 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching today. This week's graphic layout is one of me on the beach. This was taken in November of 2015 and this was on a trip to Krabi in Thailand and that was at Maya Bay which is where they filmed at the beach or parts of the beach the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio. So it was really really beautiful and on the particular kind of morning we were there it was pretty quiet and you can see there there was nobody in the water and I was able to capture a really lovely photo so the colors of the sea the colors of the sky it was boiling hot it was just wonderful. So I've been meaning to scrapbook this for a while so I pulled out this ombre paper which was from Hobbycraft it's their ombre array paper pack 12 by 12 and then this is a craft Smith paper pack and was it craft Smith? No I think I just missed what it was at the beginning so I was too busy talking about something else anyway it would be in my blog but I love this design here with all the foiled kind of like honeycomb so I've just cut a strip of it like three layers just to kind of add to the layout I'm not sure where to put it yet and I'm just there just having a little play around but I just thought the colors in those were just all the kind of colors in the sea and the background as well and the sky just yeah it just seems to sit really well with that photo. Anyway so I'm sitting that on some white cardstock just to create a frame I actually go for a Polaroid look with this one so I've got room to do a little bit of journaling although my writing is not very neat I still want to try and you know journal on them when I can. I was just cleaning off some glue that I had on that one there as well if you wondered what I was doing so now you can see here I'm just cutting that Polaroid look to it so you've got that space on the bottom it's really nice and it really does make that photo pop now and you can see that I'm just popping Krabby 2015 and then I put November I was thinking when was it when was it counting back the months so yeah Krabby 2015 come on Sam November half-term there we go I always write in capitals and I'm trying I do try when I can to start writing in lowercase like we used to in school the way we were taught but somehow I've just completely lost that over the years anyway now I am matting that onto some rose gold this is the dovecraft mirrored cardstock and it just worked and matched perfectly with the foiling in the papers so now I'm using these these are from the works they're only a pound these little puffy stickers and I'm going to just have my title as Maya Bay so I bring in some other letters in other words in the moment this is a chamele sticker page and I'm just pulling out the camera again the camera was just the exact colors of the layout so I thought that looked really good so I ended up bringing that in and I was just looking through my stash really to try and think of bits that I wanted to add in I pull out these clouds but I don't end up using them and they end up going back anyway so then I've got this washi tape and it's just got a really faint kind of foiling and kind of green aqua color going through it so again it just kind of matched in really well it was just to add a little bit of you know something really to the back of that layout at this point I wasn't really knowing what I was going to do so I kind of don't end up needing this you don't really see a lot of it but yeah at this point I wasn't sure what I was doing you can see there I did start to do some I was using my cosmic shimmer sprays but I didn't like it and that's what that little kind of splodges there so now I'm bringing in some flower soft and I thought I'm going to create kind of a bed of sand so the flower soft color that I've got here just worked really well and the one thing I always talk about and remember of that day is how soft that sand was it's it was like flower it was just so soft and I kind of wanted to have that in this layout so again it kept the memory going and I would always remember that so I've just kind of created a frame around the photo which you saw me doing there with this Tombow tacky glue and I wanted the tacky glue just so that this is really going to stick down well and I'm just sprinkling out the flower soft now the flower stuff soft is actually quite old and it was quite clumpy so you can see there I've literally dumped out the whole of the pot but there was actually very very thick layers around that bottom left so I do spend some time really kind of spreading it out and kind of breaking up all the clumps and just like you do with glitter I just kind of tapped it off the page each time and then I had a whole another pile and I was able to just tip it back into the layout so it did take me a bit of time but you can see there it's starting to build up and although the glue is still drying behind once that dries clear at the end it looks really good now because I put the photo on some foam adhesive it lifted it up and it does again look like it is sitting on a bed of sand so I was really quite pleased how this was coming together you can see I also ended up dragging some more of the sand off to the right hand side there because I wanted to add a few more bits and pieces when I get to it so I'm just bringing in my that's my big plastic stickers they're by American Crafts the Fantastic and then I've got Maya or Maya Bay to go underneath it and I'm just adding some glue off screen there just to again make sure it's all stuck down and it was really starting together together and again it's you know that fantastic was the perfect colors and it had a kind of ombre to it as well so it all started to really tie together these little hearts are from the same sticker pack so I'm just kind of having them on there as well because I did absolutely loved it that whole day it was a boat cruise and we went to a few other beaches and we went to like a lagoon and we were diving off the the boat and it was just amazing it was just one of those days I always remember so yeah lots more to scrapbook and then so I've got the hearts there and then I'm just putting down here beach life and this is from the Amy Tangerine sticker book and again they had this exact colors that I needed and then there I've just popped at the top perfect way to spend the day and especially in November coming from the UK November's usually pretty you know dreary to be the other side of the world and in places like this was amazing then I had these little flip flops it's just those random things you kind of have in your stash so I was trying to you know incorporate them somewhere I wanted it to look like they were again kind of in the sand I've added that gosh oh what's the tree called oh my god my brain talk about brain freeze palm tree got it I've added the palm tree then I'm adding in this pineapple I added the plane to the top left that little flower to the top left and of course the little kind of beach umbrella on the actual photo and I just thought it really started to make it look quite fun so although it wasn't beachy in terms of us bringing all those things it just sits really well with this theme and then I've just got my nouveau glitter and again when this dries it just gives a nice sparkle and it kind of tied in and matched nicely with the foiling and yeah it just again pretty I guess quite quick to do it didn't take me too long at all it's just that sound really getting that in place and obviously making sure it dried but everything else came together quite quickly this is just my cosmic shimmer glitter pen I'm just going over again just some of the wording there just to give it a bit of sparkle when you move it and that's pretty much it I was really really pleased with it and there you have it I think it captures the day perfectly with all of those different you know textures and embellishments and shine and sparkle and all those lovely bits and pieces so there you go you can see it now in more of its true colour because my lighting isn't always the best and I think it looks really good so I hope I've inspired you again bringing in different kind of materials to use in your layouts different textures to use in your layouts again I always just do what I want so as always I hope you've enjoyed it if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more these come up every Sunday I share a scrapbook layout thanks for watching bye