It's a colorful Freebie Friday and challenge!

Hi everyone!

So Freebie Friday is a wee bit late which makes it Freebie Saturday instead...but it is freebie time none the less! This week I decided too do two things number one celebrate with color and what better way to celebrate color then with some stunning colorized vintage photos for you to use in your craft products. I picked six of my favorite images for you and now for the fun twist create a crafted item using any of these images and email it to me at fripperiesandbutterflies@yahoo.com and from the entries I will hold a random drawing and the winner gets their choice of any 4 Collage sets from Gecko Galz (check them out at http://www.geckogalz.com/ ) and your choice of a clear or digital stamp set....a total value of $35 in prizes woo hoo! Also everyone who enters gets....drum roll please....1 free Gecko Galz collage set and I will feature everones designs on my blog in July. The challenge will run from now until June 25th! The winner will be announced July 1st. Good luck to everyone!
Have a wonderful weekend!
And Happy Crafting!
Leanne



Digital Fun..... making Journals!

So awhile back I started playing around with Digital collage, it is an interesting art form and a great way to be creative without all the mess....but if you are like me you love the mess!
So for gifts I began taking my collage works and incorporating them with journals and creating my own hand altered journals. well they became such a hit that I began a little side business selling them at the holidays.
I wanted to share a few of my designs with you and show you another way to use the free images I give out each week. this is also a wonderful way to create ATC's, cards, hand altered books...you name it.
You will need Photoshop or photoshop elements to create digital collages and using the blending tools you will start with a basic digital background (you can scan in a piece of favorite paper and create your own) then using gif images with the backgrounds removed start layering them on. then print out the art once it is done and and using inks ink the edge then you can embellish using stickles. smooch inks, crystal gems, pearls...sky's the limit. As my book base I purchased journals from Hobby Lobby and covered them, that way the insides are as beautiful as the out. It is a fun way to create a special gift when you are short on time.
Below are a few of my books hope you enjoy them!

Ancient Secrets

Dragon Journal

In My Words

Celtic Journey Journal

This one I actually used Graphics 45 Steam Punk Debutant papers, Tim Holtz Cogs, May arts ribbon and MM trim.

Have fun!
Leanne Seed



Have a Fairy Merry Day with FREE Fairy images

Hello everyone!

welcome to another FREEBIE FRIDAY! Today I was out in my garden and started thinking about when I was a child and how I would spend the summers with my grandmother and in her garden I would run about searching for fairies...and how I was convinced that dragonflies were really fairies,lol. So today for Freebie Friday I am sharing some Flower Fairy images to use in your paper crafting. they are a great way to dress up any project.

Also I am sharing one of my fairy inspired cards where I created my own fairy using Gecko Galz Art Nouveau collage set and a butterfly for the wings, Pink Paislee papers, paper flower by flying Unicorn, antique pearl buttons by Gecko Galz, crystal gems by Mark richards.

I hope everyone has a wonderful and magical weekend!

happy scrappin
Leanne

FREE MOTHERS DAY IMAGES FOR FREEBIE FRIDAY!

Hi Everyone!!!

Its another friday and you know what that means....yep it's FREEBIE FRIDAY! Today I am sharing some images that will be wonderful to use in your Mothers day card making or scrapbooking projects. If you are like me and wait until the last minute to make your cards these will be wonderful little additions to your card, or if your mother is having a birthday......or just any female that you love enough to make a special card for!
I also am going to share a few cards I did plus some sentiments you can use on your cards! So are you ready for all the fun? Here we go!!!!
First here are the images;

And now I would like to share a few cards I did this year for mothers day and under each image it will give a list of products used  to create each card you are welcome to use my ideas and even change them up to make them more your creations! Just have fun!
Card number 1

For this card I started with a cream card base then layered on scrap pieces of papers (I never throw anything away which includes webster pages paper, 7 gypsies papers and crate paper papers. I got the M is for Mother collage set from Gecko Galz (you can find them at http://www.geckogalz.com/ ), a metal butterfly by blue moon, and paper flowers by Flying Unicorn (you can find them at http://www.flyingunicornllc.com/ ) and Distress inks in vintage photo and tattered rose.

Second Card

Again I started with a cream card base then layered on scrap papers from paper pizazz, Webster pages.  Art Nouveau Collage sheet by Gecko Galz for the lady and for the butterfly it was the Viva La France collection, Antique pearl buttons, two pins by singer, circle stickers by Studio112, May arts ribbon, pop dots, mark richards turquoise bling and Distress inks in vintage photo and tattered rose.

Third Card

For this card start with a cream card base I layered on a piece of retro rose paper by Crate paper then the edge from pink paislee Daily Junque collection. The image is from the "M is for Mother" collection from Gecko Galz which I pop doted up. Then I added the lace trim using red line tape and over that the retro flower ribbon both from Crate Papers. I added vintage pearl buttons and three yellow roses from Flying Unicorn. I used Distress inks in Wild Honey and Victorian Velvet.

Card number four

For this card I again started with a cream colored card base and layered paper by TPL. The image is from this blog then I used newsprint flowers by Hero Arts, vintage lace, amber, gold and turquoise bling from Mark Richards, A metal embellishment by natural explorer (from Hobby Lobby), glossy accents & clear ultrafine glitter. Distress  inks in vintage photo, Wild Honey and Tattered Rose.

And last here are the sentiments I used on all my cards for you to play with and create your own mothers day card or keepsake.

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe mothers day and drench your mother in love and kisses for life is fleeting and one day she will not be there to heap love on her!

Have a happy scrappy day
Leanne

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! Gerri Herbst

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to take a moment and introduce you to a paper crafting artist that is doing amazing and  great  works of art using paper products. She is also the winner of my "Greatest Show On Earth" challenge last month with her frilly clown art piece. Her name is Gerri Herbst, and she is an amazing artist and I invite you to check out all her work on her blog site! http://gerriherbst.blogspot.com/
I wanted to share with you a few pieces she has done using my free images so you can see just how talented she is!

Also for everyone who visits her blog site she is having a wonderful blog candy give away that you can enter so be sure and check that out here is a sample of what she is giving away!

so if you want another chance to win more blog candy follow the link from the picture and enter to win!

CONGRATS GERRI ON WINNING!

I want to thank everyone who entered my challenge and keep checking back for I will be posting a new challenge in a few weeeks and you can win some wonderful prizes just like Gerri did!

Also If you would like to be a featured artist I am always looking for people who use my free images in beautiful ways! So please send me a note along with a couple of photos of your designs you have created using my free images to fripperiesandbutterflies@yahoo.com !

Have a Happy Crafty Day!

Leanne Seed

MAY BLOG CANDY GIVE AWAY!!!!

So what is more fun than winning? Well according to Charlie Sheen nothing is more wonderful...so to celebrate the wonderful month of May I am giving away an erray of BLOG CANDY absolutly FREE to one lucky blog follower...yep you heard right you can win a bushul ful of Blog Candy and all you have to do is sign up as a follower (if you have not already) and then leave a message to this thread of what your favorite candy is.....easy as pie! And to give you an idea of what you can win here is a picture of the prizes!

Have fun everyone and good luck I will draw the winner May 30th and announce the winner on my blog!

FREE IMAGES! With a royal twist!

Hi Everyone!

Well I missed Freebie Friday last week I got all caught up in the royal wedding and it totally slipped my mind...bad me! So I decided to go ahead and do it a tad late because I wanted to show my readers the "Royal Treatment" so to say. This times Freebies are inspired by royalty in celebration of William and Kate, please enjoy the images!

Have a crafty day!
Leanne