Special Announcement!!!!

It’s time to stop neglecting my poor baby blog. I really need to spend more time here, and share my creative works with you. I tend to use Instagram and YouTube more, but with today’s special announcement, I’m making the call to keep my blog up to date - fingers crossed lol. So now for the announcement.......

Yes, it is official. I am a part of the fabulous team that makes up the 2018-2019 Colour Blast DesignTeam. I’m so excited to be a part of this awesome creative team. Starting in August, I will be sharing projects made with the fabulous colour blast products. I can’t wait to get started. Happy Arting Chrissi xxx

April’s scrap the Boys Challenge

When I saw the April challenge for the scrap the boys blog, an idea came to me right away. This months challenge was “Let’s go Geo!”

I decided to make a mixed media background using a collection of my geometric stamps. I then wanted to add a focal point of colour. I decided to use my Colour Blast Shimmer Powders for this. I love the way this layout turned out.

Thanks for stopping by and happy Scrapping. Chrissi xxx

March Kaisercraft Blog Challenge

So this months challenge on the Kiasercraft Blog was purple. Using last years Pantone colour of the year.

As always, we must use 80% kaisercraft products. I decided to make an art journal page for this months challenge. So i grabbed my fave Kaisercraft stamps, and somr eggplant kaiser paint and my dylusions journal, and went to it.

I started with my paint and painted on a background, then using a stencil and a wet one, i took off some of the colour to give me a layered background. Then i went at it with my stamps. The kaisercraft backround stamps are some of my fave to ass texture to my pages. Then i added some white paint through a kaisercraft stencil for some contrast. To finish off my page i added a figure from a magazine and used some heavy body white paint, to paint on my title.

In the end, an art journal page i just love. Happy Scrappying, (and arting) Chrissi xxx

Kaisercraft Jan Blog Challenge

Hi lovelies, long time no post. Between nov and january itgets crazy, with christmas, and then christmas recovery lol. I dont get alot of time to scrap, let alone blog. I mostly use this blog for my monthly challenge entries. I do have a youtube channel that i upload to regulalry. To keep up with my scrappy travels check that out here -Chrissi mannix Youtube.

Ive finally had time to start scrapping for me again, and i started, very late in the month, with the kaisercraft january blog challenge. This months challenge was a bingo challenge. And the theme was a pocket page spread.

The row i chose was -A fond memory, 3 photos, handwritten jounalling,and title-2016.

 For this challenge i decided to do my 2016 project life title page. It was the perfect project forthis challenge.

And this was my project. I also have a process video over on my YouTube channel of the page coming together Would love you to stop by and have a look. 2016 Title page Video

Thanks for stopping by, and happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Scrap the Boys Oct Challenge

Last day of the month, you know what that means- im trying to get my challenge entires uploaded on time before the cut offs lol.
So this month was a really cool sketch challenge over at scrap the boys. It was a multiple photo sketch which i usually stay away from, purely 'cause im terrible with multiple photos lol. But i decided to give this one a go. And then i saw these photos i had taken with my youngest and thought they would work. They are very similar photos so using them on the same layout made sense, i got to use all the photos without my layouts looking to similar. if that makes sense. well anyway, this is my layout.

Scrap the boys is always on of my fave challenges to do- i always have plenty of pics of my boys, so there is never any shortage of photos to scrap.

Thanks for looking and happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Kaisercraft Oct Challenge

This month the challenge on the kaiser blog is a BINGO challenge.
The challenge is to pick a row, diagonal, vertical or horizontal, and use theose elements.
I chose the bottom horizontal row- Handwrittein journling, white backround, boarder and collectables. and this is the layout I created.

Dont hate me, i know its a Christmas layout, I know its only October. But i have still not finished 2015's December daily album lol. Yes i know, That's terrible. So i got out my xmas  stuff  to finish it off before it was time to start this years. So i had my stuff out, which lead to me going through my 2015 pics, which lead me to wanting to scrap our traditional santa phot. So that's how i got to making a Christmas layout in October lol.

