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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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  • Snowflake Kisses by KERRY MCINALLY
    January 3, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Snowflake Kisses by KERRY MCINALLY

    For this layout I used two 3x4 photos of my daughter many years ago in her Christmas nativity where she played a snowflake.  I backed the photos using the Stonehenge card stock and then some scraps left over from the...

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  • Christmas Box by SUE CREASE
    January 2, 2024 Janine O'Rourke

    Christmas Box by SUE CREASE

    Hello, I'm up on The Mad Scrapper Blog today with this Christmas surprise treat box. These are so easy to make and lots of fun for the recipient. You can make it double lined but this time I chose not to...

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  • Chill by KERRY MCINALLY
    December 20, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Chill by KERRY MCINALLY

    I began by matting a 4x6 photo with the Lagoon cardstock  and some scraps of Winter Blues and the Journal Elements patterned paper. I then cut two banner pieces one measuring 10.5 by 2.5 inches, and another measuring 8 inches...

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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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  • Christmas Banner Layout by ELAINE KING
    December 14, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Christmas Banner Layout by ELAINE KING

    Using the December 23 kit, cut down the buff coloured card to 11” square and mount it onto the red coloured background card leaving a half inch border  (after having first gutted the centre). Fussy cut the gnomes/gonks and banners from...

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  • A Great Day BY SUE CREASE
    December 11, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    A Great Day BY SUE CREASE

    Hello, Today you can find me over on  The Mad Scrapper Blog with this layout of myself celebrating my 60th birthday with my best friend Julia having  afternoon tea. We had a lovely time. For this layout I have used 2...

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  • Frosty at Chatsworth House by KERRY MCINALLY
    December 8, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Frosty at Chatsworth House by KERRY MCINALLY

    I used 3, 3x4 photos for this layout and began by matting them with the Lagoon cardstock. I then tore a diagonal piece from the Winter Blues, 3x4 elements, and Journal elements papers and distressed the edges.  I layered these...

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  • Holly Jolly Day by ELAINE KING
    December 6, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Holly Jolly Day by ELAINE KING

    Draw a crescent shape on the Diamond white card stock. Using the Festive Berries Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink, use the packaging technique, as demonstrated in my video,  and dab around the crescent shape. When dried, choose where you want the photo to sit then...

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