 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is the last of my Valentine series, only five projects. I don't have a desire or a need to have tons of Valentine's things so I've just done what I need but I've also got the five from last year as well. So there's 10 lovely projects for you to look at and hopefully get some inspiration from and make. So this is the last one and this is a really really cute little acetate box, an explosion box with a nice little lid there. It's a reinforced lid and it just opens up and then this all opens up here and revealing these Hershey Kisses. Now I actually wanted the silver ones but they're out of stock so once they come in, because I think they're just the plain chocolate ones, these are white chocolate oreos. That one's open actually and they're delicious. I've been eating these. There's usually a lot more. Anyway, this is what it is. It's an acetate explosion box so there's no sticking with the base, it's just one piece. I did cut these bits but I'm not going to cut them on the next one because I actually prefer it without but it just all comes together like so and then your lid just sits on top so it's probably hard to really pick up but you can see. Obviously you can see there underneath it. This all see-through. It's just gives it just a different take on a box so I thought it was really nice and I just love the finish there on top with that lovely love. So I'm using obviously acetate so the sheets I'm using are Crafters Companion and they're available in the US and in the UK so I'll share all the links to those. It's really nice acetate to use and then everything else you're going to need is here. So the papers I'm using as I've been using mostly through the week are these dovecrafts XOXO papers from last year but as I've mentioned before I'll share the links to their current paper pack and from that I'm using these kisses here. So you need eight pieces because you want to do double so you've got obviously they're all stuck on the outside but because it's acetate you can seal the sticky tape from the inside so when you open it you stick them also on this side here so it also looks nice and I did think it would look good as well to do a heart on the bottom so maybe you could put this heart here and also have it on the bottom or a sentiment something that they would see once they've eaten or if it is sweets that you're going to put in there so I thought that was quite a nice idea for you to do. So you'll need eight pieces and these measure at two and a quarter by two and three quarters okay so eight pieces then I've got my lid so it just matches I brought out the red this time and this measures five and one-eighth of an inch squared okay so just one piece of that. The dies I've used for this here and I've used in a couple of projects this week is this one here it's from this nest of dies now I can't find it anywhere and I've had it a while but I'm pretty sure it is there's one more that should be in there as well it's an X cut nest of hearts anybody out there has this please let me know if I'm right or wrong because I can't find it anywhere online and I always like to try and share the links and this one I just cannot find for the life of me so if anybody has seen it you're always really good and you let me know it would be great if you could tell me that one so I've just die cut that heart and then I die cut this is a net is not necessary it's live, laugh, love and wish I believe and it's by Sizzix and again I'll show those links and I've just die cut it four times this time mounted it on top of each other and it's formed this really nice sentiment and that's going to go through the heart like so and then I've got these little that I've used these little heart encrusted embellishments and jewel encrusted hearts that I'm going to stick on that one there okay so that's those bits I got some foam to stick my heart down a double sided tape then the acetate so the main bit of the box so you can see it here I've already scored it so that you could see it because when it's not scored it's flat and you just it's not good for filming so this is a piece of 8x8 and what you want to do is score it two and a half on all four sides okay so two and a half rotate and you really want to you know really put some pressure into it really ingrain that score line because acetate is harder to burnish because once you open it up again it kind of then becomes it stays open until you burn shit again so you do need to really work it so two and a half on all four sides get rid of your scoreboard keep your stylus and then what you want to do let me just grab grab this red bit of card just to sit under here there we go that's a bit better so you got the three squares along the top here the four outer squares so one two three and four we're going to score from so this is that first square the bottom right hand side put your stylus down you're going to score out to the top left and again really work I just realized I've just ruined a nice bit of red card underneath now with this score line never mind so you can see that I've got a lot of pressure on that you want to create that score line there on that top left hand square then go to the top right hand side and you can do exactly the same again from the bottom left of that square up to the top right and again really ingrain that score line you can see I'm really doing it quite a few times so I really want to make sure I get a good impression so again you can see it there okay then rotate the whole thing again top left that top left square the bottom right of the square you're going to score out to the top left make sure think I was a bit wonky there slipped there we go like I said acetate is a bit harder to work with but you get really nice results it's quite a nice material to work with especially sticking the card on the top okay there we go now you can just about make it out you've got your three six nine squares and then the four outer so the four cornered squares you should have a score line going through okay kind of got a bit of a Union Jack flag kind of effect going on ish okay so now that we've done that you want to burnish it now what I would say first of all is is pick it up and actually pinch it first and put it into place because although I've burnished it heavily it's still hard to actually write that way to get it where you need to fold it there we go so I always pinch it first and then when I'm happy so if you fold it over itself then you can make sure it's lined up as well with each end and all the school lines okay so once that's all in place and I can grab my grab my bone tool there and then just really work that school line there we go see now it stays completely stays in place but as soon as I pull that and kind of manipulate it back it will you know kind of come out of his shape so you do need to keep playing with it a bit then again get the