Laura Rumble - Crafter

Hi folks, Laura here with a scrapbook layout to share.   It had been a while since I last scrapped and looking through the entire kit was a bit overwhelming.   I got over this by picking out just a few bits that I loved the most (shh, don’t tell the other bits I said that!)   I grabbed a few of the papers, the Bramble Fox camera and the stickers.   I knew that would give me a good base to build upon.   I chopped up the cut apart card and picked out a couple of die cuts.   This gave me focal words and summery vibes to add to my base.   I picked out a summery photo of my neph wearing sunglasses and started playing. I’m moving towards working on A4 for my main scrapbook layouts or A5 for my scraptherapy style layouts.    I have run out of room for 12x12 albums plus they are so expensive and hard to find in the UK.   A4 albums are much easier to source and a fraction of the price.   All that to say that I started with an A4 sheet of whi...

 I was really drawn to the fabric in this month’s box of loveliness.   The pattern and the colours were spot on.   I decided to pull out my Mum’s old cross stitch threads and embroider on top.   Part way through I realised that this wasn’t going to make a very good blog post as I had no idea what I was doing nor any clue as to how to describe it!   I did a combination of stitches... probably some made up, probably not using very good technique and definitely not using great tension! I remember sewing as a child both in primary school and with my Mum and Nan.   My Mum had a big Reader’s Digest book that had little diagrams of different stitches.   I used to pour over the pages.   I’ve asked her to pull the book out again so I can have a refresher...   I wonder if it will be as captivating now as it was then.   I remembered the technique for chain stitch fairly well along with running stitch and back stitch.   I always have to lo...

I recently noticed I had hit 1000 subscribers on YouTube.  I ignored it for a few days thinking the count would go down again!  It didn't so I decided to celebrate.  I have pulled together some of my favourite scrappy videomakers and have a small video hop for you to watch.  Times are hard right now and I think anything I can do to create a little bit of happiness is well worth doing.  That said I have 6 prizes from my favourite places to shop.  To be in with a chance of winning one of the prizes pop over to watch the videos and leave some comments. Here's the layout I created.  I used something from each of the companies you can win prizes from... Stamps from Skull and Cross Buns , sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps , leaf die cuts from Lollipop Box Club , Pinkfresh Studio alphas from Lottie Loves Paper , patterned papers from StickerKitten and part of the Bed of Roses cut file from Pretty My Page . The StickerKitten papers are all from different collec...

I'm part of a little scrappy YouTube hop today with this project. The theme was new beginnings and the challenge was to use something out of your comfort zone. I've gone for a scraptherapy style 6x8 spread featuring a caterpillar and lots of (shock horror) pink! I don't like pink - not sure if I've ever mentioned that!  I do love caterpillars and butterflies and the concept of mushing down to nothing and re-emerging as a beautiful delicate being that flutters so gracefully. The majority of  the supplies are from the latest Lollipop Box Club kit called Alice's Tea Party. Here's the video... And you can check out my fellow creators videos here: Nicola Richards (Nicky Nack's Papercrafts) https://youtu.be/UmFZ27fvt6s Niki Rowland https://youtu.be/PEs2p--VZRU Ellen Rack (EllenOscar Journals) https://youtu.be/3iiFYCoZpAk Samantha Adams (My Messy Desk) https://youtu.be/R4OCUwRTUo4

I'm back with that 12x12 scrapbook layout I promised you using the latest Lollipop Box Club kit. I started this page off on a block of 12x12 watercolour paper from Prima.   I added plenty of clean water to my page and then started adding splodges of colour.   My favourite watercolour paints are Daniel Smith colours.   I’m lucky to have built up a large and colourful palette and was able to pick out colours that perfectly matched the floral patterned paper that came in the Alice’s Tea Party box.   I followed up the painted splodges with several rounds of colourful splatters allowing the layers to dry before adding more.   If you add more splatters on top of wet splatters they will run and mix and merge together.    If you allow them to dry in between layers they will layer up as distinct splatters.   Both give great effects; it just depends on which look you are after. Once that was dry I played around with a couple of strips o...

Today I'm sharing my first project using the fab Alice’s Tea Party box from Lollipop Box Club. I love the blue check paper and decided to use it as a background for a scrapbook layout.   I’ll put this together with some other 6x8 layouts using Lollipop Box Club papers and bind them with rings to create a mini album.   More on that next month as it starts to take shape. I focused in on the tea and cake theme and pulled out some photos of the last time I made it out to a cafe (in April last year!)   I used another of the patterned papers to back each of my three photos.   I stretched the Mrs Brimble’s border sticker across the width of the page by snipping it in half and covering the gap with one of the photos.   A little bit of fussy cutting, a die cut and a sticker here and there around the page was all it needed to pull the whole page together. I’m used to working in a 12x12 format so a 6x8 comes together very quickly for me!   I was se...

Very excited to share my second project made using the April Lollipop Box Club kit 'Secret Garden'. Lisa has included a little pot of paint in this month's box and added a suggestion that we paint some leaves.  I was having a meh day and this was exactly what I needed. Painting is something that is very therapeutic for me, especially repetitive painting.  I spent some time painting leaves and sprigs with varying amounts of water and pigment, using gentle pressure on the bristles to create the curved shapes. I encouraged the blooms and watermarks by adding extra paint or water to leaves when they were half dry.  For me this is a fab no-pressure get-lost-in-the-moment kind of activity. When I'd filled up the paper I had a little puddle of paint left on my desk so I smooshed a gessoed sheet of book paper in it.  I used this as a base to build up a background allowing layers to dry (or more accurately speeding up the drying with my heat gun) before adding mo...

Hello!  Today I'm sharing a 9x12 scrapbooking layout using Lollipop Box Club's 'Secret Garden' kit.   I couldn’t wait to get starting with this kit; there is a delicate prettiness about the embellishments and a warm green tone to the overall colour scheme.   Both things I enjoy creating with. The typed snippets included in the treat bag have the sayings ‘a little birdie told me’ and ‘shh, it’s a secret...’   These immediately struck a chord with me as my budgie is always chatting away to me.   One of her most talkative times is just before she naps; it’s almost as if she is talking herself to sleep.   She gets quieter and quieter as she nestles down into my shoulder and then finally nods off.   These two snippets inspired the entire layout. I made a giant shaker pocket with a piece of the pink grid patterned paper and some white tulle from my stash.   I trapped the tissue paper flower confetti in between the paper and the tul...