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  • Explore by ELAINE KING
    July 6, 2026 Janine O'Rourke

    Explore by ELAINE KING

    First take the cream card from your kit to use this as the base.  Fussy cut a floral panel from the wood grain paper. Raise this on foam pads and place on the left hand side of the card. Fussy...

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  • Love Those Paws by ELAINE KING
    June 17, 2026 Janine O'Rourke

    Love Those Paws by ELAINE KING

    Today I’m scrapping two photos of my much loved dog, Digby, who we lost last week. 😢 So, first take the Memoir - Story, patterned paper and use as your background.  Using a stencil from your stash, use Distress Inks...

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  • Cool by ELAINE KING
    April 20, 2026 Janine O'Rourke

    Cool by ELAINE KING

    First I used a piece of my own Bazzill Avalanche card stock as the base and cut several strips of the patterned paper. I cut some at 2” and several at 1.5” and cut them to 8” or 9” long. I...

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  • Magic Bar by SUE CREASE
    April 10, 2026 Janine O'Rourke

    Magic Bar by SUE CREASE

    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...

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  • Hello Happiness by NICOLA CAMPBELL
    September 3, 2025 Janine O'Rourke

    Hello Happiness by NICOLA CAMPBELL

    Hi everyone, my name is Nicola and I'm excited to be sharing my debut Scrapaholix DT layout using the September 2025 Scrapaholix Kits. I started with one of the sheets of white cardstock and created a splattery background with Distress...

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  • Radiant by KAREN MOSS
    May 12, 2025 Janine O'Rourke

    Radiant by KAREN MOSS

    I love bright colours, love wearing them, decorating with them and scrapping with them - so when I saw the Colour Crush range from Uniquely Creative I knew it was for me! I started this page with a piece of...

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  • Life is Great by KERRY MCINALLY
    June 19, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Life is Great by KERRY MCINALLY

    Using the Whirlpool card stock as my base I then cut approximately 1/2 an inch from two sides of the Coconut Swirl card stock.  I snipped into this approximately 1 inch in from the top right and bottom left creating...

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  • Hey Friend by ELAINE KING
    February 26, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Hey Friend by ELAINE KING

    First take a piece of white card from your own stash and stencil rows with Tim Holtz inks. You can choose from a section of stencils below if you don’t have this exact stencil.  I used Unchartered Mariner, Fossilised Amber and...

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  • Happy Moments by ELAINE KING
    January 26, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Happy Moments by ELAINE KING

    First take the piece of coconut swirl cardstock and either stencil or doodle two straight lines down the middle using Fossilised Amber Distress Ink. Add random stencil or doodles spots around the page making sure you keep it light and don’t...

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