Laura Rumble - Crafter

A design aspect I am really enjoying using this year is reptition.  As I've looked back through my creations so far this year it seems to be a recurring theme - perhaps my go to design. This layout has multiple watering can die cuts.  Rainbow colour is, and always will be, another of my go to design elements. Rainbow anything is cheerful and that's what I need when I'm crafting. This next layout features a wooden crate slat that I used oyt of context.  Without the rest of the die set it doesn't make itself known as part of a crate, it's just a rectangle with holes at eother end.  I've threaded them on cotton and made a feature of them. In this next photo you can see them as intended on the right hand side. And then back to rainbow, but this time tag shaped rainbows... I love how this one turned out and it reminds me to sew on more of my projects.  Even white thread on white card adds so much texture and subtle interest.

I currently have a giveaway running on my YouTube channel celebrating the milestone of 1000 subscribers.  Check it out here: https://youtu.be/Itt7SZ1FUVY Here is my DT layout for CSI case 322 .  I've been led by the colours (peach, orange and navy) and the paint smears on the case file. I colour matched some sequins and puffy stickers.  The stickers are from Pinkfresh Studio and have been sat in my stash for a while now so I'm pleased to get a few used up. The paint smear is created with texture paste mixed with brusho crystals.  I love the variation in colour that the brusho gives. I've added some fancy zig zag sewing to attach my trimmed down white cardstock to a peach backing sheet. You can watch the video here:

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...

Another layout rescued from the drafts folder! The apple cut file can be found in my free cut files tab above. I think this is my very favourite shade of green.  Don't tell the other greens that though, I do love them all! Always add the little details, they add so much. Thanks for stopping by!

Here are a few layouts I made over the weekend for NSD challenges. This one combines Bramble Fox and Lottie Loves Paper challenges. The design is a rough scraplift of Philippa McCray for Bramble Fox Whilst the yellow and white striped paper bag conceals hidden journalling for the Lottie Loves Paper challenge. This second layout is based on a sketch I created for Lottie Loves Paper. This bird paper from Paige Evans is a firm favourite of mine. Never has the term thread nest been more appropriate! I added some stitching for extra detail.   And finally a footie themed layout using papers I designed. This fits a tic tac toe board from Lottie Loves Paper - blue alphas, two photos and 3+ hearts. I had to piece together some grey alphas to make missing letters.  I'm sure it looks OK but it's all I can see at the moment! I have a couple more layouts to share tomorrow.

I had myself a marathon Minc session foiling everything I could lay my hands on.  It sounds like an extravagant exageration but it's closer to the truth than you'd think! Amongst the big boxes of shiny treasure I eneded up with was a rainbow of butterflies which were calling out to be used together.  I took inspiration from the Lottie Loves Paper group on Facebook and an old layout by Marie - that is where the circular design came from. I added some sewing (which got mostly covered up) and a lot of black and gold splatter.  I mixed 3 colours of mica powder in to a few drops of Liquitex black ink.  I'm seeing it as a failed experiment as the effect was minimal.  I think maybe the black pigment was so strong that it overpowered the mica or I just didn't add enough.  Anyway, if you look really close you may spot a tad of shimmer! I added a few word stickers and some big black enamel dots and called it good.  It's VERY shiny and that makes...

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...

I've recently become really intrigued by happy mail.  You might have seen my recent Pretty My Page project based on happy mail .  I asked one of my scrappy friends Vik if she wanted to do a swap with me, with both of us producing a video on the putting together of the happy mail and a process video of us creating a layout with what we recieved. You can see my video on the pulling together of the parcel here: And here is the layout I created with what Vik sent me: I have heaps left over as well... the basis for another couple of layouts I reckon. I loved the textured clouds Vik sent me... I pulled out some fancy stitching! and used sequins and stickers to cover up my naf cutting from backing the hot air balloon cut file!  There are no mistakes in scrapbooking, only extra opportunity for embellishment! Here's the process video: (If you click through to YouTube you will also find the links for both of Vik's videos in the description bo...

I've had this layout in my head for a long time...  I cut these bikinis from Pinkfresh papers and then was stumped as to how to use them.  Slowly this design formulated but I've only got around to making it now. The bikinis are trapped in pillowy pockets of white tulle, all frothy like spindrift from the waves.  For good measure I also enclosed a mixture of sequins from old SpiegelMom mixes. The cluster around the photo is all Pinkfresh stash.  You know what I'm like... I've seen their new collection is coming out in May and I want to use up some of what I have to make space for the new goodies. There's always a certain amount of hoarding with me and Pinkfresh papers - I can't help it! How gorgeous does it all look under the tulle?  I think tulle might be my new thing!

I joined in with some challenges run in the For The Love Of Pretty Paper facebook group reccently.  There was a crop themed around chocolate... I'm a big fan of chocolate!  This layout was for the Green and Black challenge. I've used some bunting pennants I had left over from a previous Pretty My Page project.  Pretty much everything else is from my Quirky Kits, I think. I used some black embossing powder over an Amy Tangerine die cut.  I must do this more often as it looks amazing! Whizzed up some bunting on my sewing machine and added doodling... and finished off with thread tangles and enamel dots. I do love a limited colour palette layout! Linking up at Inspire Me Mondays