Yes you can can!

 

Hi All, hope you are keeping comfortable and enjoying the weather where you are.  

I made this card with one of the Gecko Galz images from the Individual collage sheet Showtime.

My friend asked me to make a special card for a friend of hers that is going through a tough time with cancer, this image really spoke to me in hopes of inspiring strength, yes you can can (for those of you not old enough to remember, this looks like one of the girls that did a dance called the Can Can, lol).  I also used some Stampin Up card stock, embossed the lavender sheet and placed the 1/16 trimmed edge with my Perfect Layers Rulers,  love how it trims it up perfectly!

I did a close up to show the Stickles Frosted Lace I used.  When I bought it I had hoped it would be a bit more opaque, so I was a bit disappointed at the time.  I decided to give it a shot on the lace ruffle of the dress and I just love the effect, it really gives it a lacy feel, my camera makes it look sparkly, but it is not, just a real nice ruffled lace look.

I can't forget the envelope liner, I used Gecko Galz Pocket Full of Posies Paper Pack for this, I really love the vintage feel to it.  Speaking of Gecko Galz, be sure to stop by the store, Leanne is offering her bi annual  buy 1 get one (of equal or lesser value) free sale, it's a great time to stock up!

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

I am entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge
Anything goes, and stop by to see the amazing work from their DT too! 
 

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From the Winter Garden Collection

 Hi All, we had a "warm" day here in Michigan, all of 19 degrees out there, dropping to 1 tonight, but this is far better than the -37 degree windchill of the last few days so no complaints ha ha. The below zero temperatures have been unbelievable, even for Michigan, ha ha.  

I made this card with an image from  Gecko Galz Winter Garden Collection, it has so many gorgeous images in the set, I love playing with it.  For this card I printed the image twice and fussy cut the thick branches and birds.  I used a bit of glue on the base of the tree only, so the cut image is loosely resting above, it really gives it a different dimensional look.   I embossed the white cardstock for more dimension.  How did I get that perfect mat of blue you say, with my  Perfect Layers Rulers of course.  

 I am entering this card into the January Color Challenge Blue and White at Gecko Gals Ephemera group.  We have quite a few fun challenges going on there with some great prizes too, I would love to have you join us.    

And don't forget this month Gecko  Galz is having our bi-Annual buy one get one sale. Buy any product and get a second of equal or lesser value FREE!          

That's it, thanks for looking, and stay warm!  ~Diane  

I'm linking this card to the Snowbirds Challenge at City Crafters
     

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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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Snowflakes

 Hi All, today it is snowflakes inside and out!  It is snowing here in Michigan and the snow is coming down hard too!  Looks beautiful but so very, very cold!  Today is the perfect day to post these cards I made with Gecko Galz Snow Queen Collection  and the Snowflake Z card cut file from BirdsCards.com.  I made mine a 5 x 5 size and used some shirt/gift boxes I purchased at Dollar Treasure (3 boxes for a dollar)  to cut the sparkly snowflakes from.  You can not see it in the pictures but I added some flock to the Snow Queens furs and also some Stickles to her buttons. 

Two announcements for you, stop by Gecko Galz to see what the weekly Holly Jolly December Giveaway is and stop by Pinterest to Pin it to Win it!  Every month Leanne gives away a beautiful stamp set to 1 lucky winner, it should be you!  All you have to do is pin it to your Pinterest board.  To make it easy for me I set up a Pin it to Win it board, so many companies are offering opportunities to do the same.  Wish you all tons of luck!  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Happy Thanksgiving

 Hi All, I just want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.  We all have so much to be thankful for, I know I do.  I hope you are enjoying time with family and friends today too.  This card is not really Thanksgiving focused, but it is a thank you card I made so I thought I would share it today.  The fabulous image is from Gecko Galz, check out their website, they have a special giveaway going on right now.  The frame is from Delightful Doodles and they have a Black Friday sale going on now.

For those of you shopping on line this weekend.

