So here is another wonderful paper artist trying out for our Design team, Barbara Bird!
So lets find out a little bit about this fun loving lady!
Barbara has been into Paper Artistry for about 8 years now.........it has become her obssession !!! She does not hesitate to say it saved her life when her husband moved her to Texas away from her home and friends. Through paper crafting she has met the greatest bunch of ladies and have become such good friends thru this art !
Her passion and love is making cards and has gotten more into the scrapbooking side of her art now that she has her first grand child.And just lately she has gotten into altering and is enjoying that very much !!!
She was on a vintage design team called Vintage Faire that had just started up and was really enjoying it - but the lady that started it up was having a hard time getting people to join in so had to let it go and now she finds she misses it.
Another passion she has is old post cards, she used to run a post card show and loves collecting vintage cards and most of all loves using them in her card making.
Her work is charming and beatuiful and her cards are inspired by a romantic vintage flair.
You can visit her at her blog site: http://mdstrwbery.blogspot.com
From across the pond a brilliant paper artist comes, let us introduce you all to Hazel Harler!
Hazel has been a stamper for 15 years and though she is rather new when it comes to using digital images we think she has taken to it quite well! Hazel is a member of the online comunity Bella Creations and her work has graced many of their challenges.
Her favorite style is the distressed grungy look but she does many other styles as well and will have a go at anything as long as paper is involved.
Todiscover more about this awesome artist we invite you to visit her blog where like an english garden it is full of amazing and stunning works.
Let us introduce another wonderful paper artist, but this one comes from down under...thats right Sharon is from Glenelg South Australia.
And what can we tell you about this talented lady? She has been crafting and cardmaking for over 20 years and ejoyed doing card making so much she owned her own Wedding Invitation Business in the past. She belongs to a Local Stamp Group where gets to create and chat with like minded people once every few months. So to sum it up in a nutshell in her spare time crafting and getting involved with the online communities and with people who share her passion is her favorite things to do!
An “interesting” fact about Sharon is that she is a “Turf Management Contractor [Greenkeeper]” and if she doesn’t have ink and glue on her hands you can bet she has grease and dirt from working on turf and operating machinery – so she is a bit of a contradiction as she is not a girly girl but she loves pink and to create beautiful things!!
Her favorite forms of creating is a very wide range of styles including arty, vintage, collage, digi & rubber stamps, construction, altered art, art dolls, sassy, quirky, cute, fabric creations, ATC’s, jewelry, modern, asian, decorated notebooks, boxes, bags, paper embellishments, candles etc......so she really really loves crafting!!
with her “quirky” sense of humour and fun hip creations she is always trying to look outside the square when creating her art.
You can check out more about this spunky Aussie artist at her blog site
And now from all the way from Holland I'd like to present an amazing paper crafts artist
Miranda Van Den Bosch
So who is Miranda? Well She lives in Ridderkerk Holland and has been drawing and painting all her life. her favorite subjects to draw are animals, fairies and small items of nature. Then about 2 yrs ago she discovered stamping and like most of us she got totally addicted to it.
She started carefully with DP and stamps and colouring the images with colourpencils and watercolours. But then she discovered the fun of mixed media and took stamping and her art to a whole new level. She likes to combine all kind of different techniques with the images to create amazing and dazzling designs.
So our next Design Star hopeful is a real star!
Lets meet Starr Timmons, she is very very passionate about papercrafts and loves creating projects using different mixed media. she loves learning from other artist, learning and growing in her art makes her artist journey worthwhile.
Another passion of Starrs is oil painting.She continues to take classes and finds it calming and rewarding.
When I found your site I fell in love with images and can't get enought of them. Her work is full of littl design work that takes paper crafts to a new hight.
Starr is a member of the Bella Creations design team where she inspires others to take part in their challenges http://bellacreations.ning.com
You are welcome to come discover more about Starr at her blog at http://starr-timmons.blogspot.com
Or see other works by her at her Gallery http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=galleries
Today we wanted to spotlight another wonderful design team hopeful, Mistyrose Cramer!
Mistyrose is a new inspiring paper crafts artist who has been crafting since she was seven years old. Her first project was making Valentine Day cards with her mom and she has been addicted ever since.
her favorite mediums are paper crafting, sewing, and painting.and loves to use mix media for quilts,scrapbooking, paper crafts, cooking crafts and decorating cupcakes, yum!.
Her work is influenced heavily by the images she chooses to work with and her designs are spectacular and whimsical, Each piece makes you feel as if you have stepped into a paper wonderland!
