 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make these absolutely beautiful star easel cards using the brand new Duff Craft Paper Poses collection I've been waiting for this and it's absolutely stunning. Now I may have already shared an unboxing video or it may come after this video I'm not sure but either way I'll link it up here and I will show you in more detail this beautiful collection but I wanted to do my first project with it I wanted a really nice card style that was going to show off all of the papers and this star easel card I thought worked really well. I was actually asked to do this for a commission not these ones but I've made this star easel card for a future magazine commission which will be out in a couple of months time and that was what first introduced me to this style so then I had a little look online and I found a tutorial by a German lady from 2016 I'll link hers below but there's lots of other tutorials as well but the great thing about this card is that you can make it any size you want. I have used pre-made card blanks for this and I'll talk you through all those sizes in the video but it can be made any size you want you can make your envelopes as well if you've got the envelope punch board or you can use the envelope there's lots of different tools to make your own envelopes and stuff but I've got an A6 size such using an A6 card this is using a 6x6 card and this is using a 5x7 card and depending on what papers you use so if you use a pattern paper and you want a pattern piece for this and for this you will actually be able to make two 5x7 cards because the leftovers that you have will make another card but if you're using yeah just plain papers or mirrored and stuff like that then you would just need two pieces and it will do all your maths and layers but again I'll explain all that in there for you but if I just bring them up the one thing I would say about this card is that I think you're going to have to send a little maybe diagram or a small small instruction on how to put it together for when they get it out of the envelope because that's how it will be in the envelope you can see there all fits in nicely okay but when they take it out I know for example if I gave this to my Nan and I wasn't with her she'd just think oh isn't that lovely oh thank you and you've got room on the back there to write your message but she would just kind of put that piece up there and maybe rest that there or lie it there she wouldn't know what to do so I will personally probably give these to people that I actually see in person and then when they take it out I can just show them what they need to do but do take that you know do bear that in mind because yeah you might be surprised what some people do because although we see it very you know easily and we we see it and think oh of course you do it like that why would you why would you think you don't you'd be surprised people don't even with a straightforward easel card I've seen people just kind of flap it around and not know what to do with it so that would be my only one this is you know it's one of those cards that it is in two pieces so not everybody's going to know what to do with it but I love the impact of it I think it's it's a real mental pleaser I think that's going to look absolutely stunning so yeah that's a five by seven again if I bring that up close you can really see and they got a great they do stand up by the way because I've got these lying down they all stand up perfectly so I would just bring that one in you can have them in you know as close as you want or more spread out if I just bring that one up there you can see that it stands up and then this one here but I'm more swayed towards working with rectangle cards so you know you're a six you're five by seven and you get this kind of style so it's got a very tall kind of stand and the the star I don't know seems to be a bit more balanced with the six by six this piece is very big on the bottom but it still looks really really nice you can see there so um yeah it's entirely up to you what size did you go for like I said make it you know to what suits you best because then you know you may be somewhere where you like to make smaller cards and you like smaller envelopes so you can go even smaller than this and yeah I hope you enjoy the tutorial I try to explain as much as possible hopefully it doesn't confuse you um it is straightforward to make once you've done one or two then yeah you'll be away with it so yeah let's get into the tutorial this is the amazing oh it's just so yummy I love it and I'm really like oh yeah like I said I came through the door and I just ripped into it straight away and it's the paper posies it's absolutely beautiful and it comes with a decoupage I love their decoupage pads and what I've done just to give you an example of how they all look is that you get two with that one I take these ones here you get lots of spares as well which I love so there's all extra pieces on each page and then there's that one so that is one top of there you can see all the layers to it absolutely beautiful and it's got that sparkle on it and then on the front of that one you briefly saw it there that's another one for a special friend then you get this one that you can make up just for you beautiful you have a little something that's going to make a lovely tag on a little gift box then we have happy birthday okay you can see the dimension on there with love I think that's again really nice tag but it would look lovely on a card as well this beautiful heart which has loads of different toppers that you can