Gecko Galz Design Team December Tags

Hello dear friends,

Today I am sharing my December tags for Gecko Galz. I enjoy making tags and love to send them to friends during the Christmas season, for them to display and use them in their holiday decorations.

The darling images are from Gecko Galz the Christmas chic collage sheet for the darling woman with tree and Retro Christmas for the stylized deer.

Let me tell you how I made these:

For the Christmas Cheer Tag:

I painted the tag in a distressed pink paint edged in blue with the sentiment Christmas Cheer, rubbed on.  Next came a layer of tulle, a blue under Paper piece then the darling Gecko Galz image was next. The added embellishments were braid, plastic snow flakes and Stickles for some added shine.

For the Happy Holidays Tag:

Using printed paper I fringed the edges,  I layered tulle then pink and blue under paper and finally  the retro deer image. The embellishments were silver edging, Happy Holidays sentiment and Stickles for shine.

So that's how I made these tags, I hope you enjoy making your tags this season.

Artfully yours, 

Gerri

Gecko Galz November 2017 Design Team

Hello Friends, today is my  Design Team feature day at Gecko Galz. Come check out the site to see amazing image sheets to use for all your paper arts and digital arts too. For all the Christmas cards I made, somehow my images  all involved little deers.  This month's Customer Challenge is "Santa Clause Lane", make a project and submit it and maybe you will win the  $25 shopping spree at Gecko Galz. All you have to do is to use any Gecko Galz image that supports the theme. My first card has a tiny Santa atop my little deer!  Well enjoy my greeting cards  and have a wonderful time creating! Take care, Gerri

Gecko Galz 7th Annual Blog Hop 2017

Hello Everyone!

We want to welcome everyone to the

Gecko Galz 7th Annual Blog Hop

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

We have 13 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

"French Botanicals".

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 $50 Shopping spree with Gecko Galz.

·        Third prize is a $25 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 journal kit each quarter, a ATC collection each quarter, and one jewel it collection!

 This is a $176 value! 

First of all, you will need to visit all 13 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) 

Please enjoy this free Gecko Galz Collage sheet

“French Botanicals”

Now have fun visiting each Blog

Joan Liddle

Barbara Bird

Vicki Romain

Patti Fisher

Marilyn Hughes

Michele Storms

Carole Jones

Margaret Ashby

Gerri Herbst

Carole Wright

Nancy Nickel
Heather Hudson

Leanne Seed

Take care,
Gerri

Friend

Thank You

Birthday Wishes

Happy

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas

Friends Make Life Blossom

October Gecko Galz Design Team Projects

Hello Friends,

Today, I am  the featured Designer over at the Gecko Galz Website. You can see my featured creations below of both cards and tags. They all are revolve around my favorite holiday, bootiful ...Halloween. The images are from the "Dark Arts" Gecko Galz sheet. I layer papers, netting, images, paint and glitters to create depth and visual interest. By the way, they have a fun contest going on too with the Halloween theme "Bump in the Night".  They have this contest every month. 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. Why not give it a try.

Take care, Gerri

She Dracula

Frightening Shadows

Beware

Strike of Midnight

My Little Space Space Cadet

Hello  my friends. Today I am sharing a 3D piece called my little space cadet! Using Retro Cafe Art pieces, I assembled their   mini ornate frame shrine and added star mix cut outs , unfinished wood spools and lots of gold Stickles. The head, gears and letter cubes were from my stash. It's not my usual theme but somehow it just happened!  My husband said it was out of this world!

Hope you like her!Artfully yours,Gerri

Space Cadet blasting off

My Little Space Cadet

Sept Gecko Galz Design Team

Hello Friends,

Today I am  the featured Designer over at the Gecko Galz Website. You can see my featured creations below. They all have the same script font cutouts that I built the projects around. Of course, it was the lovely Gecki Galz images that truly inspired me. By the way, they have a fun contest going on too with the theme "Harvest Time".  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.

"Thank You Harvest Time"

"Explore my pretty one"

"Family First"

August Gecko Galz Design Team Cards By the Shore

Today friends I am being featured on the Gecko Galz website as part of the Design Team. You can see the cards using all Gecko Galz images,  that I made for this month.  I stamped, stenciled and painted all the backgrounds, layered the images and then added embellishments. The final touch is always the sentiments.

The theme this month is "By the Shore" for the Gecko Galz customer challenge, if you participate you can even win prizes. Please come check us out. All my projects are mermaid related, so they can all be found by the shore. LOL. If you know just one thing about me, it is that I adore mermaids. When I was young, I wanted to grow up and be one, need I say more?
Thank you for visiting today.
Hope you have a beautiful week.
Take care,
Gerri

"Dream. The world is your oyster."

"The greatest thing in the world."

"Dream and wonderful things happen."

Gecko Galz July 2017 Design Team Post

Hello Friends,
Today I am posting my July Gecko Galz projects that will be featured on their site today. Click here to see. Gecko Galz is a great community where you can be inspired by great designers and also enter contests to win prizes. This months customer challenge is "In A Mermaids Garden. "Enter your mermaid project and you may win a wonderful prize!
Hope you enjoy these creations.
Do take care,
Gerri

"Mermaid Dance"

"Lovely Day"

"Oh you beautiful doll"

Cupid Love

Hello Friends near and far,
Here is a mixed media piece I did using Retro Cafe Art products. I love to mix different supplies and techniques to be creative. This piece uses scraps of a doily, crackle paint and a wood texture stamp. The pieces from Retro Cafe Art were, Double Cupid ornament,
Retro grunge valentine Heart paper cuts,Valentine cut words paper cuts and the 
Large Masonite Heart as the base.

Hope you have a love-LY week.
Take Care, 
Gerri

"Cupid Love"

June 2017 Gecko Galz Design Team Projects

Hello dear friends,
Today I am sharing some of the June greeting cards I created for Gecko Galz.  This is my feature day so you will see these on the Gecko Galz site. The customer challenge  for June is "Under the Big Top", if you make something using a Gecko Galz image you can win $25 worth if Gecko Galz amazing images. Why not give it a whirl.
Hope you have an amazing week!
Artfully yours,
Gerri

"Happy Birthday"

"Simply Perfect"

"Follow your Bliss"

Queen Bee

Hello,
I love thinking up ways to use scraps, bits and sometimes even items destined for the trash in my art. Here is a collage that used the waste from the mini ornate frame shrine from Retro Cafe Art. I also used the their nature sketch book ATC collage sheet and Stickles. Since it is Spring, I am also sharing some photos of our gardenias blooming in the front of our home. I just adore them!

Take care
Gerri

"Queen Bee"

Mothers Love Tea Cup

Happy Mothers Day my friends,
I hope you are having a pleasant day, lets share a culpa tea together.
Here is a 3D tea cup using Retro Cafe Art pieces that I created embellishing it with stamping, paint, German scrap and a hand cut saying. The saying reads "Mothers love is like a soothing cup of tea....steeped with understanding and sweetened with kindness."
Hope you have a sweet day.
Take care,
Gerri

Mothers Love

Gecko Galz May Design Team Projects

Hello dear friends.

Today is my designer feature day over at  at Gecko Galz's. I am sharing my projects including a card and tags. The customer challenge theme is  Country Charm. You can see the cute little birds with the country picnic basket called Home Comfort, as my interpretation. If you make something with this theme  and you can share it on their blog and you could win prizes. Come join us for all the fun.

Artfully yours,

Gerri

Happy Forever

   

Always Together

Discover Love

Home Comfort

Love Bird with Tulle Flower

Today I am sharing a mixed media piece of a sweet tutu bird. It is called "Love Bird". I have included both sides and close ups for you to see. I used Retro Cafe Art supplies including the Bird stand up. It is printed with FinnAbair rubber stamp set "Trust The Magic " wood grain, some floral rub ons then wrapped with Tulle and  Bakers twine in Light pink.

Hope you will be a love bird this week.
Take care,
Gerri

Trust the Magic

Hello, visiting friends. 
Here is a tag using the gorgeous FinnAbair "trust the magic" stamp and gold Stickles of course. You know how much I enjoy sparkly things. I've been into gold embellishments lately, here you can see gold ribbon, tulle, roses, leaves and even little coins. 

Hope you remember to trust the magic this week.
Take care,
Gerri

"Trust the Magic!"

Gecko Galz Design Team April Projects

Hello friends, today is my featured designer day at Gecko Galz, come check it out.This month's Customer challenge is Alice's  Tea Party. Come join the fun you might even win a prize. Here are some of my featured  cards  using the gorgeous Gecko Galz images. Enjoy your visit.
Artfully yours,
Gerri

"Its always tea time"

"Queen Bee"

"A little birdie told me so"

"Sweet Bee"