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Friday, November 1, 2019

Peace On Earth

It's a new month and
that means it's a new Customer Challenge at

and you should see the amazing pieces
that we have been seeing lately
for our challenges!

Here is this month's theme:

just in time for you to start or finish
your Christmas cards!

Herr is one I made using
glorious Gecko Galz images:


I used Gecko Galz Blue Background paper
an image from the Merry Little Reindeer Collage Sheets
and a digital stamp for the word,
from the Digital Image set:  ChristmasTime
Layers upon layer upon layers.
You can also  print out these images and do the same 
thing as I do, only in paper!
These beautiful Gecko Galz products
which can be found of course in the


Thursday, October 24, 2019

Blog Hop

We want to welcome everyone to the
Gecko Galz 9th Annual Blog Hop



This is your third stop on our Tricks and Treats Blog Hop!
We have 12 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 download, the one here (found below my samples) is
"SHOW STOPPERS".


First of all, you will need to visit all 12 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 geckogalz2019@gmail.com.
This enters you in the contest. On October 28th 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.



Visit Gecko Galz at

https://www.etsy.com/shop/geckogalz

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!

I made a few samples with the
free collage sheet I have for you and
various other Gecko Galz products:





Remember, you can get
all of these amazing
products at our
Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

For an extra chance to win make a purchase from the GECKO GALZ ETSY STORE between the 24th of October and the 27th 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!

You have been so patient.
Now here is your own free collage sheet,
SHOW STOPPERS
Just right-click on the image and
save to your computer.
Now have fun visiting each Blog:

Gecko Galz
Katie Lamb
Patti Fisher (that's me and you are here. Hi!)
Vicki Romaine
Mia
Rene Van Wyck
Betsy Davis
Laurie Davis
Carole Jones
Amanda Hamilton
Gerri Herbst
Cathy Norton

Leanne Seed

See  you on our travels!


Monday, October 7, 2019

Gypsy Fortunes

Hi everyone!

 Have you created your masterpiece yet for
this month's Customer Challenge at


You know the theme already:

and you know what I made for my
college sample:

Well, I made a few more, 'cus
it is such a cool theme!

(they all are, to be honest. lol)

Here we go:

I used the Gypsy Beauties Collage Sheet set
for all of these projects


Additional Gecko Galz Products Used:

Icons from the Parisian Garden Craft kit
C'est La Vie paper pak
Charming Words Collage Sheet set


Additional Gecko Galz Products Used:

Star-Crossed Paper pak
In Other Words Collage Sheet set


Additional Gecko Galz Products Used:

Boho Dream ATC Collection Paper
Icons from the High Tea Craft kit
Scripted collage Sheet set

Each piece is made of layers, with
additional gypsy-like elements from my
stash used to embellish.

All of these goodies can be found at

You have the entire month of October to
join in with our Customer Challenge.

The only requirement is that you use at least
one Gecko Galz item.
How easy is that,
with these gorgeous products?!

And you could be the winner of a 
$25.00 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree!

Have you checked out our 
Gecko Galz Papercrafting
Facebook group yet?
We have the best challenges on there, always something
extra special and the
pieces by our talented Design Team
will
BLOW YOUR MIND!

I will watch for you over there
and I promise you, you will not be disappointed.
In my humble opinion, the
Gecko Galz Papercrafting group is
such a fun creative community to be a part of.

And be sure to link your project up for the challenge at

Gecko Galz

See you there!
Thanks for coming by!




Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Welcome to October!


Look at our new Customer Challenge theme!
I love this one!
GYPSY FORTUNES!


You have the entire month of September to
join in with our Customer Challenge.

The only requirement is that you use at least
one Gecko Galz item.
How easy is that,
with these gorgeous products?!

And you could be the winner of a 

$25.00 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree!