have with it and you can mix and match you could have that lots of love with it I think you had that love was the one that came with it so you could put it through the middle or underneath you can see how that works and then you've got another tag there but you could certainly you know have that on the front of a card so those are there so you get eight altogether and you get eight designs but you get three or four pages of each just have a look no three pages of each okay so that's that and then like I said there is the paper pad there I'm not sure what papers I'm going to do yet but we will get to that in a moment so into the card itself really really simple like I said so I have pieces because I've already cut each one so you grab a six by six card blank so these are mine here okay if you don't have card blanks then you will want to make a six by six size although it's not that size when it's put together you see how they they kind of you know it's just huge it will be a piece of 12 by six and along the 12 inch side score at six fold in half then what you want to do is grab your trimmer you don't have a trimmer use a ruler and draw a line from the top of the center point down to the bottom right top of the center point down to the bottom left you're just going to cut so I'm just going to lie this one down in my trimmer make sure you get your points bang on and just trim each side like I said this is six by six so if it's a five by seven I do exactly the same measurements for that would be in my blog but that would be a piece of 10 by seven and along the 10 inch side score at five so now you'll have this piece you can see already that's this piece here so that's your stand and then these we're going to cross over and it will become your point I'm going to talk about this in more detail in a moment but that was sitting there that's with six by six and then I've gone and cut it again because when I do my pattern paper you'll have enough to decorate too so by the end of this tutorial I'm going to have six of these cards but they're so quick and easy to do and then here is your A6 size so this is half of A4 in the UK or it would be half of your letter size paper if you're outside of the UK and again I'm just burnish that a bit more of my finger so this is roughly so ours and it's just I think yeah it's just over four by just under six okay but again open it up and you're going to line up the middle score line there with the bottom and again this side here like so and then you can see we've got this piece but again as soon as I put that over there and make it into that kind of star shape I don't know you just seem to have a better shape I think and usually I make larger cards but I actually think for this one and if you want to get this in a normal size envelope or a smaller envelope you're going to be better off making it from the smaller card but they're all going to look lovely and again I've gone and done that one there so now I just want to choose my papers also I should have said at the beginning I'll put a little reminder up or little caption there is free delivery this weekend with craft stash so if you're outside of the UK because it's worldwide free delivery you can get your hands on this collection and it's some of the accessories for it I'd really cheap it's just it's wonderful like I said I do have all the other parts but I'm not going to bring it into this video because it's just for this card but I will do a separate share of this collection and I will link it up here whether it's been before or not so you can tell I'm too excited I just love it when I've got new stuff to play with so I'm going to choose my papers and I'm going to again I think silver works really nice with this collection so I'm going to use silver as my mirrored map there you can see just the way it pokes through and I'm going to decide on my papers I'm going to get them all cut down for both sizes and then we'll be back and I will show you how to stick it all together okay so I've gone ahead and cut all my layers and I'm just showing you how it will look here so this is the six by six I think I must have confused myself at the beginning but anyway but this here okay so you'll want two pieces of mirror cardstock because it's the same size for the star part but this is a five and a quarter squared okay and I've just cut on the diagonal right through the middle and then you can pop one on that side and one on that side and then with your pieces that will cut from here okay and now we're going to become our star shape you will have your other one from your other piece again just cut on that diagonal and they will go in and match all of those okay pop that one up there then with the pattern paper again I mean if it's directional be careful because you're going to move them around this is kind of directional but it still works again cut right down through the middle and I'm going to have yeah this one's going to go on the background on the stand so one there and one there and this was okay I gave the measurements for these five inches squared okay and then again with another piece just cut on the diagonal and it will go through there like so so with the square you won't make two I think it's just with the rectangle shapes well maybe it was just the way I cut anyway I might have confused myself but I'm telling you how you can do it so and then there's that one and that's going to go on there so now I'll stick it all together when I go and stick the other one as well but that is going to go over like that once it's all stuck down top or in the middle and then there's going to be the