Hi, so we're here with the Layout Process video for UK Scrap Adicts Creative Team. This month we're focusing on mixed media, so I've decided to do a bit of a silhouette of this little cat here. I'm going to do a bit of a rainbow acrylic paint background behind it. So first off, I just drew a cat and just I tried to make it more kitten-y, so a little bit smaller, big head and that. And I just cut it out to make this sort of mask and then I've just put removable adhesive underneath it so that it stays stuck down a little bit better as I'm smudging my paint over the top. You could always just print out a picture over a silhouette of whatever thing you wanted to paint over and do it that way, you don't have to hand draw anything really. And I'm just using these paints are Prima Impasto paints, they're a heavy-bodied acrylic paint. So you can smudge them around and add water, but once they dry they're permanent, they don't reactivate with water. And all I'm doing is going through a rainbow of colours that match in with the papers I'm using. I'm using mostly bits from Remind the scrap kit from last year, so I will link that shop below as well. And although this looks like a pale pink, it actually is a raspberry brighter pink colour, but it's just the camera at the moment. The lighting does improve a bit later on. And I'm literally just going over the whole thing, smudging the colours together to create a rainbow. And then as you can see here I just peel it off and there I have my little kitty cat. And there's bits that have smudged over, but I'm not going to worry about that and I'll show you later on how I will fix those. I just rubbed off the adhesive from the inside of that silhouette as well, where a little bit of the glued stuck, but it was removable so it came off really easily. Now because some of the paints are a bit thicker than others of these I've found, so I'm just filling in a few little gaps here and there and then just adding a few splashes of colour. I like, I do this a lot, I've done this in quite a few different layouts where I just add some extra splashes off the colour that coordinates with the paint further across the page. And I just do this all the way down, just filling in any gaps that I think need to fill in and then adding a little splash of colour of each one. In hindsight I wish I'd done a little bit more splashes because I do end up adding my paper cluster over the top of it, so I should have just gone right to the edge and added a bit more I think. But you'll have no. So next up I am going to work on my paper cluster I think. Here's my picture that's off my kitten, he's now quite chunky, he's a good six months plus now. Oh, there he is, right on cue, he's always jumping up on my desk, but this was when he was super tiny, we'd only just got him, he was very, very small because he was a little orphaned key so he'd had to be hand-reared and he's a bit mad, a bit of a crazy one, there he is saying hi. And so here I am just adding my rainbow paper, this is how I based my colour scheme so that it would fit quite well with that rainbow there and then I'm just ruffling up the edges of that paper and I also add that white behind my photo just so that it pops up against all the bright colours I'm adding behind it so that it just stand out slightly and I'm just trimming off a few different papers here which are a layer behind it and each one I just ruffle the edges with the scissors and one of them's even got little catacorns like little unicorn kittens on it which I thought was quite cute and in keeping with the layout as well. So for a bit of texture here I'm just going to add some tool, I've just folded it in three and then trimmed it off on the edges to make three pieces and then use staples to stick those pieces together and then I'll glue it all together afterwards. I'm just grabbing some thin foam here, what I do is I just use pieces between each layer leaving a nice big gap around the edge so that if I want to tuck any embellishments in or change things around it makes it a lot easier for me to switch things about because it tends to peel up quite easily and it's nice and easy to tuck embellishments in and I'm putting them on a slight angle, I don't tend to do things perfectly even I like things to be a little bit haphazard because I like a lot of messy mixed media so I tend to do messy layers on my paperclusters nowadays as well and I do like to add lots of dimension between the layers, I only use these thin pieces so overall it's only about the equipment of a double layer of a normal thickness of foam tape but because I want to add it between each layer I just use these nice thin pieces and one final one for the very back and then I just need to choose where I'll put that. I do end up moving the whole thing up slightly afterwards but this is the general gist of how I pieced it together. There was some washes also in the mind scrap kit that I used that came with the, I think it was the July or August so I'm just adding some of that and then the cat and the cute title are very very very old and they have been in my stash for so long and I've been waiting for an opportunity to use them where they match the colours because they're yellow, they only go with certain things so I was looking forward to using these so I finally managed to do that. Just stuck down a little house, a Puffie sticker in there, a Cosstock one as well as a date bit that I'll fill in later, some tiny words stickers, a few extra embellishments there, another Puffie sticker at the top and they add two sparkly hearts also from just older kits now engraving from older minus scrap kits just to add a few extra embellishments. I love these Enamel dots there, the matte surface ones so they don't have a sheen, they're really, they've got a lovely texture to hear them and I think they're nice and different from the usual shiny ones. Now here is my solution to me going over the edge on my silhouette, I could have just left it to be honest, it didn't bother me that much but seeing as I had this pen it's a paint pen so it's an acrylic pen so I think it's acrylic anyway don't quote me on that, almost sure is and so it goes over the top so I can just need enough the edges there and then finally I felt like it needed some white all over it because there's a lot of white in my paper cluster but not on the actual background so I just add in some white splashes just to tidle together as a finishing touch and I thought I'd get a cute little starry effect over the little kit and silhouette as well so that's me done, thanks for joining me today please make sure you check out everyone's layouts this month and please join in, have a go at some of them and we'll see you for the next video please like and subscribe if you haven't already and if you want to check out more of my videos I'll leave my personal youtube channel in a link below, bye!