 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This week's scrapbook layout is one of me as a little girl, so there I am as a little baby a long time ago and I was a very happy baby, quite pretty chilled, yeah didn't cause too many problems, it's kind of how I am still now, so I wanted to do a scrapbook layout that represented me. So I've just chosen some of my acrylic paints and I'm going to create kind of a rainbow effect, it's not your traditional rainbow in a sense of maybe the colors kind of are but I've wanted that effect so I'm just splodging all of those acrylic paints up the left hand side there. So quite big splodges because I'm going to drag the paint across the page, so yeah I haven't done this before, I just had an idea to do it so who knows how it worked out at that point but fortunately it does end up looking good so I put some copy paper down just to protect the right hand side of when I'm pulling that paint across because there will be some obviously left on the ruler. So you can see now when I drag it it hits the cross over the green is the cross from the copy paper underneath but again it's a mixed media kind of page so I don't mind that it's just I've just got some kind of pattern and texture there that I didn't anticipate but it works. So I went over it twice and I'm just cleaning off the excess there you want to kind of do those things straight away, you don't want to leave that to dry because it's just a pain to get off. So now I'm going to heat set it, I've used a few different brands of acrylic so they all dry shiny but some of them took longer than others but I really like how that's kind of come together. Now I'm going to trim it down because I'm still filling that 10x10 album so I trim it to nine and a quarter by nine and a half. I lose the white from the left and the right there and then I have to take a bit from the left and from the right hand side of the patterned ends because I didn't want to lose the the bottom right there so see where the kind of the orange has kind of gone a bit speckley and again the blue at the top so I take about an inch off because I want to keep that side and then this I just trim off where I went over it so that wasn't you know too much of a loss. Now the photo is old so it's got quite a sepia look to it and the frame around it had gone quite yellowy so I wanted to just cut that off and add a much crisper border and I tended to border you know map most of my photos just to help them lift from the scrapbook layout so I'm just popping it on some just standard white card it was just some scrap and then I'll just get that trimmed down with that one eighth of an inch border around it so now when I sit that against my layout it does lift much better now I'm adding in some of my quarter inch double sided tape and I'm going to add some foil to that which you see me do this technique many times it's just a nice way to add some shine to my layout and also you'll see there those orange splodges all I done is splodged some more of the orange that's on the far right there and I am and I just randomly done it and then grabbed a sandwich bag and just went over put my hands over the sandwich bag and kind of moved the acrylic paint around just to create some splodges I wanted an area a separate kind of background for the photo so now I'm just rubbing that foil over the double sided tape and you will feel it start to lift off so it's such an easy technique this one it's really really handy it's a nice way like I said just to add that shine and then I'm just going to go over any sticky bits that I can still feel and you can just go back over again until that's kind of all gone but it's just it's just fun and again like I said this is kind of mixed media so I wanted lots of different you know materials used lots of different texture that's me it's my personality so now I'm bringing in some polka dots to go over that kind of orangey splodged area so this is the distressed oxide worn lipstick and I'm just going around there just with this is a stamping up stencil that I've had just to create something but it still wasn't enough so I've brought in my black fursafine onyx black so it's this is you know really intense but it's polka dots so you don't it looks pretty sinister now but it when it comes away it's not so bad but it did help again for that photo to just have more of its own area which is what I wanted and I've still kept that coral or orange sorry far right strip of paint you know so you can see that now this happy is from my new toy which is the happy jig the we are memory keepers and it's really good and I'm doing a separate tutorial on that which is coming soon and so I just created the word happy now I'm bringing in these rosy studio letters and they are spelling out the word mama so my sister who's a bit younger than me she could never pronounce my name when she was growing up she couldn't say smantha so she said mama a mama has now sticks forever my dad still calls me mama so I'm a happy mama so that's why I've titled this scrapbook layout so yeah a bit of fun now I'm just adding some foam to the back of my photo again I tend to do that with most of my photos I just like the effect that it gives just to kind of raise it up so I've got the texture from the metal I've got those the gold strips I've got the polka dots I've got the flowers and I bring in more as well so I just wanted lots going on because again it's kind of me it's my personality so I'm just I doubled up the blue flowers so they're in the bottom left there and then the yellow one is going to be in the top right and the yellow went really well with the yellow strip and the blue went perfectly with the blue strip so yeah worked really well now because this is metal the easiest way to stick it down was using the hot glue I hope hopefully it will last okay I'm going to maybe have to look at some other ways to attach those if I keep using them in the future maybe some ribbon tied through through the back of the paper maybe some more razor studio so I'm just bringing in some little gold words here so I think I use love life smile and happiness and I just wanted something to kind of match and tie in with the gold stripes at the bottom of the page so these ones end up going at the top there and it just kind of balances that with the gold in the happy the gold in the stripes yeah so now I'm just bringing in more gold so this is the very thick Nouveau drops the gold glitter and I just again just to kind of tie it together and give it more dimension more you know things to kind of touch and feel there's lots on this page it's very easy to do but there's just lots going on and I do tend to finish all my scrapbook layouts with Nouveau drops so there you have it that is my scrapbook layout for this week I really really like this one I hope you do too hope I've inspired you to bring out different materials in your craft room things that you maybe think you don't know how to bring them and use them then try this it's it's just really fun scrapbooking there's no right or wrong you do what you want it's quite a personal thing I'm sharing it with you guys but these are you know your memories that you're scrapbooking so you can do whatever you want as always if you've enjoyed today please subscribe to my channel give the video a thumbs up and I will back again next sunday with another scrapbook layout thanks for watching bye bye