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  • Holly Jolly Day by ELAINE KING
    December 6, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Holly Jolly Day by ELAINE KING

    Draw a crescent shape on the Diamond white card stock. Using the Festive Berries Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink, use the packaging technique, as demonstrated in my video,  and dab around the crescent shape. When dried, choose where you want the photo to sit then...

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  • Scrapaholix December Kits - Winter and Christmas
    December 2, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Scrapaholix December Kits - Winter and Christmas

    Every December we produce 2 kits, as not everyone's in to Christmas, and sometimes it's nice to have a choice. This year we have 2 lovely kits, the Christmas kit is from Australian company Uniquely Creative - their A Christmas...

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  • Snow Beautiful by CHARLEEN WALES
    January 9, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Snow Beautiful by CHARLEEN WALES

    This is my 2nd page using the December Winter kit. I absolutely love this kit and had to force myself to cut into it. I was very adventurous with this page... I started by choosing my background page, the Winter...

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  • A letter to Santa by CHARLEEN WALES
    December 31, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    A letter to Santa by CHARLEEN WALES

    I have an album for both my children and then a family album which is for me, so I scrap my children's memories separately for them so that they both have memories of events etc in their albums. I try to...

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  • Snowy Fun by ELAINE KING
    December 29, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Snowy Fun by ELAINE KING

    Take a sheet of white cardstock and use Iced Spruce Distress Ink to make splatters and use the distressing technique to create a mixed media background.  Using the large scraps from the Echo Park Winter Snow paper: Cut a rectangle...

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  • Happy Times by ELAINE KING
    December 19, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Happy Times by ELAINE KING

    Use the Bazzill White Avalanche card stock as your background.  Use  Silver Fox Shimmerz to paint a large distressed circle in the background. When dry use Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide, Unchartered Mariner, to make a second layer of circles. Splatter both mediums onto the...

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  • Dear Santa by CHARLEEN WALES
    December 12, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Dear Santa by CHARLEEN WALES

    Hello Scrappy friends and happy December.  The festive season has started off with a bang in my house. The Christmas tree and decorations are up. We've gone to our local Christmas fair already and this week is filled with Christmas...

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  • December 2022 Scrapaholix kits
    December 2, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    December 2022 Scrapaholix kits

    Our lovely December kits are here, and as usual I have put together 2 kits as not everyone scraps Christmas. So first up there is the Christmas kit, which features papers and products from Carta Bella's Letters to Santa range. As...

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