I very big welcome to everyone. I have a layout today for RTV Rescrap and Crack as I am on her design team for the month of September. This will be my last layout for September so it's layout number four and we are using the papers from Courty and Creations from a collection called A Gentimans and Poreum. So I picked my background paper and a paper it's paper 0 3 A from the Gentimans and Poreum. This whole layout was all came to be in all because of this gorgeous die set. It's from Cruative Expressions. It's called Porto and it's part of my core products. So as soon as I saw this die set I knew I was going to do a layout about my husband as he loves the ocean. He loves boating fishing. Anything to do with Leigh Seen. To cut my portal I didn't really have any suitable papers. So I made my own. I got a piece of brown card stock. I added some gesso and then I switched to town playing with some of the distress oxide sprays. I used the colors Pymistone, Victorian Vellvint and Cracked Pistachio. And one of the both I just used I sprayed one layer and then I dried it with the heat gun sprayed another layer and I dried with the heat gun and a lot of the dry I did off screen. And I just kept doing this until I got a color and tone that I was really happy with. So there you are off screen. I've cut my little portal and I'm just adding some extra Pymistone to the edges with a little spunking tool. Love the look of that. But I wanted a bit more of a rustic feel so I got my favorite distress oxide in the color. Oh vintage photo nearly forgot there and I added a a few more little highlights. Then I decided that you couldn't really see the indentations of the embossing from the dike hunt. So what I did was I once again with the vintage photo. I put the I just aligned the paper back into the dike set and I just outlined the whole things that I could get the all those lovely little grooves that I didn't quite get with my cuddle bug. So now it's time to see on screen here but I've got a piece of acetate that I'm just circling the the circle with. I'm going to cut that out because I decided that I was going to make a shaker card at this point. No I'm not a shaker card but a shaker pocket I guess. So I have glued my acetate to my little portal and then it's time to add some dimension and I used some mounted foam tape and the most important thing here is to make sure that in the inner circle there are no gaps so that that way your sequins do not sneak out. My next step was that I had to do the background of my little shaker pocket so what I did was I got a scrap piece of paper and this is also a leftover piece from one of my previous layouts. It is using the Gentermans and Poreum scrap papers and I am going to cut out another circle as this is basically going to be the the back of my shaker pocket. Once that was all done it was time to add some sequences and I just grabbed whatever was in my stash. I added some blue sequins, some green sequins and it's also some goldy bronzy sequins and yeah just add the the back the backing there stick it all down and my little shaker pocket is complete. I absolutely loved how that looked and then I had to move onto my photo. I wanted my photo to stand out from the layout but I really had no idea how was going to do it so I went back to my one of my favorite techniques and that is I've got some brown card stock and give a small match around the whole photo using my perfect players ruler. I have no idea what else I'm going to do with this layout so I go back to my little shaker pocket and I decided that I was going to add a little embellishment to it so in my stash of chipboard I had this gorgeous ships wall which you see me now coloring in and that's going to get stuck into the middle. I'm going to stick it down to the middle of my little shaker pocket and I just love how that completes the whole look. Then it's time to work on my photo once again. As you can see I have no idea what I'm doing with this layout. I'm just flying by the set of my palettes. I really should plan things a little bit better but I decided I had all these scrap pieces of paper and I wanted to use them and I'm on this kick of getting better at layering with my paper so I'm going to do some layering with this photo and I just got this strip of paper and just ripped it then I distressed it adding some of that vintage bird distress oxide and putting it on opposite ends of the photos, one up and one down like how that looks. Get this piece of scrap paper again, yes cut it out and I think how am I going to use it because it's in little odd shapes. What I will do is I like that so I'm going to distress the sides once more just to keep the layout a little bit cohesive. Once I have my little little edges or distressed I will add the vintage photo once again and then I also decide that it just needs a bit more of a rustic feel. It's just a little bit too lazy for my liking so back to that vintage photo. Add it all in. I love how that adds that little bit of pop of color and it's still looking masculine. I love it how it all is. I'll just bring everything back together and make sure that I'm liking my layers and back to another scrap piece of paper from this collection and once again doing exactly the same thing distressing the edges, adding the vintage photo and then off screen I do believe well I glued everything down off screen because this video is going to be a bit longer than what I like and then I decided oh I don't really love my background. It's a little bit bland so I got out an old background stamp that I had and I'm using an archival link. I believe the color is sepia and I'm just going to do some random stamping through the page. Love the way that's looking. I bring everything back in just to see how it's all going just something is not quite right and I decide that the layout needs more blue because of the ocean. So another one of my core products was the stencil. It's from Paiser Crab. It's one of their mini stencils and it's called Rathgrid. So I'll let you down with some stenciling and I'm using two shades of Nouveau embellishment mousse. First I started off with the dark one and then I get the more tearly color and I'm just going to use my thing I just spread it around and what I did it sort of added a like a two-tone dimension to the layout and I absolutely loved it. And here is where eyes. I made a mistake. Well not a mistake but I made a mess where some of the blue sort of went off the page and I couldn't get it off but then I sort of thought I liked that shading so for the rest of the layout I just landed doing some of my own little shading using my fingers and yeah I just took advantage. I didn't want to throw the paper away and start all over again so you just make it work. I'm adding some sludders with some brown brownie. I don't even remember what it is and the layout is nearly complete. I take my distressing tool and I decide I'm going to distress all four sides of my layout just for some added masculinity and also it's more of my husband's not a clean cut guide. You know here's your typical Aussie bloke you know here's let's just to reuse a little bit more on the rough side and add in my what's that the vintage photo and I just add shaded all around especially on the left hand corner there. Love the look and these are some wood banners that I had in my stash and I think I shared it earlier I think they're described there from scrap mats and I think they're called gears and something and now it's time for my title so this title is going to be a pretty simple one I started off by putting down sun because he was a son then he became a husband and then he became a dad so that's it for my layout thank you all so much I hope you enjoyed it and till next time stay safe everybody