erin go bragh with our midweek muse

for our midweek muse: st patrick's day 

images primarily from gecko galz, and a little touch of vintage tumblefish studios.

color challenge: blue and green

for tag tuesday's latest challenge: blue and green. our challenge host is wendy. 

for this tag i use a sheet of dictionary paper to affix to my cardboard tag base, then spritzed it with blue and green watercolors. i took a tim holtz paper doll and colored it with blue and green alcohol markers. i added a flower, a dominoes border and a word i thought represented this fierce little girl.

love to all.

green spring

for take a word: green

images are vintage tumblefish studios.
wishing health, safety, happiness and a green spring (or a lovely autumn if you're on the other side of the world from me!) to all.

love to all

winter greenery

for sunday postcard art: winter greenery

background paper from the gecko galz christmas botanicals paper pack. remaining elements from kits by mr whiskers and itKuPiLLi at mischief circus.

love to all.

blues and greens

here are three creations in response to the take a word challenge to use mostly blue and green.

backgrounds on 1st 2 are from the la isla bonita paper pack by gecko galz with remaining images from dezinaworld (retired) tumblefish studios (retired) holliewood studios (fractals) and itKuPiLLi (butterflies). tiny hearts background on 3rd piece is from my artistic adventures.

love to all.

living green

for take a word: green

this vision in green brought to you by retired tumblefish studio kits "nitty gritty neighborhood" and "another mash up" and butterflies by itKuPiLLi.

open to all loans of mojo and mojo-regenerating ideas!
gonna keep making 'til it feels right again.
love to all.

keeping it green!

st patrick's day is only a couple of weeks away now and our challenge theme at the gecko galz customer challenge blog has been "putting on the green." challenge entries closed on february 26 (because this is a short month!) but i still have some more goodies to share. 

supplies: gecko galz visions in green collage sheet; gecko galz butterfly kisses collage sheet; gecko galz putting on the green digital crafting kit; gecko galz it's not easy being green paper pack; enamel dots; distress ink.

instructions: i covered my ATC base with paper i printed out from the putting on the green digital crafting kit and distressed the edges. i printed the celtic symbol from the digital crafting kit on to paper from the it's not easy being gree paper pack, cut it out and glued it to the ATV.  i fussy cut the girl, printed from the digital craft kit and also fussy cut the butterfly from the butterfly kisses sheet and glued both to the ATC as well.  i added the enamel dots last. 

supplies: gecko galz butterfly kisses collage sheet; gecko galz putting on the green digital crafting kit; gecko galz it's not easy being green paper pack, gecko galz charming words collage sheet; distress ink.

instructions: i covered my ATC base with paper i printed out from the putting on the green digital crafting kit and distressed the edges. i printed the celtic symbol from the digital crafting kit on to paper from the it's not easy being gree paper pack, cut it out and glued it to the ATV.  i fussy cut the girl, printed from the digital craft kit and also fussy cut the butterfly from the butterfly kisses sheet and glued both to the ATC as well, along with the word, cut from the charming words collage sheet.   

supplies: gecko galz visions in green collage sheet; gecko galz butterfly kisses collage sheet; gecko galz it's not easy being green paper pack; paper flower, enamel dots, distress ink.

instructions: i took 4 different papers from the it's not easy being green paper pack and arranged them on the ATC base, and distressed the edges. i fussy cut the girl from visions in green and glued her on the ATC.  i fussy cut the butterfly from butterfly kisses and added that to her shoulder.  i added the paper flower and enamel dots last.

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how to play along with the challenge: too late for february but come back march 1 to see the new challenge theme and play along with us next month!

love to all. 

erin go bragh

since our challenge at the gecko galz customer challenge blog this month is "putting on the green," i am sharing a digitally created piece today on our theme. if you'd like to join the challenge see the instructions at the bottom of this post.

supplies: gecko galz putting on the green digital crafting kit; gecko galz it's not easy being green paper pack. 

instructions: i selected several items from the crafting kit and arranged them in photo shop, using a paper from the it's not easy being green paper pack as my base.

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on february 28 i'll be featured on the gecko galz blog so please come back to see more st patrick's themed ATCS...

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how to play along with the challenge: create on our theme -- remember you must use at least one item by gecko galz.  if you sign up for the monthly gecko galz newsletter you'll get a free collage sheet every month.  sign up at the blog here, on the top left. there are also wonderful freebies at the gecko galz pinterest page. and there are always wonderful deals at the etsy shop -- and if you are a newsletter subscriber you'll also get notice of the special one buck wednesday deals! for this challenge your deadline to link up is february 26.  challenge prize will be goodies from the gecko galz shop!

love to all. 

putting on the green!

at the gecko galz blog this month we are "putting on the green" and encouraging you to make projects for st patrick's day or at least using green! challenge rules are below.  here is an ATC by me to get this started.

supplies: gecko galz visions in green collage sheet; gecko galz darling dragonflies collage sheet; gecko galz putting on the green digital crafting kit; paper flower, enamel dot, distress ink.

instructions: i covered my ATC base with paper i printed out from the putting on the green digital crafting kit and distressed the edges. the Irish blessing was printed from the putting on the green digital crafting kit and i fussy cut that as well as fussy cutting the woman from visions in green and the dragonfly from the darling dragonflies sheet. i glued those to the ATC base and added the flower and dot last.

nothing like an Irish blessing to get things started!

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how to play along with the challenge: create on our theme -- remember you must use at least one item by gecko galz.  if you sign up for the monthly gecko galz newsletter you'll get a free collage sheet every month.  sign up at the blog here, on the top left. there are also wonderful freebies at the gecko galz pinterest page. and there are always wonderful deals at the etsy shop -- and if you are a newsletter subscriber you'll also get notice of the special one buck wednesday deals! for this challenge your deadline to link up is february 26.  challenge prize will be goodies from the gecko galz shop!

love to all. 

a lime green new year

for week two of the "anything goes -- use some lime green" challenge at tag tuesday i have a happy new year tag.

the background paper, new year sentiment and characters/clock are all from gecko galz.  the rest are bits and bobs from my stash.  happy new year time really isn't that far away!  i'm hoping for a happy 2018.

love to all.

anything goes -- with lime green

at tag tuesday for the next two weeks the theme is "anything goes" but use some lime green.  thanks to Wendy for this challenge theme! lime makes me think spring-like thoughts so i departed from my holiday making for this tag:

the background paper and bunny are from gecko galz and the rest are items from my stash.  i'm a bit late posting but there is more than a week left to play.

i'm also linking to the try it on tuesday "colourful" challenge.

love to all.

fantasies in green

for take a word: green

images from miles beyond the moon, itKuPiLLi and songbirdy, all available at mischief circus.

images from miles beyond the moon and itKuPiLLi, all available at mischief circus.  the leprechaun hat is from open clip art.

hope you like these gentle fairy fantasies; and for those who celebrate, happy st patrick's day!

love to all.