'love knots' stamp on a 12x12 page.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I finished a 12x12 layout with my love knots stamp that I wanted to share. I love this stamp! It measures about 4x5 inches x 5.5 inches.

I used three inks in sort of an ombre efffect - red, pink, orange,yellow. Here is a close up so you can see the detail better.

It actually turned out much better than I expected! Always a happy surprise! :) For more details about my page, please visit my blog Markland & Main. Thanks for stopping by today!

Birthday Layout

Hello Gel-A-Tins Fans!  Kate here on this lovely spring Tuesday.  Today I am sharing with you a layout accented with fun, colorful rays that have been stamped with a sentiment from the "It's Your Day" collection.  

I initially posted this layout to Quick Quotes for their challenge this month, but was so thrilled with the stamped rays of color that I knew I just had to share this with all of you! I love it when I can effectively add in a sentiment stamp as an embellishment on one of my layouts.  

Adding a monochromatic "It's Your Day" stamped on my rays of color was the perfect touch. It added interest to the colorful strips of paper. 

Gel-A-Tins Supplies:

"Its Your Day" Collection

Other Supplies:

Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink

Quick Quotes "Just Because..." Collection

Quick Quotes Chipboard

CandiDots

American Crafts

October Afternoon

Helmar Premium Craft Glue

Helmar ZapDots

Do you use sentiment stamps on your layouts?  We would love to see them if you do!  

~Kate

Rainy Day Fun!

Today I am sharing a fun mini-canvas bag that I altered using the Raindrops Are Falling Collection.

I stamped the sentiment and girl with the umbrella images with Archival Ink. 

This is really important on canvas because it does not bleed.  It DOES leave a 

wonderful sharp image! 

The big raindrops are stamped with Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink.

They too, do not bleed into the canvas but leave a soft color, but a sharp image. 

April showers keep us indoors so many days here in Maine, so finding new ways

to re-invent fun activities is really important when you have children. Sometimes all it takes

to make an old game appealing is to just change its presentation. In this case the packaging.

This stamped mini-canvas would be fun for a sorting/counting buttons game, to store Jacks,

to keep a few brand new crayons for coloring.  The possibilities are endless!

Gel-A-Tins Stamps Supplies:

Raindrops Are Falling Collection 

Other Supplies:

Canvas bag ~ Unknown

Ink ~ Ranger

Chalking Ink ~ Quick Quotes

Pitt Pen ~ Faber Castell 

Glues ~ Helmar

What do you do for rainy day fun? 

~Kate

Happy Easter!

Easter is right around the corner and I'll be honest, while we celebrate Easter
every year I am terrible at making cards for the occassion.  This year I am
already done with two Easter cards thanks to the fun Easter Bunny collection of stamps.

Today I am sharing the first card I made using one of the bunny stamps.
Why only one of the bunny stamps?  Well, because this one looked like a marshmellow peep.

Doesn't that cute little bunny look like a marshmellow peep?

I stamped the three bunnies across the top and bottom of my white cardstock
using Quick Quote Powder Puff Claking Inks. I added black pearls to give them a
bit of dimention.

The "Happy Easter" sentiment is also a stamp included in the Easter Bunny
collection.  It is just a beautiful font!

Gel-A-Tins Stamps Supplies:
Easter Bunny Collection

Other Supplies:
Cardstock ~ Core'dinations
Stamping Cardstock ~ Papertrey Ink
Chalking Ink ~ Quick Quotes
Archival Ink ~ Ranger
Glues ~ Helmar

I hope you find Easter inspiration in something fun!

~Kate

It's Blog Hop Time!

Welcome to the first ever gel-a tins blog hop!  We want you to win some prizes and have some fun, so play along!

We are excited about gel-à-tins grand re-opening under new ownership! Bonnie

has been super excited about acquiring the business just 8 short months ago, and

even more excited about all the new things happening in the upcoming months.

We've launched a new website that is easy than ever to shop for your favorite stamps

and exclusive scented embossing powders!! We are working on hot new scents every month.  Head on over and check out the new look!  We'll have new projects to see, new products to buy and easier searching and shopping for our great customers!

We want you to hop around and check out our DT blogs.  You'll get to see some of their favorite gel-a-tins projects and for each comment you leave on a DT member's blog you'll have a chance to win your choice of one of three stamp sets!  We'll even draw two names from the comments here!  If your name is chosen, you'll get your choice of either the

Peace on Earth

Admission is Free

or Butterfly Love stamp sets.

But those aren't the only prizes we're giving away!

We want you to follow our blog!  Just head over to the sidebar and follow us!  We'll choose a winner from our followers to win the Surf's Up stamp set and the teal blue Hawaiian Paradise scented embossing powder!

That's a chance to win one of twelve prizes!  Just leave a comment on each blog (including this one) and follow us here for a chance!  We'll give you until July 10th at midnight EST to do all that and winners will be announced on Monday the 11th.  Here's the order for the hop:

1.  gel-a-tins blog

2.  Ellen

3.  Karin

4.  Cassie

5.  Jessica

6.  Cherie

7.  Natalie

8.  Gladys

9.  Sharm

10.  Angela

There you have it!  Check them all out, comment and follow us here on the gel-a-tins DT blog for a chance to win some prizes!