Laura Rumble - Crafter

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 another couple of layouts I made over the NSD weekend. This is a scraplift of Emilie Chamel for Bramble Fox. I adored Emilie's layout as soon as I saw it and love how mine turned out too. Lots of leaves and a Bramble Fox camera. This second layout uses a string of stamped, heat embossed and fusst cut bunting that I made for my Mum's birthday.  She knows me well... when she took it (and her birthday cards) down from the mantle she brought it back for me to scrap with! Seems fitting that I scrap the birthday selfies we took (the day after her birthday because I forgot on the day!) The stamps are from Simon Says and are gorgeous! Shimmerz and sequins to match, butterflies... what's not to like! Thanks for stopping by!

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...