 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft and thank you for watching my tutorial today. I am going to be featuring some projects that are all inspired by Chinese New Year. So as a lot of you will know I live in China and we're currently celebrating the build up to Chinese New Year. There's lots of lanterns, there's things being made, it's just a really nice feel in the air and people are getting ready for you know having time off with their family and friends. So I thought I would make some projects to show you because it's all around paper craft but I'm going to be updating them, not updating them, that's the wrong word, I'm going to be changing them so they will fit any time of the year so not just for Chinese New Year. So the colors are changing and I've kind of you know just altered little bits and pieces and those are going to be the projects that I'm going to share with you over the coming days. So today to kick start I'm showing you these Unpal lanterns. Unpal is the red envelopes or the red pockets that are given at special occasions so weddings, birthdays, Chinese New Year, autumn festival, there's many many many festivals and they basically look like this, they're all different. This one's for happy happy birthday for example. These are Chinese New Year ones but I've used them all with these ones here and these are for my husband's work colleagues to just decorate the office and stuff. So this is what it is but I'm going to be showing you how to use them as six by six papers in non-traditional Chinese New Year colors and stuff but I just wanted to show you these all using different sites and different amounts of the red pockets. So this one here for example really lovely, I've got the little tassel hanging here as well, this is with four so you've got one two three and four so that gives you that style okay. Then I've got this one here which is with five which is my favorite style, I really like this one and I've done that with the white, I've done another one with the five so that's the same there with the black and then I've done this one here which is with six so it's a lot more flatter, bit more like you know yeah just a wider looking one, more spaceship like I think that one but still lovely. The reason why they give the red pockets is just basically to just wish you know good blessings, great health, prosperity. They're always given during, the red ones are given during festivals of happiness, you would never give any other, especially not white, do not give white, white is used for more somber occasions so like a funeral and things like that. So yeah there's many many reasons behind them but it's a protective colour, it's to fight off evil spirits and it represents prosperity, there's just many many things like I've said good health and things like that so it's just really nice I love I do like this we've been given some really lovely gifts so these are these so these are done so I'm just gonna pop them to one side and let me show you the ones I've done to go in my craft room so these are using the first edition papers and you can see there I've changed these a bit so they're all done using staples but rather than staple the top or no this I did staple the top then I covered it with these embellishments and you can see there I've used the tassel again and that's using the five like I said the five is is is my favourite I think so that's that one and then this is the four so again the same and now they're just really nice and I'm doing a third one today because I want three of them to hang in a little cluster from my ceiling and they just look really quite cute so I thought I would share this very very easy tutorial with you so I'm just gonna hang them back up there so what you will need is what do I do here one so two three pieces of six by six so this is just from a paper pack and it's double-sided because that works really well with this project as well and then this is the the fifth one I'm going to be showing with you here and I've just got some embellishments to decorate these beautiful tassels which I will share all the links to I've purchased I've got some silver ribbon and then I've just got this little disc which I've die-cut and I've just put a little hole punch through and that's just to sit on the top just kind of covers up bits and pieces and then you will also need a stapler so very very straightforward there's no glue unless you want to glue it together but I will show you now why it's a bit difficult to use the glue so I've already done those four so all you need to do is grab a piece here so these measure so it was two it was one piece of six by six and then I just cut it in half so you will have a piece of three by six okay now you want the if you don't have six by six papers you can use you could do three by eight you could do a four by it needs to be rectangles needs to be long tall pieces it wouldn't work with the square so just anything that's a rectangle will work really well with this okay so you get your piece here this is the three by six I'm gonna just fold it depending on what patterns that's obviously gonna be my main pattern on show and then this is gonna be the bits that fold over like so so just bear that in mind with whatever paper so if you want whatever you want showing you want to face up and you're gonna fold the card in half but don't burnish all down there just pinch the ends like so and then fold in half this way and again pinch like so so I can now see I've been turn it over there I can see just where I've marked the middle of both of those sides and then mark the middle of this side here okay then what you want to do is just fold from where you've just pinched those little pieces like so if you want to mark a pencil mark along here here here and here to mark the middle then do that if that's better for you and then just fold so you're just folding from that pencil mark down to the other pencil mark so again on this side here I'm just gonna fold and you can see what I'm doing there just creating this triangle get your bone tall as well just so that you're really defining those score lines and then again just mark this one here yes that's that all folded so you just want to make sure that all of your points all join up on each bit there like so okay so once you've done that with all of the five pieces or the four pieces or the six depending on the styles that I showed you at the beginning that you want so basically you want to grab two and you're just going to put together the backs of them so they almost sit back to back okay you just want to focus on this piece here this triangle bottom right hand triangle make sure your cards all lined up okay and then with your stapler you're going to staple two or three literally just filled it up why is it not working okay start again how frustrating right so again just staple two or three along that score line okay so just stapled just along that burnished score line there so when you open it up it will be joined but you want this to be loose so if you are wanting to use glue instead you want to put a very thin line of glue along the score lines and join them together this needs to be open okay so that's that one bear in mind this is always the front it's going to be the outside get the next one again put it line it up with the bottom of the next side so this left side is stapled we're now going to do the right hand side again make sure it's all nicely lined up needs to be perfect again I'm just popping my staples along like so okay get the next one nicely lined up back to back the last one seems my stapler is a bit dodgy I don't know why it's been final morning okay so leave this one open don't do them all okay so leave that open and then we're going to go around and do the same with the tops and what you want to do is make sure that you curve this bit and that one so they come in like so again line up the top there see what I've done so just opened them up brought them together and just line them up because they're exact same sizes they will match up perfectly they don't make sure that they do okay so you can see now when that opens up is starting to create that effect go around to the next one again always make sure that you kind of curve that bit there line them up the next one starts to get a little bit more trickier now so she would be staple staple that even but it will get there and get that next one okay so what you should be left with now is an opening like this you can see there how that's all come together really well so now what we need to do is add in our ribbon so I'm going to grab just got a piece of scrap card here and just want to cut a little bit off you'll see you don't need to worry just just something similar to what I've got here and then basically what we're going to do is first of all I'm going to thread this through my lovely tassel and do the bottom first like so okay so just got it hanging like that then I'm going to staple it onto this big card just pop a couple of staples on there okay and then choose what you want to be the top of the bottom you're going to sit that in and then we're going to close it and that card just stops it falling out okay so now we can seal the bottom again just gonna pop okay all the time all of these will open up which is what you want and then I've got my top one which I just need to make as my little loop with the last piece there I haven't given you a measurement for the ribbon because it's entirely up to you how long you want it to hang you might have somewhere specific for it so again just staple that on and then just slide it in that one there so it will just stop it coming out and then again that last one it's a bit tricky you need to try and get the staple in as close to that edge as possible like so okay now if you want you can leave it like that it does look quite nice so if you did want to leave it like this then you could glue all of it together and not have any of the staples but that is the whole point of this project is to show you a different way of putting something together but there is you could easily do that without the staples and just glue it all and then you could have a nice sentiment in there you could have some ribbon through the last bit so it doesn't join you could open it up and you could have a nice little gift bag could be a different way just seal the bottom one like I did completely but maybe this one don't seal and it's enough room to open it up I haven't done that I'm just throwing out some other ideas but that is basically what we've got there but now I want to do that other style so what you do is you split open to like so and then you curve them over okay so that was that piece split it open and then put one on top of the other now if you want to just glue this if you don't have embellishments to cover staples or you just rather glue it then that's fine put a bit of tacky glue under here and stick it over and just pinch it between your finger and thumb and hold it in place I am going to carry on using my staples because that's the whole reason I like this project and the embellishments I'm going to use cover that perfectly anyway so you just want to go around and literally this is why you want to make sure that you get them all in the as close to the top as possible but I've got that little disc as well to cover up the top so there's ways to hide round card poking through okay and then again the next one and the last ones will go together and again that card push it through so it just hangs within it it shouldn't be coming out like that so first time it's done that okay so that's the top turn it over do the same with the bottom and that's the bottom done so now you can see that really nice style so all I'm going to do is with this piece here which I have put a little hole punch through I'm just wondering if that was a big enough hole I punched through it should be okay and just feed that through and it just covers up the joins there when they meet it just gives it a nice finish as well and then I'm just going to grab my largest of these and just cover them literally sit them directly over the staple these are just inexpensive I think I picked them up from the range or the works and I just think this is a really nice way if you've got a little girls party and you want to make some you've got lots and lots of papers lying around six by six papers you could do clusters of these for any party I think that would look lovely and how gorgeous is that it's just really cute so I'm going to do all them on the bottom as well so obviously you see that it's hanging so I'm sure it's going to be high up like mine will be and just get them all covered there you have it a gorgeous little lantern perfect for any occasion not just Chinese a year so now I've got those three they are going to hang together and might have to change the lens actually I didn't think about that but I want them to kind of cascade down but you can kind of get the idea but there you have it so that's my three Chinese inspired lanterns so I hope you enjoyed the first of my Chinese New Year inspired tutorials I've got some really interesting ones coming up so please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and you want to catch those and hit the like button if you enjoyed today's tutorial thanks for watching guys