The Mad Scrapper Blog

I’m thinking ahead to winter, Yule, Christmas etc and planning what class I could run at The Mad Scrapper for November/December.  And I’ve come up with this decorative little star decoration.  It’s a nice size. Not too huge so it...

I went a little crazy last week and actually opened my precious “Magic Forest” 8x8 papers. I bought the main papers and the extra background papers. They are so pretty. I had that dilemma of “which side will I show” ...

Hi there. Todays project has a bit of a romantic theme to it. I wanted to use the little bottle moulds, that I used on my tin last month, in a more soft, feminine romantic way.  So I went with...

Sharing Things: Art journal pages.  Hi. The project I’m sharing today is a double page spread in an A4 journal. The reason I created the page is also the reason it’s called “Sharing Things” and it’s also the reason there’s...

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...

Hello, Today I'm sharing a layout I have made for The Mad Scrapper Blog using beautiful papers from Maja Design. A full list can be found at the bottom of this post. This layout will be a gift to my dearest friend...

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...