Laura Rumble - Crafter

This layout turned out nothing like I expected, but those are often the layouts I love the most! I started off with three Paige Evans feather cut files cut on white cardstock.  I used a range of colours of mists from Shimmerz to colour them up.  I made a wonderfully splodgy black background on 12x12 card and added a few stamped images on top for good measure. Then the first turn... I couldn't work out how to place my photo without covering up too much of the splodgy background so I chopped the 12x12 up, pieced it back together in a different order and added lots of messy sewing to join it back together. Lots of messy thread ends stapled into nests work with the free and wild background.  The next turn was to cut a few layers of vellum feathers to layer behind the cardstock ones I had coloured up earlier.  This added dimension and a bit of seperation between the bold strip of mixed media and the pretty delicate feathers. I embellished with enamel ...

Following on from my last Pretty My Page layout I've used some of the carcasses from the patterned paper I used to cut the arrows from.  I was left with some awkward triangular pieces and these perfect rectangles.  They were too good to throw away! I placed them in an offset grid and added lots of sewing with my machine. I fussy cut some words from the cut apart sheet and used them as my title.  I embellished with a few stickers and added a label for my journalling. I went bold and brave with my black ink and added some splodges.  (That's the technical term for paint or ink that's bigger than a splatter!) So with the addition of a cut apart sheet the only patterned paper I used was off cuts from the previous layout.  It's a free layout.  I get a kick out of using every last bit of the pretties! Thanks for stopping by!

Every StickerKitten collection comes with kraft and black patterned papers.  My initial reaction to them was 'I wonder if you can foil them?'  Well, the first try didn't work BUT it was because I used the wrong kind of foil.  Who knew there were different kinds of heat activated foil?!  The results were not the perfect teal fish on a kraft background that I was hoping for.  Whilst the fish were perfect the foil stuck to most of the background, too, but it was too good to throw away. I pulled out a sheet of teal 12x12 glitter cardstock to use as my background, my wrongly foiled paper and a few more of the kraft papers from Mermaid Treasures .  I based my layout on the latest sketch in the For The Love Of Pretty Paper facebook group. I used an acrylic piece from Skull and Cross Buns for my title. The wooden pieces from StickerKitten were coloured up with Liquitex ink.  I added details to them with mica powder and chunky glitter. H...