 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. I'm back with another scrapbook layout and this time I'm doing one of my hen party, well a few of the pictures I've got three. Now for some reason the beginning of the video has disappeared but it's fine. I've got a sheet of 12 by 12 and I've gone and cut strips of 2 inch by 12 in all different colors from the Fiesta Fever paper pack and then what I've done is I took a selection of my edger punches and I've got a Martha Stewart one, an X cut one and there was another one as well and you can see there basically along each of those different strips I have created a different border and I'm just going along with my glue and overlapping each one as I sit it down. So I started from the bottom and then slowly working my way up and I've got about half an inch that I'm leaving of each one. So I've actually got this idea from Paige Evans over on her channel and now hers is slightly different and she curled it all and it was very dimensional and things like that but I liked the idea of having lots of different colored strips of cardstock. So I just wanted to you know use the kind of last bits of this paper pack and I kind of clashed the prints with the plain so I've used the reverse of a lot of them so all the colors match everything ties in perfectly together but it is it's just a really fun effect. Now you know my hemp party was just absolute chaos it was without going into too much detail but it was a very very funny night and everybody was in a different fancy dress so we had Santa Claus, someone dressed as a toilet, someone dressed as a butcher with sausages around their neck, a turkey, a witch, a smurf. So everybody was clashing and colorful and just odd and I wanted to kind of create a layout that was that kind of way so again really you know really really crazy. So you can see now I've gone ahead and I've just covered that whole 12 by 12 piece of cardstock with those different strips. Now these are the photos so there's me as Santa Claus and then I've got one of me in let's say yeah the beginning of the night when we looked fresh so there's my mum me and my sister then there's my best friend in the top left with the turkey hat and then me and my sister and you can see she's the smurf and I never drink pints I've got a pint in my hand and I never drink pints but anyway so I wanted these three I just thought were particularly funny but I do have some other great ones but I just want to kind of frame them all mat and layer and all that kind of stuff so I'm actually doing it the reverse this time so I'm putting them on coloured cardstock first and then I'll mat them onto white so I'm just going through each picture there one on blue one on pink and then all of them I'm going to put on a white matte final layer just so that they kind of pop against the all of that kind of print because there's so much going on on this layout I wanted to you know make sure that nothing gets lost so you can see there the three and then just bringing in that white cardstock and it does it just really does you know like I said make it pop and you don't lose those photos so again this does create a bit more bulk to the layout but overall I keep the layout pretty flat this is probably really the most bulkiest part of these kind of pictures so one thing I've done is I've got this punch that creates this kind of I don't really know how to explain it but it allows you to be able to thread ribbon through now I'd never used it as a Martha Stewart one and I had this this ribbon here and I just wanted to have one with this punch along it so I'm just going along here and just weaving this kind of again I don't know what you call this this ribbon I know there's a name for it but it's completely gone at the minute but I just thought it would be a nice way to add a little bit of texture you know again just use the tools I've got I've had these things lying around for so long and I just think I don't know when I'm going to use it and when I saw this particular layout I thought actually yeah this is going to be a good good time to do it so I go along there it was a bit fiddly it did take me a bit of time but the overall finish did look really good and you can see it there just behind the picture of my mum me and my sister and yeah it was just nice it's again it's just texture it's kind of hard to pick up on in videos sometimes but it did look really good so the picture's already the background's all done so now it's just really a matter of starting to dress everything so I've got these puffy stickers from I want to say American crafts but I've got a feeling they're not I think they're hobby craft so again not doing very well with where I've got everything today but they are really nice puffy stickers but they looked really lost just putting them directly onto the layout background there so I'm just pulling this was a sheet from the beach life collection and I'm just kind of roughing up the edges there just ripping it freehand just to again just to give it a bit of something really so I'm going to run that strip just to the the left hand side there and that will give me just a nice blank background for my title I'm just putting my photos on some foam adhesive as I always do and then I'm going to stick down this strip first of all struggling there with the glue and this is on doubled the doubled the speed on this layout so you can imagine I was there shaking that bottle for a while so get the background bits stuck down first and then start positioning these photos so just get that one laid down there I haven't used three pictures on a layout for a while actually so it was quite nice to kind of combine more than one or two photos really so that's kind of what I stick to but just playing around there with the positioning and the title just before I kind of you know commit and actually stick down those other two photos so I'm starting