 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is another project for my Mother's Day series 2018 and today is Wednesday and on a Wednesday I do a hobby-based monthly kit tutorial so I wanted to combine the two together. So today I'm going to be using product from both the January and the February kits. I'm coming to the end of both of them so I'm kind of just showing what you can do with all the scraps and bits left over and still create really nice projects but I also wanted them to have a Mother's Day theme as well. So this is what I've done today. Now some of you might recognise this who have followed me right from the start as I've done this for Mother's Day last year and it was my Kit Kat Treat Holder. So I also done a Tonics Tea Cake Reinforced Box. Wow that's a bit of a mouthful. And again Tonics Tea Cakes for those of you in the UK are just, well I think they are just amazing. They're you know kind of a bit of a British institution. There's a box here they were established in 1890. They're just marshmallow domes with chocolate and like a biscuit base. Anyway enough of the chocolate I've eaten quite a few of them but I done a Reinforced Box full of them with four of them last year for Mother's Day but I thought as part of my kind of every month I wanted to remake something as well from last year so I'm kind of throwing everything all in in today's tutorial. I wanted to do just a little case, a holder for one single Tonics Tea Cake so that's what I've come up with here. So you can just see it on the side there it's attached with a little glue dot and this is using the mirrored card, the Miri card from the January box and one sheet of 6x6 paper that I had left over and then I've heat embossed a sentiment which is from the February kit and I've used this glitter to cover this little kind of latch and then I've used some magnets. Now magnets don't come in the kits but you could easily use a glue dot. A little glue dot will you know stick that together perfectly and then this is what it is. It's this lovely case which you can see there. There's no cutting involved as I said in the tutorial last year. All you have to do is cut the card stock to the size but then everything else is just down to some clever like an origami fold and it just forms this little case and then it closes down nicely with the magnetic closure. So that's the one with mainly the January products left over so my January stuff is now gone. That's it. Today I'm going to be using some more of the kind of gadget-y bits that came in the February kits. I'm using the embossing folder and the inks and things like that more of the hardware I suppose. So that is the theme so the colour I'm doing here. So this is where the piece of black card that was left in the kit and then this is just using some white scrap card and I've created this lovely my own kind of paper using the embossing folder so I'm going to show you how to do that. That's the embossing folder that came with this month's kit because it was a Valentine's theme so I just wanted to show you how you can you know change things so they work for all occasions and Valentine's has got a lot of lovely sentiments that are great for Mother's Day as well so that's the embossing folder there with all the hearts on. Also what I've done is when I embossed this piece here I was playing around I embossed it and then I went and just coloured all of the hearts with like rainbow colours with some pencils over the top. So again it's just another nice way to really kind of you know bring that embossing embossed piece of card to life so you can see there it's all nicely raised those little hearts and I just thought that looked really nice and you could just mat that now onto a card put a sentiment over the top and you've got a really nice greeting card. So again lots and lots of ways to use these bits and pieces so let me just get rid of these bits and go through the measurements. So the card stock that came in this month's one this black piece was default A5 size so I just wanted to cut it down slightly so it's going to be cut down so it's four and three quarters along this way and then just keep it at the length it was which is eight and a quarter okay. Anybody that doesn't have the kit you just follow these sizes with any cards that you have and then you need two pieces of white card but what I do is I'll do the embossing first and then you cut them down but you'll cut them down to two and a half by two and three quarters. A tiny little piece here which I used from the piece I cut off from the the width here I then used for this little piece which is two by I thought it was half yeah two half an inch would be fine and then a little piece for the sentiment again which would go through when we get to it so let me just get all the best stuff out of the way so it doesn't confuse us. So first of all so you've got this piece of black cardstock obviously you can use any other colors if you don't have this piece left you may well have used it so you want to score along that four and three quarter inch side you're going to score at one inch and then at three and three quarters of an inch then rotate it along the long side and you're going to score at three inches and five and a quarter of an inch and that's the effect that you want to have okay just get rid of the scoreboard okay and then grab a ruler and because we these are this is a one inch these are both one inch sections what you want to do is pop it on the long side you've got the middle square here I'm just coming up to this corner there you can see it in the score lines and you just want to mark I'm just using I'm just going to create a little notch mark it'll be on the outer part here at one inch so I'm just putting a little marker there up from that score line just up one inch and again outside line here one and then again this one one and again one okay so just on the outer part from those you've got those two score lines there just one inch one inch one inch one inch okay you can probably just see there these tiny little markers that I've just put in and just make them out there there's one there okay that's one inch up from that score line then once you've done that you want to score from that outer little marker where you put it you want to score down to that corner so just bring that up you can see there so from that one inch little notch I've then scored in to this kind of cross here okay so again go around to that next one and you just want to score right in there and again this one looks like this one here okay so that is now what you should have okay just catching the light there so now we can go along and just burnish all of our score lines so I always like to use everything I get whether I buy a magazine subscription whether I get this kit whether I get a paper pack I really I just I kind of get really angry with myself if I don't use it all I mean we pay good money for our craft supplies unlike my mum who just sits and looks at hers and never uses it I have to use mine so I'm glad to be getting all of this used so I feel like I'm getting my money's worth so now what we've done where we've got those score lines that's folded in you may not be able to see them because we've done those ones manually without using the scoreboard but it's okay because what you want to do is fold one piece over like so so bring it over okay and where you have that triangle if you just put your finger okay on I'm just trying to do it yeah on this side here put your finger down as close as you can to where that score line is and just bring it up and you can you see there it's just starting to bend on that score line see there and that's basically what we want to do so as that comes up now that's creating that corner just like these ones here okay now if it's slightly off which when this one comes up it's ever so slightly out just pull it across a little bit before you burnish it properly until you get the side lined up there and then you can just burnish the inside okay so now when that comes up can you see I've got a nice join like so again with the end down here so we just folded it up put in my finger and then as that comes up well I'm doing it the wrong way even I'm getting myself all cachanded here yeah like so again once you've started it off it would just go and then that comes up so just where the score line is just bring it up like so it just joins up perfectly just pop it on its side and just burnish it a little bit more and then with this side to do the same you're just bringing it up you're basically holding that end bit down and bringing up this middle bit here so again just make sure it's nicely so now because we're going to stick all this down in a minute when it comes together like so you have this case so the process is really really quick it's just getting that folding done so I'm just going to grab some tacky glue and all you want to do is just put some glue on the inside of the card just up to where that score line is that you don't want to go too close to it because you don't want the glue kind of coming out over the edge because it then will stick that little triangle here okay and you don't want that to happen so then just fold the whole thing over and again everything over that side and just hold it down there until that's kind of all stuck yeah so once that's taken I'm just using my bone tool here and just making sure that glue is all spread out and like I said you don't want it going and sticking this this bit of the triangle down this has got to stay you know clear like it is so just go around there I'm just spreading out that glue like so now when you bring it up it will just naturally move that piece in the middle and create that case okay so now we can pop that to one side just kind of that set a little bit more and I just want to show you how you do this so in this month's kit was the memento rosebud so again things like this like I said they just last for months and months and months so you get a lot more out of it than just you know creating for the month that you get it so open this one up and what you all have some embossing folders maybe other way rounds but the side where the image is raised so here these hearts are all raised is the side side that I don't want to ink you want to ink the side which is the negative side so it's the background is all raised and the hearts are actually little in dense alike again I'm probably saying all the wrong wording for it because it's not something I've done on a tutorial before I've shown other people how to do it but I haven't done it on a tutorial for YouTube so the side like I said where the image is raised is the side you don't want to ink so generally it's this the top piece that comes down so then what I'm doing with my ink is just brushing it across the whole piece you don't have to brush it if you don't want that effect you can just dab it all over and just brushing mine all across it until I'm happy that it's all covered if any of it has gone on to the other side I'm just going to rub my finger just over that bit there okay and then what I can do is lay my card down on this piece here and then just carefully because once you've dropped it down that is it and make sure you keep that really sandwiched together so it doesn't move at all then you'll need to set your embossing folder and um your big shot whatever it is you're using um so that it can take the embossing folders and I'm just going to run this through the machine okay so that's now gone through the machine and now when we lift this one up carefully I just take that out all the ink has come off that image that top plate and it is giving me this effect so it's all embossed as normal but the the white hearts are still raised and they're clear of color and then all that pink pigment is on the bottom again if I come really close you can see the brush effect there from where I was swiping the ink pad down the embossing folder so already that's again like I said that's a really nice background now to just put straight onto a card with a nice sentiment so it's just a clever way to get more out of your embossing folders so now you need to cut that piece down so this is why don't cut the pieces before cut them after because I said that they needed to be two and a half by two and three quarters so I'm just going to cut another one out of this one because I was playing around to start with so you can get two yeah two out of this piece that I've done so I'm just going to get that one cut there you go two little treat holders I think they are really adorable I love those as I said this is all using kit product from the monthly hobby based kits if you are interested in finding out more about that and subscribing then I will share all the links below for you 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