Laura Rumble - Crafter

Sometimes packaging is just too good to throw out in the recycling! At least it is for me as a crafter... The colours on this chocolate bar wrapper from Dormouse Chocolates was just the perfect ombre of palest yellow to rich sunset orange with a whole lot of perfect peachiness in between, and a really good weight of cardstock, too.  It demanded to be reused on a layout! I paired it with Simon Says Stamp's Garden Greetings stamp set and some stencilling with oxide inks in the background.  I love the softness of the colours, stencilling and vellum against the starkness of the bold black stamping. I used the text on the chocolate wrapper to make a found poem about my boy Theo.  It kind of has a double meaning as Theo is short for Theobroma; Theobroma Cacao is the name of the cocoa plant that chocolate is made from.  Yep, budgie boy is named after chocolate!  Two of my most treasured things are birds and chocolate!! I always say I'm rubbish with words.  The col...

 OK, so it's been a slow few weeks thanks to my health, but I have a few triangle creations to share with you.   Triangle stencilling with an old design from Skull and Cross Buns. Gulls from Heffy Doodle.   A kind-of sort-of take on the sketch in my last post... but I went off piste of course.  This is very much a bits and bobs layout; papers from all sorts, random stickers and embellishments, perhaps the most used brand is Pretty Little Studio, but mainly a total mish-mash.   Where are the triangles, I hear you ask.  All the patterned paper in this layout has some form of triangular pattern on it.  Also, got a few of those triangle 'dots' used! I am very pleased with this card... a triangular corner shaker pocket on a card.  There's a bunch of Bitty Bontanicals die cuts from Trinity and a simple embossed greeting using a Heffy Doodle stamp. This was an experiment where my measurements went a little awry.  The striped segments and glitter seg...

I'm pretty sure everyone will have recieved these cards by now so I can go ahead and share...   I fell in love with MFT's bird stamp set which features in all of this years Christmas cards. I've used my polychromos coloured pencils to add some colour to the images. I've nestled some of the birds on thread nests, some on blue 'greenery' stamped directly on the card blank and some on greenery which has been fussy cut and coloured.     And yes, I did say fussy cut.  This stamp set does have a matching die set but I couldn't find it anywhere in the country - or the continent actually, as I checked a few of the European stores too!     This chap has an ink blended background made with Skull and Cross Buns' Floral Pattern stencil and copious amounts of splatter.   These two have multicoloured stamping from a Skull and Cross Buns set .   I trimmed the Merry Christmas apart and used it horizontally rather than stacked.  Don't worry, it doesn't hurt...

  Here's the last of the Dinosaur week layouts...           And here's the video:  

 I interupt Dinosaur Week to bring you my monthly layout for CSI.  This case file was a fun one, do come over and join us! Dies from Heffy Doodle and Bramble Fox.

 Today's Dinosaur Week layout doubles as a lesson in the Scrap Academy .  It's Summer Camp and we are playing the Alphabet Challenge... And one lucky participant will win a prize from the fabulous Lollipop Box Club .  Do check out the facebook group for more. Here are a few close ups of my layout...   And here's the video...

 Day five of Dinosaur Week sees a rainbow of dinos!   Here's the vid:

 Here's day four's shiny layout...  Video can be viewed here:  

Day three sees me combining Dinosaur Week with Lottie Loves Paper's Summer Sketch Challenge.  You can find all the details in the Lottie Loves Paper Community on Facebook. The video is here:

Here's day two of Dinosaaur Week!!  (Yes, I really am doing a whole week of dinosaur projects!)  Here's the video: