Laura Rumble - Crafter

A design aspect I am really enjoying using this year is reptition.  As I've looked back through my creations so far this year it seems to be a recurring theme - perhaps my go to design. This layout has multiple watering can die cuts.  Rainbow colour is, and always will be, another of my go to design elements. Rainbow anything is cheerful and that's what I need when I'm crafting. This next layout features a wooden crate slat that I used oyt of context.  Without the rest of the die set it doesn't make itself known as part of a crate, it's just a rectangle with holes at eother end.  I've threaded them on cotton and made a feature of them. In this next photo you can see them as intended on the right hand side. And then back to rainbow, but this time tag shaped rainbows... I love how this one turned out and it reminds me to sew on more of my projects.  Even white thread on white card adds so much texture and subtle interest.

I have the absolute honour of guest desiging for Heffy Doodle this month.  Here is the first of two posts for them. I have two projects to share with you today featuring the Scripty Merry Christmas dies .  First up is a scrapbook layout.   I scrap in A4 these days as buying 12×12 albums was getting a little too expensive for me.  My style tends towards clean and simple and I’m a big fan of a white background.  This time I’ve gone for a really pared back colour palette taken from the 6×4 colour photo.  I knew I wanted to make a feature of the Scripty Merry Christmas dies so set about cutting a lot .  I’m not sure what the final count was but I cut plenty of the words and the shadows in both white and red cardstock and adhered them together mix and match style.  The red and white words were giving a slight candy cane vibe so I ran with that and adhered them to a panel of silver cardstock on an angle enhancing that red and white stripe feel. ...

Some times I want to just scrap whatever I fancy, whatever flows out of my fingers with no rules or parametres; other times I love to get stuck in to a challenge.  Recently I've been all about the challenges.   Hey Little Magpie ran a cyber crop over the weekend and I have managed four layouts so far.  I have a few more planned out in my head too, but we'll see if they get made before the deadline... Concord and 9th watering can die paired with Heffy Doodle patterned papers, rainbow photo corners, old stickers and a little bit of subtle embossing with a scoreboard and bone folder.  Percy, my last budgie was nicknamed Sweet Pea and these were 'her' flowers that bloomed after she passed away.  I feel very sentimental and soppy about them, and her, hence the journalling on the front.  I also added journalling on the back. This is the song the big boys sing to their little brother.  It's the lyrics to Party All Night by Sean Kingston altered to fit ne...

We’ve all been there I’m sure.   The machine is set to cut, it’s whirring away and doing its magic and then you do it.   You knock the machine.   Sigh!   I knocked it badly on this occasion and nudged the cutting mat off course.   I paused the machine, cancelled the cut, unloaded the mat and went about trying to salvage what I could. It was about half cut so I took a straight line across the page, at a slight angle to maximum the amount of the cut file I could save.   I stuck the large piece to my background and added in the smaller pieces using the scrap of half cut file as a guide as to where the pieces needed to go.   I then had a 12x12 with half a cut file ready to go as a background for a layout. All that and I haven’t even mentioned what cut file I have used yet!   This is (half of!) Brolly Jolly.   You can buy the digi download here and purchase the pre-cut here . The rest of the layout went without a hitch.   I gathered supplies...

Pop over to the Pretty My Page blog to read more on this layout... I love the way this stained glass effect looks. You can watch it come together here: Fun, huh?

I recently found some old photos of my granma and wow, it felt like finding treasure! For this layout I tried a new way of spreading paint on my page - it's easier for you to watch than me try and explain it! The flowers are part of the Bed Of Roses cut file from Pretty My Page cut on some Jillibean Soup patterned paper.  The leaves were painted with left over paint I had mixed up.  With no pot to put it back in to it was destined for the bin but I just can't bring myself to throw paint away.  I'd much rather doodle something with it and then toss that if it doesn't work out. The butterflies are from Bramble Fox and inspired the colour scheme.  I'm really enjoying working with plum-purple and teals.  I've always been a cheerleader for yellow, especially mustard yellow. Enamel dots were the perfect way to bring a few more touches of teal and green to the page. And I added three copper paperclips.  I would like to have added a bit...

Here are a few layouts I made over the weekend for NSD challenges. This one combines Bramble Fox and Lottie Loves Paper challenges. The design is a rough scraplift of Philippa McCray for Bramble Fox Whilst the yellow and white striped paper bag conceals hidden journalling for the Lottie Loves Paper challenge. This second layout is based on a sketch I created for Lottie Loves Paper. This bird paper from Paige Evans is a firm favourite of mine. Never has the term thread nest been more appropriate! I added some stitching for extra detail.   And finally a footie themed layout using papers I designed. This fits a tic tac toe board from Lottie Loves Paper - blue alphas, two photos and 3+ hearts. I had to piece together some grey alphas to make missing letters.  I'm sure it looks OK but it's all I can see at the moment! I have a couple more layouts to share tomorrow.

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...

Sharing this layout I made a few weeks back for a challenge in the Pinkfresh facebook group. I've used Pinkfresh stash, enamel dots from my stash and a few paints from Shimmerz. The central 6x6 piece is a flap that lifts up to reveal my journalling. I love these chipboard flair. I had to fight hard to use 6 on one page rather than hoard them!  It's worth it though, I love this design.

I joined in with some challenges run in the For The Love Of Pretty Paper facebook group reccently.  There was a crop themed around chocolate... I'm a big fan of chocolate!  This layout was for the Green and Black challenge. I've used some bunting pennants I had left over from a previous Pretty My Page project.  Pretty much everything else is from my Quirky Kits, I think. I used some black embossing powder over an Amy Tangerine die cut.  I must do this more often as it looks amazing! Whizzed up some bunting on my sewing machine and added doodling... and finished off with thread tangles and enamel dots. I do love a limited colour palette layout! Linking up at Inspire Me Mondays