Laura Rumble - Crafter

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!

This evening I am sharing a layout/video combo made in collaboration with Lisa from Lollipop Box Club. I've used the February Lollipop Box along with a leaf sprig cut file I designed for this collaboration.  You can find out more about the free cut file and sketch in the Lollipop Box Club Chat group on Facebook. I had such a fun time creating with this kit.  I loved the leaves on the My Green Cow collage sheets so much I had to draw some extra!  Do you doodle on your creations?  If you do, I'm really curious to know - are you ever 100% happy with them?  I know the doodles are meant to be just that, care free and imperfectly loose, but I couldn't help thinking 'if only I could rub that one out and have another try!' In the end I added quite a lot of doodling, certainly more than I first planned to!  It does add a whimsy that I love to a page so perhaps it'll be something I start doing more often. Here's the process video:  I'...

I 've loved joining in with the Lottie Loves Paper Cyber Crop over the last couple of days.  Here are a few more of my layouts. This one is for the tags and tabs challenge. Lots of messy paints and inks paired with black pen doodling. and a tonne of tags cut from Pink Fresh papers. This one is for the mixed media prompt.  The stars are from a Confessions Of A Paper Addict cut file.  Texture paste, ink, gesso and anything else that was in reach combined to make the background. With a hidden tag telling the story of the photo. And finally using up the scraps... These were mainly pieces cut for or trimmed off the previous layouts so a true scraps page.  Ermm... I'll admit I ran out of scraps at one point and had to engineer some more!! Thanks for the cyber crop, Sarah, and for having me as a guest designer to join in the fun!

I sketched this hand a couple of years back. It is my friend's hand.  I took a photo (rather than make him sit still holding his hand out!) and worked from the photo. The straight lines you might see around the edges are bleed lines.  It was used as a background with a Bible verse over the top.

So everybody is talking about zentangles...  What are they, I ask?! So I googled it, and then youtubed it and then had a go... I'm quite pleased.  It's not like me really.  You just free style it with no thinking it through and no planning beforehand.  And there is no pencil lines before ink, no rubbing out and no going back and starting again. And it's not meant to be perfect.  A concept I struggle with.  I'm sure you are not meant to analyse it when you've finished but other than seeing all the mistakes and things I'd do differently the large section at the top stands out to me.  I think it looks like bugs or insects!  Not at all what I expected when I started out. Probably something I will have a go at again.  Next time I'd love to throw some colour in too...  but then it wouldn't be a zentangle... would it?