Gecko Galz FREE GIVEAWAY for July and August

Hi everyone!

I want to thank you for following us and helping us spread the word about Gecko Galz. As some of you might know we now have exclusive products just for people on the mailing list, each month Gecko Galz releases a new ephemera sets just for people on our mailing list to purchase as well as papers and fibers/ribbons these are just for them I dont sell them in the shop on line or distribute to our stores only you our mailing list customers can get access to them. So to celebrate these new products we decided we would do something fun and exciting for everyone. We are going to give away too two lucky people a set of the exclusive ephemera sets for 6 months!!!! You heard right 6 months of EXCLUSIVE COLLAGE SHEETS FREE!!!!!
Now what do you have to do? well if you are new to this blog and to Gecko Galz just become a follower here then pop over to the Gecko Galz website home page http://www.geckogalz.com/ and at the bottom of the page sign up for our newsletter....one of the sets will be given away to a new follower!
The second set will be given away to an existing follower and all you all have to do is leave a comment here make sure you are aon our mailing list on the Gecko Galz home page then get your paper crafting friends to join....thats right for every person you send to the blog and who joins our mailing list (have them mention your email address and name) you will get a point and the person with the most points will win 6 months worth of FREE EXCLUSIVE EPHEMERA SETS!!!!!
Pretty easy hu? And to tempt you further here is a preview of the types of sets you will get

Our Giveaway will end August 30th so help us spread the word and you can WIN WIN WIN!

Have a happy Scrappy Day
Gecko Galz

CKC Ephemera Give Away winner is........

Hello Everyone!

We want to thank everyone who joined us for our CKC classes this weekend, you made us feel right at home and we had a lovley time. For everone who were unable to join us but inquired about the kits they are now available on the Gecko Galz website under "Class Kits", each kit comes with everything you need to complete the kit and full color instructions on how to put your books together.
And now for the winner of the Ephemera giveaway, congrats to Carla, you won copies of the Cowgirls and Viva La France ephemera set....just email us at geckogalz@yahoo.com to claim your digital images.
And dont worry if you missed this giveawy for now we are doing a brand new giveaway.....woo-hoo!
So what do you win, you will win a "Oolala Book kit" and all you have to do is leave a comment under this posting and on August 15th we will choose one lucky winner who will win this amazing little book kit.

Good Luck to everyone!

COME JOIN US AT THE HOUSTON CKC!

Hi everyone!

We are gearing up for the Houston Creating Keepsake convention next weekend and I wanted to extend the invitation to come out and check out this amazing scrapbook convention. We will be teaching two class (well actually three we are doing one class twice) the first one is an amazing little mini book inspired by our up coming Crazy Maniquins collage set and Echo Parks papers

And our second class will be a wonderful Cowgirl diva tag book which was inspired by our Cowgirl epehemeras

and every student recives a FREE gift worth $25 just for coming to the class....that is like getting your class practicly FREE! And as with all our classes there will be a doorprize given worth $100! And on top of these amazing classes there is an amazing dealers room with companies selling all kinds of crafting products, crops, make and takes and tonz of fun! So if you are in the Houston area around the 8th and 9th be sure to check it out....of you can visit there website and find out more...or even register to see for yourself!
http://www.scrapandpapercorner.com/events/ckc/houston/index.html

Now in celebration of our CKC classes we are giving away a free set of cowgirl ephemeras and Crazy Maniquin ephemeras absolutly FREE just leave a comment under this posting and July 10th we will draw a winner at random!
Good luck!

The New Gecko Galz Design Team Members!

The time has come for us to unviel our newest design team members, I have to tell everyone who applied that you made our desicions soooo difficult, you all are amazing artist and I celebrate you all!
So without further ado here are the newest members of the Gecko Galz Design Team;
Melissa Kirwan
Heather Huddson
Misty Rose Cramer
Cassandra Cushman
Joan Liddle
Hazel Harler
Paula Akers
and
Penny Walker
Congrats ladies and we cannot wait to see what all the ladies come up with! To keep up with all their work either visit Gecko Galz at http://www.geckogalz.com/ or at their individual blog sites!
Now for the prize giveaway in celebration of choosing our latest design stars we are giving one lucky follower $50 in Gecko Galz products......and the winner is.....LINDA HOFFMAN!!!!!!! Woo Wooo! Congrats Linda, just go to the Gecko Galz website pick out what you would like and email us at geckogalz@yahoo.com with your choices (you dont have to use the $50 all at once). Congrats to everyone!!! Keep checking back we will be holding blog challenges, feature spotlights on all of our design team members, we are doing our "Tricks and Treats" blog hop in October where you will get FREE EPHEMERA IMAGES and another chance to win an incredible prize!
Remember Gecko Galz is always changing colors!

Design Team Call Entry- Rebecca Farnham

Flowers, Fibers and Stamps Oh My....this discribes the beautiful paper art by artisan Rebecca Farnham!

Rebecca is a high school history/world geography teacher.  And as we can imagine her year has been a crazy, chaotic and hectic year with six classes and three preps (one a new AP World History class).  The one thing that kept me sane (ha ha) was scrapping with my friends and having my girl time. 

She started creating cards a year and half ago when she decided to make her wedding invitations (just a few because they were married in Jamaica) but when they returned she took on making the invitations for three receptions (in Texas, Iowa and Connecticut).  These invitations were very basic, but her interest started to peak.  She took a stamping class and learned the basics, but what really drew her into stamping and card making was an invite from a teaching partner to attend a birthday party at the store Archiver’s.  After that she started to meet new friends and just as her friendships blossomed so did her love for scrapping.    

