 Hi everybody, it's Sam from Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching today. Nan's back! Hi! So Nan has been visiting. A few days left and then she's going to be heading back. So we have got to do some crafting together. So my sister is in the other room with my mum, looking after my nephew Charlie. He's sleeping so fingers crossed there'd be no tears and yeah we're going to do some crafting today. So Nan actually wants to make a card for her other daughter. So this is the card we're going to make. So I showed this to Nan earlier, so I'll just cut this style here. Now this is not my design. There's loads of these on Pinterest. I actually saw, I think it was Jan B. So and it was a, it was either a four by six size or a five by seven maybe. I can't remember but I've done it as a six by six. So you can actually get two of these out of a sheet of 12 by 12. Once you see how to do it, it's very easy for you to shrink down. But you really like this unusual style, don't you? Definitely, definitely. It stands up and then we're going to probably have, I'm thinking something here, flowers. I've brought in these ones here because Nan loves flowers. Well everybody does really. So we're going to use the Bright Rosa Sunflower border flowers. So there's loads of different dies here which we will cut out and possibly the circle dies. The paper pad we're going to use is this one, Secret Garden, which is an oldie but a goodie. It's gorgeous. So I've already kind of done mine here. This is the one I'm just going to be decorating along with Nan in the greens. But I found this cardstock here, which you really like, don't you? And it matches really well with this collection. So if you've got the Secret Garden, I'll pop that to one side now that you've seen it. We'll get straight into the video. So you get all of these bits that you can add to the collection. I think this might be a mix of a few others but these are little wooden frames. So you might want to use or do something with the frames. We can do a little kind of decoration on the front. You also get these little wooden, it's a Wellington boot with a bouquet of flowers here. It's got a little sticker on the back. So we could always put that maybe like down in the bottom or something. It's entirely up to you because I know you like to bling things up a little bit along the way. And there's these little wooden hearts. This one says with love. Oh they're nice as well. And that one's a plain one. So but we could maybe, I don't know, we could do stuff with them. We could put glitter on them and things like that as well. So all you want to do first of all, so I want you to do this scoring now. And so this is a scoreboard. I don't think I've done the scoreboard with you before. I know. So basically there's all these score lines. Oh yeah. I don't remember this. You put this in the track and it will score. Now I know you might not be able to really work out those measurements along the top. So I'm going to kind of start you off. So you want to score at six inches on both sides. So I'm just going to keep it up there. I'm just going to start there. Right. If you want to hold this now. Right. You want to come up here with your hands. Oh, I forget you're left-handed. Yeah. Right. We're going to pop it in there. I'm going to go down with you. You just need to push down and hold it. All right. All the way down. Keep going. Can you see there's a line appearing? Oh yes. Keep going. There we go. And that's now our score line that we will be able to fold. Oh right. But we want to do another one. So again at six inches. So if you want to bring that up, I'll line you up. Well you almost, there we go. Push it really down and then just keep going. It's very clever. It's good, isn't it? That is new to me. That one. There we go. All right. So you should have four squares that are six by six each. So now we don't need the scoreboard anymore. So I'll get rid of that. And then it just, now if you want you could just cut, you could eyeball it. I can't actually get this in my trim. It's too long. We want to now cut from, you want to pop it on the diagonal like this. You want to cut from the top to the bottom but you might find it easier to put a little pencil mark first. So from your middle where they cross over, I'll do this quickly for you and then you can, oh my God, it's out. All that good. So that's okay. So we're going to do a pencil line there and then do one to this point here as well. So there we go. So this is going to be one card and then this side will be another card. So do you want to cut this? Or do you want me to cut it? Yeah. Well these are nice big long scissors. So you want to cut along that pencil line. All right. See how you get on. So yeah, those of you following this video, you just want to cut now right across this pencil line. All right, you're halfway, keep going. You're right perfectly. Yeah, keep going. Keep cutting. You're right on that pencil line. You're right, so it can't be that bad. Well, it doesn't look as though I'm on the pencil line. You're right on it. It doesn't look as though I am. That's the truth. All right, stop for a second. Let's just line you up. Look, go a minute. I'll just get you back on track. Just come off a little bit there. It's all right. There you are. Do you want me to just finish that off? Finish me off, that's it. Oh my God. Okay, right. There you go. So now you can see. Yes, I can. We've got our two cards. So next, let me grab my bone folder here. So where you'll see, can you just see those, make those score lines out? So we're just going to fold. I'll do this one, then you can do that one. So you just want to fold them across. Rub out any pencil line that we might have. We can do that in a minute. And then we're going to fold that one down. And now you can see we've got that got. That's good, isn't it? So with this one, all right. So if you want to fold that one over, you can just work out. Can you just kind of see? You're just creasing it along. I'll just bring that up for you. There we go. Push that down. That's it. And then grab that. And that will help you burnish your score line. So you just rub it along. Just rub it in. Yeah, just rub it straight down. That's it. And just go along. If you hold it, it might be easy if you just hold it like that. You can use any side of it. All right. We'll rub that pencil out so we can see that one. And then if I just start you up, there you go. Just want to fold that one over. That's it. Yep, all the way down. I've done it. Yep. And then burnish it. That way. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Just any side will do. But yeah, that's it. Perfect. So I'm just going to rub out our pencil lines. Okay, so we've now got our two cards here. So you can see when they fold down, nice and flat, they fit into a six by six envelope. All right. So next you want to prepare your mats and layers. So Nan loves the holographic card stock. Just as much as me. So you want a piece that's five and three quarters squared and then your pattern paper. You need that to be five and a half inches squared. Now this one you can cut nice and easily now. So we're bringing this one because you like this, don't you? I do. I think it's wonderful. So you want to pop your card stock in on the diagonal. So we've got it in a diamond shape. I will pop it in. So what we want to make sure is that the points sit perfectly on the blade like so. But what I want you to do is I want you to cut it. So with this here, you just want to make sure you push it against this blade and push it up at the same time. You want to push in and push up at the same time. My hands won't get, you won't cut me or anything. I'm going to hold the card in place. So towards me. Go on, go on. You're going over the card. Go on. Gosh. Look at that. All right. But you get a perfect cup. So we do that again now with this piece. So again, I'll hold it in. Now this time you're just going to pull it down. But again, the same motion. Hold on a second. Let me just line up. Right. Okay. So push towards me and down. Keep going. Perfect. Oh, that's good. There we go. That's our mats and letters. Now also, if you want to mat inside, we'll do that off the video. You want a piece of white card stock that's five and three quarters squared. And that's where you'll be able to write your message. But we'll do that after the video. Okay. So I'm now where you are. So I'm going to bring this one in because I've prepared all of these pieces the same. So first of all, we want to stick down the holographic card and we're going to stick it over the top of this one here. So you'll just have a little border and then this one here, a little border. I'm just wondering whether we could trim it down a little bit. So you've got a bit more of a border because I think I went a bit smaller on mine. Yeah, I did. I'm just thinking, I'll put a little thing up in the video, but I reckon you could actually take this one down to five and a half. So those pieces there could actually be five and a half squared for the mat layer. And then for your pattern layer, this would be five and a quarter. So we'll just take a little bit off those because I thought we could have gone a bit bigger. That's why I changed it on this one, but there we go. So I'll pop that in the video. So now we'll try again. So that one will go, yeah, so you get much more of that border and then we'll pop that one will go down like so. So I will give you the, this glue here, but you might not be able to see it because it's a clear glue, but I'll be able to tell you. So I'm going to turn this over. I'm going to hold it. Get the glue coming out and you want to squeeze it. Sorry, use your hand that you would. I keep putting it in your right because I'm thinking that your right hand is, but you're not. You're left. Oh, we're just dripping a bit. That's all right. You just want to start just cover the back of this card. Squeeze the glue. Sit, go all over. Come up into the, I'll just go around the edges for you there. Now you want to stick this one. If we open it up, I think it's going to be easier. Flip it over. You want to stick that into that triangle with a nice border. You were quite good for doing the lining all this up before. So if you work on this point here, where your hand is with the point, we come across and I want to make sure people can see. If we just come up a bit, there we go. So you want to come down here a bit. There, right? Just move it down a little bit. There we go. Yeah, I think, yeah. How about that? Oh, that's good. Yeah, I think that looks okay. Yeah, perfect. And then we open it up now and come down this side. So again, if you want to squeeze, if I get it going again, because I think I need to fill this up. Coming out. It is. Yeah, I keep going and I can always, I can always just go over the edges. Come up all over this side here and just go around this edge a little bit here because you're going to be posting this, so we don't, we