Waching daily Nov 27 2018

hi guys Jess here from the scrappy sisters sorry I love this Friday this is our

first family photo ever with the four of us so we will still at the hospital

it was Jack's first time having a cuddle with Tom and it's just just makes me

feel a little one warm and fuzzy inside so scrapbooking I am using this gorgeous

vellum sheet I tried to show you before I started cutting it the brand and and

where it was from and what it's called and all of that but I was too busy

talking about my gorgeous family that I can't remember

sorry about that hopefully you can read it off the screen so I've also pulled

out the washi tape that came with this collection this is the September kid

hugs kid that I am using and as you can see it's the willow lane makey Holmes

collection mostly not 100% that but 99% that so I want I am going to do there's

a few little steps to this but it's super super super easy it's just um

going to give me the best look from my page so I am going to play around with

everything first before I actually get going with anything and open up all the

ephemera packs and stuff because I want to see what's in them but I'm not even

up to a family yet I would get so distracted by playing with new things I

just want to pull everything out and see what they are I love the look of those

gold leaves but I know for my type of scrapbooking I'm gonna find those

difficult to use I'm gonna find those yeah a challenge because they're very

gold and they're quite textured but I'm gonna get there I'm gonna give them a

good go in fact I'll even get them onto this layout

so here I am telling you they'll be too hard to use and I'll still use them so

yay for me I'm having a look through this collection and I'm putting aside

the things that I think I want to use as a whole piece and then I'm pulling out

the couple of pages that I'm happy to cut into to back my photo because again

in inverted commas I don't want to waste any of the good papers that I actually

want to use as background paper so I only want to cut out the papers I mean

they're all beautiful but I only want to cut out the papers that I'm happy to

sacrifice as not being a background paper for which is a really tough

decision because this paper I'm cutting already I love the other side of this

the green and the blue and the little spots of pink it's amazing so that's

actually part of the reason why I chose it to back this photo even though you

can barely see it I just love it so much that I wanted to include it so backing

my photo with that white border on today if you've been watching a few of my

videos I have been cutting that white border off but in this case I'm keeping

it on today it just seemed to make more sense then backing that photo onto white

paper all over again if that makes sense cut off the border just to put it back

on again I do sometimes do that if I want to pay

in the photo to be stronger but I knew I was going to map this on a couple of

pieces of paper already so I didn't have to worry if I was only going to map the

photo on just white paper or not map the photo at all and just leave the photo

border it's the photos a bit too flimsy I find

and if you watched my beautiful darling photo I spoke layout I spoke more about

that then so with this piece of vellum I have stuck this piece of vellum with

really skinny double sided tape all the way around the edge onto just a piece of

white paper I did that on purpose I know it seems silly but I didn't want the

to be see-through when I stick it down onto my page and I also did the washi

trick where I stuck the washi down onto paper as well and so that is just plain

ordinary washi but it's already been stuck on paper and cut out to make those

almost like border strips and again I did that for two reasons one so that I

can actually play with them and work out the placement of where I want that washi

