Laura Rumble - Crafter

Stick It Down have a card sketch, a single page scrapbook sketch and a double page scrapbook sketch each month.  I have designed the sketches for the cards and some of the single page sketches but always shied away from double pages.  However the team is a member or two down and I've given it a whirl to make up the numbers.  Here is the sketch for October... I am using supplies from my Counterfeit Kit ... And here is what I came up with. I trimmed down two pockets so I could use the layout of the sketch as is.  I switched the stars to hearts and played fast and loose with the title placement! H is for Herbert!  Everything painted has been done with Daniel Smith watercolours, everything else was pulled to match. These hearts are the main feature for me.  A little bit of wisdom - cutting thick watercolour paper with a craft knife is not fun!  But I do like how it all turned out.  You can watch the process here (I edited ou...

Here is a little kit put together last weekend for Counterfeit Kit Club .  It was meant to be small and just for two pages worth of scrapping but I reckon I'll get plenty more out of it the way I use supplies! The inspiration was the new Pink Fresh collection.  I picked out the colours and set to work forging the papers with my watercolours.  I had so much fun!  Remind me why I haven't Counterfeit Kit-ted in so long?! OK, so I took the essence of the papers rather than copying each and every design exactly, but that is good because no one else will have these papers!  I pulled out a few sequin mixes and felt hearts from SpiegelMom Scraps and some black enamel hearts from Bella Blvd.  I'll pull alphas when I need them.  Herbert Budgie got in on the act, and was rather taken with the black hearts, thus I named the kit "Oi!  They're Not Your Hearts!" The plan was to make a start on Herbie's album with this kit... fast forward a week and...

I'm back with the second layout from ' What's going on Vivienne? ' my counterfeit kit for June. This one uses my forged patterned papers. Unfortunately they took too much away from the photo so I layered some vellum over them to push them back a little bit. I seem to have gone all out with the embellishments.  It's not usually my style... I've used some Evalicious stickers and wood, some wood stars from a pocket pal (I love being a Like For Ever subscriber!) a sprinkling of sequins and a few other bits that were on my desk. I have some white and gold label stickers that I have tucked in here and there. And a flair, also from Evalicious I think.  I love to buy flair but find it quite hard to actually use them!  I'm not allowing myself to buy or acquire any more until I have made a big dent in my current stash. Here is a look at the remains of the kit... Not much left.  The tissue will go in to my tissue bag.  It was heade...

Today I'm sharing a fun layout I made using the contents of my counterfeit kit What's going on Vivienne? (Yes, we are ignoring the brown ink smudge on the far left of the page.  Grr!!) I used this forge /experiment as my base... which is off cuts thrown on to a patch of wet matte gel, and then squirted with iridescent mist. And I let the journalling cascade down the page, following the mist drips... I'm not a great journaller.  I've done courses and tried different things, but I just don't think I'll ever be one whose words flow.  It will always be hard for me.  This piece of journalling though, it's perfect to me.  It says exactly what was happening.  I hope I never forget the sound of his laughter. I used pretty much all the kit leftovers in my layering.  I tried for a two layout kit and I got it pretty much spot on.  (This is the second layout I made but I'm sharing it first, just to confuse things!)  Of course ...

Today I am sharing the three papers from Vivienne that I forged for the Counterfeit Kit Club . First up the geometric square-triangle-chevron paper .  This pile of bits... became this strip of paper... Then I moved on to the triangles paper . I had a little pile of offcuts left over and thought these would make a slightly off the wall interpretation of the b-side of this paper . With the help of matte gel and a knackered old paint brush (I won't use my best brushes for gel)... I made this.  Now to call this one a counterfeit is pushing it, but it was inspired by the original.  Shame that I covered most of it up in the end.  But you'll have to pop back tomorrow to see the finished result!

Well I've been meaning to join in with the Counterfeit Kit forgers for the last few months but it just hasn't happened.  This month I am determined even if it just for one or two layouts. Here is my kit based on Vivienne by Basic Grey. I've called it "What's going on Vivienne?" as I think most of you will look at this and say what is going on?!  I know, very small amount of paper, and nothing else!  But I have plans... and I think the colour palette is pretty spot on. So I hope to be back with a couple of layouts featuring some counterfeits very soon!

Hello and welcome to my stop on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Monthly Blog Hop .  You hopefully have come from Tina 's, if you've just stumbled across this post and you'd like to start at the beginning of the hop pop over to CKC for the whole list. My layout is a take on challenge 1 - crazy with borders .  Some of you might remember I am pulling an item out of my stash each month and using it all up.  This months product, purely coincidentally, was some die cut border strips! I've obviously not been inspired by them as they are at least eight years old!  I decided to stick them all on one side of a 12x12, gesso over them and play with some inks.  I used 4 colours of India ink (I have the Dr PH Martins set) and a water spritzer and let loose.  I find I get better mixed media results when I don't think too much! When the background was done I looked at it for a few days wondering what on earth I was going to do with it!  I teamed it with a...

Hello!  I'm sharing a sweet layout made from my Counterfeit Kit today. This photo is one of my all time favourite photos of one of my all time favourite people! And I did proper journalling!!  Goodness, what has happened?! The floral paper is by Cocoa Vanilla.  The aqua spotty paper was an envelope which I tore up - I'm trying to use torn edges as well as cut edges at the moment.  I'm all inspired by watching videos on You Tube! The rub ons I used were nice to me and went down really well and sequins - well, everything is better with sequins!!  :) I was inspired by this Sparkle and Shine sketch - I rotated it though.  Can you see the diagonal line, the rectangle is my layers, the circle my photo and the sentiment my title?  By the end of the layout I was not sure if I could still see the sketch! Thanks for stopping by!

Here are another couple of layouts from March's kit...  The first one I find a bit bland, but it is a story captured nonetheless.  This woodgrain paper has been in my last three kits and ended up unused... at least I have used it now!!  It turns out that I am not so good with using woodgrain! This next layout is based on denim paper from Cocoa Vanilla.  I bought three sheets but it wasn't enough.  I need more denim!!  The heart buttons are from Crafty Ribbons .  They, to me, are the cutest little embellishments! A little cluster at the top including a rub on and some 3mm grosgrain ribbon . And I used some photo corners.  I like these, so it is difficult to use them... I don't understand the hoard-it-it's-pretty mindset yet I still find myself doing it! Thanks for stopping by!

Here is a layout made with the contents of March's counterfeit kit... I shunned the turquoise-y mints and went for the yellow and black & white combo.  The black and white patterned paper was a bit too much... it took over the photos so I scraped on a thin layer of gesso with a craft knife to knock it back a bit.  Then, for good measure, I flicked the rest of the gesso I had put on my palette on to the card. I tucked a piece of lace in to the top of the paper bag layer and added a mini paper clip. The alphas are cut aparts from SODAlicious.  The puffy star sticker is from Evalicious.  I spy a bit of a -licious trend... Thanks for stopping by, from, Lauralicious!

Here is layout number two from my counterfeit kit - On The Cutting Mat.  This one uses no patterned paper and no inks... I have simply layered up washi tape, a border strip, ribbons and lace to give my photos something to sit on.  I've used a couple of photo corners, puffies from Evalicious and some Lawn Fawn sequins.  And a paperclip.  I got a couple of packs of small coloured paperclips from Doodlebug.  You'll see them a lot over the next month or so...  I am obsessed with them - they are perfection!! I tried for tonnes of texture below my photos... tick! Thanks for stopping by

Here is my first layout using On The Cutting Mat - my counterfeit kit for March.  Today I am scrapping the everyday little things... I've splashed the washi and rub ons around.  No fear!  I still don't know if I actually like rub ons - they never go on perfectly - and these seemed a little wrinkly. I also busted out my pan pastel.  I realised I have no idea what to do with them so I just ran some along the torn edge of my paper and pushed some in to the lace.  I hoped it would leave a lace pattern - it didn't.  But it did colour my white lace nicely, so I'm happy with that.  It is much softer than a regular chalk.  I'm going to watch a few youtube videos to see what it can do... So, the layout is about a pod cast I listen to, The Paperclipping Round Table .  This one particular episode was striking things in me and I started to make notes.  I washi taped the notes to the back of my layout so I can remember the wisdomou...