Gecko Galz's Challenges.

If you are interested in joining a number of challenges on one site  , I would like to suggest going to the Gecko Galz Facebook site.  They have a number of them going on at one time.  I managed to enter the card below at the last minute.

Finally got this card finished...deadline time for Geckp Galz's "Be An Angel" challenge.. This is my Steampunk Angel. Like the sentiment says "Encourage Imagination" you will have to do so to understand what I made..   I created my background as I wanted something a little different. from the designer papers I had in my stash.  I love how this turned out.  The Gecko Galz face is one that is coming out this week

Mannequin

This has been the most interesting challenge that I have participated in.  It is the Mannequin Challenge at Tag Tuesday.  Their guest hostess picked this theme.  I have a couple of pics showing different views of my entry.  The first thing I did was to use my pattern stamp from B-Line.  I thought that would be a perfect start.  Next I used  a piece of gold heart and cut away most of it so it would fit around the neck.  Afterwards  I draped a piece of material from an old skirt that I had.  I clipped the top of the drap with a decorated paper clip.  Next to show the waistline I put a piece of trim around the waist.   The trim has an organza ribbon weaving in and out of a strip of pearls. 

As an added touch I glued a safety pin to "hold" the pattern on the manneequin.

I felt that the piece was a little out of balance so I used a stamp from Artistic Outpost that had numbers going in different directions as I remembered when I sewed that almost all of my patterns had numbers or markings that meant nothing to me. Finally, I put a little scroll cutout from my Cricuit on the corner bottom to give it a little more weight and balance on that side.. 

I really enjoy making this mannequin.  I definitely will be doing this again even if it is not for a challenge.