 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this really nice shadow box card and it's got a belly band and it's got two little kind of gatefold closure on the top here and I think it's absolutely adorable so you just slide off the belly band like so and then as you open it up I bring it up it reveals this really very pretty little bit different for me I love this style this real kind of shabby sheet and I've used these paper flowers and the doily and stuff so it's again very straightforward and all these papers are from Nature's Grace by Dovecraft and yeah I just think it's really lovely so we've got Mother's Day literally days away so this is a Mother's Day one but the one I'm going to be making is a happy birthday one so it just closes up obviously this stands up perfectly so that's how it would be you know how it would be displayed and then you just close it all up so this is your envelope and that just sits over the top how lovely is that so it's a really nice special card so pop that to one side so you're going to need all these bits and pieces here so this is the let me grab because that is the paper I'm using today because I've already scored that so this is the paper pack again I'm getting lots of good use from this you get so many sheets 36 sheets I've used loads but I still feel like I've got tons and tons and tons and yeah Dovecraft so again share all those links just pop that to one side okay so I am using this kind of mustardy yellow one I've got all my bits and pieces a lot of it's all prepped and then these are all the flowers I don't know how or where I'm going to put them all yet I've already done again I've done all the bits that I think you don't need to watch me but I just die cut this one I've die cut the because this is a slightly darker purple this is the belly band strip again I'll talk through that in a minute but I've already done all of this in preparation so and this is going to be the happy birthday all of these bits are the matching like accessories so this is the sticker set which is these foam stickers really really lovely so I've used them on a few bits I use these also on the sweet wrapper gift box that I used I use that and the papers and then these flowers I just think are just so cute and I've put some little sequins on there as well so you can do whatever you want there these here I picked up from any crafts a pound website and they were I think 25p each and you get 30 in each pack so I'm going to use a gold one and the same as what I did before but I love doilies I've got lots of white ones but I hadn't had any in this silver or the gold and yeah they're just absolutely gorgeous and great for cards so put those ones back in there do that all a bit better in a minute and then like I said there's the silver ones there as well they're just really lovely so again I'll share all the links to that so let's go through what you are going to need so one sheet of 12 by 12 is going to give us our main shadow box so this on its own once I talk through it is a lovely gift and I've done I've done a photo frame and I've done the gift box for it with a shadow box and I'm not sure if I've done a tutorial I did do a beautiful gift for a friend it might have been before my YouTube actually I think it was but I'll show you again what we do there then you need I've got the same paper so I've cut into now another piece of the 12 by 12 to give me these four so yeah because I've stuck these ones already down so you need four of two and three-quarter by five and three-quarter pattern paper okay and then you need two pieces of three and three-quarter by six because the whole width of the shadow box is six by six and these are our two kind of doors that are going to open up like so and then from the same card that I cut this purple out from was from a sheet of 12 by 12 you then need one piece of 12 by one and this is for our belly band okay and then obviously whatever it is that you're going to have the background the biggest die that I cut is the same color as the belly band okay but again it will all make sense as we go along so it's again it's a very easy project lots of bits to it but it's not hard so I'm going to flip it over so you can hopefully see the score lines a bit better there some very easy scoring first of all you're going to score at let's get this line there we go three quarters of an inch one and a half inches two and a quarter and three then go all the way across and score at nine nine and three quarters ten and a half and eleven and a quarter then rotate and score again at three quarters of an inch one and a half two and a quarter and three and then again at nine nine and three quarters ten and a half and eleven and a quarter okay then go back again to the original score lines that you've done and you want to score again at three and three quarters but just down to the second score line so you're going to pass the first one down to the second and then score again at eight and a quarter again pass that first score line and down to the second so let me now just bring this up to the camera and there you can see this is that so you've got one two three four full score lines the fifth one you're just scoring pass the first down to the second score line and then go along and you can see again here you've got one two three four and then the other one just down to the second score line you then want to repeat that down on the opposite side so that's where we've just scored rotate it right the way around so you've now got the opposite end up here and just score again at three and three quarters down to the second score line and eight and a quarter down to the second score line okay that's all of that scoring we've furnished it in a minute then with these two purple pieces here so these are your three and three quarters by six you want to