Laura Rumble - Crafter

I have been stalking the Colour Throwdown blog this year but have yet managed to get something made and shared by the deadline...  I think I'm going to make it this week, fingers crossed! Here is the swatch that inspired the colours. I made three cards using the same stamp which is a few years old and from Concord & 9th.  I embossed with white powder on to three different types of kraft. The first card was colour with Polychromos pencils, mounted on to white and embellished with a few sequins. The second is roughly painted with a couple of mists mixed with mica powders.  The mica is making the colours show on the kraft, without it the sink into the kraft card and barely show up. I was very loose with the painting and added a few splatters too. I added a gold high five sticker.  I think I need a stamp that says high five - are there any out there you can let me know of?  And finally a piece painted with the mica/mist mix....

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...

If you are here for the Crafty Ribbons Blog Hop please see the post below x Here is a mixed media layout I made last month... I used modelling paste, gel medium and mica powder through a Finnabair stencil for the background.  I mixed the gel and the paste together to give a slightly more translucent finish to the paste then roughly mixed in some mica.  I didn't want my butterflies to be evenly yellow, rather that they would be several different shades.  And of course the mica plays with the light so they twinkle and sparkle beautifully. I pulled out papers from my scrap folders and layered them up with tissue and vellum.  Once I had my stack of papers and my yellow background it felt like it was missing something punchy.  I grabbed my black fineliner and doodled on the papers and the background - and through the stencil too, outlining some butterflies and adding more, overlapping some of the yellow butterflies. I went for a solid and bold foam...

I'm going to show you my process for making a candle birthday card with a few snippets and off cuts... I collected a handful of trimmings and cut them down to different lengths between 2cm and 5cm.  The widths were approximately 0.5cm to 0.8cm.  With a pencil line lightly drawn on to my card blank for guidance I started to randomly stick a few rectangles down, varying the sizes, colours and widths. When I had a good covering of rectangles I drew little dashes at the top - these are the wicks and turn the rectangle in to candles. I watered down some neon acrylic paints and added some yellow watercolour paint.  When my permanent pen ink was dry I painted a flame atop each candle.  Using a round paint brush I just pushed the side of the bristles gently to the paper which makes a flame or petal shape.  I varied my flame colour slightly each time I loaded my brush. Once the first flames were dry I carried on adding more rectangles, wicks and flam...

Day seven already.  Seven doors opened on the advent calendar, seven chocolates eaten, blown the advent candle out seven times.  I love this time of year.  :) For today's Crafty Ribbons advent make I have something a little quirky... I've made a bottle of Christmas Cheer.  It's along the lines of a snow globe...  I filled the bottle with water, glycerin, mica powder, glitter and sequins. I can tell you, it's so satisfying waiting for it all to settle and then shaking it up again... I've added a tag with my beloved 3mm ribbon and a touch of lace . We'd love for you to hop over to the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration site and join in with our Advent celebrations! Entering at ALBC Christmas Cheer