want to make sure none of it's going to come off whilst it's traveling. There we go. So again, you want to stick this one in this section here. Why? Right. All right. Got it. Come down this way a little bit. Keep coming down. I think going, yeah, that's it. And then we can just move it. If you then move it down, just turn it this way a little bit. There we go. Do you want to pull it down a little bit towards you? There we go. Yeah. Yeah. And we can just wipe away any glue. The good thing with this glue is if you rub your finger over it enough times, it all comes away. Oh, it's really, really good stuff. There you go. Got a few bits there. I always say to people, if they get any glue on this lovely mirrored card, let it dry first and then just wipe it with a tissue. But now, look how good that's looking already. Just go in, just burnish these score lines again. And that will just make sure that it's going to fold, kind of hang. We want it to drop down. Once that opens it, just, it's good, isn't it? So that's that one. So I'll do mine in a second. Now with this one here, this is going to go over the top and give you that lovely border. But with this one, I wouldn't, I mean, you can use this Kalau glue onto this, but it just take a bit too long to dry. So what we're going to do is we're going to put some double-sided tape on the back of this one. So do you want to do, can you do this, do you think? So it's just double-sided tape. Oh, Troy. So if I do it, if I start you off, so you're going to do like that and then it, you can just rip the end. So if you push your finger down where you want it to stop. So if you do one all the way down this long one here, come up into here so people can see again. So if you start it, if I start you off right at the edge here, there we go. Then run it right the way down to that end. That's it, keep going. And then put your, put this finger now at the end. No, no, no. On, just push your finger down like that. Oh, Troy, yeah. On there and then rip it up with this side. Come on, come on. There you go. That's good, isn't it? Yeah, it's quite handy, isn't it? Then again, if you want to do one down that side there. Okay, so we've both finished our mats and layers. Do you like yours, Nan? Sorry, do you like it? Oh, I love it. Open it up. I'm extremely pleased and I'll feel very clever that I've done it. That one opens like that and then that one. That I've done it. That's it. So that's everything ready. We did put some card in the middle in the end. So yours is already and then there's the green version there and then again opens up like so. So we were just looking and deciding kind of how we want to do our decoration. So we're thinking a circle on the front and Nan's going to use this sentiment here, which I love as well and it's the happy birthday to you on this special day. May the warmest of wishes all come your way. Nice, yeah? I love it. And it's the card making magic versus. Very nice. So with that in mind, we'll do some stamping in a moment. I don't think, did we do stamping before? I don't think, well maybe we did do a bit. No, I think we might have done a little bit. I'm not sure. Will you ask that? I can't remember. No, my memory's terrible as well. Right, so we need to think about the size. See, that would be nice. That would work quite nice. That is nice. So I'm thinking, because you want to have the matching circle in this color, which we can do and then white so that we can stamp the message and then we could build up lots of flowers around the outside. How do you like the sound of that? So kind of be like a bit of a floral kind of wreath or something. So I think that size and then we'll probably drop down one. Yeah, and that still fits perfectly inside there. So I'll just give the measurements so that if anybody wants to do similar. So the largest circle we're going to use is going to be about three and a half inches diameter and then this smaller one, and these are stitched ones that I've got here, is it's about three and one eighth. Whatever your nested circles, I know three and a quarter sorry, drop down by. So we're going to get these cut in our matching card stock and then we'll be back. Oh, do you want to take these off? Go and take that one off that metal. That's it. Go and take it all away. So it's cut that circle. Go and take all that off. Oh, you take it. It does get, I've got an old plate. Hang on. Okay, so now that's lovely. That will go over the top with our stamped message. Oh, and that will go in the middle of your card. Oh, lovely. Nice, isn't it? Very, very nice. So I'm just going to quickly cut mine. Okay, so we have die cut our circles. You thought that was pretty impressive, didn't you? Oh, I did. That die cutting machine. Oh, I really did. So we're going to stamp our sentiments. So Nan's going to do a bit of stamping. So we need to get this one here. And these are just some magnets to hold it in place. We're going to pop the card stock there, pop a magnet there and one there. And then we want to get your stamp. And we're going to pop that just like so. Now, if you bring this over, close it like a book. That's it. Push down on that stamp on this one. Now lift it back up again. That's it. Now that's in place for us to add. No, no, no. I'll put your ink on it. We've got to put the ink on now. Oh, sorry. All right. So what we're doing now is I want you to, so we've gone for the Harmony Quick Dry Pale Fig. So I want you to now ink that onto there. So that's the ink pad. Don't try not to get your fingers on that. No. Do you want to hold that? And you're going to stamp it onto there. That's it. Push down. Make sure. Yeah. Now lift it up. There we go. Look at that. I think we can do it twice. And that's the good thing about using this device. So I'm just going to add it for you. Right. Do you want to close it again? Close that again. Try not to get fingers on it. This little bit here, I've got a little. That's all right. You want to see and then turn it over. That's it. Push it down. All over. Give it a good old. Really push on that stamp. That's it. And then lift it up again. That's better. Oh, look at that. Nice, isn't it? That is so clever. No, no, I'm so impressed with it all. I don't know if people can see. Let me just I'm going to hold mine as well. So we've just stamped our sentiments and how impressed are you? Oh, very, very impressed. Got really excited. Yeah, I did. Like a little child again. I think it's that stamping platform. It's really good. So yeah. Okay. You can put your hand down now. Right. So next we are going to attach these. I think we're going to use some foam because those that follow me know I love to put everything on foam. So we're going to lift them up on some foam and then they will end up going into the centers of our card, which I think is going to look lovely. And then we're going to finish it off with some flowers and I think you might like Nuvo drops. So what I've got here is some new foam. Sorry if you can hear the baby crying in the background. I think he's just woken up or he needs to go back to sleep maybe. I'll do mine and then you can do. In fact, if you want to try and take some off, you just, you see how they are there? They're little double sided sticky tabs. So if you just follow them from where I've started, taking a few off there and then there's two more there. So if you want to stick that one just there, just there. That's it. Yep. And then that one. Yeah. Just there. Perfect. Yep. That's fine. And what that will do now, I'll just take mine off, is it will give us that dimension. I'll try. All right. About there. Yep. Yep. Squeeze it down. Come on. That's it. And what will happen now is that foam, you see how it's lifted it? Oh yes. Yes. Nice, isn't it? Just gives you again just a little bit more dimension to the card. So now we need to decide whether you want to have it half stuck to the top one. So it's like that or half stuck to the bottom one. So it's like that. Oh, I don't mind either way, I think. I'm thinking on the top. Yep. Okay. No. I'll stick mine down and then we can see. Not better a professional than myself. Yeah, but it's also down to what you prefer. Yeah, I know. I'll leave it to you. Either way, it looks all right to me. Let's see. Well, we want to make sure it's in the middle, so I'm going to lie this flat. You want to make sure, yeah, you don't want to get any glue onto that side, obviously, where it's not going to stick. Oh, that's lovely. Because it kind of rests on that as well. So yeah, we're going to stick it on the top one there. All right. And then it opens up like so. I'm so pleased with that. It's nice, isn't it? Well, if you're really good, I'll let you keep this one to give to someone else as well. So you can have that one for another person and then, you know, this one would just be a happy birthday card so you can give it to a friend. And then this one, obviously, we're going to add, we're going to add daughter to this inside after the video, but we'll keep it like this for the minute. So I'm going to just put the glue on the half that you need and then you can stick it down. Okay, so do you want to stick that one? If I kind of go and hold it, you hold it and I'll guide you. That's it. So if you come up, keep it straight, come down towards you a little bit about there. Is that it? Yeah, I think so. The glue's only on this half. That's lovely. I think that's about right. Hold it up. I'm so pleased with that. We haven't decorated it yet. That's the best bit. It's come in the long, very nice. And then if we lift it up, got a little bit of glue there, but again, this glue is so nice, you can just rub it away. Yeah, it's good. Like so. And that will just disappear. There we go. They look nice. Really, really pleased with those. So we're now going to go and dye cut all of the flowers. And what I think we have, we take a few of these out so people can see, since the bright rows of sunflower border flowers, but I thought we could have not that one because we don't want the cluster. They're too big. But I thought these individual ones, we could dye a couple so you can have a flower there and you could have a couple down here kind of built up. And we could do... Yeah, that's lovely. And we're going to cut them in the same purple colour. So we can do yours in this colour here and we'll put some nice bling in the centres of it. I think that'll look really nice. So we're going to go and get all our flowers ready and then we'll be back to stick them down. Okay, so we have just been enjoying doing some dye cuttings and Nan's been shaping flowers, which you really enjoyed, didn't you? Oh, I did. And then she's got these ones here. I've got the same ones as well, but we dye cut these. These are all those bright rows of flowers and we're going to put embellishments in them. We just layered them up and we've also cut some of these leaves, which match and I just think it's all going to finish off nicely. The Nuvo drop that I think is going to match well is the plum pudding. So that's the one we're going to use. Got some embellishments to the centres of the flowers and possibly we'll pop a ribbon on as well. I've got a few colours in here that I think will match really nicely. So we've got the glue. We'll use this glue here because it's quite a quick grab. So we want to kind of display the flowers so that it doesn't interfere with the sentiment because you want to be able to obviously read what it says and these will fan out a little bit when we do it. But how do you want these? So I mean you kind of play around because we're just placing them for the minute. I'm just going to place mine where I think. So I always tell everybody, lay your stuff down first. So you're going to have yours all dotted around like that. Yeah I think so. And then I'm going to have things like the little leaves. As long as she can read what says on there. We're going to go a bit like something like that. Okay so if you want to, if I've got the glue on for you, you want to make sure you stick everything on the circle because otherwise it's going to, this might not open. So stick that where you wanted it so I think you want to put it there. Oh not on the, make sure you don't get it on you. There you go that's it. With this glue once it's down that's kind of it. So you still want to be able to read obviously a happy birthday. There we go. And then again if I put a bit of glue on that one for you and you stick that one down. Keep like shaking your head in amazement. The end product, I think that's the word. Yeah. It's wonderful. I'm glad you've enjoyed it. You said you've learned a lot today didn't you? Oh definitely. Oh you've been wonderful to teach. Oh bless you. You've been a very very good teacher. Oh bless you. You are. You have. This is the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen. Lots of people would have seen me use this before. Just give it a good shake. Right so basically if I do it online first it's clear but it's full of glitter. So when it dries it will leave. Can you see that sparkle that's starting to come on? Oh yes. Gorgeous. You see it? Yes. And you can keep layering it up. Can you see all that sparkle? So you just want to literally paint it on and it doesn't matter where it goes you can get it on here. It's it's it's not going to damage your card and it dries clear. So do you want to if I just get some more coming out for you? There we go. And just literally just brush it all over your flowers. Yeah hold that maybe hold the card might be a bit easier for you to if you hold the card. Look at that. Oh yeah. Yeah just cover all your leaves. And it's just coming out. Yep. You don't have to squeeze enough. It's just coming out. I don't know if I'm doing it all over but. And then what we can do now is just lift your flowers up and just give them a bit more shape. I get this little pokey tool I can get right in there just kind of move some of the petals around. You can curl them up as well but it just helps just yeah bring everything together and then I'll pop a few of those Nuva drops because I just think it's just I love it and it'll give that person something else. But look if you open that up now how pretty is that? Oh bless it. She just rubbed my face. Isn't it gorgeous? Such a pretty card. So what I'll do for you is a very very tiny really small couple of little dots and it would just these will dry rock hard but it just adds another little fun. So clever. I can't get over that. It's lovely. Okay so we have finished our card so I'll just bring up my one there just so you can see all that dimension. We've added a few Nuva drops just for some more texture and then the card will open up for you to write your message. You can see as we showed before they stand up really nicely and now Nan the best one do you want to bring it up? There we go. Do you want to just move it around slowly? That's it. So everybody can see all what you've done. I think it looks wonderful. Are you pleased? I'm so proud. Just keep it straight just so we don't want those Nuva drops dropping. Beautiful. So have you enjoyed it? I thoroughly enjoyed it. Bless your heart. You're welcome. What was the best bit? I think putting the flowers on and then being cut and yeah you like that. Oh I like that and then putting these little bits on these I'll call them pearls. Yeah they are. Yeah they're flat back pearls they're just sticky embellishments. I'm over the moon. I'm brilliant thralled. That's the word. You're lovely you are. You're so cute. So that is another series or episode should I say of Crafting with Nan. It's our third one now and what did you say before? I think I might leave it in the video but you said this is your favorite one isn't it? Your best card? Yes the one I was pleased with at first but it seems as though I'm getting better every time. You are getting better every time. You wait till mum sees that she's going to be really jealous. So we're going to say goodbye and thank you for watching I'm sure there's going to be many of you that are going to leave some lovely comments for Nan and I'll make sure that she gets those. Nan anything you want to say? I just want to thank you for taking interest and I've got a wonderful granddaughter and a very very lovely good teacher and thank you for watching. Thank you there you go I've got nothing else to say thank you for watching and I'll be back again soon with another video. Bye. Do you want to wave in the camera? Bye.