Here comes the Holidays!

So It is hard to believe that Christmas is right around the corner and I thought I would share with everyone  some fun little cards using Gecko Galz Collage images. If you are like me I hate doing tonz of the same cards for people on my holiday card list....my list is HUGE and the idea of doing 100 of the same card is a burden so I do a number of different cards each year (this makes the ADD side of my brain happy). So the first group I always make cards for are my whimsical friends and these are the cards I came up with this year;

Christmas Diva Card

To make this card I started with red Card stock, Gecko Galz In Vogue collage Set, red stickles, red jewelry wire, red jingle bell, black card stock to make the belly band, pop dots, star hole punch and the Christmas  banner (I added it below if you wish to make this card). Just cut out all the ephemera, score your 8x5.5 red cardstock base and layer on using pop dots to adhere the lady and word banner.

Santa Clause Card

For this card I used a 8x5.5 white card base, two manila colored tags, bakers twine, Gecko Galz St. Nicholas Collage Set, Gold UTEE by B & J Stamps, May Arts Ribbon, A music background stamp, Radiant Rain in red, Pine Needles Distress ink, Versa Mark Ink, pop dots, holiday buttons I got at Hobby Lobby, Wild Honey Distress ink and ink blending tool.

score the card base then on the front use the radiant rain to edge. With Vesa Mark ink distress the Santa mandala you cut out and then sprinkle with UTEE and using embossing gun heat until it looks like molten metal. Stamp your tag with red ink and your background stamp then ink the edges with the pine needles ink. Also using your ink blending tool cover the front of your card with the wild honey ink then layer on all you embellishments using pop dots on the mandala.

Santas Secret Doorway Card

Start with a 8x5.5 card base then cut another white piece that is 4.5x5.5 with a half inch score line on the left side  (this will form the third layer which is the door) then cut 2 panels that are 1.5x 2  and 2 panels that are 1.5x1.5 that will be the door embellishments. You will also need the wreath from below and the little envelope that reads merry christmas as well as Gecko Galz "On the cover of a magazine" collage set for the santa and boy, one small christmas button, christmas flower soft, red satin ribbon,red bling, pop dots, Glossy Accents,red line tape, and red stickles to decorate the wreath.

Use you red line tape to adhere the 1/2 score area of your 4.5x5.5 card to your card base to form door then layer on your panels and wreath. After that you are ready to do the inside take your Santa image and using an exacto knife cut a slit in santas sack going around the ball image and when you adhere to card leave small pocket area so you can slip in the "Merry Christmas" tag with piece of red ribbon as handle. Finish with flower soft by adding a stream of Glossy accents under feet and press on pinch of flower soft.

Snow Baby Card

Start with 8x5.5 red card stock base and add Gecko Galz "All the Trimmings" collage set for baby and poinsettia, also flocked green mesh ribbon, a 5 1/4" x 2" white card stock embossed with Sizzx christmas embossing folder, may arts duel satin ribbon in red and green, and gold & red stickles, liquid applique for your poinsettia , glue dots, and pop dots.

Layer on all the embellishments and take your liquid applique and paint it on your poinsettia then heat with your head gun until it puffs up (do not heat to long or it will burn and turn brown).

Here are your FREE embellishments if you want to try your hand at making the cards above.

Happy Crafting to all

Leanne

GECKO GALZ TRICKS AND TREATS BLOG HOP

Gecko Galz Tricks and Treats Blog Hop

 I am the last 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 wont miss anything!  

We have ELEVEN 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 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
• Second prize is a $35 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz website….you pick it and we send it!
• Third prize is our Gecko Galz treat bag full of Gecko Galz products, kits, and other amazing products! This is a $50 value
• And our Grand Prize ONE FULL YEAR of FREE DIGITAL COLLAGE COLLECTIONS!!! Gecko Galz puts out 5 digital collage sets each month and you will get all 5 sets for an entire year! This is a $120 value.

Read on to learn how you can win!

First of all, you will need to visit all ELEVEN 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 blinkie 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;

WIN

Now take all the words to the Gecko Galz website and email them to us using the box on the home page!

 

Here is the Blog Hop Rotation 

Hazel Harler

Heather Hudson

Joan Lindle

Marcie Morgan

Patty Provance

Paula Akers

Penny Walker

Sherri Levington

Starr Timmons

Leanne Seed

Now that you have come to the end of our hop go to the

Gecko Galz website

and using the email box on the home page send in the phrase that your collected words spell out for your chance to win!

Please enjoy this free Gecko Galz Collage sheet

As well as the samples I have made using the images.

click on the picture for larger view then right click and save to you computer

this is a mini book I did using the ephemera, Tim Holtz film strip ribbon, May Arts ribbon, Paper Studios flowers & embellishments, 7 gypsies library pocket, Gecko Galz Fab Frames ephemera (for the poliroids), Gecko Gals "Postal" ephemera which is due our in December, Inkadinkadoo sentiment stamps.

My Friend Card

I used one of the ephemera pieces from above along with the perfume bottle from Gecko Galz "Haute Couture" set and the ribboned frame from the "Fab Frames" set. Also Tim Holts film strip ribbon, Paper studios buckle, Vivas ice white Pearl Pen, crystal stickles, Wild Honey & Vintage photo Distress inks, and Raidiant Rain blue ink dauber.

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Picture Perfect Memory Box

I started with a pre made box and layered on the ephemera from above, Tim Hotz Film Strip ribbon, paper roses from Flying Unicorn , antique pearl buttons, cameo pen (you can use any sentimental jewlery), Ribbons from Hobby Lobby, white Viva pearl pen.

You Ought To Be In Pictures Vintage Inspired Card

I started with a cream card base and Bo Bunny paper as the base then added brown card stock, the ephemera from above, Bo Bunny flowers, wooden buttons from Oriental Trading Co. , Tim Holtz film strip ribbon, Gecko Galz Fab Frames set for the poloroids,  and paper studio star brads.

Thank you again for joining our Blog Hop!

Tricks and Treats Blog Hop Just Days Away!

Hi Everyone!

So we are just days away from the Gecko Galz Blog Hop and I am sooooo excited, I cant wait to share all my designs with you and dont forget there will be a FREE collage sheet for you to download. So here is the skinny on how this is going to work.
The blog hop is very simple just start at the Gecko Galz (there is a link below) blog on Thursday October 27th at 10 am CST and then follow the instruction on where you will go next. There will be 12 wonderful blogs to visit counting this one and on each of the blog sites you will get a FREE page of ephemera's you can save to your computer (they will all be different) also there will be a word that you collect on each one and at the end of the hop you will create the phrase these words spell out and travel to the Gecko Galz website where you will email them to us using the email form on the home page!
This will put you in the drawing to perhaps win one of the following Awesome prizes;

First 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

Second prize is a $35 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz website….you pick it and we send it!

Third prize is our Gecko Galz treat bag full of Gecko Galz products, kits, and other amazing products! This is a $50 value

And our Grand Prize ONE FULL YEAR of FREE DIGITAL COLLAGE COLLECTIONS!!! Gecko Galz puts out 5 digital collage sets each month and you will get all 5 sets for an entire year! This is a $120 value

Also when you make a purchase from the Gecko Galz website between today and next Monday you will get one entry for every $10 you spend (a great way to double your chances on winning) That sounds good and they are still doing that buy one digital collage set get one free.
And they are still having the challenge where if you put the blog hop blinkie on your blog site or website helping them spread the word about the hop you can win a prize just hop over to the Gecko Galz blog site to check out the info on that  at http://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/

I hope to see all of you at our blog hop come Thursday morning!
Have a great day
Leanne

Tricks and Treats with Alcohol Inks

Hi everyone!

Okay so I am finally takeing part in one of the Ginger Snaps challenges...I mean when I read that they were doing a challange using Alcohol Inks how could I not take part. As all my friends will tell you I am totally obsessed with Alcohol inks I use them in my craft projects every chance I get.....why it has been said if you sit still long enough I will alcohol ink you, lol!
So here are a few works I have done that feature Alcohol inks...enjoy!

Halloween Card

this card features Alcohol inks on

Embossed Glossy Card Stock

Le Chat ATC

I used Red Pepper & Butterscotch alcohol inks to

do the modeled background on glossy

paper, then stamped with Staz On

Parisian Nights Domino Pendents

I used egplant and pitch black alcohol inks and diluted with

the blending solution then did a rubon on top of that.

Fairy Land painted Glass

I used alcohol inks to do the background

on one side of the glass then flipped it over and used

Gecko Galz and Tim Holtz stamps and stamped

using Staz On ink.

Metal Christmas Tag

I embossed metal with cuttle bug embossing folder

then colored using Red Pepper & Butterscotch

alcohol inks.

So grab some Alcohol Inks and start creating some fun works you can give as gifts or keep for yourself!

Go check out all of the wonderful ideas on using alcohol inks at

Ginger Snaps Blog Site

Also I am giving everyone some great Halloween images to inspire the inner Alcohol ink artist in all of you!

Please enjoy and happy creating!

FREEBIES JUST FOR YOU!

Hi everyone!

Well CKC San Marcos was a smashing good time and thanks to everyone who came out and supported us and my classes. Now that summer is coming to a close and all things fall are on our mind I thought it might be fun to share a few of my favorite pansy flower images with everyone, I see a pansy and I always think of fall and how at my childhood home they would surround the big tree out front in the fall....good times!
Also remember if you do projects using my pictures do a thread so everyone can see your beautiful work....ok its so I can see your beautiful work, I love looking at other peoples projects and ooing and aweing over them. This weekend is the big Antique weekend in Wharington and Roundtop Texas so if you are around that area just travel down 247 to Wharington and go to the "Little White House" (it is just beside the "Legal Tender Saloon" which happens to have the yummiest BBQ EVER!) and step inside and take a look at all the findings buttons and goodies, it will inspire anyone to create something beautiful....say hi to Sandi and LeeAnne from Cat and Leanne lol, they are great folks.
So please enjoy the pictures and happy scrappin to everyone!
Leanne

Here comes Halloween!!!!!

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year, next to Christmas I cant think of any other time where you can create such magical and whimsical paper crafts so I thought it would be fun to share with everyone my "Spooky Little Curio Cabinet". This is a wonderful way to show off those cute little trinkets and pictures we have collected over the years.

So what I used to create this spooky little curio was assorted halloween papers including the new line by "Authentique" called "Glowing" this is an amazing Halloween paper set and it double sided which is always good! Also I found my glass front curio cabinet at Hobby Lobby in the wood section, I love this cabinet because number one it is affordable and has a wonderful closure on the side so you can keep changing things each year. I colored the wood using Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in "Very Purple" and "Coffee Shop" and I sprayed both the outside and inside working with both colors...this is a great wood coloring system because it give a bit of a shimmer to it.
Then I used Gecko Galz ephemeras "Witching Hour", "Bump in the Night" and the forth comming exclusive ephemera set "Samhain Dominos" (this one is only available to their news letter subscribers).

As for the trinkets I found some at Micheals and others at Hobby Lobby but then I came across this amazing little shop called Crickets and Caterpillers in Houston that is a minatures / dollhouse shop and found these little books and the treat bag.
One of the things I really enjoyed doing was using cute mini Halloween stamps by Inkadinkadoo (you can find them in the $1 bin at most JoAnnes stores) and Staz On ink and stamp a boarder down the left side of my glass.

And then I hit the Halloween isle at Micheals and found not only the spider webing that I strung all over my cabinet but also found a batch of black roses that had amazing glitter on it and the two plaskit skeletons that sit on either side of the rose (they were a swag I cut apart).

Then add your torn paper, a little trim, and copper paint and you have a wonderful little curio cabinet that will spook up any party or haunted castle!
Sooooooo as a treat I am sharing a few of my favorite witch images for you to make your own Halloween goodies....also if you ever make items using the images I share I would love to see them feel free to send a thread or if you dont have a blog send them to me at fripperiesandbutterflies@yahoo.com and I will post the pictures with a shout out, everyone deserves a bit of fame for their artful creations!
Have a happy week
Leanne

Welcome to September

Hi Everyone

As Texas is being over come with massive wild fires my heart goes out to everyone who has lost their homes, their pets and in some cases even loved ones. A friend of mine lost her house and everything in it and the thought of loosing everything you work hard to get and all of your life long mementos is so hard to think about. So I ask everyone if you can please donate to the red cross to help all the people out who have lost everything.
Now for you all I have some free images to inspire your creative juices. This month I am sharing some of my pretty little parasol images I hope you all enjoy them.
Also I am giving away 4 "Oh La La" mini book kits to celebrate teaching at the San Marcos CKC. Just leave a message here and email me at fripperiesandbutterflies@gmail.com with you email address and that will put you in the running. Then on September 30th I will give away 4 book kits to 4 lucky people. The kit comes with everything you need to create the book plus full instructions with photos. Good luck to everyone!

I hope everyone has a happy and safe September and dont forget we have the big Gecko Galz Blog Hop next month!
Happy Scrappin
Leanne