 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is another Valentine's project and this one here is this very cute little box which looks pretty normal, standard 2x2x2 box from the outside. However when you open this one up at the front it's got a really nice little open and close here and inside it's got a jigsaw puzzle and some Hershey kisses for that person to eat whilst they're doing the jigsaw. So I'm not going to piece this all together whilst I'm doing this one but this is a picture of me and my husband on our wedding day in black and white. It all works, it all fits together perfectly, I've done it myself and I just thought it's just a really cool quirky fun little Valentine's treat. This would also work well for all kinds of things. I can imagine this on a like a hen party dinner and you could have some really funny pictures of the hen or just of pictures with your friends, wedding favours. There's just so many great ideas with this. I think it's such a lovely little thing and it's a cute little box because it's not a massive jigsaw it's 20 pieces so again it's not too you know it's just a bit of fun and I just thought the Hershey kisses were a nice touch to that so I'm going to show you how to make all of this so let me just pop all of these back inside this little box and it's a nice little keepsake size I mean my husband keeps little bits and pieces in his bedside drawer so no doubt this will end up going in there once he's eating the chocolates so pop all those in there and then it just closes down and just seals up and then what I've done here is this is a wood veneer which I've heat embossed with black heat embossing powder and it just gives it a really nice look there and it's all nice and raised nice little 3d look there so quite simple in decoration so to make this one you're going to need this dye here now this dye was given to me by a lovely lady called Anne she gave it to me way back last year and I've been waiting to do this project I've had this in mind for a while to do it as a Valentine project you could also dye cut this pop it in an envelope and you could have sentiments like you're my we fit together perfectly or you're the final piece there's loads of really fun pun quotes that would work well with the jigsaw and again I'll try and find those and share the links so I don't know where this one is from but I will find out and again I will share as many links as I can for you but this is a 20 piece jigsaw dye so you will need one of those then I've got I'm going to do the box first and then I'll show you the picture and and and all the dye cutting okay so the card size you're going to need is eight and a half by six and a half and really straightforward scoring you're going to score at two four six and eight okay that's along the eight and a half inch side then rotate and you're then going to score at two four and six so you should be left with a half an inch tab on the long side and on the short side there okay get rid of your scoreboard keep your stylus and just grab a ruler and what you're going to do I've already stuck these pieces on which I've talked you through in a minute I just got ahead with some of the plan prep for this video so you want to have the tab from the shortest side on your right hand side and then the tab on the longest side up the top okay now the first square the top left hand square here you want to mark with a cross from corner to corner if I just bring that up into the light there can you see I've got this cross I've just scored okay so which you get your ruler and your stylus pop it in the one of the corners there and just score up and then again the other corner down to the bottom and score so you're just creating a cross then leave this one empty and then you want to do that cross again in the third one so you do the first one leave one next one leave one okay that's all the other scoring you need to do so again let me just hold that up so you can see there what I've done okay so two crosses scored then I've stuck my decoration down so these are all the sides these measure one and three quarters I believe square yep one and three quarters square then this one's the lid that's going to fold down so remember you want that facing this way and all of those are facing up you can put it on when you put it together I've just decided to do it this way right then you want to burnish all of your score lines so just go through and fold all of those score lines okay like so then we just need to do a bit of cutting so first of all along the bottom here so you've got those two that you've just scored you've got four plain squares along the bottom cut off that end tab okay so just remove that and just cut on a little angle there and then just cut up each of these and just you don't have to but just try and remove any of that lumpy score line that you've scored in it which just means as I always say you get a nice finish with your box you can see that I'm just taking a very small sliver off each time just removing that score line okay so that's the base there so you can see how much I've cut out then back onto the side here and we're going to cut this whole one out like so actually you need to remove all of that one yeah and then we're going to cut along here really neatly because this is the front okay and then you want to cut down again very neatly like so okay then cut along this one and cut that one out and just cut it very slightly there on the angle just to create a little like tab and cut that one out as well very neatly and you need to cut these out sorry I'm not concentrating very well then so that's what you'll have okay the four on the bottom little tab here these two that you've done your crossing what you're going to then do is actually cut so this line here is just to cut along you want to cut all the way up to that one so so let me just hold that down so that is the shape that you want okay so four four in the middle tab these two triangles this little one okay so that's what you want then with these ones here just flip it over fold that in half and just lift it up put your finger on one on that like one triangle lift it up and it will form this little right angle and then you can just grab your bone tool and just burnish that okay and do the same on the other one so fold it in half put your finger down on that one and bring it up and again just burnish that and now you will see when that all comes around like so that is going to fold down to be the top of the box okay so now we can put some tape on here so I'm just using some red tape just because I'm using white card when you use tacky glue even with the the glue erasers and stuff you sometimes you're still prone to getting dirty marks on it and stuff so I'm just trying where possible I'll use it for the bottom to stick that down but I'm just going to use my red tape for this piece and just remove that fold that tab over bring this side round and just fold it in half and you should get a nice join like so okay so you can already see now that I come down that will go in like so it forms your box it will stay down once we do the bottom so that's the front so you want to stick this one down last so I'm going to pop one of my sides in just grab my glue here again just focus in on the edges stick the opposite one down so and then again and then stick that back one down and then this from one will go down last it just gives you a nice finish visually makes it look nicer from the front okay so again fold that one down turn it upside down and then you can grab a ruler pop it inside and just spread all that glue out make sure it's all nicely stuck down okay so that's all stuck down and then you can just slide your lid in and you've got your box there okay so that's all done then you've got the little veneer to go on the top so these are all the wood veneers I've got now the love that I've used I actually used the last one and didn't realize so I've die cut these ones here these are the little dies that I've used and I die cut each one four times I'm not sure which one I was going to use so four times layered them up to create these hard little decorative sentiments and then what I'm going to do is just show you how I do it but just grab some scrap card sorry the sun's just coming in now so I'll quickly do this I might have to just move a little bit there a minute so you literally just verse a mark the front so I'm just putting the whole of my pad over the top of that like so and just flip that over pop that there then I've got my black embossing powder this is just paper mania and then I'm just going to sprinkle it over I just want it easy to do this way like so then I've got a pair of tweezers just going to lift it up and I'm going to pinch the side of it rather than the front like so shake off any excess don't worry if you catch it because I'm actually going to be doing it twice so there we go okay and then I've got my heat tool here just get it nice and hot okay so I don't know if you can pick up there but look how shiny that's gone but see it's a little bit mottled it's got it's got not hasn't got a smooth edge yet so let that just set give it a few couple of minutes just to set and then do it again and I've done it actually three times and then it gives you that beautiful smooth effect so it's really really nice so I'm just going to carry on and do that okay so I've done both of those and like I said put the embossing powder on three times you can see now you get a really lovely shiny finish so that's going to go and decorate either there on the top or on this I know probably not on the side probably put it on the top there you can see it more in real life rather than but you can see how it's going to look nice or I may go for that one across the top there I'm not too sure yet anyway that's those bits done so then onto the actual jigsaw itself so I made one mistake when I done this at the beginning and basically so what I've done or what you need to do is die cut three die cut the jigsaw three times on some separate card because you want to layer it up to make it nice and thick now you if you want you can just keep it as one layer but it just becomes quite flimsy so unless you're using a very thick card that this will cut through you might have to add a few shims on your machine and you're happy just play around if you're happy that the jigsaw sits together quite well but I just find if you die cut this just on one piece it just it doesn't stick together it doesn't click in properly like a jigsaw does so if you layer it up and I find three times on card and then the picture itself so it's almost four layers that gives you if I show you one of the jigsaw pieces you see here you see how thick that is and you can hear they're like proper you know proper thick cardboard jigsaw pieces now so they click into each other really nicely so have a play around see what cards you're going to use and then you can obviously work out how many you want to do now the other thing also is although basically once you start cutting it out there's a lot of the pieces are the same size when you find a duplicate so like the two corners there they're the same but they're just mirrored same with the top ones and then this one here is the same as that one there so there's a lot of same pieces however they are slightly different I guess because what I done is I die cut it and then just picked it all off they were all messed up and then when I was putting it back together again it just didn't seem right so what I would say is is die cut one of them so I'll pop this one through first and then you want to make sure that you keep it in that sequence so when you take it off your thing here so you can see now so mine is all on the mat still so when I take this off I want to make sure that I keep it exactly in the same way and in the same direction so I need to remember that this is you might want to put a little marker on the top so that you know that each time you're you're die cutting so I know that that is that way so now when I die cut the next one I'll keep it up that way the next one have them all lined out and then when I do the photo which I will do let me just take this off here quickly you just want to make sure that you've got it all in order so you need to be a bit organized with this because you don't want to cut them all out and then find that you can't put it back together again so let's just make sure they're all in order there okay so I'm actually just putting a little black mark there on the top of it so I know that that is the top so I would die cut that one again lay it out and then die cut that one again and lay it out and then the photo I'm going to pop in there I'm not going to show you the photo too much because it's of my sister and her husband so I don't want to expose them if they don't want to be on my YouTube although my sister doesn't mind okay so I'm just making sure I get a nice cover of the photo there all my sister's dress I don't want to cut off Olly's head there we go so again the top so I know how what pieces will obviously match with this when it's all done so I think that's okay sit that on top and run that through so just take these off I know that that is this top part here is this end here so again I can lay it all out but if I just remove that now you'll see got a lovely jigsaw so if I can just turn that over this one I think comes off yeah pretty much whole and then I just used tacky glue and stuck them all together so this is the most time-consuming bit but it obviously depends on stuck to my board it depends on how many layers you want to actually do for your photo for your puzzle even so I'm going to take the rest of this off I definitely need a new board okay like so so then I now know that that was cut with this I need to make that black mark better I'll put a little sticker on there is this end here so I know that that's this this layer here is this side here so then what you do is just grab one of your pieces stick it on top of there stick it on top of the next one stick it on top of the next one so what I'm going to do is I'm going to do these two first so I don't get confused then I'll die cut another base put that one on and die cut another base and put that one on and it's just a bit easier that way so I will be back when they're all done okay so there you go I've stuck all them so I've die cut it four times and then stuck them including the picture all on top of each other now you can hear they're really really strong and you can start putting them together so you can see there you get a really nice little game so again this would be great for kids party favours as well um little party bags sorry imagine the kids having them with maybe a polaroid picture of the party or I don't know I'm just throwing out ideas there but I'm not going to do it all but there is the puzzle starting to come together so I'm going to jumble that all up now and the box you can see there I've just finished it off with that little um wood veneer which I heat embossed on top so I just need to open up my box I've got my Hershey Kisses I just thought they're very apt for this project and there you have it some really really nice little Valentine's gifts so you can add them on your dinner table if you're going to do a nice meal um or like I said it doesn't have to be for Valentine's but there you have it those two really cute little boxes so I hope you enjoyed this tutorial from me today please hit the like button if you did and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye