Gecko Galz: Christmas Angels

  

Hello

It's a new month and we have a new customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog.  

The theme this month is 'Christmas Angels

As always, we have free images to download to make projects to enter the Card Challenge, the Christmas Image Challenge, the Fantasy Challenge, an ATC challenge, a Steampunk Challenge and a Gothic Challenge,. The free images can be accessed by the tabs at the top of the main blog page. We also have a quarterly challenge on the blog.

If that isn't enough challenges, we also have 4 Facebook challenges each month.

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 collage sheet.

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Here are the projects I made.

All of my hand made cards use focal images from the Christmas Angels digital collage set.

Here, the beautiful Holly Angel is teamed with dark olive and gold foil paper with gold mats, She's made into a Christmas card with paper foliage made from dies and hand inked card, The berries are small polystyrene balls coloured with red alcohol ink.

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This beautiful open winged angel has golden glitter over her wings. I chose natural beige and cream paper so that the image would stand out. I decorated the card with pear and diamond trim. I kept it simple to show the beauty of the image.

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I love this Christmas angel with a fir tree background. I die cut a frame in green patterned paper, then again I cut the frame in gold. I offset the gold frame (it had to be cut in half across the middle for this) so that the gold formed a border around the original frame. I used plain dark olive card for the background and added a few gems.

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This group of angels make me happy! I used creamy white glossy card with gold foil pattern as a simple background and added gold mats. I also added some copper coloured lacy trim down the left side of the image and made a die cut gold bow. Some jewelled trim finishes off this card. 

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And the rest are digital pieces made using the very beautiful Christmas at the Chateaux Junk Journal set, along with angels from the Christmas Angels collage set.

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That's all for now!

I hope you'll join our 'Christmas Angels' 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 December when we have our 24 Christmas Tags event and the usual customer challenges.

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : 'Christmas Angels'

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Gecko Galz Blog Hop

Welcome to the Gecko Galz 16th Annual

Blog Hop!

🎃 Tricks and Treats Blog Hop 🎃

We are so excited to welcome you to this year's Gecko Galz Tricks and Treats Blog Hop!

We have 13 amazing blogs for you to visit this weekend, each featuring beautiful projects created with exclusive Gecko Galz collage sheets that are FREE for you to download. Every blog on the hop offers a different, exclusive collage sheet, and the free sheet available here is:

"Christmas Flower Fairies"

(Right-click on the image below and select "Save As" to download.)

As you hop from blog to blog, please be sure to:

1. Leave a comment on each blog you visit.
2. Follow each Design Team member if you are not already a follower.
3. Collect the special phrase revealed at the end of the hop on the last Design Team members blog.
4. Email the completed phrase to geckogalz2019@gmail.com to be entered into our prize drawing.

So grab your favorite beverage, sit back, relax, and enjoy the hop!

🎁 Amazing Prizes!

We have six fantastic prizes up for grabs:

1. A Gecko Galz Kit Club Subscription for 2027
2. A Gecko Galz Card Topper Kit Subscription for 2027
3. A Gecko Galz Sentiment Kit Subscription for 2027
4. A $25 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree
5. A Full Year of Gecko Galz Kit Club Kits
6. Our Grand Prize – One Full Year of Gecko Galz Products (4 quarters) and a $50 shopping spree with Gecko Galz!

The Grand Prize includes:

Six new collage sheets each quarter

One new craft kit each quarter

ATC collections

One paper pack each quarter

Tin Toppers

Card Toppers

How to Enter

1. Visit all 13 blogs on the hop.
2. Leave a comment on each blog. (This is important so we know you've visited each stop!)
3. At the final stop, Fripperies and Butterflies, collect the special phrase.
4. Email the completed phrase to geckogalz2019@gmail.com.

Winners

Six winners will be selected at random and notified by email.

Winners will also be announced in the Gecko Galz Newsletter.

Bonus Chance to Win!

Make a purchase from the Gecko Galz Etsy Store during the blog hop weekend, and you'll receive an additional entry for every purchase you make. The more purchases you make, the more chances you'll have to win!

Here is what I made:

A Fairy sat on a log picking berries

A fairy House

Which lights up

A Diamond Point Card

A Pyramid Card

Fairy Oval Card

A Snow Fairy Card

A Christmas Fairy card

A Star Decoration

A pair of tags

Here are your

Blog Hop Stops

Gecko Galz

Kim Rayko

Robin Francini

Julia Vasquez

Tanis Buckton

Susan Renshaw

Kym Decker

YOU ARE HERE >>>>>> Carole Jones <<<<<< YOU ARE HERE

Mia

Gerri Herbst

Roni Johnson

Walter Zemrock

Leanne Seed

Have Fun and Happy Hopping!

