 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching this week's Scrapbook Layout. Today I'm going to be using this photo of me and my sister. This was taken a few years ago on my birthday. I've always liked it, it's just a really nice one of the two of us, so I thought I would use that one today. So I've got my Chasing Rainbows paper pack by First Edition. Sorry about the glare, there will be a bit in this video because I'm using the, well you'll see in a minute, the cardstock that I choose. It does kind of affect the lighting so it does dip in and out a little bit, but it's still okay and hopefully you will still enjoy the video. So I'm just going through here, choosing some papers. I've gone for that kind of purple, pinky, ombre. I've got this lovely floral and then this amazing iridescent card and that's the one that kind of plays with my camera a little. So some of you know, I'm probably thinking, oh my gosh, she's cutting right into a photo. I am, I just wanted the frame of me and my sister so I didn't want to get, I got rid of the stairs in the background, I didn't think that was that great and I quite like how we really pop against the card. So I think it looks really, really great. So I'm just playing around there to sign in how I'm actually going to put this together. Again, you can see how dark the video goes as soon as that other card hits the lights, but so I'm going to first of all do a little bit of matting and layering just to frame my photo. So I'm just using my roller tape here and sticking down the photo onto the pinky purple paper there and then I will just fussy cut around that just so that it wasn't the photo direct onto the patterned paper. This just helps frame it a little bit. So I'm just using my bone folder there just to make sure that that tape's all stuck down nicely and then I'll go around and just give it a nice little frame and yeah, just think that just helps lift the photos a little bit so you just see there about a one-eighth of an inch. So once I've done that, then I go back in again and just start playing around really with the layout and how I want this to kind of come together. I kind of go into my layouts with an idea, but then that usually kind of completely changes. So the idea for this was to be quite floral, but I initially thought the photo was going to be towards the bottom left and then I ended up putting it in the middle so it does completely change. So again, sorry it's gone a bit dark there, but I'm just kind of thinking at the minute I was going to have that piece all along the bottom of the layout and then I thought actually it'd be quite nice to have through the centre and then I thought it looked a bit too plain so then I pull out this polka dot paper and I end up having that also with this and it's all from the same pack so it all looked really nice together. So I'm just just stressing the edges here. This is the dovecraft distress tool and it just roughs up the edges of your card stock, just exposing whatever the core of the paper is. So this is white core, so it just gives you a nice rough white edge and you'll see that more in the photos towards the end. So I'm just sticking that one down across the centre of that polka dot paper. Again just making sure that it's all nicely stuck down. I don't want this obviously lifting off and then I've just trimmed that down to about an inch and a half over each side and again I'm just distressing it just so it all matches. And then again just popping my tape on the back of that and sticking the whole piece down into the centre of that 12 by 12 floral piece. On the other side there you see you've got the fun unicorns but you do get three of these sheets in the pack so I've got that to use for another one. So now I'm starting to now kind of add more to it because I've kind of done my backgrounds. So I've just got my vellum here and I'm just pulling out a couple of sheets because I'm going to do some heating boss flowers with the vellum. So I'm just pulling out this is just a stamping up one it's quite an old one now and just choosing which ones I'm going to go for and I choose the two larger flowers just to do my heating bossing. So just using my embossing buddy just make sure I get all the static off of the vellum because when you initially stamp on this you can't you can see the image but you can't really see if you've got the the versa mark you know anywhere else or if you've got any grease still on there that you know your powder might stick to so you can start to see there when it catches the light where the flowers are. So I just lift it up each time just so I can see where I'm going to stamp each time so I don't obviously stamp over the top of one. So I've done that there now and I'm just bringing in my wow opaque white super fine embossing powder brilliant stuff and I'm just going over there just making sure they're all nicely covered and you can see just how great they look really nice on vellum and I just thought it would bring a nice different look to the layout. So now I'm just heat setting them all and again it just brings out that real nice crisp white colour and you get a really nice shine to them as well. So this takes no time at all it's really easy to do you just need to make sure you prepare it by making sure you rub off any grease marks and stuff and then you'll get a really nice crisp stamped image and you can see there how well once that hits the light you can see it taking there it just changes the colour slightly. Now I did go and do a load of silver as well but then with the shine from the iridescent paper and the just other bits I end up adding to it it just would have been too much so I end up keeping them for something else but I'm just using the coordinate in punch here and it makes life much easier when you just go through and punch them all out. So as if by magic there they are already and you can see all the silver ones as well because initially I was still thinking to use them but they don't get used but they will there's no way they're going to get wasted. So now I'm just starting to play around where I'm going to put the flowers, putting the photo down there with some foam adhesive I always like to do that I like to lift it off of the surface in case I want to pop anything underneath it and I just think it gives a nice little bit of dimension and then I'm going to add some foam squares I'm just trimming them down a bit and I'm going to add them onto the backs of all of these flowers because it's vellum and there's white it didn't matter that you might have been able to see some of these white foam stickers behind in fact I'm looking at the layout now and you can't notice it but the fact that white it wouldn't have made a difference you know it was for that reason I used the white so you wouldn't you know notice it. So you can see there where I'm starting to stick them in I was still thinking should I use the silver but I don't because I end up bringing in a load more white flowers from other collections so I picked up this ribbon the other day from B&M and I'm just putting a strip just slightly behind our heads along the the top middle part there I'm just putting some red double-sided tape on the back because these are slight paper ribbon it's hard to explain it's like a tough paper coated that's it it's a coated paper so I'm just putting some double-sided tape on it now I'm just bringing in my caddy here I just got tons all of my alphas and other stickers and all kinds of bits and pieces so I'm just going through there sorting out really what ones I want to use and I end up pulling out all the kind of silvery bits and some matching white flowers and these doilys so I'm just trimming it down I just I thought after as I'll dammit I usually like to put a little doily in so I'd forgot but because I'd raised the photo up this is why I mean it's handy to do that you can see there I just tucked that doily in just to the right hand side behind my sister so this is one of the Rosie studio these are the puffy stickers and I'm just bringing in the one that says beautiful it's really lovely really beautiful font and I'm going to stick that one just along the top there so at the minute I was just thinking it was just going to say beautiful and then later on I end up adding a bit more to it this one here says I heart this which I just like that that saying and it is like I said it's one of my favorite photos of me and my sister so I'm just sticking down that piece of the doily I forgot I hadn't done it until I went to go and put down the little I heart this so just stick that one down and then I just stick that over the top so that's that one done these were some fabric flowers I picked up from the range a while back and I just start adding them in I really like the contrast between the vellum and the fabric so and they were the same size so just started to again add a bit more depth to the layout and these are from Rosie studio these are paper flowers and I also add them in as well so I had the three different white flowers and it just again it gave a really nice effect and just started really building up this layout and I really liked it so you can see I've just added one above my sister's head I've got one down to the left one just below my sister and then that was it so again I stick them all down with with extra glue as well so now I thought I'm going to add in smile so beautiful smile because that's what we both have then my mum really likes this photo of us as well so I stick that one directly next to it just underneath that flower slightly and I just thought that looked really nice added some of the hearts which were from the same puffy sticker pack and I just think that looks nice with them kind of you know floating off the tops of the left and the right there of the saying and I just again pop some glue on before I stick it all down these are some more Rosie studio butterflies I'm adding them in the little acetate ones and they matched really well and I do end up adding another one as well towards the bottom later on oh there we go I'm doing it now so the small one in amongst the flowers and the larger one at the top again just starts to pull it all together then I'm bringing in these are some of the gemstones again by Rosie studio but the green worked really nicely so I'm just kind of randomly placing them around the layout again just looks really nice then this is the X's again from the puffy sticker so I just kept going to and throw a kind of you know and I did walk away from this for about 45 minutes something like that I had other things to do and yeah so you then think of other things to do with it so I'm just bringing in some of the green now this has got like a diamond glitter embossed stamp image over the top that was a mouthful then I was bringing in this dye here because I wanted to add some leaf effect but this one just didn't it wasn't the right kind of leaf it was too jungle like and I just thought no that doesn't look right so I pull out a stamping up one and I just put that one through my dye machine and it just you can see there just had a much nicer look so as if by magic again I've gone and done loads of them and you can see all the green leaves everywhere now and just how full this layout has become I was really enjoying it and I used every little bit of the leaves cut them all down and yeah it just looks really nice so now I've just bringing in that box of random stuff there's so many funny sentiments or titles or whatever you sub titles you want to call them in that box so I've pulled out this one here that says paint the town red then I've got this one which says glamorous and just pop that one in there then I've got this one that says all dressed up again really like it all appropriate as we were on our way out that night with a group of friends and then I'm just finishing off with a a with pink nuva drops I was trying to think of the name I can't remember the name was but it's a pink glittery one and I just fill lots of little areas with that and I thought it looked really nice so as you know when the nuva drops come in that means it's the end of the layout so there are some close-ups of me waving it around you can see there just how nice that all looks yeah love this one so now you see all the close-ups of the stills and yeah really nice that is more of the true color when I photograph them because that's in my lightbox so that is the color you would see them if you were you know it was daytime so you can see there just how full it is just you know go as I always say just go with the flow do whatever you want because somehow it just always works out so I very rarely really change your layout apart from that one a couple of weeks ago where I hacked it and cut it all up but even that way you know I didn't waste anything and it all turned out lovely so hope you enjoy it hope I've inspired you again have a lovely Sunday and I'll be back tomorrow with another tutorial thanks for watching bye