 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial. This week's scrapbook layout is a fun one of me and my father. This one was taken a couple of years ago in the garden for bonfire night, 5th of November. So with that being a couple of days away I thought I would do a bonfire firework themed layout. So we're holding some really crappy, well they're not crappy because they're very good when they're on the cakes, but they're cake fireworks. But we didn't have any fireworks and I remember having these left over from my best friend's hen party. So I said well why don't we use these? So we just let them off and I said to mum oh you know quickly take a photo and yeah I think she captured a really really lovely picture. So I am using a 10 by 10 layout. So my black card there is 10 by 10. And then that lovely like shiny galaxy sky kind of paper is from the Stargazer Simply Creative paper pack. And then I'm just layering and well matting and layering my picture here because it's a very dark layout. I wanted I didn't and I didn't like that white against the lovely like galaxy. So I'm now framing it again on some black. So it's quite a thick very rigid layout. There's not a lot of dimension to this one. The only real dimension is the photo on the foam adhesive and that's pretty much it. So these are all stuck with glue and then when I actually stick it down later on I pop it on some foam adhesive which I always do. But now I just think that really does pop really stands out and it you know sits nicer on that layout. There is a bit of glare that keeps catching on this one because of my my spotlight and obviously the the shiny paper I'm using so apologies through that but I think it's still okay. So I've got these really fun plastic very thin plastic letters and I've had these for ages really really long time and this was just the perfect layout. So it's just one of those you know things when you know our husbands partners whatever come into our craft spaces and like what have you got this or you don't need that you're never going to use it. Yes you will. These are finally being used in the perfect layout so I'm spelling out magical fireworks. So it will I've got a funny little pun later on through it well not a pun but you'll see what I do anyway but yeah magical fireworks is the title for this layout. And what I'm doing is I'm just doing a rough pencil mark of where I'm going to be putting my photo because what I'm going to be doing now is I don't have any firework infameras any firework themed stickers nothing. So I wanted to create some kind of firework background. So I'm using my tombo tacky glue you need a tacky glue for this technique because I'm going to be using foils and I'm basically drawing a explosion you know of fireworks on my background here. So I'm just going around and carefully you know trying to recreate a firework. Now this glue does dry quick but it dries tacky so it's perfect for this. So I spent a good kind of 20 minutes just going over that background creating these really nice fireworks. So just to speed up the glue and just to make sure it has really dried because you do need it to dry you don't want any wet glue still so I'm just using my heat gun and I'm just bringing in my strips of foil. Any foils you can use any colors so I'm using a silver here and just literally just going over and the tacky glue you can see there will just pull off the foil and just have it just stuck on that glue and it's just it's a really really fun technique. I will share a foil a non-heat needed foil technique. I've probably said that wrong I've done a tutorial I'll share it at the top but I'm just going over there and you just want to make sure that you can't feel anything sticky. If you can then go over again with your foil but can you see there look how cool that is. So I wanted to now add color so I'm going back over the exact same fireworks and filling in kind of the gaps again with that tacky glue and again use my heat gun just to get that set just to speed it up. If you don't have a heat gun that's fine just leave it to dry naturally it won't take too long and then I'm coming in now with like a pinky color and again there you can just see if it does stick that's because it's attached itself to a little bit of the clear foil so you've already removed the foil and then I'm just going over all the other corners there and it's you can see now it just starts to really come together and it matches that background so nicely there I love it and then I'm going in again so I'm adding three different colors so again I'm just going over there just filling in all the little gaps because again when the when you see a fire work kind of explode in the sky you know you see all the different colors that's what I've tried to recreate again heat set it and then I'm just going over there and this is more of a purpley pink they kind of look like I've used two of the same colors but they are different I'm just going over it there with my hand just to see if I can feel anything sticky and if you can you can see now I've just pulled off some foil I'm just going over just to make sure and just rub it so so easy and yeah really really fun inexpensive way as well to add you know some kind of texture and if you've got plain papers this is a good way to add some some fun to them and some pattern so just you know this is probably key is making sure there is nothing sticky because the last thing you want to do is put this in your scrapbook album it's stick to the page in front I mean I do use clear pockets but still so next I have my foiled sellotape so I'm just putting a strip through the middle and then I've got this really fun washy very thin washy tape which is kind of like a purpley color with a white trim putting that through the middle and then just both of those just get folded over the ends get folded to the back photo's been mounted there on some foam adhesive and now I'm just putting that nice and straight towards that bottom left hand corner and those fireworks behind just look so good so now I'm just bringing in my t-squared ruler and I'm just going to start to stick down the magical fireworks and I am using glue again to stick them down because they're plastic I didn't trust them at all lasting you know forever just with the adhesive that they come with so just to help it along but how cool really really love it so these are some rosie studio die cuts and this one said having fun but I just wanted the word fun so I'm just snipping it off you can see I've cut it there that's not stuck down yet and then I'm bringing in some words this one here it says this is too much and then obviously below is the fun so this is too much fun so I've just kind of you know used up different words there just to create a nice little sentence a nice saying and again it's all a little bit jokey because they will they will you know over in about 10 seconds the picture makes it look so much different but there I've just the silver die cut just directly onto the paper didn't look right and needed to be framed so I just stuck it on some black card and fussy cut it so at the moment we've got this is so too much fun and then I've got these really lovely faceted flat back kind of gemstones they're really quite big they're about half an inch in diameter so started sticking them on there along with some star foam stickers as well so now I've got some more puffy stickers and this one says woohoo so we've got woohoo magical fireworks and then the other one says happy day so that's just above it so just all fun appropriate you know little sayings and then this is the fun bit so it they they weren't magical fireworks at all magical fireworks are the ones I've seen at Disney these were not so literally I have just stamped the word not so right below it says woohoo magical fireworks not and I just thought it was really good so now I'm just coming in with my black nuvo drops and I've done like a kind of wanted like a milky way kind of effect so there's just this strip of stars and dots that kind of you know run behind the photo and up around the right hand side towards the top and then off to the top left hand side there so it kind of like yeah it's like a strip of just fun nice pretty glittery stars and bits and pieces and I'm using the blizzard one there as well and you can see it's just so lovely it's so sparkly shiny and fun and I love it you know I love doing these and it's nice that I get to do the voiceovers and talk you kind of through them again because I get to really appreciate it all over again so there it is you can see all the close up there how nice that fun looks just with that black behind it you can see all the detail there with the faceted flatback kind of gemstones that's the foam stars you can see the nuvo drops all that dimension it just looks really really nice I put the knot on some foam adhesive as well and like I said just I think it looks really really good so yeah magical fireworks knot so there you go guys I'm going to stop talking now I hope you've enjoyed this week's scrapbook layout and I'll be back again with another one next week thanks for watching bye