Thank you for joining us for our 16th Annual Gecko Galz Tricks and Treats Blog Hop. We hope you enjoy the inspiration, the free downloads, and all the creative magic our Design Team has prepared for you!

Happy Crafting!

The Gecko Galz Team

Gecko Galz: Nevermore and Halloween

 

 Hello

It's a new month and we have a new customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog.  

The theme this month is 'Nevermore'

As always, we have free images to download to make projects to enter the Card Challenge, the Christmas Image Challenge, the Fantasy Challenge, an ATC challenge, a Steampunk Challenge and a Gothic Challenge,. The free images can be accessed by the tabs at the top of the main blog page. We also have a quarterly challenge on the blog.

If that isn't enough challenges, we also have 4 Facebook challenges each month.

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 collage sheet.

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Here are the projects I made.

It's a set of raven ATCs.

I used the NeverMore collage set. The images were added on foam tape to Gecko Galz's King Louis ATC papers, then matted with foam pads again onto gold, then black card, so they have many layers and dimension.

Here are close ups:

The edges of the ATC papers were heat embossed in black glitter and a piece of gold texture trim was placed below each image. 

Each ATC has a sticker embellishment, either a spider's web or a bat.

Words from Edgar Alan's poem 'Nevermore' were printed, cut into strips and adhered.

I also made this digital collage:

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Since it is October, I also made some retro Halloween cards. I used images from the Halloween Card Toppers kit.

I added die cut ferns and flowers to this lovely Halloween girl's card.

A snazzy orange ribbon with a knot bow was added to this Halloween greeting.

This sweet retro witch was in need of a die cut broom and pumpkin.

And, finally, this digital card:

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That's all for now!

I hope you'll join our 'Nevermore' 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 at the end of October when we have our annual blog hop. Don't miss it, we have free collage sheets on every blog and great prizes to be won!

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : 'Nevermore'

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Gecko Galz: Whimsical Circus

 

 Hello

It's a new month and we have a new customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog.  

The theme this month is Whimsical Circus.

As always, we have free images to download to make projects to enter the Card Challenge, the Christmas Image Challenge, the Fantasy Challenge, an ATC challenge, a Steampunk Challenge and a Gothic Challenge,. The free images can be accessed by the tabs at the top of the main blog page. We also have a quarterly challenge on the blog.

If that isn't enough challenges, we also have 4 Facebook challenges each month.

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 collage sheet.

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Here are the projects I made.

First is a mini book:

Here are the individual pages:

I used papers from my stash and die cut them with a banner die. I scored one inch from the top of each banner and punched holes for the archive clip to act as the binder.

All the images are from a new collage sheet called Whimsical Circus.

The words are from a poem and, where I could, I found images to match the words.

I added die cut hand made flowers and foliage to each page as well as some gold, die cut stars.

Each image is matted onto either red or black cardstock.

And here is the booklet standingup:

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Next I made some digital collages:

Whimsical Circus

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Nature's Autumn

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Nature's Autumn

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Nature's Autumn

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That's all for now!

I hope you'll join our 'Whimsical Circus' 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 on the 10th October with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : 'Whimsical Circus'

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Gecko Galz: Mermaid Kingdom

 Hello

It's a new month (I am so very late posting my projects) and we have a new customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog.  

The theme this month is Mermaid Kingdom.

As always, we have free images to download to make projects to enter the Card Challenge, the Christmas Image Challenge, the Fantasy Challenge, an ATC challenge, a Steampunk Challenge and a Gothic Challenge,. The free images can be accessed by the tabs at the top of the main blog page. We also have a quarterly challenge on the blog.

If that isn't enough challenges, we also have 4 Facebook challenges each month.

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 collage sheet.

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Here are the projects I made.

A minibook ...

quoting the lines from The Mermaid, a poem by Michael Faudet.

The pages have images from the Little Miss Mermaid collage sheets.

There is gold net twine and inky dyed cheesecloth beneath the images and sequins in ocean colours for extra texture.

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A set of tags.

Featuring Lighthouse scenes from the 'Light The Way' collage sheets and mermaids from 'Little Miss Mermaid'

The tags were die cut from inky blue cardstock, then splattered with white paint. The images were matted onto dark blue card with silver net trim  tucked beneath. Die cut foliage and shop bought flowers were added.

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Digital compositions

How gorgeous are these mermaids?

Get yours here: Little Miss Mermaid

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That's all for now!

I hope you'll join our 'Mermaid Kingdom 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 on the 10th August with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : 'Mermaid Kingdom'

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo