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Showing posts with label Basic Grey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basic Grey. Show all posts

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Last chance for the Gecko Galz Very Valentines contest

Hi All, this is my last card for the Gecko Galz Very Valentines Contest.  It was a lot of fun working with the Gecko Galz images and the Basic Grey papers for this challenge (which must be emailed to Gecko Galz by tomorrow the 31st).  Don't for get the buy 1 get 1 (of equal) also ends tomorrow so there is still time to stock up.  For this card I used Gecko Galz Valentine Wishes image along with
the papers from Basic Grey  True Love paper set.  All images and papers were printed on Staples matte matte photo paper with my computer.
I am entering the Valentine above into the City Crafters Challenge create a card/project for Valentine's day or have the word STORY on your project.  I did not see the Or originally, lol.
On another note, Blogger was not only not letting me comment on blogs this week, but it would not let me put my Tag Tuesday tag on my blog.  I did manage to blog it over at Tag Tuesday though, for those of you that did not see it there, here it is. It is not my usual style I know, but I am trying to grow a little and try new things, like tags also.  The prompt this week was Decay, I printed the image on my printer from MelsBrushes right on to the tag, used some Glitz Spritz and Distress ink along with a die cut Zombie hand done with my Zing.  Be sure to stop over and see all the other beautiful tags at Tag Tuesday.
Well that's it, thanks for stopping by and thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Friday, January 24, 2014

Gecko Galz wants to see your Valentine!

Hi All, there is still time to join the Gecko Galz Valentines Contest, you have until January 31st, and there are some great prizes.  This is one of my Gecko Galz  design team cards I made for the challenge.   I used the image from Gecko Galz Valentine Wishes along with the Bingo sheet from from Gecko Galz Bits and Pieces.  I printed them both on matte/matte photo paper from Staples.  Ribbon is from Stampin Up, red hearts are from my stash and I used Stickles Crystal on the rose.  For the envelope liner I used Basic Grey True Love papers
 Instructions:  I printed the Bingo sheet twice and fussy cut the rose out of the second sheet.  I printed the Valentines Wishes image and mounted it onto a piece of brown card stock,  I used my Perfect Layers Rulers to trim a 3/16th border, then mounted that on to the Bingo sheet. I added the red ribbon and red hearts and then mounted the whole sheet on to a white 5 x 7 folded card.  I trimmed the edges of the rose with Stickles, then placed a piece of dimensional foam underneath it.  For the envelope liner I printed a 4 x 6 image of the Basic Grey True Love papers and used a fancy edge scissor to trim it on the top edge.  I put it in position inside the envelope and then fold the crease, once it is folded I use a little little white glue to hold it in place.
Well that's it, thanks for stopping by and thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Hearts, lace, roses and the key to my heart

Hi All, I have another card to share.  This month Gecko Galz is teaming up with Basic Grey to show how well the products work together.  Pop over to Gecko Galz and get the details, I would love to see one of you win, there is a fabulous prize too, a $25 shopping spree at Gecko Galz and the Basic Grey digital paper pack True Love. This is not my DT piece, but it was so much fun working with both products I just did this one for fun, lol.
I used Gecko Galz Valentine Wishes for the image and 2 of the papers from True Love paper set.  Also used Gold Stickles, Baby Blue liquid pearls, leaf punch from Stampin Up, paper flower and scrap lace I cut the flower design out of and a gold Stickled key from my stash.
This was fun to make, you can do it too as long as you have a Word program, its really easy.  I printed the Basic Grey blue once and the lacy square piece twice on to matte matte photo paper.  I cut one of the lacy squares in half and glued it top and bottom behind the the other square, then I fussy cut the edges on the whole lacy piece.  I mounted that on to the 5 x 7 blue, added the baby blue Stickles to the centers of the roses.  I printed and fussy cut the image from Valentine Wishes, trimmed the heart and scrolls in Stickles Gold, put some dimensional foam underneath and mounted it on to the card.  I then added the trimmed piece of blue lace, the flower and the key.  Then I just glued that on to a folded white card base.
Here is the fun part, for the envelope liner I went into Word, chose insert picture and added the blue paper, right clicked to size it to a 6 x 6, then left clicked on to the white blank part of the page (this is important).  Then I  went back to insert, picture, chose the lacy piece and added it to the (now second page), right clicked to size and made it 4.95 x 4.95.   Then at the top of the page where it says Wrap text, I clicked and chose in front of text, that brought the lace piece on top of the blue piece for me, I clicked on the lace piece and dragged it to the centered position I wanted and then I printed it on plain white copy paper, trimmed it with some fancy scissors, folded it in place in the envelope and glued it.  I don't know how to use the fancy programs but I can do most of what I want to do using Word.

Well that's it, thanks for stopping by and thanks for looking.  ~Diane

This is for City Crafters Challenge the key to my heart
Try it on Tuesday challenge Celebrations (Valentines)


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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Happy New Year

 Happy New Year to all of you!  I am excited to start the new year on the Gecko Galz design team.    
This month we have teamed up with Basic Grey to show everyone how well the their products work with Gecko Galz Products! So enter the Gecko Galz  & Basic Grey Valentine Challenge, more details on the Gecko Galz site.   
I used the Gecko Galz Valentine Wishes ephemera set to make this card, along with the gorgeous paper from the Basic Grey True Love Collection for my envelope liner.  I fussy cut the heart, added some Stickles, Liquid Pearls, and foil corners, then popped it up on some foam, I love the effect so much I had to share a close up.   You can create your own Valentine project using Gecko Galz and Basic Grey products and win the new Basic Grey "True Love" digital paper pack and Gecko Galz February products.  How cool is that!  Speaking of Kool, check out these Kitchy Kool Papers from Gecko Galz, that I used to make this little notebook for my daughter, also part of the January release. See the cute flags and buttons, those little gems are from the Basic Grey True Love Collection  too.   I printed them up twice and glued them together then punched some little holes to thread the bakers twine through, I threaded that up the spine of the notebook along with the thin red ribbon so she can use them as dividers or bookmarks.
Well thats it, hope you have had a wonderful New Years Day, and as always, thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

We found an egg!

Forgive me, I used these cute bunnies again, free from the The Vintage Moth.   I just love to cut them out and add a little foam to give them some dimension.  Beautiful paper is Green at Heart by Basic Grey from a 6 x 6 pad.  My card is a 5 x 7, so I trimmed the paper and punched the edges and pieced it to the sides to fit.  So sad that I never got into doing that whole paper tole thing, I think I would have loved it, lol.  Pearls are Pizzazz A Plenty,  I used Spellbinders Labels 10 Nestabilities and roses are from I am Roses.
Thanks for looking.  ~Diane
I am entering the following challenges.
Scrappy Frogs - Easter 
Everybody Art - pearls