Laura Rumble - Crafter

Now I've started working with More Than Words from Cocoa Vanilla I just can't stop!  I love this collection! I've combined the blues, greys and yellows with watercolour for this layout. I added a fair bit of sewing.  I worked on watercolour paper and it's not always great at accepting glue... easily solved by using the sewing machine!! I love how the watercolour granulated.  I went for enamel dots instead of sequins - don't worry... I'm not turning my back on sequins for long! I included a journalling pocket to hold a tag/PL card. You can watch it all come together here Thanks for stopping by!

Hello!  I'm here today to share some recent ATC’s… They are part of a deck of cards for Jessica Brogan's swap .  ATC’s – or artists trading cards – are usually small pieces of art (64mm x 89mm) swapped between artists.  Rather than working on a small scale to begin with I work on a larger sheet to make my mixed media backgrounds.  For me this is just playing with watercolours or Shimmerz, acrylics, modelling pastes etc until something starts to form.  Then when I get an idea, I follow it! This batch of cards use quite a few SpiegelMom Scraps products.  In the background I have used some Shimmerz colourings and dazzlerz .  My feature embellishment on some of the cards are the gorgeous Birds of a Feather Felties is Aqua/Blues and Green/Rust.  And of course I cannot make anything without using sequins – I’ve used some from green machine and some from lucky charm . Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Happy NSD!  (Expect a fair few posts starting with these words over this weekend!!)  I am here to share with you my regular Saturday post for SpiegelMom Scraps . I've been experimenting with the white felt feathers .  I wanted to know if they would take colour - they do!  I sprayed the feathers with water and sprinkled on some brusho powders.  I needed a lot of water to get the colour moving but I love the results.  Now I know I can alter any of the white felt shapes to any colour to match whichever project I am working on. I dyed these ones to match my budgie's feathers - yellows, greens and a little blue in the long tail feather.  The different sized yellow sequins in the Spring Blooms and Sunny Smiles mixes match in perfectly.  Other than that I kept it fairly simple layering each feather over a piece of cotton ribbon tape and stitching with my sewing machine to attach to the layout. I added my alphas directly to my photo ...

Hello Hello!   Today I am featured on the SpiegelMomScraps blog.   I’m sharing a mini texture canvas with a Bible verse quote... The canvas is around 10 cm square, so it's quite a diddy little thing.  It is packed with texture from the stencil work, the dimpled canvas, felt and sequins. I hand wrote the Bible verse and cut each word out individually.  As it is stuck over the textured background it leaves lovely shadows adding depth to the piece. I have used: Felt feathers and Believee in You sequins from SMS as well as: Derwent art bars, stencil (I think it's from Julie Fei Fan Balzer?) and texture paste. Thanks for stopping by!

I'm back with the second instalment of 2016's alpha/dictionary/nature project.  Q is for quill.  It couldn't be anything else!  I had one and a half a pages of q words to chose from and none of the others were even remotely nature-linked or drawable! Lets talk brown pens.  This is outlined with an American Crafts Slick Liner.  I've tried the Staedtler fine liner and also tried every brown gel pen I could find.  To me they are not the right colour!  They are brown but not 'proper' brown.  Can you see what I mean?  The pen is slightly purple-claret based and next to the chocolate-earth tones in the feather and the old paper colours... I just feel it's just not quite right.  Help me out, won't you?   What are your favourite brown pens?  (It does show better in real life!) I had a play with my Derwent art bars as they were the perfect shades of brown.  I used them as watercolours though, rather than drawing with t...

Hopefully you are back today having seen yesterdays step-by-step to making this background.  This is the finished layout...  I pulled out the dry background and headed over to Like For Ever's Scrappy Challenge.  The starting point this fortnight is use materials beginning with your initials.  Excellent - Lace and Ribbon... but what about J?  Well I went for Juniper - the shade of Derwent Graphitint pencil I coloured my feathers and added to the background.  (You know me, using ribbon and lace was not a challenge at all!  I may come back to this challenge and push myself if time allows in the next couple of weeks!) I pulled out some white papers, some organza swiss dots , a couple of grosgrain 3mm , some white lace , and a shade of purple lace that was as close a match to my juniper coloured pencil as possible.  All the lace and ribbon is, of course, from Crafty Ribbons .  I used a few simple paper layers and then tucked little pie...

Here is my take on the scrap 365 sketch challenge.  I was really inspired by Jennifer Grace 's video.  I don't know what it is about watching people scrap but I just love it! I used a wordy background paper and circled a few poignant words. I rotated the sketch to give area of interest at the top and bottom rather than the sides. All of the materials for this layout came from my Counterfeit Kit . I'm managing to use a sticker or two per layout this month after discovering during July that I just don't use stickers! So there it is.  I like it, and I'm pleased to have a) finished the doily vellum and b) used some of the feathers that I thought I would never use!!  (They came in my bundle of goodies that Ashley purged and I bought a few months back.  There is so much lovely stash, but the feathers... I really thought I'd struggle to use them!) Thanks for stopping by!

I'm playing along at Counterfeit Kit Challenge again this month. The kit to forge for August is from Studio Calico... My notes about the kit said; white, kraft, teal. yellow, stars, white with gold dots, coral-y, black and white words, feathers.  circles, postage stamps, clouds, mask, transparent, diamonds, doilies, wooden alphas. yellow and white fringe, pink twine. vellum, watercolour paper. There were a few extras listed for sale along side the kit, vellum and watercolour paper took my eye, I added them because when you make your own kit you can also make your own rules!  :) My papers include yellow, teal, kraft and coral.  I added a gold dot vellum and a cloud transparency.  I searched for anything 'doily-like' in my stash and this half sheet of gold foiled vellum is it - absolutely nothing else!!  I added a star mask too. I didn't think one set of alphas were enough, but I may have over done it!!  I'm not expecting to u...

Billy Budgie is moulting... Friday Smiles over at Annie 's is a place to share anything that has made us smile this week...