I really do enjoy making christmas layouts. I love christmas scrapping.
Thanks for looking and Happy Scrapping
Chrissi xxx

Scrap the boys

So I have been really good with doing my challenges pretty early this month- just not so good at linking them up first!!! 

I've been trying to get videos up to match, but I've been in such a hot streak making videos I haven't had the chance to finish editing these ones in time lol.

So I'm just goin to post the layouts and add the videos at a later date :)

So here is my layout for scrap the boys. 

I adore this layout of me and my monkey. He is very snuggley when he wants to be. Hence the snuggle monkey title lol.

Hope you like the layout 

Thanks for looking and happy scrapping.

Stuck sketches! Sept challenge

So this is my first time entering the stuck sketches challenge. But I do like to use sketches for inspiration. It's a great way to step away from your usually design and try something new. 

And this is what I came up with.

I used the crate paper cool kid collection. It was oerfect for this photo of my youngest. 

Thanks for looking and happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Dlish scraps challenge

This months challenge at dlish was a gorgeous mood board.

I adore these colours together! And thought it suited my chosen photo really well. Being surrounded by bouts I do a lot of masculine stuff and rarely scrap myself and break out the pinks lol.

So this mood board was perfect for merging the 2.

And this is my layout. I love using mists and mixed media in my backrounds. I loved the 2 colours together and didn't want them to mix to make purple so I tried to keep them seperate. And I love the result. I also used the dlish just add paper kit aswell. 

Thanks for looking and

Happy scrapping

Xxx

Scrap the girls- September challenge

So it turns out, although I did this layout almost 2 weeks ago- I totally forgot to post it!! 

So here it is lol.

This is a picture of my gorgeous God daughter and I just mucking around one morning lol. We take great selfies lol.

And the challenge at scrap the girls this month was a sketch challenge. 

So I decide to use mixed media, stamping, texture etc to follow the sketch. And I really do love how this one turned it. What do you think?

Thanks for looking 

And happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

A tribute to dad- Artastic challenge

So this months challenge over at Artastic (http://artasticchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/our-second-september-reveal.html?m=1)

was- A tribute to dad. This was the artwork features this month.

This is a great image tondraw inspiration from. Living here on the Gold Coast we are surround by beaches, and sown a lot of time there. On Father's Day this year we went to the beach and I had my camera with me and was able to snap some great pics of my boys. So I decided one of these photos suited this image perfectly. So here is my layout.

I love using mixed media on layouts- mist, paint, ink, you name it. I wanted the blue to stand out the most on this layout- to toe in the boys and the beach theme to the pic.

So I hope you've liked this layout and the challenge- check it out, it's a good one.

Hapoy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Kaisercraft blog challenge

So this month, the challenge at Kaisercraft was a tough one. It was a mood board based on there new winter Christmas collection. 

So in a kit I received the papers from the new frosted collection. And I knew these papers would be hard for me to use. Mainly because Christmas is in summer here on my side of the world, and also because I'm a bright, red green and gold Christmas scrapper lol.

But then I thought about it, and I figured the light blue and silver of this kit I could  make work. And this is what I came up with.

So the first thing I did was reduce the vibrancy and saturation of my photo so it was more muted and suited the paper better. Obviously because she is in a gorgeous red dress, I didn't want that to clash with the papers too much. 

After that it came together very quickly and rather simply. 

It's a nice simple Christmas layout, and it's out of my comfort zone when it comes to Christmas colours. 

In the end I was very happy with how it turned out.

Thanks for looking and happy scrapping. 

Chrissi xxx

Scrap the boys!

I'm Getting my last minute entry in for the scrap the boys challenge.

This months challenge was a good one- NOT HAPPY.

Scrap a tantrum or a sad face. 

Lots of fun. 

So I went looking through my photos thinking if have a good one for sure, and I just wasn't happy with any.

Then I came across this screen shot of a message I got.

It was a photo of my godson with the message "not impressed Aunty Chriatina".

You see, he and his family were making the 8 hr drive to my house from theirs, and he doesn't like the car lol.

So I decided to scrap the screen shot message :) and here is my page

So what do you think?

Thanks for looking and happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Vegemite smiles scrapping

Ever have a layout that comes together so quickly and so perfectly? 

