 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 this really cute gatefold card using supplies from the February hobby base kit. If any of you have been watching previously I shared what was inside the February kit and I'll share that link to this tutorial today and along with another project that I've done as well which was a little sweet wrapper gift box. I'll be doing four tutorials a month one every week just showing you what you can make from the kit that you receive if you choose to receive it and again I'll share all the links for how you can do that if you like it. So this is the gatefold card so it basically just opens up like so and then you can write your message below there. This is using this gorgeous little bird cage die which I've used in previous tutorials. Again I'll show those links as well because it's a really cute little gift box that I used for that one and then I've heat embossed here and then you've got that lovely sentiment which I said I really liked it says love you it's quite subtle but I think it's nice you may not pick it up so well here but you can see it really well in real life. I folded over the tops here and just raised it up with some sticky back foam tabs there as well and then we just got a little bit of ribbon. This has been heat embossed three times to give the look of metal so it's a bird cage so you've got a metal effect there and I just think that looks really really sweet and then it's lined with the papers that you receive and the papers on top here as well so that's what we're going to make. I've also just done a little bit of heat embossing on the bottom of the envelope there as well because I just think that looks quite nice and that's using again some more of the stamps. So to make this card let's just pop that to one side. I've got all my bits and pieces here so let me just get all this out of the way. So this is the ribbon so for anybody that's not seen the tutorial or the video sorry where I showed what was inside this is one of the products and this has got hearts all around it. It's two metres of ribbon and I've used it already for the project that I mentioned before the sweet wrapper project and obviously on this one as well and I mean it's two metres so it's a lot. I've already done my envelope because when I show you some other heat embossing in a minute you'll know what to do with that so I didn't think you need to see me do that again. Okay so these are all the bits and pieces. This is the stamp set you get 15 stamps so it's really nice and again it's not I know this is a Valentine's themed box obviously the month of February we've got Valentine's Day but there are certainly ones here that you can use all year round. We always tell people we love them not just on Valentine's Day and yeah I mean the hugs and kisses forever yours you've got the little bug here especially for you that's just a nice one even for a birthday and you've got this lovely corner one here so you know you can use these in in other ways as well so that's the stamp set. Okay so this is the you get three card bases in every kit and obviously you get all papers as well you get 10 sheets of this six by six pattern paper in all different designs. If you don't have a card base like Gatefold which is how this one came then you can just cut one down so all you need is a piece of 12 by 12 card cut it so it's 12 by 6 and then along the 12 inch side you want to score at 3 and at 9 okay and that will give you this Gatefold card so in the middle this is 6 by 6 and then these are 3 by 6 so when they fold over they all join up like a little gate okay so to get that folded effect which I've done here all you want to do is just grab a ruler and just along the side here you just want to mark at 3 inches okay so just put a little bit of a marker there I'm not going to do it because I know what I'm doing and I don't want to have to rub it out afterwards but just put a tiny little light marker there and then you can just rub that out if you don't want to do that all you can do is just bring this over and just keep your finger and your nail or something just there so you get a really nice join and just line it up and then bring it all down like so okay and you can just score that down use your bone folder and then you will get that lovely effect okay like so so now what I need to do is put some foam sticky foam tabs underneath this so I think I've done three on each one so just do a couple there you don't have to do this if you haven't got the foam tape you don't get the foam tabs sorry you don't get these in the kit um but you can just put glue them down you could even leave them um just just kind of folded down so it's entirely up to you have a play around so what it's all about and then a probably another one like so and then just remove all the backings okay and again you can't probably can't pick it up too well in the video but it does just give it a little bit more something you know just lift it up like that looks quite nice okay so that's that piece done then you will have this piece which is going to go in the middle here now this needs you need to trim it down it's a six by six piece but you want to trim it down to five and three quarters by five and three quarters that way when you sit it in you'll just get a really nice little frame around the outside okay now again I went ahead and heat embossed this piece I'm going to show you how to heat emboss the birch cage when we get to it but again what I've done here um is I've done this before I stick it down because when we heat emboss and we apply the heat sometimes the paper can get a bit warped so it's best to do this before I've already put my sticky tape on the back backing tape so that when I stick it down if it has warped it's hard to really see it here but it is a little bit curved it was going to completely flatten out now when I stick it onto the back of that card but all I've done here is I used the long sentiment the love you one which again let me just find where did I put it so it's this one here okay just along the top and then I done the three hearts now what you want to do is when you put it in it's kind of line it up with the border just as best as you can fold your sides down like so with a pencil very lightly just draw up and down like so that way you know that whatever your stamping has to be within that triangle so if you're using the stamp positioner um or just your acrylic blocks when you put it down this can could you know obstruct you doing that so it's best to do it just draw a pencil like I've done there and then you can put that all where you need to okay so I can rub that out in a minute now I can go ahead and get that stuck down onto my card base so like I said just make sure you get a nice border like so and then I'll rub all that out in a minute okay so that's that piece now all in place now we need to decorate the front so you need to cut two squares need to be two and three quarters by two and three quarters and these are going to sit nicely at the bottom here and then you need one piece which is going to be two and five eighths of an inch by two and five eighths of an inch now this piece you're just going to cut in half so again I've already put my tape on the back if you're using tape like I am double-sided then it's best to put the tape down first and then when we cut it it's all in place because it'd be a triangle shape it's a bit fiddly to put the tape onto that shape but if you're using any of those like little um roller glues and just wet glue then you can do it again after as well but again what you want to do is you can draw a pencil mark from corner to corner okay I'm just going to cut this because I've got big long scissors here so just start really neatly at one end and you just want to go all the way across to the other so now we can get those all stuck down in place so the bottom two make sure you're happy with the positioning again you should have a nice even border on all four sides so I'm going to get those two stuck down that's those two stuck down and then just the same with those two triangles are going to go in there and they will have the same border as the square does below and again because I've already stuck that backing on it means that I've got a nice coverage with the glue and it goes right up to the corners there so um yeah if you're ever like I said using what I use the double-sided tape rolls always stick it all first and then cut after okay so just stick these two just all stuck down another rule of thumb that I've mentioned before in tutorials is if whenever you've got lots of pattern papers and the colors match but maybe the prints don't generally anything that's got stripes or spots will go with a floral design so you can see here this has got the stripes and the spots and it does work with this floral so if that was just a polka dot paper it would work with this and again if it was just lines it would work as well so it's just you know just to kind of help you there if you do have a struggle matching up the papers okay so now that's all done so the card's pretty much there we just need to finish off the decoration so we're going to now do this really cute little birdcage so what I went ahead and done already was die cut two of the bird cages just on white card and then I've stuck them on top of each other so now you can hear I've got a nice harder like almost like a chipboard die cut there okay and that's just to raise it up it's again hard to pick up here but that that's really it's not kind of you know it's not flimsy it's hard I can open the card with the birdcage alone and it doesn't bend so it's just just giving your cards that you know that bit more of a quality feel to them so I tend to always do that with my die cuts so I've die cut two there and then I'm going to die cut another one with you now and that's the one that we're going to be doing the heat bossing on um so I've already got one here so I'm just going to pop that on my card I've just got a piece of card over the top there just to make sure I get a really nice cut okay so just run that through a few times just so I made sure because this is a thick card that I've got here as a while so I just wanted to make sure but you can see these all just fall it out it's uh it's a lovely die so that's all run been run through the um die machine so now what we need to do is with the this is the paper I've been using with the VersaMark that comes in the kit basically I find if you hold the end here because you're not actually going to see this because it's covered with the bow so it doesn't matter if you don't get this covered with VersaMark you can keep it white it just gives you something to hold on to when we're going to heat emboss but you can also use tweezers as well so all you want to do is just go over and just make sure you cover your die in the VersaMark I can see with the the lamp they're hitting against it I can see that that's covered already okay and then we're going to use the wow um shampoos embossing powder again comes with the kit and I'm going to be doing this three times so that's what gives you that metal look is by doing layer upon layer so we're going to do this first okay tap off your excess I'm just going to move that slightly out of view for the minute because I don't want to blow it all off with my heat gun key thing with the heat gun make sure it heats up really hot first before you apply it to whatever it is that you want to set okay okay so if I just hold that up I don't know how well we can see this just about I think there we go you just kind of catch it there that's just with one layer you get a really nice coverage but again like I said I want to layer it up even more now if you want to keep it like that that's fine you don't have to do it three times it's you know it's up to you what look you want to go for so now that's again been done let it cool give it a few kind of give it like 30 seconds or so just to um kind of set and cool down before you apply again so then with the VersaMark I'm just going to go right over again like so make sure I don't get this powder mixed into this spot on the paper here usually I would use two separate pieces but it's just because I'm doing the video here so again I'm just going to pick that up and with my powder just literally shake it all over again and then set that with my heat gun and I'm going to repeat that again after okay so in total I would have done it three times okay so there you have it that is three layers of embossing powder and now that looks like a metal effect um die cut so it gives it completely changes the look of your dies it's really nice that one okay hopefully you can see what I've done there you'd be able to pick it up in the pictures as well okay so now we just need to stick that on top of this one here so I'm just using some glue any glue will work as long as it obviously sticks it I'm just putting a little bit on the bird some along the bottom there and along that other piece and along the top the ribbon is going to obviously keep that together you can put a little bit on the very outside ones just obviously just to keep them kind of in place you don't need to worry too much like so and then just sit that down over the top so now I have a really strong you can hear it when it kind of drops down it's a really strong nice little embellishment decoration so that is now going to go in the middle like so so all we need to do is apply some ribbon so add ribbon sometimes I use really weird words those that you that follow me probably think sometimes what is she saying I don't it's hard I don't think about what I'm saying obviously I'm concentrating on what I'm doing so I do speak gibberish sometimes when I watch about my videos I think oh my gosh okay so I can't remember how much I used for this so I'm going to cut off I'm going to cut off eight inches but I don't think you're going to need all of that so pop it through the loop and then just tie it so in a nice eight inches was actually just right if not I could have probably gone more so I'm going to say go for 10 because anyone who struggles with bows like me you'll need that extra to be able to actually tie the bow but there you go I'm happy with that and then all you want to do is stick one half of the birdcage to the left hand side of the card so the very middle straight line that goes through the birdcage you don't want to stick at all but everything to the left of that you do so I'm just going to flip it over so now it's this right hand side and mainly I'm just going to focus on the bird again and just pop glue there and then on these again like so just on the backs it's just to kind of you know just keep it in place really most people will open it up with the main bit of card and not this then lie it down and with that dead straight one that I said about go through the middle of the birdcage line that up with the two of these this middle of it okay so keep that lined up the bottom of the birdcage you want to line up with the bottom of your papers and then just stick that on there you have it a really cute gatefold card so now that one opens up it all looks lovely and you've got plenty of room to write your sentiment there and it just folds back and obviously it all stands up nicely so that's the one I've done with its matching envelope there and then that's the other one I've done again with the matching envelope so that is using one two three four of the papers and then I used two for the sweet wrapper gift boxes that I used so I've still got four pieces of the paper left and I've already made some really nice projects and those gift boxes would actually go really nice with these cards so again there's just so much you can get out of this kit each month so I hope I've inspired you hope you enjoy it and it's a nice one for you to follow even if you don't have the kits and yeah hope you enjoyed it give me a thumbs up if you did and subscribe to the channel to see more thanks for watching bye