 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixercraft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this memo holder. The idea for this one has actually come from this one that I have but it's just a bit boring so I thought I would do something and make it look much much prettier. Also I have used the Artaiser scratch boards and on the website when you go on they sell them also in block form and they're three and a half inch by three and a half inch pages you know like this and they're in a very similar box to this so I thought oh I'm gonna make one so I have cut down the 24 sheets that they sent me so I done a it was a Christmas box that they sent me and I was sharing it all and this was in there and I wanted a way that obviously I'm gonna use them and I come up with this and I just think it's really good so I'm gonna put some I'm gonna split them I'm gonna do half in the one I'm gonna make and that one's gonna be for me and this one I'm actually gonna be giving to somebody else so they've got the option to have the scratch pads and you've got your scratch wooden stick there or you can you know use your pen and have the normal pads I just think it looks really nice but the one I'm gonna do today is gonna match the lovely drawers that I made a few a week or so ago now and anybody that's not seen these before I remember these as children it's basically like one big scratch card and you just scratch it away and this one is multi-colored underneath rainbow patterned sheets and again you've got two ends on the stick there so you can do thick kind of lines and then you just get the kind of the top there that comes away you can also make these I have done something like that before it was a class many many years ago and you can make the kind of you paint on this you know like paint and then when it dries you can just scratch it off but it's yes they are fun they're brilliant you know to do with children and you get some great effects and also what was in the this pack that they sent me it was in this pack they have where is it this here and these are two postcards and one has silver underneath and one has gold and those are the ones I'm gonna keep and do some actual cards with them but for all of these I just thought it's not something I'm gonna sit down and do this kind of thing with but as a memo pad definitely because you could literally it writes just like a pen so you know to do this you can see there I've just wrote that normally and you can write quite quick with it so just as you would with a pen you know it's it's perfect so I'm gonna that way they will get used and also I can leave little notes and stuff like that like it's just fun so yeah that's what I've used there for that one and then for today's one I'm gonna use these ones here these are from WH Smith I got them a while back but I'm sure they're still in there and any block ones but you want something that is three and a half by three and a half which is your size that they come so this one is going to be today's one's gonna be a little bit smaller than this as well because I've done it as four by four but I think there's just bit too much of a gap there and because you have your kind of finger part there to take everything out you don't need there to be the gaps on the side so the next one today's one's gonna be a bit shorter so let me show you also there's the pens on the back there really easy and I've got my little metal corners on and it all looks very nice so let me show you how to make it okay so for today's one I'm using the touch of romance papers by the paper tree this is the same one that I used to make let me grab it this beautiful piece here so many of you are making this now you are sharing it over on the mixed up crafters Facebook group and yours yeah you all seem to be really enjoying it so what I also thought is that you could if you wanted to stick this onto it will fit two of them side by side of these little memos that we're gonna make so when we get to that point I'll show you how you could attach it to this if you wanted to also if you have missed the tutorial for that one if you just click up here you'll be able to see it so that's the papers I'm using so I've already gone ahead and cut what I need so for the base I have cut this to let me grab my other ruler actually so this is a piece of four and a quarter squared for the base for the paper to cover that you want a piece of five and a quarter squared so I've gone for the stripe but if you're gonna stick it onto your unit if you've made that then you won't need the base all right and then you want four pieces of four by 12 but you well we will trim one of them so yeah but that's the size you need but what I've wanted to try and do with this one one of the papers is like this so that's the top this is the bottom and then this was in between so you can see there there's my 12 by 12 piece of pattern paper so I thought I use that to line the inside and then with these I'm gonna you we're gonna actually stick two of them together because you need it's about 16 inches you need a length all together and obviously we've only got 12 inches with our papers so by sticking them together then it will wrap all the way around and then I'm going to use this greyboard so the greyboard I'm using is the two mil and it's that one I've been getting from Amazon and it's really nice so but you can also use the phone board if you've got it but well actually yeah you should be able to because the length that I give you in the paper you might just have to keep yours a bit longer and maybe not trim it because that's five mil whereas this is two mil so there will be a little bit extra so you want three pieces that are two and a half by three and three quarters and that's going to be for the back and the sides and then for the front part and that's where we'll be able to kind of lift out the little post it's all the you know the memo bits then this is one and a quarter by two and a half okay so it's really easy and the metal corners I'm gonna have to have a little root around for in a minute because I want silver ones for this one so I'm not going to put mine on top of that but I do want everything to kind of match such as to get a look nice so two pieces make sure your patterns facing down the joint is going to go on the back of that and then the pens are going to cover it so don't worry too much but you want to stick about an inch over the top of it so grab my other one there so you want to just add some glue so it covers one inch make sure I've got my pattern the same way up I'm using my grid here because these squares are one inch so I can just stick it like so so just stick that down and then you want to grab your three larger pieces and you're going to stick these in the middle so you want to make sure you've got even overhang here then these two are going to go on the edge basically just going to be like we're making a mini album this is our front cover so we do it just the same way the gap you want to leave in between is about one eighth of an inch that's where you want to kind of be I always when you fold up the side of the gray board this is usually what you do you fold that up so it's next to this piece and then you kind of keep it in place and let it kind of come down just moved a bit and that's do it again that's the gap you have but I always then like to pull it out just a little bit more and that way it just means that you definitely won't get any cracking with your paper because I am using a paper this one here is hundred and yeah 160 gsm so it's got more of a paper feel but it's perfect for these kind of projects because it will you know it's just better to fold and stuff start to creep into 200 gsm and higher you have a lot more bulk when you're kind of bending on corners and stuff like that so I'm just going to I'm using the cloud glue all the way through this I've run out otherwise I would use that it's I've turned upside down but it just wouldn't be enough for this project I need to order some more otherwise I would have used the book binding but I'm just going to use my calau here so I'm just gonna pop some blue glue on the back there and then just stick this down in the middle of this paper like so and then do the same with all of the pieces and just make sure you've got the same 1 eighth of an inch gap in between them all okay so while that's kind of just drying just bring up the sides and like I said if you are using the foam board then I wouldn't trim this just yet because I would make sure you've got enough to wrap around or once you see where I trim it then you can trim yours accordingly but otherwise you should be able to use that foam board okay so just folded those pieces up and then I just want to make sure I've got the same amount kind of overhanging there so just do that with like I said with the foam board if that's what you're using keep these bits always handy scraps and then we just want to stick this over again like as if we were making a mini album so first of all I'm just going to run the glue along the side of the grayboard there because you do have you know that two mil so the paper will stick to the side and then we're going to bring in the sides of each corner so I'm just going to run some glue so it just kind of covers all of the corner so and then just bring the corner into that grayboard like that so you want a nice square shape actually stuck onto the grayboard so again around to that one you want it to you know really wrap around the corners there and then do the same like so and then I like to use my bone folder but if you just kind of push it down into start down here actually just push it into the corners just to really just get everything stuck down and then just pop some glue on the top and just kind of bring up the side and then you can just fold that right over and then do the same on the other side then again on the very ends here as well okay and then you just want to very carefully if you I like to use my other bone folder which I can't find is just kind of pushing the paper just carefully on all of those kind of joints and then it will all come around like this you want nice right angles and you shouldn't have any cracking because you've given yourself plenty of room but now that's the back but I've got nice little bits of the pattern coming up along the side there it's just going to match really well the next we want to decorate the inside so that's when you need this piece but what you want to do is we're going to stick them both together again so let's just do that a second so flip them over again stick one inch just overlapping and then we're going to stick this now on here but we need to trim it down so the 12 inches isn't long enough so unless you just want to cut a little bit and join it that way but I just want to keep that join again in the middle just so that everything kind of looks neat so that's going to stick over like so but you want this overhang here okay because we're going to use that to stick it onto this piece alright so what you want to do here is just with a pencil so I've got my join in the middle of the middle square there I've come down a little bit because obviously you've got all of that coming over there anyway and you'll probably have a contrasting color so you'll be able to see it a bit better but I'm just going to do a little pencil mark there and there let's just trim this then you'll see what I've done okay so now I've got that piece and then it will stick in there like so but you want it to overhang all right we want a nice overhang just so we've got plenty to be able to stick it down so now I'm going to run yeah I'm going to put the glue onto here but don't go right up we can go down to the very bottom but don't go right up to the very top because the paper won't go all the way up there you should come down just a little bit I'll come down about quarter of an inch one eighth of an inch something like that and then go right down to the bottom this has become a real nice strong piece you know storage or stationery so pop that one all down there let it kind of grab but then we're going to start molding it into the shape before it's completely set so I'm just going to spread out some of that glue okay so just start again with your bone folder just kind of you know pushing it into that fold just to help it don't push it so hard that you crack it like that you've got to be really careful I didn't even really need to do that it's alright you're not going to see it it's going to be completely hidden yes gone yeah so try not to push down too much but you want to start getting it into that shape like that and then you can cut up because you can see now the the creases you're going to cut up to the bottom of the board we're going to fold this all in and create a base just so you've got something to stick it to but now you'll be able to fold that all around and if you get anything where it kind of lifts just go in there and just stick that down but you want to kind of keep it in that square shape like so alright so just spend a minute making sure everything's dry and you're happy with how it looks okay so that's all drying what you want to do now is just take a little wedge off of each of the corners because we we need to fold these into a nice square shape so just a little bit just don't want it to kind of buckle at all you want it to be nice and flat what's going to happen next is you want to carefully as of why you want to make sure it's all dry but you're going to fold this back on itself so it lines up perfectly with the bottom there alright so just go along like so now we can stick these it doesn't matter that they don't join and you know that's not what we're aiming for we just want a nice surface for us to be able to stick everything but if you imagine it's all going to be like that you can stick those front pieces over the top we're just going to add glue and you want to keep it in that square shape but that means that we can just add glue to that once we've done this piece stick it onto that and then we're going to put a nice decorative piece of paper over the top of that and it's all secure so you'll need to do this piece if you just want to have it on that piece that I've showed you I'll bring it over in a moment but what we do for us is we just stick this on so you just want to add some glue to the top and you're going to cover this in exactly the same way so bring the corners in like we did and then if you've got your metal corner protectors we're going to put them on as well then again just going to add glue to just like corners and then lift them all up in exactly the same way then glue the sides and fold them all in so I'm going to do all that on high speed okay so that's all covered and I've also just covered it with a piece on the very back which is four by four okay so now we got this ready and then I've got my corners here I've got my trusty little hammer I bet a few people asked me about this this is from a very old dovecraft tool craft toolkit and inside I wonder if I still got the tin bottom of my drawer and in here you've got a little craft mat you've got pliers you've got a pokey tool you've got big needles you've got a different oh that's for hammering yeah that can do your eyelet sets you've got different hole punches there if you want to obviously hammer them tweezers and it's yeah it's quite an old one had it a long time sure there was a date 2007 dovecraft it says on there so but anyway it's just really handy and I always use the hammer so I've got some of these decorative corners here my size is 15 mil by five roughly around that so you just pop them on there I'm going to turn it over and then you just want to just gently tap more hammer actually each corner like so so I'm just going to do that on the other three corners okay so that's the base done obviously if you're not doing the base you don't need to worry about any of that but this you can now start to see what I'm talking about so this is going to sit on here it's going to sit actually just in all of those little metal corners and then we're going to cover it with decorative paper on top and that's it it's done so what you want to do first we need to start squaring this off so I'm going to just cover a corner of the back one you end up putting glue on all of it in a minute but just for the moment and then just just focus on the back to and you just want to maybe use your grid or something where you can make sure that you've got all your sides straight and just stick that down for a minute I'm just going to flip it over again keeping it nice and straight just to make sure I really got that glue stuck like so so that's a perfect square now and then you just want to do the same with these ones so I'm just going to pop some glue on the backs of those and again get a real nice right angle and just bring that in so it really doesn't matter what it looks like because you're going to be covering well this is going to stick right to the base but you're going to be covering it I'm just going to turn it over because it's easier to keep it all lined up with my mat okay so you'll now have something like that now if you would want to oh it's gone off a little bit there it's just trim that off there you don't want anything coming over there we go now if you want to cut a piece for the bottom as well as the inside you can I mean I've got this piece here so I might just just for an extra reinforcement let's cut this down to four by four and stick that underneath just because oh no needs to be smaller than that sorry so that was four and three quarters four and three quarters by four and three quarters and then I'm just going to add some glue just on all of this that would just give you a bigger surface because there's not the gap there to then stick it on to either that or the unit if you've made that and you want to kind of it you know extend it and add more to it just turn that over okay so now if I grab my unit you could sit this on the top and if I pop it on its side you'll see how that's going to look and you could sit two side by side you could extend it you could have bigger you know papers in there you can do all sorts you could put your pens on the side you know there's loads and loads of options but I just thought I would share that in case that is something you want to do but now we're going to stick this one onto here so it's all nice and square so all I need to do now is just add glue on top of this if you want you can use hot glue but I'm going to stick with my callow and I'll just put something weighty on there just to keep it down I'm going right up to the very edge of this time because obviously it will stick to all of that just want to make sure you've got a nice even little overhang there you might decide you want a bigger base you know you can you could do a larger one and have a pen pot on the side or something this there's lots and lots of you know ways to make this you know into something more but I'm just going to hold that there I'm going to pop that on there and just hold the sides with my fingers for a minute okay so I've just cut this piece to go inside but I'm thinking I'm probably just going to stick with the Y actually I should have just it was a piece of scrap