Laura Rumble - Crafter

  Here's the last of the Dinosaur week layouts...           And here's the video:  

 Today's Dinosaur Week layout doubles as a lesson in the Scrap Academy .  It's Summer Camp and we are playing the Alphabet Challenge... And one lucky participant will win a prize from the fabulous Lollipop Box Club .  Do check out the facebook group for more. Here are a few close ups of my layout...   And here's the video...

 Day five of Dinosaur Week sees a rainbow of dinos!   Here's the vid:

 Here's day four's shiny layout...  Video can be viewed here:  

Day three sees me combining Dinosaur Week with Lottie Loves Paper's Summer Sketch Challenge.  You can find all the details in the Lottie Loves Paper Community on Facebook. The video is here:

Here's day two of Dinosaaur Week!!  (Yes, I really am doing a whole week of dinosaur projects!)  Here's the video: 

 Yep, that's right.  It is Dinosaur Week on my YouTube channel and blog!  Why not, hey?  I have enough dino stash, plenty of photos and dinosaurs make me happy. Here's Day 1's video: 

I had myself a marathon Minc session foiling everything I could lay my hands on.  It sounds like an extravagant exageration but it's closer to the truth than you'd think! Amongst the big boxes of shiny treasure I eneded up with was a rainbow of butterflies which were calling out to be used together.  I took inspiration from the Lottie Loves Paper group on Facebook and an old layout by Marie - that is where the circular design came from. I added some sewing (which got mostly covered up) and a lot of black and gold splatter.  I mixed 3 colours of mica powder in to a few drops of Liquitex black ink.  I'm seeing it as a failed experiment as the effect was minimal.  I think maybe the black pigment was so strong that it overpowered the mica or I just didn't add enough.  Anyway, if you look really close you may spot a tad of shimmer! I added a few word stickers and some big black enamel dots and called it good.  It's VERY shiny and that makes...

I have another super simple scrapbook layout for Pretty My Page to share today.   It’s not that I’m skimping on my design team duties... it’s just that these background cut files keep doing all the work for me! I’m working with the camera mesh cut file which I have cut on navy blue cardstock.   I’ve premade my background spraying some Minc reactive mist on to a white 12x12.   I left this overnight to dry and then ran it through my Minc foiling machine with some mint green foil. I used a little glue to add the cameras to the background but to add extra texture (and be extra safe) I ran a line of wide zig-zag stitching through the middle of each camera using a white thread.   I added the photo and my title using chipboard thickers.   I had to do a little alpha surgery – did you know two F’s can make an H?   It’s worth looking at your sheet of half-used alphas with a curious eye.   Most letters can be adapted in some way t...

Another trio of recent layouts... I've had my Minc out and been playing with the reactive mist.  It's not a fine mist, it rather squirts out, but the effect when it is foiled is amazing. I'm trying to make a dent in my puffy stickers.  I bought several packs of hearts and stars and really haven't used them to their best.  I still struggle putting lots of something on one layout, presumably because of the expense or not wanting to waste them.  The thing is neither of these arguments hold up if they sit in a box and don't get used at all!  Ditto the above replacing puffy stickers with flair! Love me some layers!  Just small ones though so we don't cover up too much of the foiling! This layout started off with the blue background but I couldn't work it... With 5 photos too much of the foiling was covered however I shuffled the photos and laid them out. So I switched to a white background and was much happier with how it look...