 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 really sweet nurses uniform but it could if you change the colours it could be many other kind of key workers and things like that. So you could take out the retirement you could just have a thank you running along the bottom here. I've also used my NHS stamp which is from the creative stamps and I'll link the supplies to everything I've used in the description box below. These are some clip art images that I just took off the computer everything else is very straightforward to do and it's actually just a slightly different size version of the male shirt the shirt card that's what the tutorial was and I will link it up here and it will also be linked at the end so if you would like to see that one as well because the arm size is slightly different and I've done slightly different measurements and the collars a bit different and there's also buttons on that one really cute has a sentiment running along the bottom but I just wanted to show you a different way and how you can transform it into you know this nurses outfit and if you made it white you could make it into a doctor's jacket as well so loads of ways to do this very easy to do so let me show you how okay so first of all you're going to want your card blank so I'm using a five by seven card blank if you don't have pre-made cards then you can just cut a piece of ten by five and along the ten inch side just score it five inches and then you fold it in half and there's your card blank then I've just got a standard mat so this is four and three quarters by six and three quarters and that will go on the top it's this piece here that we will create most of the kind of shape really of the the tunic so I'm just going to grab my ruler here okay so what you want to do is along the top here with it in portrait orientation just come in both sides at one and a quarter inches so mark with a pencil at one and a quarter and then you can just mark with a pencil at three and a half because that would be one and a quarter from that side there you also want to mark the middle point so and that's at two and three eighths just in the middle there okay from that two and three eighth marker you want to come down two inches so I'm just bringing in this ruler because it's much easier to get a perfect straight line and you just want to put a marker to here and then just very lightly you're going to be folding this over you're not really going to see any of this but you can also just flip this over before we stick it down but I'm just putting a faint pencil mark two inches down there what we're going to do is we're going to cut down here and then we're going to fold across to these points here so very straight forward kind of you know process really it's just all the decoration that really turns it into that nurse's uniform so I'm just cutting down now you can cut down further you could have your lapel wider once you see how it's done there's so many ways to just change this so just cut down there and then I just want to fold across it's easy just to bring in your ruler you don't need to get your scoreboard out lie your ruler down from the pencil mark to the end of the cut line so like so and then I'm just going to pull it up and then just with my bone folder I'm just going to just kind of help that up now I'm going to attach this with some foam tabs so I'm going to almost you want to just put a little bit of a curl into it just between your fingers and your thumb just kind of have it so it curls over and then we're just going to add a little bit of foam and I just like that that dimension to it I just think it gives it a little bit more of an authentic kind of look we're going to pop another lapel so it's got you going to be a double lapel on this as well or double collar whatever you want to call it so then you want to do the same on here so I'm just lining up my pencil mark with the corner we'll end of that cut line and again just pull it over just really burnish that and again just kind of put a little bit of a curl into it now I've got this piece here because I want to because I want to back that so you know it looks like the inside of the tunic or the shirt but I've also got this NHS stamp and I want to stamp that so it's almost like I'm putting some branding on the uniform so if you're unaware of what the NHS is if you're outside the UK this is our national health service so that's what I want to stamp inside there so I'm going to I think I'm going to stick this down first and then I'm going to stamp it in my stamping platform so I'm just going to grab my glue here so I've got this stamp here which should just fit inside of there I'm going to use the VersaFine just to get a nice intense black stamped image okay so that's all done I'm really pleased with how that looks then I've got this piece here which is going to form the double lapel so this is one and a quarter by one inch and you just want to just cut it on the diagonal there so point-to-point in the trimmer and just cut that in half and I also need to put some white behind this as well and we'll do that in a moment so this is basically going to go how did I do it so I want it just like that we're going to stick one over the top now we will trim some little ends off it's kind of like you're kind of patching it all together but it's using you know things that we've all got you know even if you don't have a trimmer you'll have some scissors but we're just trim with snip little ends there but can you see how that just one sits over the other and it will give us that double lapel but I do want to put some white behind this because when you look on a nurse's uniform they always have like a white trim around here okay so this here is a piece of two and one eighth by one and three eighths and again you just want to cut it on the diagonal and I've made it just a little bit bigger but when you stick it down you'll have a white border like so and we can just trim that piece that overhangs but it's just a quick way to get a white border around your collar so I'm going to stick that down and just and then that one can go behind there so there's my kind of trim and then I'm going to stick now this one over the top so it's up to you how high up you want it you might want it so that it joins you know the point there but I like that you have this piece overhanging here so you know it's it's all a lot of this is down to a personal preference really and you know uniform colors might vary slightly and yours might have a detail that the leopard you might know exactly how the color of the uniform looks so you can obviously you know match it to that but and then I'm going to pop this one over this side so just make sure you get the same height don't worry about this bit at the bottom because we're going to change that up in a minute okay if I just bring it up you can see what I've done there what I've got so far okay before I start doing this next bit I'm going to get the arms stuck down and these pieces here these are two pieces of one and a half by two and a half again you might want to have different kind of lengths but I'm going to stick it so the point lines up with the point