Laura Rumble - Crafter

Are you guilty of having something in your stash that has sat unused for years?  I am - lets pull those unloved supplies out and use them!  I have had the stencil I used for my background on this layout for SpiegelMom Scraps for years... possibly 6?  Maybe more!! I grabbed three colours of Dazzlerz texture paste - Gummy Berry Blue, Sour Apple Green and Lemon Drop Yellow.  I used the three colours separately through the stencil leaving a little gap in between the colours.  I then came back to the gaps and filled them with a mixture of the two colours from either side.  I have found the key to clean stencilling is to manipulate the paste as little as possible.  The more times you  go over it with a palette knife the more opportunity for the paste to spread underneath the stencil (as my sour apple did). My photo layers are all from Pretty Little Studio. I then gathered some matching sequins.  Let's Be Mermaids was a...

I am this month's featured designer at Stick It Down !  And this is the sketch we are working from this month... Let me talk you through some of it...  The main supplies are from Pretty Please 's Here Comes The Sun collection.  I fell in love with this navy flower motif. I added some alphas from July's like for ever kit, doilies and sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps and lace from Crafty Ribbons . Here is the process video... Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you can join us at Stick It Down this month.  There is also a double page sketch and a card sketch too - we've got all bases covered!

A Lesson in Kisses and Emoji.  Possibly my favourite title! So this layout mainly uses ' Here Comes The Sun ' which is shaping up to be one of my favourite collections of all time - I wish I had bought more!  I wish there were UK stockists!  I have those Cocoa Vanilla Studio feelings all over again :D I used the criteria from Scrap Our Stash picking a stick pin (green heart) twine and a uniball pen.  I looked through my pens... I have about six thousand or so it seemed when I was looking through them! and discovered that Posca paint pens are by Uniball, although I went with my jetstream in the end. I've not made anything rainbow themed for awhile so it only seemed right to arrange these supplies by Roy G Biv order - or IVROYGB in fact! The part of the sketch that captivated me most was the file tabs. Flamin' 'mingos!  When is this trend going to come to an end?  What random animal will take over..? The hidden tag has a ...

As I find things that I don't want too throw away, but aren't good for layouts, I stick them in my art journal.  Things like packaging, used washi tape, 'off' rub ons, stickers etc. As I make anything with paste, paint or ink I add the left overs on top of those layers in my art journal. Then when I feel the need to get something out I pull out my journal and find a started page that matches how I am feeling. I had a few scraps on my desk as always.  One of them was the branding strip from Pretty Little Studio's collaboration with Pretty Please.  Another was a stamped cherry from Suse Fish's Felicity Jane kit.  Well, pretty please with a cherry on top suits how I am feeling right now! Lots of kinda confused layers... And big splotchy ink blotches, with a few sequins sprinkled on for good measure. Thanks for stopping by