 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This week's scrapbook layout is one of me and my besties. There's actually only five of us in this picture. There's two missing so sorry Hayley, sorry Karen. I'll do another page with you in it but these are my oldest school friends. We have a friendship that's spanning nearly 30 years so yeah they're the best ones. The layout I've decided to do I'm using the Stillwater 12x12 Paper Pack by Rosie Studio. This picture was taken on the hoe, the Plymouth Hoe, where we're all from which is right by the sea. So although the scrapbook layout doesn't really look like it's got anything to do with the sea or the water I just wanted something that was kind of just soft I guess is the right word for this. So I'm just taking two pieces of the 12x12 there and I'm cutting them into half inch strips so I want to create a lattice woven kind of background so I am bringing in a white piece of cardstock. I've already cut this down to nine and a half by nine and a quarter again to fit that 10x10 album and I've just brought in some of my watercolor paints here and I'm just mixing up a wash that's going to complement the kind of greens and the pinky tones that are in the papers that I'm using so I've just covered my paper there in white in water and then I'm just you can see here I'm not taking any care at all I'm splashing it around there's a lot of water on there because what I'm going to do is when I heat set it I'm going to move that water which you can see me doing now see how it's dripping down that's the you know I guess that's the water kind of elements that I'm bringing into this scrapbook layout so I'm just heat setting that make sure all that water is completely absorbed it was pretty saturated so you can see here I'm going pretty crazy with my heat gun so now I'm bringing in all those half inch strips and I'm just lying it all out first on my mats I didn't really know how big I wanted it to be I wanted it to cover obviously the size of the photo but I didn't end up using all the strips so what I'm doing is I'm just popping a little bit of glue and then I'm just popping a strip on top then the next one I'm going to pop the glue on top of the strip and then I'm going to feed that underneath that piece of paper and then the next one goes on top and the next one underneath that's what you need to do on that piece that you start off with after that you can see what I'm doing now I'm just weaving all of my paper through so the bottom one is stuck and then all I do is stick the first and the end which you can see there of each one then that I add so I weave it all the way through and then I just glue the first mic I'm doing there and then the last one now this was actually the end so then I go around and I trim all of this and I seal all of the edges um you don't want obviously any of it coming undone and um the effect is really really good I do enjoy doing this one so that's it complete and now I'm just laying it down on that card and obviously you can see it's very big so I go around and I randomly trim all the edges all different lengths just go around every single side and just snip all of those strips until I'm kind of happy that I've got it to the size that I want it to be I do end up trimming it a little bit more so you can see there it's all kind of there but it's not stuck down yet now the picture looked lost so it needed to be framed so I'm just bringing in that pink that I pulled out from the pack earlier and I'm just going to mat that just so I get that nice little one-eighth of an inch kind of border and then just trim that one down to size and it just makes it pop much better and it pulls the pink actually that's in the other strips it brings that all together as well so I end up moving the lattice I'm calling it a lattice woven kind of background and move it around and now I go for the which way yeah no is she going that way that way there go I didn't want to lose the droplets those kind of dripped watercolor bits on the right hand side there so I've got my positioning I've got my picture and then I bring in more rosy studio now I've got some of the still color accessories but I end up using more of the glass house accessories they've got similar tones so they worked really well with this so I'm just going around there just splodging glue just over the main bits really the edges and then just a few bits through the middle get that stuck down again you'll see it really nicely in the pictures it's got lots of detail and it has it's really worked well this one and then I'm just again just making sure all those little edges are all stuck down I don't want them to catch when they're in my album and just make sure that's obviously all nicely stuck down so I end up keeping the picture more down towards the far I guess bottom left hand side I'm popping this on some foam double-sided tape again I like to give it dimension I like it lifted slightly on an angle there and then I'm going to start adding in my embellishments now I ended up not using these they're really nice they're little they're called luxe clips I kept it there for a while but I ended up taking it off these are really nice these are from the glass house collection and I end up using I put some foam on one part the bit that's kind of hanging off just so it's lined up and level with the photo so I bring that one down the bottom right and then I use the green one towards the top left and I do the same thing they've already got they already have their adhesive on them but I just add some foam just to the area that's going to be overhanging from the photo again just to keep it all nicely finished and all level you don't want it kind of sinking in your album over the years so everything's starting to tie together this is more stuff from the this is from still water and the sentiment I pull out there is called laugh dream love together and I just thought that's what we do we've we've gone through a lot the seven of us and we've all still come out of it the other end and life brings us those challenges even every day now so we're always there even though I live miles away from them and miss them dearly we all do stay in touch and yeah best is friends these are some resin flowers and I do stick them down with my heat gun you don't see me do that but they do have adhesive on them but I always whenever I'm working with like plastics I like to use my heat gun then I'm bringing in some of the gold words and I use friends always which is what we are so I thought yeah friends always laugh dream love together and they just all seem to kind of work nicely so I took a while trying to there's loads on there so there was actually quite a few different sentiments that I liked but I thought these two were quite worked well they've got the gold trimmer's well which goes well with gold that's below the flowers they're kind of framed then the title for this layout is besties so that is our facebook group the kind of chat group that we have it's titled besties and it's just the easiest one to to title this scrapbook layout now I do go quite high initially these are from hobby base these letters and I don't ever push them right down so you can see that I brought it down lower and then I just you know really push them onto the paper you can always add some extra glue as well which I may end up going to do because they they don't have the best the best stickiness and because they're going against that lattice and also some of the watercolor it might not be the best surface for them so I may well go back into them but I was just leveling it off with my Tim Holtz ruler and then I bring in my Nuvo drops of course I have to finish my scrapbook layout with Nuvo drops so I use the sunlit meadow I use the bubblegum blush and I use a white blizzard and again you'll pick that up really nicely in the photos you probably can't really see it too much and they always dry better so there you have it a really nice soft scrapbook layout of me and some of my besties I've really enjoyed this one I love that woven lattice technique and hopefully you give it a go I inspire you to try something and if you've enjoyed today's tutorial as always please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye