Laura Rumble - Crafter

It's the third Tuesday of the month which of course means there's a sketch up at CAS Colours and Sketches .  Take a look... I've gone for three shades (ombre-ish) of Concord and 9th cardstock to create my stripes.  They are layered up so there is a small amount of dimension too. The 'happy' is from Concord and 9th and the birthday is from Create A Smile.  I've layered them up too. Such a simple design but I kinda want to make it over and over in different colourways. This is for the CC&S challenge which runs until the 4th of March - we'd love you to join us!

All of The Hellos! The die is an old favourite from Concord and 9 th , and I’m quite fond of using hello on my projects.   I’m also a fan of zero waste and that is where this all got a tad out of hand! Card number one is a cut Honey Bee patterned paper with three hellos cut out.   The original plan was to bump the stripey hellos up on 3 layers of white cardstock and pop them back in place.   I believe this is called the eclipse technique.   I did this, cutting 9 white hellos along the way, and really was not blown away with the look.   It needed gold glitter, as so many things do!   So, I cut three gold hellos – these then needed another nine white hellos…   I was happy with card number one. I now had spare stripey hellos, gold glitter negative hellos and a whole bunch of white negative hellos.   These can’t go to waste! Card two was simple enough. The gold negative was simply stunning.   I die cut a panel, added the counters and chads back in place, popped some sprigs and

Sometimes packaging is just too good to throw out in the recycling! At least it is for me as a crafter... The colours on this chocolate bar wrapper from Dormouse Chocolates was just the perfect ombre of palest yellow to rich sunset orange with a whole lot of perfect peachiness in between, and a really good weight of cardstock, too.  It demanded to be reused on a layout! I paired it with Simon Says Stamp's Garden Greetings stamp set and some stencilling with oxide inks in the background.  I love the softness of the colours, stencilling and vellum against the starkness of the bold black stamping. I used the text on the chocolate wrapper to make a found poem about my boy Theo.  It kind of has a double meaning as Theo is short for Theobroma; Theobroma Cacao is the name of the cocoa plant that chocolate is made from.  Yep, budgie boy is named after chocolate!  Two of my most treasured things are birds and chocolate!! I always say I'm rubbish with words.  The colour, inkiness, design

 It's time for another colour challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches ... We've got these three bright beauties to play with.  Just match to the swatch as close as you can! I've gone for stripes of the three colours, building a panel that I then die cut out of. I die cut a skinny frame, some stars, a 'birthday' and then filled the rest of the space with other dies to get as much as I could from the panel.  The other pieces will show up on cards and layouts soon! I stacked up my frame and word on a few layers of black cardstock to add some dimension and a little flash of contrast from the white card base. I stamped a happy in coordinating ink to complete the sentiment.  This is where ink swatches come into their own - it was easy to flip through and colour match to my patterned paper. Dies and Papers frame die, red and yellow papers from Heffy Doodle birthday die from Create A Smile blue paper from Bella Blvd star dies from Honey Bee Stamps Hope to see you joining us o