to go and two to make them washy the darker stronger color as you know when

you put washi down it's often a bit softer and a bit more see-through than

it looks on the roll and I wanted that stronger color the way it looks on the

roll where you've got layer upon layer upon layer and so by putting it down

onto the white paper first it just gives it that stronger look so I've stuck

those together but they're not stuck onto my background page yet I don't

think and I've decided I really want to use

this super cute skinny skinny washi that's got a little love heart on it now

I probably should have put that onto white paper first because I think it

would have stood out more and looked more obvious and cuter on the page but I

didn't I just stuck it straight down it's still cute it's just hard to see

and yes obviously I haven't stuck that whole section down to my page yet so

that's going to be sort of the base of my layouts the base almost like my

patterned paper if you will one big piece of patterned paper so it's going

to go pretty much right there in the center and then my photo is going to go

approximately there yeah those Leafs left a mark on my page

girl grumpy - covered that with an embellishment and I don't have time to

reprint my photo she's round going off sorry about that so now I'm going to use

flowers to make a bit of a um I don't know if it's gonna be a diagonal or a

cluster look yet but they're going to go up and around the page I thought about

using those yellow ones but they didn't go they the yellow didn't didn't suit

the look of the the page there so I'm sticking with the Pink's I can feel at

the moment the yellow is going to be a little bit tricky to use so I'm sticking

with the pinks and popping three little clusters I really like that on with the

gold and I think that look works really well with the vellum that's got the

gorgeous gold in here as well and they have to go on top of the photo because I

want to cover that mark that the leaves left near my husband's head and so this

is where I'm getting in some of those gold leaves and I really just used one

in each cluster because more than that's a little bit too much for me as I said

they're not really my style so just one in each clusters about as far as I can

stretch it and I think about using the gold vellum but it was a little bit

tricky to include as well so then I'm having a look through the different bits

and bobs that came in the kit and we've got the chipboard collection as well

that came in the kit so that's kind of matched perfectly so I know I'll pull

some things from there but first of all I just thought I'd have a look at the

exclusive cutter parts to see if there's anything in that that I want to use

and I'm thinking already that I've decided on my title after having a look

at that chipboard I think I'm just gonna use that love you chipboard because it's

perfect for this layout you know it's my family so what else could you possibly

want

just having a look having a play gonna start sticking everything down getting

everything secured and ready to go so I've already put double-sided tape on

the back of the vellum washy piece and I will stick that down in a moment I just

want to get the things that I want to tuck under in and under first so I'm

just using a spot of glue on that gold leaf just right down the bottom so that

I can bend up the tips a little bit and have a little bit of dimension happening

on the page and so once I've got the things that are going under stuck down

then I'll pull up the double-sided tape that I've already pre I put on there

pre-prepared put on the page and I will stick that down on top and just on that

one side at the moment because obviously I've got some things on the other side

that I want to go under as well so I'll do that in a minute

and so using a bit of foam and a bit of double-sided tape just again to add some

dimension to the page I really love the look of having things up popping up from

the page can give to a layout

so just doing the same in the bottom cluster I'm popping on all my things

pulling up the double-sided tape as I'm ready to stick it down because the photo

hangs out on this side actually most of that cluster down the bottom there is

hanging underneath the photograph it's not hanging under the pattern paper so

I'm going to pop my photograph on some foam stick it down and then get going

with the clusters this foam is from the reject shop here in Australia it comes

in a pack so there's a big foam or not a big foam but there's a foam roll and

then there's a couple of sheets of foam squares it's okay I don't love it

the foam works best if you just tear it and that doesn't suit my scrapping style

I like to be able to cut it and I like to be able to stretch as in cut it so I

can stretch it as far as I possibly can whereas it's designed just to tear it

off and stick it on as it is I just find a frustratingly find things

like adhesive really expensive for our craft like their necessities they're

things you can't not have but yet they cost a fortune

so that drives me bonkers that they're so expensive I will be back I am getting

a delivery and I think it's from scrapbook calm it's so exciting and I'm

back and yes it is from scrapbooking calm I can't wait to open it so exciting

it was really quick I reckon I ordered ordered these supplies like maybe two

weeks ago sorry fast these are all of the bits and bobs I have ordered for my

sister's December advent calendar so it is super exciting to receive it's

actually not for me at all which is kind of disappointing

but I love how I'd been Calendar series and I love love love getting all the

presents and everything ready for Katy cuz

I just get excited about her reaction and how much she's gonna love everything

and how I really thought about getting stuff for her so it's still exciting um

anyway now I just can't think about my layout I just want to go and open my box

it's just sitting right there I can touch it but I can't see in it ah and I

can't even share with you what I've got because you'll have to wait until the

December series so I better get back to this layout then and stop getting so

distracted by my delivery so so so so done that top cluster man is just just

strictly dickly place things to cover that mark next to hubby's head which was

annoying me and now working on the bottom cluster I'm kind of all over the

place I'm working on a little bit of everything really really loved this

collection so with the kid Holly's kids I only buy the main kit and I use it in

my 2018 album I used the month for the month so meaning when I get the month of

September main kit I make my for September 12 by 12 layouts and my for

project life layouts with that September kit to last the four weeks of the month

if there happens to be five then I do five you get what I mean though and I

managed to stretch it that far I'm really excited by the way that's working

it really gets me using my kit and and using those supplies and not wasting

them which I was doing and I love the way my album looks having four four four

four four and the months are really obvious as you go into each month and I

just think that's super cute obviously I can still pull for my stash and do stuff

