The Mad Scrapper Blog

First I took a sheet of white card from my own stash (having used the sheet I got in my kit in my first layout). I then took the Pinkfresh Happy List paper and cut the bottom pink rainbow from it,...

First take the black sheet of card and trim the branding strip.  Next cut several elements from the Radiant Reflections sheet from your kit. Then take your photos, (I used 3 but of course you could use more or less). I then matted...

Hi there.  I’ve altered this little tin as my first project for July.  It’s about 5 inches tall and it was originally a 1940s (?) cigarette tin I picked up at a bric-à-brac stall for £4.  It had a nice...

If you know my work or follow any of my social media then this book may well look somewhat familiar. You’d be right. I did a slightly larger version of this last year for another shop but since displaying it...

A bit of a different colour palette from me this week. I’m not usually a soft pastel sort of person but this look was achieved using quite strong colours and it’s the dry brushing in white afterwords that achieves the...

Spring is here. Well so they tell me. Other than having a crazy little bird attack my window every morning at the crack of dawn I’m not seeing much sign of it. (I’m told birds attack their reflections in windows...

Hi there. Technically, this is my first craft project of 2023. It’s taken me a while to get going what with one thing or another (life lol). So I started gently with some art journaling. I made it even easier...

Hi.  Sometimes, when I ask friends what they'd like for Christmas (usually stocking filler cost), they say “make me something”.  That’s daunting lol.  But a bit of a safe bet is a notebook.  The notebooks in The Mad Scrapper shop...

Hi there. I’m sharing this woodland fairy wooden plaque with you today. It’s actually the inspiration for a class I will be teaching this month at the shop.  I’ve used a bit of old wooden plank left over from getting...