 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial. This sweet scrapbook layout is one of me and not all but some of my bestest friends from school. There are seven of us in total so we are missing Hailey and Karen in this one. So this was taken two years ago at the Plymouth Ho which is where I live and you can see the lighthouse there in the background so it's a beautiful beautiful part of England and I love living by the coast. So I decided I wanted to scrapbook this photo and I thought I would use the New Gardenia collection so you see me there just flicking through the 12x12 paper pack and I've pulled out that lovely polka dot background which is going to be the main background and then I've got this lovely butterfly paper. Some of you are probably looking going oh my gosh she just rips into that paper. I don't get attached to paper because there is always another nice collection coming out and there's always something new around the corner so I appreciate it I enjoy it for the moment it's out and yeah rip into it enjoy it. So you can see there I've ripped into the butterfly one and also the lovely dragonflies and then I've got this striped one which is just the reverse of the dragonfly I think or is it the butterfly? No I think it's the butterfly so I'm just popping my photo on there just so I've got a nice little matching border and then I think afterwards I then stick it on yeah that's the reverse of the dragonfly one that deeper green and then again just framing it on that so just keeping everything together. Now this is my new toy I've actually got all of them so there's six in the collection and these are the new opal polishes by Cosmic Shimmer they are gorgeous. Now there is a magic with them you're not going to see it in this tutorial but I will be sharing them next week um they're just wonderful they dry pretty instantly so they're not really they're not meant so much for what I'm kind of using them for now but I just wanted to create a really shiny background without losing the polka dots so it looks a bit odd there in the photo but actually when you move it and stuff it looks really really nice and I do add a little bit more in a minute so now I'm just sticking down those two larger sections there at this point I still wasn't really sure in terms of like orientation how I was going to have it because the dragonflies can you know you can turn that paper anyway it doesn't matter and the same with the butterflies so I knew I wanted to keep it quite centered the photo so I'm going for you know because usually I kind of stick to the left or the right when I do my layouts but I thought this one I'm going to stick right in the middle so I'm bringing in some of this uh gold yeah sorry I did pick up the rose gold before but this is the gold washi tape this was just in the pack that I picked up from the range and I'm just popping three strips there through the middle just to break it up a little bit and you can see now I'm just really working in that opal polish and it is it's really really nice it comes with the lovely little sponge that's all compact that goes in the lid so there's no mess you don't have to lose any excess either because that just stays on the sponge but you can see now how it just it really does shine so that color I was using is let me just grab it it is the golden flamingo but like I said I do have the whole collection of the opal polishes so now I've just added some foam adhesive to the back of my photo and I'm just going to stick that directly in the center there you can see I'm still thinking hmm should I go down no no go on Sam stick it down go on go on there we go that's it now no going back then I'm just going around and just stressing all of the edges with my little dovecraft distressing tool this just phrase and breaks up all the fibers on the corners there again you can see that better in the photos you I don't know how well or what screen you're watching this on but you can just about make out there that's just ripping it all up so that was actually near the end of the day that I done that bit and then I stopped and this is now the next day and what I've gone ahead and done is using these are some stamping up punches is I've just cut a variety of sizes I've done a larger flower and a smaller flower and then this is another punch which has got this really nice little leaf and I was actually been a bit lazy I couldn't be bothered to die cut a ton of leaves so I just thought I'm going to grab that punch and just do a load that way so it does also punch out like a bird and its wing but you can see there I'm not quite punching out the bird I'm missing it and just doing the wing and the leaves it was just really really quick then I've just got my foam and I'm just kind of molding and shaping the flowers there just really makes them you know come to life a bit gives them that 3d dimension and then I'm just going through and adding one of my flatback pearls to the middle of each one again just to give them a little bit of shine and bring them to life a little bit just and adding a tiny bit of a leans tacky glue there as well just to make sure they don't fall off and then I'm just arranging them now I am covering the lighthouse it you leave a little bits left in there but I have tons of photos of the lighthouse and so many better ones of the lighthouse it's kind of you know you see it your whole life you get very much used to it so it wasn't about that in this photo so I will may well scrap another page one day with the lighthouse or Smeaton's tower as it's known but yeah for the minute it's not really what I was kind of focusing on it's just me and Louise, Catherine, Kirstie and Katie so now I'm just sticking down all those flowers with my hot glue again just keeping them really really close and tight together so I've got nice little clusters either side and then just slowly start layering up all of the the gold leaves and just yeah just I've really made it really false you can see there by by magic there's loads already on the page and just keep kind of feeding more of them in I did go ahead and cut some more out again because I just really wanted to add quite a lot of shine there this is the Dovecraft gold mirrored card stock and it just obviously worked great with that opal polish and also the gold washi tape that runs through the middle as well I was going to add gold to the middle of the flowers but I thought no I'll keep them with the pearl colors that kind of matches the papers and stuff so I didn't want to go too too cold too too cold but yeah I think it works nicely and you can see now I've added even more and they come start to kind of crawl into the photo as well which I thought was nice now I pulled in Smile you'll see there but I didn't like the plain gold so I pulled in these other letters from American Crafts Picnic I think it's called and they've got a slight kind of like white kind of yeah a slight white border on them and I just thought that little kind of white on each of the letters just helped them kind of stand out a little bit I guess and just broke up that gold I just thought it was going to be a bit too gold otherwise so yeah I preferred it this way anyway then I also added in that little friends for life and just done a little tag on the end of it and then also this one here I've put them on foam adhesive again I've put a little tag cut on the the far left of that one good times with good friends and these are from that box that I shared in last week's layout which I picked up from the charity shop and I got literally thousands of these random phrases and they're just so good so they were going to be pretty much used and I think in every single layout then this is just my I think it's the Heidi Swap sticker book no it's Amy Tangerine I think and I just pulled out the memories because it's clear sticker so you can't see the sticker at all just the word memories and I thought that was again nice just a pop on the sky there and then I've got these little hearts which I'm going to have kind of just off of the left and the right hand side of the layout and I just thought that was another nice little touch as well as you can see I think I do three on that side and I think I do four on the other side of just all different sizes and again just another nice little kind of thing to add to the layout so yeah I really liked how this all came together as with most of my layouts I never really know what I'm going to do I tend to just start with a paper and then see where it takes me so now I'm just bringing in my Nouveau drops I can't remember what this color is but it's a really nice like pearlized golden color it's nice with a green hint of green as well so I'm just going around and adding some of those drops and that just kind of finishes the album so the album the layout it gives it a nice little bit more dimension there's loads of textures loads of height to this layout and yeah I really really liked how quickly it came together and you can see the shine that that opal polished you can see the frayed sides there and yeah I think you're going to see me using those polishes a bit more but I loved it so you can see now how lovely it looks I never know what to say I'm not trying to fill the space now or you see these pictures coming up at the end that but yeah hopefully you can see it clearly it's inspired you as always and yeah enjoy it so I will back again next week with another scrapbook layout and I'll be back again on Monday with my normal tutorials thanks for stopping by bye