art deco?

here is a fanciful lady and her animal companions for three muses art deco challenge; not sure that this is really entirely art deco but i felt a kinship with that style here anyway!

images from dezinaworld, itKuPiLLi, holliewood studios and songbirdy.

love to all.

gecko galz annual blog hop! (prizes at every stop!)

Hello Everyone!

Welcome everyone to the

Gecko Galz 7th Annual Blog Hop

This is your seventh stop on our Tricks and Treats Blog Hop! 

We have 13 AMAZING blogs for you to visit this weekend, each with some gorgeous projects created using the Gecko Galz collage sheets that we are giving you for FREE! Each blog you visit will have another free Gecko Galz Collage sheet for you to down load, the one here is

"Nouveau Inspirations".

Also make sure you leave a message on each blog site you visit and on the last blog there will be a phrase that you will email to us to be entered in our drawing for a wonderful treat pack.  So sit back, relax, take your time and enjoy the hop!

We have FOUR amazing prizes up for grabs:

·        First is a Gecko Galz shopping spree for $100!

·        Second prize is a $50 Shopping spree with Gecko Galz.

·        Third prize is a $25 shopping spree!

·        And our Grand Prize ONE FULL YEAR of Gecko Galz PRODUCTS!!! This includes the 6 new collage sheets each quarter, a new stamp set each quarter, 2 new paper packs each quarter, a journal kit each quarter, a ATC collection each quarter, and one jewel it collection!

 This is a $176 value!

First of all, you will need to visit all 13 blogs and leave a comment on each blog :) **This is important so we know you have been to all the blogs **. Collect the phrase at the end of the hop on the Fripperies and Butterflies site there will be a link to email the phrase to Gecko Galz at geckogalz2014@gmail.com.

This enters you in the contest. On October 31st we will randomly draw the 4 winners and email each of you, then we will post the winning names on the Gecko Galz blog site.

For an extra chance to win make a purchase from the GECKO GALZ ETSY STORE between the 26th of October and the 30^th of October and your name goes in again for a better chance of winning (each purchase you make that weekend gives you another chance to win) 

HERE ARE MY CREATIONS FOR YOUR INSPIRATION -- using actual playing cards as my base, i turned four of the beautiful women of the nouveau inspirations collage sheet into the four queens of the card deck:

the queen of hearts

the queen of clubs

the queen of diamonds

the queen of spades

All images and papers used on the cards are from gecko galz except the letter Q (from mischief circus) and the heart/club/spade/diamond which came from open clip art.


and just for a last bit of fun -- a final little piece using this sheet, a 2x2 inch "twinchie," with a little seasonal hallowe'en flair:

Please enjoy this free Gecko Galz Collage sheet

“Nouveau Inspirations”

Have fun visiting each Blog!

Joan Liddle

Barbara Bird

Vicki Romaine

Patti Fisher

Marilyn Hughes

YOU ARE HERE

Carole Jones

Margaret Ashby

Gerri Herbst

Carole Wright

Nancy Nickel

Heather Hudson

Leanne Seed

enjoy!  
and love to all.

laissez les bon temps roulez

for moo mania and more "mardi gras" theme:

as usual i have a traditional "moo," approximately 1.1 x 2.8 inches. the woman is from the lunagirl art deco ladies collage sheet.  before printing her i added a digital mask from open clip art.  the background paper is by gecko galz and the rest of the elements are embellies from my stash.

love to all.

another lady in red

in keeping with our "red" theme at lunagirl moonbeams i have another lady in red on a tag to share.

this darling lady is from the "art deco ladies" collage sheet by lunagirl.  the background paper to the left is also by lunagirl and the paper to the right is from that valentine sweetheart bitty collection by heather hudson.  the heart bard is from eyelet outlet and the rest is stash,

link up a creation with the color red for the chance at shopping credit at the lunagirl store.  one more week to play!  and by the way, karen of lunagirl has offered up a luscious red freebee on the blog so please feel free to grab it and create with it!

enjoy;love to all.

art deco birthday

every year about this time i make a deco-themed birthday card for a dear co-worker who loves that style.  here's what i made for her this year:

the main deco image was a free download from a lovely blog called artfully musing.  the music sheet "alouette" came from dezinaworld. the other simple embellies came from ye olde stash.

enjoy; love to all.

lucky lucky me!

if you stop by this blog much you know i am a cindy adkins fan.  in addition to her wonderful BLOG she has done an online blogging free seminar and she is also an incredible artist, encourager and friend.  in the process of her designing my blog button based on my original art we had this email dialogue going about being an artist and she was very helpful to me. later while browsing her etsy shop i found something that was directly on point to my artist's journey.  i'm going to show you that little treat LATER.  for now i'm sharing 2 pieces of art she sent gratis with my order.

delicious, yes?
more hallowe'en goodies tomorrow.
love to all.

art deco birthday

time for my annual art deco birthday card for my art deco loving friend and co-worker ann.  i'm late this year (which she is kind of used to) but the gift i got her is awesome -- i brought back a beautiful handmade one of a kind glass and copper angel made by an artist in nevada (found while on vacation this year).  it will be perfect over her desk (or wherever).  also while on vacation i was blog hopping around (yes even on vacation) and found some lovely vintage vogue image downloads from the fripperies and butterflies blog.  the images were all a perfect fit for a card for her but i had to choose one so this is it.

i kept it simple:  i placed the image over a nice burgundy colored circle i had in the stash and finished out with some die cuts and dots.  i think she'll like.

enjoy; love to all.