 Hi everybody it's Sam from Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how you can make really pretty cards just using one colour. I actually did this during a Facebook live and loads of people really liked it. I think sometimes you can get quite overwhelmed with what you've got in your stash so I think if you just give yourself one colour and some white card stock you know pull out your favourite dyes and then just go from there really. So what I've done is I'm actually going to be showing today using some Nouveau embellishment mousse and that's these ones here. I just wanted to show you these ones which are using ink so when you see me making the the one I'm going to make today using the embellishment mousse it will be exactly the same kind of process you know but just using an ink pad and you get wonderful effects. This was using an oxide ink one of the Tim Holtz ones so you can see there I've got that kind of faux bleaching effect on the background. I've used an embossing folder here with these butterflies and then I've used the same butterflies throughout and I will show you that in a moment but it's just it's just a really really fun way and it was just so relaxing to do this because I didn't have to go and keep thinking of what's going to match because you make everything to match you make your own pattern paper using the ink and you can die cut the butterflies I even stamped with the same colour and even this here this is this was white card but I just inked just the edge really intensely to make it look like I've got a nice piece of kind of purple paper there. So that's those ones and then if I just bring up the embellishment mousse ones these are beautiful and they catch the light absolutely stunning. I think sometimes people think of the mousse as just used with stencils but you can actually use them in so many different ways and I will show you that today and again you've got this one here which is just so so pretty. So for this one here I used a gravel background I'm actually going to use that again in today's video. This one is using a butterfly in bottom folder by Apple Blossom and these will all be linked below. This one here is shimmering waters by Paper Discovery and this one is called Bark and it's bi-creative. So the butterflies are all by Bright Rosa and these lovely vertical sentiments here are by Creative Expressions and again they'll be shared below. So yeah let me show you how to make these really fun cards. Okay so these are the embossing folders so this is the creative one which is the Bark. This one's Paper Discovery which is the shimmering water and then I'm going to use the Paper Discovery ornamental gravel. So these ones are all 5x7 so I've got some 5x7 cardstock here. So first of all I want to create my background so I'm just going to pop this in here and run it through my machine. Okay so let's just take this one out and you'll see the lovely effect that you get. So next I want to add my moose to this. So for today's card I'm using this one here which is the Triple Berry beautiful colour. Okay so I'm just using a spatula here and I'm just going to take some out and just soften it up a little bit. Just make it a little bit easier to work with because I use this as well on the other piece of paper. So for this one here I'm just going to use my fingers I'm just going to rub my finger in the moose there and then I'm just going to you just want to kiss the top. I mean if you want to cover the whole thing you can but I quite like the effect of being able to see having the white background. Now this does dry quickly so you know you can build up with this as well so if you you know you want to go back over it you can but if you try not to go too heavy and then you just literally just kiss the top parts of the the gravel effect there and it just really brings out that lovely detail. Okay so that's that then I'm going to trim it down in a minute then with this piece here I'm actually just going to cover this with my finger and I'm just going to cover all over. Okay so I've got these two pieces here now and you can see again all that beautiful shine. So this is going to be die-cut and we're going to cut this down and use it to decorate the top of this and then we'll be trimming that one down but also I just wanted to show you the two other colors that I used for those other cards. So this one here was using the aquamarine see they're stunning and then this one here was using the lemon sorbet you can see that one there as well so again I'll try and link as many of them as I can in the description box. Then for the sentiments I also want to die cut that on some white card so I think I'm going to do this one as a thank you because I have quite a lot of birthday cards so I'm just going to take out this one here and then these are the dies that I'm using for the butterflies so I'm going to use the background and all of the detail and I will probably also that was a bit stuck I don't know why and use my use some vellum as well so I'm just going to get all of that die-cut. Okay so I've gone ahead and die cut everything you can see all the detail now and that lovely shine on the butterflies everything matches so we're going to start putting it together so first of all I have trimmed down this piece here so I've got a nice border so it's about six and three-quarters by four and three-quarters on this five by seven card blank so you can see how that's going to sit. I've then got this piece here which is the same height so this is six and three-quarters now the reason I've got this quite wide is I'm going to die cut this along the top here and I'm going to back it with some more of this and then this piece is going to stick along here okay and that's then where I'm going to build up my butterflies I'm going to pop some foam adhesive on this as well so first of all I want to run this through my die machine what will happen is you can see it cuts away the thank you so all you've got to do now is trim the rest of this away so I'm going to just snip just there and you can see now you get your thank you it's a really lovely effect and then what I'm going to do is just use my ruler I'm just going to do a light pencil mark and that will just ensure that I've got it nice and straight and I can just trim that away so now we've got this really fun piece to stick on but you can see there the thank you kind of gets a bit lost so we're going to back it just with a little piece of the matching cardstock there as well so now I'm going to stick this one on top and I'm going to start adding some dimensions so I'm going to run some foam tape just down here okay so I've stuck everything down on there so you would have seen me I popped some foam behind that one and also behind this one and then I've just backed the sentiment there so you can really see that one and then I've just got now to build the butterflies so I've got the piece of acetate so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue and then stick that one just the body so that the wings can all stay you know lifted there and then again this one and just sit that one on there so I'm just going to go and build the rest of the butterflies okay so now I'm just ready to assemble so I've got my hot glue gun on here I'm going to do the same as I have on these and what I done with the fourth butterfly as I actually popped it on the inside there so I always like to work in odd numbers so I'm just going to pop some hot glue there you don't have to use the hot glue at all but just for speed and you know just makes it a little bit easier and then I'm going to have this next one here again a little bead of glue there and pop that one like so and then this lovely little very cute one can go at the top here and then this one just before I have to change my glue stick that will be enough to just pop it in there like so and then I'm going to finish it off with this one here which is the morning dew Nuvo drop I really like it and you can see they're just added a few it does go on cloudy but then this one does dry nice and clear okay so that's the finished card I'm really pleased with how it's turned out it's very wet so I'm just going to leave those Nuvo drops there because otherwise they start to roll if you kind of move the card too much but I hope you like the ideas I shared with you today and it gives you some inspiration on how to use the Nuvo mousses and just to create a card using one color I think gives you a really fun effect so thank you for watching and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye