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!

Here is my layout for CSI's Case File 319.  I've been insired by the colour scheme (although I did ignore the pink!), cute animals and the tiny dot pattern. My turquoise is slightly off but I had a surprising lack of bright turquoise in my stash.  My dots are also slightly too oranised.. the case file image was much more random and wonky dots. I used a cut file from Pretty My Page (if it's not yet linked it hasn't been released yet!) The cute animals in the case file immediately brought to mind my Simon Says Stamp panda die.  Any excuse to bring it out for a play.  I cut on both black and white cardstock and then piece them together.  I find adding a big dot of glossy accents on the eyes gives a nice raised shiny look that almost brings a life like quality to the face. Sequins because always sequins!  I selected some clears and greys leaving the colour to come from the patterned paper alone. Here's the process video:

I'm up to my old tricks again... Pinkfresh have a new collection coming soon so I need to use up my hoarded PFS stash to make space for the new goodies! This navy floral is an absolute stunner and the mint with delicate white motifs is in my top 5 ever papers.  This is the ends of my third or fourth sheet of the mint paper! The photo featured skyscrapers and I tried to echo that with my paper placement.  Columns of paper at differing heights positioned to look like a cityscape.  I also stash busted by stickers gathering all of the coral tones I could find.  I clustered them on one 'building' to look a little bit like windows. As I was using so much colour and pattern I kept the rest pretty simple with the only embellishing coming in the form of a thread nest with initial alpha sticker and four fishtail flags tucked under the photo.

I don't know about you but I get overwhelmed when ALL of the new collections come out at once.  It's especially bad after Creativation when American Crafts releases what feels like 100 collections at once.  There also seems to be a supply thing and if you don't buy straight away you miss out forever .  I wonder cynically if that is all part of the plan.  Then there is Cocoa Vanilla and Pink Fresh too... mustn't miss out on them either.  This time I decided I would place one order for all things under the AC umbrella.  Lottie Loves Paper is my shop of choice and I had a good browse and made a list.  Then I crossed off most of the things on the list when I realised how many sheets of paper that would be!  I settled on 5th & Monaco (paper pad, ephemera and stickers), Paige Evans (one sheet of the pastel diamonds) and Maggie Holmes (four sheets of paper and the sticker sheet).  I was so excited by 5th & Monaco and yet it has ...

Taking part in some stash busting fun in Scraptember . I don't use as much patterned paper as I'd like.  I'd like to use as much as I buy... but that might be wishful thinking!!  Anyway, that thought led me to draw up this sketch. I went through my yellow/green and mint/blue paper boxes and pulled out a stack of papers.  I arranged them in colour order and cropped them all to squares.  I thought I was going to be super accurate but that didn't happen.  They are roughly 12mm larger each time but after the third one I just started eyeballing it.  In the sketch the squares are rotated 22.5 degrees each time; on my layout I just turned it "a bit".  Once I'd got my twisted stack complete I pondered what else needed adding.  I really don't know... enamel dots?  A title?  Journalling?  In the end I went with a tiny tab with his initial on it.  I'm intrigued to see if anyone else plays along with this sketch and how ...

I don't know about you but I get overwhelmed when ALL of the new collections come out at once.  It's especially bad after Creativation when American Crafts releases what feels like 100 collections at once.  There also seems to be a supply thing and if you don't buy straight away you miss out forever .  I wonder cynically if that is all part of the plan.  Then there is Cocoa Vanilla and Pink Fresh too... mustn't miss out on them either.  This time I decided I would place one order for all things under the AC umbrella.  Lottie Loves Paper is my shop of choice and I had a good browse and made a list.  Then I crossed off most of the things on the list when I realised how many sheets of paper that would be!  I settled on 5th & Monaco (paper pad, ephemera and stickers), Paige Evans (one sheet of the pastel diamonds) and Maggie Holmes (four sheets of paper and the sticker sheet).  I was so excited by 5th & Monaco and yet it has sat there un...

This post was found in my drafts file.  Created in 2018 and not published (who knows why?!) I am sharing it now... I am sure this is a scraplift but now (2020) I cannot remember who from. Ah, CVS goodness! And absent minded doodly borders. Thanks for stopping by!

Today I'm sharing the batch of cards I made for StickerKitten's HOCHANDA shows...

I'm guest designing for the fabulous Lottie Loves Paper today... They are holding a cyber crop in their facebook community and I am hosting one of the challenges.  Prizes are available so do check it out! I've used Pink Fresh Studio goodies all available in the LLP online shop. I'm a bit obsessed with adding sewing machine details at the moment.  I do love the texture it adds to a layout. Here is the sketch I designed which is the basis of the challenge. Here's the video: