Autumn Nature

 How about some lovely fall flora and fauna?

Here is my design team sample for the Gecko Galz Customer Challenge.

Now it's your turn to make something for the customer challenge and enter it on the Gecko Galz blog.!

There is only one rule, and that is you need to use at least ONE  product from Gecko Galz!!  

It can be one of the free products, stamps, collage images, or digital papers!!  It is up to you!!

The winner will receive a $25 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree 

Materials:

Gecko Galz collage sheet: Gothic In Nature

substrate:  mat board

gold stickles

packing material and black acrylic paint

yarrow

Robert Frost Quote: The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

Entering:

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #166  digi image from Gecko Galz

The Dream Factory Challenge #142 Wild

It's my turn on the Gecko Galz blog to show my Scheherazade design team samples.  

In college I minored in library science.  So when I saw these index cards in the junk journal, I knew I had to use them as if they would be found in a library card catalog'  Do young people even know what that is, with everything on the computer now?  I added some similar Scheherazade images on the left side.  I found some Aladdin images on Etsy that went with the  stories from A Thousand and One Nights and placed them on the bottom right corners.  I added a bit of trim to complete the project.  To photograph my cards, I placed them on one of the Aladdin papers.

Materials from Gecko Galz:

Sleeping Beauty junk journal kit (prize not available in shop)
Scheherazade digital collage set
Aladin's Palace paper pack

You have until the end of the month to enter the customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog. Winner gets a $25 shopping spree to buy digital images in the Gecko Galz Etsy shop.  

Here, again, is my design team sample for this month's customer challenge.

Now it's your turn.  Use any Gecko Galz image to enter.  There are many free images on the Gecko Galz blog.  And always a free digital collage sheet through the newsletter.  

And don't forget you can also enter one or all of the facebook challenges. There are similar themes there this month.

Tell Me A Story

It's a new month and a new theme at Gecko Galz.

 

I loved working with this month's theme.  Scheherazade kept herself alive by telling the sultan a story every night, but leaving each as a cliffhanger to finish the next night.  Therefore, he could never kill her.  By the end of One Thousand and One Nights, he had fallen in love with her and married her.  She was a very well read, educated woman who used her knowledge and wits to survive.  I focused on those strengths to portray her as a modern day warrior. Here is my digital composition:

I used the Scheherazade digital collage set and the Aladdin paper pack from the Gecko Galz Etsy shop.

Now it's your turn to make something for the customer challenge and enter it on the Gecko Galz blog.!

There is only one rule, and that is you need to use at least ONE  product from Gecko Galz!!  

It can be one of the free products, stamps, collage images, or digital papers!!  It is up to you!!

The winner will receive a $25 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree 

 

Christmas in July Freebie for You

It's my turn on the Gecko Galz blog to show my Star Maiden design team samples.  

I purchased a 3-D canvas star at Michael's which I painted to blend in the GG digital image, then added gold stickles.  The next two samples are digital compositions.

All three samples used the Gecko Galz collage set, Star Maidens.  This last one also uses Gecko Galz Angelic Card Toppers sentiment and Secret Garden Junk Journal Kit for the background.

You have until the end of the month to enter the customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog.

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Here is a free Gecko Galz collage sheet for you.  Just right click on the image and save to your files.  Have fun using these beautiful mermaid images.  Each day this month, a design team member offers a free collage sheet on their blog.  A great way to collect free digital images to use in the many challenges.

Star Gazing in July

The first of the month means a new customer challenge over at Gecko Galz.  Here is my design team sample to share with you.  Please hop over to the blog to be inspired by the entire design team's beautiful samples.  And please enter the contest yourself!  You have until the end of the month to make something wonderful.   

I bought a canvas star from Michael's.  I painted it and added the Gecko Galz image and some gold Stickles.  Image from Gecko Galz digital collage set, Star Maidens.

 And  there are four challenges on the  Facebook Papercrafting Challenge Group.  Where to get your images?  Gecko Galz has an Etsy site where you can purchase them: geckogalz.  Freebies are always available on the blog.

Beach Finds

Be sure to pop over to the  https://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/  to get my free digital image. You'll find it under the Gecko Galz June 15 blog post featuring my design team samples.  Here are more details about my samples.  The lesson here is:  if you don't have enough ephemera and have a photoshop program with digital files, you can add anything to your composition.  

