Laura Rumble - Crafter

I watched a video from Heather Hoffman and was immediately inspired to create.   It doesn’t bother me that she was making a card and I wanted scrapbook – the process is the same and I believe all card making and scrapbooking skills are interchangeable.   It seems I’m making a habit of this; last month I scraplifted Laura Bassen. Heather’s card was perfectly crisp and simple black stamping on a white background with a flash of sparkly gold washi over the top.   That is my inspiration and starting point.   I grabbed my largest floral stamp (because we have to scale things up to 12x12) and my memory MISTI and started stamping.   Heather’s composition was focused on the bottom left corner which is how I started off my stamping.   I stamped on to scrap paper and cut out a mask.   This allows me to overlap my images whilst protecting the images I’ve already stamped.   I used a little Tombow Mono Multi on the back of the mask so it w...

I'm sharing all about this layout on the Pretty My Page blog today... You can buy the cut file pre-cut here .

Catching up on a couple of layouts made for YouTube hops last year... First up is a layout made for the UK Scrappy YouTubers Cooperative.  This is a new-ish venture and I hope you'll see more from us all soon. I used a colouring page that I had painted with watercolour as the main feature of the page.  I cut all the flowers and leaves out and layered them behind my photo. The purple piece was a watercolour experiment that turned out too cool to throw away! I mounted the white on a yellow glitter 12x12.  I gutted the middle and used it to cut out some yellow circles.  These circles help to tie the border in with the centre of the layout. I went through quite a few choices before I settled on the yellow... white, grey, sage, a few purples, blues, red and black all failed the test!  Looking back they were all fine but none of them popped like the yellow did. Here's the video: And this one was for World Kindness Day... I pull...