Love Is In The Air

Welcome to 2019!

And congratulations on 

surviving 2018!

It was quite the ride!

And of course a new year means

a new month and that means

a brand new challenge at

Gecko Galz Scrapbooking

You know the deal with our

magnificent 

Monthly Customer Challenges

at 

Gecko Galz Scrapbooking,

right?

You know you only

need to use at least one Gecko Galz product

to participate in the challenge.

That is the only hard part of it.

Using only

ONE product!

You can find all the deets on the

Gecko Galz Blog.

(including the fact that YOU

could be the winner of a $25.00 shopping spree

by linking up to our challenge!)

Not only that, you will find an

amazing selection of art from our

talented Design Team for this

month's theme.

Here is my little project to help get you

pointed in the right direction:

The bottom layer is a plain black paper I made,

The next layer is a paper from the Gatsby paper pak.

Then over that, another paper from the Gatsby paper pak.

I applied a reverse bevel to that.

The main image is from the

Isn't It Romantic collage sheet set.

I applied a black stroke to that.

Added the word, some stitching and two feathers,

all of which are from my digi-stash.

And it's done!

Now it's YOUR turn.

We look forward to seeing what you create for our
Love Stories Challenge.

And thanks for coming by!

Happy New Year!

Free Style

This is for Take A Word

I love flowers and this is one

of my favorite layouts.

I hope you like it too.

Thanks for stopping by!

Electra,

Over and out

Deck The Halls

Have you finished your decorating yet for Christmas?

Have you done all your baking?

Are you ready to sit for a while and make

something magical with any of the

Gecko Galz Christmas Craft kits/papers/collage sheets/digital stamps?

Each year I make a 12x12 digital piece and display it on my mantle.

Here is this year's:

I love Norman Rockwell, don't you?

Especially at Christmas.

For this one I used these Gecko Galz products:

Christmas Days Gone By Collage Sheet
Victorian Christmas paper pak
Christmas Dreams Craft Kit
a free image from last Christmas (the ribbon banner)

All of these products and more can be found at the

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop 

Here is a shot of my mantle:

Hmm, it looks like my quilt is crooked. :-(

And here are a few closeups:

I added some Glossy Accents, Perfect Pearls and

stick-on dollar-store ornaments at the top 

and trees at the bottom.

And that's a wrap!

Speaking of wrap, are all your gifts wrapped?

No?  Well, what are you doing here?

Go, get busy!

Hugs,

Electra

Snow Queen

The new challenge at Gecko Galz is

"Snow Queen"

Isn't that lovely?

 December 1st to the 30th.

Feel free to grab our badge, and share on your blogs.

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 

Here is the piece I made for this challenge 

The Gecko Galz products I used for this are

First Class Passage Paper Pak

(for the background)

From Russia With Love

Collage Sheet

(the Queen)

and Charming Words Collage Sheet

(wordart)

I embellished it with a couple of border overlays and

and the key and little diamond piece behind

the wordart, from the

Czarina Craft kit.

(which is lovely)

As always, everything is just cropped to size and layered, 

one on top of the other.

I am going to print this out

and use it for the top of a 

Christmas card.

You know of course that you can get these

Gecko Galz products from the

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

and they are beyond affordable!

What are you going to make?

See you over at

Gecko Galz Scrapbooking

Thanks for  coming by!

Quote

This is for this week's challenge at

The Three Muses

I know this quote, but I

apologize, as I can't remember

who said it.

Perhaps you know?

Very Merry Designs

Today is my day

to be featured on the

Gecko Galz blog

So I was in the mood to make

some ATC's rather than my

usual digital samples

I printed out the papers and images 

and used them for my ATC's.

 All of the backgrounds are from the

Dashing Through the Snow

paper pak

 and all of the images

are from the

Christmas Tangles digital stamp set.

I sized them out in

Photoshop Elements, printed them and

coloured them with markers.

I actually use this stamp set a lot.

It's one of my favorites.

and then I finished them off with

stuff from my

way-too-big

Christmas stash.

Be sure to check out these and the

many other

awesome Christmas goodies at

the

Gecko Galz Etsy shop

You will have SO

much fun with them!

Wings

for this week's challenge at

Take A Word

credits:  Rebecca McMeen,

Finecrafted Designs

Squares

for this week's challenge at

Sunday Postcard Art

Monochrome

for The Three Muses

credits:  Rebecca McMeen, Little Butterfly Wings

Thanks for stopping by!

Gettin Back At It

I have neglected this blog far too long.

There have been a number of good reasons,

mainly health-related, but I want to get back to it.

So here is what I have been busy with:

See you soon.

Jingle All The Way

Well, here it is almost Christmas

and I have done nothing to get ready.

NOTHING

And it's a new Customer Challenge over at

Gecko Galz:

And I made a little something for you
to get you in the holiday mood!

This was so easy to make!

It's digital, but

you can do the same thing with

paper by printing the collage sheets 

and papers out and cutting them

and layering them.

I cropped the image I wanted from the

Snow Much Fun Jewel Sheet

The background is black paper

Over that I put a paper from the

Victorian Christmas paper pak

Then over that I put a paper from the

Merry and Bright paper pak

On top is the cropped Snow Much Fun image

The sentiment is from the

Christmas Dreams craft kit.

DONE!

You can do that!

There are so many fun Christmas-themed

Collage Sheet Sets, papers, digital stamps
as well as the Christmas Dreams Digital Craft kit

in the 

Gecko Galz Etsy shop

Make sure you enter our
Customer Challenge this month.

And the only rule for you to enter is

that you use at least one

Gecko Galz item.

That couldn't be any easier!

You can find all the deets Here

including the news that

you can Win a $25.00 Gecko Galz shopping spree!
Just in time to begin you Christmas projects!

Plus there are some

gorgeous Design Team samples

at the Gecko Galz blog

that you will

be inspired to create something wonderful!

I'll see you over there, right?

(And don't forget, you have

until the end of the month to

play along!

The October Blog Hop is Here!

Hello Everyone! 

We want to welcome everyone to the

Gecko Galz 8th Annual Blog Hop

 This is your Fourth stop on our Tricks and Treats Blog Hop! 

We have 18 AMAZING blogs for you to visit this weekend, each with some gorgeous projects created using the Gecko Galz collage sheets that we are giving you for FREE! Each blog you visit will have another free Gecko Galz Collage sheet for you to down load, the one here is

"IN YOUR DREAMS ".

 I made some samples using this beautiful sheet to help inspire you.

They are all digital.

Underneath each sample,

I have listed the other Gecko Galz products used.

Curiosity Shop paper pak and 

In Other Words collage sheet set

Seeing Red paper pak

Free Birds paper pak

High Society paper pak

La Isla Bonita paper pak and

In Other Words Collage Sheet

High Tea paper pak and In Other Words collage sheet

Seeing Red paper pak

Namaste paper pak and

icon from the Curiosity Shop Craft Kit

Seeing Red paper pak

Also make sure you leave a message on each blog site you visit and on the last blog there will be a phrase that you will email to us to be entered in our drawing for a wonderful treat pack.  So sit back, relax, take your time and enjoy the hop!

We have FOUR amazing prizes up for grabs:

·        First is a Gecko Galz shopping spree for $100!

·        Second prize is a $75 Shopping spree with Gecko Galz.

·        Third prize is a $50 shopping spree!

·        And our Grand Prize ONE FULL YEAR of Gecko Galz PRODUCTS!!! This includes the 6 new collage sheets each quarter, a new stamp set each quarter, 2 new paper packs each quarter, a ATC collection each quarter, and one jewel it collection!

 This is a $150 value!

First of all, you will need to visit all 18 blogs and leave a comment on each blog :) **This is important so we know you have been to all the blogs **. Collect the phrase at the end of the hop on the Fripperies and Butterflies site there will be a link to email the phrase to Gecko Galz at geckogalz2014@gmail.com.

This enters you in the contest. On October 31st we will randomly draw the 4 winners and email each of you, then we will post the winning names on the Gecko Galz blog site.

For an extra chance to win make a purchase from the GECKO GALZ ETSY STORE between the 26th of October and the 30^th of October and your name goes in again for a better chance of winning (each purchase you make that weekend gives you another chance to win) 

Now have fun visiting each Blog

Gecko Galz

Katie Lamb

Kelley Biser

Patti Fisher   (You're here!)

Vicki Romaine

Cathy Norton

Margaret Ashby

Michele Storms

Laurie Davis

Cathy Frailey

Darlene Wright

Carole Jones

Ginny Maxam

Kasia

Gerri Herbst

Leslie Turner

Amanda Hamilton

Leanne Seed

Vampy Witches

Is "Vampy" a word?

Spellcheck doesn't think so.

But take a look at these sexy witches from the

Gecko Galz Pretty Witches Collage Sheet!

Pretty vampy, eh?

In addition to the Pretty Witches Collage Sheet,

 I used background papers from the

Coven paper pak,

icons from the Arsenic and Old Lace craft kit and

wordart from the 

Witchy Words collage sheet set.

And these are all available

at the Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Very simple process to make these,

the same process I use to make

pretty much all of my

Gecko Galz samples:

I crop the image I want and mask it.

Place it and any icons I want over top of the background paper.

Add wordart.

Add a border overlay.

Done!

If you do digital,

you know how easy this is.

BUT, remember, my little

Gecko Galz pretties,

you can print any of the Gecko Galz products out very easily

and put them together with glue and scissors.

Have you made your entry for this month's

customer challenge yet?

All the deets are here.

And don't forget, on October 26th,

our Annual Halloween bloghop begins!

So it's a busy Gecko Galz month, 

with tons of Gecko Galz fun.

Get your witch on, friends!

The Witching Hour

Bahahaaaaaaa!

Boo!

Welcome to October, my little Pretties!

It's a new month and that means it's

a new Customer Challenge!

It's time to get your spook on!!

There are so many fun Halloween-themed

Collage Sheet Sets, papers, digital stamps
and the Arsenic and Lace Digital Craft kit

in the 

Gecko Galz Etsy shop

that you may just

lose your mind trying

to choose what to use!

Here is something I made to get you thinking:

And the only rule for you to enter is

that you use at least one

Gecko Galz item.

That couldn't be any easier!

You can find all the deets Here

including the news that

you can Win a $25.00 Gecko Galz shopping spree!
Just in time to begin you Christmas projects!

Plus there are some

gorgeous Design Team samples

at the Gecko Galz blog

that you will

be inspired to create something wonderful!

I'll see you over there, right?

(And don't forget, you have

until the end of the month to

play along!

Thanks for coming by!

(I have to go now and finish
last year's candy.)

Ritzy!

I can be Ritzy.

Can you?

Well, if you feel you can't be ritzy,

surely you can make a piece of 

Ritzy art

(using fabulous Gecko Galz products that you can get Here!

I made these to hopefully help get your

creative juices flowing:

I used the Charming Words Collage Sheet, 

Ooh La La Collage Sheet, 

and a paper from the High Society Paper Pak

For this second one, I used the

Charming Words Collage Sheet Set, Sparkle and Shine Collage Sheet, 

and paper from the Gatsby Paper Pak

and finally:

for this last one, I used the

 In Other Words Collage Sheet Set, Shall We Dance Collage Sheet, 

and a paper from the C'est La Vie Paper Pak

My pieces are all digital and I used

Photoshop Elements as my photo-editing software.

BUT REMEMBER!

you can easily print out whatever

pieces you need, print them, cut them out, glue them

together and embellish to your heart's desire!

So no excuses not to play along, right?!

And you just might be the lucky one

who wins a $25.00 

Gecko Galz Shopping Spree!

I'll see you over there

at the Gecko Galz blog

Good luck and above all,

have fun!!

and thank you for coming by!