 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 easel card and the reason I've done one I know I've done them before but I wanted to show off this beautiful daffodil die. Now daffodils are my favourite flower and it is extremely rare that I ever find a die or a nice big stamp of a daffodil. So I'm going to show you the magazine in a moment but I was super excited when I saw that this one was coming out and as soon as I got it I actually got it last week but I was visiting my Nam for a week so I wasn't able to get my craft room so I've been itching to do this card and I love it and I thought an easel card shows this off really nicely. I will link up here all my other easel cards because I'm always aware that there's new people joining my channel so those of you that have never made one or even heard of one this is what they look like. Now they fold completely flat and you can see even when that's closed up this is a six by six card but when that's closed that will look lovely when the person takes out the envelope and then it's just got a fold there and it will clip in behind this raised little piece at the front which has got the happy birthday on and then under here I've got a blank piece of card for you to stamp and write your message or you could do something here if you wanted to or alternatively you've got all the room on the backs here as well. So lots of space to to add more bits and pieces but I just wanted the focus to be on these daffodils and I just think it looks really really pretty. So put that on to one side this is the magazine so this is issue 188 of Simply Cards and Papercraft I must admit this month the UK magazines have been amazing. I brought four and usually I maybe buy one or two but I've brought four this month and I've just loved all of the stamps and the dyes that we receive so this particular one is by Altenew and I think that's why it looks so great because Altenew always do wonderful layered stamps or dyes and you can see there all the different parts to it so each daffodil has four dyes so there's one two three four dyes that make this daffodil and then for the the leaf here and the stem you've you've got these one two three so really nice again value for money this was £6.99 and I know it's a it's an Altenew dye but it's a daffodil and like I said I I've never seen them so if anybody can point me in the direction of daffodil dyes please do because I am a huge fan of daffodils I will link this magazine and everything else that I use today in my blog as always and there's heaps of inspiration some beautiful cards have been made by the design team as well using this dye so I've already gone ahead and cut some of them out I'm going to cut one with you but this is how they look so we'll do that one because that's the reverse I don't know they're both yeah that was the reverse one if I just bring it up there isn't that so pretty and detailed absolutely love them so I because it's plain that um cardstock that I'm using I just flipped this over to so I've got a mirror image so I can have one that way and one that way or is in this card I've done one facing out that way and one facing out but this one I'm going to have them facing in and then I done this one but I wasn't happy with the colors that back kind it's more of a gray cream it just didn't look right at all whereas that one is a real nicer yellow um cream so that one looked nice but they show you the sequence and the colors that they recommend personally for me I love really nice yellow daffodils so that one there is the perfect kind of color for me so I'm going to do a real yellow one today but the papers that they you can download are here let me just bring them in so I went ahead and printed these papers not all of them there was one that I haven't done it's a bit psychedelic and blurry and it was actually playing with my eyes and I just thought I don't think I'm really going to use that one but all the rest I've downloaded and printed and love them so today's card I'm going to use the stripe which is beautiful really nice it's so we've got the sun shining at the moment in the UK and it's February and it just feels really nice to kind of come out of that gloomy you know January and December kind of weather although saying that they're saying we've got snow next week so who knows so that's the stripe that is this lovely star little daffodil I guess they've tried to do like an abstract daffodil there and that's what I've used for this one the green is what I've used for the background here and then you've also got this orange one here so I've just printed all this on 300 gsm smooth cardstock you just download the file and just go straight onto your laptop or your computer and then just print it off so I've got them for some more cards along with these pieces here but they show you a you can one of the other things you can print off is the sentiments and then there's also like a template and it has perfectly cut or printed squares of all different shades of yellow and that's the sequence of what they recommend you to cut them in um let me just see if I can find it here so down on the bottom here this is what you can print off so this is the paper and you can see there all those four colors and they've got each of the dyes on the different colors so if you are thinking oh gosh I don't know if I get the right kind of yellows and oranges and things like that just have a look at that and that's a download as well and you don't have to buy this magazine to have the download you just go onto