score along the three and three quarter inch side at three quarters of an inch just all the way down three quarters of an inch okay so that's all of the scoring done so now just burnish both of your purple pieces you have two or whatever colour you're using you have two of those get rid of the scoreboard okay so now we can carefully burnish all of this now this is just a strong paper because it's reinforced and it's a 3d box cube box kind of thing that we're making even this kind of paper is perfect for it because it does become very strong so but even a good card stock is good as well so I'm just going along and just burnishing all of those score lines you can't do the little score line that's actually just a gauge a guide for us to cut down so come to that one in a minute so now get yourself a good pair of scissors I want my snip kind of ones here and I'm going to flip it over because you can see all those burnished score lines now what we want to do is along let's actually start so start along the side where you don't have those little score lines so that's my little ones that go down past that first and then to that second score line you want to start along the side that doesn't have that okay so what you're going to do is you will have one two three and four on that fourth score line in from the left hand side you want to cut all the way down now I'm cutting slightly off to the right hand side so I'm removing the bulky score line I'm not having it in there so that the bulkiness is on this side that I'm going to be cutting away okay and then rotate it around this way and again come in so one two three onto the fourth score line now from the left hand side and just cut all the way down I'm doing this so it's easy for you to follow there are other ways to cut it but I want to make this really really simple so what we're doing there is removing that whole quarter so again come to the next piece now and now you know what you're doing basically it's that whole large square with all these little squares inside okay so again I'm going to cut all the way down and just remove the score line it's that one go around to the next side and even though you've scored on these pieces they're still good for your scrap draw because you can still use it to die cut like flowers and stuff or like detailed pieces because a lot of those score lines get flattened once they're run through your die cutting machine so if you are one of those people that likes to keep all your bits and pieces you can still use these okay so now you should have that effect okay now the ends where the sides sorry where we've got this extra little score line that we cut what we want to do now is cut down it again I'm cutting so I'm cutting the left hand side here but I'm cutting that score line out again so you want to cut down to the second that's one two cut down and then you're going to cut across on an angle to the next one so here we've got this first score line here second score line here third and fourth you're cutting down to where you scored so there's my one if I flip it over I'll probably see it a bit better no stick to this side so you're cutting down you're then just going to cut right across to the top of that last score line here so one two the third one so again I'm going to go down and do it close up here so here is that score line cutting down okay like so and then I'm cutting right across let me just get it so it's easier there we go we're going to cut right across on a nice straight angle right to the top get rid of that a little bit there we go okay so now that is the shape we want to have so we'll do that again close up so you can see so again there's those two score lines one there one there cut all the way down like so and then just cut right across nice and neat because this will be the corner of your shadow box and then again right across like so now a little tip if you've made shadow boxes before and you're always worried you maybe don't get your corners matching up so well always use a pretty patterned card or paper some of those got lots going on on it because believe it or not that will cover up all those little kind of things that maybe you can see but certainly whoever you're giving it to wouldn't see it if you were using just plain that's when you just notice all those kind of little mistakes whereas if you use something that's heavily patterned you will struggle to or you know whoever you're giving it to will struggle to find that so a little tip there so I'm just going to move all my corner scraps so I don't get them mixed up now we need to put this all together really really easy first of all I'm going to stick the two completely straight edges down so what you want to do is just turn it over and you're going to apply glue to the bottom kind of um piece that's last you know I can't even talk properly this piece here this last where the school last score line is all of that area okay then fold it in half so you've got two and two like so right completely in half make sure you don't get any glue on you pinch the end here that's got no glue on it and you've got the underpiece and fold the whole thing over again right down nice and flat and that will give you a perfect like um long kind of cube that we're going to have and just spread that down all that glue spread it all out if you like flat and you can't push it completely down it's because you haven't got it completely joined up underneath so that piece we've glued is now down here stuck down you can see that I've got a perfect square okay so it's just a good way to make sure that you're gluing it perfectly each time so again I'll just show you what I've done so putting my glue all along like so and again the shadow boxes they're they're really nice to make but I do read a lot that people you know just don't always get a perfect kind