stand and it will look good when it's all together so that's the six by six and then for the a six size so again that's where we originally cut it so I've got my mirrored cardstock here and this measures three and three quarters by five and a quarter and I'm going to cut first of all from top left to bottom right okay so top left bottom right and you will have one here but you can't obviously put that on that side so if you flip it over you're not going to have anything so you'd use this to cover that one then with the next one you need to cut from top right to bottom left so it's the it's the you know it's the direction that you cut these pieces otherwise you're going to have waste and then this one will go there and this one will go there and then we're going to again stick these ones over each other so they will be something like that again we're going to stick in a moment just want to explain this all and that's going to go in there like so and then my pattern paper I've already done that one there so that one I've cut from top left to bottom right so I can put one of those there and this one can go under there that was it I remember now why I said you can make two cards because I don't want this pattern on the front so I will have that as a spare because then for this one I want to get that side so I've got a cut from top right to bottom there it's just like we did with the other one because I want a different pattern so now that one will go under here but I don't want mine to all be the same pattern so if you do you know you're happy to have that pattern on everything then that one will just go over that one and that one will go over that one but I want a different pattern so I've got these two spare so that's why now they will go onto my other stand that I've cut I've got to do my silver mat so rather than waste it just make up another card okay so now for the pattern piece on top of here I think I'm going to have I'm going to bring in this one because this was already cut into now because I want to cover these pieces so I've got a cut from top left to bottom right and that one's going to go over there this spare one will go over onto this side yeah so for that one I need to then cut from top left down to bottom right so that one will go under there and then I've got all those pieces to do exactly the same on that same size card I just need to cut the silver mats okay so just lay out all the the card and then you'll know what angles you want to do everything so if you're working on a square you don't need to do that and if you want it to all be the same pattern paper you don't need to do what I done but because I like having the contrast of that against that I think it looks really nice then you will need to cut two of all your colors so I'll try and write that down as best as I can I think it's better to just watch this video and you can see what I'm doing but I'm going to stick all that down I'm just going to cut my silver mats for that one and um and then yeah tell you how to actually stick it all together so just stick all of these mats down onto each piece first of all and then we'll do some cutting and so on also if you want to do the back you will just need to cut the same size of the silver mats okay so whatever size I gave you for that one cut another one if you want to do that in your you know your white and everything on the back there okay so all my mats and layers are done so now we want to create the star shape so I would say is have it in this orientation and these points here are what are always going to stay at the bottom but you want to like overlap so you could do it like that or you could overlap like that can you do that one yeah it's the same way isn't it and you just want to kind of work look at these points so if you want them these ones to point up higher then it would be a bit more like that you want to make sure that this is like even on both sides I'm quite happy with that like that so use some liquid glue and just you know pop a blob in like the middle like that and then it will allow you to be able to move this into the shape that you want without any glue oozing all out the sides so I think that's about I think that's about right like I said I'm using the square this is the first time I prefer definitely using a rectangle shape so you know have a play around and I've got a bit of glue on that I'm going to have to get that off in a minute because it's bugging me but now I've got that shape then you want to decide where you're going to have your slots okay that you're going to cut in now on these ones I came up three and a half inches yeah three and a half I thought that was nice so what you got to do is think about once they slot in you know they're going to obviously come down you don't want this to come down past here because then the card won't stand up so I think about there so that's where the slot needs to end okay so I'm going to say I think you should come up at four inches okay so I'm going to grab a pencil and I'm going to mark a little light pencil mark just there very lightly and again coming up this side here this is for the six by six okay so they are all different and then with a pair of scissors now you want to make sure you've got your mats on the back stuck down as well because you can cut through it all at the same time if you don't it's not the end of the world but you just have to cut back down again but then you want to cut really straight now if you want to draw a pencil with a t-square ruler just cut down and I've cut the width of this which is about an inch just under seven eighths and again I'm going to use my longest scissors this has got stripes on this pattern paper so I can follow that but just come down yeah that's fine and then you can bring in your star and push it down both those slots actually push it right down like so and there you've got your star so now I just need my topper now this one can actually hold a bigger one so I'm almost wondering whether to bring in one of these ones and then add some writing or maybe use the love there looks really nice well the just for you actually the just for you does work we'll play with toppers in a moment but that's what you want to do for the six by six so let's just have a play around so again with these ones I think this is what I mean about the star I think it just so I've put that one again have it like that okay and then pop them over the top and I just think it gives you because you're working with different sizes on each side it gives you a more star like effect so again I'm just going to pop a blob of glue and then I can just play around in fact I think that's fine so I've gone for quite a little triangle down here okay and then again kind of lie it on here make sure it doesn't come off so about there then you want to cut your slot so I think three inches so it's about right so then so three inches on this one three and a half on the five by seven and then that one I said was four didn't I my memories terrible I'm sure I just said four yeah so three and then come up this side do three and just do this one as well again cut down about you know seven eighths one eighth seven eighths to one inch as long as they're the same you don't want to cut too far down because otherwise the star will touch the bottom but just make sure you do cut them the same yeah I'm happy with that and then oh no I don't want that one on here because it's the same pattern so let's just do this one this one more slot in there again make sure it goes right down look I definitely am loving the rectangle shapes more this is a really nice size it still looks big even though it's the smaller size I never do a six size cards that's why I've got a load of these but it works really well for this stuff fold effect because of the you know it appears much bigger I think so I do like that size and I think a lot of you are going to like that one because it will fit obviously into your smaller envelopes so again I'm just going to stick this one together I mean rub out any little pencil marks that you might have had there I'll do that in a moment but now look at that isn't it cool okay so toppers definitely now I'm seeing the happy birthday on that one I think the red frame around that background I think looks really nice so I'm going to stick that one on there I'm going to stick so that heart looks nothing I'm going to do yeah the big just for you on that one and I think that one with your lovely maybe what's that you're lovely in the green now I don't like the green yeah I'm going to have your lovely through the middle of it or something like that so I'm going to go and stick them all down so I've done all of the top as everything stuck together it's just the envelope so I just want to do a little recap so here is the a6 size I think it's adorable and again just bring it up you can see that topper how lovely does everything look really really pleased with that one then so I've got two of those let's see other one there see them there then this is the 6x6 love it I think it still looks wonderful really really nice I just I don't know something about the star for me it's just a little bit different but still really like it very big but again I'm going to talk through envelopes in a moment and then still my favorites are there because I do like a big card is the 5x7 they just I love that one just love that topper I think it looks absolutely beautiful and that one there so when you're making your envelopes let's start off with this one here because I haven't seen this one might actually just fit into a normal 5x7 you have to kind of like lay it down on your mat and your grid and then see where you are so one two three four five yeah so it's you can get it into a five width wide okay and then we can do one two three four five six seven but then your point is going to go off you see there if I line that up one two three four five six seven it's going up to seven and a half so you are going to have to make an envelope so we're going to have to make let's just write this down so this is going to be a so the a6 will go into a five it's a five by seven and a half card okay that's what we need to look at so that's for the a6 so we're flatten that one down this is just I'm showing you just how I work things out so now the six by six so we know the width we can get it into it'll be six we want to keep this into it but the height so one two three four five six seven eight nine see it's going off so we're going to have to it we'll get it we can say nine because they always give you a quarter inch on the envelope punch board it's just under actually so I think would be okay so six by nine so that is your six by six will be a six by nine card okay and then finally this one here and this is going to be huge so this is what I wanted I think this is going to make you know people decide what size they want I think a lot of you are going to go for that a six size plus you could you know use your a4 like I said a4 paper letter paper and so on so this here we can get it one two three four five six so it'd be six by one two three four five six seven eight nine actually no we're okay I think it's going to be the same one two three four five six seven eight