 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. This week's scrapbook layout is one of me and my best friend on her hen weekend, so I had the pleasure and the joy of organising a weekend. This was back in oh gosh 2015 I think, not bad I forgot, it's a few years ago and we had a great weekend in a beautiful place called Bosinva in Cornwall and this particular picture is us on the beach playing some games that I'd organised and as you can see we had her dressed in a great, I'd like to have got a hen outfit but we've got the best next best thing which was a chicken outfit so there she is and yeah she's got something questionable in her hand which if you look closely you will look but I'm not going to talk about that because not everybody will want to hear about those kind of things, those you know fun things that girls get up to on the weekends in the UK that's what we call them if you're unsure what I'm talking about it's a bachelorette party, so I need a scrapbook anyway. As you can see I've gone through and chosen some papers and they are from the New Page Evans Wimsicle paper pack and this is actually the whole collection that I'm using as well so I've picked that strip there with kind of like the rainbow colours and I've tried to do it so that the blues are at the top to represent the sky and then I've got the other colours at the bottom for like the sound and just the base really and then I've just pulled out all of those really pretty ephemera flowers and leaves and bits and pieces and now I'm starting to build up my background so I've got this cosmic shimmer this is the pink I can't remember the exact name it'd be in my blog post and I'm just starting I want to have an explosion behind the picture with flowers and glitter and yeah just lots of colour and just the the real focus draws you into the picture so you can see here I'm just starting to kind of try to create that look of an explosion of glitter so I've just you know used quite a lot of the cosmic shimmer there and I'm just heat setting it just to you know you don't have to hang around away just it dries pretty quick it's just a glue base glitter so that's all set there as you can see it's got such a lovely shimmer to it really is lovely and then I'm just starting to play around again with the base it I'm not going to lie this was one of those layouts I still enjoyed it but it was really frustrating me because I knew exactly what I wanted in my mind but it was just taking me ages to get there so I think in total this took about two and a half hours to do but it was again I still love doing it so the background although we're at the beach it's a bit of a boring background there's just a bit of mess really behind us so I wanted to remove all of that again to make us really kind of stand out so you can see there just how different now by fussy cutting the image it's made us yeah just look like almost like I don't know like cartoon like it just looks quite fun so I'm just sitting it on some white card stuck there to the left because I'm going to be fussy cutting again so while that glue was drying I needed even more glitter because I cut the picture down now so there was a bit of white showing so again just fussy cutting now so I've got a nice white border around the two of us and again that just helps make that photo really pop so now I wanted a darker color because the white was getting a bit lost against the white background even though they had the glitter on it so I've just pulled out another piece of the this is the like shiny stars and I'm just going to sit that behind it you don't really see hardly any of it but the the colors all match within the layout which is what I wanted so again just sitting that there and then I will get that one fussy cut out again as you can see and now that just I think starts to really stand out a lot more so I was you know I was talking to myself as I was doing it you know each time I was like no it's not right okay do it again now I'm starting to create that explosion behind us so this is when I'm going to start bringing in all of these beautiful die cuts they're so pretty all just all my kind of colors lovely with the gold kind of foiling in between and I just start going around and yeah start to pull it all together so as always nothing stuck down until you know I'm really sure on what I'm doing so I'm just adding some foam adhesive to the back of the photo because obviously I'm going to be putting all of that stuff behind and I just like to have that bit of dimension so it's just flipped forward a bit now and you can see how much I have really packed in behind that photo with a couple of little bits over the top actually just the one it's that gold where I'm playing around at the minute that gold flower is actually just over the top of the photo but everything else is set behind and and again just adding even more I think you can see how much I've used on the right hand side nearly all of that that pack's gone so no doubt I'm going to be buying some more and then all of the white framed ones are towards the left hand side there but yeah just really really like it and I was you know again talking to myself going oh yeah it looks really cool now oh I love it yeah yeah happy with that so now I've finally started to feel that it's gone in the way that I wanted I can start adding in my title and all of that you know fun decoration so I'm talking of fun that's the title so this one is called it's though sorry the best fun so I'll be adding a smaller little words above that in a minute but this is just such a lovely it's a real thick plastic by Thickers I can't remember what collection again I will share all of that and this is a chamele little shaker photo sticker or camera sticker so I'm just popping that down amongst the flowers again just once you start adding these bits and pieces and it starts to you know really come together so that's the one that says the best fun well that says the best and then obviously the big fun there just below and yeah these are the rosie studio puffy stickers this is the whimsical puffy stickers these are the matching ones and that one there says fun times and just sticking that down and above that you've also got best friends and happiness and then on that sticker pack there are the tiniest dinky dinky hearts and stars and butterflies and I just go and pull all of those bits off and have them all kind of again almost coming out of that explosion background and all around the word fun and again when you see it closely in the photos at the end it really does look very fun really really liked it and yeah just like I said this is the bits I like doing all these little extras I'm just there adding in some more of those little hearts and tiny flowers and then I'm just finishing off with some glitter nuvo drops and and that was it so it was straightforward in a sense of what I've used it didn't take it shouldn't have taken me long it did take me long but I'm happy with that anyway I enjoyed it but you can see there just how lovely all of the glitter looks in the background all those lovely little stickers yeah just really nice and it fills me with joy and yeah makes me happy and that's what it's all about so I've got this lovely memory now scrapbooked which I've been wanting to do for a while there's a few more from the hen weekend as well like which I will eventually get around to doing but I do like this photo and yeah really really good fun so I hope you've enjoyed it hope you like this week's scrapbook layout and I'll see you again next week bye