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  • Welcome Winter by LOUISE CROSBIE
    January 31, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Welcome Winter by LOUISE CROSBIE

    I'm here with my third project using this years December kit.  It’s a layout using up some of the coloured card and some strips off of one of the sheets of scrapbook paper. I’ve also utilised the cut off strip...

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  • Beautiful Winter by CHARLEEN WALES
    January 10, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Beautiful Winter by CHARLEEN WALES

    I love it when I see a paper from a collection and I know exactly what I want to do with it. As you might already know another love of mine is fussy cutting and the pattern paper Winter Farmhouse...

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  • Snow happy by CHARLEEN WALES
    December 29, 2021 Janine O'Rourke

    Snow happy by CHARLEEN WALES

    I love using shapes on my layout, I little while ago I created a very simple layout with circles, rectangles, triangles and it’s one of my favourites. So seeing this gorgeous winter kit and the fussy cutting possibilities I decided...

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  • Holly Jolly Christmas Card by SHARON NETTLESHIP
    December 20, 2021 Janine O'Rourke

    Holly Jolly Christmas Card by SHARON NETTLESHIP

    Take a 6x6 card and adhere a slightly smaller layer of the Bazzill red cardstock. Using a circle die cut 3 circles in the Holliest & Jolliest striped card. You can arrange them how you like. Using the same circle...

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  • December by Sharon Nettleship
    December 15, 2021 Janine O'Rourke

    December by Sharon Nettleship

    I don't often make layouts but this months papers are just right for your Christmas memory layouts. First of all I chose the Bazzil white card for the base and a paper that would be my main band across the...

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  • Scrapaholix December Kits
    December 12, 2021 Janine O'Rourke

    Scrapaholix December Kits

    As usual in December, we have 2 kits on offer - a Christmas Kit and a winter kit. Both the kits this month are really lovely, I hope you like what you see below! First of all, the Christmas kits:...

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  • Hello Winter by JACKIE BURTON
    January 21, 2021 Janine O'Rourke

    Hello Winter by JACKIE BURTON

      For my layout from the Winter kit, I have gone back to scrapping a double page layout. I used papers and cardstock from both the main kit and the add on kit and inked all the edges of the...

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  • BEAMISH 2018 by Jackie Burton
    December 31, 2020 Janine O'Rourke

    BEAMISH 2018 by Jackie Burton

    So December hasn’t gone quite to plan, pretty much like the rest of 2020 really. I have been playing catch up all month after a bad start but here it finally is… this month’s layout! The papers are from Photoplay's...

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  • LAST CHRISTMAS - Double Layout
    December 20, 2020 Anji Scott

    LAST CHRISTMAS - Double Layout

    Lovely deep red tones in the Christmas Kit from Janine this month.  The name of the photoplay paper – CHRISTMAS CHEER, reminded me of last Christmas when a bunch of lads descended into our house, all excited and happy, looking...

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