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  • Happy Day by ELAINE KING
    April 14, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Happy Day by ELAINE KING

    First, I took the Whirlpool cardstock and gutted a 10 in square from the centre. I then cut an 8 inch circle from the gutted piece of card. I next took the sheet of typeset paper and cut a 7 & 1/2...

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  • Let's Go! by KERRY MCINALLY
    March 28, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Let's Go! by KERRY MCINALLY

    I started by mounting a 3/4 inch border of the pink Dotted Swiss to the 12 x 12 Touch of Pink cardstock. Then using my 1inch circle punch I cut out a rainbow and a sun from the Look Up...

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  • A Moment in Time by ELAINE KING
    February 27, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    A Moment in Time by ELAINE KING

    Take the Dreamers in love paper and use this as your base.  Tear a 12” strip of the Forget me not paper (ensuring you leave the larger cluster on the reverse side intact). Stick this to the left hand side. Cut the centre stripy...

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  • Precious Moments by ELAINE KING
    February 15, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Precious Moments by ELAINE KING

    Take the Forget Me Not sheet and fussy cut the bottom semi circle of flowers. Put to one side. Take the Bazzill Coconut Swirl card stock and use Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Broken China and use the packaging technique to create...

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  • So Precious by CHARLEEN WALES
    February 6, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    So Precious by CHARLEEN WALES

    I've been holding onto these baby photos of my daughter for the last 10 years waiting for the perfect collection to be released so that I could scrap them and oh my goodness, the Scrapaholix February kit Aquarelle Dreams is so...

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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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  • Best Life by ELAINE KING
    November 16, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Best Life by ELAINE KING

    Take a piece of Bazzill Twill cardstock and splatter three different Distress inks: Frayed Burlap, Peeled Paint and Salvaged Patina using the packaging technique and lots of splatters from watered down inks.   Tear a small piece of the card on the top left...

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  • Raising Tadpoles by CHARLEEN WALES
    July 27, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Raising Tadpoles by CHARLEEN WALES

    This project was supposed to be a 12x12 scrapbook page with a lot of photos. I was thinking of doing a grid type layout but I had too many photos and just could not make it work. I almost abandoned...

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  • Our Masterpiece BY CHARLEEN WALES
    March 30, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Our Masterpiece BY CHARLEEN WALES

    This is my 2nd page using the Scrapaholix March main and add-on kit.  It seems to be a month of firsts for me. My 1st page was the first time I used Finnabair Sparks acrylic paint available from The Mad...

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