 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is another Easter project and as you can tell it's a giant carrot so yeah a little bit of a more of a contemporary abstract looking carrot but a carrot nonetheless and I love it. It fits loads and loads in, I'm going to be buying some mini eggs tomorrow, put them in the cellophane and they're going to go inside. So you can put a little tag on if you want, I did start preparing one but then I thought actually this is going in my basket which is here so obviously I've got a card that's going in there as well that was the project that I've made before this is going to sit inside as well like that so it's got all the green in there as well and then there's a few others going in as well which you will see but yeah so basically you just undo the ribbon on the top here and then under like so opens up to reveal a very large inside. Yeah straightforward to make a little bit of the gluing I guess is the hardest bit because you've got to sit there and kind of hold things in place for a while but in terms of scoring and all that kind of stuff it's very very easy so I'm not going to do the bow I'll just do that up for now but like said that's how I've done the tag you could put Happy Easter now you could stick it down here if you wanted or just have it kind of hanging off there would look really nice as well but I just pulled out all those colors that were inside inside on this one. Okay so you're going to need just pop that one there for once minute. Okay so I've already prepared one half because it comes in two parts and I prepared a bit of my grass. It's not even grass is it? It's the leaves the foliage on the top of the carrot. It's the evening of a long day. Okay so we're just cracked straight on into the scoring so you're going to need, make sure I'm all in there, so two pieces of six by whatever length card you're using. Okay so if you're using 12 by 12 you could do six by 12, A4 is six by five and sorry A4 would be six by 11 of five eighths or three quarters and if you're using letter paper it will be six by 11. Any of those measurements will work and I'll explain a little bit of the scoring when we get to it. So first of all you want to score along the six inch side you want to score it three inches all the way down. Okay then rotate it and you want to score along whatever length it is that you've got do your first score line at one inch then if you've got 12 inch card you're going to score from this side in by three inches so you will score at nine inches. Okay basically you need to have three inches you need to have whatever you need to score down here by whatever width this piece is here because it will form this perfect square on top. So if it's 12 by 12 you'll come down and score at nine. If you're using the same as me which is A4 and it's coming in at 11 and five eighths then you will score at eight and five eighths. If yours is coming in at 11 and three quarters then you'll score at eight and three quarters. If you've got the 11 inch card you will be scoring at eight. So all it means is that if you're using 11 inch you're going to have a slightly shorter carat and if you're using 12 then you're going to have a slightly longer carat that's all it's going to do but you can still do it with that. So I've tried to make sure that it was something that people can make with anything that they've got really. This also evolved from my pumpkin that I made for my Halloween series so yeah so I just kind of played around with that and made it a bit longer. Okay so you need to repeat that so you've got two pieces then get rid of the scoreboard you don't need that anymore and what you need now is a metal ruler and I find using the smaller end of the stylus that works best here and basically what we're going to do is we're going to score so you've got these one two three four five six squares all along the top here. The middle square on each of these three inch panels so this one here for example the left and the right hand bottom corners of it we're going to score from down to the corners of here so again that one we're going to score down to there. This is exactly the same concept as the pumpkin one except instead of scoring a straight line we scored a curved angle so if you want to have a curved looking one I guess it would kind of work. I play around with it, it has some fun with it. So let me just do this one first and then I will bring it up so you can see it. You need to be really accurate with your scoring you want to make sure you do get it point to point you don't really want to be off with this otherwise it you know it might not join that nicely like so and then this one again if I just hold that up so it catches there we go you can see those score lines so it's coming from this middle square so there's those one two three the middle one bottom left hand side score all the way down to the top of this big you know square down here so just down to that score line and again then the other side to the bottom right hand side score all the way down and you can see that they're meeting and then that one comes up and goes off to that one and then the last one comes down like so okay so repeat that on your second piece and then you want to burnish all of your score lines so carefully go along and get all of those burnished do the main ones first and once you've done the main ones don't do these ones yet I find it's easier to do them when you cut these two bits first so I'm going to cut just up this bottom score line and I'm just removing just kind of the bulky bit again because you're going to see all this it's all exposed you can see it all here so it's just nice just looks a bit more neater so just take such a tiny piece there then rotate to this end and just cut down every one of these score lines just to that first score line okay like so and then we're going to cut from the end here you're going to remove that completely like so go to the other end and remove that one like so and then you'll be left with four one two three four the two in the middle you're going to remove completely so again just really neatly and this is exactly the same process that I done for the pumpkin so again just to get rid of that okay so that is now the shape you should have you want to repeat that so you've got two pieces you have your two big squares and then this with these score lines now you can burnish these so very carefully this is where I find find and fire found my bone tool really helped getting right up to this edge here so because you've got such a tiny little amount here but that will be glued to another piece of card and I'll show you how to do that with you know with ease when we get to that bit so just take spend some time and you're folding them all down on each other the ones in the middle are really easy so those ones are done and then the last one again take some care making sure you get it right up to the end and this is what I mean about making sure those score lines are perfect I just bring that right up now to the camera the light can see that I've got a really nice sharp kind of point with that score line okay right now we need to glue so I find the wet glue works best for this and this is what I was saying was the most fiddly bit really now is just getting it glued together so what you want to do is go right to the end just put glue on one side of this like long half triangle your big triangle in the middle you just want to put it onto one half but you do want to make sure you get right up to the end here and then just kind of rub it out with it rub you know bring the glue right to the edge there it's all going to dry clear I know this glue that I use dries completely clear then fold it over okay don't fold it completely flat but with your bone tool lift it up and work it against that score line and you want to push right to the end and actually just manipulate it over a little bit so you're actually creating like a 1 eighth of an inch little piece there you see so it has stuck now to this piece on this side without if you didn't kind of just push it over a little bit there that it would just it wouldn't join properly but just holding it up there and just following your bone tool all the way down that score line will not only give you a perfect really nice crisp edge here but it would also make sure it's all stuck together and then just pull all of that glue all the way up to the end and you'll see now it all comes out on the bone tool like so and just rub away any excess and that will be so secure now and then once it's dry we'll be cutting that away if you've got any glue here if you've got loads and rub it away but that glue there will dry completely clear so that's what you want to do so you want to you see you've got to be really careful on that end bit to make sure that stays attached so don't even attempt to you know start folding it and bending it until that is completely dried out and it's rock hard okay so I've got that one and then I've got this one that I've done already but this one here that's really really hard that piece of card so now what I can do is cut about a quarter of an inch away from the score line all the way down and what that does is just removes that bulk and it just allows you to have more room inside your carrot and now I can bend that right the way around fold it right back over on itself and it is still joined right up to the very very end there okay and that's because I've let that sit and let that dry so at this point now you kind of just need to walk away from it and just leave it and let it set so both pieces are completely hard so that's what I'm going to do with that bit for now leave them to one side whilst that's kind of doing its thing we can do the little leave leafy bits yeah I guess on the top so you need two pieces of three by three okay and then you need a pair of these cool scissors now if you don't have these scissors then you can just use normal scissors and just cut individual strips but basically these are kitchen scissors for cutting vegetables and making things look fancy they've never been used in the kitchen but they used a lot in the craft room basically just choose a three inch side and you want to come in about the width of whatever the gap is between the scissors so in this case about one eighth of an inch so I'm starting one in one eighth of an inch in and then just cutting down and where the scissors stop is then what's giving me this kind of tab at the bottom like so and then again you want to come in one eighth of an inch so you're already starting off your next kind of little I don't know whatever you want to call these and then again always coming in one eighth of an inch roughly don't worry if it's a little bit odd because let's face it they're not perfect anyway in real life and then the very end ones again just bring that right down like so then I just used my bone tool and I kind of rolled some of them that way then turn it the other way rolled some that way back the other way and so on just so you've got them all all over the place because that's how they would be if you look at a real carrot like so yeah so you want to do that twice you've got two of these and these are great for using on cards for using on the bottom of gift boxes if you want to create like a grass scene these are great I mean already that looks like you know if you imagine this is the bottom they go that looks like so another cool little thing there I've got my ribbon already ready here as well I've got 19 inches I just cut off but obviously you know you want to make sure you can get your bow made and stuff with that okay so I'm just going to let my dry okay I'm pretty happy that that one is dry I'm still going to leave it this way for the minute I'm not going to fold it over like this one so I just leave that in the same way just for the purposes of the video so now you want to stick another two together and I've seen how these are separate so it looks a little bit different but basically you want to you know to have so this one completely flat with the bit that you just stuck I've just trimmed that bit which I showed you this is the outside because that's all nice okay the bits with all the bits inside you want facing up so this one I'm going to open up actually now very carefully like so when it's flat again just go along and just make sure you've got a really nice crisp edge like so and then these two are going to stick like so okay so you see what I've got since the two outer bits those two triangles are going to now stick together like this again grab your glue I've got a really noisy ring on today and just again hide the glue all the way on just on one half make sure you get it right up to that tiny literally millimeters you know wide but it will stick and because you're going to manipulate it a little bit wider it will obviously all work fine so now just stick them together making sure they line up perfectly the most important bit is making sure it's flat because that's obviously the under underneath of this is the outside of the box so as long as they're completely flat together you can kind of start working them together and what you can do is just so and I'm making sure I'm sticking the sides there with my bone tool again I'm kind of pushing that card up so it is sticking together so it's literally I'd say two mil sticking right at the top there but it's enough bearing in mind it's only little gifts in these it's not like they're going to be used as like a handbag or holding really heavy items and then just pinch the rest together so it's stuck the most important bit is this edge this end bit here and again just leave that for a minute and let that dry so another thing if for some reason you know you don't get a perfect join here and there's a gap where maybe it's not been cut right or something and you could on the outside there's no reason why you can put ribbon around the top of this because this would be where you would notice any kind of gaps this is where where this is where it's joined by literally that tiniest piece if there's a hole there or gap just put some ribbon around this top piece and it's easily disguised so you can see now if I bring that up just how much is attached there it is the smallest bit on the side see literally millimeters but it is stuck same with that one there tiniest amount and then the other one there as well here okay now that one is the dry that's the one I've just done this one here I'm going to cut so again doesn't matter which end you start from but come in about a quarter of an inch I would say and just remove that bulk like so and I'll do this one now as well actually because it won't hurt this bit so okay so I'm just taking all that bulk and now it means that we've got lots of room inside the only bit that you won't cut the bulk from is this bit but the way we stick it together it'll be flat inside on one of these sides anyway so it won't interfere again just going to make sure that is all joined so now what we've got to do this is all you're inside remember with all these bits you're going to bring it around and we're going to put glue on one of these and then they're going to go in like so and that's where we need to make sure this top bit sticks and that's where the carrot is basically going to come together okay so pick whatever one you want to add your glue to first I'm going to pop it again going right up to that end okay that's the most important bit of all of this box the hardest part and again with this one because we can't obviously apply any pressure I'm just going to make sure that the glue is literally right up to the edge there maybe matter too much about that inside bit if you've got a glue that's slightly better when it's just turning tacky like it's just drying and that might be good for this part as well so now just fold it in and carefully line the whole thing up and then squeeze it down so now you're flattening that whole side or the whole box okay so this is what I mean inside it'll be flat now on one side inside that box so it doesn't matter it's not going to interfere and it also means that you can get a nice drawing on that corner at the top here okay turn it over just make sure it's all nice on that side there as well and just leave that just give that a few minutes to just completely dry and you can see now when I kind of form it back into its shape that's nicely joined there at the top okay so now we can just seal off the bottom decide if you've got a preference to what you want to be at the front or the back I'm not too fast because there's drawings on all of the edges basically fold one piece down and just pop some glue inside and pop the other one down pop some more glue next one and then the last one okay pop it on its you know up the right way and just pop your ruler in there and you should be able to just make sure that they all stick nicely together and again choose what you want to be your front so I'm gonna have maybe I'll have this one here so these two side bits are going to go down and then these two you're going to pinch the tops until they line up perfectly together like so okay then with your grass you want to put some glue on one side of the tab at the bottom and then just stick it it's about half an inch that little tab just stick it on the very end so the grass the cut piece is the bit that's coming off from the top here all right that one okay so that's them now both stuck down then pinch them back together again make sure they're lined up two orange bit tops are lined up like so and then the whole thing means it's all squared off then pinch it down a little bit further because it's just below this green bit here with my hole punch I'm lining it up with the bottom of the green strip and just punching in it's about three quarters of the way in and then just go on to the other side again making sure it's all nicely still lined up using that green line as my gauge so it's nice and straight like so okay there we have it and then with the ribbon you want to thread it through keeping it pinched together obviously you're putting all your bits and pieces a really cool very large carrot so if I grab as another because I was thinking about this when I was making it first time round but if you've made this basket you could have just bring that up a bit more but you could fill this you know with it with another I'd say you get four in here maybe not as much of the grass in there as I've got if you imagine you've got this with all these carrots coming out I think that would look really quite cute and they'd also be nice for a Easter egg hunt as a gift at the end there's so many fun ways to do it if you haven't already seen the tutorial for this I'll share that now as well because this was the first project that I made and I've made this one as well so I'll share that and they're all would be at the end of this tutorial but they have it so a fun Easter project from me today hope you've enjoyed it please hit the thumbs up if you did and subscribe to this channel to see more thanks for watching