Roll On Slim Line card, Dr Digi and A Perfect Time To Craft

 Hello !

Brrr, very typical Northeast Ohio day, cold, gray and snowy. However, I have a fun, bright, winter themed card to show with you! 

Thanks go out to our sponsor this month Dr Digi House Of Stamps ! With our sponsors A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge Blog, is fun and creativity! Consider getting your craft on and joining us for a chance to win great prizes, and as always any thing goes!! I hope to see you there!

From the moment I laid eyes on this adorable image, I knew what I wanted to create! I printed out two sizes of the image, Roll On Gnomes. Knowing that a slim line card would be perfect for design, I create the card, covered the front with fun striped red paper, rounded the corners, to lend to the rolling gnomes!! I trimmed out my gnomes, taking a que from the red paper, I colored my gnomes in shades of gray, red and a little green so they would pop off my background!  I decided to give each snowball a good coating of white glitter glue in a tube. I put my card together by grounding my gnomes on one of the strips, pop dotting them for extra dimension. Add a gray ribbon and a few white sequins to tie the theme and card together.

I hope you enjoyed my bright non traditional holiday card!

Thanks for stopping by,

Robin

Altered Celestial Box and Dream Catcher stuffed Pocket with Gecko Galz

 Hello!

Have I got a treat for you! I am in love with moon! I make sure to never miss a walk under the full moon. I am not much of a sun lover, however, I love a bright sunny day, don't we all?! 

I have used the beautiful images from Brother Moon and Sister Sun, which can be found here at Gecko Galz Etsy Store! 

I just happen to have the cutest little wood box, that I picked up some where in my travels and decided to alter it into a Celestial Trinket Box.

                                             After painting the box black, I filled 6 bottle caps

                                             with my fav images, gluing them down and then

                                             hot glued them to my box top. I took a couple

                                             scoops of assorted beads, mixed them together,

                                             and began gluing them down with a tacky glue. It

                                             took a couple rounds of beads and glue to fill in

                                             between the caps, however, I love the look I got!

                                            I covered the lid and the bottom using two of my 

                                            fav, ATC's from the In The Stars ATC Collection

I then added some fun bling to pick up the pink

    beads I added to my bead mix on the top, for added

interest!

My second project keeping with the theme, is a Dream Catcher loaded pocket, complete with

 Gecko Galz Library Cards college set

I had plenty of beautiful images to use between the sets!

I hope you enjoyed my projects, Thanks for stopping by! And be sure to stop over at

 Gecko Galz Blog

and see what my team mates have been creating!!

Vintage Snow Globe with Arty Divas

 Hello!!

Winter is upon us in my neck of the woods, Northeast Ohio. As I was sitting in my craft room all toasty and warm with my heavy sweat shirt on, and wool socks, pondering my projects for this month and looking at the beautiful images I have to work with from Lillie Rain Designs, Winter Cuties.

I decided to make a decor piece from an upcycled wood snow globe, I snagged at my fav thrift store !

Be Sure to stop by the Arty Diva Challenge Blog, add add you beautiful creations! Anything goes, 

Oh and there some fab prizes to win!

 

                                                                       Oh. what fun I had!! 

I covered the front and back with the Beavis cream paper, inking all edges. I ran lace trim around the round part of the globe, to give it a more vintage and finished look. I chose a scrap to much from scrap cart to match the minty green and die cut it out for the frame for my winter cutie, inking all edges. I then die cut my cutie out, inked the edges, and pop dotted her on top of the frame. Add a gauzy bow and matching flat back pearls here and there and viola! A one of kind vintage snow globe to keep you warm!

My second project was a matching pair if greeting cards, making good use of the beautiful images in the Winter Cuties set.

Thanks for stopping by,

Robin

Emma and her Snowball

 Hello!

Brrr, Winter is coming to Northeast Ohio, I am not a fan of winter, every winter I ask myself what I am still doing here in Ohio, LOL Family ties keep me of course! There are are few occasions that keep me here too! One is our Cookie Exchange with gal friends. It is such a fun day of celebrating each other and our love for desserts, LOL! 

Be sure to get your on, one of your cold days and create a project to share with all of us over at A Perfect Time To Craft!! Anything goes all the time and there are fabulous prizes to be won!!

Every year I am reminded, that I am too bake my usual, Chai Tea Cookies, which I call "snowball cookies" This year when asked to work with the adorable image from Fred She Said Store, who graciously is our team sponsor this month!! Emma's Snowball, I jump at a chance to make my cookie marker for our annual exchange! 

