Saturday, December 15, 2012

DECEMBER ARTIST GUEST; Lynne Moncrieff

Gecko Galz is pleased to have as our Artist Guest for December an amazing and talented paper artist Lynne Moncrieff. what makes this a special artist is not only her wonderful works but also we are pleased to announce that Lynne is one of our newest members of the Gecko Galz Design team (so you will be seeing alot more from her in 2013). A bit about Lynne,
In 2006 when Lynne was in search of a new hobby she stumbled upon
stamping. That hobby quickly became a passion!
She is  self-taught and likes to create a variety of items from
cards, tags, altered art, jewellery, etc. She likes to incorporate
re-cycling, household items and utilise scraps as much as
possible.  Without intending to it appears that a piece of lace
always finds its way onto a piece of art, even masculine
themed art! Her style is most definitely vintage with her friends
providing the lovely name of "Queen of Vintage Romance"
and she supposes that does sum up her style. She enjoys spending
time aging trims, tags etc with coffee/tea/walnut ink crystal
baths, very relaxing!
She was a reluctant blogger but at the suggestion from friends who
told her she had nothing to lose, she started her Blog, Adorn in
December 2009 and have not looked back. It has  provided the
most wonderful opportunities to be on a variety of DTs (and
Guest Artist). Amongst others, in the past she has been on two
DTs for suppliers of digital collage images. At present she is on
DTs for Oxford Impressions, The Stampsmith and Crafty
Individuals and a challenge site, Fashionable Stamping
Challenge site and now Gecko Galz.
With collage images she likes the versatility of printing onto a
variety of surfaces and also image transfer as well as she also likes to
incorporate her beloved stamps.
She has been published in several Stampington & co
publications:- Somerset Studio, Sew Somerset, Somerset Life,
The Stampers' Sampler, Take Ten, Somerset Holidays and
Celebrations and Somerset Studio Gallery.
Crafting is definitely her passion but so is reading, She has
always been a Bookworm.  She has also started collecting
vintage buttons, lace, CDVs and vintage postcards.
Below is a sample of her wonderful works and to see more works by this talented artist visit her at
her blog





Vintage Inspired Tusst Mussy


Steampunk Seamstress canvas bag



Altered Parisian jar



Vintage roses Journal



Tiny dancer hanger


We hope you enjoyed Lyynes work and starting in January visit her gallery on the Gecko Galz website to see more from her.
Lynne is also our pin it to win it sample this month on Pinterest so pop over and repin her sample for a chance to win a fabulouse Gecko Galz prize...so simple and easy and you might just be our winner!
Have a happy scrappy day
Gecko Galz

Saturday, December 8, 2012

ARE YOU MISSING OUT ON OUR 24 TAGS OF CHRISTMAS?

Hello to Everyone!

As alot of you know we have been hosting on our website our 24 tags of Christmas...what is this exactly? Well each days for 24 days we will be sharing a new tag with instructions on how you can create it! Our design team members have created some amazing tags that are sure to inspire you and help you dress up all your Christmas packages...or decorate your tree....or use for place card holders....oh there are just oodles of things one can do with tags!
If you have not checked them all out I thought it would be fun to share with you the ones we have already posted (by the way you can still hop over there and get the instructions on all these we have set up an archives). Each day we have a new tag along with a super savings deal on products to make the tag with...like $1 collage sets...or half price paper packs. So come check them out at www.geckogalz.com .
For now enjoy the tags from our talented design team members


Metal Wonderland Tag
by
Leanne Seed



Christmas Joy Tag
by
Carole Salisbury



Christmas Baby Tag
by
Gerri Herbst



Holiday Chic Tag
by
Starr Timmons



Little Angels Tags
by
Jean Wyatt



Naughty or Nice Tag
by
Helene Huber



Santa Tag
by
Jan Stevens



All things Christmas
by
Hazel Harler



Remember there is a new one daily so come check them all out!
Happy Scrapping
Gecko Galz

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

BIG DECEMBER CONTEST & CHALLENGES

Hi everyone!

We love the holidays and what better way to celebrate than with  us giving away products and hosting challenges. First lets get to our first winner of the season and that is the winner of the November Pin It To Win It on our Pinterest page, congrats to Diane Bove she has won our ANGELICA Stamp set Wooohoo...and to think all she had to do was pin the picture to win! But dont fret we are having another pin it to win it  contest this month on our Pintrest site so run over and pin it...you might just win it!
Next a number of our Design team members will be having challenges and giveaways on their blogs where you could win a $25 shopping spree on the Gecko Galz website so we invite you to check them all out at the following links;

Leanne Seed.....starts Dec 7th

Debi Ryan.......starts Dec 3rd

Heather Hudson.......starts Dec. 1st

Helene Huber.........starts Dec 3rd

Jessicca Moore........starts Dec 10th

We hope you can stop by and take part in everyones challenges and cotest.
Next we are having a challenge here on our blog, we want to see what everyone has done with our products either from the free sheets you get each month with the newsletter...or the blog hop goodies....or even our free cyber Monday images....or things you have purchased. Just leave a comment to this thread and a link where we can view your project (or you can email us your entry to geckogalz@yahoo.com make sure you mark it Gecko Galz Blog Challenge Entry) and then on December 30th we will choose three winners who will win 1st second and third place for their designs. and what will you win? First place will win a year of collage sets (each month you will get all 5 of our collage sheets for one full year). second place will win our digital stamp set each month for a year (that will be a total of 12 stamp sets) and our third place winner will recieve their choice of one FREE collage sheet each month for a year! not bad for doing what we all love doing and that is creating fun projects.
And let us not forget each week we will be giving away a wonderful prize all December long to one lucky customer who has made a purchase that week...so when you buy you can win.
And our last contest this month is on our Gecko Galz Facebook page....
GECKO GALZ FACEBOOK PAGE

Good luck to everyone!
Gecko Galz

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Come Check Out Our 24 Days of Tags

Hi Everyone!

well it is official Gecko Galz has kicked off the holiday's with our wonderful 24 days of  tags. e invite you to come to our website at www.geckogalz.com and check out the tag of the day and learn how to create it. Our amazingly talented design team has created 24 wonderful holiday tags for you to recreate  and each day we will feature a new design with the instructions on how to do it.
Also we are having our big Holiday sale where each week we have a new and diffrent sale as well as a new lot of $1 collage sets and each week we will draw a winner for a fab prize from all those who made a purchase! So come one come all join the adventure and tap into your inner elf this holiday season!

Metal Wonderland Tag
by
Leanne Seed