 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Graph. Thank you for watching this week. So the scrapbook layout I'm going to be sharing today is one from a trip that I had back in 2015 when I went to Borneo, went to Sarawak which is the Malaysian state of Borneo and visited the amazing orangutan kind of sanctuary. So it's a protected forest with huge huge forest and it's where they've got not necessarily rescued but it's just a part of the forest which is protected so it can't be you know they can't chop down the trees they can't build on it they can't do anything. Now this place is just so special they are completely wild you go there you are never guaranteed that you'd even see any and that is the kind of thing I wanted I wanted to go somewhere so that if I did get the chance to see them I am seeing them in the in their natural habitat. Now we were extremely lucky because when we arrived and the ranger you go in small groups and we arrived and the ranger just said to us you know you need to keep your voice down and just take things easy don't try you know no running and things like that that's fine so we're walking down the hill and then all of a sudden Richie who is the huge orangutan that you'll see in the picture or that you've already seen just walked right across her path just really slowly and it just completely caught me off guard I stopped in my tracks I couldn't get photos not I wasn't even thinking about that it was just one of those kind of magical moments that I just will always remember so if anybody ever asks me what was it you know a special experience for you this is up there because it was just magical and it made me cry and just to see this amazing huge gracious animal just walking right past you was incredible so anyway that's just a little bit of background towards you know of these stories that's a background of the pictures that I'm sharing today so you've just seen me there kind of sharing the photos and basically what I've done is I have just not long ago got a new cricket machine so I've been playing around with it and I went and die cut lots of different leaves and when I peeled off the the kind of the card from the the sheet that you get it had this great kind of stencil so I thought I would use that to start creating the background for my scrapbook layout so you'll see here I'm just bringing in different distressed oxides I think I used pine needles um forest something forest was it mowed lawn no that was it evergreen shabby shutters all those kind of colors and I'm just basically with that one there that you've seen now I just kind of done two different colors then I'm bringing in this one and I'm coming in this was the I think it was the moat no it's not must have been the evergreen I think anyway and you can see I got really nice results with it so I was I thought when it come off I thought actually I don't want to waste that I think I'm gonna you know use it for my background so I didn't go right to the edges there's some white parts and things like that but you'll see me now start to kind of distress that a bit more and kind of cover that all up because the the whole thought process behind this layout is I wanted to feel like I was back in the jungle so I wanted the layout to make me feel like I was back there again because if you ever get the chance to go to Borneo it's just an incredible place to be so I'm just yeah I'm so happy that I got to you know experience that so this layout I just wanted to be very green I wanted it to be really really full and yeah just with lots of texture it's very 3d and it's come together I'm looking at it now it came together really well so these are the photos you can see them a bit closer up now and I'll go through the names so this is Richie so like I said he's the one and he had gone away for three months no one had seen him he'd gone deep into the forest and the rangers said you know he'd already spoken about Richie and said that you know he's our biggest Murangatang that we have you might not see him he hasn't been seen for a long time and even the rangers were really surprised like shocked and happy and they were getting excited and it was just it was just a great experience and then like other groups of people came later on and Richie by this point had gone back into the forest again so those people we were saying to them we got to see him and they were like oh my gosh I can't believe we missed it this is amazing so again it was just a really lovely moment so for at this point I thought I'm not going to use all of the photos I thought I'm just going to do one layout and have the picture of Richie right in the middle this picture was I did zoom up quite a bit this one was just taken on my phone so it wasn't great I got other pictures which I used with my my actual you know proper SLR camera but this one yeah I just had my phone at that point because he didn't stay around for long he came down to get a load of fruit that they laid out and then he kind of disappeared back into the forest now the other ones that you see they are normal like that's how close I got to them so these you've got here this is Suduko's the mother so she's the larger one and then you have Annalisa who's her daughter so she's the slightly smaller one in front you'll see when I flip this one over so the little one there to the left that's Annalisa and then you've got Suduko who's the mum and that's them closer in the bigger picture so Annalisa's on the back of her mum and then that's them the bottom left is them both playing up in the trees so we've really got to kind of you know see lots of them they hung around for quite a while and they walked very close to me the ranger said that it was okay he said just don't make any sudden movements don't scare her and just let her walk past and she did so again I just couldn't believe how lucky I was so I'm just going around now I've just distressed all the edges of the layout I've used my dovecraft distressing tool and now I'm starting to bring in all these leaves now I did off camera go and distress them all you saw me rolling them a little bit just to kind of create some shape the brown leaves come out really really well and you'll see them better in the pictures at the end but they really did look because there was like the you know there was the dead leaves on the floor so they were quite brown and you had the real lush wet you know like jungle feel of the leaves in the trees and I just wanted to kind of create that so I I've just filled these photos with leaves surrounding them and I think it looks really nice so you'll see now I'm just using my hot glue I just wanted something that was just going to be quick really because there was a lot to do with this layout and I just think every time I look at it it just I love it I really like this and I that's the whole point of doing scrapbook layouts is for me anyway it's to make the person that maybe looks through this to feel like what it was like to be there and I know it's only paper but I hope you can kind of get what I'm trying to say is you know we were in the forest and it was just amazing so as I said we were in Sarawak so Borneo is is two states you've got Sarawak which is the Malaysian state and then you've got Sabah which is the Indonesian state so we were in Sarawak and that's what I'm spelling out there so these are just some cork alpha stickers that I've got I don't know where they're from I've actually had them quite a long time and they were just in a plastic bag so yeah I want to say probably somewhere like the works of the pound shop it might have been the pound shop anyway they were a little bit lost because they're quite thin just directly onto that paper so I'm just bringing in some green washi tape there and then I go and stick them down it just helped them lift up a little bit really easy and these ones are super sticky as well so I didn't need to put any like extra glues or anything on the back of them but I just saw that cork kind of textured lettering worked really well with this layout and that particular wording fitted perfectly so now I just went along and laid out my stamping up alphabet label stamps I've got the word Borneo there so I'm just cutting that down smudged it up a little bit as well just to keep it distressed and kind of you know I don't really want a lot of white in this layout at all so I'm just messing up all those corners and I use the distressed tool on it as well so yeah again you'll see that in the photos at the end it's it's got a lot of yeah a lot of distressedness to it so I'm just sticking down there so it's Borneo Sarawak because again I mean I'm pretty good with my geography now I've like I said I have traveled quite a lot around the world so yeah it's um look it up have a little look anyway if you are interested so then I got went ahead and I stamped Richie, Annalisa and Suduko or Suduku and again I'm just going to cut those down distressed them and give them a bit of a in-cup with the it's the frayed burlap distressed oxide I like that one for just messing up the edges and stuff so I mean this didn't take too long to do the most time consuming part was that stenciling actually at the beginning this kind of part was really quick because I obviously the cricket machine which I love just cut all of those leaves out so quickly so it was yeah great so now I'm just sticking these all down again names I'm pretty good when it's a moment that I will always kind of treasure so I probably would never forget these names but you never know many many years down the line I would get very frustrated if I couldn't remember so there we have Richie, Annalisa and Suduku so then I was going through my box of subtitles there which I love and I've pulled out three so I've got opportunity of a lifetime which that is for me I doubt very much I will probably go back especially not to there again I may well I'd like to think I'd be able to see you know them more orangutans in the wild but I doubt I go back to the Borneo so opportunity of a lifetime moments you'll never forget and not just another day because that wasn't that was just epic it was incredible so I'm just sticking them all down I distressed them exactly the same way as I did before so I think I wanted them to just blend in really nice I didn't want them to really stand out again I didn't want lots of white so I've kind of I think I've done that like I said I think this has turned out really well so that's all of those now stuck down and that brings me to the end of the layout so I'm bringing in the this is like a really nice greeny gold Nuvo drop again I I know Nuva drops in a you know jungle themed layout but I just like them just adds a bit more texture and just a little bit of shine and that's the end of the layout and I absolutely loved it now I did also add in you might see it closer in the photos in a minute but to the bottom right not right now but in a minute I put 2015 and I just stamped it and you can see it there in the bottom right hand side just again to remember that year and I'm going to try and do that a bit more on my layouts just a little date in the corner and look they just look lovely the green leaves I think just turned out really well and I just love the all the distressed look around the photos there you can see it just really messed up you know I didn't want this to be neat I just wanted it to be really rustic and I yeah I think I've managed that with this layout so I hope you've enjoyed my little story there it was nice to sit down and kind of reminisce and remember that day and I will be back again next Sunday with another layout thanks for watching bye