 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching today. This week's scrapbook layout is going to be of one of me and my gran. I'll talk a bit more about the photo when I show it to you later but first of all just want to talk you through these papers. So I received a lucky dip from Louise at Thompson's Craft Supply. She very kindly sent me this. It's a really, really good thing to do. I've spoke about it before. You basically select what lucky dip you want to do and then you tell Louise the things that you like and you don't like, colours etc etc and she will send you a lucky dip and it's really quite fun. So this is the butterfly paper that I've chosen. There's lots more that comes in there. I'll share a little link actually so you can see that as well. But I said as soon as I saw this paper sheet I thought I'm going to fussy cut these butterflies so that's exactly what I do. So the sheet here is by one canoe too. It's Hazelwood collection and it's called Flock. So you can buy that paper separate I believe. Again I'll share links to Louise's website below. So this is the photo of me and my gran. It's a special photo because it's the last photo that I had taken with her. So I thought it would be a lovely one to scrapbook. Now I didn't really know what I wanted to do and I knew I wanted to bring some texture in. I haven't used my homemade embossing paste for some time so I thought I would get it out. So I do make this myself. I have a tutorial showing you how to make it. Loads of you and I mean loads have made it, have told me they love it so I will share a little link up now as well for that one if you'd like to see my recipe. Really easy and you can add colour to it as well and you can add shimmer and glitter to it. People have been asking and yes you can. So this stencil I'm not entirely sure. I want to say again I'll put a link up if I remember but yeah I can't quite remember that one anyway. So I did dry this in between. You can let it air dry but I just wanted to obviously you know make this go a bit quicker so I just added my heat to that from my heat gun. Funny that but anyway just to get it done quickly. So now I'm bringing in the Cosmic Shimmer Pixie powder. I love these so I've sprayed some water down first and then you just tap this powder. It's got mica in it and as soon as it hits the water it reacts and it starts to bleed and you can see now I'm spraying more water over it and it starts to kind of just kind of you know really seep into all those raised parts of the embossing paste and it just gives a really nice effect and I'm spraying more water to it as I'm applying the heat. So the heat's moving it around and I'm just able to really control it. So that colour is lava red. Again I'll share links to that below. So you can see there if I just bring it up closer I've got a real nice texture to it. I've got some real fun kind of patterns and you can see the mica shimmer showing through there as well when it catches the light. So I was really pleased with that so I've got a nice kind of base now for me to start adding you know everything else too. So now I'm bringing in the butterflies. Originally I kind of thought I was going to do a big circle around the picture but then I don't know just didn't really look right. So I'm sticking the photo down there with some foam adhesive because that really stuck well to the embossing paste and now I'm going to start bringing in more of those butterflies. So I just yeah randomly I did do this for a good maybe five ten minutes kind of moving them around changing the colours the sizes and things like that but they're really really fun. So that is the layout that I'm going for and then I'm just bringing in my hot glue because I had the embossing paste there below. I just thought if I go in with my hot glue I know it's going to really stay you know stuck down I wasn't sure really how some of the glues might any kind of water-based ones anyway. Yeah when you see the ingredients in the embossing paste you'll understand why I decided to go for the hot glue because I just know it will stay there. So this is a thicker sticker pack it's called Shoebox. I got this on sale not too long ago but I don't think it's still in there now but this was Hobbycraft and I've just simply just spout out Gran. So I use a few other little subtitles in a moment which you'll see me bring in but I just thought I'm just going to put Gran because that's what she was she was my Gran. So I'm sticking them down with some you know stronger glue as well just so again so they don't fall off. This is a Vicky Bootin sticker sheet you get 102 stickers here this was also in the Lucky Dip so everything kind of you know matches as well which I like and Louise knows I love my bright colours the bolder the wackier the better so I'm sticking the stickers on some white card and then I'm just sticking them with some Foma Decive and that one there says the best thing about memories is making them and I've got lots and lots of lovely memories with my Gran when we were younger and then this one says capture it then I had remember this and then that one says happy moment and now I'm just coming in with my Nouveau Drops this particular colour here is let me check it out Wedgewood Blue. I do add quite a few and you'll see that in a moment in the close-ups I do love my Nouveau Drops and I just thought the you know more texture there as well it just and dimension just gave something more to look at really so yeah quite like that one and also those colours kind of I think worked well with the butterflies so it kind of tied everything together stick with little groups as I always do odd numbers where you can really and yeah I love this I just thought it was really really nice it was really quick to do it's just getting that kind of base background together everything else after that it's really really quick so now you can see it more in its true colour because the I don't think my lights were very good when I was making it but yeah you can really see that texture there really fun it dries really well it doesn't crack it doesn't fall off it's really really good embossing paste the butterflies are all slightly raised as well which looks really nice and yeah I'm rambling on you can see what it looks like I think it looks great and I like the dramatic different textures and the way the paints kind of you know fallen off the edge there or the pixie dust whatever anyway but yeah there you go I'm gonna go thanks for watching and I'll be back tomorrow with another tutorial bye