The Mad Scrapper Blog

Hello, Today you find me over at The Mad Scrapper Blog with this layout of my son doing one of his favourite things, performing magic. He likes to look at my completed layouts and was thrilled when I said I would do...

Ten years ago, when I ran a crop, I taught a year long project where we scrapped our five favourite photos from each month on a double page layout.  I thought that I would revive it again and this time...

One of the places we went to, on our recent adventures, was Chirk Castle.  This was a beautiful National Trust castle and grounds and the perfect place for the dogs and a toddler to run around.  Whilst we were in...

Earlier in the month there were two big events in our household, our 40th wedding anniversary and my 70th birthday (how did that happen?)  As I actually got married on my birthday, we celebrated both with a weekend away, with...

I wanted to make a mini album, to hold photos of an upcoming trip we are planning and didn't want to make the actual album so I bought a 6" x 4" sketch book, from Hobbycraft and repurpused it into...

Hi everyone, Nicola here sharing my next layout from the February 2026 Scrapaholix Kits, which are based around Stamperia's Quiet Days collection.  This layout is quite different to my last one from these kits, and all the vintage brown tones...

First take the sheet with the large rectangular panels and fussy cut each of the rectangles leaving a border around the edge. I used a trimmer for this but a craft knife and ruler would work too.  Next take two...

First take the beautiful butterfly paper from the kit. Use a 5” square photo and mat it on the Evening Light cardstock. Cut a 5” circle from the same card and position it beneath the butterfly to the right hand...

Hi everyone, Nicola here sharing my first layout from the February 2026 Scrapaholix Kits, which are based around Stamperia's Quiet Days collection.  I used the purple woodgrain paper (the reverse of the Butterfly sheet) from the add-on kit for my...