nine six by nine so it's going to go in the same yeah same size so that is your five by seven will be a six by nine card okay so I've got to make five envelopes okay so that's the measurements there for those then with my envelope punch board I can then go to this here now they've got here six by eight and a half is the last one and it's telling you you need a piece of 11 and a half by 11 and a half but if we do 12 by 12 and score at five that will be the envelope size for those and I'll show you that so you're going to want if you're doing the six by six size or the five by seven size you're going to want a piece of 12 by 12 paper and I'm going to use the paper from the collection because it's perfect for making envelopes but the smaller a6 one here which is we want a five by seven and a half we go up here we've got five by seven and a half so we need a piece of 10 by 10 paper okay so I'm going to go get my papers ready okay so I've done all the envelopes I've already put one of the a6 so you see there it all fits in nicely okay and like I said you're off to put some instructions probably in it if you're maybe not with the person when they open the card so that's that one and then the six by six and the five by seven are actually the same size envelopes so there's the five by seven in that one is that the five by seven yeah because the six by six is there so you'll see that one in there it fits in fine and then again the same with the other five by seven is in there and then I'm going to do these two with you so the 10 by 10 this is this piece here grab my little stylus so for the 10 by 10 which is a five five by seven and a half card four and one eighth is your first score and punch my hair everywhere um just punch and score don't worry if you don't go all the way down then I go to the opposite end or opposite side sorry punch and score and then I just bring it around and just pop it in and line up this right angle with the score line there just like so punch and then score and you want that score line to join perfectly there and again like so I do mine slightly different just because I prefer I think you get a nicer result so there's my envelope for that one and then this is the 12 by 12 so it's not on here the measurement but you can use it so it's a piece of 12 by 12 and the last score line they have on here is four and seven eighths but you can go to five and you can actually go to five and a quarter which I've used as well in tutorials so for this one this is my own one so you want to line it up to five punch and score flip it to the opposite side punch and score and then again you're easier to bring this down until that right angle lines up with your score line punch and then score until they meet and again bring around that side and as I always say whenever I use this I've got a tutorial on how to use the punch board and I will link that up here so you can go to that one so that's those and then you just want to fold and burnish all of your score lines side on what you want to be the bottom fold in the sides and just run some tape I'm actually going to seal all these with my new wax seal kit so when I do go to use them I just get one of those out because you can make them any colour you want and then again the bottom of this one wax seals you can just pop tape under here and here and then leave the tape on there until you come to seal it but now I can get my six by six I need to put the backs on these and stamp a sentiment but that will go in there and then my last little a six size fits in there perfect you just move them around until you get all the points in but there are all my envelopes and five cards and do you know what they haven't taken me long to do they really don't once you get your head around the you know whether you need to cut from left to right or right to left or if you're using pattern paper or all plain things like that they are they're really really fun I thoroughly enjoyed these and I hope you like the ones for the magazine that I've done as well but yeah all those lovely envelopes as well I just love this collection okay so there's the cards again let me know which ones you prefer is it the a six the six by six or the five by seven I think I'm in between these two sizes here the six by six is still really nice as well but obviously do take into account the size of the envelopes you do need considerably bigger ones but you can make them all on the envelope punch board if you'd rather use your own you know you would need even a smaller card size to this one so go smaller than the a six and then you'll probably fit it into a standard size envelope so have a little play around and like I said you can make them any size you can do eight by eight I mean you probably then have to put it in a big like mailing envelope but can you imagine the an eight by eight square card be this beautiful you know huge or an eight by six in fact I think an eight by six size would look really nice because I'm more swayed towards rectangle cards to make this so I think the eight by six would look yeah pretty spectacular so there you go with a big number in the middle as well I keep getting loads of ideas but anyway I hope you like it I hope you love this new collection as much as I do all the links for it as always will be shared below and like I said I do believe this weekend it's free worldwide delivery with craft stash where you can get this whole collection so let me know you think please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today's tutorial I hope I've explained it well enough and I'll be back in soon with another one thanks a lot bye