Welcome everyone to Aussie's Grampaart. Today's layout is all about the love of a little girl for her daddy, what I like to call her first love. So I started off by picking my background paper and I will admit all papers that I'm using today are from Graphic 45 and they are from the Love Notes collection. And my background paper that I chose this time is called Stan Innovation and it's this gorgeous black paper. It has these little gold love hearts and also some music notes. As you can see the tool that I'm using is quite an old tool. It's been around in my station for quite a while. It's a glass mat and then you've got these circles and you have a little cutter there and my original idea was to cut a circle and I was going to glue this circle onto my background paper. But as usually happens when you're scrapping you have a change of mind and I was looking at the negative part of this and I thought oh I can use this as a mask and that's what I'll end up doing. I put it down as a mask and I get out some dress so and I'm just using a very soft brush to put my dress so down and as I was doing this I was thinking oh this reminds me of a full moon. So if I refer to my circle as a moon you'll know why. I do go a little bit baddy sometimes when I'm scrapbooking. But anyway I've got my moon almost down and it's at this point when I removed the mask that I thought no it needed something a bit more girly and I decided I was going to add some splatters. So I get out my Heidi Swap spray and I believe that the colour is called Rose and I land up doing some splatters on this layout and I must admit I really really do like how that turned out in the end. I love how my moon has softened my layout and I love how the splatters have added a bit of a girly touch and it's time to work on my photo. So I wanted my photo to stand out from all this busy black background but before I go on to that I was just showing you that what I did was around my whole layout I actually trimmed about three millimeters off each side as I decided that I was going to frame my layout using this gorgeous paper here. Now this paper is called and I will apologise because I'm going to butcher the name. The name is Melodic Missives Melodic Missibs. However you want to say however it's pronounced I'm sorry but I did gutted and I'm going to use it as a border. Now originally I thought oh that looks quite nice but then I decided to further down the track that it was just a little bit too much and that's how it lands up. You looking eye on you landed up with a small border all around just enough of a hint of that gorgeous colour. So back to my photo I'm going to matte it with this paper and I am going to do what I normally do. I get out my perfect layers ruler because you all know that I love my layers to be absolutely perfect and this tool lets me achieve that without too much grief and all my sides end up being equally better centimetre in this case. With this layout I was trying to achieve a balance between the masculine look and the feminine look so I decided to do some stenciling. The stenciling the stencils that I'm using I'm sorry but I've got nobody what stencil it is or where it came from I just love it it's got all these gorgeous little flowers on it and I'm using the Inca Gold and the colour is Rosenquartz and I absolutely love how it turned out. I am putting the applying the Inca Gold in a diagonal fashion and I love how it looks like I've got this full moon that is shooting out all these lovely gorgeous pink flowers. So here is where I ran into trouble. I had no idea what I was going to do once I finished my stenciling. I got out my little box of trims in this little box I have embroidery thread some laces different little trims that I picked up along the way and I start auditioning you know all these little bits and pieces and all I managed to is cause myself more confusion because I had no idea what I wanted to do. So I went into out put it all aside and move on with your next project and I got out my cuddle bug I got out these old spellbinder love hearts and I decided I was going to make my own embellishment and this will be a little love heart well actually it's a big love heart with sequence in it so I'm just cutting out some love hearts I do one in red the outline I get out a piece of acetate and I cut out a love heart from the acetate oh what did I do after that oh yes and once I've got my acetate love heart I cut out another love heart from some white paper and this is where I decide that the white love heart is just a little bit too much for my layout it just is really really stands out so what I do is I get out my distress oxides and I believe that this color is called perfect linen but please do not quote me on that because my memory is absolutely shocking and considering this is one of my favorite colors I really should know the name of it but sorry I don't anyway put all that aside and I start to build my little little sequence so I'm just adding some glue and to this I'm going to glue down my acetate piece once that is down I get out my my little foam this is some really thin foam that I believe I might have got at one of the scrapbooking expose at pen roof and I just apply that all around so that my little sequence when I do apply it does not escape the sequence that I will be using is from new though and these gorgeous gorgeous little red circles they are called oh red carpet circles there you go and once I adhere my little pocket I make sure that none of the sequence are going to escape and I bring back and I start auditioning everything and of course after a little break away and making my love heart which I love I decide oh I like this little pink trim here and I want to use the trim to go around my moon so I get out my glue and I start gluing it down now this took me a little bit of time because I had to get the lace to actually contour to my little moon and it took it was a bit fiddly but I did get there in and it was well worth the effort now off screen I did adhere everything down and then I started thinking oh I need a title and in my stash I found this stripboard word just as plain and simple love I added some jessso and I started thinking oh no I didn't like it in white so I thought I would add some of this ink a gold in that lovely Rosen Quartz color but that really really didn't pop off the page for me and I had to come up with something else I didn't thought oh it needs a darker color I'll use my ink a gold in this charcoal color but no that didn't work for me either and I thought third time lucky I'm going to use the ink a gold in this gorgeous red leferock color but no that doesn't work either and when all else fails you get out the big guns and it's time to do some embossing so I'm just just using some embossing liquid here I believe this one's from Stempedius and I'm sprinkling my embossing powder it's a lovely sort of soft pink color and I embossed that and get out that trusted old heat gun and I think I'm finally happy with what I've got yes that works blends in together with everything not blends in together but you know it just makes just works with everything so love how that looks look at that absolutely gorgeous I think all the layers of color actually helped to that's the story I've got and I'm sticking to it so that's it for today here are some close ups thank you all for watching and I would love it if you subscribe to my little channel and yes and hit that notifications bell so that whenever I upload you will be notified thank you all so much and until next time take care everybody oh