RCA Tombstone Swap Beauties

For the Retro Cafe Art Tombstone 2014 swap, here are my beauties that I sent out into the world. I also am including  photos of the gorgeous the swaps that I received  from other artists. You can see them  all displayed in my front hall with all my other Halloween decorations at the end of the post.
Hope you have a Happy Halloween.
Take care, Gerri

"My tombstone swap beauties"

"Swap Artist Friends Creations"

"My home with Halloween decos including the tombstones"

Christmas and Halloween All In One

     Here are my October creations for  the Gecko Galz Design Team. I am  celebrating Christmas and Halloween all in one! Now wouldn't that be nice!

Hope you have a Merry week,
take care, Gerri

"Sing Joy Ornaments"

"Best Wishes card"

"Trick or Treat Card"

 To make the two pink paper ornaments, I used the  cute snow babies collage sheet images and glued that to oval shaped card stick. 

They are embellished with pink tinsel,pink jingle bells, snow, Stickles,pink ric rac and plastic sparkle letters that say JOY and SING.

To make the elegant green card I used the elegant woman image from putting on the Ritz. She is layered on numerous patterned papers. She is embellished with shimmery  paint,gold paper trim from Retro Cafe Art,tiny rhinestones, gold sealing wax fleur d'isle, gold stickers and the gold sentiment that says Best Wishes.

The  Halloween Card using "Song in my Heart" cross promotional Paisley Paper as the background, on an orange card base.Then the Gecko Gal pumpkin beauty was added on top  The embellishments include orange shredded tissue paper and a bat  cut border. Stickles, water color paint and the sentiment "Trick or Treat "from Retro Cafe Art were the final touches.

The Heart Has Wings

"The Heart Has Wings"

Heartfelt Details

Here's a  canvas collage that I made for Gecko Galz. Black, white and red is always an easy go to color scheme. Having been in the fashion industry.... I adore the image with the  combination of  a sewing mannequin with  wings.  I added the hand stitching, ribbon trim and the tiny bow to keep with the theme.

Hope your heart flies this week.
Take care, Gerri

Love Birds, Do You?

We have set up a bird feeder in our yard and are just amazed at the variety of visitors. I created this tag to honor my little feather friends.  I want to photograph them but they fly in and away so quickly this was the only way.  The supplies used for this tag were from  Retro Cafe Art, my favorite source.
Hope you will be visited by a feathered friend this week.
Take Care, Gerri

In Many A Secret Place

Here are a pair of Artist Trading cards with the theme of an Artful Artist. I like this size and always have fun packing in so much in a tiny space.
The main supplies were from Retro Cafe Art, including:

Chipboard ATC frames   and the 

swirly background image:

Hope you will have an artful day.
Yours truly,Gerri

Yield to Temptation

I think this Oscar Wilde quote is hilarious! I knew when I saw this  divine Retro Cafe Art image just how to portray the quote in images.  I do hope you understand my sense of humor.
Hope you will yield to temptation this week,
take care, Gerri

A True Friend is the best Possession

Hello everyone....Though I may not write or speak to all of you on a regular basis, I do count you all as true friends! With you in mind, I created this  pink and feathery ATC using beautiful Retro Cafe Art Products. It was the pretty pink feather that started my creation and the rest just flew into place.

Here's to friendship.
Do take care,
Gerri

"A true friend is the best possession"- close up

Full size

Fine Details

To make this ATC I used the bird  ATC frame template,  chipboard birds nest and the two collage sheets  for the background and the pretty lady. It was painted, stickler and tiny blue  rub ons were used too. The hand cut sentiment, tiny eggs  and the pink feather were the final detail.