Sunday 18 May 2014

I am a member of the Green Buttons team on UK Scrappers, and yesterday at the crop I managed to do this week's challenge! I am so pleased to have been able to do it as I don't always get the time to do them. I love digging through my piles of stash here at home and actually USING IT!!
Here it is:


I have used Liquitex acrylic paint through the Bubbles Tim Holtz layering stencil, I used white, blue, black and gold. I also brushed a bit of gesso over parts of it to fade it in areas where I felt I had gone a bit overboard with it.
We were using a sketch to do this layout, although as usual my layout has ended up quite different!
The red star was die cut from acetate using the Tim Holtz star die. Then I applied Smooch Glitz in Firecracker - as the acetate caused the smooch to pool, I had to do quite a few layers to build it up. Then I outlined it using a black Viva Decor Pearl Pen.
Other products used include:
Glitz Design Dance in Sunshine patterned paper
Marion Smith Design Nirvana - Family Record patterned paper
Bo Bunny Modern Miss patterned paper
Jenni Bowlin Studio bingo card
Studio Calico Atlantique wood veneer
Bella! Boutique chipboard buttons and heart
Little Yellow Bicycle Burlap star
Jillibean Soup baker's twine
BasicGrey envelope, rub ons and fabric tag
Kaisercraft alpha stickers
Simple Stories 24/7 alpha stickers
Tim Holtz adage ticket
MME Lost and Found 2 Breeze button

Monday 12 May 2014


Hello, welcome to The Mad Scrapper's blog! I think this will be a fun way to show you all what's happening in the store, and what products I am loving at the moment.

Here is a layout I completed this weekend, it has been inspired by a single page layout done by Sue Lui that really caught my eye.


I have used my all time favourite - Dusty Attic chipboard, and my new found love, Smooch Pearlised inks. The background has been gessoed randomly through a Kaisercraft bricks template, then sprayed over with Tattered Angels' Sun Sisters Glimmer Mist.
The Dusty Attic chipboard has had Goosebumps texture spray flicked onto it, then the Smooch Ink to colour it.
I cut out a circle from Grungepaper, layered them up and coloured them with Smooch ink too.
And of course I have used lots of lovely Green Tara flowers, as well as Dusty Attic blooms, Prima pearl swirls and fussy cut paper to finish it all off.

There are loads of techniques in this layout, and it took a while for me to complete, but I really enjoyed doing this one.