next one just pinch it making sure you've got it and then again like I'm doing line up your sides so they're nice and straight and then you know you've got it so just go around and just burnish all of those score lines you can see those now they're all nicely burnished then with these ones here on the cornered squares you want to fold so kind of bring it up like that okay and again make sure you get the the very kind of point and then just work it down to the inside there okay so you can see what I've done I just burnished by pinching it together there and then if you bring it just like I do with the boxes bring it over and you just want to make sure that this all lines up nicely here on the side okay so I'm sure happy that that's all in place then again get your bone tool and just lie that all down and then you can pinch that corner as well you can see now it's all starting to come together okay so again just go around just pinch all of those in there you have it so it is a bit little bit fiddly because it's obviously hard for you to see it here as well but if I bring that all together now you can see the box forming and these bits here with whatever you're putting in we'll just move to the side like so so it gives you a nice box so now you just need to decorate it so with all those bits and pieces so this side you know make sure you got it the right way out depending on what you your pattern is and you just want to go around and stick them all down on each side so I'll just show you this first one to start you off this is when they'll get stuck to me okay gosh where is it I was finding stuck to my clothes okay so there it is okay so again if I keep this red behind me so I think you can see a bit better you just want to make sure you get a nice you should leave you a nice little like one eighth of an inch border on all four sides so I'm trying to get the light so I can see that I'm doing it right as well okay so go around do that on all of the outside okay so I've done all of the outer ones you can start to see the box much better now and then what you want to do is do the same inside just lie it down and just spend some time really making sure that you get them completely lined up because you don't want to see you know the other side of either one so you need to make sure you get them exact so there you go now so you've got that on that side and it matches up nicely on that side as well so again just go around and put them all in the middle so now that's all done so that will all come in together like so okay so now we just need to finish our lid just gonna get rid of all of these pieces before they stick everywhere okay so we've got our lid here grab your scoreboard I usually do all my scoring together but I forgot to do the lid okay so this is your five and one eighth by five and one eighth and all you want to do is score at half an inch one inch four and one eighth of an inch and four and five eighths of an inch so you should have half an inch half an inch half an inch half an inch okay then rotate and again half an inch one inch four and one eighth of an inch and four and five eighths of an inch okay so that's now what you should have just that like grid effect get rid of your scoreboard and then just carefully go and burnish all of those score lines so now we'll burnish to just grab your scissors and just as I do all of my reinforced lids you want to cut up those two there so you've got that like you see here you've got that square big square in the corner and then four little squares just cut up each of those like so so you're going past the first score line to that second score line then you want to cut out those end ones completely and just take a little wedge off the corner there then cut that one out and again take some little wedges off of those and off of that one so you basically just formed a little tab so again on that one there rotate it cut that out completely cut that one out and then just take little wedges off so okay then rotate the whole thing so that's facing away from you and again cut down so that's now what you should have that shape there and then just grab some tacky glue and I'm just going to put some glue on the tops of these little tabs like so and then just bring it under bring this other side down and just stick them together there so you're forming a nice little corner make sure you get a perfect right angle just hold it there for a few seconds tacky glue is really quick there we go and then the next one okay and again pop that one down so it goes under and again stick it in place like so just repeat that on the other two sides those corners all in place and now you should have these larger tabs still hanging out so again you just want to fold it over a bit put some glue inside like so and then fold it over pop it on its side grab your bone tool and just rub it along there so you're really burnishing that score line and it's also spreading out all that glue and it gives you a really nice finish there on your lid so again just bring the next one over just a little bit of glue they don't need loads because you do spread it out once you squash it all down and again pop it on its side until it's all nicely stuck down okay and just repeat that again so that's my lid now nice little reinforced lids I'm just going to grab my heart and I've got some foam tape here so I'm just going to put a little bit of foam on the back that that's the end of that roll so just sit that nicely in the center of the lid and then I'm going to get some of my glue again okay so I just need to put a little bit of glue just on the main actual love word of this because the end bits actually don't end up touching the heart they kind of go off at the end so a bit like so there we go stick better in a minute and then I've got one of these just sit that slightly at an angle so cute so pretty and there you have it so I have in these are almond her she kisses and these are for my husband so he although he's very supportive he doesn't really watch my videos not enough to sit there and actually listen to me and listen to me going on and watch your box being made I don't you know expect him to it's not his thing so he won't see this so there you go that's packed now of those for him and then just bring it all together pop your lid on top okay isn't that cute so you do need to kind of hold it there because otherwise it's quite I've got a heavy thing in there so but I just I really like it I just think it's really different it's gonna look nice on the table and it's just a little a little treat little something with Valentine's Day so there you have it there's my two little acetate explosion boxes my last project hope you like it I'll link in all of last year's as well so you can see those but yeah hit the like button if you've enjoyed it I hope you've enjoyed this series and please subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye