 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these really nice shaker cards. I'm using lots of the product that I've kind of been getting over the last couple of weeks. So this is those flowers from John Next Door and then these this kind of lattice and the honeycomb and all the edges are from Bright Rosa and they're all the different collections and I'll show you those in a moment but just look how pretty this is. So this has got the orchid flowers and then it's got this ivy in the back and I have coloured this using my ink pads and then you can see all those iridescent sequins. So it's quite a subtle shaker but I think it looks really nice and then inside you've got thinking of you which is just kind of set to the left there so that when that closes you get to see that nice border there and then sending hugs and happy thoughts. Okay so that one is a thinking of you card and then this one is a birthday card so I've gone really bright with this one and this is using a different one different set so this has got this side this edge here and then the honeycomb and again you can see the sequins and this time I've done the flower at the bottom this is the Christmas Rose really really lovely flower I like that one and again I've used the ivy but this time I've just cut it directly from card coloured cardstock whereas that one was from white and then I've coloured it that green colour and it's got a kind of real nice kind of blending so it's slightly lighter at the ends and stuff and then I've just used one of my happy birthdays there I need to do my sentiment inside but okay so first of all these are the three edge builder dies sorry so it is the this is the lace edge builder you've got the honeycomb and there's that one that I used there you also get the frame and you get two other borders that's one we're going to use today and then this one you get these lovely kind of curved wavy ones there again all of them you get the frame for all the actual kind of you know lace whatever it is you're using and then that's the one that I used for that card that's those everything will be linked as always and then this is the one I'm going to use today which is the geometric edge I have cut it before I've done a quick card using this one and it's really nice and you would have seen me use that border before but this time I'm going to use this lovely scalloped edge I think that's going to look really pretty so that's the background dies I'm using these are how these ones look so they all come in a plate so if you haven't seen these from my what did I get video that's the orchid so that one will give you this look really really pretty so that was just all die cut on white and then I just distressed the inside with yellow and I've done the little dots there so most of that I've done myself and then that's the poppy one today these are the stamp sets it's those two dove craft ones so this is the occasions and that's the essentials again I know lots of you do have those that's the winter rose so that's that one there and that gives you that now I am still waiting for my foam Iranian foam so the flower forming foam to make these flowers because that is made out of foam in the picture and that's what I want to create but it still looks really nice with the cardstock so that's that one and then the one that I said I would use all the time and I'm going to be using this on my 3d projects is this one this is the they call it the ivy die plate and it's this one here now I've already gone through this one in my die machine and I've cut another one of these so you can see what you get so you get lots of little individual ones but you also get two large pieces as pop that one out so you get to this size okay and then you get one two three four five six individual ones so you can layer it up so I've just gone and cut them out and that's how the plate looks for that one and then finally here is the one for the poppy so this is the bluesy poppy and I've got one here to distress with you guys and then I've already done those ones and we're going to put that together so I'm going to have three on this one I'm going to make it quite full so pop all that to one side and we can start working with this product here so I have this piece of scrap paper that I've been doing all of my inking on and I've got this piece here and all I've done is I've got this is cherry cobbler this is stamping up I just wanted a darker red than the red of this now you can use black they've used black in the picture there but it was a bit too dark for me I wanted it dark but not as dark so by just using that deeper red I quite like that one and then just working in that same area because you actually lift colour off from there so you don't have to really use your ink in on your pad too much and just as I say just kissing the very edges so I'm not going into the centre at all and just making the edge there darker now you can also ink up the ivy but I'm going to leave that plain for today then I've got my little foam mat here this is just using the foam that came with my stamping platform my Tim Holtz one and that was the black foam as well that was in there and I've just made not the foam that you use because you don't need to actually flip the lid this is just some foam that was also in there I just made this little piece and it works perfectly you can buy proper flower shaping mats but this is work fine for me and I've got a pink one somewhere as well so this is what I'm going to do is I want to achieve this shape here now you don't have to do this but I do think there's something quite special about just even if you just use your finger in your thumb if you don't have any tools just roll it do something just to lift it up a little bit and it does just bring them to life that little bit more but I'm just using the thicker end here a lot of people have got the flower making like bulbarian kind of tools that you can use a stylus but I'll just like this one I like it when the paper goes nice and shiny and you want to get all of the creases because they almost start to look like the veins on the leaves and then once you ink up again if you want to some people do this first and then ink but I do it this way around ink it first and then form it and then you can always add some more ink if you want to okay and then I'm going to shape these a little bit as well to take that center out there and again with these I just roll it over the top okay so I've got those two there I have another one somewhere else that I've done before but I think it's just fallen down on the floor so I'll grab that in a bit then you also get these pieces here so what I've done with my plate is first of all ran it through with the red card stock and then I ran it through again to do the small little ones here now you have these smaller pieces here but in the picture they're not in there I've looked at poppy pictures and they don't really have that on there but that is the same shape as this piece almost that goes in the center of the orchid so I'm not using it but that doesn't mean