Laura Rumble - Crafter

Over in the SpiegelMom Scraps Facebook community , we are having a little sketch challenge.  This rainbow sketch will be up for the month of March - anyone who creates a layout inspired by it and posts a photo on the relevant thread will be in with the chance to win some sequins! I've created this layout... I'll honest it looked better in my head than it does on the card! I feel my rainbow colours got a little muddied from the overspray - I'd prefer them a little more crisp.  I'm trying to work out how to make the layout that is still in my head! I do love the sequins though... these are Rainbow Bright . I had a bit of white overspray on my photo.  By the time I noticed it was already dry.  I decided to embrace it - I masked off my face and added a few more splatters.  I let them dry part way and then blotted.  This gives almost a bokeh effect.  I repeated it a few times building up layers of dots and blotting. I think it...

I'm on a roll with scraplifting for this weeks Mind The Scrap challenge... First up is this clean and simple layout based on Claire Murphy's original. My supplies are from Pretty Little Studio - a mixture of collections, the stars are from Ashley Horton's Wish You Were Here. The project life cards which are gold foiled (which means REALLY hard to photograph!) are all adhered at different heights.  It's those little details that I love! There are few more coming but will be spread out over the next couple of weeks... stay tuned!

like for ever run Sunday Challenges each week... today is a stash busting challenge.  Each project must contain birds, puffy stickers, stripes, gold and paint.  I have no problem adding birds to a layout, I squeezed 7 whole birds and a few part-birds too.  I will admit I had a few issues cutting through the paper and decapitating the drawings! I'm not usually a puffy stickers fan but these little flowers have really caught my affections...  Shimelle at her best I think. For my paint I chose a few mists and some gold paste.  I wasn't happy with any of the coral colours I had, they just didn't match the birds.  I mixed my own colour from 5 or 6 colours to get a colour I was happy with. And my stripes come in the form of a couple of pieces from the cut apart sheet. Here's the process video: Thanks for looking, and have fun with the challenge criteria...

I'm up on the Crafty Ribbons Inspiration blog today getting those Christmas craft juices flowing! I took a plain white bag and gave it a good spritz with gold spray ink.  I concentrated more colour at the top of the bag and let it fade out towards the bottom.  You can pick up blank paper bags at most craft stores, or recycle ones you have been given.  I've taken two ribbons from the Santa's Grotto range and painted the backs with matte medium.  When this is dry it allows you to fussy cut the ribbon without fraying.  I matted the large motif on to some gold mirror card, and layered it up over a couple of pieces of lace. I then added two of the tag motifs to the base of the handle.  Perfect for giving a gift this Christmas, not terribly time consuming, and even something you can get the kids to join in with... go on, do some Christmas crafting!! Ingredients: Tag Ribbon Badge Ribbon 2mm silk ribbon Volcan Lace Clermont Lace

Over at SpiegelMom Scraps we are linking up with Let's Get Sketchy for the entire month of November... This week's sketch is by our Sara and screamed at me to play with lots of squares on the diagonal - so that is what I did.  I've used various sequin mixes from SpiegelMom's - Falling Leaves , Autumn Joy , A Day In the Woods - along with some cork hearts . The rest of the supplies are from Ashley Horton's Oakley Avenue from Pretty Little Studio. I'm hoping to get my photography back up to a higher standard soon, just as soon as my health levels out and the shakes fade back a bit!

Hello there! I have been playing along with the mood board at like for ever this month.  It's a lovely board but it includes two things I struggle with - pink and floral.  I know when using a mood board it is perfectly acceptable to ignore the bits you don't like and use the other more 'you' items on the board but I decided I need to use the florals! Actually, the hardest part was finding a photo to use with the blousy flowers.  Nephydude playing with trucks isn't going to cut it!  Once I had my photo it all flowed nicely... I've used like for ever's Stargazer kit plus some mixed media supplies.  The star stencil is a Julie Fei-Fan Balzer design from The Crafter's Workshop.  I used a palette knife to push some matte medium through and left it to dry thoroughly before started with the paints. For my blue I mixed some Daniel Smith watercolours, the pink and gold are Mr Huey's sprays.  Thanks for stopping by!

You know my love for sketches - both designing them and using them in my scrapping.  I was delighted when I learnt SpiegelMom Scraps was linking up with Let's Get Sketchy .  I don't have a SpiegelMom's project due for this week but I have played along with the sketch anyway.  I love it - it is designed by our very own Sara. I had a play with my Shimmerz Dazzlerz, paints and mists for the background.  I was desperate to use my new stencil. I'm having health problems at the moment and these are the best photos I can get - My hands are so shaky!    I've used Autumn Joy sequin mix, which match the paint colours perfectly. I've used some big scallop washi tape in glittered gold (from like for ever ) for layering pieces and some torn cardstock painted with Shimmerz. Thanks for stopping by today, I hope to be back soon

