Sweet Marie Necklace

Hello Art Friends,
Here is a little piece of jewelry I created using a Marie Antoinette image  and art bits and bobs from Retro Cafe Art. I love using my paper crafting supplies for other things like jewelry or home decor. My first love will always be greeting cards because I love sending my little creations out to share with others, but its fun to come up with other uses.

Hope you have sweet week.
Artfully yours,
Gerri

Sweet Marie Necklace

Full Moon in the Graveyard

How about some Halloween earrings. Its a great way to secretly celebrate even at work. You have to look close to see what they are.  I enjoy using my scrapbooking/paper arts supplies for different uses. These earrings were made using Retro Cafe Art tombstone cutouts and tiny bats. I applied them to silver Stickles round disks. A little red blood paint for accents and I was all done. Cant wait to wear them out!

Hope you have a boo-tiful week.
Take care, Gerri

"Full Moon Earrings"

Be Playful

Today we are being visited by my helper MaryLou, who has modeled most of my jewelry creations over the years. My creation today is a little flower pin that I will definitely be wearing this summer. The center pin is a little painting palette from Retro Cafe Art which is  on a denim painted rose. Of course it is sparkly, so the paint spots are represented by hand colored crystals. The little brush has glitter accents too. The sentiment reads " Be Playful", something I try to be in my art.

Hope you will be playful this week.

Take care,

Gerri

Sweet Tiny Pink Bottlecap Angel

Here's a sweet little bottle cap angel necklace that I created for Retro Café Art. Though I tend to dress conservatively, I don't mind adding a  girlie necklace to the mix!

Hope you will mix it up this week!

take care, Gerri

"Sweet Bottle Cap Angel Necklace"

 

Retro Café Art Products used:

 Primitive angel

Paper Music Heart

Fairy Head Paper Cuts

Stickles- Sprinkled Sugar

Gecko Galz Blog Hop 2014

Hello Everyone!

I want to welcome everyone to the 16th destination of 

Gecko Galz 4th Annual Blog Hop

If you started here you might want to go back and start at the beginning at the Gecko Galz blog so you won’t miss anything!  

We have 21 AMAZING blogs for you to visit this weekend, each with some gorgeous projects created using the Gecko Galz collage images, 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 

"NATURES BLISS". 

Also make sure you collect all the “secret” words on each blog so at the end of the hop you can send in the phrase to enter our drawing for a wonderful treat.  So sit back, relax, take your time and enjoy the hop!

We have FOUR amazing prizes up for grabs:

·        First is the Kit Club for each month for an entire year. This is exclusive sets for club members which include a paper set, stamp set, and collage images in each set! That is 12 different sets! This is a $144 value!

·        Second prize is the monthly collage sets for an entire year! Each month you will receive all 4 sets absolutely FREE! This is a $96 value.

·        Third prize is all of the individual collage sheets each month for a year, this includes the jewel it sheets! This is a $90 value!

·        And our Grand Prize ONE FULL YEAR of Gecko Galz PRODUCTS!!! That will Kit Club Set, 4 individual collage sheets, Jewel it set and 4 collage sets each month for the entire year! This is a prize worth $330!

Read on to learn how you can win!

First of all, you will need to visit all 21 blogs and leave a comment on each blog :) **This is important so we know you have been to all the blogs **. Collect all 20 words (one on each blog site except the home site) and at the end of the blog on the Fripperies and Butterflies site there will be a link to email the phrase to Gecko Galz. This enters you in the contest. On November 3rd 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 site and your name goes in again for a better chance of winning (each purchase you make that weekend gives you another chance to win) 

  

Your Secret Word is;

AND

Please enjoy this free Gecko Galz Collage sheet 

“Natures Bliss”

 as well as the samples I have made using the images! 

(Just click here for link to full size sheet)

NATURES BLISS

https://sites.google.com/site/geckogalzdesigns/natures-bliss

 

If You missed checking out one of the blogs or want to go through them again here is the rotation

Here is the Blog Hop Rotation

Sharon
Rogers

Joan
Liddle

Vicki
Romain

Jules
Eickmeier

Patti
Fisher

Heather
Hudson

Diane
Bove

Yvonne
Garner

Michele
Storm

Jessica
Moore

Helene
Huber

Terri
Burnette

Lisette
Baker

Barbara
Bird

Gerri
Herbst

Amanda
Phillips

Carol
Salisbury

Wendy
Waldorf

Leanne
Seed 

Purple Little Mermaid Pin

 Continuing with this month's theme, here is another  mermaid project for Gecko Galz's  July2014,  design team. It's a little mermaid pin using the Gecko Galz Mermaid Jewel sheet. If you check out their site , you will see there is so much to see, share and do.

To make this I started with a pin blank that I put the mermaid image from the Little Mermaid Jewel inside.  It was just the right size! It was covered with glossy accents, Sea shells, pearl beads and purple Stickles  which were glued on the side. A pearl and some gold shell charms dangle from the bottom. Touches of purple stickles around the edge completed this sea side pin.

