 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This week's hobby based card is this super cute shadow box with this nativity scene inside and it is so cute. So these shadow boxes are really fun it's um I'd say an even more simplified version of a shadow box and they will stand up perfectly but they will fold completely flat in in this case this is a five by seven and will fit nicely inside your card. Now I have a little bit of bulk on mine always turn it over um because I've used some foam adhesive but you can still see there that's not you might have to pay a little bit extra um but it will post nicely so like I said that's five by seven and then when the person gets it they will know because they're kind of straight away you pick it up like that and you kind of do that so they will know it will stand up. You can also fold it that way as well and it will go into a smaller envelope that envelope size would be six by five so it's entirely up to you which way you want to do it but these are lovely I'll show you the stamp set so this is the the lover stamps and it's the nativity they're all a little bit blurred there because they've obviously been inked already and they've got loads of uh my inks on them but you can just see the detail in them there if I just bring them up I love the donkey's face I think he's so cute I mean they all are they've been a joy to color I've used my watercolor pencils created this wash at the background there as well and yeah just really had fun with it I think it's super cute the actual main card itself really is quick to make the time-consuming bit for me was obviously the watercoloring of these little you know little images here so let's crack on and I will show you how to make it okay so to make this card you need two pieces of five by seven now I have a five by seven pre-made card here and it's cream on one side and white on the other and I want to use that so what I'm actually going to use and do is cut this cardstock in half to give me my two pieces of five by seven so I'm just going to remove and then you might have a little bit of like the score line like the join there so I'm just going to go in and take that piece off it will mean I'm a little bit shy of the five of the yeah the five inch width but it'd be might it will be tiny and as long as they're both the same it doesn't matter anyway if I now yeah there we go perfect okay so I've got two pieces of five by seven which is what you will need this can be pattern paper anything you want you might not be doing a Christmas card so it's entirely up to you then what you want to do is with your cardstock facing up you're then going to flip it over so you've got the backside and you want to score a half an inch and because mine's slightly short there on the seven I'm just going to bring it right up to the seven and then score it six and a half okay so you're going to score a half an inch and six and a half then flip it back so it's facing up the right way and score at one inch and six inches and you want to do that on both pieces okay now by flipping over the card like we did then it will help prevent any cracking because you're going to be doing a mountain fold and a valley fold on both sides so the first score line here you want to do a mountain fold sorry so on the first one here you want to do a valley fold okay so just fold it up because you've done the correct score line then the inside score line you're going to fold down to create your mountain okay so if I show you now that's what you should have so you've folded this one up to create a valley and this one down to create a mountain okay you can see there it's already given us that sign and I've got no cracking at all okay so I'm just doing that one on the end there as well and when you push it in you want it to kind of be in that shape there so let me just do this one again so I've got my mountain and then my valley again mountain okay and then what's going to happen is is those two are going to stick together perfectly like so and there is our card base and obviously once that's stuck it doesn't matter which way then you want to kind of fold it flat but it will go fold flat and in its fold flat form it will measure six by five okay so next we need to make our little window now it doesn't matter what size or shape dies you want to use I've got these nice fancy edged circles and I think I'm going to go for the second largest there and pop that one right in the middle because I think the biggest one yeah it's just going to be too big because yeah the outer side is the cut side always check underneath your dies because it might be that the the actual cut is right on the inside here but this one's both so it will um sorry it's got a perforation on the inside and then it's the cut lines actually on the outside some of them do vary so that is going to go in the middle now you might want to put it slightly off to one side like so and you will have a little message maybe up here I'm going to keep mine centered and then my sentiment will kind of probably be here or still off to the left but I do want that to be in the middle so I'm just going to grab some washi tape and um just get that stuck down now if you've got quite a sticky washi tape just pop it on a bit of your clothing just get some of the lint from your clothing on it just to take the initial stick off and then it won't rip your cardstock when you take it off because obviously this is going to be pushed through your cut machine okay so just popped a little bit in place there and get rid of my scoreboard okay so I'm just going to get this one cut now if you've got quite a well used mats um sorry plates like I have I'm just grabbing some copy paper here just trim this down and just pop it over the top now I know I've burnished those um score lines I'd probably say cut this bit first and then burnish your score lines because all it's going to do is flatten them now which is not a problem but it may weaken them a little bit so yeah do your cut your um piece out first and then go and burnish them so now I'm just going to run that one through by putting that copy paper on top it just stops any extra markings going through because it will initially mark see any if there's any dirt and stuff like that it will go onto the copy paper and not onto your card so now I can just carefully take that off and it's not taking anything away there and take that piece off there we go keep that you may want to use that somewhere else in the card okay so see what I mean now so it's flattened those score lines a bit so I'm just going to go in and kind of redefine those again like so so now I want to bring in this back I can see now I've got a really nice there we go a nice window to my card so next what you want to do is start your kind of image in the on the back piece because I like to build the inside kind of first so you can see what you're doing so what I've done is just fold it in all of the sides okay so just push that inside like so I don't want to stick it together yet okay and then very roughly because I haven't got as mine's got this kind of fancy edge now but just very carefully I'm just going to roughly try and hold it down there it's just so I know my kind of rough area there we go it's a really bad circle there in fact you could do it flat it's probably easier actually isn't it yeah there we go just line up your score lines and do it flat it's still okay but I just want to roughly know that's really light that I've done it with the pencil so I can start building up my scene now I have already gone ahead and fussy cut watercoloured everything my lovely little images here from that stamp set that I showed earlier and they are gorgeous I really really love these I mean look at the little Mary and the three wise men I mean it's entirely up to you how you colour them but that was what I've done with them and they're just lovely and again I've used my watercolours I really do love using them and we've got the lovely angel there as well so what I'm thinking is I'm going to have Mary and Joseph inside with obviously baby Jesus and then I'm undecided as to whether to have the three kings outside because my kind of memories in school and Sunday school is they were approaching from the hill and kind of walking I mean they obviously were all together initially eventually but I'm thinking about having them outside the box so or maybe up there or maybe a few of them maybe one inside so I need to kind of play around with that and I was also thinking about having the angel outside maybe as well so I need to have a play around or even these I'm not sure so I'm going to kind of spend some time just deciding how I want my scene to actually be and then I'll be right back okay so I have been playing around with how I'm going to have it laid out and also with a background so I've just created this watercolor kind of wash just trying to make it look like that this is the stable like the you know the floor so like the hay and stuff and then slowly kind of going up to the midnight sky so what I've done none of this is stuck down yet so that is the kind of layout I think I'm going to go for so I think once these people are all people what they are and once they're all inside the card the three kings will be in the distance there so again it's as if they're approaching the you know the stable and then Mary and Joseph would be around here baby Jesus and then obviously the angel and the animals were on the outside now also what I've done is I've just stamped the star of Bethlehem and the sentiment which also came in the pack which if I bring it in here you can see there so I've used yeah the Silent Night Holy Night you've also got four unto us a child is born as well and you've also got Christmas blessings but I just like the Holy Night Silent Night Holy night and also what I've done so I can take these ones off now is I die cut a larger circle still making sure it stays within that square and then die cut the original circle that you or shape that you would have used for this and it will then give you this frame and I'm just going to stick that on the side of the the circle that I just found it just kind of you know finished it a little bit better so that's the top so I'll be getting all that stuck down in a minute so I know where they're all going now so to do the mat the inside here so it doesn't matter about that pencil mark now because I'm going to be cutting this down so you want to have a mat that's going to be let's have a little look here what we got because I want a little bit of a frame so it'll be four and three quarters by four and three quarters okay so I um is that about right yeah so I'm going to go and get this trimmed down okay so I've cut it down I've got a little bit of the base of the bottom there of the brown still showing but I'm not too worried I mean it's a homemade card so again it just kind of shows that you know I have made this background myself so what I'm going to do now is stick this with I'm going to use my wet glue so get your background piece stuck down because it's best to do all this inside um decoration before we put the the front on okay so that's the inside I really like that more a look at it and it's really made the back strong as well because that's watercolor paper so now I'm going to start by recreating that scene again and I'm going to pop some things on foam adhesive as well just to kind of have it a bit more lifted and you know just to give it more dimension again so we had Mary and Joseph there and then maybe Jesus looks like and then I'm just going to bring this over just to check that they are in a good place I think these ones can come in a little bit closer like so because I've got to remember then I've got this one this one like so so now I think they can come down a little bit and I think we're about there there I really like that so that's where I wanted so I'm going to carefully lift that off and get this stuck down so I think I'm going to have the two of the kings are just stuck directly down as well as Joseph I'm going to stick him straight down and then Mary and this three king I'm going to have on foam adhesive as along with baby Jesus as well so I'm going to get that all stuck down so next I'm going to attach my front piece onto that but before I do so I'm just going to attach that frame just think it a bit a bit easier to do whilst it's not attached so I'm just going to pop just a thin amount of wet glue don't need much it's just to kind of tack it in place like so just carefully line it up it will fit in perfectly because you've cut the same circle die so just move it until you've got it you shouldn't see any other color underneath like so and then I'm going to use some of my tape here for the inside so flip it over and you just want to apply down flat just on the two outer half inch sides okay and I'll just carefully remove the backing and then I'd start on one end first so just line it up and they should perfectly sit on top of each other because they're both the same size I'm just trying to line up that outer edge like so it's looking so nice I love that already and I love that there's you know dimension inside there as well so now I just need to finish the front so I think I'm just going to stick them directly now I'm going to put these on a little bit of foam as well so I've just got these little foam dots I'm just going to take out a couple and just cut a few in half as well okay so up camel down there and donkey over here I'm going to stick down my sentiment first and that's going to be slightly hanging from this top piece here in the middle hold that up I think that's about right and then the star I'm not going to put on foam adhesive I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue just towards one side because it is going to slightly overhang and then my angel I'm just going to pop again just a little bit of glue onto one half of her and then she's just going to kind of sit just slightly behind the camel there and then on the back you just want to cut another piece of plain white cardstock to four and three quarters by four and three quarters stick it on the back and then that's where you can write your message but there you have the card let me just bring my light on a bit better there there we go and I just think it is lovely and then the whole thing can fold completely flat like so to pop in your envelope and then it just pops back up and stands up really nicely as well so there you go a really nice shadow box for any occasion but I think this one works really well for this nativity scene they're super cute and I know exactly who I'm giving this to so there you go so I hope you've enjoyed this week's hobby based card all the supplies will be linked below and you'll be able to find everything over on my blog as well thanks for watching bye