Welcome back everyone to Aussie Scrapper. I am participating in another challenge with from the Scrapper Boys Facebook page and the July challenge was to use stars on your layout. So I've dated some thoughts, I went to my silhouette machine and I found this lovely cut file that said Twinkle Twinkle, little star, do you know how loved you are? And I just thought, wow, I think I liked that. So I decided that instead of using stars on my layout, I would go with a phrase and that's exactly what I did. My original idea was to back the words with all sorts of different papers, some patterns, some colours and I would admit I did spend some considerable time doing this but for some reason it just wasn't working for me. So I went back to my stash and I even pulled out some nice gold glitter paper. But no, that wasn't going to work for me this time round. So I put it aside and I moved on. I always like to play with my disperse oxides. So here I am using the colour of the green borough and I'm just putting it on a stamping block, spressing it with some water and away I go. The old packaging technique on a stamping block. Then I decided to stamp the block that worked for me. So when I used the shaded glow like under the white wood honey, I actually went back to a little package and the white honey was to bring in some of the orange that was around my sun's shirt and I just kept adding layers upon layers of colour, all those three colours till I was happy with the outcome. So I went back into my stash of paper and I found this gorgeous paper from Tim Holtz Craft call. It's called Shattered and it just went perfectly as a backing paper behind all those lovely words and that's exactly where it stays. I always like to map my photos so I pulled out this lovely case of craft 6x6 inch paper pad and it's called Indigo Skies and oh my gosh it is gorgeous but in my stash I pulled out this lovely bluish sort of scrap paper. I that was my first matte then of course I had to get my momenta's grey flannel just to ink the edges and look at that paper from the paper pad I just love it. So once again I'm just trimming the edges just so it's all even ink in it with my momenta's grey flannel colour and thought about putting another layout but no I don't do that I just use those two layers and here I am I'm just going to adhere the my original paper onto that lovely Tim Holtz paper because I just decided that that's what I was going to use and away I go this layout is finally coming together. I had to get my silhouette matte back into focus and all I'm doing here is some of the words yeah I had to glue in the little I don't know what they call the little bits of pieces inside it so you can make it what the letters are anyway I'm not going to bore you with the whole thing I just showed it on the first twinkle and yeah it was just a bit of a tedious job to go in and pull out all those little bits of paper and glue them down but then I thought oh no they so stark white against my lovely packaging technique so I just went in with a stencil brush and coloured them all in with a few of the different colours that I originally used I'm now going through my stencils and I was actually looking for a star stencil and I only had one I wanted small ones but anyway you make do with what you have so with the stencil I'm using this lovely new new though mousse and my gosh I love it it's sort of a nice light colour and yeah I just stenciled all around this piece of paper and I quite like the effect and I just left it to dry naturally and came back to it I think it was probably the next night stars are all dry now so the layout is nearly complete I went into my stage and I had I found these lovely little die cuts from the reject store and I loved that saying there so I decided to put it behind that little frame there which I actually made from one of my cake decorating molds now here I am I am channeling my inner missy widen and she loves putting thread behind everything and I just thought that was quite appropriate on this layout so I did this little tag is also from those lovely die cuts and I'm just doing some journaling there and of course I'm going to put some thread through that little thing there now that I've generally cut lands up in a little bit too big so what I just did was the bottom bit I just cut it off and I think that's just a nicer size there and I inked it with some of my grey flannel momenta zinc and yeah just going through the die cuts and seeing what what stays and yeah I love that little green thing but I wasn't going to use the bottoms of it so I just like the shine time that goes down and yes it's nearly at the end here so just doing a bit of layering a bit more of those threads there just poking through and yes I love the effect so these lovely leaves from that die cuts I thought that would be a nice little touch to add there and yeah it came along nicely oh going to my die packs again and I love this little admit one ticket to everyday memories and yeah this photo was nothing special it was just a photo that I took one day because I thought it was looking cute so yeah so everyday memories very appropriate little little ticket so just basically gluing everything down so this is the final product thank you everybody for putting up with me and watching to the end if you're still watching it is I appreciate all your support and I hope you will stay well and if you're in Australia stay warm it's freezing today anyway till my next layout I hope you all well and see you soon bye everyone