obviously it is there to be used but it definitely isn't on the picture I've looked close up so unless it's it loops underneath there in some way I'm not sure but I think it still looks nice you know without it anyway so you can use it if you want to but I'm not going to um so yeah those three black like little center pieces there and I'm just using the smaller end and just rolling in the middle so they almost like roll up awful to say but like a dead spider okay so just curl up there all right keep the little mat actually so that's handy to carry on shaping it so then you just want to layer them up so these ones here largest at the bottom and then you just want to overlay each one so where I've got the gaps there the bigger the thicker side of the leaf I'm going to cover it and then that one I'll cover the next one again so this one's going to be a bit fuller than the other ones I'm just going to put a dab of glue in the center and if you push down you start to they start to like curve in on each other which is what you want okay and then these here I'm going to layer up separately and again you just want to overlap them so each one is is offset from the other as you overlap and they're a little bit fiddly doesn't matter if you're not spot on with these tiny tiny ones but I find it easy to do them separate to the main flower and then just put some glue on the bottom and then pop that in the center and there you have your poppy and now you can go and shape it even more so that's still drying a little bit but you could kind of fold those out a little bit like that okay just play around it's entirely up to you however you want them to be I'll play with them a bit more once I stick them to the card so now that's those already okay so now I want to start shaping the card now because I'm using a five by seven I will have to put this through my bigger die cutting machine my A4 because it needs to run through that way and my big shot is only six inches so if you do make this and you only have a smaller machine then you want to make your card so it's a six by six or a four by six something that you'll be able to easily put through a smaller die machine because this will work on any size card up to I think this is eight inches yeah it's meant for an eight up to an eight inch so there's my card side folding I want this to be like that okay so I'm just going to run that through my machine okay so that has cut nicely and there's the side of it we make it out better there we go really really nice so even that you know you can just have it and you could also still have that now as a top folding card so I'm just going to re-burnish that because it flattened a little in my machine okay so next I'm going to use this mirrored cardstock this time because I haven't used a mirrored yeah I've used a little bit of glitter that's about it so I'm not using the frame so this will cut into the cardstock and then I'm going to make my own frame because this frame is bigger than this card so what I'm going to do is try and create a bit of a frame actually no I'm going to end up cutting this down so all I'm going to do right now is just cut this down a little bit okay like so now because this is mirrored cardstock I'm going to put a sheet of copy paper over the top and then run it through my machine because just in case any of the little kind of markings you have on your plates they can always mark the mirrored card so I'm just going to run that one through that's beautifully that's even on my old big shot look I've got a couple of little ones just in the center there we go how lovely is that look at that against this it looks so nice so yeah there's all the bits so it's not too messy because now you can just knock them all out in your bin okay so we'll go to that in a sec while I've got this still out what I'm going to do is have it inside my card it's a little bit marked this one but I'm going to put white cardstock over the top anyway so let's find a straight edge that's really got scratched up okay this piece is I've changed my mind I'm just going to have it on the edge and then I'm just going to have that to right there so when you close it I want you to see all of that I don't want a border so I'm just going to stick this in okay so I ended up cutting that piece so it is two by seven okay so now you just get a nice edge there to your card now this piece I need to cut down because I want it to sit within this section here so let me just cut it down then I'll tell you the size okay so this is going to go here and that doesn't matter how it looks like this is all going to be covered and I'm going to make a frame with some more of that mirrored cardstock in a minute but basically I'm just preparing the shaker part of the card so on the back side of this I'm going to add some red tape get it as close to the edge as possible it's going to stick through a little bit because obviously you know there's loads of holes in it but it's all going to be covered with your acetate and your frame so this is a little bit long-winded it's more as you know inspiration this video because again I'm just showing you a way to really decorate and use what you've got to make a nice card so yeah it is sticking don't worry it will all work out okay okay so I've got some acetate here and you just want it to be able to cover this it's easier to just stick it on and then cut around it rather than the other way around cut your acetate down so you're not going to see a lot of the acetate it's there to keep all the sequins in more than anything and then I'm just going to cut around okay so now I've got this acetate piece here next on the back now I'm going to add my foam now I need really thin foam so whenever I need thinner I don't buy it I stick with the cheap one that I pick up from the pound shop this is what I always use unless I'm using these squares or the rectangles and then I'm just going to stick a strip this is wax paper or um grease proof paper I think I can't remember what this one's called it's this white roll that I've had for ages so you want to make sure whatever it is you can peel off the other side of your double sided tape and then I'm going to cut strips and the reason why it's good to put it on this is it doesn't gun cut your scissors so I use an oldish pair anyway something I'm not too worried about blunting but now you can cut these nice strips and I know many of you like this tip I've done this for many years and it always works so yeah I don't buy the expensive stuff so now I've got these strips so on the underside of this take one of them and you're just going to go all the way around the frame now I'm going to double this up because this foam is not too thick the sequins I'm using are quite I guess dimensional so I want to have two layers so I'm just going to do this layer first on all four sides that's one layer and then I'm going to peel that off okay so now I've got that with the two layers of foam so basically that is going to go over the top there with all the shaky bits and pieces and then I'm just going to make a frame to go over it and then I'm going to have all these beautiful pieces cascading up the card and it should fingers crossed all look very nice so the sequins that I'm going to pop in here I don't have any red but I think I want to stick with just that nice it's kind of like a white I mixed this up it was white and like iridescent sequins but there's a few purple like dark purple little bits in there so I have to pick them out but I'm just going to run a little line put quite a few in because it is deep so I'm just going to push them in and just make sure I always do a test first before you take your backing off that you can stick it down okay like so so now I'm just going to take the backing off here if you want to also go around the sides with some of the anti-static powder just to remove any stickiness so the sequins don't stick I'm not going to bother for this one because they're the same colour you can't see them that much if it was a darker sequin then I probably would but because these are light anyway against the white background I'm not too worried so I'm just going to very carefully I don't think I gave the final size of this piece so it's a piece of this you want to do three and a half by six and three quarters okay so make sure that's all stuck and then give it a good shake and you can see them I mean you can hardly see them at all they are there you get a really nice there you go you just get a nice kind of glisten and again it's just that kind of interactive part bit that looks really nice but yeah when they settle they do look lovely okay so yeah I'm now going to put a frame around mine so I'm going to cut a piece of mirrored cardstock again to three and a half by six and three quarters okay so I've cut it down I've got my knife and my ruler but I just want to check that I don't have a rectangle die that might get a nice frame this one is so big it doesn't fit in my normal plastic wallet so I kind of keep them like that I'm worried I'm going to damage it actually I need to get some bigger ones but I just have a little look maybe that one because I don't want frame too thick I don't think these are going to be long enough yeah no they're not going to saying that though I could go up you want to make sure your frame is going to cover your phone okay so that one might work actually you know what I'm going to do it because the bottom is going to be covered by a lot of this anyway but what I would have said if not okay just with my ruler pop it down about I don't know half an inch in come down half an inch and then start cutting and just cut a rectangle out within so you've got a half an inch kind of border like I said anything that's going to cover that but I'm going to run this through my die machine so again I'm just showing you the process really most of this I always do off camera but I just want to show you how I kind of think things out so I'm just going to run that through again because there's going to be this area here which I can reuse I'll put some copy paper down and then you won't get anything kind of like markings and things it's quite thin on the side but actually I think I think I can get away with it by the time I've got all this going on on top I don't think you're really going to see it it needs to come down a little bit there so that fact it's a little bit tall so I do need to take a little bit off the bottom but I think it's going to look really nice no I'm going to stick with it sod it let's go for it okay and then with this piece here I'm just going to grab some more red tape and just go along this is the quarter inch no one eighth of an inch tape so it's perfect for these you know kind of projects where you've got little thin strips like that it fits in there perfectly so I'm just going to run this around the edges okay so now I want to stick this down so make sure you line it all up like so there we go so now I can do all the fun stuff okay so I found the other ones so I'm going to have it kind of trailing up so remember I said that in my video when I got these they I think they'd look really nice kind of crawling up almost like a climber in a garden so I want it quite full I'm going to kind of have that one there and then I'm going to have that big one there now these cards are really dimensional and they fit perfectly in my 5x7 box envelopes I'll link them up there you've got no problems there so yeah go for it I don't know actually if I need might just be two on this one not that third one something I'm going to have them like that have the happy birthday probably have that there actually just kind of nestled over yeah I really like that I think that looks lovely okay so I'm going to splodge some glue down over all of these stems over the ends of them and then kind of squash it down with that big poppy and then this one up here I want to hide under this leaf here and then I want it kind of being able to kind of be quite free but because this one's quite high up I'm going to just pop a little bit of glue just behind that one and I think this one could do with just securing itself there and maybe that one as well but the rest of them I think they'll be fine if you just pop it up no that one's going to go down as well so mainly the tops of all of the there we go perfect and that holds up so see look how much dimension I've got okay then this one is going to go maybe there and there this is when I want you to talk to me this is when I wish I could hear what you're thinking there and there I think there yeah I don't want to cover that but then I feel like it's going off like that whereas maybe I'm going to go here you're probably some of you are going no no no but I'm sorry I can't hear you okay let me take the backing off of this one because what I need to do is double up the foam on one side to the same height of the foam that I've used there so towards this side I'm just going to pop one piece and then another piece okay so that way it's got the same height and then on the other end I'm just going to use some hot glue and I don't want that that's going to have to go like there no that's fine I'm happy with that and then this one needs to go there there we go now I could with that poppy I could always put that on the box the envelope box there you go I hope you like my positioning because it is always difficult sometimes I put things down then afters I think oh no I wish I'd put it somewhere else but now I'm really pleased with this I think it's turned out lovely so there you have the poppy the orchid and the winter rose so it's all using those edge border dyes the bright rosa and then there are all the flowers from John next door but I love the ivy just how different it looks you know on those different cards and yeah hopefully inspired you to create something similar I really like them I'm not sure my favorite actually I think my favorite is the poppy I really do like that one then this one and then this one but yeah let me know what you think in the description box below let me know if you like them if you do give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye