 Hey everybody it's Sam from Big Stuff Crowd thank you for watching my tutorial today this is the last of my Mother's Day projects for this year's series I hope you've enjoyed it and I will share or have been sharing the last year's series at the end of each of these videos and I'll also share that playlist on my blog along with the playlist of all of these projects as well so that's 10 projects in total so plenty to give you inspiration but I thought I'd finish with this lovely basket and I thought with Easter coming up as well it would work really well for Easter as well as Mother's Day so the one that I'm going to be showing you is all going to be yellow but basically this is from two pieces of 12 by 12 paper or cardboard strong paper or card is what you'll need really this is double-sided as well this is using the Wonderlust from First Edition and then I've just kind of pulled out the dark navy there in the ribbon just to decorate it and it's really big and I thought this one would be lovely for flowers so you could buy a little pot a pot of flowers or I know a small bouquet in a vase and it would be lovely decorated I can't really put it on its side because I don't want it off the tour obviously all come out everywhere but that's just an example that's quite small oh just pulled it off the top there let me uh I'll have to find that in a minute you know in there those little fake flowers I pulled it off anyway right so that is that one so that's two pieces of 12 by 12 so it's a huge basket um or gift bag so it'd be great as well you could put tissue paper over the top this one is using two pieces of eight by eight no I think it was just under eight by eight because I had to divide it by three but again I'll share all the measurements for each sizes but that one there you can see you know against my hand there the size of that one and then this one is a dinky one and this is using two pieces of six by six so again with my hand there you kind of get an idea and I just think they're adorable I think they're so cute and like I said they work lovely for Mother's Day but also for Easter because you could put lots of little Easter and mini eggs in there and put some tissue paper over the top and it just looks lovely so let me just stack them all inside each other pop them to one side and again they work great for birthday um you have a birthday theme on them obviously their Mother's Day or Easter at the moment but in even Christmas would be great as well so I've got my mobile there get rid of that okay so you'll need two pieces of 12 by 12 so I've got this lovely spring colour and this again is from that Wanderlust first edition paper pack which I'll share all the links to and then on the other side it's got this pretty pattern as well you do want a pattern that is kind of you know uh doesn't matter which way up it needs to be because it's going to be wrapped around so this is one I've already done to give you an idea so it wrapped right the way around so it doesn't matter you know which way you look at it so bear that in mind when you're choosing your print it's just some simple score lines so you're just going to score a long 12 inch side at four and eight and then pop it onto the next side and again score it four and eight so you should now have three six nine big four by four squares okay so that's all the scoring you need to do that on both pieces of the 12 by 12 that you have and then what you want to do is if I just burnish it all first because it'd be much much easier for you to see the lines and what I'm doing so now you can see all those squares that I've got here okay you got your top three squares the middle square with your ruler you want to line it up along the top and you'll see it's four inches you just want to put a little notch or a little pencil mark at two inches just along that middle four by four square just the top of it just mark at two inches and again on the very opposite one at the bottom here so this middle square along the bottom you again want to put a little notch or pencil mark at two inches so the it's the exact middle of the whole sheet of paper so if you're doing it with your whole 12 inch ruler or 30 centimeters then it will be six inches okay then what you want to do is from so this is if I just fold it over like so so this is this square from the bottom corner of it you're going to score up to that notch I'm doing it lightly because I don't want to go all the way through onto the other side and then again on that side just score down to the corner of that square so if I just open it up now I can do that properly so the bottom I'm just scoring make sure you've got a soft surface something that will allow you to put lots of pressure on it and again pop my stylus down make sure you get a really nice point you want to make sure you do get the perfect join because this is going to form this really nice effect you can't see it as much on that one but if I show you on the back of this one maybe even with that one you can see there you get this really nice triangle and that's you know if you're slightly off with that piece then you would notice it so that's that one and then I'll just do the same with this one okay so now what you want to do is flip it over and when you've got that score line where you've just done that triangle you just want to burnish it so and again just folding it over so now that's what I've got there I've just burnished that triangle so again do this side here turn it over and fold it up it's much much easier to do it that way so and here you can check you can see there that's a perfect triangle I've got a nice point and again with that in there okay so you want to do that on both pieces you should have two pieces like this okay so I've got this piece here now I just went ahead and put some glue on that and then realized actually you've got to do a little bit of cutting first so I'm going to do it on this side and not the side of the glue when you fold this piece over it will the top piece here actually I'm going to do it this end just because that glue is drying before I sit it so when you fold this one right over you can't fold this side over on top of it and that's because the top of this goes over this score line here so what we need to do is trim it off so I'm going to do it first you can see what I'm doing and then I'll explain it to you because it can be a little bit tricky so the whole thing's going to come down like so all right because this is going to be if I bring it up like that that's one half and then these are going to come together and form that basket so once you put that one down and then that one over the top it goes over that other score line which forms this triangle outside here so we need to trim that piece off so what I'm doing it's a bit hard to kind of show you but pinching those two bits together okay so again fold it over and just pinch those two bits between my finger and my thumb that's what you want to cut and I'm just going to cut down see what I've cut off there so I've created that shape it's like a diamond kind of side of a diamond and it forms yeah it's really hard to kind of explain it but it's the easiest way to do it so then because basically now this piece here is going to then fold down and over like so so that piece we've just cut away this next piece goes on top and then that's what gives you that side of your basket and this triangle like pocket on the front okay so again I'm just going to go through that so that's the two triangles that we've scored and we've just burnished that one fold over and this one comes down and then you want to cut let me just just go into put underneath here a piece of card so you can see that shape so that's the angle I went down and cut okay bring this all up here so you can see that other school line of the triangle and where that lies it needs to lie to what's it my right hand side of that piece so that it can fold over and just close like so I'm going to repeat it and show you again on that side there I'm sorry if I've rambled on a bit there but I just want to make sure that I'm trying you know getting it across as well as I can so you just want to add some glue now onto this triangle here where we cut and then fold it in and stick it down use your bone tool and just make sure that glue spread out like so then you're going to put some glue on here you don't want to smother it in glue make sure you go to the edges but you just want to make sure there's enough to cover it and then fold that all down and just spread out all of that glue like so then with this other triangle piece here probably doesn't help that this paper's pattern so apologies it's sometimes when you make all these things and I really want to use this print but it doesn't always video well so and that I am trying and that piece you're going to fold over with all that glue on it and again just using my bone tool just to make sure I get that glue right into all the corners like so and then I want to put glue on this side and again just spread all that glue out and now that will give you this lovely shape on the front okay so now this side again so this is back to where we were so that piece and this piece that piece goes in this piece comes down on top that's what you want to cut is these two pieces together but the problem is you've got to get your scissors right up to the the edges there where you've burnished so that one you're lying on top and you can see that and then cutting down like so it doesn't really as long as you cut enough so it's past that piece there that's bent okay so just use your judgment and again I'm going to so it's it is really easy to do it's just hard to explain and again with this pattern paper probably not the best but never mind so again just stuck that one and then I'm putting glue on this top one hold it down because this is now coming down over what I'm doing I'm not going to be able to see which again apologies okay and then you've got this last one here so you're going to put glue on this inside here just again on that triangle hold it over and then on this piece here this bit of the triangle put some more glue I found this all by pure accident again I just sit around with my scoreboard and scrap copy paper and I just play around with score lines so that's how this one comes about and sometimes you have to just take little extras off to get it all to kind of sit where you want it so I think I've got there though hopefully you've all understood what I'm doing so now you have this really large basket now this would work lovely just on its own you could put some card now going right the way around to this side and you'd have a lovely little basket and you could fold down these pieces as well put a nice bow there there you go so there is something just for the 12 by 12 I like to just go that little bit further so now what we're going to be doing is popping this one inside the other now what I want is I need to cut these pieces out because I want to when you put it just like that you lose that lovely triangle effect even if you put that one you put that one on top you you don't get to see triangle you just need to remove some of it so I'm going to grab you know I'm going to use my biggest scissors okay and then what you want to do is from this corner here I'm just going to pop your scissors right up until that corner you can kind of if you say I'm bending it a little bit there and just cut nice and neat right the way up to that bit there where they all meet in the middle like so and again do that on this side so right down the corner there and then all the way up you're only doing this on one so choose whichever one now that piece where you've not cut it will sit inside and it will all connect perfectly and now you will have one two three triangles on the bottom and then this here okay now what you want to do is glue all of this all of the bottom and all of the back don't go over onto this triangle just glue up to there okay okay so I just smothered that in glue I'm using the um tacky glue the Alina's tacky glue which me and my mum both have the same and it's brilliant because it dries super hard so now you just want to carefully pop the big square on the bottom so it lines perfectly up with the other square then pop it on its side and just kind of move it until you get that all nicely lined up there then pop it on the other side and again just make sure that all sits in there nicely like so there are a lot of like I guess it's quite an angled project this one there's lots of different edges and stuff to it sometimes we've got to do these things if we want to create these shapes and styles so I do try and mix things up as you know and bring you really unusual bits and pieces sometimes to get those you've got to go out go out of your comfort zone a little bit so just making sure now get your bone tool in there get that all get right up into all those kind of corners that's where that's really stuck down okay so there we have this really lovely shape and it's just gorgeous now again there's other kind of variations with this you could keep this like this now and just stick some glue to these pieces that are still loose this one's not so loose it's obviously a little bit bigger so you could just stick those down and you could put a piece of ribbon or something to attach it there like so or just continue with some more card and do a handle or some ribbon and just have a really kind of um what's not I don't know what shape this is actually one two three four five six sides is hexagon so it's not quite sick I don't know how it would be anyway I think of that but you know what I mean so you could keep it like that but I just liked having these kind of bent down so what I've done to get the fold is the corner this this side this I bring it in here we go so this piece here you want to line up with this line here which you will see you've got a line of um where we stuck it together so if I just bring this down and show you so I'm just going to bring it across I do it that way because it's better for me bring it right down and line up and then just pinch it like so so what I've done is folded it over there we go and you can see I've just brought it down so that straight edge lines up this piece here okay now again you could stick that down I actually quite like them like that it looks a bit like a collar so again with this one here I'm just going to bring it right over kind of start with your middle and you know get that all lined up with that and then you know that the rest will all just fall into place pop it down on its side and then just burnish those score lines again so you get a really nice crease and there you brings a completely different look again so again if you wanted to stick them keep the back you can do but again I'm going to fold it down because that's the way I liked it so I'm going to bring again starting from the middle pull it right down so it meets that score line that folded piece turn it over burnish bring oh twirling it right around pull that one right down again so there you have how lovely is that I really love it so got there in the end like I said it's not hard it's just a bit fiddly and it's hard for me to tell you what to do but I'm really hoping that that all came across well so now it's up to you how you want to decorate it because you've used the full two pieces of 12 by 12 I didn't want to cut into more 12 by 12 but if you've got some scraps we've got some nice if you're using like yellows and you've got some really nice craft cards you could do a paper handle but I'm going to use some ribbon so I'm just going to choose um I want quite thick I don't know whether to go for a bold yellow or whether I know I don't know I like that one I think it needs to be a bit more that's nice I think I'm going to use that one so I'm going to make a bow here and then I'm going to make um some for the handle so I'm just going to snip this off here and let's have a look so I don't want to do it too tall we'll just hold that next I didn't I've done them all different so I'm going to just show you what I'm doing for this one then you can decide so this measures at 19 inches the piece that I'm going to make here for my handle so do that in a second and then that leaves me with this piece here which is 17 inches which I'm going to do my bow for the front so I'm going to get that done first okay so I've done a little bow there and I've just got some foam double-sided squares and I'm going to use a little one I find the foam works really well with ribbon when you want to stick a bow down I've tried um different kind of glues and eventually they end up falling off whereas the ribbon is always stayed on so I'm sticking with that so I'm going to do yes that side is next that's got the knot just stick it on the back there again you can obviously decorate this however you want but I thought the wow fact is kind of in the bag shape itself so I didn't want to go too over the top with the decoration so I'm just popping that one in the middle I'm going to play around with that a little bit more a bit crooked up what the hell is that it's perfect it is good but it's gone a bit wonky I'm going to play around with that again in a minute okay anyway right now I want to do the right this side so I'm going to grab my whole punch pop it in the middle