 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Wrath thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really sweet swinging card now obviously when I lie it down like this for the camera it is not going to swing so I'm going to edit in a quick video now of me swinging this really cute little sloth. It gives you an idea of how it works and you can see there it all falls flat and I've done it so that it's kind of got little feet because I just thought it was a nice little touch but that goes down and yeah it's just it's just so fun I mean you can kind of see there it just flows really freely and then on the back I've used another one of the images which I'm going to show you and you've got all that space there to be able to you know stump and write your message. It's six by six size you could do this at any size to be fair. I probably know because when it stands up it's fine but I might stick down a few of the ends of the green kind of you know leaves and stuff on the back there just so they don't catch but otherwise it's really good. If I bring it up there you can see all of the little flowers I've all got little rhinestones on them and it says let's hang out with some white embossing powder it's very easy to do so let me show you how. Okay so this is the stamps that I use it's by creative stamps and it's the sweet sloths and you've got some nice little sentiments there as well. Nice kind of just outline stamps so they're really plain but that makes them perfect for coloring. I don't like too much kind of black detail and yeah just really enjoyed those ones and I will show you I'll show you a quick little video in a moment of me coloring them but also it comes with the well it doesn't come with it but part of the collection there's some swans and there's these lovely otters and if you've you know subscribed to me for a while you would have seen me use the otters in the water card so if you're new to the channel and you're thinking oh a water card it's really fun and I use actual water in the card click up here and you'll be able to go see how I made that card and yeah it's very very fun and again really really cute lovely images. Then I've just got some circle dyes I'm just using the plain scissor ones these are at the bottom and then just I've gone ahead and die cut all these bits and I've done all the coloring but like I said I'll link in the video but I just use the fern border the bright rosa one but any kind of foliage and things like that but I do go to them a lot because I've just got a nice little mix and I've done two colors so I've got the light and the dark green there so I've done them and then yeah you can see all of my stamped images there so just bring them up. Lovely sweet. I mean you can have them obviously that way he doesn't have to always be upside down but they are very very cute so I'll share the video of me coloring this all in now and to do this on a six by six but once you see how I do it it's very easy to do it on any kind of top folding size card that you want so this is a piece of 12 by 6 and along the 12 inch side you just want to score it six inches and fold in half if you've already got some colored pre-made cards then perfect this is I think 250 but by the time we put the mats and layers on it does become very strong then I have got a piece of well I've got two pieces of white one for the back one for the front it's optional if you want to do the front you might just want to keep you know a colored piece it's up to you again once you see what I do but these are five and three quarters squared and then I've got this piece which is I use this in a card that I shared not too long ago and it's that sky background and I just thought it worked quite well with this so it's the other half of the 12 by 12 sheets I've used one in there and then I've got this one left it's five and seven eighths of an inch because you just want to come in a little bit by five and three quarters but I think that's because it was scrap but you can do five and seven eighths squared will be fine and that's going to go in our background and then this is for the stand I mean it is an optional piece but I think it does help because you've got a tiny little bit of bulk inside here with the mechanism it does kind of want to push the card out so by having that stand it it stops it you know is it's a stopper it stops that card spreading out any further than it needs to so I do recommend it but you know play around see what you think so this is a piece of three by six and along the three inch side you just want to score at half an inch one and a half and two and half it's about say two and three quarters there but it's not say that again half an inch one and a half and two and a half then I've got these pieces here so this is for the little kind of mechanism inside there's two parts to it ish but this one I will show you at the end because you stick it to your stamped image and everybody's is going to be different so the size might vary but this piece you want to keep at half an inch by two and along the two inch side you just want to score at a quarter of an inch and one inch and one and three quarters okay and then just have another piece of white card like a strip for the minute like I said mine's half an inch but I probably will trim that a little bit so that's all the scoring and everything done there okay so first of all we can open up the card and stick our background piece so whatever it is whatever your theme that you're doing and I want mine to be like so I'm going to stick that one on the back and again I'm using my Kalau glue and like I said that will just add that strength to the card I love how it all folds flat and it's easy for someone to understand when they take out the envelope they don't have to do too much with it just kind of open it up so that's going to go inside there okay with this PC you're just going to fold and burnish all the score lines where I was just looking for my other bone folder and then I dropped it and it's down the back of my desk so that's why I'm using that one which I still love it's my bamboo one so you've got something like that and what you're going to do is we're going to once we die cut the front but you're going to stick that in there and then that one there I've done green on this one because it ties in with the green and the jungle kind of theme that one was white which is still fine but probably now in hindsight I probably would have done that green as well but I'm still very happy with that card and then these ones we will stick and die cut in a moment so next you want to grab your circle dies and we're going to cut the aperture the window in the front okay so from this set I'm using the two largest ones okay so I'll give you a rough measurement of mine and you just want to get something you know as close to that really you might want to do square you might want to do a decorative edged one but if you are doing circles mines four and a quarter and this one is three and three quarters so out of those two the three and three quarter one is the one you want to die cut first this one we actually use just to create this ring detail so if you do want to add that in we'll do that in a moment but make sure so I've just stuck that there so you're going to die cut this the front one so just fold it out there and then I'm just going to use some washi tape you want to get this right in the middle unless you want to do something up here don't go too close to the edges you know you want to give yourself a little bit of cardstock so it keeps its stability because otherwise it will start to kind of um well just probably bend so I'm going to go about there and with any kind of washi tapes and even the purple tapes I still find they could lift cardstock so I always stick it on to the the cardstock that I don't want you know I mean if it comes off perfect I'll keep it in my scraps but I'd rather it rip this piece than my actual card so I'm just going to run that through my die machine okay so now I can just take that one off and then what we're going to do is with one of those white pieces so these are your five and three quarters squared we're going to stick one of these well eventually we're going to stick it over the front there with a nice even border so if you flip it over actually I'll do it this way put it on the inside so you've got a nice even border and fold it down okay and then just draw around that circle like so do you make sure get it really lined up get that border perfect okay like I said fold it over I can see my pencil line there and then again with that smaller one line it back up again and just run that through your die machine okay and this is only you only have to do that if you want to have this white piece and a border you know I like a border so I'm just going to take off some of those little feathery bits I find some of my dies mainly actually that's the six one that just leaves like a little there we go come straight off but I just need to get rid of exit box me so now I can just line that back up have to move it around might have been that way there it is you'll find it fit so that's because my circle is probably not bang in the middle so just move it around until you get it back where you were but now you can see I've got that nice even border and it covers my circle so I'm just going to stick that one down and then we can cut our frame and I've got this piece of green card which is the same green that I've used for some of these sprigs here so it just kind of ties everything together and it works well with the color that I've used as well but I'm going to grab the larger one and that one and some washi tape which I've got here and you want to make a little ring again completely optional but it's just these little details that I do like to add to my card so just sit the smaller one inside making sure you've got a nice even gap you know that that kind of ring there that green ring that you can see is the same all the way around or as close as and again just run that through your die machine okay and then you will have this piece and that's what you want these are obviously great keep these because you can use them for toppers and other projects but now with that one I am going to grab my glue and just stick it and if you have got any pink I've got a tiny little bit of pink showing there this will cover that up so um and plus by the time I add all my little um you know flowers and leaves and things you know it's always good when you've got your kind of stamps and embellishments because if there are any areas and you think oh I need to cover that um I said this before in tutorials but it's funny when my mum's made a card and she shows me and I see like a rogue embellishment and I say to her was that one needed she goes yeah it's covering a bit of glue or a pen mark or something it's just it's funny so um we all do it again just take a little bit of that there it is just see little bits there they bug me okay so now the card is ready so I've got that kind of sky cloudy background there and then we've got all this plane but it's I mean you're going to see how it's all going to come together it's going to look so pretty so what I would suggest now is you want to start placing these pieces your background details so if you're going to do any of that I mean you might have like a countryside background you might have some mountains you might have some waves so whatever it is that you want to do and start laying out your pieces and I'm also just thinking it might be worthwhile sticking one part of this in first um just on the back there so I'm going to grab I mean you can sit this down first if you want and then cut this so it completely covers that if you don't want to have any of the frame but you don't really see this when it's inside so I'm not too worried I'm just gonna just spread that glue all out there and then you just want to make sure it's up the right way so you want this edge here to line up with the bottom of the card and it's exactly six inches in width like so let's just think it's a nice little bit of detail I mean you don't have to do that like that you know there's other ways to add little kind of hinges or stoppers whatever you want to call it and I'm just going to burnish that down a minute just so it's kind of out my way but now I can start this is the area that I want to start to create these pieces coming in and just kind of you know do different colors I alternate them I don't want it to look perfect but I don't want it to I don't want to have all the cream like on one side for example all the lighter color on one side you know and some of these are pull off the edges because I don't need them that long but I just want it to look like it's all kind of creeping in on the sloth you know it's a real lush overgrown part of the forest and and just kind of place it all down and once you're happy where it is then just tack it down with a little bit glue you don't need lots you don't want glue kind of oozing out everywhere but just there's a few bits like I said on that one there's the odd leaf that's kind of catching so I just need to make sure that's stuck down because you don't want anything to interfere with the the swing of whatever it is that you've got but um you can see there what I'm doing I'm going to have that one down the bottom here and then I'll have maybe that one there I'll have that one there and then this one there so I'm going to keep them all within that blue he's going to be right in the center of that piece there and when the card obviously then stops he will cover right there in the middle and just you know whatever it is you're having hanging just kind of place you know roughly as well and you can bring this down you know you can see how it's all going to kind of look and then we build up with all these lovely pieces all on the front there and he's going on the back so I used him on that card so I'm using him on the front of this one and he's going to go on the back for some detail there so I'm going to go and get this all stuck down okay so that's all stuck down but I've got little bits that lift so I still want a tiny little bit of dimension there next you want this piece here so you would have scored those three score lines you want to fold these ones so they are mountains and then that middle one as a valley and this whole middle section here we're going to stick together okay so just put some glue on one side and then fold it up so you have these two flaps okay and then you want to might be better actually to put a hole in first now I am using my cropper dial and I'm using the smaller hole if you don't have this you don't want to well I guess actually you could do the larger hole if anything maybe that might still work quite well because it will let the brad really kind of move freely but the small one's still enough room for the brad to move freely as well so you will be okay with the normal size hole punch there actually okay but I am going to if anybody does have the cropper dial I'll just punch this you can see where I've just done that so towards the bottom but make sure you leave kind of the same gap there that you've got on the sides okay you just see where I've put that all right next we're going to add some glue onto these two here and the middle part here needs to line up with the middle score line that's just come under okay so one half is going to stick on this side and one half is going to stick on this side and you want it to be bang in the middle so it might be worth mild because you can cover this straight up grab a pencil and just mark that's at three inches so I'm just going to put a pencil mark there and then I can stick this right over because you want whatever it is hanging to hang obviously right in the center of your circle so make sure it's stuck on one on both sides and as you fold it down push it up into there and then fold that down you can lift it back up again in a minute you just want it to you want to get it in place and I can feel where it is yeah he's going to hang yeah here hang fine you just don't want to end up finding it hanging kind of really far over to one side but now if I open that up can you see where that's stuck make sure it's all glued together as well it should be able to open and close and that piece is there so mine still keeps on sticking in the middle because I need didn't let that dry enough but it's it's fine where it is so I'm just going to close that up for the minute just rest that on top and just let that dry okay this is now secure and you want to do another hole at the end of this piece okay then you want to grab a brad so I am using some smaller ones that I've got here you see that I mean you're not going to see this it doesn't really matter the color but I am also going to cut them just not in half but just cut a little bit off so you just haven't got the tails as long you can just see there just cut them short a little bit and then pop them through pop them pop it through that one and then pop this one on there but when you open up the split pin part you don't want to really push them down tight on this you just want to kind of bend them over I find a pokey tool works with this but if you just push the pokey tool down through the middle it will split them apart and just kind of just just gently see already that's a little bit too tight you don't want to what you might find worth doing is put like a bone folder in there and then fold it and fold it onto the bone folder and then remove the bone folder so you've got a gap and can you see how freely that now moves okay so you can see there so maybe put yeah put like that underneath or something you know just something that gives it a little bit of a gap once you take it away if I just put my ruler there and then I can push down on it it will still all close and flat you know and go in the envelope you see there but now if I was to bring that up again you're not it's only when it stands upright that that completely moves you can just about see it there freely and that's what you want and once we add a bit of weight so this here will weigh it down and also the decoration that I put on there but we will trim this okay now we can stick this piece down because you need it to be all together now really to attach everything and but do make sure that that swings nice and freely before you stick this down because it'd be quite fiddly to get into once it's together so now I'm just going to line that one up like so just hold that there for a minute okay so now I want to get my cute sloth and I want him so that's the middle there I want him to be right in the middle of this circle so I need to trim that bit off there just so it doesn't hang out the bottom and then I'm going to add glue there and then just have him kind of like and then this bit here I'm going to cover with the flowers and the vines because you can see here you just see a little bit there because he was a bit taller like longer but there's a little bit there so it carries on into the image okay so that's what I wanted to to do so next it is now all that decoration he's going to go on the back so we don't need to worry about him but I'm just going to build up a cluster down here and a cluster up here kind of had that one to start there it I cut all these on my scanner cup and that one obviously I didn't see because I didn't look in great detail but it missed that bit cut that chunk off which is amongst here somewhere but I'm just going to start building little clusters and I find my hot glue worked best because it was just quick and just see now I'm just place that one down there and look at these I don't stick everything down because I like to feed things underneath so I keep you know like that's all free it's just the glue there because I like to slot things under so I'm gonna get all that done I'll put this on high speed okay so that is everything stuck down I'm going to finish it with some little embellishments I've got really tiny ones I also went ahead you would have seen me just stick the back down there as well I didn't want to waste any of those little you know the leaves and the flowers there so I thought I'd pop them on the back as well but like I said I can you know stamp that it's still flat enough for me to stamp it or I've got some sentiments I can stick on there as well but it's easy to write on but he does really again can you kind of see you can kind of see him rocking there but like I said if I tilt it back too far then it just won't so yeah finish it with embellishments and a sentiment okay so for the sentiment usually I do this before but because I'm doing a little bit of heat embossing I thought I'd keep it in so I've got a bit of black cardstock here so I'm just going to pop down the bottom here I've got my anti-static powder here you just want to cover that all right don't worry if it dulls the black cardstock you can sort that out afterwards but really make sure that that is covered and you've got you know no greasy marks or sticky fingers or anything like that on it so on that one there I said let's hang out and then on the back I might put as it's your birthday or on your birthday this one here I'm going to have relax on your birthday so I'm going to take that one and that one and just kind of position these if you're ever working with new stamps I always write rub them on my hand and it just gets off any residue you know or give them a wash warm soapy water that might come from the factory I've got so many bits glue I've got all sorts of all the alcohol marker pen on me and everything what I'm going to do is just stick the relax down separately I'm going to stamp this first see where it is and then I can line that one up so because I'm going to use VersaMark on black cardstock you'll be able to see it really well so I'm just going to pick that one up I'm not too worried if it's not straight at the minute because I'm going to trim it a little bit on my trimmer just ink that one up so I can see that perfectly so take that one off and then I can bring in the relax I can get that just so it's got a nice kind of gap the same as everything else keep it nice and straight it might be a little wonky there I think we're okay hey ho don't mind if it's a little bit crooked no I think I think we're all right I'm happy with that so then I have got to use this little bit of scrap card here and I'm using the well in bottom powder and it's the opaque bright white and it's super fine I love this one for whenever I do any sentiments on black cardstock because it just route back it's just lovely it's just a like I said that real crisp white color so what you want to do with this is make sure just tap the back and just brush off any got a massive brush here let me get my smaller one I want to make sure you just get rid of all the little extra bits there all the strays I have a video on how to get perfect embossing heat embossing so I'll link that one because it's a quite a common question that people ask me and then whenever I heat emboss black I tend to heat from the underside up because it won't blow any loose little pieces and you know last thing you want is a ton of white speckles you know sometimes it looks good if you're looking for that effect but if it's not what you want it can be quite frustrating but now I'm happy with that I've got nothing anywhere where it shouldn't be with your heat gun make sure it gets very hot first leave it just go in for about 30 seconds and then heat set it okay so there's my really nice embossed or heat embossed sentiment um what I do is it obviously go underneath and then give it a blast on the front once it's all taken as well but it's warped you can see there but I run it through my dye machine so I tend to put it with a bit of paper over there so you don't get any kind of impression but run that through so you'll see it just becomes a lot flatter once you put something to um you know adhere it to our card with as well that will keep it all flat so now I just want to trim that down a little bit okay I'm happy with that and then I'm just going to trim a couple of strips of some foam and then just stick that on the back and then I'm going to stick this the same as before kind of no it's going to have to go down a little bit further stick this one here there we go relax on your birthday look and then get rid of those I'm just going to pull out it was those ones that I used and I'm just going to stick them all into the centers of the flowers it just gave it a little bit of shine again completely optional but I just use the yellow on the yellow and the pink on the pink and so on I've got some orange there as well so I'm going to go and do that quickly okay so there's that one finished it looks absolutely gorgeous so relax on your birthday and let's hang out I just think they are stunning stunning cards and I love these images so I hope it's inspired you you can have anything hanging here you know you could have some flowers hanging you could have you know make it into a swing there's just all kinds of things that you can do with this so just have a look at your stamps you know and have some fun with it because I really enjoyed this and I love the little addition on the back there as well so I hope it's inspired you I hope you've enjoyed it as always please give me a thumbs up if you have and consider subscribing so you get to see more fun tutorials thanks for watching bye