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Hello, Today I'm here to share another project made for The Mad Scrapper Blog and I am using the new paper collection from Cocoa Vanilla Studio (full detail below). It's a lovely bright set of papers and embellishments as well as cut...

Take a sheet of white card stock and wet the lower half of the sheet with clean water.  Use watercolour paints to create a soft drizzling effect by dabbing colours across top of the water line and letting it run...

In general I steer clear of papers with wreath designs on.  They’re beautiful but I never know what to do with them.  So when I saw the wreath on the ‘Celebrate Life’ paper my first thought was to use the...

I started my fourth layout by tearing three indentations into the pink cardstock, I distressed these edges and then backed with some left over pieces of the ‘Oh My Heart’ paper from my own stash. I backed my photo with...

First I took a sheet of white A4 card from my own stash but you could cut from your 12” x 12” card from the kit. Then I used Tim Holtz Candied Apple Distress ink to create little circles (using the end...

I began my second layout using the May kit by fussy cutting flowers and leaves from the spring fling paper. I then chose some distress oxides from my stash which I thought would compliment the colours from the Storyteller collection....

I’ve really enjoyed using the April kit, and with the exception of a few alphas and large stickers I have used every piece. Here is my fifth layout using the cut apart sheet. I began by using the packaging technique...

Using the circles paper from the kit I cut several circles and then distressed the edges. I also fussy cut the ‘Focus on the Good’ section of the cut apart sheet. I then arranged the circles on a piece of A4...

Todays project is not really complete. If I waited on me finishing it before sharing, it could be a year or more lol.  I like paper crafting but only in short bursts as a break from mixed media. But I’ve...