this is three and three-quarters yeah three and three-quarters squared so I'll add it onto this actually and it just covers up all of that inside then and just again add some more strength to your little holder okay so that's finished now we need to do the pen bit but I'll just show you how this will look so let's just pop some of these in there I try to look for white ones but I couldn't so I'm just using these ones I've got and it will hold a lot in there this is like I said really handy yeah it's great for the kitchen as well so you can do it in the colors of your kitchen but it will fit three of them in there perfectly so the pen bit is again it's completely optional but I'm tempted to use I just not let's use this piece here I've got this piece of scrap so the width I done I doubled this up so this is reinforced so what we got one and a half so three should be able to use this bit actually so three and you want to fold this in half I'm just folding it because it's paper if you'd rather score then obviously do so and then you're going to glue that together I put my glue so this is by sorry I didn't give the measurement it will be in my blog as normal this is three by eight and a quarter it's just scrap you will trim this so just stick fold it over and just stick it together so you're just reinforcing that just making it a bit stronger okay and then on the back I'm just going to take all that back out again okay so what's going to happen is there's going to wrap around so on here I've put some hot glue and then wrapped it around the pen hot glue and then wrapped it around this wooden piece but what I actually did is I wrapped it around a pencil because I figured that I'm not always going to have this in there once this is gone then I won't be using that so a pencil is obviously you know that's a standard size you know that's in every household that will fit in there nicely so pencil and pens quite nice if you're going to use a pen I would say if you're giving it maybe you're selling these at craft fairs then go for something that's a bit more you know of a standard size you might put some pens in them to sell with it I would think that's nice as well so you know play around see what works for you but I've got my hot glue on just need to wait for it to warm up a little bit more and you can also have three in there I mean it would easily fit more you can see mine's gone slightly off to the left there I want to try and get this more in the middle this time but I'm going to let's have a little look I've got a nice pen in here that will go I think a bit better it's this lovely cat kits some one which I love it's got little dogs on it so I think yeah that look quite nice so I'm going to have that one there and then I'm just going to use a pencil again just to give me an idea but I want it to be like so okay so you want to decide that's going to be there and there she want there to be a gap big enough for it to stick to the thing so I'm going to start this one about there so you just want to kind of twist it out that way a bit I'm going to run some hot glue make sure I'm in shot sometimes I lean too far back on my chair but I'm just going to run a little bead of glue there and then that one I'm going to pop just about there so it's like halfway up if any glue oozes out you can peel it away before it really sets now that one will go like so you want to really push it up as close as possible kind of just kind of mark with your finger where it's going to kind of be so and then I can just lift that up and I can see where I need to put that glue again I'm going to pop the pen in there just so I get the right angle and then bring that down like so yeah it's going to hold in there perfectly if you want to come higher up I did go a little bit higher up on that one but that's still okay I'm not too worried and take that away and now you've got a little area for you know your pen so then I'm going to grab the pencil and that one's going to be there again I've gone a bit off to the left so you can play around a bit more I seem to just do that I guess I could fit three in quite well so maybe I will and then again just mark that one a little bit and I just thought that's actually the one that we want to cut so I'm just going to pull that glue dries just snip it so the pencil in and then just let that grab once it's at the back it looks really good that's how it looks you know you just don't see any of that now I'm gonna actually I'm gonna put the pink the yellow and the green because the green I think goes quite nice with this paper so I'm gonna have the green on top pink on the bottom it's much better that size you just you have a little bit of shake but not that big gap that that one's got although that still looks nice now just let them all kind of level off the colors go quite well with this actually and there you have it it's really really pretty I love these papers it just yeah they're just gorgeous and there's some more extra there so I actually ended up using so I said a well it was eight and that's five and a half so it was only what one two about three inches that you you needed to create that but you could certainly get an extra one in there so have a play around I mean these are just for me that one's been given to a friend who I know is gonna like it as it is anyway but now I'm really pleased with how that's come together they have it my two little memo pad holders I'm super pleased with them I think they look very pretty this one matches my other storage now very nicely and again if some of you do stick it to the drawer storage that I shared earlier I'd love to see you know what it looks like and what you've done to kind of adapt it and yeah if you do want to go for something more you know patterned and darker because this was obviously using those black ones there what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna keep I'm gonna half them so I'm gonna have some of these in here and then you know some of the papers I'll jump a little up but like I said see if you can find any white blocks I can't find any because I wanted them for this tutorial but because I've got the coloured ones I thought actually they don't look too bad in that one at all so yeah I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you like it please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today's tutorial and consider subscribing so you get to see more. See you soon. Bye!