Field Guide

It's a beautiful time of year here in Lowcountry, we get  to see a lot of migrating birds. The light is also amazing and surprisingly enough, there is a change of foliage colors too. The purple pink sweet grass is particularly pretty and is my favorite. In honor of the visiting birds, here's a tag for Retro Cafe Art.

The tag was painted in beiges and sprinkled with green and gold glitter. The Elegant architect image is from a RCA Debrina Pratt  ATC collage sheet. I added the pretty owl image from the Retro Cafe Art Debrina Pratt Whimsical Square sheet and added burgundy paint accents. The trims came next with rhinestone painted leaves, fiber trim, green organza ribbon and a gold painted RCA egg blank. The sentiment reads Field Guide 1903.

Hope you will see some wildlife this week.
Take care, Gerri

"Field Guide"

"Birdy Details"

"Sweet Grass Afternoon"

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Over at Retro Cafe Art , they are having two amazing swaps...you know how much I enjoy seeing, sharing and receiving art. The two swaps are ornament tags and Artist Village paper houses. Do check it out you have until Dec 3 to get them to Retro Cafe Art. Kristin is always so sweet, with including free supply goodies too when she sorts out the swap. It's a joy to participate. She is definitely the hostess with the mostest. LOL.

Well, I started with the Layered Chipboard Ornament and painted it a shiny silver color. The darling blue image if the Victorian sweetie is from the Let It Snow by Cassandra Van Curen sheet, of course I touched it with some shiny white paint. It makes the fur look textural. I added some painted rhinestone snow flakes, an organza sheer ribbon and some tinsel trim to the chipboard. The hand cut text was painted and says "Walking In a Winter Wonderland".

Hope you will get to walk in a Wonderland this week.
Take care, Gerri

"Walking In A Winter Wonderland"

"Wonderland Details"

Thankful for Spooky Gifts

I just wanted to take the time today to showcase some amazing artists that I had the opportunity to swap art with recently. The first group was the tombstone swap held by the wonderful Kristin of Retro Cafe Art. The second was the Halloween matchbox hosted by Joanne of Vintage Dragonfly and was created by the amazing artist Mercedes. Check out Retro Cafe Art and Vintage Dragonfly if you to would like to participate in a future art swaps. I do so enjoy them. I am also including a scary old-new photo of our house to go with the theme.

So directly below are 4 decorated tombstones. Starting in the upper right: Retta Skiff, then Jennifer of Just Jingle, the pretty witch was Susan Guzy and the darling witch bird was from Kristin. It's amazing to see what variety of style we create using the same Retro Cafe Art Base !

Next, is the simply gorgeous Halloween Matchbox by Mercedes Scott at All Things Pretty. You must drop by her blog, you will be wowed. My pictures do not do it justice for this luscious piece. The colors, textures and dimensions were breath taking. My favorite part was the silver skeleton head hidden in the bouquet! There were tons of awesome supplies that were Halloween themed and wrapped. She really went all out and made Halloween Decorations, and a pretty black rose pin too. It was wonderful to receive this since all my Halloween decorations are still in storage! Hopefully we will be moving out of the cottage this month and into our new home. I can't wait.

Hope you will receive wonderful surprises this week.
Artfully yours, Gerri

"Tombstone Swap"

"Mercedes Matchbox Halloween Swap"

 

 

"Our scary new old house"

Visiting Angel Calendar Page

For today's 100 Proof Press Design team post, it's a page out of my new calendar. I will be making or at least trying to finish it for 2013. LOL.  Why I started in December...I don't know! The  sweet blank calendar is available from 100 Proof Press. Its great cause its just the right size not to big and not too little.

 To make this I covered the calendar page with some patterned glitter paper in blue. I added the vintage women image and added her wings. The 100 Proof Press wings were stamped on tissue paper, so they are dimensional yet  light and airy. There is a left wing and a right wing . The are glittered and painted too. I added gold glitter die cuts around the pages. The accents are pearls, organza ribbon, gold and blue paint.

Hope your days are not flying by!
Take care, Gerri

Thankful For Spooks

Yes, it's my favorite day of the year Halloween! Happy Halloween everyone. It's when I met my dear husband, so it's always special to us. It's so different being in the south, not so much fall leaf color, but I do see some pumpkins around. This scary celebration piece was just perfect for the Stampsmith TSC35 Challenge "With Gratitude Challenge". Its creepy to be thankful for spooks, but now you understand why.

To make this little ghoulie, I stamped the Stampsmith Flapper image on a piece of velum. I layered it on patterned paper so the web was under the ghoulies face. It is layered on a black ATC and black glitter frame. Some web die cuts, a tiny spider, Stickle accents and a shiny fiber ribbon came next. The sentiment reads "Thankful for Spooks".

Hope you will have a spook free day.
take care, gerri

"Thankful for Spooks"

Its Getting Close

Well its's getting close, Halloween that is and also Hurricane Sandy for my friends on the east coast of the United States. I hope if you are in the eye of the storm you are safe. It's a big one and is supposed to last quite awhile and impact will be intense. It did not impact us at all here in South Carolina we have had a string of clear sunny days.

Well to make this Halloween card I used all sorts of  haunting Retro Cafe Art supplies. The Hello Dollie Paper Cut cutie was my starting point and I added the  RCA ouija board, tiny masquerade cut out mask and the shiny silver  witchy hat. The background of RCA poison labels was layered on the Halloween Tree ATC background by Cassandra Van Curen. Two tiny small Gothic windows  were filled with skeleton images. All this was glued to a shiny marblized card. Of course, everything was covered with Silver and Red Stickles accents.

Hope you will be a little witchy this week.
Take care, 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."