Gecko Galz Tricks & Treats Blog Hop!!!

October 26th 2012

Welcome to the 2nd Annual Gecko Galz Tricks and Treats Blog Hop

I am the next stop on your “hop” welcome to my blog! If you started here you might want to go back and start at the begining at the Gecko Galz blog so you won’t miss anything!

We have 14 AMAZING blogs for you to visit this weekend, each with some gorgeous projects created using the Gecko Galz collage images, that we are giving you for FREE! Each blog you visit will have a free Gecko Galz Collage sheet for you to download, mine is "Picture Perfect". Also make sure you collect all the secret words on each blog so at the end of the hop you can enter to win our wonderful treat. So sit back, relax, take your time and enjoy the hop!

We have FOUR amazing prizes up for grabs:

First is the ephemera collections for each month for an entire year. That is 60 different sets! This is a $120 value

Second prize is a $50 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz website….you pick it and we send it!

Third prize is one free digital collage set each month for an entire year, you get to pick the collage sheet you want each month and we send it off to you! This is a $24 value

And our Grand Prize ONE FULL YEAR of Gecko Galz COLLECTIONS!!! That will be 1 paper pack, 1 digital stamp set, and 5 collage sets for the entire year! This is a prize worth $240

Read on to learn how you can win!

First of all, you will need to visit all 14 blogs and leave a comment on each blog :) **This is important so we know you have been to all the blogs **. Collect all eleven words and at the end of the blog on the Fripperies and Butterflies site there will be a link to the Gecko Galz website where you will email us the phrase the words make up. This enters you in the contest. On October 31st we will randomly draw the 4 winners and email each of you, then we will post the winning names on our website and on the Gecko Galz blog site.

For an extra chance to win make a purchase from the Gecko Galz site and your name goes in again for a better chance of winning (each purchase you make that weekend gives you another chance to win)

Finally, we are having one more give away! If you post our Gecko Galz badge (found on the Gecko Galz Blog) on your blog or website you will be entered to win a Gecko Store Gift Certificate worth $25 - super easy right? Just post a link to your blog on the Gecko Galz Blog so we can come visit :).

My Secret Word is;   YOU'VE

Now go to the next site and collect the next word plus your next FREE collage sheet.

Here is the Blog Hop Rotation

Carol Salisbury

Hazel Harler

Starr Timmons

Barbara Bird

Joan Lindle

Penny Walker

Sherri Levington

Debi Ryan

Heather Hudson

Sharon Rogers

Gerri Herbst

Jules Eickmeier

Helene Huber

Leanne Seed

Please enjoy this free Gecko Galz Collage sheet “Le Jardin”

http://geckogalz.com/lejardinfreeephemeraset.html

As well as the samples I have made using the images

Backgrounds are from the collage sheet & I added images from another Gecko Galz "Edwardian Ladies" Sheet available from the store. Some scrabble words, textured paper & charms added as embellishments.

I love to decorate candles - I printed the flowers onto tissue paper and wrapped them around the candle using greaseproof paper & then heated it all over with my heat gun to "melt" the tissue paper onto the candle. I added braid to finish it off.

A great way to use scraps of card & paper is to make Scrpalings or as I have done little Scrapling cards with a couple of little images from the Le Jardin Ephemera Sheet and patterned paper also from Gecko Galz.

My final creation uses the gorgeous peacock image which I used to make a fairly simple card with the peacock as the main focus along with embossed and coloured paper.