Laura Rumble - Crafter

Hello!  Happy Monday! Here is my layout for Stick It Down.  When I drew up this sketch I had the layout in mind so I pretty much copied the sketch exactly... I used my Silhouette Cameo and sketch pens to create the love you patterned paper strip, the Y and U, and the top peek-a-boo section.  I then switched to a cutting blade and cut them out.  I also cut out an O to use as a template to trim my photo.  Whilst I had the Silhouette up and running I cut a stitchnig template for 'love' on a 12x12 background.  I make my stitching templates by switching the solid line of text to a dashed line.  Also, as I am a lazy impatient bad hand sewist I go through and delete every other dash.  This makes the stitches larger and takes a lot less time to complete the sewing! The hardest part of the layout was choosing which colour heart stickers to use... I opted for yellow, a deliberate swerve of my instinct to use green.  I'd use green o...

Here is the third in my Stashbust The Half-Made Projects series.  I wrote the lyrics to Sound Of Silence by Simon and Garfunkle using my Silhouette sketch pens.  I loved it but didn't have the right photos so put it to the side and promptly forgot about it!  I added some Shimmerz paint to the background.  I know I'm not very up to date with my music tastes but this is my favourite song at the moment.  The photos are quite fun too.  I layered three on top of each other and set the transparency so you could see all of them.  I printed them as a strip like you'd get from a booth. Here's the process video: Thanks for stopping by. Linking up at Inspire Me Mondays

I'm rediscovering Silhouette sketch pens... well, I bought them a year ago and figure it's about time I use them!!  I used them on my hexagon layout and have used them here... You know the deal with me... I use all of the colours all of the time!  I picked out some ROY G BIV colours to use with a Just Nick cut file .  I released the compound path for the cut file and selected only some shapes to draw each time.  This was put through my Cameo eight (I think) times. I added a few sequins from my SpiegelMom stash and added some simple tissue layers behind my photo.  I found a sparkly foam thicker amongst my 'really should use this' pile and that worked for my title. Then to finish off I used the silhouette pens in the regular hand-held fashion to colour some strips to use as a border.  I could have used rainbow paper but a) I didn't have any and b) this way the pen work on both the layout and the border are matching colours.

This month's Saturday Sketch is one that I've been thinking about for a while... I love the concept of journalling around shapes... I went one step further and used my Silhouette Cameo and sketch pens to do the writing for me. I then pulled all the sunshine coloured pieces from my Cocoa Vanilla stash and grabbed my yellow embellishment box. I threw in a few rub ons, some enamel dots, puffy hearts... There is a great video by Ashley Horton if you want to have a go at adding text to shapes. Here's my process...