 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 Booker Tricks style easel card. So it's the Booker Tricks style book card that I made for Christmas 2018 and I was looking back through the old videos and stuff and I thought about making it as an easel card and there's some really nice styles like this on YouTube already but I just thought that one was a large card and there's a few people that did comment and said it'd be nice to have it a bit smaller so I've made this so it fits on you know it's a five by seven. It's absolutely beautiful some of you that watched the live Facebook craft along where I actually made this will see a few changes because and I'll talk through them as we get into the tutorial but this bit of the bottom's kind of changed a little bit and I've redone this because we were having a bit of a laugh and it stuck down initially it didn't look great and then I've also right now actually added my number onto this one because I said this would be these are great show stopper cards you know really special cards perfect for a wedding this could be a 50th anniversary and you could have happy anniversary here but this one it is actually a birthday card if you're not familiar with an easel card so basically it will as flat as it can be these are you know bulky cards and I've actually tested it because we were speaking in the live as well about you know envelopes for this and I said I think it'll fit into the box envelope then I was a bit unsure but I've tried it and it does fit so I'll show you this in a moment and I've got the tutorial already on the channel for this one here but that's how it would be when the person receives it inside here is where I will be writing my message and you've got this space here as well and then it just stands up and kind of props against its stopper here because this is raised on foam but the flowers are also stopping it moving but if I just kind of hold it like so a bit closer so you can see all that gorgeous detail it's absolutely stunning I've heat embossed the happy birthday there and I've heat embossed all of the leaf leaf all of the leaf trim there all that kind of vine love this the little bow you'll see I changed that as well I did mix green with it but the green behind the pink it started to look a bit brown and muddy and I didn't like it so I've changed that I've added the little dangle there and then obviously that 50th and I'll show you the supplies there so it does all fold and it fits into this so this is my I think it might be slightly more than one inch or maybe not no it is one inch but it does fit and I've just continued the 50th there so that says happy 50th birthday but you can see here it does go in because this is what I'm using this is how I'm sending it all so just pop it in there just slides in nicely and then that will all close up so there you can see it all you know fits really nicely so yeah this is what we're going to be making so let's crack on okay so the supplies I've used are from kit number seven or box number seven which was by simply made crafts for the papercraft society so if you've got that that's what I've used for the lovely pattern paper let me take it back out of here just so I can use it as a reference all of this gorgeous paper on the front the sentiment all of these die cuts they're all from that kit but you know you can easily make it with whatever you have and again I always say it but if you're a member of the mixed up crafters facebook group already lots and lots of people have been sharing their versions from the craft along and they're gorgeous there's some beautiful ones there so if you do want more inspiration then you know head over there and have a look this is what I've used for the numbers really nice because I love that they have all of the I don't know what it's called but it's the you know and the ast and the end they are called on here ultimate number and overlay die set land buck occasion land mark occasions collection it's by um Christina Griffiths card making magic again I'll link it below um and you get all those bits with it as well but gorgeous lovely big letters so I've gone ahead and done loads of curved it done all that kind of stuff but I'm going to talk you through everything so like I said this is a five by seven but you know if you know how to make easel cards then you can just do this any size you want so I've gone and prepared all of those pieces but first of all you want your card blank so if you've already got a pre-made five by seven card you just want to open it up and along the 10 inch side you'll already have your scoreline at five and then your score again at seven and a half if you're making it from scratch you want a piece of 10 by seven and again score there at five and then at seven and a half you're then going to furnish both score lines so your first one is your one to just make it that five by seven card blank and then this one again will become the easel so both mountain folds and it's gonna be like that and I've also rounded the corners off there with my corner punch because I just thought it looked quite nice on the top all right so that's what you need there then to go inside here I've got my mats and layers already done there this is again using the striped paper from the kit and this the kind of glittery silver paper there is six and three quarters by four and three quarters and then the striped piece on top is six and a half by four and a half again all these measurements be in my blog and I'm going to stick that one inside there okay if you want to wrap some ribbon around this and all that kind of stuff and you want to do that beforehand but this stopper is then going to go on the top so what I done with this one here because some people would be like well how did she do that because I was saying in the live there is this lovely stamp here it's really nice and it's this long like vine and when I done the one on the live I stuck it but I didn't like that you had the raw kind of the beginning of it and then that nice end so what I ended up doing is I redone it and in the middle here can you see there's a slight overlap so I stamped one half in that direction and then I flip the stamp and I stamped the other way that you know that way and then just joined it because I'm going to be popping these flowers on there so you're not going to see that but now you get that nice finish at both ends okay so for the stopper the silver piece is six and three quarters by one and a half and then the white white piece is six and a half by one and a quarter okay again I will stick that on there in a moment then for the actual book itself so I've got this piece here and this is seven by five and it's going to stick directly onto this piece here now I did curve this and then realize actually it needs to just stay flat okay and that score line through the middle there is just a guide but you don't you don't need to do it on this piece so just ignore that but you're not going to really see it anyway but that needs to be five by seven it's going to stick right on there and then you can see when the card folds flat it's the same size so just five by seven and just round off the corners if that's what you want to do these ones here you'll need to add these kind of arch shapes you know the curves to them so this is a piece of copy paper and this is six and seven eighths of an inch by four and seven eighths I just felt it needed that white layer you can just see it there okay so it doesn't have to be copy paper you can use normal you know stronger paper if you want and then I've got this piece here which is six and three quarters by four and three quarters I say six and three quarters yes six and three quarters by four and three quarters and that's going to go on the top you'll then want another piece that is four and a half by six and a half okay and all of these pieces have scored down through the middle on all of them okay so on that one there that's a funny measurement so I just shifted it along and then scored through the middle this one here you want to score at three and three eighths which is the middle there then you want to put a curve into it just so you start to create those kind of booked pages and I've done it with that one there they're going to sit on top we're going to stick the sides but with this one here which is the pattern paper the reason I've cut it into two because like I said otherwise yours would be six and a half by four and a half which you can see it is there but I've done it in half because I want this pattern around the bottom you see here and then I've got more of the pattern there and the reason I had to cut it is because it's bigger than that size and I would have just lost all of this but you'll see now that will end up going against this and it just looks really nice you get to see all that detail so if you've got paper like that and you've got one corner that's really nice and the other then just cut them down so each one is three and a quarter by four and a half okay and again you just want to pop you know that curve in them and I've rounded off all of the corners there as well okay so that's what you want to do all the rest then it will be the decoration so I'm going to get rid of the scoreboard and before we stick those pages all down I'm going to stick down this inside and I'm going to stick that one on the front and all you've got to do there is add glue all onto this front half also if you want to do a piece inside here you'll want a piece that is two and a quarter by six and three quarters okay so I'm going to get all this stuck down so that's stuck down yours won't have the score line there and you wouldn't have curved it but it's fine I'm not too worried and you're not going to see the top because the bow will cover it and then this one here I've put foam pads on the back and I put foam pads between the white and that piece there and it's going to go here and you can you know it's a good way to do it I mean it's up to you we're going to do all that separate you might want to add this once you position that but I'm actually going to put it on now because I know where I want it to go so it's going to go in the same place as this one so it's from the very outer edge of the card here so the pink it's about three quarters of an inch so again I just roughly yeah it's about there so my silver lines up with the silver mat layer there and then I'm just making sure I keep everything nice and straight and it will join up perfectly with that end there and now that will hold that in place and you've got your easel okay so with the pages what I've done is I have got my hot glue gun on because I do use it to attach it actually onto the card itself but what you want to do is run um well actually you might find it a bit easier because I did say that during the live is you want to run a strip of tape or you might want to do this using liquid glue so you know watch what I do first and then you can decide because this tape once you remove it you're going to stick it to give you the arches here of the book can you see and you know if you want to get that consistent you might find it easier to use liquid glue rather than the tape but I'm just flipping each of those on over and just running just a strip of this it's just to tack it in place and obviously the higher you go with the arches then the thicker the card will be but you want to try and keep it you know that kind of one inch so it'll fit into that box and actually that envelope box if I haven't already linked it I'll link it up here now and um I've got a six by six and I've got the five by seven size there these ones here you just want to do it along the outer side so for me it's the side with the pattern and where I've already rounded off the edges there so and I actually will do one through this side along this side as well because I need to obviously attach it again with these you want to do it through the middle so you can stick that all down or again you can use your liquid glue it's entirely up to you the reason I've done the score line through the middle is because it's I just think it's handy to have that guide just so that you you know you keep everything lined up I think I've just got enough red tape to do yeah actually is that the bottom no that one I'm going to use my hot glue so right so you want to grab the base one and then this no that's the one that's going to have a hot glue one which I've already done so you do want to add it onto that one it's near the end of the day well it is the end of the day so once this is done I'm relaxing for the evening so and that's just there we go so this one is going to stick into the center of the white one so you just want to make sure you get your score lines lined up and you've got that little bit because in this case it's about that one sixteenth of an inch because it was only a little bit bigger but as long as you line up the score lines don't worry about the outer edge you know the left and the right side just focus on the top and the bottom getting that lined up okay because what's going to happen is is you're going to slide this up a bit and peel back the tape underneath and then stick it down and it will give you that little arch there okay so actually you might find that easier to do now so I'm going to take the back of that one off and then just kind of arch it up a little bit like so so now because that one's going to be arched up underneath but can you see probably could have gone a little bit higher but the whole thing's going to be lifted anyway so it will be fine and I've got the other one to go on top so again like so okay so that's those two and then these ones I'm going to glue I'm going to stick make sure I've got them the right way because I wanted that yeah at the top there so again I'm going to take the backing off of this one stick it right down into that score line and I'm going to put ribbon through the center of this and then take the backing off of that one and then again come up a bit higher on this one so you get that effect can you see these little arches and it's what will give it that really nice book style and then again bring this one up kind of similar to the other one there we go there we go okay and then I can take the backing off of actually I'm going to leave it off of there I'm just going to do the middle and first of all you want to grab your ribbon and you just want to make sure you've got enough ribbon that you can bring it around and I've just got that tape there that's what you know that's sticking to like so then I've got a piece of silver which is going to go over again and is that just going to stick yeah just about sticks like so and then I've got this pink piece which is going to go over again okay again make sure yep so mine's going to be that way up so now you're going to stick it onto here so I'm going to take my glue I'm going to put a hot glue down through the middle again you don't have to do it this way and I'm going to stick this again following that score line right in the center there there we go and then with these ones here just take the backing off inside and then you're just going to kind of let it sit wherever it wants to I'm going to pull it down a little bit but like so there we go okay so again this one here just take the backing off I just want to come down just a little bit so there we go so now when it stands up you have your book like so looks really really nice in fact you can see I've gone up a bit higher on that one but as I said in the video I'm lower on that side and higher on that side but it's a book and you know it doesn't have to be perfect you know when you turn the pages or when you have books open they're you know they don't lay the same so don't worry you know too much about that but the next I'm just going to start bringing in all this decoration so I build up two flowers and one little flower here and then I've got this bow so I've done a quadruple bow so there's four pieces there that I put together and then just tied off and then I've just stuck behind a little charm there with the heart on so I'll pop that in now actually and that's going to go right at the top so again just might cover up any little bits you're not happy with or you know this is when you can start to hide all of those bits and pieces but I think that looks really nice I am going to be keeping this plane so that it's ready for someone you know if they ask me or if I need one for a special birthday then you know I can just add a birthday number to it or something so I'm going to add this one here you don't have to use the hot glue but I was using the silicone glue in the live and I wasn't happy with it at all I do prefer to use my hot glue because yeah I'm just I'm used to it and I just like it so I'm going to pop that one there and yeah I'm just going to carry on get this done it won't take me long at all I've already shaped all the flowers and I made all them not long after I've done the live because I had everything laid out so I thought I'd get it all done so I'll be back when it's finished okay so there's the finished card all ready for me to have a lovely big number there and you can see just how great they look it really does make it a very very special card so this is definitely a mantle pleaser a show stopper card it's gorgeous and you can make this bigger you know if you've got eight by eight card blanks and have eight by eight as your book or you could do six by eight you know do some big ones and I will share the other one I would probably share it at the beginning because that's a larger size I think that's using a four so that they're gorgeous cards to do they really really are and yeah I'm glad I've got the smaller size now so they do fit in the box I've shown you so there is that one like I said that's all being used because this one is all ready now to be sent off I think it looks absolutely beautiful so yeah thoroughly pleased with these love the papers as well from the papercraft society unfortunately you know those are subscription boxes so that one is now you know gone out to everybody and they're using it but you know if you are interested in subscribing to the papercraft society I'll share the links below because there's always different kits by different designers every month and they're just really fun I thoroughly enjoy using them and I think sometimes it makes you craft out of your comfort zone or sometimes you have things in there that you might not have necessarily chosen but when you start to see the inspiration and follow other people that use them as well I'm sure you will be inspired to use yours so thank you for watching I hope you like these if you did please give me a thumbs up it's much appreciated and I'll be back very soon with another video see you soon