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  • Love This Life by ELAINE KING
    October 6, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Love This Life by ELAINE KING

    Take the sheet of Yukon Gold card stock and gut the centre, leaving a 1” border. Cut the sunflower paper to 11 in.² and mount on the Yukon Gold frame. Mount the photo on a piece of white card from your own stash, measuring...

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  • Perfect Day by SUE CREASE
    September 28, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Perfect Day by SUE CREASE

    Hello, Today I'm sharing another layout for The Mad Scrapper Blog and this time it is of my sister and her hubby on a recent visit to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary in Rome. On this particular day they visited the...

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  • Beautiful Tag by ELAINE KING
    September 27, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Beautiful Tag by ELAINE KING

    I took a Dina Wakely mixed media tag and used a Vicky Boutin stencil with Ranger texture paste and left to dry. (The stencil I used is now on longer in stock, but there are several other Vicki Boutin stencils that would work...

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  • December Joy Star by SUE CREASE
    September 13, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    December Joy Star by SUE CREASE

    Hello, Today I'm sharing a project I have made for The Mad Scrapper Blog and I will be gifting it to my sister who is the manager of her Community Centre in Westmoor, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She loves Christmas and most of...

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  • Together by ELAINE KING
    September 11, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Together by ELAINE KING

    First take the piece of Rain card and gut it to leave a 1” border. Cut the coconut swirl card to 11” and mat on the Rain border piece.  Next take three Distress Oxides: Salvaged Patina, Worn Lipstick and Fossilised Amber. Press...

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  • Layout 1 by KERRY MCINALLY
    September 7, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Layout 1 by KERRY MCINALLY

    This kit is so bright and colourful, lots of lovely cut a parts and papers which lend themselves to fussy cutting.I began with a 4 x 4 photo which I backed onto some scrap white card stock, I then cut...

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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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  • Wild West! by LOUISE CROSBIE
    August 25, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Wild West! by LOUISE CROSBIE

    Another layout using the August Scrapaholix kit. And an excuse for me to get more rub-ons 😂 I kept it simple this time. I’ve used the rub-ons to surround my focal point and the numbers from the sticker sheet that...

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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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