Layered Round Easel Card

                                                               Isn't she just the cutest?!!

Thank You, 

Robin

BOO!! Altered Cigar Box, This Is Halloween Challenge Blog

 Hello!

Have a got a treat for you! In celebration of Halloween, I have upcycled the perfect cigar box for hosting my candy !!! 

While shopping at my favorite cigar store, I spied the perfect box for recycling! I love to craft objects that make use of the recycle, reduce, reuse idea! Not only is my soul renewed after a day in my craft room, I have saved another item that would of end up in the trash!

How about getting your craft on and saving something from the trash and join us over at This Is Halloween Challenge Blog! Fabulous prizes to be won!!

The perfect part about this cigar box, is that it was already orange and black!!! I added some creepy paper here and there, a frame, and Tim Holz, Halloween Dolls!!! I add a little washi tape to ground my dolls and lace on the front rails!

I hope to see your creation, 

Robin

Gecko Galz 11th Annual Blog Hop Tricks and Treats

Hello Everyone!

 

We want to welcome everyone to the

Gecko Galz 11th Annual Blog Hop

 

This is our Tricks and Treats Blog Hop! 

We have 16 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 on each site! Each blog you visit will have a exclusive free Gecko Galz Collage sheet for you to download, the one here is

"ART ANGELS".

(Click Right the image below to save)

 

Brave Prayer Charm

 

Book Mark

 

 Puzzle Piece Ornament

 

Prayer Box

Stand Up Frame

 

                                                                Memory Dex Card

                                          

                                                                                 

                                                                         Stand Up ATC

                                                         

 

Also make sure you leave a message on each blog site you visit, and follow that design team member if you do not already 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 FIVE amazing prizes up for grabs:

·        First is a Gecko Galz Kit Club for 2022!

·        Second prize is a $75 Shopping spree with Gecko Galz.

·        Third prize is a $50 shopping spree!

Fourth 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, a new Craft Kits each quarter, 3 ATC collections, A Sentiment pack each quarter, and one jewel it collection!

 

First of all, you will need to visit all 16 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 geckogalz2019@gmail.com.

This enters you in the give Away. On October 31st we will randomly draw the 4 winners and email each of you, then we will post the winning names  in our Newsletter on November 1st.

 

For an extra chance to win make a purchase from the GECKO GALZ ETSY STORE between the 28th of October and the 31st 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) 

 

Now have fun visiting each Blog

 

Gecko Galz

Kim Rayko

Robin Francini

Gail Hutchinson

Mia

Susan Renshaw

Rene Van Wyk

Kelly Parker

Anirudh Kashyap

Zowie Dixon

Cathy Norton

Marcia Caradinta 

Carole Jones

Angela Fretwell

Gerri Herbst

Leanne Seed

A Beautiful Death Gecko Galz

 Hello,

It is my favorite time of year! I love Fall, not only for the cooler weather, and gorgeous color show, Mother Nature provides, it is time to celebrate Halloween! Even as a kid I love Halloween, that might have something to do with my maternal Grandmas and there love for all things Halloween! As a very young girl, I can remember our huge family production, my Grandma name "Pumpkin Day"! The day started out by going to a local farm and picking our pumpkin to carve, Back home to clean the pumpkins and start the day long process of carving, enjoying each other and devouring homemade pizza and desserts galore! At the end of the day, we would lite or creations, turn out the lights and ohh and aww, over our creative selves ! Such family fun!!

Keeping with the Halloween spirit of all things spooky and creepy, I chose to work with the fabulous digi set,  Beautiful Death.

I created 3 canvases using different images. I first painted the canvases black, allow to dry and then stenciled wording on the canvas, using sand texture paste set, aside to dry. While the texture paste was drying, I die cut three different shapes out of heavy black card stock. I wanted these to give each canvas an appearance of a head stone. After my tops were cut I applied sand texture paste from the jar, using my finger, hoping it blended well with the look of the wording.  I first matted each image on black and white lace heavy paper. Trimmed out my images and rounded the corners, and inking the edges. I added dimension by pop dotting my images on top of the lace paper cut outs .I finished off each project, with flower embellishments, I created and stretchy cob web. What do you think??

With plenty of images left from this unique set, I created a second project using a lined journal. and a book mark to complete the journal set. 

Thank You for stopping bye,

Robin