 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching. This week's scrapbook layout is another old vintage photo. This is of my great-grandmother, so we call her little nanny. So she's the lady in the middle holding the baby. The young girl to the right is my nan and the baby is Gillian. So this picture we've worked out is about 1948 because my nan is 11 or 12 in the picture and she was born in 1936. So yeah it was definitely before the 50s. So I just love these old pictures. This is a copy so it's not the original because you'll see me distressing it in all kinds of things in a minute. So don't worry it wasn't the original photo but it's a lovely lovely picture. So I needed to scrapbook it. So what I'm doing here is I've just brought in some of my white homemade embossing paste and I've just mixed in some yellow ink because I want to try and match the paste to the background paper that I've got there. That's just a really really old stash of you know scrapbook layout papers. I wouldn't have a clue where it's from and it's just it's just got a distressed look about it which I liked. So although the picture is taken at the beach we think it was probably the Isle of Wikes. That's where they used to holiday a lot but it could also be along the coast you know around London, Portsmouth all that kind of southeast kind of area. Okay so the stencil I've got here is a stamping up one and it's got kind of a swooshy kind of look about it which kind of looks a little bit you know like the waves I guess. I didn't want to have a you know a particularly seaside looking layout but I did want to kind of keep some maybe the shapes and the little elements of it which you'll kind of see as I go anyway. So I'm just going along with my spatula and just spreading out that embossing paste to create a kind of strip going through the center of this 12 by 12 layout. So in between each time I'm using my heat gun just to get that heat set and then I can keep kind of layering up. Now I don't want it completely straight so I start coming down. I want it to you know look a little bit incomplete. Some bits are more lumpier than others and so it's yeah again it's a vintage picture. I wanted a vintage layout. I didn't want any straight lines. I don't want anything perfect so you can see here I'm just kind of a bit haphazard with it and just kind of go wherever I want and again just bring in my heat tool, heat set it and then go in again. It dries very quick. This particular recipe that I've been using for a long time you know works really well. So now I'm bringing in some fabric. Now the funny story with this fabric is my auntie told me and I've got very vague memories of my nan telling me as well but the little kind of bikini that she was wearing in the picture, my little nanny so her mother made for her. So again you talk in 1940s and when it got wet it went see-through which you can imagine for anybody any age that's embarrassing but for you know a young girl, 11-12 yeah that's not good. So again I'll have to get my nan to tell me this story again because yeah I can imagine it was she can laugh a lot about it now but I wanted to just have an element of this fabric which looked I think quite similar. I mean I don't know what colour that was but it's got flowers on it and I just thought it was a nice little touch to the layout. So I've just gone around there with my nail file just distressed up the edges and then I'm just using some of my little kind of decorative edges here and I'm using the end of my heavy scissors there just to hammer them in but it was just a nice little touch and it added a bit of gold because this is kind of a yellowy golden kind of layout. Now that fabric you know wasn't the correct colour to match the layout so the same ink that I've used to dye the embossing paste I've just added to some water in a little bowl and I'm just kind of soaking that strip of fabric. I didn't leave it in there for too long it's a pretty strong ink so that the fabric it was only a linen but it did take to it quite well so you can see there how much darker that's gone and again it just looks a lot more distressed. You could use coffee or tea as well to stain your fabrics. Now again I'm just going through and heat setting that and you can just see I've just taken it out of shot slightly there but whilst I was whilst I was doing that I put in these wood little kind of shapes of lighthouses anchors a clock shell starfish again so they're that sea kind of theme but without it being really in your face. Now again I wanted to make the most of that water so I've just brought in some doilies and just again just soaking them up now these are paper and obviously adding paper to water it did make it very weak but I was pretty quick with it I didn't leave this in long at all so I popped them in didn't need that last one and then take those straight out I did add a bit more color just to get a bit more of a deeper more of an orange brown as opposed to a yellow and then they get taken straight out and get heat set. Now because I didn't move them around or pull them out or anything which is you know what you really want to do when you're using paper um once you use the heat tool against that it's much much better and you can see there I'm just being really careful with my tweezers just pulling them apart just a little bit and then I will get straight into that and just start heat setting it so it dries up and it goes really kind of really crisp and um you get that real kind of weather the water's kind of sat in amongst the creases you get a much deeper part of color you can see there they've come out really really well I was really pleased with them some parts are lighter some are really dark some of it's a little bit ripped but it looked really good so now I'm bringing in my distress oxide Tim Holtz this is vintage photo which I always use for distressing and I just die cut a tag and um I don't know why I just think because of the 40s and the war and tags and it just yeah I just kind of pulled that one out and just thought that would work quite well with this layout again just using that nail file to uh distress the sides there and um I used a little hole punch for the top there as well but that's going to have a nice piece of ribbon through it I'll put a little eyelet on it as well and um yeah that will look good so again just distressing it up and crinkling the card stock you know using the um the distress oxide on the creases and that and you can see just how quickly you can get these bits so while I've got the ink out I'm just going through all of those little wood veneers that I had as well so I'm just really preparing everything there was a lot of layers to this layout a lot of texture to this layout and I just wanted to get that all ready and then I can kind of play around with the positioning and where I'm going to put it all so just the last of those little bits there so now I start to bring everything in and kind of play around really so this this did take me a while this whole layout took me about two hours to do because it was a lot of you know obviously elements I wanted to bring into it and it's another way to make all of your bits match you know I none of this matched to start with but I've you know by using that um you know that watercolor and things like that it's it really does work so now I've got another sheet of that same paper and I'm just creating a strip to go through the center again I just wanted another kind of element I wanted another texture and something just to kind of sit everything along I guess so I'm just distressing that up the same way and then I'll get that piece glued in right across the center so it covers up a bit of that um embossed embossing paste but there's so much of it going up you know the top and the bottom as well that you you know it's it's not getting lost at all and it's not until you look closely at this that you really then appreciate all the different kind of parts to it anyway so now that picture was quite thin because it was a copy it wasn't done on a strong piece of card so I'm just adding a piece of craft card to the back just to give it some support and the slight weight of those metal edges as well just made it a little bit floppy so I just wanted to create more of a a sturdier piece really so now that's a much stronger photo to use because obviously it's going to be you know stuck on top of lots of bits so again I'm just playing around moving it now I've got that strip it just everything seemed to kind of tie in a little bit better and I just I really really enjoy this I keep looking at that picture and the man to the left he's got these you know really high waisted they were very fashionable I know you know I imagine back in the day but those swimming trunks that he's wearing were cracking me up every time I looked at it and I'm not sure what my nan's thinking as she looks across to Gillian her sister who's the baby and that's again why we know that it's roughly 1948 because of Gillian's age and how old she was in the picture she was only probably about eight or nine months there and just everybody looks really happy and the fact that there's a photo taken this long ago you know it's you've got to cherish these pictures and I love you know love looking through old pictures so I'm starting to commit as I say now to the page and I'm sticking everything down so I just use my hot glue for the fabric and then for the tag I put it on a little bit of foam and again I'm putting some foam to the right hand side of the picture and then I'll just put some hot glue to the left just so the levels stay the same and I haven't got anything kind of you know higher than the other and it looks a bit odd so you can see that I've just used the hot glue on that left bit so that is now in I see it can't move it it's done I always get a bit nervous when I do that because I think oh no what if I think of something else but no I was pretty confident so I'm just bringing in some more of that embossing paste just again just to create a little bit of mess really no other reason just more texture more more bits to look at and yeah I just yeah that's what I like to do and then just slowly start bringing in all the bits and pieces so all those lovely little wood veneers I'm doing a nice little cluster towards the bottom left there and just just play around I kept you know getting up looking around seeing what other bits I had I didn't actually find too many other bits I do bring in some hardware in a minute and again just to bring another texture to the layout and that more you know it was I was just finding anything vintage anything old that I thought would work well on this layout so again it's always the hot glue that I use if I'm using anything really that's not paper so fabrics and you know wood and things like that the hot glue is the best glue for that really and it's quick you know the layouts take a while anyway I don't want to be stood with you know wet glue for ages holding it down whereas when you just use your heat gun it is straight away and then you can move on so all those little bits like I said there's a little shell the anchor the clock lighthouse the ship's wheel and there was another little anchor there but I didn't use that one so now I want to choose my title and I just put a moment in time you know I wasn't there and it is just that little moment captured and I just thought that was a really nice title so yeah a moment in time I'm bringing in those craft card letters again they just seem to work really well when I do vintage layouts and I need to find some more of them because in a minute they're going to be gone and I'll want more and I like them because they're thin so you can cram in a very long title into your 12 by 12 without having to drop down another line or use smaller letters so I think that's why I like them a lot as well and then I've just used my tea ruler there just to get it all nice and lined up and I've just added some glue to the back because I don't trust the adhesive that they come with and then I've just gone and distressed the tops of it as well with that vintage photo distressed oxide again just to lift them a little bit and you can really see that title really pops and then I'm also now attacking that photo so I'm you know messing it messing it up mucking it up whatever that's what I'm doing now I'm deciding on little kind of quotes little phrases to put in the title sorry to put next to the photo and these are the Tim Holtz I can't remember what the name of these ones are but there's brilliant you get so many of them there literally are tons and tons and tons so I've just pulled out a few of the titles there which I can't I can't see them when I'm doing my edit I'm doing my voice over here in the picture that I've follows quite small but I'll tell them again in a minute and I just wanted to kind of touch on the decade as well of this layout and the photo so I've just put the 40s now I do want to find the word style I didn't want to stamp it but I think when I find the right sticker I'm going to add that just below the 40s there so it says 40s style now I'm just adding some ribbon some matching ribbon through the top of that tag and just tying it off there with another bit of ribbon just to kind of keep it together and then just make sure you always seal your edges to be fair with this being a vintage layout it wouldn't have mattered if I'd let let it kind of just fray that would have looked good as well but I just kept this one so that it wouldn't really and then I'm just sticking the tails down to the the actual layout as well just so they don't get kind of caught they shouldn't do because they sit in plastic sleeves anyway but I just thought it would be best to just kind of stick it down a little bit just so you can kind of see it better now I had a little bit of that scrap kind of where I was fraying the the fabric you can see it there and it's just another nice little texture so I'm just adding a kind of clump of it and then I've got this old vintage key really really old this is naturally tarnished or patinaed look you know it's all natural I haven't had to do anything to that so that's the best kind of bits to use the real vintage stuff so I've just put one there now I wanted to kind of touch on the fact that that man in his swimming trunks really makes me laugh so I've just used one of the rosy studio puffy stickers and it says lol just alo l and I'm going to just stick that just by him and I just thought that was really good so now I'm just covering the picture with a bit of scrap card and I'm just spraying some of the ink side I can't remember the colour and just spraying some splotches really across the layout you've got to be quite confident when you do this because it is quite scary because you've just done all that work and then you're just spraying something over the top of it but I've used it before and I need to get more colours to be honest I've got others but some of them have dried up and gone a bit and just heat set them so that just again just gives another pattern another another part of the the layout now I do like these craft card letters when they've got some glossy accents over the top and again it just really makes them pop and I've done that on the one that I've done with my granddad and myself so I've just done that again on this one and then I just added another little bit of hardware there it was just this kind of like it looked like a brooch and that's the layout complete really really love this it made me smile it was a joy to make and that's what scrapbooking is and that's what it should do it should bring you joy and make you happy and yeah it's just nice to remember those moments that I'm not even part of you know I've not even a thought there but um anyway they have it so really really nice very vintage very antique looking layout this week lots and lots of fun lots of kind of techniques have been used in this one but as I always say again no right and wrong you saw what I done I just done whatever I wanted and um you could still add even more like I said I'm going to add the word style but you can see all the detail there it looks really really fun and um yeah I hope you've enjoyed it as always so oh I forgot to say what the the words were I think uh it's coming up now so I ended up pulling out of the stickers play in the beach and remember something the happiness wait isn't that bad I can't even see the picture as it's flicking past anyway you can see it until next week guys bye