Laura Rumble - Crafter

All of The Hellos! The die is an old favourite from Concord and 9 th , and I’m quite fond of using hello on my projects.   I’m also a fan of zero waste and that is where this all got a tad out of hand! Card number one is a cut Honey Bee patterned paper with three hellos cut out.   The original plan was to bump the stripey hellos up on 3 layers of white cardstock and pop them back in place.   I believe this is called the eclipse technique.   I did this, cutting 9 white hellos along the way, and really was not blown away with the look.   It needed gold glitter, as so many things do!   So, I cut three gold hellos – these then needed another nine white hellos…   I was happy with card number one. I now had spare stripey hellos, gold glitter negative hellos and a whole bunch of white negative hellos.   These can’t go to waste! Card two was simple enough. The gold negative was simply stunning.   I die cut a panel, added the counters and ...

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...

I have the absolute honour of guest desiging for Heffy Doodle this month.  Here is the first of two posts for them. I have two projects to share with you today featuring the Scripty Merry Christmas dies .  First up is a scrapbook layout.   I scrap in A4 these days as buying 12×12 albums was getting a little too expensive for me.  My style tends towards clean and simple and I’m a big fan of a white background.  This time I’ve gone for a really pared back colour palette taken from the 6×4 colour photo.  I knew I wanted to make a feature of the Scripty Merry Christmas dies so set about cutting a lot .  I’m not sure what the final count was but I cut plenty of the words and the shadows in both white and red cardstock and adhered them together mix and match style.  The red and white words were giving a slight candy cane vibe so I ran with that and adhered them to a panel of silver cardstock on an angle enhancing that red and white stripe feel. ...

Here's a little update on my circle creations over the last few weeks.  You can read about the concept here . So, the layout I was fired up to create at the beginning of the month, the one based on the sketch I shared, is still unmade.  No matter though, as this was a no pressure, no deadline, playtime kind of project.  I have created a few other things...   This layout uses a folded cut file, which is something I want to explore further throughout the year.  I cut half a shape essentially, just one line, then score between the beginning and end of that line and fold it back.  When you cut a file like this on double-sided patterned paper you end up with both sides showing.  This is both good - because it looks great; and restrictive - because you have to have the right kind of pattern on both sides. (For example a cut-apart sheet on one side would not give the effect I am after.)  Perhaps it was trickier for me as my double-sided paper stash is li...