 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today so I've got another scrapbook layout and this is a really lovely photo which you'll see in a moment of my great grandma who we called Little Nanny and she's out with her friends so I wanted to create a kind of a vintage layout so I'm using this is a collection called Heritage by Maggie Holmes I actually was given this from one of the magazines that I've done a commission for so I've got quite a lot of it which was you know really nice so it's great for you know using for obviously doing my scrapbook layout so I'm just going through the papers here you've got lots of different single-sided really really pretty sheets and I've got it down to these two here which have both got that frame and now I'm bringing in the photo so the left one there is the original and you can see it was you know had a real kind of distressed natural look about it in that real sepia colour so I was tempted to use it and I have used some original photos before but I put them in like a I kind of protect them and put corners on them so I don't ever add any glue to them but I wanted to really kind of mess this up a little bit and I just thought it's probably best if I don't so I've cut the picture down and I have just copied it just put it onto normal just cardstock through my printer just run one sheet through at a time rounded off the corners and I'm just bringing in this distressed oxide ink which is called brush cordroy and it gives a really good faux sepia effect to the photos and when I you know compared it to the original they looked really really good I was so pleased with how this one turned out so that's the picture all prepared and I just kind of folded up the edges and all that kind of stuff as well just to you know make it look old so I just went through my stencils there and I've just pulled out this kind of pretty swirl I just wanted to create a little bit of depth on the background before I start adding the photo and everything else so I'm just using some of my homemade embossing paste and just with my spatula I'm just kind of creating some texture really so I'm just getting that one all heat set and then I start to bring in some of my distress sprays so these are really old but I'm just kind of spraying a few there just to see which ones are going to work there was a this one's biscotti then I had like a copper and a lavender and I end up going for the what one did I just say how bad's that copper and the lavender which you see me now starting to lay down they've got a mica through them so they've got a really lovely shine and they dry very quick so you should start to hopefully pick up that shine on camera once I am the you know it hits the light just heat set them just you know to make sure that they are completely dry before I start sticking more things on top and you can see the lavender there as well there's a little bit of the copper just catching the light but it looks really nice and it just creates a little bit of interest behind the picture these things are always hard for you to kind of see on video but when you actually do them yourself you really do notice it so I'm just backing that photo again with some it's just a real nice deep teal color from the collection it was one of the backs and again I've used it's a dovecraft distressing tool and it's a really nice way of adding just that distressed look I've used it on mini albums and things like that so these are all matching accessories this here is actually a handmade crochet flower my friend Kimmy she sent me a load of them and I just thought it worked really well and it's also to represent a brooch because my little nanny she would wear lots of brooches on her jacket and I know she would have had one in this photo and I think you can just make it out you won't be able to but when you look very close you can see a slight little bit of color and I think that might have been one of her brooches so I thought it was really nice that I would do this one as party girls and if again this is only what my nan has told me because it's my nan's mum but these are her work friends they were at a party and you can see they've got the party hats on but my nan my little nanny is the lady on the far right who is holding that balloon well I'm not going to say any more but her friend next to her is laughing and my nan thinks that and we know what my little nanny was like and her humour we think she was maybe doing some silly things with the balloon and that's what they were laughing and the lady the second from the left she looks a little bit embarrassed and flustered the way she's got her hand on her face so you know we will never really know but from what my nan has told me that's what she thinks was going on in that photo so I'm starting to bring in all the pieces that I've been preparing so these are just bits I collect those little kind of sprigs I've shared them in what did I get videos in the past the cabochon split pin that I put in the centre of that lovely crochet flower I just fussy cut one of the flowers from the same collection so it all ties nicely together and then the party girls these are actually from home bargains the the letters and they're like typewriter font and style and I just again put them on that same teal cardstock that I back to the photo just keeping everything together these are some wood chip embellishments again from the collection so just on a few hearts coming off there and then these are the sentiments that I've pulled out so I've got so very happy together and a piece of our history and I love doing if I actually do when I was looking through my albums on all my layouts sorry I really love doing vintage ones I've got a lot of family old family photos and I'm really big on my family tree and I'm really interested in history so I do find myself kind of gravitating to these older style layouts so you'll probably see them featuring more often so you'll see that it says party girls so very happy together and then at the bottom it says a piece of our history and this was taken in the mid 50s so I've just put 1950 at the bottom there just to represent really that decade rather than the year itself and I just love it I'd love to have been there I remember my little nanny and I've got other really nice memories and I'll be doing some scrapbooks at then because I want to do a scrapbook just of her as well and a layout sorry just of her so I just also use some of my metal corner protectors just to put on each corner of the actual layout and then I finished it off with some Nuvo drops and some embellishments there but you can see now in close up all that lovely details you can see the texture paste in the background there you can see the lovely shine from the sprays all the detail there from the embellishments the lady's having lots of fun and my little nanny holding that balloon oh I love her and there it is it's a really really pretty layout and when you use papers a lot of the papers have all of the pattern on them they're easier layouts to do because a lot of the work's already done for you so I hope you've enjoyed this one and I'll be back again soon bye