Kindness is the sunshine in which friendship blossoms

Thought I'd try something different today and make a fabric card. Having been in the fashion industry and sewn all my life I do have lots of pretty scraps. They are just to beautiful to throw away! LOL. I used my usual techniques  and style and just created a more dimensional piece. I will enter this in Stampsmith's "The colors of Spring "challenge  because pinks and greens always make me think of spring. For the first time ,I am entering Frilly and Funky  which is dedicated to all things Vintage in their "Ill take your word for it" challenge.

The cover was simple enough with just sewing little punched hearts and a watercolored organza flower on front of the textural fabric. The little hearts can be flipped and one side is watercolored and the other is stamped with the words "My Dear One". Inside there is layered on the tulle, some script paper that was been ink kissed, the sentiment " Kindness is the sunshine in which friendships blossom." which was cut out and the Stampsmith flapper stamped image. Some  pastel stapled hearts, picot edged ribbon, some watercolor accents and Stickles detail finish my fabric card today.

Hope you will be bathed in sunshine and kindness this week.
yours truly, gerri

"Kindness is the sunshine in which friendships blossom."

And lovely is the rose

Today for  Retro Cafe Art  here's a hanging  collage. I think it makes displaying them easier if I just include the hanger. LOL. Well it's back to the routine now that the holiday is over. That's fine with me I get to get back to the craft room....Oh all the roses are blooming here, so I just had to do this piece about it.

I started with a Retro Cafe Art Shelf shrine back and covered it with green striped paper. The next step was too add the Pretty woman  from RCA collage with the roses image. Some glittery rose ribbon and the transparency  were layered.  A glitter covered cutout heart, some rhinestones and the sentiment "And lovely is the rose " were the finishing touches.

Hope you will see and smell some lovely flowers this week.
artfully yours, gerri

"And lovely is the rose"

"Rosey details"

Friendship is a sheltering tree

Hope all of you had a splendid Easter.  I'll be around tonight to see how you all are after we take our daughter to the airport. Boo Hoo, I will miss her...We had a wonderful few days together, eating, shopping, talking and laughing.

Well, on to today's project which is a colorful card. I used the  adorable Owl image and layered it on the Gecko Galz Tickets please collage sheet. I also stamped the branches from 100 Proof Press  #6355 Tree Branch to give our birdies something to sit on. To make the owl image match the background, I used colored pencils, Stickles and confetti on their crowns.

Hope you find a sheltering tree this week.
take care, gerri

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

"Birdie details"

Hopping You Have a Sweet Weekend

Just a  very quick post today with a few more Easter cards today using the cute vintage Gecko Galz Easter Jewels Sheet. Of course I am starting with a mostly pink creation for the wonderful Pink Saturday site.  Also I am excited to announce that this week I revamped my old Inkthology Etsy shop and now it's called ItsAllTreasureArt. I decided to frame my little collages, ATCs, tags and cards. Please do give  them a  peak. Have to hop away 'cause we are spending the weekend with our daughter and we are so very hoppy!

Hope you will have a hoppy weekend too!
take care, gerri

"Hoppy Easter Cards"

             "Some Items from my new Etsy Shop"

Coloring Easter Eggs

Here's a card today using a cute  Gecko Galz image called Easter Jewels, I used it for all my Easter cards and will show you some more tomorrow for Pink Saturday! I loved coloring eggs with my daughter when she was young, we always blew out the middles and colored the hollow eggs. We would dye them, paint them or glitter them and then look at them forever. No colored eggs this year, but our daughter will be visiting starting today so I am so excited!

To make this card I colored another foam egg and stamped dots and painted on top of it. There's the bunny image and some sparkly rhinestones layered on top. I added the confetti eggs and the die cut embellished butterflies. Put this all on patterned paper, tulle and some fiber for some dimension. I added the sentiment "Happy Easter" and I was ready to hop away!
Hope you will be very hoppy this week!
artfully yours, gerri

"Happy Easter"

Hoppy details"

Easter Eggstravaganza

Started playing around with my Gecko Galz sheets and just had to make this panoramic egg. It reminds me of large sugar eggs that I had as a kid. As an  adult, I made them with my mom too and sold them at work! We made about 30 different  5" eggs in all pastel colors and piped flowers, bunnies and ribbons on them. They even had a little sugar scenes inside too. They were so cute. In honor of my mom, I am dedicated this egg to her memory.

 So over at Gecko Galz, if you make a purchase this month and for every dollar you spend you get a GECKO BUCK! Now what this means to you is for every dollar you get a chance to win a wonderful prize pack which includes; 10 collage sheets of your choice, 2 paper collections of your choice, and 2 stamp
sets of their choice.But wait there is more....you also get a pack of goodies mailed to you which will include ribbons, fibers, buttons, twine, flowers and other fun stuff!!!!! And who could win this wonderful prize
pack? The person with the most Gecko Galz Bucks.... And yes signing up for retreats & our kit
club count.So good luck to everyone! Do stop over at Gecko Galz Challenge group to see challenges, a place for friendship and their free collage sheets.

This months Challenges on the Gecko Galz Challenge group site are;
-For The Birds Challenge...April 15(win the "Too Tweet Digi Stamp Set)
-Spring Has Sprung Challenge......April 20(winner gets 5 sets of ephemera of their choice)
-April Color Challenge; Pink and Yellow.......April 25(winner gets their choice of any 3 ephemera sets)
-Something Old Something New Challenge.....April 25(winner gets a Gecko Galz Paper collection of their choice
-Story Book Challenge.......April 30(winner gets digital paper pack from Webster Pages)

You can see this paper egg and other Gecko Galz Design Team Totally Spring projects for some inspiration here.  So back to my project, I painted one half of an egg  baby pink outside and pale yellow inside. I printed out the little bunnies and fussy cut them out using the Bunny Trails sheet. All were painted then detailed with Stickles and tiny rhinestones. I love their little necklaces. I added the curtain image and then real tulle curtains with pink tie backs. Added some paper grass and some foil doilie fans on top and bottom to hold the egg up came next.

Hope you will have an eggstraordinary week.
fondly, gerri

Heads or Tails

Well, now that my celebration for 300 darling followers is over...congrats to the winners, your candy is on the way  in the mail. Enjoy! So its back to the studio to work on some quick Easter projects for me. For Retro Cafe Art today's project here is a cute chocolate card. My husband just loves the egg and I just love the chocolate bunnies. By the way do you eat  your chocolate bunny, the heads(ears) first or the tail...... me, I go right for the head!

To make this I painted RCA bunny cutouts chocolate brown and added pink candy eyes. The egg is a foam plastic kid's cutout that I stamped with dots then added the watercolor painting for dimension. I layered this on two different papers that were painted on the corners. Some pink pearl candies and a hand stamped sentiment "Heads or tails" completed this little card.

Hope you will get lots of chocolate this week.
artfully yours, gerri

"Heads or tails"

"Chocolate details"