Here is a little something I made to help get your creative juices flowing:

For this piece, I used the beautiful
Gypsy Beauties Collage Sheet set
La Isla Bonita, Smitten and Tribal Fire
 Paper paks
and the Chalkboard Sentiments
Collage Sheet Set


You can get all of the cool Gecko Galz 
papers, digital stamps and Craft kit from
that I used from 

Have you checked out our 
Gecko Galz Papercrafting
Facebook group yet?
We have the best challenges on there, always something
extra special and the
pieces by our talented Design Team
will
BLOW YOUR MIND!

I will watch for you over there
and I promise you, you will not be disappointed.
In my humble opinion, the
Gecko Galz Papercrafting group is
such a fun creative community to be a part of.

Here is just one example of the challenges for this month:
See you there!!

Sunday, September 8, 2019

More Steampunk

Hey have you got your project done yet for

I did a few pieces to hopefully
inspire you, in case you have not.
You have the entire month to link up at 

Gecko Galz products used:
Curiosity shop paper
Industrial Age digital Stamp 
Gecko Galz products used:
Curiosity shop paper
Industrial Age digital Stamp  
Gecko Galz products used:
Steampunk paper pak
Steam Powered Collage Sheet

Each piece is made of layers, with
Steamplunky elements from my
stash used to embellish.

All of these goodies can be found at

You have the entire month of September to
join in with our Customer Challenge.

The only requirement is that you use at least
one Gecko Galz item.
How easy is that,
with these gorgeous products?!

And you could be the winner of a 
$25.00 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree!

So get your steampunk project done and link up at
Thanks for coming by
and we will see you there!



Saturday, August 31, 2019

Steampunk Autumn

Welcome to September at




I used the following Gecko Galz products
for this piece:

Curiosity Shop, In Marble Halls &Timeless paper paks
Vintage Spring Craft Kit
Industrial Age digital stamp set
Mechanics of Life Collage Sheet Set

As with everything I do digitally, this is simply
layer upon layer.

I painted the bird blue, making a separate layer behind 
the digital stamp.
The angel was from the 
Mechanics of Life Collage Sheet Set
on Multiply blend mode.

The rest of the elements are from my stash.
I have a big stash of steampunky stuff. lol

So here are the layers, starting with the background:

Timeless paper
Image from Mechanics of Life Collage Sheet Set
Top hat and my stash elements
Border made from my own black overlay used
as a mask with a paper from the 
In Marble Halls paper pak
Postcard from the Vintage Spring craft kit
Another paper from In Marble Halls
Industrial Age digital stamp over a 
paper from the Curiosity Shop paper pak
A second 
Industrial Age digital stamp over a 
paper from the Curiosity Shop paper pak
Hardware from my stash
Wings from my stash
And finally,
I finished it all off with additional
Steampunky elements from my stash.

TA DA!!!!

To tell you the truth,
it was more work writing all of this out
than it was making the darn thing! lolol

You can get all of the cool Gecko Galz 
papers, digital stamps and Craft kit from 

You have the entire month of September to
join in with our Customer Challenge.

The only requirement is that you use at least
one Gecko Galz item.
How easy is that,
with these gorgeous products?!

And you could be the winner of a 
$25.00 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree!

So get your steampunk project done and link up at
Thanks for coming by
and we will see you there!


Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Seaside Shabby Chic

Welcome to August, peeps!
And welcome to a month of a new challenge at
Isn't that an awesome theme for the month?

Here is something I made for this theme:

This was such a fast and easy
piece to make.
I use Photoshop Elements for my digital scrapbooking.

The background is a paper from the
Seaside Paper Pak
I used the Summer Girls collage Sheet set
for the image of the woman.
I cropped it, then placed it over top of the background paper.
I erased around it.
Then I added the sign icon from
the Seaside Craft Kit,
along with a post from my stash.
I merged the layers and applied a film grain filter.
Lastly, a stitched border, again from my vast stash
and we're done!
How much easier could it be?!
(The truth is, I almost forgot to do this in time
for the new month and had to whip it
up really quickly last night at midnight-lol)

But you don't need any reason to miss out on participating in this fun 
August Customer Challenge.
You can get all of the Gecko Galz products I used at
our Etsy Shop, and lots more!

Seriously.
You'll want to check it out and hopefully you will play along with us.

Get all the deets on this wonderful
Customer Challenge

and maybe you will be the lucky winner of a

$25 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree !

You still have the whole month of August
to link up your project.

We look forward to seeing what you make!

Thanks for coming by!

Monday, July 8, 2019

Animal


credits: Rebecca McMeen, Paula Kesselring, Dawn Inskip, Mommyish

Steampunk

for this week's Take A Word

credits:  Rucola Designs, Kerry Klaasen Veale

Summertime!

So I decided to play along with the current challenge at

because my friend Michele is hosting it.

TaDa!!

credits:  Little Butterfly Wings, Paula Kesselring,
Mommyish, Gecko Galz

Thanks for coming by!

Monday, July 1, 2019

Feature Day

Today  is my day to be featured on the 
for our 
Midsummer Night's Dream Monthly Challenge theme.
Here are my samples for the month, along with
the Gecko Galz products I used to make them:


Midsummer Night's Dream Collage Sheets Set
Nouveau Garden paper pak
Butterfly Dreams paper pak
Butterfly from the Parisian Garden Craft kit


Midsummer Night's Dream Collage Sheets Set
Magnolia Blossoms paper pak


Midsummer Night's Dream Collage Sheets Set
Wonderful Watercolour ATC backgrounds set
Namaste paper pak
flower from the La Boheme Craft kit
Charming Words Collage Sheet Set

If you have been here before,
you know how I make these digital pieces.
Using PSE13, I layer
the images, papers and icons I want,
accenting them with borders and brushes
from my monster stash.  lol
I seem to be on an "add a stroke to everything" kick,
so I have done that with each layer this month.
It will pass. haha

And in the case of my second sample, I did add a beautiful frame
by Kimeric Kreations.  Kim passed about a year ago and
her talent and generosity in sharing that
talent knew no bounds.
I still miss her.

You have until the end of the month to
Midsummer Night's Dream challenge
and you can find more glorious examples
from the rest of our talented Design Team 

Will we see you there?
I sure hope so.


And thanks for coming by!



Welcome to a Midsummer Night's Dream


What are you going to make for this
fantastic theme?
Here is mine:
for my sample I used:
Midsummer Night's Dream Collage Sheet Set
Victoria Paper Pak
Free Birds Paper Pak
Just Words Digital Stamp Set

from the
Gecko Galz Etsy Shop


Make sure you check out the other
beautiful samples at the
 Gecko Galz blog
and get your own project linked up there.

The only rule is that you need to use at least
one Geck Galz product, and you could
win a
$25.00 shopping Spree at the


We are looking forward to seeing what you create!

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Wings


I am not sure if Penguins have wings, but 
I sure did have fun making this!

credits:  Pink Reptile Designs


Friends


credits:  Rebecca McMeen, Lynnmarie

Summer



credits:  Lynn Grieveson

Saturday, June 8, 2019

Feature Day

Today is my day to be featured on the

And you will remember, I'm sure, that this month's theme is
In the Good Old Summer Time


I made some ATC's this month to share with you: 



Each ATC uses a black and white image from the
Summertime Collage sheet set, wordart from
the Charming Words Set and
a paper from the Paradise Island paper pak.

I added borders from my stash, and 
a stroke to each layer to make
the layer pop.

Finally, I placed each creation over top 
of another paper with another border.

The background papers are


1. Wonderful Watercolours ATC Collection
2. Zen Garden paper pak
3. Zen Garden paper pak
4. Starlight ATC Collection

You have until the end of the month to
join in with our  
In The Good Old Summer Time challenge
and you can find more glorious examples
from the rest of our talented Design Team 

Will we see you there?
I sure hope so.


