April Designer Guest; Donna Lanclos

This month we are proud to introduce everyone to a wonderful paper artist Donna Lanclos. Her work is an amazing eclectic combination of vintage flair and whimsy.

So just who is Donna? Well here is a bit about her in her own words.

Donna Lanclos is a self taught crafter who has enjoyed a plethora of crafting since
she was a young girl growing up in Louisiana.  She has formal training in oils,
pastels and charcoal and enjoyed many years of needle crafts.  Donna’s current
obsession is paper crafting, but she also enjoys gardening, reading, Mardi Gras,
cooking, photography, music and life in Cajun country.  She has been published in
Scrapstreet.com and Cricut.com and has won numerous challenges.  Donna has
recently opened the Lazy Lucy Retreat House in Lafayette, Louisiana.  She is
married to her best friend, who indulges her every whim, and together they have
5 children, 4 grand children and 4 fur babies.

For more works by this talented artist we invite you to check out her blog at

http://postcardsfromthestudio.blogspot.com/

Would you like to be one of our artist guest for 2014? We are looking for 10 talented designers who love working with our products. Just send 4 of your most recent designs (they do not have to include Gecko Galz Products) to us at geckogalz@yahoo.com  by August 30th and we will announce our new line up in December. Good luck!

Happy Scrapping

Gecko Galz

Whats New with Gecko Galz this week

Hi Everyone!

Well it is again that time...time for you to come to the Gecko Galz Site and pick your favorite project from our design teams "SPRING FLING" project. Come take a peek at all the wonderful projects our design team has come up with then cast your vote for your favorite design and get in the drawing for Gecko Galz May product package, which includes 5 collage sets, our monthly paper pack and a digital stamp set for May...not a bad prize for casting your vote. Also feel free to copy some of the projects so you can create them yourselves. Just go to http://geckogalz.com/2012sf.html and take a peek at the projects (there are two pages) and at the bottom of the second page you will find a form to cast your vote with. Then at the end of this month we will award one lucky person with the May product line. Super simple hu? Have fun and happy voteing.

Here are a few of the amazing products for you to see

Mini Book by Jan Stevens

Wall Plaque by Hazel Harler

Collage Box by Joan Liddle

Altered Jar by Helene Huber

Also there is 2 days left to get your FREE Copy of the Le Jardin mini stamp set. Just make a purchase at the Gecko Galz website (no minimum purchase) and you will get the stamp set for free, it includes 6 amazing digital stamp images!

And for everyone who loves taking part in a challenge this month Gecko Galz is having a MOTHERS DAY CHALLENGE.

We want to see your love for your mother...or
Grandmother.....or Aunt...whom ever you see as
your motherly influence in your life. Just create a
project using a Gecko Galz product or two then
send a picture to us atgeckogalz@yahoo.comAnd then on May 1st we will post all the designs on
our blog site and choose 1 winner who will win the
May collection. That means the winner will recieve
the May papers, The May digital stamp set, and all 5

collage sets for May. Good luck and have fun!

We hope everyone has a happy scrappy week

Gecko Galz