 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. This week I've got a fun technique, I have shared something similar, oh some months ago now it was probably the beginning of last year and this is the glitter technique using double-sided sticky tape. So you can use double-sided strip you know sticky tape roll or you can use the actual A4 sheets which I'll share as well. So I'll show you both of those ways. This is using the Dovecraft fairy towels collection and I've been making some wonderful projects with this and I thought I'm going to use the glitter pots so you'll see them shortly. First of all I'm preparing my paper, so this is a piece of four and three quarters by six and three quarters because they're going to be to go with five by seven card bases. So what you'll see I'm doing here is using half inch tear tape. I'm starting from the bottom and keeping it as straight as possible just start covering that that piece of cardstock. So once you've covered the whole area make sure you go over and get all your air bubbles out. I'm just using my bone folder here and you can see there all the sheets that I've got covering that. Now I've got some copy paper below stick it to that so then it just you know keeps everything in place. So these are these lovely little jars of glitter that you get with the fairy tail collection. So this is a little kind of lid that I've got just to one side with all the scraps in so it actually has become this really lovely kind of like a rose gold mix it's beautiful. So I'm just counting my strip six I want to start from the the center. So what I'm going to do is this is the this is why I like using the double sided tape because you've got control as to where you want to put your glitter. So I'm peeling off one strip at a time. So I've peeled off that center one and I'm sprinkling in the lovely pink here it's a real nice rose rosy pink. Small amounts and then I'm just moving that around my finger until I get that completely covered and then just kind of push all the the excess there to the end because I'll be putting that into that little pot. Then I'm going missing one and then revealing another strip and adding the pink again. Again each time just pushing it in and yeah just making sure all of that sticky area is completely covered and you'll know that because you won't be able to feel any of it. So I've just skipped ahead there and covered everything that I wanted to be pink and now I'm bringing in the green so I've just teared off two at a time this this this time. It doesn't matter if the you know colors all mix and they go over they're not going to stick anywhere else as long as you'd already covered it beforehand. So you can see that I'm just peeling off each one as I did with the pink and just going over there with this green and you get the green blue pink and silver. Now the very two last strips I'm using silver because I'd run out of pink so I'm just peeling off that one there on the left and then this one here on the right and then I'm finishing sorry the very ends were green the last two were silver because I had no pink that was right. Now this is when you start to really reveal what you've got underneath because obviously all your glitter on top would have all mixed. Just tipping the excess and as I brush it off you can see that it reveals your really you know lovely design so it's really really fun you can do your tape any direction you like and you can die cut the sheets when I get to that bit and you can have you know different shapes as well so it's entirely up to you. So I'm just cutting away all the sticky tape I'm pretty much just keeping it that same size again so four and three quarters by six and three quarters and just take off the back in there and there you have a really nice background. So that's using the stripes and the double-sided tape now this is using the sheet so this is the A4 by Stick to Anything company I'll share all the links as always on my blog and I'm just sticking that same size piece of cardstock which is again cut down to four and three quarters by six and three quarters it's just a piece of card from my watercolor pad. Stick it down you don't want to ruin you know wasting the excess so you stick it right to the corner and then you can just cut as I'm doing here and then you can keep all that now for next time. So this whole piece now is one big sticker so again just as if it was the strips of the double-sided tape just going over that make sure all the air bubbles are out reveal the backing sheet and then you've got this whole area full of sticky to color. So this is now all of that mixed glitter and like I said it has you'll see in the photos because it kind of looks a bit brownie I guess in the pictures here but it really isn't it's got a beautiful color to it so I'm just going around and just covering the whole thing so this is just a way of making really quick backgrounds it's great if you have glitter and you don't have they go you can sit there it's just oh it's gorgeous if you don't have any you know glitter cardstock then this is a fun way to be able to create your own. So now on to the decorations now I actually got two backgrounds out of that excess glitter that I had so this is the Dovecraft Decoupage paper pack I love these if you've been following me for a while you know I like the Decoupage packs that Dovecraft do and I've shared many in the years with my channel so I'm selecting this one here with a fairy now if you haven't done Decoupage before I'd advise not to pop them all out like I am at once but because I've done it a lot I know that you start with the biggest and then you finish with the most detailed pieces those little butterflies there they will be the last bit I you know stick down so I've done this enough now I kind of know so I just like to remove them all and keep them in a pile together and I'm selecting three toppers I've got one there that I've just done and then I'll select another two to go on those three backgrounds now when you pull them out sometimes you get little