Laura Rumble - Crafter

Seeeeequins! You know I love 'em!  And this star stripe cut file from Pretty My Page was screaming to be made into a giant shaker... I used sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps - busted 8 part used packs - and still haven't made a dent in my stash!! I kept everything else simple - I felt it needed it! I adore how it has turned out!

Just a quick share of a couple of videos that I haven't yet blogged... First up is this galaxy watercolour.  I'm pretty sure it will end up as a scrapbook layout but for now, I'm enjoying it as is. And this fun shaker page was part of Meggy's 5 Year Aniversary Hop. I scraplifted one of Meggy's December Daily pages from a couple of years back.  Got a few more packs of sequins used up!!

Dabbling with interactive card making and questioning my sanity go hand in hand.  I've had a few fails (I won't subject you to seeing them!) and this one - which I hope you'll let me call a total triumph... I think the mechanism is called a waterfall but I've used it horizontally rather than vertically. As you pull the tab on the right the pages flip over revealing different icons from StickerKitten's Unicorn Fairground collection. The card base and mechanism is cut from Papermill Direct card and just about everything else is StickerKitten. I may be making a few more of these (not only because my attempt at other styles failed) because they are SO fun!

Skull and Cross Buns have some fun new stencil designs - check them out here . I have a couple of cards and a layout to share now and a whole bunch of partially finished projects using these stencils - I may have got carried away! The Raindrops stencil is very apt for me right now - I feel like I could have made this card for myself! Sentiment stamp also from Skull and Cross Buns, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, heart and sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps. I love this pattern!  This is the Diamond Harlequin stencilled in blue/green ombre then the stencil shifted over by half a repeat and black stencilled on top. Having tried and failed to get this foam SMILE from Jillibean Soup on to three scrapbook layouts I figured I'd try and get it on to a card.  Enamel dots (from Pretty My Page) add a finishing touch. Gold edges and colour matched foam because the tiny details matter!  This layout uses the Dots and Spots stencil in the background. ...

Today's layout features a cut file from Pretty My Page and papers from Sticker Kitten ...  You can find more details here !

I've been fighting with depression lately.  I've been ill for 19 years now, it's very isolating and I'm really struggling.  I'm fully aware that I'm struggling and along with all of this my brain likes to catastrophise things.  Let's just say the last six weeks haven't been fun.  Along the way, I've written a few things down and scrapped a few feelings out and I'm sharing some of that here today. "7 th February I'm having a really rough time lately. My physical pains are always worse in winter - the cold gets into my joints and my muscles are easily tweaked. Also, February is the anniversary of me falling ill. It will be 19 years next week. Sigh! I try not to dwell on it but it does affect me. It seems all of the things try and create are just not coming off. I'm losing photos, getting spelling wrong, smudging ink. I thought I'd do some fussy cutting and caught my trousers in the scissors. So I took to praying... P...