Switching to bloglovin, and liking it!

So I'm hearing that the little doohickey on my sidebar

with all your beautiful faces on it is going to disappear :-(

For this reason I have signed up with Bloglovin, there's a link 

over there on the right if you want to follow me there.

Must say, I now get a gorgeous summary of all the new posts

on my fave blogs in my daily email. I like that!

So I'm hoping most of you scrappy peeps will come on over

so I can keep tabs on what y'all are up too.

Art Journaling

With the amazing Dina Wakely!

Big thanks to Tracey Shenton at Pages 2 Scrap for enabling,

and to the most gorgeous Jo Kinder for welcoming me into her home

and sharing her delightful family with me, so much appreciated!

I had an epiphany in the all-day Sunday class, now I'm hooked!

This is what I made, everyone in my family has a different favourite page :-)

Front and back covers

inside pages

All so different, a variety of techniques, lots of colour.

Yup, I'm in love!

Thank you so much for visiting!

Glitz Prize and pages

I got a wonderful prize pack from Glitz last week and had a lovely time

with their new 'Color Me Happy' range, so bright and playful.

Here are a few of the pages I did and I am still working with the

abundance of product I received - Thank you Glitz!

Paper Haus projects

Here is one of my pages from the Spring issue of Paper Haus ezine.

If you haven't had a squizz yet make sure you do, it is so full of prettiness!

I also have a step-by-step on making this teeny tiny album in there.

Our very own Aussie Stacey Young along with Maiko Kasugi and Lisa Gregory

are the amazingly talented featured artists, you really need to see their work!

Happy reading!

Thanks for dropping by

Home on the range

Word up #69, 'Home' is the current challenge at One Little Word.

Here's my page, head on over and checkout the inspo.

I used a 12"x 8" photo cut into 2 pieces, top and bottom, to get a panorama feel.

A couple of Gauche Alchemy supplies (punchinella, ouchless cardboard), some old

Pink Paislee chippy letters, Dymo, twine, Maya Rd chippy houses and some doodads.

Thank you so much for dropping by

Mixed media scrapbook pages with Gauche

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter break

and celebrated all that it means to you.

I was lucky to get in some much needed creative time.

This page went up on the Gauche Alchemy blog in march,

a result of my mojo-boosting process, you can read all about it here.

There were loads of fab ideas on kick-starting your creative process

by the girls in March so make sure you have a browse around

while you're there. I used some stuff from the colour kits, punchinella, lace,

and washi tapes. I also used up some leftover Christmas tags,

those are the 'naughty' bits lol. And do you see the background stamp?

It's the Day of the Dead stamp from Viva Las Vegas Stamps

I love it so much!

If you're not yet signed up for the awesome newsletter

(you can do that on the left side-bar of the blog here)

you might have recently missed this one too.

Lots more Gauche goodness, 'ouchless cardboard', paper napkins,

lace, punchinella, and doodads from the colour kits.

See the little teddy there next to the photos?

That was a wee toy stencil that I filled with Dimensional Magic and

GA gold beads then filled in any holes with Kindyglitz, cute!

Just so you know, the Gauche Alchemy shop is closed for the moment

while Gauche Mama Chrissy relocates with her family to Japan

but will be up and running again very soon,

keep an eye out here.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Yours in Scrappiness

Finn-tastic!

I had the best time last week thanks to a whole bunch of wonderful people!

Rae organised for Finnabair to come all the way from Poland to teach mixed media classes, this one in Sydney was organised by Eunice. My gorgeous friend Diane and her family accommodated me and Diane came to the classes too :-)

My darling hubby stayed home with the kids and #1 son ferried them to school and activities.

I am blessed!

I also got to meet up with some wonderful Aussie scrapbookers - Nadia Cannizzo, Kim Price, Di Garling, Julene Matthews, and Kim Kendall from SWAT. There were 50 of us in the class and I talked with lots more lovely ladies but alas cannot remember names.

Here we are

And here are my two projects

Firstly a layout with lots of luscious metal grunge and prettiness.

And secondly a mixed media canvas. 

I must be a little more careful misting near the photo next time.

(This is the one that gave me the blister ;-)

The products we used were from the gorgeous new ranges

from Prima that Finn designed - Sunrise Sunset and Mechanicals.

The entire experience was absolutely brilliant,

I am so grateful to all the ladies who made this happen!

Thanks so much for dropping by,

yours in scrappiness

More washi fun!

My layout for Sketches with a twist this month was so much fun,

I discovered a new technique which I love!

I laid overlapping strips of coordinating washi tapes on a sheet of baking paper and then cut circles out of it to emulate the circles in

Julianne's gorgeous sketch.

Here's the sketch

And here's my layout

Hope you can come and play along with us here

Thanks so much for dropping by

Yours in scrappiness

Winner in the Haus!

Thanks so much to everyone who hopped along with us,

I hope you all had a blast and loaded up on inspiration.

Be sure to read the new Paper Haus issue cover to cover,

it's an absolute beauty! 

 Now to announce the winner of my RAK

from the Blog Hop

Drumroll.....

Come on down.....

Monica!

 

Congratulations Monica, your parcel will be winging it's way to you very soon.

Thanks so much for dropping by