their website again I'll share all the links and you can download the papers so even if you're you know in parts of the world and you can't get this magazine you can fussy cut because they also do a printable um these ones here are all printed duffer deals so if you fussy cut them you can still create these cards as well so like I said good all-rounder that magazine okay so I've already gone ahead and I've got my six by six card base this is just a pre-made card base if you don't have these then you want a piece of 12 by six and along the 12 inch side you want to score it six inches and fold in half and that gives you your card then because we're making an easel card I need to add one more score line so with your card folded in half and then top folding so it folds this way here this is our front so this is this piece here okay we need to create this score line through the middle okay so with that front panel pop it in here and it's scored there at six inches which is correct so you want to then do another score line at three okay so I'm just scoring there three inches and then fold that one in half and now we have our easel card so really really easy do you like an easel card get rid of that and then I've gone ahead and I've cut these already down so I've got this piece here which is going to go inside and this is a piece of five and three quarters by five and three quarters and you can see there a nice border and that's going to come over and I thought the stripes worked really well um again with this style card and then these two pieces here are two and three quarters by five and three quarters and they're going to go on each of those side panels you like so you don't have to do the back one if you don't want to but I think it's nice when that person opens up the card you know that's what they see okay so I'm going to go and get those all stuck down okay so that's now all stuck down next I'm going to die cut my oval so I'm going to use some of these scrap pieces so I'll have to use that one there so these are my fancy stitch ovals these are the tonic studio ovals so these are lovely because you get the scallop edge and then the straight edge so I just used the first largest scallop edge there oh no sorry that was for the dark green this is the straight that's going to go in there so that one for that one and then I just need to choose my green color so pull out these ones here and so this is a paper but I think I can get away I don't really want to cut into I'm going to use that for my stem and I'm going to use that one there yeah I think that one will work quite nice this want to be a bit a little bit brighter so I'm going to cut that one through this color here so I'm just going to get those all cut okay so now that one is going to stick over the top there and I'm going to use some of my foam squares because I just want to give some dimension you can see on that one there that one is on some foam adhesive so I'm just going to pop some on the back okay so you can see now this is all coming together so that's going to stick there and then when that comes up and we'll have our happy birthday stamped with the same green border just like we've got there so now I'm going to make up the daffodil itself so let's just move this out of the way use my little die cutting machine for this one so these are all the pieces that you get so there's your outline there's your detailed center part then you have this tiny little one here all of your stems and this one here so they're all your little detailed bits there so you don't want to lose them but you should have one two three four for your flower and then three for the leaf in the stem okay so I'm going to grab all my yellows so my main background one I want to be a really nice bright yellow color so I'm going to go for this one here that's maybe a bit too bright so I do want it to match my papers so yeah I'm going to go for that one there I think that's lovely and then I'm going to go for a darker more orangey color on top so I'll probably use that one actually yeah that's fine and then I want a lighter you can tell these are from the last one I made actually that one and then I think that one will work yeah there we go you just want the three shades of yellowy orange color you can see there and even creams but play around because it even looks great with all different shades of pink or shades of blue so you know what I mean you can yeah make them however you want I don't really tend to follow the the guide that they give you but that's just how I work so I'm doing this freestyle so I'm going to do that one first in that color try cut a few of these all at the same time so that one is going to go on there then this darker orange here turn that down a little bit it's going to go like so and then I'm going to use this cream in there for this one and then this one here put this last piece okay so I can get them all cut through at the same time now on their own they don't look like much at all but it's all part of building it up which is what I was going to know obviously very good at and you can see there just how great it looks once it's all done next I'm going to while I've got my dye machine here I'm going to cut out my stem and leaf so I'm going to do that one there hang on a minute do I want them both dark yeah I'm going to do both dark and then a lighter one so that one and then I'm going to add this lighter green for the detail so again I'm changing it up a little here mind you though that one isn't going to go so I think I kind of