Now we would like to share some of her stunning work with all of you
Also in celebration of our search for the NEW DESIGN STARS we are having a Blog giveaway.....just sign up as a follower and leave a comment for the Design team hopeful you like (we have a few more we will post this week) and on the 17th of June when we announce the new Design team members one lucky Gecko Galz Blog Follower will win a $50 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz website http://www.geckogalz.com/
Cassandra has been a homemaker for fifteen years. She has two sons, who are eighteen and thirteen. and two dogs, a Golden Retriever and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who think they're the rulers of their home (isnt that the way of dogs).
Her paper passion began about four years ago when she started creating ATC's and trading them. She finds great joy from creating something and giving it away. One of her passions is to create art on manilla tags and she generally has a ribbon at the top so when the person receives it, they can use it as a decoration.
She loves using vintage images, vintage stamps, glitter, sparkles, gems, lace, ribbon, scriptures and other encouraging words with my art. She adores techniques and sharing her work with others. A number of her altered tags are done as charity projects for Enchantedmakeovers.com, she and her team make over women and girls shelters and she shares my tags with the ladies to inspire them on their new journey in life.
Cassandra's work has a stunning vintage feel and we wanted to share some of her beautiful works with everyone but to see more feel free to visit her blog site at Altered for Him
So today I am introducing another Design Team hopeful, Stephanie Dang!
Stephanie isa SAHM to two little boys. She loves all things paper crafts and has done some amazing work. She is mainly a scrapbooker, but has recently started doing other projects like cards & altered arts (how can you not get sucked into this as well).
Her pages are full of little details that send them to new scrapbooking hights.
you can check out more about Stephanie at her blog http://www.paperandi.blogspot.com/
now you can sit back and enjoy some of her beautiful works below!
As everyone knows we are searching for 3 new design stars to join our Gecko Galz team and I have recived some amazing entries and thought it would be great to share their talented designs with all our followers!
So to kick things off I wanted to spotlight HEATHER HUDSON
Heather is a Design Team Member for Bella Creations and recently started their new digi group and will be showing everyone how to do digital altered works. She has been published in a number of magazines including this months issue of Stampers Sampler by Stampington. Below is a sampling of all her stunning work she sent in to us for consideration, but we want to invite everyone to visit her blogsite at http://heatherahudson.blogspot.com/ to discover more about this talented artist!
Tune in on Wendsday for our next spotlight and at the end of our spotlights we will have a giveaway for one lucky follower!
Have a Happy Scrappy Day
Gecko Galz
Do you enjoy working with new scrapbook products before everyone else?
Do you crave doing paper crafts and altered art?
Do you love inspiring others with your creations?
Do your scrapbook supplies out number your shoes?
Well then you may be just the person we are searching for!
Gecko Galz is a fledgling paper crafting company that specializes in vintage
inspired papers, collage sheets and stamps and we are in search of new
artist to join our design team.
Our design team is a wee bit diffrent than most because Gecko Galz products are mainly
digital. We release 5 new Collage Sets, 1 paper pack and 1 digital stamp disc EACH MONTH
thus giving our customers and design team members alot to be inspired by!
Each member of our design team receives a disc every 6 months with all of the new products
and each month will recieve a stamp disc plus other products.
As a member of our design team you will be asked for the following:
Create one sample each month using Gecko Galz papers and collage images or stamps, you are welcometo do more but you are required to do at least 1.
Create one step by step how to submission for our "Make this sample" area.
Join our DT online yahoo group to keep up on the latest with the team.
Agree to share your designs and spread the work about Gecko Galz on your blog site, website, online sites.
Supply us with links to your blogs, galleries, and websites as well as a brief bio and photo for our website gallery.
promote Gecko Galz by submitting works to magazines, challenges and blog hops.
What you will receive from Gecko Galz for being a design team member;
You will receive all of Gecko Galz products from January 2011- December 2011
Recognation as a member of the team on our website with your own gallery page
Publishing Opportunities
Design Team only challenges where you can win amazing prizes
you can become a certified Gecko Galz Instructor
To Apply please submitt the following;
3 to 5 paper crafted/altered works done within the last 6 months, send your best works to us. They do not have to include Gecko Galz Products but if you have any using them that would be wonderful to see.
Links to your blog and or any online galleries your associated with. Or send a reseme if you have one! You do not have to be published to be considered!
A list of any design teams you are currently associated with (you do not have to be a member of any). Any publications you have been published in if any.
A short paragraph on why you would like to be a member of our team.
Your full contact information; email, name, address
send information to us at geckogalz@yahoo.com with DESIGN TEAM in the email header.
We will take submissions until June 15th 2011 and will contact everyone by June 20th and post our new names on here as well as our website http://www.geckogalz.com/ .
We're a passionate and creative team looking for like-minded people
who love to share their designs using our craft and foster a
CALLING ALL DESIGN STARS!