here but you might want it sticking out further like this you might want it you know really kind of tight like that it's entirely up to you I am going to put a white trim on this so if you do want to do the white trim and you want it like this then I'd stick the white trim on first but I'm going to have mine like so and this will fold in the arms fold in so that when the card stands up the you know the arms kind of stick out a little bit so I'm just going to pop some glue up to that corner there and again just kind of cover that area this is all going to get stuck down so you're not going to see any of the back of it so you don't need to worry about what it looks like but you can kind of move it a little bit now you know and decide I think that's quite good I like that so I'm going to do that one there just kind of make sure you have the same whatever the distance is there so it's it's half an inch so I want yeah that needs to just come in a bit more but make sure that point is always at the top there okay now I want to add some well I just want to add a very thin trim of white along both of these so they're one and a half wide so you just want to cut just something you know whatever color it is you're using and then I'm just going to do the like just over one eighth of an inch it's entirely up to you whatever you do one I just hold it up and then just sit that one next to it there because it's such a small measurement but it's about right so now I've got those two pieces there and then I'm just going to stick them about half an inch up on each of the sleeves which again you know I have used a picture for reference of a nurse and they're about there okay now again before I stick these down I am going to get this in place because I want to kind of have that piece coming down and then this one just kind of hidden you can see already now it starts to you know make it look like this nurse's uniform so I'm going to tack these down well I'm going to glue them down and then I'm going to put the foam behind here so they're kind of just lifted like that I need to put a little bit of a curve into it again because the white has made it obviously very straight when I added that so I'm just going to bring that down lay that in place and then I can start looking at where I need to put my watch and everything else it's want to have some pocket detail here as well so I'm going to well I'm going to start sticking all this down really because you know this is all down to everybody styles going to be different but I have then got a strip to go through the center there before I stick this sentiment down and I'll tell you about that in a minute so we just need to trim that up okay so if I just bring out that's that all stuck down but now I need to make it look like a tunic so I've got this strip here and I've put two on top of each other it's half an inch it's going to be trimmed but it's half an inch at the minute it's just a bit scrapped by seven and a half okay but what you want to do is you want it to go underneath whatever triangles on the top okay like so and then we're just going to trim these two little pieces here so it looks like it's attached to this side of the the collar so if it was to be taken off for example this side would lift and so it will sit for me it's going to sit slightly to the left but the the idea is is that this side here runs completely centered with the card that makes sense so I'm really trying to get it to look like this uniform but it's up to you you might just want to put buttons on here or so on but you can see that if I just line up this corner here this right corner with this with the middle part here that's where I want it to be actually so all I need to then do in a minute is I'm just going to trim this little bit here so I've done two just to give it some dimension I just think it looks quite nice like said you will trim trim off some of this but I'm just going to very carefully put that under there like so and then just lay this down nice and straight and I'm just going to bring in this ruler as I can line that up there and then I can make sure everything else lines up and then I'm just going to just very snip up nice and straight like so and then I just need to now snip over here make sure everything lies nice and straight okay so now I just need to do my pockets there so again I'm going to do I think half half an inch and I'm going to double them up so I've got that same kind of height so I think that looks quite nice so what I'm actually going to do is just put some glue on this so again this is half an inch by you know whatever length you need you know seven inches long but you know lots of you be doing so many different things there is no white trim on the pockets so but you could add that if you want the pockets to be a bit more defined but I'm just folding that in half while that's drying I'm just going to bring this in because that is going to run right along the very bottom and then the pockets will be just above that so that one can stick down there and again it's that full width four and three quarters and then I just kind of you know work my way down with the mats and the layers there the happy retirement mom I just printed off the computer because I've got happy retirement I've got mom but to have them all together and fit within this section it was just easier for me to print it out but I think it's coming together really nicely just need to add these pockets so I'm going to do yeah I think one and a half so we will end up trimming a little bit of it off so I'm just going to one and a half by half an inch okay so you'll want two of those again all the measurements will be on my blog now I'm going to lay this down so that the bottom corner lines up with the side of the yeah so this bottom corner is going to run flush with here so there be a little bit overhanging but I want it on an angle so I think out there but by having two layers of the cardstock it does lift it and make you you notice it more as a pocket and then again just this one here just going to snip that off there and I'm just going to trim that away a little bit there as well because that's overhanging okay and then all that's left to do is grab my card blank and this is going to sit perfectly and everything will be framed and I think that just really does pull it all together and just finish it off so you don't need to add glue on to this part we're going to fold those arms in in a moment once we stuck it down so you just want to run your glue all the way around here okay and then very carefully just bring up each of the arms and fold them because that's how you're going to pop it in the envelope and they can just kind of open them up you know the recipient when they get them when they open the card so yeah I think it looks fab really pleased with this one I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial today coming up now there should be a video with the male version so it's the man's t-shirt that I made maybe a couple of years ago now if you click on that box then that will take you to that tutorial if you'd like to see that version also if you 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