Come and Hop with Melanie Muenchinger!

Melanie Muenchinger is celebrating two years of blogging and illustrating for Gina K Designs, and today she has invited 25 designers and YOU to join the party! First hop through the following designers' blogs using every set she has created since January 2008, from the first to the 25th! Then go to Melanie's' blog to leave a comment for a chance to win a number of different prizes! So let's get hopping!

Here we go!

Just So Hippy - Charmaine

Just So Hoppy - Donna

What’s in Your Tin 1 & 2 - Donna

Hip Hop Accessories - Bee

Jumping for Joy - Barb

Cuddles and Hugs - Jessie

Little Tees - Cat

Just So Sporty - Pam

A Year of Flowers - Theresa

Say it with Flowers - Selma

Have a Cookie - Carolina

Tee Talk - Gabby

Hand in Hand - Ally *** You are HERE! ***

The Best Things in Life - Shannon, Sankari

A Charmed Life - Cathy

Wee Tees - Libby, Laura Jean

Arranged with Love - Selma

Sporty Accessories - Tina

Inspiration Mosaic - Jennie

School Sports Spirit - Melissa

A Year of Leaves - Geri

Hip to Be Square - Karen

Festive Frame - Linda

Tech Talk - Lee


Finally, Nina and Jessica from the GinaK Senior Design Team have joined in, too! You can also get in on the hop yourself and increase your chances of winning a prize by creating your own project with any one of Melanie's sets and linking it in the Mr. Linky in her post, see full details here. Hope you can join the fun! Enjoy your first hop of the year!

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I had the honour of designing for Melanie last December with her beautiful Hand-in-Hand stamp set. Thanks Mel! So today, I am going to share one more project with this sweet set....

The Journey Begins....

To create this card, I first designed the onesie shape in my Klic N'Kut design studio and then flipped the onesie image to produce a fold-able card. I cut both a card base and also a piece of patterned paper to cover the front. I stitched all around the outside and down the shoulders of the image. I inked up those stitch lines with a light dabbing of Ranger "Antique Linen" ink just to define them a little better.

Then I cut and embossed a circle of white cardstock, stamped my two beautiful hands in Memento "Desert Sand" colour and coloured them using Copic markers. I inked the image circle with Ranger ink again. I also cut a blue cardstock scalloped to mat my image.

I cut a label shape and embossed the edges, then adding my stamped title in Memento "Desert Sand" again. I die cut a mini tag and pieced a hole in the neckline of the onesie and attached it through the hole using some beige string. A few mini buttons and I adhered everything down to reveal a cute little card fit for a new Mom!

Here are a few close ups of the card detail...

supplies: cardstock, Prism; patterned paper, We R Memory Keepers; stamp, Gina K. Designs; tag die, QuicKutz; circle and label die cuts, Spellbinder's; buttons, BasicGrey; ink, Memento, Ranger, Copic; other, thread, ribbon.

I hope you are enjoying the blog hop to bring in 2010! Make sure you check out everyone's creations for your chance to win some fun prizes from Melanie!

I'm also going to give away some BLOG CANDY to one lucky commenter! Make sure you leave me some way to get a hold of you (like a blog link, an email address OR a PM with your comment username, full name & email at weScrap.com). I will pick one lucky person's name on Jan. 2nd at 10pm MST and the winner must claim their prize in 10 days or another winner will be chosen. Good luck!