gorgeous," too...don't know how better to express it! TFS

[Sharri]

Carla, This is gorgeous! I love the papers and all of the details you added not to mention your coloring is fabulous!

[Shelly Schmidt]

What a gorgeous card- love the pretty DP you used. TFS