Gecko Galz: Ethereal Spring

 

Hello

The theme of this month's challenge at Gecko Galz is Ethereal Spring.

As always, we also have the monthly card challeng.e, the monthly Christmas Image Challenge, the monthly Stamp Challenge, an ATC challenge, a Steampunk challenge and a Gothic Challenge on the blog, as well as 4 Facebook challenges. These can be accessed by the tabs at the top of the main blog page. We also have the new quarterly challenge.

We hope you can find some time to join in the fun.

The winner of the Customer challenge will get a $25 Gecko Galz Etsy Store voucher and the runner up a $12 voucher. There are plenty of free Gecko Galz images if you don't already own any. Each blog post has a free image to collect and, if you sign up for the monthly newsletter, there is the chance to claim a free collage set each month.  Also if you make any purchase of $2 or more you receive a free image.

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Today is my DT day and I have some projects to share.

Firstly, I have a Diamond Pop Out card:

I used the beautiful spring girl images from the In Dreams Junk Journal Kit. I used a circle die to cut them and placed one on each of the three pop out diamond panels.  The base of the card id purple card and I used patterned paper from my stash for the background.matting onto white card.. I decorated the diamond panels with paper flowers and foliage and added die cut butterfly borders to the accordion part of the card.

Here are the different ways of folding the card for posting:

Classic Design Challenge #3 AG 12/04

Creatalicious Challenges #275 AG 14/04

PIP Challenge #2414 AG 14/04

Creative Fingers Challenge #275 AG 19/04

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #227 AG 20/04

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Next I made a spring banner decoration:

I used a die to cut the banner flags. Two flags were cut for each - the larger flags were coloured with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide and the smaller flags were die cut from the Rainbow Connection ATC papers.. I added pink satin ribbon to hold the flags together. 

The lovely children images are from the Spring Charms, and Easter Children collage sets. The lamb and chicK are from the Easter Tokens collage set. All of the images were fussy cut, inked around the edges and popped on foam pads for some dimension. Some cheesecloth was placed beneath each image for a bit of texture and interest. I added handmade, die cut, paper flowers and foliage to finish off the bunting.

A Place to Start April Add Flowers 30/04

613 Avenue Create April AG 02/05

The Outlawz Challenges - Card Free Zone : Easter 03/05

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As inspiration for the customer challenge, I made a flag booklet. 

More photos and information about this project can be found in this post: Spring Flag Book

And finally some digital art collages:

That's all for now!

I hope you'll join our Ethereal Spring challenge where the winner will get a $25 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz shop.

The only rule is that you must use at least one Gecko Galz product (this can be one of the freebies or, of course, you can buy at the Etsy store!) Also if you sign up for the Gecko Galz newsletter, you'll be able to claim a free collage sheet each month.

Please pop over to the Gecko Galz blog to see the fabulous designs by the very talented DT.

We also have a friendly Facebook Group where there are 4 monthly challenges, each with a bespoke digital prize. 

Do come and join us!

I'll be back in May with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : "Ethereal Spring

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

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