It is challenge day at Crafty Ribbons Challenges .  I have an art journal page for the theme of 'Use Ribbon or Lace'... I can't really talk you through the page - it is all blues and greens, and all 'left overs'.  When I am doing something like dying doilies I put them on a journal page to catch the extra spray.  When I have a coloured paste that cannot go back in its original pot I smudge it onto a page.  After a while you end up with a part background. I then grabbed some pens, washi, scraps and ribbon and just had fun.  I use this kind of creating as therapy in a way and the message I got out of creating this page was Remember the basics Let go of fear Breathe I used Chantilly Lace - Mary and Organza Swiss Dots from Crafty Ribbons.  I'd love to see you join us on the challenge blog... Thanks for stopping by

I am delighted to bring you the first ever Stash Busters video hop!  There are a few scrapping YouTubers who have got together to bring you ideas for busting your craft stash.  The first item to bust was punches... well, I was in a little bit of a pickle because I don't own any!  You see, the only way I could justify buying my beloved Silhouette Cameo was that I didn't have punches and dies and manual machines. With my Cameo I cut a lot of background files and I always keep all of the cut-outs... I have quite a stash!  So it was these that I decided to bust. I added some sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps and you can use the code Laura15 to receive a discount. I love the dimension and shimmer of all the layers of hearts.  I think I may well be using this technique again.  I have used up quite a few hearts - perhaps I'll try using the chevron/arrows next! You can find a list of my fellow Stash Busters' videos in the details of my vid...

I'm usually struggle with original titles... not this time!  I've used my Lottie Loves Paper kit - I had to have it as it contains Cocoa Vanilla!! I share a partial process video too.  Partial because the light got too dim so I stopped.  And then went back.  Four times!  Adding or taking away or tweaking a little...  But it is worth a watch!  You get angry hands as I can't find a place for the yellow piece of ephemera that I love, you see me mess up my stencilling, you see me make a flickable paint from an Inktense pencil and you see me thickening up my texture paste with talc. I don't have loads of different colours of texture paste.  I have a Spun Sugar Dazzlerz which is beautiful and very easy to colour.  You can add any kind of liquid colour (paint, ink, watercolour pencils etc.) to make a custom colour.  The only trouble is the Dazzlerz is the perfect thickness for using with stencils and when you add a bit of liquid to...

Carrying on with the layouts I made on NSD, this one has my heart... My nephew says the funniest things, this one needed to be recorded. "Bobby came home from the childminder and announced he had had a carrot and a beer for lunch!" I worked on a few challenges set for NSD - one was for SpiegelMom Scraps - use inks, stencil and stamping.  One was for For The Love Of Pretty Paper - use rubber stamps to make your own embellishments.  I stamped a pint of beer (from a take away coffee cup!) and a carrot.  I also used ribbon which made it eligible for another challenge!  I was all about the challenges over the NSD weekend.  (It made me very productive - I still have a few more in my drafts folder to share with you!) Most of the products are from like for ever's May kit, with some SpiegelMom Scraps thrown in fro good measure.  I have major issues with the wood piece as favourite is spelt wrong... Other than the American spelling I adore this lay...

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...

I had trouble getting a tightly cropped photo of this layout.  Even though I gessoed and weighted down my cardstock, I still got a lot of warping.  It'll be fine in the album, it's just not easy to take photos of. I used clear gesso in a triangular shape on the right hand side of the page.  As it turns out I went past the area I gessoed and it gave a really nice effect.  I used modelling paste through a star stencil, then threw the mists and paint on while it was still wet. The mist on the wet paste gives a slightly different effect than mist on dry paste. There I go with the triangle paper again.  I love that cutting it in different ways gives different patterns.  As I had picked out a pop of red to go under the photos I thought red alphas would be best.  I didn't have any so I used a pro marker to alter these pink Basic Grey alphas.  I moved the title around a fair few times, but it eventually settled underneath the photo. ...

"Van!"  It's the in word here.  It sometimes comes out as "Man!" too.  It is always said with excitement. I cut in to the triangle paper in my Like For Ever kit.  I didn't think I had a favourite from the patterned paper sheets but it turns out the triangles is my favourite.  I might need more sheets! I attempted to mix up some paints in the same colours.  My duck egg was OK, my green was a little off.  Anyway, packaging technique, splatters, inks, acrylics... all good messy fun. When it came to start putting it all together I layered the triangles on some vellum.  It just subdues the mixed media enough to let the triangles show off a bit. I made a batch off mixed media backgrounds in one go.  I doesn't take any time to set up and clear away a mixed media station on the floor, it's much quicker than trying to clear space on my desk.  I just put a wipe clean table cloth n the floor and wipe with baby wipes when I'm fini...

I've been having a little experiment with some off cuts of vellum.  I made them in to tiny envelopes stuffed with buttons and sequins, to add to my layouts. A little bit of stencilling in the background - paint mixed to match the shade of the mint green sequins. I tried to include every colour and pattern I used in the main cluster in the little side cluster. Here you can see the vellum envelope along side a picture of Naughty Bun. I used an iridescent mist for some splatters and thought I was done.  Looking at the page it was screaming at me for some black... nervously I used some black India ink for some more splatters. Papers from Like For Ever kits (April & May.) Buttons and pink dotty ribbon from Crafty Ribbons.