Laura Rumble - Crafter

 It's a sketchy Tuesday at CC&S ... What a fabulous starting point for a card.  I've gone the patterned paper die cuts route but I had so many other ideas for this one too. The dies are from Simon Says Stamp and the papers are from Honeybee Stamps.   There's not a lot more to say really... verstaile dies that I keep coming back to and uber-cute papers that I hoard. Hope to see your version linked up at CC&S!

  Here's a round up of everything triangle-y from the last few weeks.  Everything from a small bit of patterns paper that features a triangle design to projects created with triangles at the heart of the design. This layout was for a Scrap Squad lift and features a piece of green triangle patterned paper amongst other scraps from my yellow, blue and green paper boxes. This cut file was designed specifically for my shape series.  I've also added triangle stencilling in the background and used some triangle patterned paper to back parts of the cut file.   This layout has some stencilling that uses a hexagonal design that is made up of triangles... tenuous link to triangles but *shrugs* This layout is all about that 6x6 patterned paper... it is marvellous!  It's from a Honeybee pad and I love everything about it! There is a textured triangle stitch design on the background of this card.  Also had a little play with coloured embossing powder which is something ...

Today I have three more circle makes to share.  Two are based on the sketches I started with back in early January, the other is freestyle. I've used the same Honeybee Stamps 6x6 patterned paper pad for both the layout and the card.  I was really enjoying the fresh zingy colours. Here's a quick reminder of the sketch... And I did plump for the circular photographs in the end.  My main struggle was with which photos would cut down to a circle.  A lot of the prints I had weren't the right ratio or didn't have enough background to crop down.  Perhaps thinking ahead when I'm printing is the way forward if I want to use shaped photos (or buying a home printer, which I've always discounted before because I'm sure I'll break it frequently and I don't have a tech support in house!) The alpha dies are from Concord and 9th and were perfect because they cut both an inner and an outer.  Without the black outline the letters just don't show up.  And #BeMoreJe...