 Sea Goddess of Fish

Gecko Galz  Goddess of the Sea Collage Set

misc bits and bobs from my collection

All the Princesses Cream Pearl Buttons and some extra fish from Janet Kemp over at Pixel Scrapper

Substrate:
Rogue Redhead Designs Beach Babes sand stamp (retired company)
Sepia Archival Ink
Brown cardstock

Sea Goddess of Shells

Gecko Galz  Goddess of the Sea Collage Set

misc bits and bobs from my collection

Substrate is a piece of tablecloth and cardstock

Journal Cover

fussy cut face from Gecko Galz Seaside Beauties tin toppers

adhered to Galz  paper substrate

computer generated  words using CK Ali's font, printed on Gecko Galz paper from She Sells Sea Shells digital paper pack; cut and adhered

quote from Jennifer Donnelly found in internet search for quotes

Journal Page

digital composition using: 

Gecko Galz She Sells Sea Shells digital paper pack and Take Me To The Shore digital collage set

extra digital images from my stash: pen, shell, label; internet quote

I printed out the ledger paper, distressed it, took a photo of it to use as a png file, and placed it in the digital composition.

Black and White Card

black card

Gecko Galz Black and White Jewel It digital set and Checkmate Card Toppers

digital brads and flower from stash

I printed out and cut all the jewel papers and created a pattern on the black card.

Then I printed out and added the checkmate image.  After I took a photo of the finished card, I digitally added the brads and flower.

There still is time to enter the Gecko Galz June Sea Goddess customer challenge on the Gecko Galz blog   along with many other challenges you'll find there. And  there are four challenges on the  Facebook Papercrafting Challenge Group.  Where to get your images?  Gecko Galz has an Etsy site where you can purchase them: geckogalz.  Freebies are always available on the blog.

Thirsty

 Using Gecko Galz digital images, I created a digital journal page:

Sharing with Art Journal Journey.  June's theme is People.

Entering: 

Gecko Galz papercrafting challenge facebook page:  L is for.......

Sea Goddesses

The first of the month means a new customer challenge over at Gecko Galz.  Here are my design team samples to share with you.  Please hop over to the blog to be inspired by the entire design team's beautiful samples.  And please enter the contest yourself!  You have until the end of the month to make something wonderful.   

 Sea Goddess of Fish

Gecko Galz  Goddess of the Sea Collage Set

misc bits and bobs from my collection

All the Princesses Cream Pearl Buttons and some extra fish from Janet Kemp over at Pixel Scrapper

Substrate:
Rogue Redhead Designs Beach Babes sand stamp (retired company)
Sepia Archival Ink
Brown cardstock

Sea Goddess of Shells

Gecko Galz  Goddess of the Sea Collage Set

misc bits and bobs from my collection

Substrate is a piece of tablecloth and cardstock

Wish Upon a Star

Today is my turn to share my design team samples on the Gecko Galz blog.  Both are digital compositions.  Be sure to pop over to the  Gecko Galz blog  to get my free digital image.

 

Where to get these images?  Gecko Galz has an Etsy site where you can purchase them: geckogalz.  I used "Wish Upon A Star" collage sheet.for both compositions.  For this second one, I enlarged a paper from the Frozen Mini ATC Sheet

You have until the end of the month to enter the many Gecko Galz c.ontests, so be sure to head over to their blog.

May Wishes

 The first of each month, Gecko Galz posts a newsletter chock full of exciting news.  Since there are monthly contests using Gecko Galz images, the winners are listed along with the new challenges. There's a free digital collage sheet just for the asking.  Subscribing to the newsletter is free.  You can request to be on the mailing list by looking for the subscription link on the right hand side of the blog page.  You will want to get the newsletter to learn about different promotions. 

There also is a Gecko Galz blog where you can find the monthly contests and the free images to use.

The monthly customer challenge for May  is Wish Upon A Star.  

For this challenge you may use any Gecko Galz image for your interpretation.  Here is my card sample using "Wish Upon A Star" collage sheet.

Where to get your images?  Gecko Galz has an Etsy site where you can purchase them: geckogalz.  

If you'd like even more challenges using Gecko Galz digital images, be sure to check out our Facebook Papercrafting Challenge Group.

There also is a Gecko Galz Facebook page with a monthly tag challenge. Winner gets a $25 shopping spree with Gecko Galz.  

And finally, for more inspiration look for samples on the Gecko Galz Pinterest page.