Monday, January 19, 2026

Squeeze Sip Ooh!

 Hello,

Today you find me sharing another layout for The Mad Scrapper Blog and this time it is using photos of my cousins adorable grandchildren at a lemon photo shoot. As soon as I saw the photographs I knew I wanted to make a page for her.


I love the Botanical Buzz Collection by 49 and Market so I pulled out some papers to choose from along with ephemera and beautiful flowers. As you can see below I trimmed down the main paper and added a few rips where I tucked behind pieces of Vibrant to tuck under. I added it to a yellow and then a blue. All supplies are listed below in full, I used Delicate but it could have been any of the papers all are perfect.

After matting the main photo on blue I chose 3 to cut with a circle frame die and placed them on to blue too. Then I set about building up my layout. I placed the main photo in the centre up on foam which Janine sells then I added one photo bottom left and added lots of lovely flowers and some fussy cut lemons from a Cocoa Vanilla collection a couple of years back (one of those papers you just know will come in handy)


The next little photo is added to the top left of the main one and is tucked under, aren't they adorable sitting there together and look at her pretty dress too.


Here you can see some more of the lemons tucked in there and the title is added above, middle and bottom right of the layout. I used alphabet stickers for this.


This next little photo I almost made the main one but decided it made a better little add on. Ooh you can almost imagine the squeals after she sucked on the lemon!


I only added the one cluster of flowers to this layout of the children but I did finish the page with lemon and lime flat sequins and a couple of little stars which they are.
Thanks for stopping by again today. Pop in if you live close or sit back and go to The Mad Scrapper  at your leisure there is bound to be a collection perfect for your photos if you need help just ask Janine she will be able to help.

Sue.

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Thursday, January 8, 2026

Floral Frenzy

 Hello and Happy New Year,

Today I am joining in with the Pinkfresh studio January 2026 Challenge  which is all about choosing your favourite challenge from 2025 and making a card or layout with that challenge. I have chosen floral frenzy from the month  April 2025 Challenge  but it could have been May with Frame it up.




This card uses Floral Bunch stencil and die (I don't have the stamp set, can't find it anywhere) along with petal trellis cover plate. I coloured in using all Pinkfresh inks and my own pattern paper. I added a elongated rectangular frame in white, the same as I had inked my florals on to. The card is a 5x7 top fold card.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Sue.