Gecko Galz: Springtime in Paris

Hello

It's my DT day on the Gecko Galz blog and this month our challenge theme is La Vie Paris.

We also have the monthly Image Challenge, the monthly Christmas Image Challenge and the monthly vintage stamp challenge, as well as 4 Facebook challenges. 

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.

Here are my makes:

First is a decoupaged and collaged card using characters from the Parisian Garden Kit set. They were fussy cut and set inside a rose adorned frame from the same set.I printed two of the frames, so that I could fussy cut the rose bough and butterflies and pop them on foam pads for dimension. 

Next I have a pretty lady from the Parisian Ladies collage set. 

She is framed in Vintage Frame 24 from the Vintage Frames Kit. I added a fussy cut butterfly.

I used another background from the Parisian Garden Kit and added a fussy cut lady from the Sweet Fashion collage set.

I distressed the edges of the papers and added some die cut flourishes to add a little texture.

And finally a digital collage using several png elements from the Parisian Garden Kit:

Below is the card I made as inspiration for the customer challenge and you can read about that here.

That's all for now!

I hope you'll join our La Vie Paris 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 and get first claim on the monthly $1 deals!

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 collage sheet prize. 

Do come and join us!

I'll be back on the 1st June with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : "La Vie Paris"

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in the following challenges:

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

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* Gecko Galz: Bless This Nest

Hello!

March is here and the early signs of spring are everywhere. I love this time of year when the earth wakens up and the light intensifies - there's always a feeling of joy and hope.

The theme at the Gecko Galz blog this month is 'Bless This Nest' and I think that is so fitting for this time of year. The challenge will run until March 29th and the only rule is that you should use at lease one Gecko Galz product.

I made two cards for the Customer Challenge inspiration. One is a vintage stamp that I coloured and the other uses a collage sheet and a frame kit to make a cameo card.

Here they are. First my cameo card:

For this card, I used an image from the new Lovely Little Birds collage sheet and one of the new Vintage Frames. I cut the frame to the size I wanted and inked around the edge with Vintage Photo ink, blending some Fossilised Amber Distress Ink onto the white card, especially into the corner areas. I matted the frame onto green and then yellow card. The Little Bird was mounted onto black card and the frame placed on top with foam tape to allow some natural shadowing.
Some baker's twine was wound around the bottom of the card and a die cut, inked sentiment was attached to the side.

Lovely Little Birdies          Vintage Frames

 

And here's my vintage stamp card:

This card feature a beautiful vintage stamp from The Little Birds stamp set. There are 25 gorgeous images in the set altogether and I'll be using more for my next Gecko Galz post on the 22nd March. I die cut the image with a stitched rectangle die and coloured it with Copic markers. When I was happy with the colouring I placed the die back onto the image and blended Memento ink to add colour to the background. Once the die is removed it leaves a nice, neat white border. 
I decided to mat my image onto kraft card. I distressed the edges of the mat and inked them with Vintage Photo to give the edges more definition. I chose some design paper from my stash and inked the edges with VP. I matted that onto kraft card as well. Some jute string trim was attached along the left side of the paper and the mounted image was attached on foam tape. I added a sentiment from the Charming Words collage sheet which was also matted on distressed kraft card. Finally I found a wooden bird to add to the top left of my image.

Little Birds Stamps                  Charming Words

  

That's all from me for now!

I hope you'll join our Bless This Nest Challenge where the Winner will get 

$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 and get first claim on the $1 Wednesday deals!

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

We also have a Private Facebook Group where there are 4 monthly challenges, each with a collage sheet prize. Come and join us!

I'll be back on the 22nd with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : "Bless This Nest"

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Closed Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in the following challenges: 

Cameo Card

* Creative Knockouts #287 Lots of Layers 06/03

* As You Like It One Layer or Many? 12/03

(Many - I love the dimension of layers)

* A Bit More Time To Craft #87 AG 13/03

* Alphabet Challenge Y for yarn/string/twine 14/03

* The Happy Craft Challenge March AG 30/03 

Vintage Stamp Card

* Penny's Challenges #419 05/03

* Jo's Scrapshack #271 AG 08/03

* Crafty Creations #385 AG 13/03

* Cardz TV #84 AG 14/03
* Love to Craft #32 AG 31/03

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments.