 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 very pretty tissue box. I'm so pleased with how this one has come together. I have made a tissue box before, if you click on the link up here it will take you to that one because if you don't have the supplies needed for this one then you can go to that one there and you can certainly take bits from this video and you know put it into that one as well. But it's really really lovely, you have these little bits that I've added on the side here, these fastenings so you can lift the lid off and then you can you know replace the tissue when needed but it just comes through really nicely there and it sits on the top and then your little tabs there with the Velcro just hold it all in place. It's all reinforced on the base, got the beautiful little details there, I love this geometric detail and there's a little butterfly there as well and they've all got little rhinestones in the centres there as well. I think this would make a lovely gift. I think it's a nice alternative to maybe take to someone who is maybe staying in a hospital long term and just having some nice little pretty things around them. I think it's always nice, it brings a smile to someone's face along with some nice you know paper flowers. So there's you know there's lots of ways to use this. I also think it would be great for craft fairs. You know you have a few of these on your table, it's certainly going to you know bring people over and I think it's a nice thing just to give to someone, have in your craft room, have in your home, have the colours that you have so it all matches. You know it's winter now so there's lots of colds going around and tissues are always needed as they are in the summer when we get terrible hay fever. So I think it's a great project and I hope you enjoy the tutorial. Okay so this is the dice that I'm using today so it's the card making magic and it's the oval box collection. So I did show this in my what did I get and I went through it in more detail and had some ideas and one of them was to make this tissue box and I just think it's going to look really really pretty. So I've popped all my dies here onto this magnetic sheet just so you can see them all and then I'll be able to tell you exactly the sizes that I've used because I've already gone ahead and cut everything and then there's the the sides for the boxes there. So I'm using here this beautiful the centura pearl by crafters companion you can see there it's got that lovely pearl effect. So I've gone ahead and cut and I've just curled one of each just because I wanted to check how they all you know came out and stuff and how it looked. So I've done two of the thinner one here sorry I got that glare let me just tilt it to the side there we go. So I've got two of this size that I've die cut and two of this size which you'll see there. You need two for the base and two for the side that's what I'm doing anyway. So that's those ones then I'll flip it back here okay so you want to then cut two of the larger ovals. Now I am doing mine so they're both be the same size but the way that I'm going to put these on I'm going to do one slightly more the base is going to be slightly just that little bit more further in so the lid fits over so I'm keeping mine both the same size so one for the lid one for the base and that's using the largest of this you know the big ovals here okay. So that's the base pop that to one side you don't need to do anything with that and then that will have the two of these the taller ones for the base. The smaller ones are for your lid and they will go on to this one. Then I'm doing all the mats and layers so I've then done the next size down which is another plain one so you'll see they're both plain there's no stitching detail on these so the next one I've done in white and then the next one again is now where you've got some details you've got some stitching on the next one so it's the third largest and you'll see there that sits perfectly they all you know will have um you know nice even border you can see the stitch detail on that one. Then I have done this one here but you do also have this decorative one which is smaller again so you could then do the stitched one and then that decorative one but I liked this edge which is the fourth largest and it gives you that there and when you sit it against that color it really shows it up okay. Then I've done the stitching after that one so that's the fourth largest also with the detail okay and it gives you this really really lovely all that kind of geometric print and that will be the top one that's what you're going to see but we now need to cut into all of these to make the opening for the tissues to be able to come through so what you will need to do and I'll take these back out so it's within the next lot of ovals here it's the two smallest so that's all you will have in the in the thing here you can see them there one of them is shown as the tag and then it's the next size which would have been that one there so just those two and I put them together put some washi tape on them okay just show you what I did so you want to make sure you've got a nice even border just put some washi tape so they're connected and then run that through your dye machine again using that Centuropel and that's going to be there and that's going to be the opening but what we want to do now is you want to lose the bigger one and we just need that smaller one now to cut through everything you don't need to do it all at the same time but we do want to cut through it all to like I said make that opening I've also gone ahead and made the flowers that also come within the kit you can see there I say the kit the collection really pretty I'm going to have three of them together and then I've also done the butterfly there as well and they're just going to finish off the top I may well add a white kind of trim around through this because it might look quite blocked I might want to break it up but we can do that you know just cut some strips of white because well actually we could cut the strips from there again so we'll see when we get to that but you can see there there's the butterfly you also have a kind of solid butterfly and the flowers there's all the flowers oh there right in the middle I'm blind those there and there's the little stamens as well which are popped in the middle right so I'll move that to one side that's everything that you need there but then we need to look back at this so you don't need to leave that to one side but what we want to now do is work with this one and you want to sit this in the middle okay this is going to cut this in a size here through everything so I'm going to cut that one I can probably cut those two at the same time actually because I'm going to run it through my big shot or my germini and it will cut through both you might need to run it through a few times what I might do is add the glue onto the back of this now when I cut this I then thought I should have used some double-sided sticky sheet but I totally forgot so I'm just going to use this good Cosmic Shimmer it's their acrylic glue but it's extremely tacky so it'd be great if I can get it to come out there we go so I'm just going to go all the way around the outside here and then just kind of dab it over in fact I'll probably put it on my finger just to run it over all that detail so ideally yeah I would say if you've got something this detailed then use your double sided sticky sheets but I'm just going to cover this the best I can as long as we get most of it stuck down it should lie flat and once we run it through the dye machine again that will you know help really kind of stick down all this glue there's any bits that have lifted I can always go in and add a little bit more glue so you just want to sit this over that one so you get a nice even border and just stick that all down and this glue does dry nice and clear I've got a few little like fluffy bits that have come off where I've dye cut it so once the glue's dry I'm just going to go over it with my glue eraser and it will just get rid of all of those pieces sit this now on top of here because you imagine this piece will go around that inner piece just to kind of frame it so you just want to make sure this is the most important one you want to make sure this is right in the center because you're going to use this to line up against all the others because this has got a geometric print I can see like the hexagon there and then there's a little bit there hexagon there's a little bit there I just want to come across to there I can see there even now and then along the top here there's like a triangle there and a triangle there so again I can see that's even so I know I've got that right in you know the middle of that piece so I'm going to turn it you can put washi on there but because I've got a little bit of glue that might be exposed it might end up ripping so I'm just going to pop it through I've got my metal shim I'm going to see if it'll go through on its own first I can always you know go back through it I'm going to run that through twice nope let's cut through perfectly so now I can just remove that carefully there and then what will happen is at the end we'll stick that back over there and there you get a really nice tissue box opening it looks really cool so we need to cut all the rest in a minute but I'm just going to show you what you need to do and then I'll just kind of speed that piece up so now we've done that keep that that makes a really nice gift tag so now I can just rub over the areas and it just takes off all of the just those little fluffy bits really but that'll make a nice gift tag you could put you know with love on there or something so I'm just going to go over all this as well oh be careful there though because I've cut that I'll stick that actually I'm going to leave it for a minute I don't want to ruin it because that's going to cover that anyway so now with this piece I'm going to sit it on here again make sure you get that border bang on and then I'm going to grab a pencil nice sharp pencil and you just want to draw around the inside like so this is all going to get covered all right so that's that one and then you want to cut that one out and then you want to do the same on that one pop that on the top make sure you've got a nice even border draw around it and again do it on that last one make sure you keep one of the biggest ones remember is your base okay but all of the top ones you need to cut through all of them so I'm going to now go and run that one through yeah now you want to line them just thinking then what was I doing then you're going to line this one up over that pencil mark and that way you know that you're getting them all the same if you've got a dye machine and you're confident it will cut through all of it all at the same time then stick them all together and cut through but sometimes it can leave really bad impressions on your card stock as well and almost flatten it I want there to be you know a little bit of dimension with these layers and I might decide I want maybe put that one on some foam so it's actually raised up from this one so you just can't do that if you cut them all at the same time so just see how your dye machine works and what works best for you also I'm just going to sit that back over there just so I can double check I'm happy because the cut line is slightly it's like in the center of that dye so okay so that's everything now cut so now I'm going to stick them all on top of each other so I'm going to use my Kalao just so it makes it nice and strong it keeps everything nice and straight and like I said I think I'm going to add some foam on the top one so as I mentioned at the beginning I have made you know that tissue box so you know take things that I do in this one you know it hat and put it into that one in terms of the decoration so you know you can do some nice layers on top and add the foam and decorate similar ways you might have like a nice square kind of you know geometric dye and there's many ways to you know take parts of this tutorial and put it into that one but and I know many of you have adapted the sizes it's just really you know to give you some nice inspiration but to be able to make this oval shape I think it's really nice if you've got the standard card making magic oval dyes which I've shared before you could still make this because you know you can make the the side piece and these pieces quite easily you know so you can do this without using the dyes and then that one yeah I think I'm going to lift up but I do want to just clean this up a little bit with my blue eraser here okay so I've cleaned that all up so on the top two there I'm just going to go around with some foam pads and yeah I just think it might look nice just with that little bit of a raised section and then just make sure you get that border perfect you should be you know focusing on that inner oval shape but now I just think that just just gives it a little something so but next well I'm not next I'm going to do this last but you imagine they're going to be the butterfly and then the tissue is coming out I think it's going to look so so sweet so now let's start putting it together um okay so I think I'm going to stick with the lid for the moment so I think I'm going to join up so what I found I've preferred doing was you can just fold them but you I don't know it it gets a little bit creased and because I'm using centura pearl I think it will help to add a score line so I'm just lining up my ruler with the top here and the you know just so I'm sitting just underneath those kind of little tabs and then I can just run my stylus right the way along there just joining that all up and that's what I've done on that one and then I see now you've got that score line and then it's just really easy just to fold them but it's almost squashed the fibers so it will prevent any cracking because any kind of coated cardstock you know is more prone to cracking so you do want to kind of prep it a bit so um yeah just a little tip there so just fold them all over like so and then also just go along and just run the um side of your stylus just so that you're kind of you might have like little lumpy bits if you just kind of you know squash them that's the word I was trying to find um it again just all these little bits would just make it look that little bit nicer so I'm going to join these together first so you'll have the long and then you've got the piece here this is the next one where it doesn't have a tab I'm going to stick that over there so the tabs just continue okay so there's just like about an inch and stick that one over there um you could probably do them separate but I think it's going to be a bit easier to do them so I'm going to use again the Cosmic Shimmer I'm right down to the last bit I don't want to get this out I don't like the nozzle I love the glue but it does irritate me a bit right so there we go that's all stuck down and then just stick and just stick that one over hold that there in place for a second I'm holding that I should have curved that one I totally forgot so just grab mine just carefully you want to curl it before you fold in those tabs it just helps you you know put it into his position really right so that one's ready okay so with your lid look it over and you want your joins to be at the end so I think what I might do is stick this piece that's already done right on this end here so it's in the centre and then just start with one of them so um although is it gonna why don't you go that one they won't you know they do marry up perfectly with each end no I'm going to start with this end because I think it might actually be a bit easier so I'm just going to pop some glue on maybe three of them and then get you know line this up here I'm just focusing on this line kind of start there so with the lid you want to make sure that you get it right up to the edge so as close to the edge as possible and just hold that there do you know don't move it until you know it has completely set and again whenever you're doing anything where you're working on a curve you can always go over this with a little bit of baby lace trim or I always say it like tinsel trim pom pom trim things like that so if you're not happy with your finish you know maybe it's the first time using this kind of you know die or shape it's you know just takes a little bit of patience more than anything and you want to do it in a little section so see I've just stuck those three and you can see now I've got a nice join on the side there okay we want to continue that all the way around but if for some reason you're not happy with your join maybe you stuck one a bit further in you could easily go around that and still decorate it so don't you know get frustrated with yourself and think oh gosh that's it I've ruined it what I'm thinking might be easier as well is actually to run the glue on the actual edge of the lid there because it only needs to have a little bit to grip on to so and you can probably do a few more then I've done about six there all at the same time like I said this glue's got a real fast grab you can use the callow but you'll probably find you'll just be there just holding it just to grip just that little bit longer but obviously you do get that real kind of stiff finish with the callow so you know it will work both glues but I'm just going for this one just really for speed and you can see there how nice the side of that is coming together so I'm going to go around and continue this until I've finished and then when we get to the edge I'll show you how you just want to finish that off okay so there is my lid I'm really pleased with it and then at the end here where it's overlapped you just want to pop some glue in there I think I'm going to go in with some of the callow actually here and I'm just going to put a little peg so I can just kind of get that right down there like so I'm really pleased with that it's going to look absolutely stunning so you just want to now do exactly the same on the base so I'd already prepared that one so again I'm just going to grab this one here and again do that score line fold it all over and then with this one we want to go in just a smidge more inside the oval and I'm actually going to keep the turquoise facing up so it almost creates a little bit of a lip and it would just I think look nice although the white may be against this let's have a look I'm just thinking do I want the white contrast actually I think the white might look nicer so I'm going to do that so basically just getting rid of any little bits there because these are both the same size we want to bring this one in just a little bit so that the lid fits over nicely but we want that snug fit so again I always forget to curl this piece like so so I'm going to I'm putting glue just all over that section there and then you just want to bring it so that the tab sits right next to the next one that will all stick down so just hold that in place and what I'm probably going to do is I'm going to reinforce the base and cut maybe two more pieces of cardstock just to sit on the bottom just again but I'll show you that at the end so that's now all attached so I want to do exactly the same but like I said you want to come in a little bit so let me just start this off I'm going to pop the glue and it is just a little bit you don't need to do much so it's about like a mil such a small amount but can you see that tiny little lip I think that's going to be fine because like I said I want the lid to be snug but at the same time I don't want it to just fall off but because you're going to be pulling tissue through I think it's going to help having the velcro dots which I showed at the beginning so yeah you just you're really not coming in that much at all so but it will have that nice little trim that white trim in my case all the way around you're going to see it a lot better once it's all in place but if I just bring that up now and imagine that that's kind of all stuck down but can you see that little white edge so it's it's a tiny amount because you know that's what you want because that is going to sit once this is all in place over the top all right so I'm going to go around the same way again I'm going to add the glue I prefer to add the glue onto this and then stick this all down okay so that is now should be all set yeah and then you test yay and there you've got a really nice join it's a lovely sized tissue box it really is it's perfect for the bedside side table that kind of thing and like I said at the beginning the beauty is you make it to match whatever you know you have but I'm just thinking when you pull your tissues out it may lift that lid up so I think it might be worthwhile either you can pop a little maybe like a little latch on the side so you could get some you know matching card stock you could actually make maybe I'll do that I think it would look quite nice make a little bit of a feature of it I'm thinking Velcro rather than magnetic dots but you could do that but let's just decorate it just so I can have a little think about that so I think I'm going to have the butterfly there and then the flowers down in this corner here I'm thinking it's not showing up too well on camera but I think it's going to look nice I don't want to go crazy with it I just want to keep it you know just pretty I might put a couple of little rhinestones in the center of those flowers as well I want to keep them quite close together you do have little leaves as well so if you do want to make more of a spray you could have you know the flowers and the leaves coming out from underneath them but I think I'm just going to keep it like that and I'm probably going to put a little rhinestone in the butterfly as well just a little bit of glue just hold it in place just on the body there I want to keep the wings so they can stay you don't want anything you know don't go over into that section because you don't want it to obviously you know you know stop the tissues coming out so I'm going to add a few more bits of cardstock to the bottom just to reinforce it but I think let's have a little look so I've got some scraps here which will match and I'm just wondering whether I have something coming out from under the bottom and then the velcro dot there I'm going to go grab some tissues see how it works best just got these ones here so you might have to cut them down but I have squashed tissues before into different things as long as that top one can move they should all come through oh it looks so pretty you've probably got too many in there actually there's quite a lot yeah there's too many in there let me just take some out doesn't that look lovely what a nice little gift as well I've just thought to maybe take someone who's maybe in hospital and they might be in there for quite a while I think that's a really nice little gift as well to keep on their their bedside so now it does come through but I feel I need to hold that down because yeah the lid's going to come off so I think I am going to do oh I really love it I keep getting sidetracked it just looks so pretty it really does look lovely these are going to be great for craft fairs they really will if you just have you know you make a few of them and you could definitely sell those what I'm never really good at pricing stuff but I don't know now I'm not even going to say because some of you are going that's terrible that's too low I'm really bad that's why I don't do it right anyway so let's look at this so I think I'm just going to cut a few strips I'm just going to have a play around and then I'll come back with what I think is going to work okay so I've reinforced the base now so it's covered up that tabs there's three on there the glue is still drying but it has given it a bit of weight as well it feels like a really nice piece it really does I'm so pleased with this I love the colour just love how it's all come together and I think it does make a really nice little gift for somebody so I'll definitely be making more of these for you know friends and family I think they're lovely and like I said I think it is a nice gift to take to someone who is away from their home there's a little alternative to grapes maybe we can't take flowers into the hospital so much anymore so it's nice to make paper flowers which I've spoken about a lot in my over you know different videos and stuff but I think that's another nice little thing as well so especially as we're in the winter now coming into the real cold months in the UK everybody's got a runny nose so what better than to give them a nice pretty box of tissues I think it's lovely I do need to cut the tissues down a bit I think it might be you know worthwhile just trimming them but if you do go for the square ones instead get the you know buy the inexpensive the 99p and the 99p shop but you can buy the pound shop should I say because we ain't got a 99p shop the big one anyway I'm go I'm digressing I always do this but buy the square ones and then just half it and you could probably you know get two halves in that at a time and no I love it I'm not like I said I think I'm going to leave that plain that tab if you want to change it you know and add what you want to it then you know buy all means but I'm going to keep it like that so there you have it I kind of took you with me when I was making this one because there's a few bits obviously I was still unsure on how to do but I hope you enjoy it I hope it's giving you inspiration and you can use what you have at hand look at the other one that I've made I would have shared it you know back along but just click up there and you'll be able to to you know have a go as well so yeah I love it really pleased with this one so I hope you have enjoyed today's tutorial as always please consider subscribing so you get to see more fun ideas and projects and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye