Laura Rumble - Crafter

I seem to have fussy cut the majority of a sheet a Cocoa Vanilla floral paper.  I thought I'd paint myself a background for them to sit on... and then used barely any of them on top as I couldn't bear to cover the painting!! The paints are all from Shimmerz in varying shades of blue with a touch of Miner Miner 49er - which is a fantastic shade of gold - thrown in towards the end. This is take two of the painting as the first try was far too tight.  I loosened up for this attempt so much so that I dropped the paintbrush at one point.  That made for even more looseness as I had to incorporate the extra paint it left where it landed! Embellishing was super simple with three gold thread tangles and some sequins. I have loads of the fussy cut flowers left over so I have started painting another background to work on top of.  Hopefully I'll be able to bear covering more of it up! I've reached the fantastic milestone of 1000 subscribers on YouTube.  To celebrate I've b...

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...