I'm in love with this layout and love how it came together!

I made this layout for the Kaisercraft August challenge. It was a sketch challenge. I used the off the wall collection.i had a blast making this. I love the way it turned out.

Some close ups

(Process video to come)

Thanks for looking

Happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Father's Day card!!

So it has been a really long time

Since I made a card :)

But with Fathers Day comming up- and a kit of the new Kaisercraft barber shoppe collection, I thought I'd make a fathers day card for my hubby.

I'm

Usually not one for layering, I don't usually get it to look right- but I was really happy with the way this card turned out. Really happy with it.

So I cut a piece of cardstock to 6x12 

Then folded it in half to get a 6x6 square card.

Process video link-

https://youtu.be/Xfu9u2B9-C4

Thanks for looking 

Happy scrapping 

Chrissi xxx

Scrap the girls challenge

So a new challenge today to get back into the swing of things. This months scrap the girls challenge was a mood board.

I love that the mood board is all blues. 

And this is my entry

This is a lovely selfie of me in the warf at Moreton Island just getting off the tender host from our cruise ship.

We had a day of adventure planned so that's what i decided to journal about. I love the contrast between the blues and my bright shirt and the boat :)

Process Video to go with the layout

https://youtu.be/NwSCDSb66JY

Thanks for looking and happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Scrap it with a song :)

So I've been MIA for a while, lots of family stuff, but now we are trying to get back into the swing of things and get some sort of routine back. Routine is very important with 2 autistic boys, and our lack of has taken its toll on our little men. So back into the swing of things, routine back and visuals making everything predictable.

So in saying that, I'm trying to get back into my craft room and back to my "me" time as well. And I've found my mojo has been lagging a little- and when my mojo goes on hiatus I like to do a challenge or 2. Helps get it all flowing again. And I found some new challenges.

Like this one- the scrap it with a song challenge. The prompt was a song Meghan Trainirs Beter when I'm dancing. This made me think of how I feel when I listen to music, and what I do when I listen to my tunes.

I was having a scrappy chat in a favebook group just yesterday about what we listen to whilst scrapping. I always have music playing- and my playlist changes from week to week. So I decided to document this weeks playlist :) I did a page in my new travelers notebook to document this.

I also have a process video to go with this page. Would love you to check it out :)

https://youtu.be/5fKuGKnDTEk

Happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Just so me!

It's been a while since I posted a layout on here. I've been so focused on my YouTube channel, the poor blog got left out lol.

But I'm back today with a new layout, this time for the June Kaisercraft challenge. Yes cutting it close I know!!! This months challenge was a mood board.

And I was inspired by the picture down the bottom and the lovely watercolour green.

So I decided to scrap this photo of me- something I don't do often at all. It's a lovely photo from one of my art journal aftermath. Lol

And this mood board made me think of that photo, and my art journal. So I thought this was the perfect photo to use for the mood board. And I knew I wanted to do a green wash for the backround, and I also merged that into a little bit of of yellow to blend. I used my mists and sprayed them into packaging.

And this is what I came up with. 

I really like how this turned out.

Thanks for looking and 

Happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

April sketch challenge

After a trip to my local Kaiser outlet on Wednesday (haul video on my YouTube channel) I finally had the supplies I wanted to find my layout for the Kaisercraft monthly challenge. Aprils challenge was a sketch challenge.

 

And this is the layout I created for the sketch.

I really like how this layout turned out- I was unsure of the sketch but then I was inspired and happy with how it turned out. I also have a process video up in my YouTube channel of this layout.

https://youtu.be/Nvw51HxF4UE

Thanks for looking 

And happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx

Scrap the boys April Challenge-and process video to go with.

So todays post is my entry for the April 2016 Scrap the Boys Challenge. The challenge this month was 'My dad my hero'.
I decided to use a photo of my husband and son, fast asleep. Identical in every way.
This is my layout.

and i even have a process video to go with it.

Just Like Dad

Would love you to chec out my proces video- like and subscribe to my channel for more videos.

Thanks for looking and happy scrapping

Chrissi xxx