Gecko Galz In Wonderland

HI!

Have you made your sample for

this month's customer challenge yet at

Gecko Galz?

If not, why not?  

There are so many great products you can choose from at the

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Here are a few examples of what you can create:

Would you like to know how to make one of these?

Pretty much everything I do these days is digital

(well, not dirty dishes or cleaning toilets, or laundry, or...you get the picture)

So for the last one, you need a 

photo-editing program of some kind.

I use Photoshop Elements 13.

Now my instructions are going to seem 

backwards if you have never

done any digital pieces.

Be patient with me. :-)

Start with one of the Go Ask Alice collage sheets.

Crop the above image from it.

Then get out one of the Chalkboard Sentiments

collage sheets and crop the above image from that.

Apply a bevel style to the sentiment and

place over top of the Alice sheet.

Add text with the word "But".

I used the Medusa Font.

Create a new layer and add the words "she will".

Same font.

Position them where you want them.

Add the arrow

The one I used was from a blog hop quite some time ago,

it's by the Digichick.

Place it where you want it.

Duplicate the arrow a few times and

place them strategically where you want them.

Create a new layer, 4"High x 6" Wide.

Fill it with black.

Place Alice over that, kind of in the corner.

Open the black paper from the

Mad Tea Party paper pak.

Place your image over that paper, kind of in the corner.  

Add a white stroke to the top layer and a drop shadow.

Open the blue paper from the same paper pak.

Move your image over top of that,

kind of in the corner.

Do you see how we are just

repeating the process here?

Easy, right?

Add a red stroke to the top layer.

Over another paper from the same paper pak.

Place your image over that,

kind of in the corner.

Add a black stroke over that.

Go back to your Chalkboard Sentiment 

image that you cropped out and crop out

just the word "Believe" from that.

Using the magnetic lasso tool,

extract the actual banner and

place over your original piece

(that now has all those layers).

Add a white stroke to the banner.

Create one more new layer,

12"x12"-

this is the LAST ONE!

Fill it with black.

Move the whole shebang to

that last layer.

Add a bevel style to the top layer.

And YOU'RE DONE!!

I know, I know, especially

to the uninitiated, this seems like

a lot of steps.

But they are all just repeats of the first step,

for the most part.

Even a beginner can do this one!

(to tell you the truth,

it took me longer to type the directions out

than it did to make the piece!)

Now you have no excuse to not play along with our

April Customer Challenge, right?

It can be digital or paper, pens and glue.

You decide.

And remember you can get these fun 

Alice images and papers from the

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

We look forward to seeing your creations!

Thanks for coming by!

Electra out, cus I am dizzy.

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