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  • Love Your Smile by KERRY MCINALLY
    January 24, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Love Your Smile by KERRY MCINALLY

    For this layout I used the needlework paper, apricot card stock, a 4x6 journalling card and a few things from my own stash. I began by cutting a couple of mm from each side of the Needlework paper as I...

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  • Best Life by ELAINE KING
    January 19, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Best Life by ELAINE KING

    First take the large Needlework embroidery hoop paper and trim the branding strip.  Mount a square photo on foam pads and adhere it to the bottom right of the hoop. Fussy cut the feather arrangement from the 4 x 6 paper...

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  • Discover + Create by KERRY MCINALLY
    January 15, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Discover + Create by KERRY MCINALLY

    I began by matting a 4 x 6 portrait photo on the craft card stock and distressing the edges. Next I used three of the 4x6 journalling cards - I cut out the ruler, pencil, bulldog clip and book page,...

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  • Scrapaholix January 2024 Kits - Discover + Create
    January 8, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Scrapaholix January 2024 Kits - Discover + Create

    A very Happy New Year to you all! To start of the new year we have absolutely fabulous kits on offer for you! These kits feature papers and products from Vicki Boutin's newly released Discover + Create range. Here is the...

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  • Night Night Little One by KAREN MOSS
    December 18, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Night Night Little One by KAREN MOSS

    Once they knew that their baby would be a little boy our daughter and her husband decided to have a Peter Rabbit theme for his nursery. When I visited them just before his birth I was so impressed with how...

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  • Hello Baby Boy by KAREN MOSS
    November 23, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Hello Baby Boy by KAREN MOSS

    Hello Baby Boy We were very fortunate to welcome our first grandchild in September and in anticipation I asked for some Echo Park 'Our Baby Boy' products. I thought that these would pair beautifully with the new Cocoa Vanilla 'Heart...

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  • There is Magic in You by Kerry Mcinally
    October 27, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    There is Magic in You by Kerry Mcinally

    I began this layout by cutting a 10 inch circle from the Blue Skies paper. I mounted this in the centre of the Stonewash cardstock.  Next I trimmed the One of a Kind paper to 11.5 inches square and cut...

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  • Lovely Day by ELAINE KING
    July 31, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Lovely Day by ELAINE KING

    Cut a 4” x 12” section of the reverse side of the Hydrangea paper. Mount on your own piece of white card stock. Cut a further 3” x 12” section Salutations paper and use the pink side.  Stick this at an...

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  • Besties by ELAINE KING
    July 24, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Besties by ELAINE KING

    First cut the branding strip of the Memoir paper to use the reverse side. Put to one side until later.  Arrange a selection of the ephemera from the kit in a horizontal line around 3” from the top of the...

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