Scrapbooking/card making for her is a release, it’s a time where she gets to let her inner child run free and be creative. 

She enjoys challenging herself and learning new techniques and inspiring others.

Here are a few of her amazing samples

Design Team Call Entry- Penny Walker

We have another wonderful paper crafting artist to introduce to you her name is Penny Walker and she is an amazing and talented paper crafter.
So lets talk Penny shall we? Penny has been scraping and stamping off and on for over 15 years. She moved to San Antonio in 2001, and in 2002 she started working a local scrapbook store and  she started out as a clerk and teaching stamping classes, then eventually moved into a  manager position. 
Penny continued teaching classes and became SDU Certified Instructor with EK Success. and though she left the business side of scrapbooking she continues to scrap and stamp with friends. She enjoy's teaching people fun tips and tricks and spreading the creative bug. I have never been on a design team with any company. What she hopes to do is continue blending creativity and fun then share with scrappers and stampers alike.

Here are a few of her amazing designs

Design Team Call Entry- Melissa Kirwan

And now she may be last but but there is nothing least about this amazing paper artist! We would like to introduce you to our last design team hopeful Melissa Kirwan!

So lets get to know this wonderful paper crafter! Melissa is an avid paper crafter and has been for more than 13 years.  She really LOVES paper and finding new ways to create with it.  Some of her passions are to cover things with patterned paper, scrapbook, create gift boxes and gift bags, make ornaments, origami, kusudama, altered art, home décor, frames, wall art...you name it she loves to create it!  Being a fanatic for anything vintage or retro makes it easy to see where alot of her inspirations come from. She also has occasionally been known to give crafting tutorials to a small groups.  And as she says  "Inspiration finds me daily when I least expect it, and it usually whomps me over the head!" it is exciting to see what this amazing artist will create next!

So if you are intrigued to learn more about her just hop over to her blog at;
http://melissawithscissors.blogspot.com
So lets check out some of her designs

 

Design Team Call Entry- Paula Akers

When we read her discription of her style "My "style" is best described as straightforward, clean and simple, with experimentation" we knew we were about to enter what we can only imagine would be a paper crafting wonderland....and it was....we stepped through the looking glass and discovered our next design team hopeful Paula Akers!

Paula is a mostly stay at home mother of two wonderful children, a son who is 10 and a daughter who is 5.  She married her college sweetheart and now they all live happily in WV, along with an older beagle baby.  Paula has been crafting for as long as she can remember but picked up paper-crafting, especially with rubber stamping and card-making, passionately about four years ago.

 She also paints with watermedia, knits, and enjoy combining my interests in mixed media and art journaling.  She loves to learn new techniques and the thrill of letting the project and supplies guide her.

Her work has been published in Scrapbook News and Review magazine.

To see more about this talented artist visit her in "wonderland" better known as her blog;

http://www.whatspeaks2myheart.wordpress.com

Please enjoy her samples

Design Team Call Entry- Joan Liddle

What do you get when you cross a bit of vintage flair and some fun little inspirations? Why the next design team hopeful Joan Liddle!

So what can we tell you about this talented paper crafting artist?  Well she has been papercrafting for about 8 years and nothing makes her happier than to be in her studio, working away

on a project!  She loves to scrapbook, make cards and ATC's, altered art, mixed media, home decor items and do rubber stamping.
Anything that involves paper and embellishments gets her heart beating faster!!

Her work has a vintage whimsical flair to it with tonz of little details everywhere!
And you may have seen some of her lovely designs in the pages of some of your favorite magazines for Joan Has been published in Take Ten magazine, Stampers' Sampler magazine, Somerset Home magazine,
Somerset Holidays and Celebrations magazine, and Stamping, Stationery and Scrapbooking magazine to name a few.
to discover more treasures please take a moment and visit her blog at My blog address is:  http://joan-discoveries.blogspot.com
Now for some of her wonderful work

Design Team Call Entry- Erin Reed

Now let us visit our next design team hopeful Erin Reed!

Erin is a stay at home mom, she was a teacher (high school science) before I stayed at home, and her love for scrapbooking brought her to us here at Gecko Galz!! 
Erins first love is her family, they mean everything to her and she finds they inspire her paper crafting projects.  Her second love is crafting, especially scrapbooking and she started to scrapbook  in 2006 when her oldest child was 10 months old (everyone needs a muse and our children are the best muses of all).  So she started to dabble doing a few pages here and there for his baby book, but nothing serious.  Then a family loss drove her to focus her energies in the scrapbooking direction, it was her way of dealing with the tragedy, and as we all know it is far more theriputic than a shrink.  She created a haven for herself by making a permanent scrap room in my house, and then she started to teach classes at a local scrapbook store, then at her house, and now at her local Michaels and Jo Ann’s stores too. 

 Erin would say mher favorite types of layouts are shabby chic, distressed, and elegant styles , but she also like to make clean layouts, fun ones that are cute and kid-ish with fun elements like clouds and animals on them.  She loves to work with flowers, lace, ribbon, ink, paint, mists, chipboard, plus anything else she can get my hands on.  thus she has never met a scrapbook product that she did not like, and she is always on the lookout for other fun techniques and products that she can learn and pass along to others.   Scrapping is her hobby turned into a little career for her since now she is a stay at home mom.

You can discover more about this talented paper artist and all her wonderful pages at her blog;  http://scraps-of-reflections.blogspot.com/

We hope you will enjoy her work as much as we did!