Laura Rumble - Crafter

I discovered a wonderful colouring book from Kirsty Rice called Summer Cutting Garden.  (I think there are/will be the other seasons too.)  It's on good thick paper, single sided and beautifully illustrated.  I had a play with my Daniel Smith watercolours with no aim in mind.  When the painting was finished (why didn't a take a photo?!) I thought I could turn it into a layout, so I started fussy cutting... After quite some time with my scissors and then a craft knife for the inner areas my wreath was ready. After adding a little watercolour to the background I popped the wreath up on foam pads for dimension. I added loads of sequins - I kept wondering if it was too many but I couldn't stop!! I added a few strips of journalling over one of the flowers. Highly recommend this book if you like playing with watercolours! Thanks for stopping by.

Cactuses... they are everywhere at the moment.  I don't get it!  (And flamingoes too, why?!)  The latest scrapbook kit from like for ever had a few in and rather than putting them straight in the donate pile I vowed to use them... I'm no going to lie, I pulled everything catus-y and put it on one layout!  The background is a page from a colouring book.  The title is written with a water brush and then sprinkled with Brusho.  I can see myself doing a lot more of this type of thing now I have a few more Brusho colours. Piling up those cacti ephemera!!  There is even a pineapple cut in to three and spread around the page disguised as cactus! I kept the glueing to the middle of the paper so the edges lift up and leave shadows. And I popped my photos up to make them stand out a bit more. So, big tick!  I used all the cactuseses - I really should have looked up in the dictionary how to refer to them before I started writin...