to lay down the lettering here now now it's all in lowercase I don't think there's no there aren't any capitals on this one so again it just looks a little bit different as well which I liked so yeah hen party fun is the is the title of this layout and the colors worked really well as well again I've had these for a while but never quite had the you know the layout for them so everything does eventually get used which is good so you can see now how well that title really does pop and stand out and like I said it is on a foam so it's got a really nice fun texture to it as well so you've got the ribbon you've got the ripped kind of parts you've got all the layers of those strips and then you've got the foam from the title so lots going on then I'm bringing in some puffy stickers that one said woohoo I've got girls just want to have fun this is how we roll so lots of different ones and yeah just some fun little quotes so I'm bringing in some bit but I did go to use the purple on the left and then thought that didn't right so I've just made this nice orange bow which I end up sticking down later again just sort of look quite fun these are some of the cutouts that come on one of the street sheets in the 12 by 12 pack and that one just says yay so I've just fussy cut that one and then I start playing around deciding really where I want to do it this this layout actually took me quite a long time I remember I went away made a cup of tea come back again put it to one side so I just kept looking for different things to use so the top there that blue was just a bit too blank for me so I've just got these very thin washy tapes in an orange a pink and a green yeah again probably can't see it that well on the video but in the pictures you will I just wanted again something to break it up and then I remembered I had these neon do crafts strips sticky strips now they still sell these in the range I actually saw them the other day and I've had them for ages seriously I've had them for about three years and finally I found somewhere to use them so I just started laying these strips they're really really hard plastic but they bend and they're all sticky and they looked really quite good on this I thought yeah this is cool so and on the top I've done about four strips and I cut them all different lengths on that top left so you can just see me there kind of adding in more of those strips and they just they were just fun I just kind of you know pop them in anywhere really above the photos but mainly along the top left and along the bottom right you can kind of see there they've got some nice dimension shine they've got a bit glitter through them as well so yeah I was glad I got to use them so then I got some more of the cutouts from the paper pack this one says good vibes so again just fussy cutting that one out just kind of collecting as I always do bits and pieces you can see I've added in a little camera there just to the left of my best friend and me we were looking at a selfie that we'd taken on the camera so the camera little kind of chipboard embellishment looked really good there I'll put the good vibes up to the top left where there's the me my mom and my sister and then I've got these really nice enamel dots I'm adding a few of them into the on top of the photo there of me and my sister the bottom right just anything I had that was really colorful I've kind of added to this layout so I've got these fun rosy studio again kind of plastic stickers and just adding that slight little stars little hearts just lots and lots of stuff so just raid what you've got if it matches that it will work and yeah I just kept adding loads to this layout again you'll see it in the photos at the end but yeah so much texture and stuff it's really really cool and then at the bottom that was what I was saying earlier so girls just want to have fun I was adding glue onto the back of everything just because I didn't want these you know eventually peeling off because some of the adhesive's just aren't great on the stickers when you buy them so just making sure everything's stuck down there this is how we roll girls just want to have fun and again this is all rosy studio little sentiments and stuff so lots lots going on and then I'm just kind of working out where to put that bow so just having some hot glue there and I ended up popping it just above the hen title part there and I thought that looked quite nice again I don't tend to really add that bigger bow on my layouts because obviously it does create some you know height and bulk but it it was okay it still worked then we've got my trusty new video up so you know I'm coming to the end of the layout now and I added yellow pink blue light pink and green and then I went over and done it all again so there are tons and tons of Nuvo drops on this layout because again when they dry they just look so good and yeah they just again it's just another element to the layout and I really like them so that's why I've used them so yeah lots and lots and lots of Nuvo drops and there's the kind of dusty pink color again they just match so well with this this paper pack because there's so much color on that background you can pretty much get away with everything so there you go I can bring it up close now I've got celebrate woohoo good vibes girls just want to have fun this is how we roll and then you can see all those Nuvo drops everywhere and that lovely kind of strip all of the ribbon that I weaved the ribbon bow loads so I really had fun with this one and it's nice to just really use the stuff that we have in our stash even if it's just a little bit of it I've used it so I'm really really pleased and I absolutely love this layout and it just sums up the colorful fun you know hen party so I hope you've enjoyed this layout I will be back again with my regular layouts on a Sunday and until next week have a lovely weekend and I'll see you soon bye