 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 all these different toppers for your gifts or maybe just some of the 3D projects that you might be making and even smaller versions that you could put onto your cards. These are really easy to make, I've only used dies for a couple which is at the end of the video, all of the other ones are all made just using your scissors and a few tools just like glue and things like that. Those of you that are regulars to the channel might recognise some of these as well because I have shared them in individual videos but I wanted to just have one video where I have all of these so it just makes it easy for you guys to come to for reference and yeah just nicer to have that one video that I can share. The majority of the product here is by Dovecraft it's their mirror and their glitter card. Just to give you an example here you've got this one here this is the premium adhesive glitter card. You've also got this one here which is the A4 double-sided glitter card and it's the double-sided that I've used on these kind of projects here. The mirrored card is also the Dovecraft mirror and the silver here as well and also these holographic ones so again everything will be linked as much as possible below so let me show you how I made these. Okay so first up I'm going to show you how to make one of these big bow toppers really really nice this one is using the same lengths that I'm going to tell you for this one but I've done this as half an inch wide so you'll see here this is half inch whereas these are all one inch so if you do prefer to make this I guess more just a thinner version you can actually see through this you actually see all the shape and stuff it looks really really good very very effective then you want to do exactly what I do here but just have yours a half an inch wide rather than the one inch but I'm going to show you the thicker version because this one does look really good as well so you'll want eight pieces here I've already done these ones and these are eight pieces of six by one inch and how I wrap it I'm going to show you in a moment but you'll need that many there in that size and then I'm going to show you this one here which is four inches by one inch and that's what I've got here and all you do is I just you know tell everybody to put your thumbs on the top and then pull them towards you so your thumbs are still on the top and you just kind of want to you know cross them over so you can you know stick them like so so you can see this point here lines up there and then that point underneath lines up with that piece so you've got a nice shape and if I flick it over you can kind of like move it a little bit just so you get that kind of point you know and don't worry if they're not all exact they don't you know it's just you want to get them as similar to that as possible you can see them when I add that one next to it so I'm just going to open this one up and I'm just using hot glue for this because I'm using that glitter card which I will show you in a moment because it's wonderful stuff and whilst that glues just kind of grabbing you can just wiggle it around a little bit like so okay so you want eight of the four by one inch and eight of the six by one inch and this is the glitter card that I've used for this one here you can get smaller sizes as well it's double-sided which is why it's great for these kind of you know projects where you see all of the sides and it's the 12 by 12 by Dovecraft you get some really lovely colors in that one again all the links will be shared below so now constructing it it's very very easy so grab your largest ones first and you're going to put two of them together like so so again just going to bring in my glue just a little bead of glue underneath and just stick that over the top and it will grab very quickly and then you're going to do these two like this you're going to have the four together so again just going to pop a little bit of glue like so and again okay then you're going to grab the next ones you're going to pop these in all the gaps all right you start to build it up so again just a small amount kind of line up the curve here with the curve here so everything's all you know the same kind of distance apart if you keep working opposites each time it will just help as well to keep everything in shape okay so you can already see how quickly it comes together and now you're going to do exactly the same but with these smaller pieces a little bead of glue there and you're popping it in this gap here and then again going to work opposite don't worry if they don't sit over each other but you want to make sure that they go in the gaps there and then again here so always do it in groups of four so there's those four and then these last ones are going to go in the gaps again and it will start to kind of come in on itself so don't worry so much now with those curves kind of all meeting up so again try and keep with your opposite you might have to like push it in a little bit move them around I love doing these for you know those special presents you know those bigger gifts it's just the perfect way to finish them off and this one you'll have a bit longer you know in between make sure your glue is dry but you can see you just want to kind of lock it all in it looks absolutely wonderful these really really do look very very good and then lastly I've just got another piece here and I've done this to one inch by two and I'm just going to curl it you know around my finger there like so I'm gonna pop a little bead of glue just along the edge there and just make a little tube like so another piece there and then I'm just gonna sit that in the middle like so and there you have a beautiful bow topper for anything gift boxes gift bags you know it's entirely up to you but just to show you just how different they look exactly the same lengths but we're just changing your width you get two very different styles so that's the half inch and that's the one inch okay so next I want to show you how to make this here using your oval dies so any oval dies you have I have these ones here by card making magic these are great because they're more of a squashed oval so they're actually that it's like it's been stretched out so for this one here I've just selected it's up to you what sizes but you want two of one size and then you want two of a slightly smaller size so I'll just pull out the dies so for those of you that do have this set you can see which ones I've used so I believe it's this one here I'll give the measurements and then the next size down for these ones here and I've just cut two circles here using one of my punches and they're one inches wide okay so if you want to get something of a similar size to me you'll need some ovals that are two by four and a half and you again you'll want to cut two of those and then these ones here are one and a half by four and again you'll want two of those ones as I said before all the links if I can find them they will be shared below this one's very very quick and easy as are most of the ones I'm showing you today you just want to grab the first two or all of them actually because you might as well do them at the same time and just put a little curl in them it will just help when you go to stick them together that's the shape that we want them to go okay and again using the hot glue excuse the colors I'm just running through my glue sticks right now you're just going to fold them over line them up make sure you keep that nice curl try not to fold it so that it forms a crease you want it to stay nice and curved like that and you can see what we're creating here is these pieces now you don't need two of each you need four of each and some of you probably already thought that looking at the video so I'm going to cut another two in a moment of each size you want four of this size because you can see that will be two that way this also makes a nice bow on its own so I can show you that in another one in a moment because I've got a smaller version to show you because it's very very similar but you'll just want to cut four of these so I'll quickly do that in a second but again with that next size down we're just doing exactly the same little bit of glue so these are great for batch making you know you can get everything cut and then just go through and glue it all and if you're using hot glue it's very very quick okay so I'm just going to cut those again okay so you'll now see I've got my four larger ones and four smaller so it doesn't matter what size you make this as long as you have four of each and I've also changed the colors a little bit because I actually didn't have any more of that because that's another good thing with these is that you can actually use a lot of your scraps to make them up so very easy construction and similar to what we've done already you're just going to pop a little bit of glue on one of the larger ones first and then just sit that over at the top okay like so and then I'm going to pop these ones opposite so do one at a time because you'll need to push them down a little bit just a small amount of glue you're just sitting it in there like that I love this one it's really effective and again you can sit this one just next to it kind of flatten them a little bit but you'd like to say you don't want to form a crease but you can flatten them just a little bit and I'm actually going to construct this one slightly differently so I'm going to do opposites and I'm going to do them like this for this one here can you see they're just offset so I just stuck them like that so you do two like that and two like that and then we're going to pop the circle in the middle and you can see that gives you that shape but I do want to try and show you as many variations as possible because I'm working with these different colours I think it's nice to show you you know another way again so this time if you sit them actually directly on top of the one below you'll get a very different effect so I'm going to sit it over that one a little bit so it shows the purple underneath here and then again I'm going to bring this one in bring it down so again you get to see that nice you know contrast of color underneath there and again that last one and then for the center I've actually changed the color for this one here just so it kind of you know sits well against that purple and you just want to pop that in the center make sure all your glue is secure okay and there is another really nice bow you could finish that with a nice kind of embellishment in the center there like a flat that pearl or something but that's exactly the same size but this one is just offset and those ones have actually sat directly over the top so they're completely parallel with each other and I think they look really really nice so that's another option there and another topper idea again sticking with these oval dies just want to show you how you can just make a simple bow these are lovely to pop on your cards to put on smaller gift boxes and bags and just to use as embellishments you might want to do some friend mail but you want to die cut the smallest you have so I've gone for this one here right in the center and again just put a little curl in it because it just makes everything easier and you go to stick it together and again I'm just going to pop the tiniest amount of glue in there bring it around pinch that but again try to make sure you keep that nice and curved there that one again the smallest amount of glue and you don't have to use the hot glue I'm using it for the video because it's quick but also if you are using a textured card like a glitter and things like that I find the hot glue it works much much better okay so there's your two there then you just want to grab the glue again with a small amount and you're just going to stick one over the top like so and I've got some more silver card here I'm just going to trim you don't need hardly any there and it's up to you what width you want to do so I'm going to bring this in a little bit here so I'll give you the measurements for this one you're looking at it's just under half an inch again just put a little curl in that and I'm just going to pop a bit of glue on the back here stick that down I'm not going to add any glue to the front okay although you can see glue there I'm not actually going to add any glue and you just want to wrap it around and then you'll find you end up trimming it I'm going to take a little bit more off there and another little bit of glue just on the back and then bring that around so that way if you do have any glues and out like I've got there I can just wipe that away but then you don't see any on the front and then I can just secure that nicely and there you have another little bow and again very very easy and quick to make okay so that's another idea with the oval dice already you know you can see some very different effects that you can get just using your shaped dice next one I want to show you is how to make this one this is one of my favorites I actually have a video showing you how to make this but it's quite old and I thought I would combine them as I mentioned into one tutorial so you can see there just how this looks again a great one you could imagine this very big you could put it on a bike you know if it's a special Christmas present you know you've got a big TV for somebody we do have those big gifts that we do you know give to people so it's nice to be able to make these big bows so first of all you'll want three pieces that are one and a half by six and then you'll want two pieces that are one and a half by five and then I've got this strip here which is just for the insides again that will get trimmed down so grab two of these one of them is going to be for the bottom where we'll make our little flagtail detail so I'm just again putting a little curve into this like so and then again with the hot glue I'm just going to run a sheet of glue just down that side and fold that over and again just line them up just making sure again you've got that nice curve in the side there okay the key is getting this nice and straight you do need them to sit perfectly over each other there and again okay and again with the next size down just curl them both just repeat again pop some glue on the back okay and then your construction is very similar but this time you want to grab this one first are you going to sit it over the top now you can cut the the flagtails in first if you want I prefer doing it at the end so you can see what I do and then you can make your mind up you know as to which way is best for you but you want to pop some glue on the bottom and you want to get it you know in the center so you maybe use your grid I can see I've got the six here so I'm just on the three there but you are going to overlap it as well a little bit so just take away that glue and then this one here just pop that one down there as long as you've got even amount kind of each side here so and then get the next ones sit it on the top again make sure it's all parallel you know all has to sit perfectly over the top there and then that one is going to sit over there and some are softer than others this this gold here is a very very soft cardstocks it curled beautifully can you see there whereas this one's a little bit thicker so I've got a few like little lines in it but we can still work with it it's still going to work really nicely you just kind of have to add a few extras like so but can you see already just how quickly that's coming together and then you've got this piece here and again I'm just going to pop some glue there stick it on the back and then you want to wrap it around making sure it goes right over all of that kind of detail you know all of that where they sit on top of each other you just want to hide all of the joints and then finish it there with another bit of glue not too worried about how it looks underneath just trim off the excess there that's that now stuck and then I'm just coming in here and I'm just going to cut down the middle it's up to you how far down you go I'm going down about half an inch and then just come in from each corner to meet that point there and you'll get your flag tail finish so again this side if you want to make this longer you can it's that in tight tune you can curve the edges you know this these are just the basic ways of putting it together there's so much scope for you to really add to it and embellish them and all that lovely stuff okay so now you can see the flag tails and like I said you can just put a little curl in the ends of them there as well but that would look lovely now on the front of a gift bag on the top of a gift box and you can see there those two really lovely those so that's another idea I've got this one here and I love this one this is just a I've done this before it's a tassel but you pull out the insides of it to make it turn into this kind of firework embellishment and you can stick this on the top of a gift box you can use them with string and have them hanging as just little kind of tassels and things off of gift bags it's just another fun way and it's very easy to do so using that same glitter that I showed you earlier this is a piece of 12 to be honest the length the width is entirely up to you so I'm doing mine at three inches okay then I've got my trusty vegetable scissors here which I love to use and I'm just going to cut down basically as far as the scissors will allow me it gives me about half an inch there and then line up the next one and just cut through like so if you don't have these scissors it doesn't matter you can cut it freehand it's just going to take you a little bit longer that's all okay so now we have this really fun trim and that's great like this as well you can add this around the tops of things you know around the cards that you may make it looks like grass there's lots of things you can do with this and I have shared these kind of things in many tutorials but now you just want to go and just pop a little again a little curve in the glitter this is really nice as well it's got very very little shred considering it's double-sided and it's thick you know it can really handle some some battering to it so now you just want to start rolling the ends so I'm just starting there and just keep this nice and straight try not to let it you know go off course you want to keep it all lined up then you can see that coil effect forming there just continue that all the way along keep everything nice and straight you don't want to be adding any glue because we need to be able to pull it apart if you were just making a normal tassel now you would add glue along here and just keep rolling because you can see that tassel forming but we actually want to pull it up just like a fancy tassel okay and now when we get to the very end you can just put a small bit of glue there and just roll that around like so just hold that in place for a minute until that's completely secure okay so now we have this and that's really cool we can do lots of things with this as well okay and now you just want to grab a few in the center and just start to pull them try not to pull it too quickly otherwise the whole thing's just going to come out but if you just start just grab a few different ones there and just start to pull it up I can feel it starting to come up can you see there there we go you're you'll know because it would just start to lift but you don't want to go too mad because otherwise it will just start to completely detach and you won't have anything really to stick to but can you see as you pull it out you get a really fun effect and then what I would suggest you do is just grab your glue and just kind of open it up a little bit and try and again doesn't matter if you don't have hot glue but just push a glue you know pop it like a PVA glue in there or something like that might help as well and again I'm just going to go on the other side there just pop that in and you just want to leave it to set again you can move a few of them around you can see there can pull up a little bit higher and then I would just go in there with a bit more glue but that one's now secure that's not coming out anywhere and you can see if you want to as well you can pop some glue inside that end there because you can see that's quite hollow so I might just squeeze a little bit of glue just in there and it will just settle into those little areas but now we have these really fun firework toppers and I love them and they're great in pattern papers as well and you get to see all of that lovely pattern and print but I love the sparkle as well that you get from the glitter card so that's another option okay and then another one many of you will be familiar with and I've made this much bigger before on other projects that I've shared and this is just a bow topper and it's just lots and lots of pieces like this that you just kind of layer up now the amount that you use is pretty much up to you I'll give you a rough idea of what I'm using here but you do want to if you want that size there you want strips that are half an inch by two inches okay I've got 30 pieces which will give you that size there again the mirror card stocks all from dovecraft and this glitter card as well but these are great toppers and the one that I made that's bigger again I'll link those tutorials along the way so you've got lots of things that you can go to just to get more inspiration but again just add a little curl into it and then tiny bead of glue and just again wrap that one over but make sure you keep it like that okay so I've got all of my pieces ready and you just want to start again I always say work opposite you know so do that pair and then do that pair and then start filling in all the gaps and eventually you just want to get rid of this circle you don't want to see this okay this needs to disappear and this here is a two inch circle okay so I'm going to start off and then I'll speed up the video a little bit because once you see what it is that you do it's you know it's very easy to do again smallest amounts of glue and I'm just sticking you know the amount like this section here that's what's sticking on to the actual circle the rest of it is just you know hanging over the the edge there so again and then pop one here it's always best to work in pairs because that way you know you fill all the gaps properly so there is the base done now we need to work our way up onto the next level so this time I bring it in a little bit more to the circle inside the circle there but now I'm going to bottom layer again work in with your opposites and your pairs so that one's going to go there okay so that's the next layer and then I'm going to work in again and then I'm going to flip it over and just put one in between all of these gaps here you can just work your way around and just push your finger down when you flip it over push your finger down in the middle there and it will just help bring all of that up okay and then lastly all I do is put a dollop of glue in the center you kind of have to leave these ones because they just kind of sit in the hot glue just together you can see how they just it forms like a heart right in the center there isn't that gorgeous absolutely beautiful very very straightforward to make and again that's using 30 of those pieces that I shared with you and you can see there the effects that you get okay so that's another one and then the last two that I want to share with you are actually using dyes because you know it's nice to be able to make things without the use of dyes but then sometimes people do prefer something that will do a lot of the work for us so this one here will actually give you a very very similar look to this here and this is the Simply Made Crafts Ultimate Gift Bow I did share this again it does have its own video but I wanted to just put them all into one video that you can come to so you just need to die cut three of these pieces here so if I just bring out so that you can see these a bit easier so I've done one of the largest one here then we've got this one which is that next size and then this small one here now you also have these these pieces here which will give you your little flag tail so this effect here I'm not going to add them on today but they're there for you to cut and you just will stick them underneath so it's very very easy to do so I've die cut my pieces so next all you need to do to kind of prep them a little is again put that curve in by doing that you know set it all through this video but it really does make a big difference to the final finish of the bows so it's that one there it's a gorgeous glitter card again using the dove craft so now I'm just going to again using my glue gun I'm going to pop a blob of glue in the center there and just bring this one over okay just hold that there for a second but as that one's kind of just starting to set I'm just going to bring the next one over because you can kind of build them up at the same time like so and then this one looks on crazy glue colors going on here because I've now gone into a green glue stick but because I'm working on glitter card you can't see it so you're just bringing in all of those sides and can you see how quickly that comes together very very similar to this one here okay this we will flip over this will look this will actually be the back I'm just going to keep that opened up a bit like that I've just flipped that one over and just kind of bring them back up but you could keep that like this you know you might want to put a nice big embellishment in the center there use the flag tails behind it that looks lovely or you could die cut two of these the same size and just stick them on top of each other but I'm going to show you just how to use it with these three here so again popping that blob of glue in the center bring over this one I also forget to use them but these are really handy whenever you're doing any kind of crafts with hot glue is use the little silicon glue and finger protector which is what these are you get a couple you can put them on your thumb as well maybe like those two there but it just means you can get right in there it won't stick to this and obviously it won't burn you but now there's that one there so again you could just do two of those if you wanted to but that is now going to sit we push it right in there isn't it lovely it just transforms so again I'm going to pop some glue in there okay and now I'm going to pop some glue on there done the small one as well and just push that one inside there and then whilst that's just setting pop a little bit of glue again on that one and then this one you want to offset again really squeeze it down it does fit in there really nicely and just finishes off that though again you don't have to do it this way you know and these are the little ones really nice to have as a bow on its own as well depending on the size of the gift that you will have it's still setting a little bit but look at that and again you can put a nice big embellishment in the center there finish it off with these flag tails there and you've also got this detail which will give you like a little bit of like a streamer effect these pieces here will give you other bow effects you've got little flowers and snowflake there as well but I think it's absolutely beautiful so again if you don't have the dies and you want to recreate something yourself and use some oval dies you'll get something very similar and then there it is there I think it's absolutely beautiful so there's another option and then the last one that I'm showing you today is this star die set so this gives you this effect here so you can just add some glue onto the back pieces here and stick it onto the top of a box it's entirely up to you onto the front of a card you can also put a little hole in them and have them as hanging little tree decorations so they are really nice I actually did make a gift box from them for the samples that I made when these were released but I'll just show you get three sizes in this so you get this very dinky one which is smaller than that again this is for this size here and then I've already die cut this size here just so you can see exactly how they look again if I can find the links if these are still available hopefully they are I will have that all below for you okay so I'm just working along all of those score lines okay so I've just gone along all those score lines and then I'm going to use red tape and I just want to pop a strip on each of these now you can use your hot glue if you want but because you're working on such small little area you know you may well get the glue oozing out onto the mirror card and it just won't look very nice so just by adding this red tape it's nice and strong and it will stick really well to this textured card so it's just a little bit easier to control as well again you'll have more time I'm just going through these so I don't want the video to be too long but that's that then you just take off the backing do one at a time and you're going to fold it over and then just line it up with the side like so so now you have this gap and you can see we've got already one of the points to our star just need to push that in a little bit more there okay so again go round to the next one take your backing off really make sure you get a nice crease on that point just so you can hide it and just bring it around and you start to see everything kind of join and how it should all form there's another one there I'm just going to continue doing that all the way around and there's the last one again very very quick and these make awesome toppers again just need to pop your glue on there and you can stick that directly on you can also put two of them back to back that's one way to construct them but I also done it so that I stuck the tabs on this one to the tabs on the other one and it actually made a little gift box or more of a 3d style star as well so that's another version for you so there are all my toppers there's actually 10 different variations here and you could certainly do even more as well by changing more of the sizings and just the way you construct it but I just wanted to just put this video together so that you had one that you could just go to you know rather than me telling you all these different videos that I have across my channel thoroughly enjoyed making these really do like them I think this is a favorite I just love how this one's come together and I just adore that yellow glitter card as well and I really like these ones these are like a classic style that I go to quite a lot as well and then these great ones where you know they actually use the dies there as well because that is just stunning so hopefully this has given you lots of inspiration and you know able to decorate your presents really nicely and also pop these things make them much smaller and you can put them into your card making and just smaller crafts as well so thank you for watching as always all the links to everything if I can find it will be shared below please consider subscribing so you get to see more fun tutorials and I'll be back very soon with another video thanks for watching bye