Laura Rumble - Crafter

 It's a sketchy Tuesday at CC&S ... What a fabulous starting point for a card.  I've gone the patterned paper die cuts route but I had so many other ideas for this one too. The dies are from Simon Says Stamp and the papers are from Honeybee Stamps.   There's not a lot more to say really... verstaile dies that I keep coming back to and uber-cute papers that I hoard. Hope to see your version linked up at CC&S!

 I don't know about you but playing with colour and shape is incredibly therapeutic for me. These pieces are cut with a few geometric die sets from Simon Says Stamp, all on scraps of brightly coloured cardstock. I have some circular, some triangular and some square pieces but the key is that they are all the same scale.  It's the scale/size of the pieces that makes them fit together so nicely into an imaginary 3x3 grid.  Some pieces are double stacked and triple stacked to give a little more interest to what is a very simple concept of pieceing shapes together. I assembled my piece leaving lots of white space to give a light uncluttered feel to the design.  I felt a narrow black border was needed to set a boundary between the collage and the card base which is also white.

  Each week I think, "oh, I'll play along with the colour throwdown this week" and make a start on a card.  Very rarely do I finish the card on time and get it shared! I think this one will sneak in before the deadline... I started out with the geometric dies from Simon Says Stamp and a whole bunch of colourful papers.  I started with the 9-square square card.  There's nothing wrong with it but I wasn't loving it.  Perhaps it is too much, so I tried a smaller 6-square A6 (UK sizing) card.  Still not loving it.  I played around with the remaining pieces I had die cut and came up with card 3 - a mini slimline-ish sized card.  It's actually the size that the die cuts took up rather than measured to a standard size!  I'll have to make a custom envelope.   Now it makes sense... I need the white!  I struggle with the other two as there is no white cardstock for my eye to rest from all of the colour.  With that in mind I continued on...