of um finished look and I think if you just do all these little kind of bits so again folding it in completely in half just pinch those two bits together and then fold the whole piece over and then just burnish that all and just yeah doing these little bits just help along the way and then just bring that up now I've got two really nice sides coming together there with that um shadow box so now I'm going to do this end here so exactly the same this bottom piece I'm going to put all my glue okay and you're going to do exactly the same thing but obviously this time we can't fold it right over but to make sure that you get it right in place where it should go it's easier to do it this way so if I just kind of start to bring it up and as you do you need to as I'm bringing that round the bottom of this piece where we put the glue needs to line up with the very last score line here so the top of these is where you want the the bottom of this to sit so you can see there if I fold that see now it's like that okay as you bring it round it's going to slide up and then sit along this bit here so it's lining up with that score line and then as you bring it over you want to push it against this back bit you can feel it I can feel that I'm pushing it against this back so that means it's nice and flat and then I can sit it down once you've sat it down push it all together you can see you'll get a nice joins then lie it flat and again just run your bone tool over and just make sure you've got perfect angles if that was now coming off wonky down here you know it's not in the right place you'd have to then just kind of quickly try and take it back off again so that one's done I'm just going to leave that like that for the minute until we go back to the next bit so again with this one again sorry if I'm kind of I don't know maybe I'm not making sense with it all I'm just trying to again just find the easiest ways to do this so again this very edge here is going line up with that score line there so again fold it in half bend it over and then as you do start to form the square keeping it keeping it pushed back against that bit there and then it will come down flat again check that you've got nice angles here when it's all together and then push the whole thing down like so it's just doing it all in stages then what we need to do is on an angle put a little bit of glue just on the edges there so you can see I've just put some glue on a little kind of on an angle so again here like so okay then what you want to do is lift this up but bring them out as you lift this up and then once you can hook them under bring it all in don't worry if the glue kind of comes up a bit like that and then play around make sure you've got it all in place and just hold it there rub out and rub away any of that excess glue and just hold it in place until it all sticks down okay again this glue it's pretty quick but you don't want to pull this one out until that is all in place so just kind of make sure that's completely stuck down because if I go and pull these out slightly now they're going to pop out so in fact while that's just drying I'm going to stick my doily perfectly in the middle here I mean it's just fluke that this doily is the perfect fit and so I just had them then I thought oh these are going to work perfectly especially with this paper pack like so now yeah I think that one's okay so again you want to put some glue just on the edges a little triangle shape and then again pull them out slightly and as you do this will come up and then you can hook them back underneath again you can see now just play around making sure that you get a nice corner and you can move it again it's good using this some people use red tape I have used red tape before but once it's stuck I've ruined projects with it because once that red tape is stuck down that's it there's no going back whereas with this you can see I keep I can go into it and just keep moving it around until I'm happy so I'm just going to make sure this is all stuck down so now you can see how nicely that's all joined together all those corners okay so pop that to one side now grab you've got these two of these so I've already done this one so that's going to be my left hand one put my DSP there and then as you open it up I've got my DSP there so make sure whatever you're using has got the print is facing the right way up so this is now going to be my right hand side little door and I've already put my tape on the back here so I'm just going to stick these both down and again the measurements I've given you will give you once stuck down will give you that little kind of one eighth of an inch it's maybe slightly just under one quarter of an inch border so you just get that nice deep purple or again whatever color it is that you're using so stick it in there okay because this is the red tape I need to make sure that it's all perfect and then open it up that way as if I would when I was opening the card and then that will stick in there so just get this one down so now these are going to sit over the top like so okay and then open up like this so on the insides here you need to run down some tape so I put red tape you can use a wet glue again it will give you that wiggle room if you're a bit worried but now what I'm going to do the best way to do it so I'm just going to decide which way because I've got that nice yeah no I'm going to stick them see I like that as well but you're going to see it all but I'm just trying to now I'll keep that's going to be the top because I think the butterfly stuff looks nice on top so this side here stick this down first and make sure that it's nice and straight running along here and bring it right up until that score line when you bend it is hitting the side of that shadow box and once you're happy and stick it down and that