Hope you will see the sea this week.
Take care, Gerri

Mermaid Pin

Lucky St Patricks Day

It's  St Patricks  Day Time here  in the Savannah Area  and its a big holiday. Savannah  will have 300,000 visitors and the parade tomorrow will feature 350 floats, Irish pipe bands, celebrities and military units. You can drink green beer and sample shrimp and  green grits. It's the second largest St Patricks day  parade in the United States and has been happening since 1813, over 200 years. So join me in celebrating and take a peek at two St Patricks Day..... a card using Gecko Galz collage images and a "Luck" bracelet using Retro Cafe Art supplies.

Hope the Luck of the Irish is with you this week.
Take care,
Gerri

"St Patricks Day Message"

"St Patricks details"

"Luck be with you Bracelet"

"Lucky details"

Black and White and Christmas all over

For the Gecko Galz 's  Design team this month, here are two  different projects both from the Black and White beauties collage sheet. I just couldn't leave them black and white so, I painted and glittered them up for Christmas. Today I am sharing a greeting card and also a little shrine necklace.

The card started with the lovely image that I embellished. It was layered on pattern paper and edged with German scrap. I added the glittered holly, "25" and the word beautiful.

 The shrine necklace uses several Retro Cafe Art supplies including the shrine, doves, snowflake and pretty metal rose. All were painted and layered. The Black and White beauty is inside the shrine.

Hope you have a glittery week.
Take care, Gerri

"Beautiful 25 card"

"Pure as Song Necklace"

A Halloween Extravaganza

Happy Halloween my friends! It's my favorite holiday cause you know it's when I met my husband, at a Halloween costume party in NYC, oh back in the day. Of course, there is a Halloween decorated side board in our entry way to celebrate every year and I am sharing  it with you too.

I decided to show three  projects all using Retro Cafe Art supplies today. Kristin has been so kind to post several of them on her RCA Facebook page too. Today there's an spider web ATC with swinging spider, creepy bee woman with real(only kidding) spider webs. A  paper skellie shrine with cutout bats and a spider charm looking all scary in a  tiny tartlet pan . Finally,  my favorite modeled by Mary Lou is a  Halloween feather pin complete with green jewel, skull beads, metal roses, lots of black lace  and a cutout flourish swirl.

Hope you enjoyed my  sweet and scary selection today.
Happy Halloween,
Gerri

Wicked Spirits 

Scary Skeletons

Boo-tiful Halloween Pin

Our Halloween Display

Colorful Free Spirit

Today for Retro Cafe Art I am showing you a bracelet . MaryLou is away,l  so sorry she isn't in the photo.... plus she doesn't have any arms. LOL. I adore making Jewelry  its fun, easy and helps my pocket book too! It also is such a conversation starter. I'm sure you have been asked about your jewelry from time to time and to be complimented on something you made is such a great feeling.

Well to make this piece I started with  Mini fairy bloom floral cut outs and painted them each with two colors.Stamping came next. I stacked and glued them together adding some Stickles and Rhinestones for shine, I glued them to a piece of braid and attached a claso. and that was that.

Hope you will get  something sparkley this week.
artfully yours, gerri

Pretty Stamped Bracelet

To Love in Spirt

Today, Mary Lou is looking divine modeling a necklace I created using Retro Cafe Art supplies. I seem to be in a jewelry making mood lately. It must be based on the fact that I finally found and unpacked all my jewelry supplies. I still have more art boxes to look thru so who knows what I'll be making next.

To make this, I started by copper painting and adding glitter to the shadow box shrine  kit necklace. It was edged with black Dresden scrap. The interior background is from the Fairy Doors collage  sheet by Debrina Pratt and I added gold Stickles rays and rhinestones. The heart and cross cutouts were covered in Stickles too. After putting on the plastic cover I added a gold outline and the  hand cut text says to love in spirt . I put the shrine on a back cord and photoessays it on Mary Lou .

Hope you will have a week of love.

Take  care,

Gerri

Happy Little Homes

Thought I could use some new jewelry this week so I just decided to make some!
Found my jewelry supplies while unpacking so, for Retro Cafe Art I created this necklace. And yes I am still opening craft boxes! LOL.

To make these little house cut out charms I painted them with some luminescent paint , it gives you a nice sheen. I used some rub ons of flowers and swirls to each side to  add another layer. The collage sheet Domino Collage Sheet cv 34 , was where I got those little sweet faces to put iny happy houses. I did cover them with some dimensional glaze. The final step was over stamping with my favorite French words stamp. Using jump rings I added little glass beads and attached them to my necklace. The black sheer bow was the finishing touch.

Hope you will be in a happy home this week.
Take care,
Gerri

Darling MaryLou Flies By

Mary Lou has really missed everyone so, I decided to make a necklace and have her model it for us!
I really haven't been creating too much, because my sweet daughter was visiting for the past week or so. It was fun to have here her with us. We spent time laughing, thrift shopping, cooking and eating. She flew done with her roommate so it definitely was a girls week. Poor hubbie! LOL.

