Laura Rumble - Crafter

 Very excited to be guest designing with Stuck?! this month. And here is my take on Laura's sketch. I used Cocoa Vanilla's More Than Words collection and some Shimmerz.  It is such a beautiful collection but I need some more feminine photos to use with it - the boys won't thank me for scrapping them with pink and flowers! I had a booboo with the black splatters but managed to fix it with white gesso.  You can barely notice now - do you see it at the top of the photo above? Those enamel hearts... I'm trying really hard to use them and not hoard them!! Here's the video... Fancy joining in?  Hop over to Stuck?!

You know when you see a sketch and get inspired but by the end of the creation it doesn't really look all that much like the sketch?  Yep, read on... This is the January skecth from Laura W at Stuck and the diamonds started me thinking about a pack of epoxy cloud stickers in my stash.  Already this doesn't make sense, diamonds, clouds, what?! However, I really like how it turned out.  Can you see the sketch?  The diamonds hanging down become the clouds, moon and stars.   I worked on a smaller panel so the scale was right.  When the clouds were stretched across a 12x12 they looked too small. I had fun with some doodling, pencil work and sewing.  It has made me think; I have 4 sets of different colouring pencils and I never use them in my scrapbooking.  This has got to change!! I popped my panel up and tucked loads of sequins in and around the edge.  I love this look and think I definitely need to play with it more in...