I also want to share with you my Ebates link.  I have been using Ebates for over a year now and I am really happy with it.  It is basically free money, an added coupon for you to use while shopping on line.  All you have to do is sign up with them, they send you special deals via email, sometimes some stores offer bigger coupons than the norm and they will alert you to that.  Or you can do like I do, if you intend to buy online, just go to the Ebate site and see if they have a link to follow to the store you want to buy from, follow the link they provide to the store and you will automatically qualify for a cash back rebate, pretty much free money.  Refer your friends and they will send you money for that too!  If you follow my link I will get money for it, but that's not why I am posting this though.  I am just so happy to know about this deal and I want to share it with all my friends too, so sign up whether through my link or not, you will be happy you saved a little extra.  You won't get rich off the savings, but it is money in your pocket you would not have otherwise had is how I see it.

Click on the yellow EBATES below for my link to Ebates or find it in my sidebar.

For more information I copied this from their website.  About Ebates

Ebates is the pioneer and leader of online Cash Back Shopping. The company was founded in 1998 by two Deputy District Attorneys in Silicon Valley who used to prosecute online fraud & identity theft before starting Ebates (so you can be sure we are very into secure online transactions!). So go ahead, sign up and start shopping now. Joining Ebates is always free - you'll never pay us anything. And four times a year or more, we'll mail you a Big Fat Check, or transfer the money to your PayPal account if you'd prefer. We can even send the money to your favorite charity. All 100% free.
People often ask: "This sounds too good to be true, how are you able to do it?" It really is quite simple. Just like almost every other online shopping center, we get a commission from the stores when you make a purchase. Instead of keeping that money - like almost all other sites do - we share it with you!
So, as long as 1,600+ of the world's top online stores are happy to pay a bonus to attract the new, valuable customers we send their way, Ebates is going to continue to send Big Fat Checks to our satisfied customers across the globe.

Well I hope you all have a wonderful day, hope you did not mind my sharing my link  since there is some profit for me in it.
Wishing you all a very Happy and thankful Thanksgiving, enjoy your Black Friday shopping too!  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Birthday card for my friend

Hi All, I am sharing a card I made for my friends Birthday, she does not follow my blog so I should be safe posting it the same day I am mailing it.   I used one of my favorite papers, Gecko Galz Arabian Dreams, it is so very rich and colorful, it worked perfectly with the Gecko Galz image from the Hindu Beauty collage set.    I looked it up and I believe the Peacock feather is to signify prosperity, the image is stunning.  I framed the image with some skinny black ribbon with an eyelet edge, then a die cut frame behind that, I used a little bit of Copic marker on the edges of the die cut frame and I used some foam tape to lift it up and give it some dimension.  I finally used some of my prized ribbon I have been hoarding, (sometimes they are so pretty I am afraid to use them, lol)  I had to cut it in 1/2 to fit it on the card, I pretty much built the card around the ribbon, if you look closely you can see the sequins and tulle.  

Well that's it for today, thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Great news to share!

Wow, I have some awesome news to share!  Gecko Galz just announced the new Design Team for 2014 and I made it!  I am so excited, in case you had not noticed, (I know, how could you miss it, you probably thought I was already on it for as much as I showcased their products, lol.  I love, love love their products!  I truly can not say enough good things about them, and now I get to say I made the team!  So now that I have gushed all over, I will share a card I made with one of the beautiful Gecko Galz images from the HO Ho Ho collage sheet that was a free giveaway in the October Blog hop.  PS: check out the free giveaways with purchase for this month!

So you are sure to see a whole lot more Gecko Galz images on my blog in the future!  Thanks for looking and sharing the good news with me!  ~Diane

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Cards I made with my Zing

 

 

 

Hi All, thought I would share some of the things I have been making with you.  I have been busy playing with my Zing, learning how to alter files and make my own with the Make The Cut program.  For those of you who have asked, the Zing is a KNK Zing, it is an electronic or digital die cutting machine.  It cuts all different thicknesses and does print and cut too.  I did not know what it was either, until I started looking to replace my Cricut, so happy to say goodbye to that company!  I won't even buy their embossing folders, they don't play fair at all in the crafting community, selling machines with the promise of letting you use software to make and import cutting files, then pulling the rug and suing the companies who made the software that made their machines so popular, just so they could lock you into buying 80$ cartridges!!  That was a real dirty deal!  Well I don't need their folders anyway because I can make my own with my KNK Zing!
The 1st card is a Bendy card, the cut file is available from Birdscards.com.

