Hey everyone, it's Keely here with my layout for UK scrap add-ics. This month's theme is mixed media. I did kind of like, ah, mixed media, it is definitely not my strong point at all. So far what I have done is I've cut out a cut file by Paige Evans on my silhouette. I think you can actually get this cut file for free on Paige's Facebook group but I bought this one from the Silhouette store. I've done so far this is a technique that Emma from my scrap actually showed us quite a few months ago and it's the dry brush technique using some acrylic paint. So the cut file is actually still on my cutting mat and I've got a dry paint brush and brushed it along with the paint. So my areas have got more of the black paint than others which are quite like that the whole brush stroke effect. I think it looks quite effective and now I'm just sprinkling over some watered down white acrylic paint and creating lots of little painty splatters to make it kind of look like a night sky. Whilst that's dry in I decided to back my photo. The kit that I'm actually using for this layout is the June Minescraft kit. A mind-spiration actually was this absolutely stunning moon paper which I think I do I think I do show you the actual paper further along. This is just a small part of it that I'd cut off when cutting my papers down to a four size. Distressing the edges of the papers I really like this look at the minute and I seem to be doing it on all my papers at the moment when I'm making my outs and the photo I'm scrapping is one of my son TJ and our dog Spud. These two have grown up together TJ was four months old when we got Spud and you know the like best friends like brothers and you know Spud to me I could have give birth to this dog. I love him that much he's really part of our family. This photo was actually taken a little while ago I think back in 2016 and they're both seven now nearly eight so yeah they've really grown up together. I took some time and I peeled off the cut file from my cutting mat. It was quite tricky to do it kind of like fused itself back together at the paper so it did take some time but it did all come off without any tearing and now I'm going back to my background and I've decided to just add some black paint splatters using watered down acrylic paint. I didn't because I don't do mixed media often I didn't really count in dry in time between doing the different stages so it's a bit all over the places this layout but now with the power of additine I have come back my paper is dry and I'm cutting off some of the edges to back it with this gorgeous moon paper that I've just been waving around. So that's all done now I've backed the the layouts I'm now starting to stick down and commit to my photo placement and where the cut file is going to go. I'm really pleased actually with how the cut file has turned out and I definitely will be painting cut files more in the future. I really like this dry brush effect and I'd say I've all the mixed media I've kind of watched over the time. I've never really been happy with how it looks but this technique that Emma Shorders I really like the effect of. I don't really have much mixed media stuff because I don't really like how it turns out. I've not really committed to buying some of the more expensive brown and you know the expensive inks and things. I've not wasting the paper from the cut file. I've decided to use some of the painty bits and punch out some some little stars just to add to the background so it's kind of more mixed media being added to my layout. I've definitely said my mixed media is definitely a neat version of mixed media by adding it to a cut file and punching out shapes. It kind of takes away a lot of the the messy aspect of mixed media which I think is definitely more you know more for me because I don't really like creating lots of messy mixed media even though it looks absolutely stunning when others do it. You know like the Sarah's layouts are amazing as are you know Amy's as well. They're really good at mixed media and I'm sure they'll teach you something a lot better than I have. But you know like I said I'm quite happy with how this is turned out and I think it is something that I will try again in the the future. Now I'm just placing the stars around. I'm trying to keep like the darker ones near the darker bit where I painted some of the lighter ones in the lighter areas where there isn't as much paint on the cut file. And then I was not really much else that I do too in Beleish really because I think the cut file and these little stars do you know quite enough for me. I've not needed to add a title because the title is already in the cut file. But I do have a flick through some of the embellishments that we got in the mind scrap kit which was absolutely stunning this month. Well every month it's stunning. I'm always raving about my mind the scrap kits. I love how Emma put some together. Now these are amazing. They're so different and we've you know I've never seen these around before. I think they're from Heidi Swap. I can't remember the collection it's a new one I think it's something to do with wolves wolf gang or something like that. I could be way off. But you get a ruban and some circles and squares and basically you can pick which sticky you want to use and which ruban. So you can make them you know coordinate with your layout a bit more and you know a quart that will fit your layout a bit more. I've gone through for this quart I think it says reach for the moon and I thought it was quite fitting with you know what my layout has got on it and the background on the sticker is actually very similar to my cut file. It matches the the moon paper that I've you know I put behind my layout as well. So you know it fits really well. I do put some form on the back of that just to raise it up a little bit and make it pop and it actually fits perfectly in that little corner in the the curve of like spuds head. So you know it was meant to be. It was definitely meant to be. We do get some sequins in this month's kit and they're they're stunning, they're blue, gold and then there's some like iridescent ones. It's a lovely mix and I do try and scatter a few around the page which I think I do a bit later on actually and I'm messing around with some of the wood veneer right now. But like I said I do try them but I feel the a little bit big for this layout just because I put those little stars on and I think it took away from those little stars. I do try one of these heights but they're so chunky, they're absolutely gorgeous but they're so chunky. But looking back now that actually would have would have worked perfectly fine. I do go for this little wood veneer heart and I think I bring in some of the little enamel hearts that we've got in the kit as well. But yeah I think this is where I come to try and out the the sequins but you'll see for yourself soon they just look too big but the colour would have been you know perfect for this page because there were a lovely dark blue colour. So yeah I decided not to go with those and you know set them for a different layout but I am planning these enamel hearts and I have a little white one just to the side of the wood of mine and that's that's more or less the layout finished. I do glue down the the wood veneer and now there'll be some concepts coming up. Thank you everyone for watching and I hope you really enjoy in this month's theme and joining me on the UK scrapbook scrap paddock space book group.