 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 these really pretty spinner cards and I've made this style card before but it was about two years ago maybe even more so I will link that with tutorial up here but I thought I would revisit it as part of this creative card series and when I received these papers which I'll show you in a moment I just thought they're going to work perfectly because they are double-sided so actually I'll show you that one because that one I realised afterwards that actually you want to do them upside down so that when they spin they're all the right way so this is how they work. You can see on the side here and then you would kind of wind them up and then pop them in the envelope so wind it up and pop it in like that or the right way up and then obviously when that person takes out the envelope it will spin around and the nice thing about this is is it does balance itself and then it will kind of just sit there and it looks really nice and also I put these out in the garden because I was looking at them out there and when the wind catches it just a nice light breeze this just went around really nicely on its own and it was so pretty so that's the one using a circle and then this is the one using the square look at that adorable fox's face so I've got sending hugs and happy thoughts because I thought that's just such a he just looks like he's just someone that would give a really good hug and then this one here is wishing you a day of happiness and I think that would work quite nicely as a wedding card because you know she's got like the nice little kind of floral headdress on there there's something about it I think it could definitely work for a wedding card but obviously that could also be for a birthday or any kind of nice day you could just be sending it just to wish someone a nice day of happiness so but and again with this one here you'll see it balances and it will stay obviously upright but again you can spin it around but like I said if you have them so that one's that way up and if you stick the next one upside down then when they spin it's always the right way up so I mean it spins pretty quickly and you wouldn't really notice it on that one but it's obviously if it did it's not going to stay like that because it's the way it's been kind of stuck down it knows that this is the front but yeah really really easy to make so let me show you okay so for this one here I'm using the absolutely stunning paper boutique magical forest so I did show you this one in my what did I get video last week or maybe a couple of weeks ago now and you get so I say it's a kit because you get the really nice eight by eight papers you get 36 with six designs but then you also get these toppers and that's what I've used and because you get four pages of each you've got obviously doubles of everything so you can see where I've been using them now I'm going to use the owl on another one but I'm going to do yeah I need to choose which one I'm going to use today actually for this one because I've done the fox in the square so I'll leave that one so I think I'm going to do the little owl so we'll pop him out now they're really well made they're on really thick cardstock so I'm just going to pop those two out there but I've still got all of these probably lots of other cards and then you also have square ones as well but I'm going to do a circle one today because I want to do it the right way up so yeah there's all the images slightly different so you can see that one there what a different look but they're just gorgeous beautiful palette of colors love the soft pinks and the soft greens so it's yeah definitely going to get used a lot and I just thought it worked perfectly this just whole card I think shows off the papers beautifully so I've already chosen my paper and I've already cut that to size the stamp set you know it if you've been watching me you're going to see this one all the time it's £2 it's a bargain go get it because you'll use it loads and yeah so I've used the wish and you a day of happiness sending hugs and happy thoughts and then I've already gone and stamped lucky to have a friend like you and oh I know I did choose because I've chosen him no that's fine because I remember now how bad's that I have all these because I do a lot of filming throughout the day so I have piles of all my cards kind of ready so I'd forgot but look so that's who we're going to have on this card doesn't he look like he is saying he's lucky to have a friend like you and he's got a little bouquet of flowers so that's the one I've got ready there so prepare all of that this here is like glitter very strong glittered it is a fabric but it's almost like very very strong paper but you can tie it in a bow I picked it up from B&M and it was a pack of just counting them two four six eight glittered rolls and this beautiful pink has just worked lovely with this collection so I'm working off of a six by six card blank here okay so see there just a normal one but you want to cut this down I don't need the scoreboard you want to cut it down to four by six so but you want to keep the folded top okay so I'm going to pop it in my trimmer this way okay and then just go up to no what am I doing you want to go in that way with the fold on your left hand side the fold needs to line up with the four inch marker and then just trim that if you are worried you don't want to put two pieces through at the same time then obviously cut each one separately but now you should have a piece of four by six and then I've got this piece here which is three and three quarters by five and three quarters and that's going to sit perfectly over the top and then I've gone ahead and done all these pieces to decorate then I've got my circle now this will vary depending on what you're using because I'm aware that not everybody will have this paper pack that I'm using so whatever your top will be whatever your image is you can use anything and it doesn't have to be the same image on each side it can be something different so and it can also be words it doesn't have to be a picture so the circle that I'm using is roughly three and a half diameter just a little bit over it's just kind of shy of three and five eighths so something I guess roughly that size but you can have smaller if you want to now it's up to you if you want to cut before you add your paper or after personally I prefer doing it after because it saves you having to faff about with all of that so that's how I'm going to do it so first of all I'm going to stick this down first okay while I'm just letting that dry so I need it to be completely set before I run it through the dye machine I'm going to prepare my little topper so because I've got these double images here one of them I'm going to flip upside down okay so I'll do that again in a minute but what you want to just turn over whatever one it is now the string I'm using is just really really really old you can see how old this is and it is a 12 inch cord machine thread it's just very very strong it's not like a you know some of those threads you can't even feel them in your finger you can really feel this it's quite a thick one so again I'm not really up on my threads so I'm sorry by the poor description but you want something that you can't snap in your hands I can't snap this when I do any sewing sometimes I'm really naughty and I might just pull something just to kind of you know because I've got my scissors at hand this I can't this is really strong so if that's an easier way to kind of gauge the kind of strength of the thread then yeah that's the best I can do but I'm just going to cut some of that off and first of all so you want to make sure your image is straight so there's the top of his head so I'm just going to turn that over because I need to make sure what I stick down is kind of in a straight line because that's what the string is going to follow along so I'm going to take that backing off and I'm just going to stick that on there so you want to stick your string right through the middle okay and then I'm just going to put another bit of double-sided tape over the top so that kind of sandwiches that in there and then just cover the rest of the circle with some double-sided tape and I will also add a little bit of liquid glue as well and then you just need to remember what way up this one is so that's the right way up so this one needs to be going on upside down again try and get it as straight as you can so having these does take a lot of the work out for you because you're these really pretty images you know and the fact that there's so many of them works perfect for this style card so again I'm just going to now let that really dry so now this is nice and dry so along the folded top you want to lay down your circle or whatever shape it is you're using you may not be using a circle oval shapes triangle well no it can't be a triangle because it needs to be able to twist around on the side but square rectangle circle ovals those will all work so you basically just want to sit this roughly halfway over the card okay so you can see there okay so I'm just going to get that run through my die machine okay so just take that all away okay so now we have our card and you've obviously got lots of room to write inside there as well next we need to I'm going to decorate this part so I have a piece of white card stock which is five and three quarters wide by one inch and then I've got this piece which again is five and three quarters sorry long by three quarters of an inch so just a few little kind of mats and layers there just to decorate on top for bring that out you can see that I've just used some scraps from that one there when I made that and then I've got that sentiment which is going to go no sorry then I have that that's going to go over the top so I'm just kind of built up a little nice border here then I've got that piece that's going to go over it with a beautiful bow which is going to go there so I'm going to go get that all stuck down okay so that's all stuck down I'll do the bow at the very end because I'm going to add some gel glue to that one so now you want to sit this inside and you want your image to be lined up and the string to run right through the folds of the card so what I'm going to do is grab some double sided sticky tape and you just want to stick it not right from one end to the other just kind of in between so I'm just coming in a little bit and then sticking it because I'm going to cover this with a tiny little bit of decorative paper just to cover that up so I'm going to just peel off my backing tape there and also you want to trim off the excess of that string I probably should have said really how much you need but I'm not that precious with the strings there's so much on there so I'm just going to cut away now so you've got about three quarters of an inch hanging out you don't need much at all so like so because you don't want this hanging out the side of the card so then what you want to do is sit it down and you want equal border so you want an equal ring all the way around so you can see my grey mat underneath it's the same all the way around there and then you just want to kind of let that string kind of fall where it needs to but you need to keep it taut too at the same time so you do have to you can kind of lift it up a few times once we put the rest of the tape over the top and it'll be fine okay so I'm happy that that's where I need it to be and then kind of holding that down pull it quite taut so you haven't got a great deal to hold on to but as taut as you can you may want to not cut your string until you've done this bit because I've made a few of them so I'm not really worried like that there we go okay so just make sure yeah probably don't cut the string straight away just leave it on and now you could trim it so now I've got that where I need it then I'm going to get my other side of tape and again put some more over the top just to really seal that in and there's not going to be any tension on this I mean you're going to wind it up a little bit but other than that it's just sitting there so you know you don't need to go and add loads and loads of glues and stuff like that it's um you know it's only a card at the end of day it's just a little bit of fun so yeah double-sided tape will be fine you can use red line up but that's that can be quite thick you don't really want to have I guess more bulk on this okay then I've got two pieces of half an inch by one inch and these will just sit perfectly within this section that's if you're using the size circle that I used if you've got something bigger then you'll need that to be smaller and the opposite way if your circle's smaller then this piece will need to be bigger but that fits just perfectly in there like so and again I can stick that one so just use again scraps of the same paper because it ties it all together so now now that's that day you just want to fold it ever so slightly just to kind of work it back into that fold like so there we go and then I'm just going to grab some of my gel blue here pop some onto the back of that and then just there and there you have it so now if I just wind that up so this is what you would do before you put it in the envelope what you may find is the card start to bow a little bit that means you've got it quite strong in terms of the tension you don't want to twist it too much because you don't want it pulling out of where you stuck it in but now I can pop that in the envelope and it will fit into a six by six envelope and then you take it out and it spins and then when they've just finished with it and they're just enjoying it it will hang there and kind of just yeah move around if the wind catches it I love it I think he's so cute all of them are really cute I haven't got a favorite because they are all so sweet I'd love to know who made you know who drew the illustrations because yeah they are beautiful there you go three really pretty spinner cards I love how these are turned out the papers have just done all of the work really for me so hope you've enjoyed it hope you're enjoying the series so far please give me a thumbs up if you haven't already and subscribe to my channel so you get to see the rest of the series and also all the other tutorials in the future thanks for watching bye