 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixup Crowd, thank you for watching the tutorial today. I'm going to show you how to make this really simple but classic Christmas card. I think it just really looks very very professional, very clean and it's quick to make as well. So if you are having to do maybe batch making of Christmas cards this is certainly a star that I think would work well. So this is using the Amy Design Christmas wishes collection and this is the holly wreath. It's beautiful the detail which you'll see in a minute when I cut it is just so lovely. Now sometimes when people receive these I get questions about you know when they get dyes sometimes and then they just put them in their stash and they don't use them. I think we've all done that but I think if you cut the dye depending on what it is you probably can't do with everything but if you cut the dye in the colors that it's kind of meant to be in this instance this is a wreath dye so I've cut it in green. Most of the work is done for you the dye will do the work then all you need to do is maybe add bits to it because sometimes I think you you know people they dye cut it on white and then they are going to color this in and not very good at coloring and I don't know what colors to use just use your cardstock. So I've just dye cut that in simple what I call Christmas green really nice rich green color and then I've added the berries to it which is just from some of my little diamantes and then I've add that bow and that's it it really is simple but it looks like a lot of time has gone into that and also I've layered a white piece of cardstock or matted it onto my card base and that again just gives a quite a luxurious feel to the card it's not bad sometimes just to add a few bits and that's it the focus is this wreath dye and it's beautiful so all you need for this card now you can do this on any size card that you want I'm sticking with six by six I do love a six by six card and I think because this is a circle so it's just you know it's just equal all the way around it suits a nice equal side card okay so let's get it dye cut just so you can see exactly what it is here so I've got this is this lovely what I call classic green color but what you can also do again you know today's tutorial is more about the speed I guess so getting quick Christmas cards done but if you have you know got a lot more time to spend then I would say dye cut this in a few colors dye cut it in green as your base color then dye cut it in a brown so then you can cut out separately all of those little leaves here and you can attach the brown leaves onto this as well and then you could also then do some other like another darker brown and you could do more twigs a different green so you can really kind of bring it together and I will be using this a lot more so there will be some other tutorials to inspire you as well okay so let's run this one through and just see and again I mean I've got my trusty big shot here any good branded dye machine will cut this like butter it just cut straight away I always like to just roll mine through twice and then I've kind of got my plates back in the position that I like them so I'm just going lift it all up onto that plate move that away and you can see it just comes off in one piece perfectly all right and then you get a few little bits that are in here they've all cut through perfectly but because it's so detailed they sometimes do just still stick in there I'm just going through there with my pokey tool and you can use those brushes just to brush out any pieces but there's hardly any in it so put those two out there there we go and look at all that detail really really nice and I love this circle in the middle here with the dots around it as well kind of frames your message so yep big hit this one and I think a wreath dye is a very good dye to have so again if you're starting out crafting you may be just taking up card making this year this is your first Christmas I would definitely say a wreath dye a Christmas tree a wreath a obviously Santa your classics really because they're the ones that I think you're going to go to I'll do that later a lot and they don't date either you know they are timeless so each year you can bring it out and use it again okay so there is this one let's pop that out the way there so I've got my six by six card then I've dye cut another white piece of card stock to mat on top and that is five and three quarters by five and three quarters squared and that is going to sit on top like so I know you can't really see it but in order for people to see it and again to give that kind of luxury shop brought feel which I'm just going to pop some foam adhesive on the backs just to lift it up and it just creates that little bit of shadow which you know and that tiny bit of dimension just really kind of helps bring the card together okay so just pop those ones on the back also if you don't have any of the little red diamond tees that I said about the little flatback pearls you can also use Nuvo drops and you could also use a hole punch and some red card and just with your hole punch just go along and just punch out lots of little red circles and use those there's lots of ways again if you're starting off you don't have all the tools plenty of ways to still make lovely cards with other bits and pieces so I'm just going to sit that in the center you should have a nice quarter inch border on all four sides and you can see now how that's lifted even though it's white on white even in the camera you can see that that's you know really nice okay so that's that piece next I'm going to stick this one down hobby base have done an adhesives kit so you can find all of that on their website and there's lots and lots of good adhesives there as well okay some reason that is blocked so I'm going to have to have a look at that in a minute okay there's no real kind of doesn't matter which way this goes but I'm just going to stick that one down in the center there okay then other little tips to just kind of create a more finished card something with a bit more depth to it rather than just sticking that down and then just sticking that safe flat on top I've die cut so my message I've just chosen a message something that was going to fit within the kind of dots of the die here and then I've die cut a very similar sized circle to go underneath now you can very very faintly see it but just that tiny little bit of detail is just other ways to kind of help like I said finish your card so things like that just really help it and you can see it there just and you'll be able to pick it up in the pictures and stuff that I post but it does it just just these little kind of details so what I'm going to do is stick this one down first that one's going flat and then I'm going to be putting some adhesive on the white one to stick on top so that one sits perfectly in there okay so I'm just popping some foam on the backs of those or that one and then make sure you've got your card opening up the right way in fact I might change this one to a top folding card because it's a square it's equal sides the wreath doesn't really matter which way it goes so I'm thinking now I may turn it so I've got a top folding one so now I'm going to pop this one right over the top make sure it's nice lined up like so now I've got my ribbon I've already done that one off camera because it takes me a while to do ribbons especially this tiny fiddly one now whenever I'm using ribbons I always use hot glue there are lots of you know good glues out there as well but I just find hot glue is simple easy and quick and when you're applying things like this you need the smallest amount so I'm literally tiny tiny bead okay but when you're working with fabric it's much much easier to use the hot glue and then that one can just sit perfectly at the bottom okay so that's all the decoration done and even like that it looks really nice but now I want to just finish it off with those little flatback pearls and I like to use whenever generally in design you always work in odd numbers so whenever I'm adding berries I always put three of them down and if anything this is the I'd say the the timely part but just below each of the kind of holly leaves just with my pokey tool here I'm just pulling off and just sitting three of them together now I won't sit here and make you watch me put all these on it doesn't take long I'd say it takes you know five minutes just to kind of go around and I'm going to move that one down a bit actually because it's a little bit close so I'm going to pop that one here let's start on this one here actually yeah so I'm going to go and get them done just so you don't have to like I said painfully watch me do it now you go guys how lovely is that so I've got one that is a top folding card they're beautiful and these are I'd say really easy to get and consistent as well I think sometimes when we make lots of the same Christmas card if we may be using something that's got an image that we've coloured or something it can be quite hard to get them all exact whereas something like this I mean look they both look completely identical apart from this one is a side folding and this one here is a top folding but both ways I think they look really nice and these will definitely be being sent out to friends and family this year so there we have it so I hope you've enjoyed this first of my Christmas cards there's plenty more to come and I'll be back again next week thanks for watching bye