Laura Rumble - Crafter

Helloo!  It's October already - how did that happen?!  Here is Stick It Down's monthly sketch... This month's sponsor is Confessions Of A Paper Addict so I've used one of their cut files.  You can pick out Hexagon Background in the background... I've also used the negatives from the cut file as the main features and as a template for the photographs. I've embellished with a few copper paperclips and stickers along with two flair on thread nests. I attempted to use a black background but switched to white.  It needed some back though, so I went with matte enamel dots. I do love the contrast they add.  Thanks for stopping by and please link up at Stick It Down if you use this sketch this month.

For today’s layout for Pretty My Page I have used half of Tweet Tweet – a pre-cut cut file designed by Confessions Of A Paper Addict.   I’m all about stretching supplies so being able to get two layouts from one pre-cut has got to be a good thing, right?  You can get your pre-cut birds here . I’ve added two borders of white sewing to my white 12x12.   This adds detail and texture but still leaves the white space that I love. I pulled out some Pretty Little Studio stash.   I kept my supplies in a limited colour palette – mustard, red (and a few shades in between), a touch of black and maroon.   I picked out a flair button as I seem to collect them and not use them.   (My worst scrappy trait!)   I backed the bird cut file with two papers – one a mustard parquet wood grain and the other artistic poppies.   I didn’t like the amount of background paper showing on the poppy paper so I ended up cutting out the individual flowers and overlap...

Little Neph loves to sit at the window and look for aeroplanes.  This cut file was the perfect way to illustrate his current obsession. I cut a bunch of extra clouds and backed them with vellum.  I backed the aeroplane with vellum and then patterned paper.  This gives a lovely muted colour. I painted the background with my Daniel Smith watercolours.

Here are the close ups of the rocket layout featured in my latest YouTube video... All the cut files are from COAPA. I love how it has turned out.  Black on black is not the easiest to photograph to it's full beauty. I also love the use of the same file in differing sizes with one being popped up on dimensional adhesive.  I want to play around with this concept some more. And here's the video if you haven't caught it already!

Bobby knows all the names of all of the Thomas engines.  Auntie Laura put in a lot of effort to learn some and well, failed.  In my defence there are SO many! You can watch the process of the layout coming together here: By the way, since these photos were taken I have attempted to learn dinosaur names and failed.  And attempted to learn the racing cars names and failed.  I knew there would come a point when Bob would outsmart me, I know he's a bright kid, I just didn't expect it to happen quite so soon!! Train cut file available as a pre-cut from Pretty My Page .

I 've loved joining in with the Lottie Loves Paper Cyber Crop over the last couple of days.  Here are a few more of my layouts. This one is for the tags and tabs challenge. Lots of messy paints and inks paired with black pen doodling. and a tonne of tags cut from Pink Fresh papers. This one is for the mixed media prompt.  The stars are from a Confessions Of A Paper Addict cut file.  Texture paste, ink, gesso and anything else that was in reach combined to make the background. With a hidden tag telling the story of the photo. And finally using up the scraps... These were mainly pieces cut for or trimmed off the previous layouts so a true scraps page.  Ermm... I'll admit I ran out of scraps at one point and had to engineer some more!! Thanks for the cyber crop, Sarah, and for having me as a guest designer to join in the fun!