 Hey everybody it's Simon at Mixed Up Crowd thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these really easy magnetic bookmarks. So the inspiration for these actually came from one my mum made. So this is my mum's and you open it up and she's concealed two magnets at the bottom here so it sticks together. It's really nice and strong. She uses really pretty paper and then she's put a hole punch through the top because it's actually one big piece of paper. If you see there in fact if I open it up you can see what she's done and just fed through the ribbon and just made this really pretty tag which is actually for her friend. So I thought oh I'm going to give them a go so I really like that idea. So I've changed mine slightly and what I've done is I've actually got these magnetic sheets which are very very flimsy and they're perfect for bookmarks. So the whole piece of mine is a bookmark. So you've got the inspiration to do that way just with the actual small magnetic magnet itself or if you do have these sheets then you can do this way as well. So these ones here I've used the new Christmas paper addicts papers that I've received. So we've got the Wild Winter so I've done this one here. We've then got the Christmas Bell which is this one here. I've then done Magical Stories which is the Nutcracker and I used one of the pipe cleaners. I'll show you those in a moment. I just thought they complimented it really well and then you can easily kind of pull it out if you want to. And then for this one here I've used a festive folly and I've just fussy cut all of those hot chocolate drinks which I thought was really sweet. Okay so for the one I'm going to make now and I'm also going to do another one in a minute. I'm going to use Cozy Christmas. So I've already selected the papers and I'm using this sheet here. So I fussy cut one of the with love hearts and then I'm going to use this paper to cover my magnet and then on one of the other sheets you get all of these little images. So I've just fussy cut those little Christmas parcels so I'm going to do a nice little display on the top. So okay so these sheets come like this. Well they actually come in A4. These are the 0.05mm. I'll link them below. I actually brought these by mistake. They're just way too flimsy for my dies. So I thought oh they'd work really well for these magnets. So you want to have the two magnetic sides together so if I fold that in half it just snaps together. So I have cut these pieces here. Now you can cut them whatever size you want. I actually decided to cut these ones just because of some scrap magnetic sheet I had before I cut into that one. So these pieces here are two by four and one-eighth but four will be fine or four and a half. You can have them much longer if you want. But I'm going to have the two shiny sides together okay. So I want to add double-sided tape to each of these sides. So if you do it while they're together then you won't get confused and then we're going to stick it onto this lovely paper in a moment. So this is the dot and dab. This is the one inch. It's brilliant and it's super sticky so it's perfect for this project because we're sticking on this magnet. So I'm just lining it up and I can get away with two strips on each of these bits of magnet. So actually I'm just going to take it apart just for this. If I turn it over then I'm actually doing it on the mat side so it's easy to actually remember because one's matte, one's shiny. So I'm just going to cover the back of both of these mat pieces. Okay and then as always whenever I use red tape just go over the back and just remove any air bubbles so it's nice and dark in colour that way you know that it's stuck well to the surface. Okay and then I want this to be on the outside so I'm going to flip it over and I'm going to go right down to here. See if I can get two in here. Yeah I will be able to. So what I've done, sticky side, take the backing off of that one as well, sticky side down and I'm going to go right up to the corner so I'm not wasting any card stock all the way along the side so keep it nice and straight and then stick that one down and then again I'm going to take the backing off of this one. And this one here you want to lay down and leave about 1 eighth of an inch even a quarter of an inch would be okay but you just want to have a little bit of a gap for us to be able to fold the little bookmark over. So I'm just going to go over that again. Okay so then if you want to cut this out roughly and then cut into it you can but I'm just now going to cut right up alongside that magnet so use that as my guide. Okay and then I'm just going to fold that in half I've got a little bit of, cut that away there we go, fold that in half. It might not line up perfectly it might push off to one side so it might resist against it a little bit but once it's on the pages that's fine. I've just cut one of my watercolor books here and I'm just going to open that up just so you can see it's really strong I mean it's not going to come off but you can slide it around that's why it's quite nice if you want to have a little handle on it but you can see at the minute obviously you wouldn't know that's there that's fine a lot of bookmarks are like that anyway not everybody likes things kind of on show but if you then have for example the nutcracker put him in there then you have see that sticking out the top you can have you know initials and things like that but I thought these ones look quite cute if I bring in this one here and you get the top of the house showing out showing up there so you know play around with what you've got and these look really nice as well she just see the tops of those sticking out so with this one here I am going to have the presents so I'm just going to arrange them like that so I'm just going to grab my liquid glue here I'm going to do those two and this one here I'm just going to pop on a little bit of foam adhesive you don't have to if you want it to be completely flat but it's a little bit of dimension and because it's squidgy it's not going to you know cause too much trouble with the book closing so I think I'm going to have it overlapping now I'm going to bring it down just a little bit and have it just there okay so I actually stuck that all upside down so I just start to take it all off and redo it but there we go so now you have your bookmark okay so those are just decorated but this one I wanted to try and see if it would work using my punch so I'm going to cut this so it's two and a half inches wide now I have noticed with this punch you want to cut just under whatever the measurement is so if it's two and a half just come slightly under and that way it will definitely fit in the track you can see how easily it cuts and you can always cut it by hand as well so now if I pop that in yes that fits perfectly and let's see if this punch is it should do it's just like a thick card oh yeah perfect so I'm going to do I'm not going to do yeah no do I want to do both yeah I'm going to do both sides and then I'm going to trim it so I'm going to put this one in as well okay and then I want to cut this in half I'm just going to line it up and fold it because it's very easy to work with just want to make sure it will push itself away so you just need to just so I can get this cut so now I'm going to cut two more pieces to two and a half and punch them and stick them over the top and then this time I'm going to put some ribbon through the top of that one just have a different effect and I've got I'm going to use the sleigh ride which is the other one and I think I'm going to use still use that blue okay so just cut both of those pieces just under two and a half and then again just going to feed this in I'm going to get them all trimmed down and stuck on exactly the same way that I did the other ones okay so that's that one done so I've got my two sides but what I would say is I would punch it after I'd stuck this on top because it would still be enough to go through because it was it was quite difficult it was quite sticky it's messed up my I mean their old scissors anyway but yeah I would do that afterwards but now I'm just going to pop I think one of these which are going to take this off the back because it's too bulky pop those back together and I'm going to run this ribbon through the center and then I've got this red twine I'm going to tie that off around the bottom okay so there's that one so I've just opened it up and again just show you you can put a couple of pages in between there as well but this is going to be obviously a bit more it's not really bulky but it sticks out the top I think it looks really cool use these all year round as well so you just make them with different themes on them nice little birthday ones and easy to make so yeah thanks mum for your inspiration I'll just bring mum's up again there it's very feminine very girly and it's got the personalized little touch to it there as well so yeah they have it so I've got one for every pack of the paper addicts papers the Christmas ones and then there's my mum's one as well so thanks for watching hope you've liked it hope you get some inspiration give me a thumbs up if you did and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye