Hi everyone, welcome to UK scrap add-ics. September, the theme this month is paint. So what I'm doing on my layout is using watercolours. I learnt this technique at a Metan Jareen workshop for birds of a feather. You basically just really wet down the watercolours and then use a straw to blow it out and you can see I'm doing that here. I've really sped this up because this did take me quite a while, probably 45 minutes to get the effect that I wanted and I felt so light-headed when I finished. So I think if you want to go for something similar then probably space it out of it because it really does make you dizzy. It was good fun though and it is quite messy. I think what I probably could have done better would have been to leave a bit more time for the different colours to dry because some of them went a little bit muddy which is a little bit annoying but it still looks cool. I was using another photo as a template because initially I planned on using just one photo. I actually ended up using two portrait shaped photos on this. As you can see I am still going with the colour. One thing that I did do on this was I randomly blob some colours around the edge, you can see some yellow. I didn't actually like that in the end so I do go ahead and chop it off so I am making that 12x12 sheet smaller. I am just trying to find some backing for my photos because I wanted them to sort of stand out a little bit. So sticking them on. I like this sort of stripy chevron effect of that other paper but I didn't have enough because I was using papers out of my scraps because I don't like to waste anything. I like to use everything up. Going for some colourful paper layering it all up. At this point I still hadn't decided to chop the main bit of paper smaller but I really did not like the look that yellow around the edge. So here we go. I am now chopping off the branding strippers and paper. I am cutting out some elements from another one of the hustle and heart papers which is Amy Tendering. Then I decide that actually I am going to chop off the bits I don't like and mount it on a different piece of 12x12 paper. So I got out the middle of it because the other side of the paper was a really pretty butterfly print but I made a bit of a mistake because I stupidly chopped the bottom off so I had to stick it back on. As you can see I am sticking it back on there. So then I stuck that on with just with some wet glue. I like the contrast of the black and white. I am just sticking some washi tape on because I was worried that it would fall off. But yeah the contrast of the black and white with the colour I think works really well. Then I have used sort of really colourful papers that I had left over my scraps so I have backed everything else onto them to kind of bring it all together. I used a camera branding strip there. Now these photos are from a colour run. I did it in September 2016 with my friend. It was in Brighton so we did it and it was great fun. It was sponsored by Skittles so there was lots of free Skittles to be had which was good and of course it was really colourful. I found on that chipboard sheet there a word that said colourful. Now I literally would have had nothing else to use that for so it couldn't have been more perfect for this layout. So stick that on. I have a bit of a love hate with chipboard. I always find that they are just a bit hard to use because they are so thick but they kind of worked well on this album. I used some more hustle and heart stickers. I was just trying to use up as much as I could to make it as colourful as possible. Now I did have to speed this up quite a lot because like I said the beginning part took ages. So I am just doing my journaling now. What I have done is I also did a smash book page of all the little bits and bobs that I got from the day. So that's on my channel which I will link below so if you want to see that you can go over and watch that as well. So we are basically going to be going into the images of the finished layout now. So thank you for watching. Do go and check out the blog post and look at our Facebook page. There is plenty of people on there with amazing ideas so definitely share your layouts and tag us in it on Instagram. We really look forward to seeing everything that you do so please leave me a comment and like this post and I hope to see you soon. Thank you for watching. Bye bye.