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. ...

  A trio of 'congratulations on passing your driving test' cards.  Why a trio?  Hmm, I do only need one but I figure if I'm playing with this many stamps I may as well stamp multiples!   I would not want to do this type of project without a MISTI.  Mind you, I don't really enjoy any form of stamping without a MISTI these days.  It's such a good tool and a must have in my craft room. I started off going through my stamp sets and pulling out anything positive and congratulatory.  I also threw in a Vrooom! and a Beep! for good measure! I arranged them in my MISTI, snuggling them together in a pleasing way with as few gaps as possible.  Gaps don't matter all that much as it's easy to go back and fill the in with a second phase of stamping. I picked my inks based on this week's Colour Throwdown challenge.  To mix things up I did one background with ombre stamping. I pulled out a few dies from my stash... I wanted to pop up a section or panel of ...

 OK, so it's been a slow few weeks thanks to my health, but I have a few triangle creations to share with you.   Triangle stencilling with an old design from Skull and Cross Buns. Gulls from Heffy Doodle.   A kind-of sort-of take on the sketch in my last post... but I went off piste of course.  This is very much a bits and bobs layout; papers from all sorts, random stickers and embellishments, perhaps the most used brand is Pretty Little Studio, but mainly a total mish-mash.   Where are the triangles, I hear you ask.  All the patterned paper in this layout has some form of triangular pattern on it.  Also, got a few of those triangle 'dots' used! I am very pleased with this card... a triangular corner shaker pocket on a card.  There's a bunch of Bitty Bontanicals die cuts from Trinity and a simple embossed greeting using a Heffy Doodle stamp. This was an experiment where my measurements went a little awry.  The striped segments and glitter seg...

I think we are twelve weeks in to the year now and that seems like a good time to do a little review of my goals for the year.  You can find the post here - my messy ramblings straight from my messy head!  The main part I'm interested in this time is: "So what AM I going to do? Make with what I have. Enter challenges. Find an outlet for my cards so they don't build up. File my layouts every five pages. Rediscover what I love and do that more. If something new really strikes me (and I use a set I already have randomly picked from the jar, wait two weeks and still want it, and make the space for it by one in one out) I can purchase it - but it does need to pass The Questions. Do I have anything SIMILAR already in my stash? Can I get CREATIVE with something I already own and make it work?  Do I really LOVE the product or do I love what other people are doing with it?  Do I NEED it" So points 1 and 2 get a big old tick; 3 and 4 do not; 5 is a work in progress and I'm...

Here's a round up of some heart themed makes from the last few weeks. First up is a heart embossed background for a CAS(ish) card.  Coverplate from Time For Teas Designs, bird stamp from MFT, sequins and sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh.  I love the quilt-y puffiness of embossing with a coverplate but I'm never completely sure the best way to capture it in a photo. Now a run of layouts, some more 'hearty' than others.  I really wanted to use up as many of my puffy heart stickers as possible.  It became clear that just a scattering per layout wasn't going to do the job... My cut file, patterned paper from Pinkfresh Studio, bits and bobs from the depths of my stash.  (This type of cut file is great as you get two usable pieces, one the opposite of the other.  Picture where this is blue being white and where this is white being blue.  I'll share the other layout soon...) I changed tack and went all out with the stickers... This is based on an old sketch of...

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...

Here's a little update on my circle creations over the last few weeks.  You can read about the concept here . So, the layout I was fired up to create at the beginning of the month, the one based on the sketch I shared, is still unmade.  No matter though, as this was a no pressure, no deadline, playtime kind of project.  I have created a few other things...   This layout uses a folded cut file, which is something I want to explore further throughout the year.  I cut half a shape essentially, just one line, then score between the beginning and end of that line and fold it back.  When you cut a file like this on double-sided patterned paper you end up with both sides showing.  This is both good - because it looks great; and restrictive - because you have to have the right kind of pattern on both sides. (For example a cut-apart sheet on one side would not give the effect I am after.)  Perhaps it was trickier for me as my double-sided paper stash is li...