bits of the kind of card where it's attached so I just use this nail file just to take off those ends really so sometimes it's okay you don't need to then I'm just going to start building so you start with your largest which is that one on the far left then this one I've put the foam on is the second largest and I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue there just so they don't ever come off and then you stick that on top and you just it's like a mirror really you're just lining everything up perfectly with the image below and then the next size and again just add in some foam I have got the little squares but they were somewhere else so I'm just cutting down my pieces to size here and again remove the backing and just keep layering it up and before you know it you have a really nice topper so again if you're new to card making new to papercraft deco part is a really fun way to kind of introduce yourself to papercraft and you know it's quick it's easy and then you can kind of go from there really so you can see there how lovely that is with all the layers so I'm just going to carry on and go through the other styles so now they're all done all ready to go and I'm going to start building my cards so got my three backgrounds three toppers and I'm pulling out these dovecraft doilies and I'm going to sit that behind there and I think that looked really nice and I ended up using a doily I think yeah on every single one so now I'm bringing in the ribbon this is from the same collections this is the fairy tales again ribbon so this is a lovely green like it's got green with tiny little butterflies in it and I'm going to stick that over the bottom there I think I ended up going across the green strip yeah just there and I'm just going to add some glues I'm just kind of playing around at the minute making sure that's how I want it and then I end up going for this kind of same style for all of the cards but I just wanted to show you how you kind of put that together so again just using some of my red tape here because it's super sticky and although this didn't actually go on to the glitter because you were sticking fabric I always find the red tape works best and then I'm just sticking both ends there onto the back just so that's all kind of concealed and um pull it nice and tall so you've got your ribbon along the bottom and then just start sticking everything down so I'm just using my tombo glue here just sticking in the middle of the doily I didn't stick anywhere else because you don't need to it's nice to have that little bit lifted actually and then start bringing everything else so the topper goes on top you could put more foam if you wanted to if you wanted to lift it anymore but because it's already quite raised I thought I'd just stick it straight down then I've got the matching bows again it's all from the same collection this is all available on my amazon store front and again all those links and that will be shared below using some silicone glue here it's just really quick and it sticks the fabric really well so I've just stuck the bow down there stick everything then onto my five by seven card base and there's a card finished really really beautiful and it's so shiny it looks like it's got like a plastic coating over the whole thing it's really nice and it's a really soft glitter as well it's not coarse so again if you're wondering it is it's a lovely smooth glitter it's now onto the next one here so I'm bringing in another doily from that was from papillon I think collection or was that no that is the fairy tales one I think I missed that anyway it will all be shared again building it up the same way that I've done the other cards I love this topper I think it's absolutely beautiful that fairy and the butterflies and then I've got the ribbon this is another one and this one says I believe in fairies so again just wrapping that right along the bottom there and then that whole piece will be stuck down onto a five by seven card base so really catching my camera there but look at the shine beautiful card number two now onto card number three and this is my last card so again very very similar I'm bringing in that square topper with again the lovely little fairy and butterflies on it and then again I'm going to pull in the ribbon along the bottom and then finish it off with a make a wish topper and bow and sorry sentiment and bow which is from the same decoupage kit you get them at the bottom you don't know you can actually put them with the topper itself I like to sometimes keep them separate like I'm doing here and I've just moved that obviously down to the bottom of the card again add a little bit of glue because it's going to be on that fabric and then line everything up together and they're just really really fun had a little bit of mess with the glitter and stuff but I saved all that even that there I brushed off and put back into that little pot and they again finished on my five by seven card base and there's all of my very pretty very sparkly cards and you can see now as I bring them up closely just the detail in those toppers the shine I mean I love that pink and silver one you see what I mean it looks like it's got like a plastic coating over the top of the the glitter because it's so smooth that's just lovely using all of the colors and then again there's one using the scraps so you know even your contaminated glitter you know when you've mixed it all together creates beautiful backgrounds and I absolutely love them and then now some stills you can see them in more of their true color so this is in my light box so this is daylight so it's it gives them you know the true colors that you get and again you can really see there if you look closely now you can see all those colors and it just I don't know what color really it's just lovely and the doily and everything just looks really nice so I hope you've enjoyed it I hope I've inspired you I'll link in the other tutorial that I've got that's similar and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye