Laura Rumble - Crafter

I think my first cassette tape was a Cliff Richards album.  I'm pretty sure my second was East 17.  When SpiegelMom Scraps decided that the June theme for all DT projects should be 80's/90's I immediately thought of cassettes. I fiddled around in Silhouette Studio and made the components for a cassette shaker. It was fairly easy to cut the relevant pieces from the relevant material.  One collated I decided on Neon Summer as my sequin filling.  Later on I thought it needed a little more blue so added some Not Quite Navy.   The area for the double sided tape is rather skinny so I cut some tape in to three strips.  My top tip for cutting double sided tape is to add the backing from an already used piece to the uncovered sticky side.  This way you can cut away without getting your blades stuck together! And there you have it... a 90's casette full of sequins! I hope this makes it to a layout soon... stay tuned!

Crafty Ribbons has some awesome lace in their shop.  They have all kinds of unique designs and this one has to be my favourite!  It comes white and I have dyed each triangle with a mix of Inktense pencils. I have then added some buttons , again from Crafty Ribbons huge selection, and sewn them on to match each triangle. Thanks for stopping by!

Another post I found hiding in my drafts folder...  I'm ashamed to say this was written in January 2016 but I didn't hit the publish button! I was asked by the wonderful Jessica Brogan , leader of the Card Deck Swap , to put together a tutorial for the ATC's I sent in a previous swap.  Here is what I put together... To make these shaker ATC’s you will need some sort of background, a transparent material and some small ‘shaky’ pieces.    I have used a watercolour background cut down to ATC size, and a playing card.   You could use patterned paper, mixed media artwork, magazine pages, book pages, fabric... the list is endless.     I’ve used netting/tulle, vellum and a glassine bag for the shaker fronts.   You could also try scrapbook page protectors, thick plastic packaging and acetate.    I’ve used sequins, beads and punched shapes as my shaky bits – anything small and relatively thin will work... try buttons, woo...

I was very chuffed with myself when I realised I could thread my '60' sequin confetti on to 3mm ribbon to tie around some gifts... I adore how it looks!  Wrapping paper from Proper Post, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons and (ancient) sequins from deep in my stash!

Here is the title page for Herbie's scrapbook album. I am trying to keep to a theme of blues and greys, thread, sequins, flair and splatters through out the album.  If I manage to stick it will be the first time I have made a coordinated album! This perfect flair is from Cuts2luv. and I have raided my alpha stash for the title. Clean and simple and just how I like it! Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome to my Stick It Down post for May.  This month's sketch is so fun... I was going to do a whole load of rubber stamping but chickened out and went down the silhouette route instead! I do love how it turned out though... The vellum is from Claudia's collection from Pretty Little Studio.  Actually, everything bar the sequins and cardstock are designed by Claudia! I went very literal with my interpretation of the sketch and used 'hello' - I fancy having another go and switching things up a bit!  Hope to see you over on the Stick It Down blog with your take on the sketch!

Hi Folks!  I'm here today with a quick nautical bookmark for Crafty Ribbons... I took two lengths of  By The Sea Lighthouse ribbon and sewed them back to back turning the ends under neatly.  I then grabbed some garden twine and found a tutorial to make a monkey's fist knot.  I work better with visual instructions so I found a video to follow along with. I attached this at the bottom and was finished.  I think it has quite a big impact for something that took very little work! Thanks for looking!