Laura Rumble - Crafter

I've made this card for the challenges at Less Is More and CAS-ual Fridays .  LIM set the sketch and CF set the colour pallet. Let me know what you think...

I made this card for Less Is More's Clean and Simple Sewing challenge... I had mixed paint left over from my scrapbook page and just couldn't bear to throw it away so I flicked it on some offcuts.  I then cut this into strips and (I can't decide what word to use here... stabbed sounds a bit too violent and perforated doesn't seem right...) 'made holes in it' with this thing... Apparently it's something to do with onion cutting but I see it as a painting tool!! Then continuing my neon obsession stitched the strips on to the card with neon thread. Clean, simple and happy. I've also been working on a neon Christmas card.  Not quite finished yet, I still have to work on Rudolph's nose, but here is a sneak peek! Thanks for stopping by...

Back with one more card for today... I inked the edges of my card in silver and sponged a little silver ink behind where the brads would be fixed.  Very simple, very less is more.  I like it though, the brads are just so lovely.  I think this will be for my sister-in-law's birthday... Thanks for stopping by!

I have had these glue transfers for ages.  They are from 7 gypsies, I don't remember when I bought them or where from, or even why, and I only know they are 7 gypsies because it says so on the packet!  I have no idea what I intended to use them on. Any how I came across them when looking for some brads and thought it'd be nice to try and use them.  They came with a sheet of foil, a sheet of flock and a sheet of glitter.  I plumped for the glitter. Chandeliers, I really don't know what occasion you should use these for, but a new home seems as appropriate as any. I flanked the three word sentiment with two smaller transfers and glittered them. I will enter this in to Less Is More's 3 challenge - three transfers, three words. And also Incy Wincy's Dust it Off challenge - the glue transfers. Thanks for stopping by :)

Hello, Today I made this simple card with eyelets and ribbon. Lovely ribbons from Crafty Ribbons simply stuck down at one end with a little glue and attached at the other end with a white eyelet.  I'm quite chuffed with this.  Obviously it won't be winning any prizes as it is just three bits of ribbon stuck on a card.  But I like it none the less. I will enter in to Less Is More's One Layer Challenge -3 challenge.  (3 ribbons, 3 eyelets) Thanks for stopping by! * P.S.  It has been pointed out that the ribbon is in fact a layer.  I was thinking of layers in terms of card/paper.  What a wally!  Still not entirely sure what is allowed and what isn't... clearly not ribbon though!  Sorry Chrissie and Mandi!!! 

I'm so loving working with yellow!  Here is my second yellow card for Less is More . I've combined the sketch from Retro Sketches , the yellow from Less is More , and included a Happy Birthday for Casual Fridays . I've inked the edges of my papers with canary yellow ink.  I used swiss dots grosgrain ribbon from Crafty Ribbons. Happy Birthday peel off for Casual Fridays - Happy Birthday Guys!! I've made a slit in the spine of the card and looped the ribbon through.  I've hidden the join underneath the bow.

Here is my take on Less Is More's Yellow challenge .  I love yellow!   I also love my Martha Stewart border punch.   And I love butterflies and flowers.   So I put them altogether and got this card. The card blank is graded.  It's almost white on the punched edge whereas the opposite edge is a sunny, warm yellow. I added a couple of Papermania Colour Capsule flowers and arrange some small silver sequins as the centre.  I love the the light bounces off the sequins. The butterfly is also a silver sequin.  I adhered it with Pinflair glue gel so it is raised. This photo highlights the contrast between the punched edge and the plain edge. You know when you are part way through making one card and suddenly come up with the design for another?   Well, whilst making this I came up with four or five designs I want to make, so look out for some more yellow clean and si...

This weeks Less is More Challenge is based on a sketch.  There are already some great entries... Here is my take...  To me the sketch screamed aperture. Close ups of the centre piece... One taken from the front of the card through the aperture and one taken with the card open. I used a Tatty Teddy brad, layered it up with coordinating papers with inked edges.  I also inked the edges of the card and the aperture.  I stamped 'hello' with shadow and london fog (I love that grey is never called grey!)  Then using the very subtle shadow ink I added a butterfly stamp to the front and flower stamps to the inside. Just because I hadn't really finished using my daily allowance of creativity I added a butterfly to the envelope too! I feel like I need to apologise for the quality of the photos today.  The weather is so pants that the light isn't good enough for a crisp shot.  I should have rigged some daylight li...

This week at Less Is More is a colour challenge.   Three shades of green.   Green is my favourite colour so this wasn’t hard.   And after my layered scrapping it was nice to go simple again.   Really simple. I used mint, pearly lime and a soft pale green on an embossed card. What d’ya think? I’m going to do another with butterflies instead of hearts as well…