December Artist Spotlight part Two

I wanted to share another set of fantastic artist with you from the DYSU design team. We were fortunate enough to sponser a challenge on their blog site earlier this month and a handful of their design team came up with some amazing samples using Gecko Galz products. We hope you enjoy their work as much as we enjoyed it. Each month we will be sponsering a guest artist and if you would like to be considered for this please contact us at geckogalz@yhaoo.com .

Pandy Grenville-Evans

I am a calligrapher at heart.  I scribe texts, make cards, albums and books, scribe poems in my books, make scrapbook pages and work to order.

My style is modern and colourful, with layers and textures, very touchy, feely.  I love papers, ribbons and contrasts - anything and everything to do with paper and ink that keeps me busy!  I craft by solely by hand, from scratch.  I use a knife and rule – and I cut out most of the shapes I use myself.  This does mean that the off knife mark might show – hay, proves it’s real - that is what hand crafting is all about. My fave thing are my inks - alcohol inks - Copics -  distress - acrylic - all yummie

I try as much as I can to include other crafters, as well as craft buyers.  I am always keen to explain how I have made a card, or how a certain technique is done, I make toppers for people to use in their own work and regularly post ‘how to make’ projects and helpful information.

My blog is http://princesskitten-calligraphy.blogspot.com/

and my web site http://www.princesskitten.co.uk/

Pandy used our Chopstix stamp set for this card

MARY EASON

Hi everyone, my name is Mary. I'm a married SAHM of 2 teens, who keep me hopping. In between the massive amounts of daily driving, I try to sneak in time for a bit of card making and scrapbooking. I began scrapbooking about 7 years ago and card making shortly thereafter.  I lean toward Clean and Simple in my crafting but love trying other styles. Last summer I was lucky to be chosen to join the Design Team at the Do You Stack Up challenge blog. As one of our sponsors, Gecko Galz provided me with some fabulous images to play with. I love how unique and cool the images are and had so much fun creating with them. A big thank you to Gecko Galz for the fabulous product and for this opportunity. You can check out my Gecko Galz creations at - http://scrapmystash.blogspot.com/

Mary used Gecko Galz Winter wonderland

digital stamps to create this amazing

card.

Again Mary used Gecko Galz Winter Wonderland

digital stamp set to create this amazing

card.

We hope everyone has a happy and safe New Years and we will see everyone back here in 2012!

Gecko Galz

WEEK 5 ULTIMATE HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY

Welcome to week 5 of Gecko Galz Ultimate Holiday Giveaway!!!! This is our final week of Holiday give aways and it is the biggest prize YET!
This week we are giving one lucky winner an entire year of ephemera sets.....that's right each month you will receive all 5 of the new ephemera sets Gecko Galz releases!
But wait there is more 3 lucky runners up will receive a FREE ephemera set of their choice each month for a year!
What do you have to do to be eligible? Nothing much become a follower of the Gecko Galz News letter (it is not bad you get free collage page each month for being on it) you can do this on the Gecko Galz Website www.geckogalz.com and from our master newsletter list we will pick the 4 winners!
Good luck everyone and have a happy new year!
Gecko Galz 

Winners of Week 4 Ultimate Holiday Giveaways!

We hope everyone had a magical Christmas and wanted to pop in and congratulate our winners of the Ultimate Holiday give away week 4 Giveaway!
Congrats to

Corrine Selsor

Tabitha Grace

and

Sandy Martin

They all won the entire December colloction!!!!

Don't forget we have 1 more week of Giveaways!

Winners of Week 2 of Gecko Galz Ultimate Holiday Giveaways!!!

Hello Everyone!

Well our second week of wonderful Holiday Giveaways has come to an end and the winners of the choice of 4 FREE Ephemera sets of their choice are as follows

Yvonne

Natasha Campbell
and

LeAnne Pugliese
Congrats to all the winners! Please contact us at geckogalz@yahoo.com so we can tell you what you won!

NOW FOR WEEK THREE

For week three's Ultimate Holiday Giveaway 3 lucky people will win Decembers entire product line....yep you read right you will get all 5 ephemera sets, The paper pack, The Alphabet soup set, and the digital stamp collection "Divine Deco" a $30 value!!!
So how do you enter for your chance to win? That is simple just check out our Design Team super Star Heather Hudsons on line "Victorian Boot Money Holder" Tutorial at You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDtg_ZASj5I

 

and

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mCiLVlqBIY

 

 

 

Then come back here and leave a comment on what you thought of her tutorial (or you can email us at geckogalz@yahoo.com and let us know)

 

And then check back here next Monday to see who our three winners are! Good luck to everyone and have fun watching Heathers wonderful tutorials on You Tube!

 

We here at Gecko Galz hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday season!

 

Bright Blessings

Gecko Galz

Artist Spotlight For December

Hi everyone!

As we rush about doing last minute shopping and our loved ones start arriving we thought it would be nice to spotlight some great artist who have used our products so when you are taking a breather you can be inspired.
These ladies are on the design team for a wonderful blog site  the DYSU CHALLENGE BLOG, they host challenges for all you paper crafters. This month Gecko Galz was one of the sponsors for the DYSU challenge and these ladies came up with some amazing works using our products.

NAOMI

Hi Everyone!  I'm Naomi and I was born and raised in the beautiful Vancouver, Canada area.  I live just outside the city with my man and our two feline fur-babies, Tai and Mischa.

I started scrapbooking with my mom 9 years ago when I graduated high school but, to be honest, at the time, I was more interested in my social life.  About 4 years ago, I began going to crops with my mom to make her happy.  Although I do enjoy scrapbooking and have met many amazing women through it, I never really fell in love with it.  In January of this year, I began making cards and had no idea what I was getting myself into... I barely even knew blogs existed!  After discovering Blog Challenges, I reluctantly started my own blog in February because I wanted to participate.  The rest is history.  I have met so many sweet and supportive ladies and these days I couldn't even imagine a life without crafting and blogging!

http://paperbagprincesspapercrafting.blogspot.com/

Naomi used Gecko Galz All the trimmings Collage set to create this amazing card

MIRANDA VAN DEN BOSCH

My name is Miranda van den Bosch and I’m 47 years old. I have been drawing nearly all my life. At the age of 4 I was making drawings on a blackboard and I’ve never stopped drawing since. When I was little I used to draw portraits and Disney characters. After a while I started to draw fairies and dragons. In time, I joined an art group and learned to draw nudes, still life and portraits too. When I was in my 30ties I became interested in birds and started to draw them as well. And last year I published my first children’s book. It’s an ABC of birds and 26 birds tell you about birdlife in general. About 2 years ago, I discovered card making and how I could use stamps with my colouring technique and style. I really enjoy colouring all the cute images with watercolour or with regular colour pencils. I also like making art journalpages. Quite recently I started to draw my own digi’s which is a lot of fun to do. A new world of creativity is opening up for me.

If you want to see more of my work please go to www.mirandascardcreations.blogspot.com

For this Art Journal Page Miranda used Gecko Galz "Angels" collection

On this page she used Gecko Galz "Pixie Dust" Collection

For this adorable little tag Miranda again worked with Gecko Galz "Pixie Dust" Collection

And for this whimsical card Miranda used Gecko Galz "Gobel art" collection

We hope you enjoy this look at two talented artist and be sure to visit their personal blog sites to see more items by them as well as the DYSU Challenge site to enter their challenges.

If you would like to be one of our spotlighted artist or would like Gecko Galz to sponsor a challenge contact us at geckogalz@yahoo.com .

Happy Holidays

Gecko Galz

Winner Of week one ultimate Christmas giveaway!

So our first week giveaway is done and we have picked 3 winners (you all will get 4 exclusive ephemera sets emailed to you) and we want to say thank you for everyone who participated. The winners for this week are
Linda Chaffin Gothard

2 AM Scrapper

and

Naomi Gong
Congrats ladies please email me your email addy's to geckogalz@yahoo.com and we will email your prizes right off!

Now if you did not win dont fret it is time for week two and another fabtastic giveaway. This week we are giving away a prize pack of 4 FREE Digi Ephemera sets of your choice. Three winners will be selected once again and you will get to choose 4 digital ephemera sets from our huge collection on the Gecko Galz website. So what do you have to do to win? First if you are not on our mailing list join the Gecko Galz Newsletter mailing list on the home page we will pick one winner from everyone who signs up there. The second way to win is become a Gecko Galz blog follower and leave a comment about what your favorite holiday tradition is. and the third way become a follower on facebook and leave a comment on our wall. So easy and so easy to win! everyone have a great week!

Gecko Galz

November Kit Giveaway Winner

Hi everyone!

We would like to thank everyone who entered our November kit giveaway, the winner of the 12 Days of Christmas tag book kit is....Lesley D!!!!! Congrats Lesley, Just email us at geckogalz@yahoo.com and give us your shipping addy and we will send it right off.
Now for our December Give away...its HUGE! every week until the end of the month we will be giving away a super wonderful prize! This week we will be giving away 4 exclusive digital Ephemera sets too three lucky people. you have three chances to win, first become a follower here and leave a comment here about the best gift you ever got. The second way is pop over to our face book page and become a follower and leave a comment there and the last way on the Gecko Galz website join our mailing list using the form on the home page http://www.geckogalz.com/ . We will announce the winners each Monday! Good luck

Gecko Galz