We're back with a giveaway!

Yes after a long break we are finally back.... 

We've been busy collecting a whole new set of goods and can't wait to share.

Help spread the gypsy spirit by posting our new video on your blog or website along with the phrase:

"I love 7gypsies"

We will pick 7 winners on July 21st to receive a brand new 8x8 paper pack from our latest collection... 

Paddington 

The next few weeks leading to CHA Summer will be packed with unveiling our latest findings, brand new projects and of course lots of giveaways, so jump on the caravan and get ready to roll.

Welcome back gypsies.

We'll be back soon!

Hello, gypsy friends! Just letting you know that we are out on our journeys preparing big things for CHA Summer and will be back soon with more unique treasures, vintage finds, and creative ideas to share with you!!

April Project Challenge & Guest Artist!

This month's product product challenge is ENVELOPES.  

We love the simplicity of our Naked Envelopes... just waiting to be stamped, altered and or left completely naked.  

Or the brightly colored gypsy envelopes perfect for tucking cards and letters into or adding to a mini album.

4 lucky gypsies will win a set of envelopes!  
Post a comment by midnight, Thursday April 8th to enter to win.


And we are THRILLED to announce our guest artist...

Céline Navarro

Céline Navarro has been both a mixed media and a scrapbook artist. Her style is colorful, freestyle, and she sometimes uses mixed media techniques on her scrapbook projects. She's into layouts but what she likes above all is making mini books and any kind of art journals. She has started her own Book Editing company in order to release a Scrapbook magazine called {entreARTistes}magazine on August 20th 2008. She organizes the events {entreARTistes} with Karine Cazenave-Tapie, with over 6 events per year in France and in Europe, and travels all over the world to teach scrapbook classes.  Click HERE to visit her blog and see more of her work.


We can't wait to reveal how she transformed our gypsy envelopes.... so stay tuned.

yes... good things come from small spaces!

What does your creative space look like?  Is it a large studio?  A portion of your dining room table? Or a nook in the corner of a spare room?  We love exploring where all of your creative magic happens... big or small!   

This month gypsy artist Ann Mabee let us take a peek at her creative corner.  We love how the junky feel of her worktable, and frankly are in awe of the awe inspiring projects that come from this mini yet meaningful space!  Want to learn more about Ann?  Then read below...

1. What's on your wish list? More time in each day
2. What your idea of a perfect day?  playing with my grandkids, working with new products, junkin'
3. Do you collect anything? nativities
4. What is your most treasured belonging? my family, but they aren't really a possession.
5. Favorite 7gypsies product (old or new)?  gaffer tape
6. Favorite adhesive?  Different adhesives for different jobs...Vario/Hermafix (I've used it since the beginning.  Zip Dry (wet glue) and Glue Glider Pro (my new favorite)
7. Favorite thing to much on while working?  diet Sprite with cherry and apple juice (from Sonic)
8. Style of working- do you gather all of your products, sketch it out first or make it up as you go along?  gather products and make it up as I go along
9. Sources of inspiration?  other people's blogs
10. Favorite thing in their studio?  A wire dress form I splurged on several years ago.
11. Favorite project they've made for 7gypsies?  shopping bag book, ATC Photo Tray with Christmas pictures of my grandkids
12. Favorite pen/writing instrument?  Zig Writer
13. Favorite website/blog?  Gypsy Journal, of course!  I also like Our Best Bites, Becky Higgins' blog, Heidi Swapp's blog, and One Lucky Day blog
14. mac or pc?  PC

a few more ideas

If you're still not convinced that you NEED to give the stacked accordion a try then check out what these fabulous gypsies were able to do with theirs!

First up our Blog winner, Debby Podgorski found that the stacked accordion was the perfect place to tuck her photos and journaling from her trip to NYC.  We love the way she used the stacked mini book for her journaling and the large pages of the accordion for her photos.

And Canadian gypsy Susan Tutt did an incredible job of filling her accordion cover to cover using papers from the new avignon collection, metal page edges, transparencies, gaffer tape and her very own photos.

What can you do with yours??

photo juxtaposition

Yet another fabulous way to use the stacked accordion!

The focus of this project is all in the photos.  

Each page in the accordion is filled with a black and white image, which makes for a stunning presentation when it is displayed fully open.  

BUT it was the way that Ann used the stacked mini book in the accordion to juxtapose a color version of the same photo over them that makes this album so unique.  Oh the possibilities...

what on gypsy earth is a "stacked" accordion?

Simply put it's an accordion book done 7gypsies style.  

When we created this little gem we weren't quite content just offering your standard accordion... we knew it could be so much more.  So we "stacked" a stitched seam book into several of the accordion folds for an unexpected addition to an already interesting book style.  Ours also comes with 2 naked book board covers to finish it off.  By the time you add your own photos and favorite embellishments you'll feel like a master book maker.

Take inspiration in this beautiful version by gypsy Ranjini.  It was this month's product challenge.  The Venice collection papers, paper tape and clear stamp are the perfect backdrop to her stunning photos.  

LOVE the way the paper tape looks holding her photos in place!  A simple but artistic touch to embellishing a journal.

Molto Bello indeed!