Laura Rumble - Crafter

 Happy Tuesday!  It's time for a new colour swatch at CC&S ... It's a beautiful colour palette and one I tend to be drawn to often as a lover of all things green and being partial to a bit of peach, specifically Nectar from C9.   I've added a touch of stencilling in the background and layered up three butterflies on top.  A simple stamped sentiment (W Plus 9) underneath finishes it off nicely. You know I love a chance to play with my extensive thread collection and it's not a surprise that I had a perfect match to my inks.  The thread is simply wrapped around the middle of the butterfly with the loose ends acting as antennas. I hope you'll join us at CAS Colours and Sketches for this beautiful colour combo!

 It's new sketch day at CAS Colours and Sketches ... I had a lot of ideas for this one!  Up first is my official dt card... This is a Time For Tea coverplate, Concord and 9th cardstock and a Simon Says Stamp thanks die. My original idea was to use this Time For Tea coverplate and highlight just the centre motifs with inlaid pieces... Again I've used Concord and 9th colours.  I cut the whole plate in grapefruit and half each of nectar and sorbet.  Of course this produced more than one cards worth of die cuts so... I made a couple more with the leftovers. These alpha dies are from Trinity Stamps and have a beautiful embossed line detail too. There where quite a lot of the tiny hearts so the obvious thing to do was to make a shaker card.  This is a flat shaker made with recycled packaging.  The panel is an embossed coverplate (from Alex Syberia Designs) and I've also used the leftover larger hearts from the first card. Hope to see you over at CAS Colours and S...

It's the third Tuesday of the month which of course means there's a sketch up at CAS Colours and Sketches .  Take a look... I've gone for three shades (ombre-ish) of Concord and 9th cardstock to create my stripes.  They are layered up so there is a small amount of dimension too. The 'happy' is from Concord and 9th and the birthday is from Create A Smile.  I've layered them up too. Such a simple design but I kinda want to make it over and over in different colourways. This is for the CC&S challenge which runs until the 4th of March - we'd love you to join us!

 I am loving the *really* clean and simple look right now... This is made for the new challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches which you can find out more about here.   It's based on this sketch... Obviously I switched the heart out for the greeting which is die cut (Create A Smile), stamped and die cut (Heffy Doodle), stacked, popped up and glittered.  CAS is all about those tiny details! Father Christmas Mum got me a fancy set of glittery threads for Christmas and I used three colours to mimic the triangular split of the card base indicated on the sketch. I dotted in a few iridescent circle confetti pieces.  They are tiny but very shiny.  They flash pink, blue and aqua in different light and are almost invisible from some angles. I hope you are inspired to play along with us at CAS C&S !

I'm excited to have joined the team at CAS Colours and Sketches .  This is my first make for them and it is a colour challenge. I struggled to find an exact match for the berry burst shade but Pinkfresh's Regal Kiss was a good enough match.  I also went with Hydrangea, Spruce Tips and Lush Forest, all from Pinkfresh's ink line.  If green is in a colour swatch I immediately go to leaves and I fancied pulling out my Alex Syberia florals so that was an easy decision.   Keeping it CAS I stamped off the edge of the card base and embossed in white for a subtle look.  I then used the coordinating stencils to ink blend.  As I was blending rather than stamping my colours are a touch on the softer side.   Then I decided my greeting would go smack bang across the middle of my image.  Perhaps controversial?  Why place it over the prettiness?  I don't know really, I just like the closeness of everything design-wise. Come over and join us at CAS Colo...

Hi Guys, today I have a clean and simple engagement card to share... I've used two pieces of Crafty Ribbons lace and teamed them with the tiny heart buttons ... I've just stocked up as they are a really useful stash item! The card is based on this one from Muse .  I intended to play along with the challenge but didn't get it made in time! Thanks for stopping by!

I have no idea... I sat to try and tidy my desk a bit.  Well, not tidy tidy, just clear it a bit.  I had some paint chips sitting there and I thought if I put them away I'll never get them out again, so I cut them up and started the background of a layout.  Then the layout wasn't central so I trimmed around it so that what I had stuck down was central.  I was left with little strips of floral paper.  Now, I realised that this wasn't tidying or clearing, it was in fact making more stuff-on-the-desk.  'Well if I just make these strips in to a CAS card...' I thought. So I did and then I was too tired to do any clearing or tidying and goodness knows when I'll finish the layout but hey, I started and finished a card! :) Entering at the Snippets Playground

And that means new challenge day over at Crafty Ribbons . The challenge set by Rebecca is Clean And Simple with Ribbon . Now, it's not my turn to join in this week but I love CAS so much that I've made something anyway!!  :) This leather bookmark needed something at the top... 3 pieces of metallic edge 3mm later and bam!  CAS with Ribbon :) I hope you'll join us this week