like that but I really loved the way that's looking now the reason why I

brought that up is because when this kit was released for September I saw it and

with all the little gorgeous little foxes and all the little animals in it I

had to have it for my son's album not for my September album so I actually

bought an add-on and got the embellishment kit with this as well

because I just loved it and if I didn't get the embellishment kit I wouldn't

have got these super cute chill chipboard Dicker's which are amazing and

I wouldn't have got the goodest puffy stickers and so I just had to answer by

the add-on and had to keep it for my son's album so what I ended up doing

just in case you're wondering is it actually had pretty much an entire

killer holux kit from July 2017 but I had done one layout with and that was it

so I ended up getting that kit out of my stash and using that so still doing my

same theory like four pairs and four twelve by twelve but using that July kid

holux kit from 2017 which was also really cool because it used up an old

kit that I just had sitting in my stash forever so it was a win-win really I got

this for my son's album and then I got that kit used up so everyone's happy so

I stuck on my title I'm getting so distracted in this voiceover I am sorry

about that and I've pulled out the Tim Holtz tiny

word stickers because I'm thinking I want to use one of those but in the end

they didn't really say what I wanted them to say so I've pulled out my

homemade ones and these are just printed words phrases or word stickers not

stickers sorry word sentences or words just on paper so they're not stickers at

all and I end up cutting out three and doctoring them to create like a little

saying that goes with this layer that that suits suits better what I'm trying

to portray here oh my goodness my words now are so lost

I've just been rambling on about rubbish and now that I'm actually trying to talk

to you about my layout I can't get words out how ridiculous

I'm not sure if I have my journaling on here at the end we'll have to wait and

see when we get there but I actually have just reached and recently purchased

an old typewriter it was advertised in the Facebook marketplace for like 20

bucks and it was in full working order I did some research online and found an

Australian company that sells ribbons for it so I was super excited and got

like new ribbon and this typewriter and went and picked it up because it was

like you know 20 minutes around the corner not far and did all of that for

like $30 and he's amazing I love it and so I'm doing all of the journaling for

my son's album for Toms album on this old typewriter

so I'm journaling on my on my layouts now which I never used to do because I

don't like my own handwriting and I don't have a printer at home so getting

organized to print at work was just too hard and now that I'm I'm at leave I'm

not actually at work to be able to print anyway and I'm also typing straight on

to like project life cards as well in my project life

album and just so you know I can say project life because they are they are

project life cards and they are project life albums so all good

and so just popping on some of these puffy stickers little flowers going in

with the flower clusters little love hearts going in as well alongside those

gorgeous gold love hearts just because I love everything about this layout and

you can see there the little sentence that I created they remember the family

moments because this was a pretty special one just having a fiddle just

working out where I want everything to go I want to sort of have the same thing

happening in each cluster so I really want to have the gold love heart and the

puffy love heart neat Kloster so just having a bit of a tidy

up and a bit of a look through again of what I've got just to see if I've missed

anything see if I want to include anything else on the layout I can be

pretty messy when I scrapbook so when I'm coming to the end I like to sort of

reorganize again just to get my head straight and make sure I've got

everything that I wanted to include and I haven't missed anything

so my photos are about to come up and I do have my journaling on here so be able

to see my beautiful typewriter we're not the actual typewriter but the

journaling and how cool that that looks and the effects that that adds which is

pretty cool so I hope you liked this layout as you can see they're all the

different textures with the puffy stickers and the chipboard and those

gold hearts and then the vellum I just love love love the way this turned out I

just think it's amazing how beautifully it all goes together so I hope you enjoy

it I really loved creating this one please like and subscribe and stay tuned

for more things coming up shortly thanks everyone bye