Well, today's  Retro Cafe Art necklace was inspired by spring that is all about us here in the south. It was the Retro Cafe Art Egg Cutout that was my starting piece. I painted it all speckly like an egg in cream and brown and added Gold Stickles. Cream colored Lace was added to the back and a tiny pearl drop was added to the bottom. I glued on a French Laundry bird cameo and put the pendant on a pearly necklace.

Hope you will get a dose of Spring this week.
take care, gerri

Birdie and Egg Necklace

 

Birdie Details

Spring time in the Low country

An Charming Unruly Paris Visit

Oh Paris the city of Lights, Love, Fashion and Art,  I do adore thee. Everything about Paris interests me and though I can't live there I can always dream about it . It is such an inspiration place for me so, when Unruly Paper Arts decided to do a Paris Issue theme,  Oh La La.... I was thrilled. Instead of doing a paper project today  I decided to up cycle an old bracelet I had using existing crafting supplies I had on hand  to make it special. You can follow me thru the the steps below:

 This is the bracelet before,  it is cute but I did feel it was missing something. The first thing I did was,  to stamp on the metal discs  a filigree pattern with  black Archival ink. I didn't care that the stamped print  image was off center , it made for a more vintage distressed impression.

These are the  tiny charm bits I added they are the perfect Paris monuments from Retro Cafe Art. You can see the Eiffel Tower, Arc d'Triomphe, a Fleur de Lis and of course, a heart for "amour". The little  vintage paper images are also from Retro Cafe Art, that  I cut out to back some of the existing charms

These are the little wooden charms painted and then over stamped. I also ink kiss the edges for additional depth. I attached silver jump rings too before adding to the bracelet. The next step was to glue the people vintage images on the back of some of the existing charms.

                                            Viola, the finished bracelet. I think it is tres manifique.

Here are some  more detailed photos.  Hope you enjoyed my little up cycled bracelet today .
Here's  to dreaming about my favorite city....Paris.

Yours truly,
Gerri

Gecko Galz Tricks and Treats Blog Hop

GECKO GALZ TRICKS AND TREATS BLOG HOP

Welcome to the 2^nd Annual Gecko Galz Tricks and Treats Blog Hop

 I am the next stop on your “hop” welcome to my blog! If you started here you might want to go back and start at the begining at the Gecko Galz blog so you won’t miss anything!  

We have 15 AMAZING blogs for you to visit this weekend, each with some gorgeous projects created using the Gecko Galz collage images, that we are giving you for FREE! Each blog you visit will have a free Gecko Galz Collage sheet for you to download, mine is "Picture Perfect". Also make sure you collect all the secret words on each blog so at the end of the hop you can enter to win our wonderful treat.  So sit back, relax, take your time and enjoy the hop!

We have FOUR amazing prizes up for grabs:

• First is the ephemera collections for each month for an entire year. That is 60 different sets! This is a $120 value
• Second prize is a $50 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz website….you pick it and we send it!
• Third prize is one free digital collage set each month for an entire year, you get to pick the collage sheet you want each month and we send it off to you! This is a $24 value
• And our Grand Prize ONE FULL YEAR of Gecko Galz  COLLECTIONS!!! That will be 1 paper pack, 1 digital stamp set, and 5 collage sets for the entire year! This is a prize worth $240

Read on to learn how you can win!

First of all, you will need to visit all 15 blogs and leave a comment on each blog :) **This is important so we know you have been to all the blogs **. Collect all eleven words and at the end of the blog on the Fripperies and Butterflies site there will be a link to the Gecko Galz website where you will email us the phrase the words make up. This enters you in the contest. On October 31^st we will randomly draw the 4 winners and email each of you, then we will post the winning names on our website and on the Gecko Galz blog site.

For an extra chance to win make a purchase from the Gecko Galz site and your name goes in again for a better chance of winning (each purchase you make that weekend gives you another chance to win) 

Finally, we are having one more give away! If you post our Gecko Galz badge (found on the Gecko Galz Blog) on your blog or website you will be entered to win a Gecko Store Gift Certificate worth $25 - super easy right?  Just post a link to your blog on the Gecko Galz Blog so we can come visit :).

My Secret Word is;

GOT

Now go to the next site and collect the next word plus your next FREE collage sheet.

 Here is the Blog Hop Rotation 

 Carol Salisbury

Hazel Harler

Starr Timmons

Barbara Bird

Joan Lindle

Penny Walker

Sherri Levington

Debi Ryan

Heather Hudson

Sharron Rogers

Gerri Herbst You are here.....

Jules Eickmeier is next.

Helene Huber

Leanne Seed

Please enjoy this free Gecko Galz Collage sheet “Lovely Ladies”

http://geckogalz.com/lovelyladiesfreeephemeraset.html

As well as the three samples I have made using the images.... a card, a tag and a pin.

take care, gerri 

"She had her own destiny"

"How charming"

"Mary Lou modeling the pin."