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  • September Scrapaholix Kits
    September 4, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    September Scrapaholix Kits

    September is here and with it comes our bright and beautiful September Scrapaholix kits. These kits feature papers and products form Cocoa Vanilla Studio's Happy Days collection, and included in the main kit this month is a Crafter's Companion Glue...

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  • Accordion Mini Book by Louise Crosbie
    August 31, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Accordion Mini Book by Louise Crosbie

    After making two layouts from the kit, I still had quite a lot of card and paper left over.  I really liked the idea of using the bingo cards as a little booklet of some sort and little books and...

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  • Magic Forest Journal by LOUISE CROSBIE
    August 24, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Magic Forest Journal by LOUISE CROSBIE

    I went a little crazy last week and actually opened my precious “Magic Forest” 8x8 papers. I bought the main papers and the extra background papers. They are so pretty. I had that dilemma of “which side will I show” ...

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  • Layout 3 by KERRY MCINALLY
    August 23, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Layout 3 by KERRY MCINALLY

    For this layout I used a 4x6 photo of my daughter which had been printed to give an aged look.  I mounted the photo on some scraps of white and then black card. I cut 1 inch from two sides...

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  • Sweet Photo Shoot by SUE CREASE
    August 21, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Sweet Photo Shoot by SUE CREASE

    Hello, Today I'm sharing a layout on  The Mad Scrapper Blog using the lovely collection recently released by Simple Stories who were working with My Minds Eye on this Wildflower collection still available in  The Mad Scrapper   store. I will tell...

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  • Remember by ELAINE KING
    August 17, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Remember by ELAINE KING

    Use the Raven cardstock as your base. Cut a strip of the Simple Stories Vintage Essentials, Authentic paper, using the rulers.  Cut two triangles from the piece remaining of the Authentic paper. The first triangle should be measured 3” wide x 4” deep and the second triangle is...

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  • Happy Holiday by KAREN MOSS
    August 16, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Happy Holiday by KAREN MOSS

    Happy Holidays Mini-Album As soon as I saw the Where To Next - Place Tag paper I knew it would be perfect to make a little mini-album to document my summer adventures. I have a process video here. I used...

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  • Beach Days Are Best by SUE CREASE
    August 8, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Beach Days Are Best by SUE CREASE

    Hello, Today I am sharing another layout for The Mad Scrapper Blog and it shows my cousins adorable girls at the beach on Anglesey this last half term break. I am joining in with the 49 and Market sketch challenge...

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  • Daddy, Me and Ice-Cream by KERRY MCINALLY
    August 7, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Daddy, Me and Ice-Cream by KERRY MCINALLY

    First of all I cut 1cm from each side of the cream card stock and mounted it onto the Stonehenge cardstock.Using a variety of ‘tag’ dies in different sizes I cut the vintage tickets paper into tags.  I placed these...

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