The Mad Scrapper Blog

Hi there everyone.  Today I have a little wooden horse makeover to share with you.  I was visiting my friend (also a steampunk like me) and she handed over the little critter and asked if I could “steampunk” it.  So...

Hello Mad Scrappers! Today I'd like to share some tags I made with the oh so pretty Prima Moon Child collection. It's an older collection but the colours and patterns are just lovely to use.  I started by cutting out...

Hello Mad Scrappers! As soon as I saw the leather texture paper from Prima I knew it would make a great faux leather cover for my next junk journal. I started by folding the sheet in half and cut a...

Oh, I love boxes and tins, and I love to decorate them, these papers were just perfect for this. I measured the height of the box above and below the opening of the box and cut the full width of...

Hi there. I have another altered tin to share with you today.  I am a steampunk but sometimes steampunk and Goth get a little combined and we call that Steamgoth lol. I think that is what this tin is.  I...

Hi Mad Scrappers! Here's my next design team project for you - an altered chipboard frame. When I saw the Dusty Attic porthole chipboard, I knew I wanted to give it a real rusty weathered look but I couldn't decide...

Hi again. The project I am sharing today is my first art journal. An artist/crafter I subscribe to gave us a wonderful mindfulness project to do over the next month and it looked like one of the best ways for me...

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be part of the new design team for The Mad Scrapper and I hope you'll like my first project for the blog. I was recently reminded how much fun these carved books are to...

Using the Blue Fern Studios, Paisley and Vine modern collection. Sometimes I can just pick up a base sheet and go with it and other times I have to add, this is one of those times. I felt I just...