Laura Rumble - Crafter

Such a simple card to make but it packs a punch, dontcha think? The rainbow is made up of strips of card glued together. That is popped up on a black panel which is on a white card base. I stamped and heat embossed a white sentiment on the black panel using a Skull and Cross Buns stamp and Wow! embossing powder. I finished off with a few sparkles from Lucy's Cards.

This layout started with a scrap of paper.  I can't tell who it is made by or how long I've had it.  I can tell you I wish I had more! It's a muted grey, orange, turquoise and mustard stripe with a fab mottled texture.  I paired it with a few enamel frames, puffy alphas and puffy phrase stickers, a mustard and white chevron cardstock frame and enamel dots.  It's a stash layout using old supplies that have not seen the love they deserve. The cardstock frame was chopped in two and slipped behind the photo cluster.  It appears to be a large landscape frame underneath the portrait paper anchoring the whole layout... but we know it's just a small square frame posturing! This was one of those moments where being a silly-shopper-who-buys-every-colour-of-enamel-dot came in handy as I was able to shuffle through my entire collection and pull out perfect colour matches. And that's it - my favourite layout of the moment! Thanks for stopping by

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 pulled some bits from my white and green scrap folders to join in with Make My Monday 's 'green' challenge... And this is the layout that resulted.  I had a good splattering session with my green mists, layered up several green patterned papers and then used the lavish gold glitter stickers I have been hoarding!!  A tiny off cut of ribbon (see I use the tiny pieces that I keep!  I do!!) on the tag, a washi decorated mini paper clip (yep, I love these little paperclips!) and a few lengths of thin gold star washi. I think this layout has been the most fun to create - I love working with green! Thanks for stopping by!

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...

It's the 9th and I still haven't blogged my Counterfeit Kit for February!  I've taken a slightly different take on this kit... and it bares very little resemblance to the original ... well, let me take you through it... you will see what I mean. I start as always with the kit condensed in to a list.  I dismissed the travel theme and the small flowers. The alphas in the inspiration kit were square - I picked out all the tile-like letters in my stash. These are the only 12x12 sheets in my kit.  A different twist - I told you! Everything else is a scrap or a 6x6 that has been detached from it's pad/collection for a previous project and then been abandoned! Here are my little embellishments - quite a random mix but I'm not going for twelve layouts that match.  I'll get twelve layouts that will look great individually. Some flair - I must use these this month.  I have too many flair and still want to buy more.  This can only ...

I have a newly acquired Cricut mini.  I'm still not sure how to make it work at it's best (tips welcome!!) but I am enjoying playing.  So far I have found I like using the offcuts just as much as the actual designs I have cut out.  On one of the 'cartridges' that came with the cricut there is a thank you card with a trellis-like pattern.  These shapes are the left overs. And I found sticking them one by one quite therapeutic too. Linking up at The Playground.

I'm in the card making groove at the moment and have another to link up over at the playground . I've used the parcels from a sheet of push out pieces from goodness knows where, an off cut of green and an off cut of a stamp... What?  The free clear stamp said some waffle about 'special Christmas wishes' which I would never use, so I cut it up!  A bit naughty!! I do so enjoy the antics of the girls in the playground :) Thanks for stopping by

A couple more Christmas cards to share... Again made with left overs from my gelli session. I'd like to share these at: Rudolph Day Snippets Playground Thanks for stopping by

After my Monkey World Mini Album I had a fair few scraps of coordinating paper left over.  Some got put back in my scrap paper wallets ordered by colour and some made it on to this card... I've lost the love of making cards, I'd much rather be scrapping or making other 'off the page' creations, but I'm pleased with this card.   It's literally strips of offcuts scattered on a card blank with a rub on added.  Simple. Love it. Linking to Pixies Snippets Playground . Thanks for stopping by!