And thanks for coming by here!


Saturday, June 1, 2019

Cowboy

I call this "Wanted".
You may read into it anything you like. 

credits:  E. Wright, Kristen Aagard, Little Butterfly Wings

In The Good Old Summer Time

I am singing along to that song
"In the Good Old Summer Time", 
and I realize that is the only line of it that I know.
But that does't stop me.  
Are you like that?
Do you just make up words as you go along
to songs you can't remember?
Well, maybe it's just me.
At any rate, that
is our theme for
the Gecko Galz customer challenge this month!
Isn't that fun?



Here is my contribution
(just one of many gorgeous samples, I
might add, by our talented Design Team)
for this sample, I used
these Gecko Galz products:
Surreal Life Jewel sheet
(which is spectacular!)
In Other Words wordart,
and La Isla Bonita paper pak.

ALL OF WHICH
can be found in our

As my digital pieces always are,
simply layer upon layer of
those wonderful Gecko Galz products!

In this case, I placed the cropped image from the 
Surreal Life Jewel sheet
over top of the paper from the 
La Isla Bonita paper pak.
I added the border and jewels from
my stash, along with a couple of
extra clouds.
Then it is finished with the wordart
from the Gecko Galz In Other Words
digital stamp set.

Make sure you check out the other
beautiful samples at the
 Gecko Galz blog
and get your own project linked up there.

The only rule is that you need to use at least
one Geck Galz product, and you could
win a
$25.00 shopping Spree at the


We are looking forward to seeing what you create!

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Frame(s)


credits:  NBK Design

Thanks for coming by!

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

And the winner is....

Drum roll, please...

Sari/Granne!

Congratulations Sari!

And thanks to everyone who commented!!

Automobiles



credits:  Itkupilli and Nifty Pixel

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

More Flappers and A Giveaway!

Today is my day to be featured on the
Gecko Galz blog
and to remind you of this month's
Dapper Flapper Customer Challenge and
to tell you about exciting things happening
on May 15 at Gecko Galz.

And I hope if you haven't already linked up
to our challenge here yet, that you are working on
your project for the challenge!

Here are some samples to help
get your creative juices flowing:
Gecko Galz products used:
Artful Ladies Collage Sheet Set
PS I Love You Paper Pak
La Isla Bonita Paper Pak
Beautiful Words Wordart
Holiday Icons Craft Kit

Gecko Galz products used:
Artful Ladies Collage Sheet Set
Scripted Wordart
High Society Paper Pak
Icon from the Parisian Gardens Craft Kit

Gecko Galz products used:
Artful Ladies Collage Sheet Set
Chocolate Box Paper pak
Love Potion No9 Paper Pak
All You Need wordart
icons from the
High Tea Craft Kit
and the Curiosity Shop Craft Kit

All of these awesome
Gecko Galz
kits, papers and sheets can be found at our

Each of my projects is just made
by layering paper on paper, icon and 
putting the cropped and wordart image on top of that.
Sometimes I will add a border.
Sometime I add a stroke to the outside of the layers, or a style.
If you know how to use your
photo software, the sky's the limit
with the beautiful Gecko Galz products.

Remember, you have the whole
month of May to create something for our


And here are the other exciting happenings that
you will definitely want to know about:

On May 15th, Gecko Galz will be celebrating 8 years!

On May 15 there will a giveaway of 8 prizes 
worth $50.00 Etsy store vouchers. 
WOW 8! 
and
Buy one get one free till May 15th
 is on over at the 
and
 I want to add to the fun.

All you need to do is add a comment 
to this post telling me which of my
three samples for this month you would
like me to send you.
I will email you a digital file which 
you can print out and use on a card
or in any way  you wish!

If I choose your name on May 15th
in a random draw, not only will you
win one of my digital creations, 
you will also win a
$25.00 Shopping Spree
at the
Is that not amazing?!

So leave me a comment and who knows.
It could be your lucky day!


Good Luck!