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July Gecko Galz challenges

                                        This month the main Challenge theme is  Mermaid kingdom Follow the link to share your make! July 1st...

Sunday, 12 July 2026

July Gecko Galz challenges

  

                

  This month the main Challenge theme is 

Mermaid kingdom

Follow the link to share your make!

July 1st - 29th.

Feel free to grab our badge, and share on your blogs.


There is only one rule, and that is you need to use at least ONE  product from Gecko Galz!!  
It can be one of the free products, stamps, collage images, or digital papers!!  It is up to you!!
The winner will receive a $25 Gecko Galz Shopping Spree 


These are the items I have made for this challenge.

They are two French door booklets: 


This is the first:


Individual pictures:








This is the second:


Individual pictures:










But we also have challenges on the Facebook Group


These are the July challenges:


Then there are also, with freebie images, the





Happy Crafting!


Friday, 10 July 2026

Color Dare #712

 


      This picture shows my make for the



Do pop over to the Color Dare Challenge and take a look at my teamies' makes.

This picture shows the challenge -





I used three of the colours plus black andwhite.


I started with a green card blank matted with embossed papers of the other colours cut into triangles.
I added an acrylic layer plus a strip of green with sentiment and lady (Tim Holtz).



Happy Crafting!
 

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

WOYWW #892

   

Follow the link to find out more about What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday and maybe join in... This is my post for WOYWW #892

Here is my desk today: 


You can see pages stencilled with a Visible Image stencil and purple texture paste. Alongside there are some new bottles of glue.

I have some photos of the ICADs up to the end of July:


These are blogged here

This month the theme of the Tiny Pieces of Art is weather. This is my first index card:



We have just taken Ollie home. We continued making the volcano:


We were away again for the weekend and are off again tomorrow...so hope to get around you all this week. One of the things we visited at the weekend was the Victorian State Library.


One of the exhibits was this copy of Pride and Prejudice which was quite appropriate as we went to see Pride and Prejudice (sort of) at the theatre on Saturday night.


Happy crafting -
Happy WOYWW!

Index Card a Day 2026 part 5

 

This is this year - the second month's themes and the themes for the whole 9 weeks.



I have done the next few days, following the prompts and sometimes the theme. 
This takes me up to the 8th July.



Day 31 - change

 Collage of items from internet plus embellishments.



Day 32 - tetris

Handdrawn and coloured with Art By Marlene markers.


Day 33 - dadaism

Collaged images from The Sticker book of Curiosities (found in shop on Warrnambool trip.)


Day 34 - picnic

Collage of postcard from Vintage Image Craft and sweet wrapper from a Picnic.


Day 35 - seaweed

Stamped images using a rubber stamp and coloured with a marker. Stickers from The Sticker book of Curiosities.


Day 36 - biomorphic shape 

Handdrawn and coloured with Art By Marlene markers.



Day 37 - origami

Background of designer paper. Origami tulips.



Day 38 - cerulean or blue

Images from Daphne's Diary. Flowers coloured with marker.