way you know that it's perfectly lined up with the top and the bottom okay so again I'll do this side so that's going to go down like so make sure it's all up the right way so again sit it down so it's coming you know right off at the minute and then pull it all the way down keeping it between your index finger there until that burnish score line hits the edge making sure both of them are all lined up and stick it down and there you have a really cool card absolutely love this it's so good so now we can do the belly band so this is your sheet of 12 by one inch sit this over the top of it I'm not scoring it I'm just going to fold it around because I think it's easier that way so it doesn't matter if it's not right in the middle yet because you're obviously going to be sliding it on and off but you want to make sure you've got an even amount roughly on each side bring one up like so and then the other side up and around and just loosely pinch them so you've got that score line and then whatever it is that you're having on top needs to join because obviously the whole 12 by 12 doesn't doesn't join doesn't wrap all the way around and join up together so whatever it is that you are have die cuts whether it's a nice square circle or in my case this shape here when I stick it it will stick the whole thing together so all I need to do is put some glue at the end there not the end there or you can glue the ends of the actual belly band it's entirely up to you and just stick that again making sure it's in the middle like so okay and just kind of hold that in place for a minute make sure the glue obviously isn't going over and sticking on to this I can see mine hasn't I didn't go that high but I can keep just sticking that down and then I'm just going to slide it off carefully and now I know that that's all in place I can just apply lots of pressure on it spread out any other glue there like so and now you can pinch all of those little score lines better so you get a really nice straight line and it just means now every time you put that on it will fall into place easier so now that's all done and now the decoration now I don't know this is a happy birthday once I've already stuck that on the belly band but in terms of like personalizing it I don't know if I want to for this one so I'm only going to do a little bit of decoration I don't want to do too much so that when I do decide who I'm going to give it to I may want to personalize it so this one's obviously got mum because this is going to be the Mother's Day one but I want to show you the flowers so I've run out of the large dark purple I need to get some more but I have got the little ones here and I've got this lovely one here but again I don't know if I want to use that I think the darker one and then these little light ones there see that looks really pretty I've also got this fabric one here and I've got the stickers so I've just had my heat gun heated up now so I'm going to pop some glue on the back of the big one and I'm just going to really push it into the corner there so just bending it and everything because I want it really snug like so if I bring that up now it's really pushed into that corner and then the darker one and just stick next to it and just build it up I mean you could feel the whole thing the flowers and you could have your sentiments and stamped mats on the side panels there so there are so many ways to decorate it this is just to give you again a little bit of inspiration that one I think this is a fabric one so then I'm going to stick that one in the top left hand corner because then when it comes to decorate it that's you know I'm sorry personalize it that's going to be really quick but you know get this done now I've still got these flowers because they match perfectly and again a little bit of glue on this dinky dinky one try not to burn my finger oh quarter a little bit there there we go so we just bring that up now you can see what I've done there and then to kind of now start bringing it to life more these lovely stickers I've got all these little butterflies and birds and things like that so I'm going to use this butterfly sticker I'm actually going to put on top of the flower at the top there so I'm going to put a bit more glue oh gosh I put that right on my nail fortunately it's not gone through to my skin so I'm just going to sit that right over that flower get rid of my little glue stringy glue bits and then I did like the way I used this I was going to put this bird down on the other one but I quite like having it like yeah I think I'm going to stick him right down like so still got rid of for my sentiment if again bring that up you can see so I've got cluster of flowers there I think what I'm going to do is maybe put a few little diamantes or something on there I could maybe even add that little flower down there no I don't like that one there no I think that's enough for now I can always add to it if I want to it's just to really give you guys an idea but there you have it so that is now all ready to personalize I could die cut a circle you know two size circles so I've got a nice border and have a little sentiment again just saying happy birthday if you want to write your message what I would say is on the back here put some white card just die cut a square stick it there and that's when you can write to and from but this is just meant to be quite a decorative style to sit up on the mantle on the bedside and again stick my belly band on and there you have it so not hard at all it's just getting the sticking of all your edges really on that shadow box the actual you know putting all this together in a decoration is very very easy so there you have it I hope you enjoyed this tutorial from me today please hit the thumbs up if you did and subscribe to the channel see more thanks for watching