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  • Simply Magical Layout BY SUE CREASE
    January 4, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Simply Magical Layout BY SUE CREASE

    Hello, I'm here again to share a layout made for The Mad Scrapper Blog and this time it's Christmas! I'm using a postcard which we bought on a visit to Mount Doria in Florida back in 2008. It is Christmas Moonlight by...

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  • Merry Christmas by KAREN MOSS
    January 2, 2023 Janine O'Rourke

    Merry Christmas by KAREN MOSS

    This month I am using the absolutely gorgeous 49 and Market Holiday Wishes range. I chose the 6" x 8" paper pack and wanted to show how this can be used to make a page with the illusion that you...

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  • A letter to Santa by CHARLEEN WALES
    December 31, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    A letter to Santa by CHARLEEN WALES

    I have an album for both my children and then a family album which is for me, so I scrap my children's memories separately for them so that they both have memories of events etc in their albums. I try to...

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  • Snowy Fun by ELAINE KING
    December 29, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Snowy Fun by ELAINE KING

    Take a sheet of white cardstock and use Iced Spruce Distress Ink to make splatters and use the distressing technique to create a mixed media background.  Using the large scraps from the Echo Park Winter Snow paper: Cut a rectangle...

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  • Cool Crisp Autumn Days by KAREN MOSS
    December 27, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Cool Crisp Autumn Days by KAREN MOSS

    I have used one of my favourite photographs for this page - one of our daughter and our retriever, Kiera. Although, this was taken in 2017and Kiera is no longer with us, I still manage to scrap this photo almost...

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  • Moon Notebook by LOUISE CROSBIE
    December 21, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Moon Notebook by LOUISE CROSBIE

    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...

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  • Happy Times by ELAINE KING
    December 19, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    Happy Times by ELAINE KING

    Use the Bazzill White Avalanche card stock as your background.  Use  Silver Fox Shimmerz to paint a large distressed circle in the background. When dry use Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide, Unchartered Mariner, to make a second layer of circles. Splatter both mediums onto the...

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  • I Am Here For The Good Times by KAREN MOSS
    December 16, 2022 Janine O'Rourke

    I Am Here For The Good Times by KAREN MOSS

    We have had dogs for over 30 years with our first three were Golden Retrievers but we now have a Cockerpoo - Darcey. She is such a character and we got her the December before the first lockdown so is...

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