The 2nd and 3rd cards were done with the Pixel trace tool in MTC using free clip art I found on the web.  The 4th card was a round door file from Bird that I changed out a bit to look like a more modern door, her file used a rounded door.  Well, that's it for today, I have more cards to share, I hope to post them later in the week.  I hope to catch up with your blogs this week too.  As always, thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Getting Ready for Sweetest Day with a sale!

 Hi All, I thought you might enjoy a peek at a sweet little 

Sweetest Day card I made.  I am sure you could use this for any occasion, even no occasion, lol,  just a chance to send a sweet suggestion to the one you love.  I used Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Ooh LaLa SVG for the corset and cut it using MTC and my Zing.  Such a cute way to send a love note or make it small and stick it in an invitation to a bridal shower with the brides bra and panty sizes.  Speaking of Lindsay, swing by her My Graphico shop and take advantage of the 40% off sale she has going on October 3rd through the 5th!  

Just in case you noticed, I had to have an envie liner to go with this, the shoe is from laobc, there was only 1 shoe so I positioned them together in MTC, the shoes positive is on a piece of Zyron paper so you can use it as an envelope sealer too.  I edited this in Pic Monkey because my photography is poor, it is actually black and white in real life, sorry the photography does not reflect it.

 That's it for today, thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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OWH Birthday Bash with Perfect Paper Crafting

And the winner is......
Congratulations, Bert B.,you are the winner of our blog skip with Operation Write Home.  

Welcome to the Operation Write Home & Perfect Paper Crafting Birthday Bash blog hop!
 I am so happy to share with you our participation with Operation Write Home, if you are not familiar with OWH, they are the organization that provides our Armed Forces with blank handmade greeting cards so they can send them home to their loved ones while serving and protecting our  country.   In order to do that they need the help of thousands of card makers from all over the world to provide them with beautiful hand made greeting cards. We thought it would be great to let all of our amazing followers, old and new, know about this wonderful organization. I hope you all will join us by making cards and give back to our Military!

If you haven’t heard of Perfect Paper Crafting, you must go check them out right now! These rulers allow you to cut perfect borders around your collage photos, stamped images and card pieces without measuring! You can go from 1 inch borders all the way down to a 1/16 border!  Whether you scrapbook, make cards or do mixed media, you will find these tools help you to make your creative masterpieces "Perfect"!
Use my coupon code Bove5% for a 5% discount.

Perfect Paper Crafting will be giving away a $50 gift certificate, how awesome is that!  All you have to do to win is leave a comment on all the blogs (listed below) and a winner will be chosen from those comments, you can comment through the 29th of September.

I hope you take a minute and check out the Operation Write Home FAQ page, our Hero's deserve the best and they could sure use our help, especially at this time of year.

If this is not your first stop on the hop you can begin here:
Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps  


And...the next stop on the hop is here: 
   Wendy's Sugar Pea Designs 

Just in case you get lost here is the full list.




 Stars & Stamps
Laura at Perfect Paper Crafting blog
Linda at Catered Crop
Pam at Expressions With Heart   
Sandy at I Can't Stop Embellishing
Jenny at One Krafty Kat
Samantha at August 16.86:
Jeanie at The Spotted Chick 
Kim at Paper Perfect Designs
Paula at Handmade by Paula
You are here on the hop__________________Diane at 1CardCreator
Wendy at SugarPea Designs
Dixie at What's Next?: 
Heather at My Artistic Adventures
Roxie at Paper Scaper
Allison at Allison's Creations 
     Leigh at Leigh SB Designs
Patti at  Cherish Each Precious Day
Marianne at Petunia's Paper Passion
Lezlye at Lezlye's Ink and Paper Creations   
Nancy at Scrap Happens !   
Susanna at Card of the Week
Eva at Crafting This andThat 
Julie at Handmade by Julie
OWH TV
                                                                                                                                                                          

These are the OWH sketches I used.

Images are all from Gecko Galz
That's it, thanks for looking, don't forget to leave your comments, good luck to all of you.  ~Diane 
 
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