Laura Rumble - Crafter

I have been stalking the Colour Throwdown blog this year but have yet managed to get something made and shared by the deadline...  I think I'm going to make it this week, fingers crossed! Here is the swatch that inspired the colours. I made three cards using the same stamp which is a few years old and from Concord & 9th.  I embossed with white powder on to three different types of kraft. The first card was colour with Polychromos pencils, mounted on to white and embellished with a few sequins. The second is roughly painted with a couple of mists mixed with mica powders.  The mica is making the colours show on the kraft, without it the sink into the kraft card and barely show up. I was very loose with the painting and added a few splatters too. I added a gold high five sticker.  I think I need a stamp that says high five - are there any out there you can let me know of?  And finally a piece painted with the mica/mist mix....

I'm on the Pretty My Page blog today using a couple of cut files exclusive to PMP.  See you over there!

I love a burger.  Not a fast food type one... a vegetable protein burger in a seedy soft bun crammed with lettuce and tomato - so much so that it falls out - and extra salad on the side with a few (not many) big fat chips.  The bap must have both ketchup and salad cream in it too. With that said, I had to use this cut file from The Cut Shoppe .  The alphas are also Ashley Horton from Pretty Little Studio, as is the acetate. I fancied trying something a bit different with a corner of colour in addition to my usual white background.  I added a strip of kraft to one side too to tie in the colour of the burger.  I like to use a colour in more than one place on a layout.  The yellow is used for the cheese slice and to back my photo; the red in the tomato and the spotty acetate; the pale kraft in the bap and the journalling strips. In the end the kraft burger didn't look dark enough so I coloured it in with my versamark pen and that made it a meat...

I have gone way overboard on photos for this layout but it seems kind of fitting.  I have gone way overboard (for me, for my usual) on the layout too! This is version 3.0!  It evolved a lot as I was working.  I was so into the process I don't think it has ever taken me so long to create a layout!  Where to start?  The cut files.  There are two cut files stacked together.  I drew them up in procreate and cut them out of kraft with my Silhouette Cameo. The pine branches (underneath) were sprayed with a few green and brown inks.  The holly and ivy branches were backed with patterned papers.  People say it is hard to match greens.  I wholeheartedly ignore this and put as many greens together as possible whenever possible.  I think I have 8 shades on this layout and that makes me happy! Let's talk dimension.  There is a LOT!  The pine branches have naturally curled with the moisture of the ink sprays.  The ...

Here are the last batch of samples made for the HOCHANDA shows StickerKitten did... Lots of fun bunting...  and another waterfall movement, this time on a birthday card rather than used as a mini album. As you can probably tell by the quantity of posts and samples I love working with these collections!  That's all for now but there will be new releases coming soon...

Here are a few more of the samples made for StickerKitten 's HOCHANDA appearance...

This layout uses Pretty My Page's Acorn Mesh cut file.  I adore the cut file - you can download it here or have it cut for you here . I cut it on kraft as I was trying to do something different.  That was my first 'mistake' - I don't really like kraft! I painted through the cut file with Minc Reactive Mist and added different colour foils to the leaves and acorns.  Second mistake - it needs quite a thick layer of mist to get a good foiling (presumably the Minc paint would work better for this... must buy some!) Mistake 3 for me is it is a whole page design.  You know I like my white space! But I look it this layout and I can see there is nothing wrong with it, it is just not my style.  I can also see what I can do to make it more me so I hope to do another version soon. Thanks for stopping by!