june gecko galz inspiration -- my first "peg doll"

here is some additional inspiration for you this month featuring some new products from gecko galz this month and some good old items from my stash. inspired by julie from magpie heaven blog I've tried my hand at creating a peg doll.

here are the details.

supplies: gecko galz "pretty portraits” collage sheet (new this month), gecko galz high tea paper pack, "with wild abandon" digital stamps, washi tape, heart punch, lace border, prima flower, lindy’s stamp gang spray stain. 

instructions:  this piece starts with a 6 inch high wooden peg (giant clothespin).  i “painted” the peg with a stain from lindy’s stamp gang.  meanwhile i cut out faces i liked from the pretty portraits collage sheet and also digitally added images from with wild abandon to sheets of high tea paper.  using modpodge i attached the papers from the high tea paper pack and then attached the faces.  on one side i added washi tape at the bottom.  on the other side i added a lace border and a punched heart.

i hope you'll be inspired to check out the new products at gecko galz.  there are always freebies available on the blog as well.

love to all.

parisian dreams

summertime is often considered travel time so the latest two week challenge at the cheerful stamp pad "travel to faraway places" is right on time.  our challenge sponsor is lunagirl vintage images; a randomly selected winner of the challenge will win a prize from our sponsor.

my creation is a memory of a romantic parisian adventure using college sheets from lunagirl ("maps" and "dreams of paris") and an "arch top reliquary shrine" from alpha stamps.  the shrine is 2 chipboard pieces, a base and the arch cover.  i created a collage using three images from lunagirl and some washi tape and adhered them to the base.  i painted the arch cover with lindys stamp gang starburst stains in "opal sea oats" and when that was dry i glued it to the base.  sadly the scan does not show the full shimmery-ness of the starburst stain.  after that i added a prima flower.

i hope you like it!  whether it is summer or winter where you live, and whether you have a vacation coming up or not, i hope you will play along.

love to all.