need to use and I'm going to go dark and not lighter and keep that for the little frame for my sentiment because I want this to I want them to kind of match in terms of the stem so I'm going to just add that bit there run this one through okay so there's those pieces done there so now we just need to build it now the easiest way that I do this when I'm using anything intricate is I just use a non-tacky glue let's get rid of all of that build up there a non-tacky glue and again loads of you will know what I'm about to do now but I just lodge it on the back of my hand and this is my always my go-to never fails but you want a non-tacky because you want it to dry completely clear and you know not be sticky so there's my base this one here I'm just going to dab over the top and this way you don't get any large bits of glue either you just get a nice even amount and then you're just basically lining it up like I said use the guide if you've not used done it before they give you but it will fit in there perfectly like so now this one needs to go under this is one thing I didn't need to go under those three there so I'm just going to use my pokey tool just to make sure that all gets covered and then carefully again you don't need it you don't need a little bit of glue attached anyway that one's going to go there so you can just see that lifting up and then this one here pop down there and then this one goes right over the top you'll see the exact pattern of it below but again it does show you all this in the magazine but now if I bring that up look at that lovely daffodil love it okay so now we just need to build this piece here so again just a little bit of that wet glue and I'll get to peel this all off the back of my hand once it's all dry and then this goes literally from top to bottom and just follow the curve of the leaf and that glue will dry clear in a minute and then this piece here so I want mine to be so I'm going to have one that way one that way this one I'm going to have slightly higher pop a little bit of this glue on the back there put there so and this one's going to come up higher and I think what I might do is stick this leaf on once I stick it on the actual thing because I want them to kind of I'll mind you though I think I can do it now that's how it's going to look that's my kind of flourish so I'm going to stick that one down as well so you just want to pop a little bit of glue on the bottom just like so I'm going to have it quite hidden behind like that okay now what I've done is I've stuck this one and this one completely down onto this green piece and then this one here I've put some foam adhesive on the back of it again I just thought it was quite nice to just have that one kind of lifted up so I just pop one just across the back there like so and then I'm going to add a little bit more glue all the way along the back of that one because that's going to stick directly onto the paper so this one I'm going to put dead center I was centered as I can so about there make sure the rest of it sticks down and then these ones can just have glue all on the back again don't need too much just just enough and then this one I'm going to have well hang on I didn't think about that did I that's why I stuck these two down first one just lift that one up slightly bring it down a little bit and have it just there perfect and then this one here so I said when you want to make a reverse one you just flip the the paper over because it's plain paper so this one's facing in the opposite direction and that one is going to just clip under that one there and any glue you might see will disappear and then I've got my boat which I've already gone done and use some of my silicon glue here a little bit on the back stick that right at the very bottom the stem and look how pretty that topper is it's so cute so pop that one to one side now before I put this on I want to create my stopper so I've just got my stamp and my ink pad and then I'm just going to very you can use your any dies that you might have rectangle dies or your guillotine I'm just using my long scissors here just to cut a nice frame and then I'm going to use that same bright green both sides like so and then I've got my topper so let's just make sure that has all dried pop some foam on the back now it's entirely up to you where you want to stick it so I generally go about halfway and because I've got lines on this I can keep it nice and straight but you want that to kind of come about halfway across like so except it's up to you if you want to come down further you can but I'm going to stick this one right about I'm going to line up with that orange one there I think that's about right okay so now we've got a stopper and then I can stick this one there and it looks absolutely beautiful I love this so much so I'm going to just add some wet glue to half of this oval because you're only sticking half of it down so that the rest pops up close the card and stick this nice and centered and when it comes up there's your easel you can add some little you know sequins if you want I might add some nuvo drops or something here just to spit to fill that space but otherwise I think it looks absolutely beautiful look at them aren't they gorgeous really nice happy bright spring cards so yeah so that is my tutorial today nice easel card showing off those beautiful daffodil dies in that magazine like I said all those links and everything I've used today will be shared over on my blog and yeah be back again next week thanks for watching bye