 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 adorable new home card although it can be any card you could easily just put happy birthday there and it would look just as good. This is a what I'm calling a center easel card or a floating easel car because it kind of looks like it's just yeah kind of floating but it's not it's attached by this little piece here. Really really easy to make you can use any stamps you know that you have as long as they will cover this section here and it's easy to adapt if you've got something bigger or whatever it is that you know you want to use you can write your message in here or in this section you could put a white piece there if you wanted to but I've actually done mine on the back and I've just got there. Happiness is decorating your new home and I just think it's really really sweet this is using the Daisy May designs stamp set which I'll show you in a moment but yeah really really quick the only thing that at the time was the coloring in again and I'll show you all of that and tell you what I've used so let's get into the tutorial. Okay so these are the stamps and dies that I have from the Daisy May collection so this is the blue tip friend which is the one that I'm using today the Daisy May peony bloom you see me use that one's a beautiful one you've got bloom and grow and you've also got the welcome cottage I've done cards with those two I have done one with that one but I'm not sure if I posted it actually so I will check back on that one but that's really lovely they're all really pretty and any of these will work and any stamp set will work with this but these ones are just yeah I just think they're just so cute as I've said before Daisy May designs are just very very cute and this is great when you add the little mason jar because that will kind of cover that middle section so like I said all of these would work really nicely but I am using this one today so here it is so I've colored all of this and I've used my artesia watercolor pencils now the reason I've used watercolor with and I've not actually used the water is they're just really really creamy and I just wanted to show you that you can use watercolors without just use them as a normal colored pencil so if you want to have a pencil that can do both the watercolor pencils can do that you don't have to add the water so they're really nice they're really creamy you get lovely vibrant colors you can just see here the lovely colors that I've got from these particular ones so what I'm going to do now is just add in my little video of me coloring these on high speed just you can see how it all came together and I will list and link the artesia watercolor pencils below for you okay so like I said I already went ahead and I colored them all I have done lots of the little bird but I'm not sure if I'm going to use them all but I just thought I'd color more and I've done the little picket fence there I'm not sure again how much I used you'll have noticed that I colored the star in pink in the video but I didn't like it so I went and stamped it again cut it out and then stuck it on a little bit of foam and I like now that yellow because I think it just it's the same yellow that I used on the birds so everything kind of ties in together and all of these do come with the corresponding dies so I just keep mine on the backs of all my stamp sets this house one is actually really really cute because you can have the windows actually open um or you don't you know you don't have to but the door as well there's just so many lovely ways to to use these so yeah that is everything there okay so I'm going to be using a five by seven pre-made card base so this is my five by seven card here and what you want to do is pop it in along the 10 inch side you will already have a score line at five if you don't if you're making this from scratch you want a piece of 10 by seven and along the 10 inch side you want to score at five but if it's pre-made you just want to do another score line at two and a half okay so I've already done mine there and then fold and burnish and you will have that easel okay so that's a straightforward easel card if you just want to keep it like that so this is my center five inch score line here and this is my two and a half ignore the two and a half you don't need to worry about that this middle line here with a pencil you just want to come in two and a half inches from both sides so you can see there one two and a half and just put a pencil mark on that score line and again from this side come in at two and a half and put a pencil mark then I always find it easier to use a t-squared ruler bring it in so it sits against the very bottom of your card and line it up with that two and a half marker here and just draw a pencil line all the way down come along to this one here again make sure that t-square ruler is right lined up and straight with the bottom there and draw your pencil line so this is what you will have if I bring it closer so here I come in two and a half came in two and a half marked a little pencil mark and then you just draw in a pencil line all the way down you're now going to remove all of this here and all of this here okay you can cut it with scissors along here and then down if you want and same along here and down I'm going to use my cutting knife just because I just know I'm going to get a nice straight line okay so again I'm going to use my grid keep that nice and straight and I'm going to come up this one first you actually want to remove the score line along the top here so I'm just going to cut down there first okay and then I'm going to do this one here okay and then along the side here again keep everything nice and straight and then I'm actually going to cut up over the score line so I'm going to remove it okay just means you'll get a nicer finish because you're actually going to see all of this okay so that's now all you're actually going to be left with because that's all I need to connect this little bird box you see how it's going to look so it now looks like it's just floating and that's what I loved about having this much much smaller so it's hidden this is and that's why this is great to use with so many stamps that you might already have you imagine having lots of blooms of flowers around here or something so yeah that is it's so so simple to do so next I'm going to bring in this one here which is four and three quarters by five and three quarters I've done it in green to kind of act like the grass okay and that is going to go right across the bottom there now in terms of writing your message you can write a message here or you can write a message on the back or when that's closed or when that's like that you could have a white piece of card stock in here I'm probably going to have my message on the bottom just because you've got lots of room so I'll do the mats and layers to that later but that's what we're going to have here so I'm just going to grab actually before I stick that down I'm going to bring in my stopper because I think I might wrap some ribbon or some twine or something around this so for the moment what I've done here is I've got this new home I stamped this myself using some alphabet stamps that I had I think they were I showed them a long time ago and I think they're the creative craft sensations sorry yeah craft sensations I got them from the range and they were like 99p so I've just done home in large capitals and then in small capitals I've done new in fact this one I've got here so this is the small one this is simply created for the small alphabet which is really handy the larger one is craft sensations again if I can find all the links I'll link them below for you but I've got this one here and I've just cut a very small frame in black card stock just to make it stand out now this is going to go on foam adhesive but obviously I don't think I want the stopper to come quite high up and then I don't know if I want that gap there because this is going to be there so I think I want a little bit of a white so I'm going to actually have this on white again I did think about having it on some coloured card but I don't know if it's just going to start to clash a little bit so I'm going to stick with white for the moment so I'm going to stick this so it's got a bit of a border like so I'm going to do this side because I think that's straight so I'm just going to stick this one down okay so that's now going to go there and I've got this garden twine and I think I want to wrap it around a few times but what I may have to do because this is quite it's not too bad actually it might work I think I might have to pop that onto some card so I'm just going to mat this onto a bit of scrap card okay so I've just made that much stronger now with more of a heavy weight card stock underneath and now I'm going to wrap this around a few times and then kind of tie off the reason I put that on card as well as because I'm not sticking it directly onto this I want to put some foam adhesive on it if you put foam adhesive on paper it's more than likely going to dip so it's better if you do have a card stock so I'm going to have that like that and then the plan is that that is going to kind of go off to the side there this is all going to go on some foam adhesive that's going to be on foam to stop that moving and then we can start building up the house and the picket fence and the birds and it should all tie together very nicely so what I'm going to do first of all just trim this all a little bit okay so I've got that where I want it I'm just going to flick this over and then I'm going to run foam adhesive I'm not going to actually put anything over the twine because that's already quite raised so it will end up making it all bulky so and it will be attached on the other side once I stick this little stopper over it anyway so it's not going to move so I'm just going to stick this one down okay and then I'm going to pop some foam on this okay so now this bit's a bit kind of bouncy so I'm just going to burnish a little bit there there we go and it slots in perfectly so now that is going to stick on there and then we're going to start layering up the picket fence it's going to look really cute I yes it is okay so what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to pop glue just on this front half here okay so whatever it is that you're sticking down I would pop it like that in front of you so you can get this lined up and you want whatever it is to be nice and flush with the bottom okay and bring that up you can see how it's starting to look how nice does that look it all it does it just looks like it's floating all by itself it's such a lovely I might actually call it floating easel card because it does I think it looks quite cool right then with the picket fence because they're all separate pieces what I've gone and done is I've cut these little strips here of white cardstock so I'm going to have three on each side and I'm going to just have them together like this so I'm going to flip these over and I'm going to run a bead of glue in fact I want to make sure that yellow one is hidden because you would see the back of that a little bit because when you turn this around all you're going to see is white so again it'll look pleasing to the eye if anybody does decide to inspect it further as I always say I doubt people are really going to do that but if they do so I'm just going to put that yellow one towards the left there so it can go over the house so I'm just making sure they're nice and straight with my board there and then I'm just going to run some glue like that and then just stick this strip across the three of them that way it will then form like one piece rather than three separate and it'll make it a bit easier to manage again just going to pop that there we trim off the ends in a moment but now see it looks like one fence and you could do that completely long but I want to have three on one side and three on the other so again I'm just going to do the same with this one okay and now they're going to stick just that one on each side to the little bird house itself so I actually only really need to put glue I'll pop a little bit on there but it's only really going to stick to the pieces that we just stuck down those strips so I'm just going to pop that one there again make sure it runs nice and flush so kind of push it down onto that stopper and that will keep everything together okay so you can see how that looks there and then when you flip it over it's all nice and white on the back so because I didn't use alcohol markers yeah take that and took out if you use alcohol markers it may well bleed through so but if you're using you know pencils like I am it will be fine and now I need to just add my lovely little blue tits here so I'm going to have one actually on the picket fence I want to have one down here and you should have odd numbers really so I need a third but I don't know whether I have him there that looks quite cute I know really I should have one there but I really want you to see all of that I could have maybe you could go you might not go in the envelope but he looks cool right up on the star there actually maybe I'll do that so always working three so I'm going to keep those two for another project so I'll pop them in anything like that I always pop in the sleeve as well the stamp steps of the stamp stamp or die set that I have because then you remember you've got them so I have got a like a miscellaneous box with loaded die cuts but things like this that you spent time you know coloring and stuff put them with what where it came from because yeah then you'll remember to use them so this one is going to just go on the top of that one there and I'm going to stick these other two down okay and then I've just done this piece on the back so this is four and three quarters by six and three quarters this is where I'm going to stamp my little message and or stamp my sentiments sorry and write my message this is five by three and a quarter it can be any size you want it was actually a piece of scrap so that's why I've used it this here I thought was really nice this is from the delightful decorating for the love stamp stamp set this one here and the sentiment it's got here is happiness is decorating your new home so I thought that'd be lovely to have in there so again these were those bargain stamp sets that I've got so I will link those below because I'm sure you'll be able to still get it somewhere so make sure I get this stick my head in the way okay I actually got a soft I've got a little foam underneath here just to make sure you get that all oh no yeah I can get away with that it's gone a little bit light in the middle see it's the thing I think oh I won't get my stamp in platform out but I've just got away with it I'm not going to go over it if you go over it you end up messing it up I could go over it with another piece of white but I don't think it needs to it's a homemade card so I'm just going to stick that now onto the back of this okay and what you would have just seen me do there's I've just gone over it just slightly with a fine liner pen so now you wouldn't even know so there's the back and then look at that adorable new home card I absolutely love this you could put in fact I might even put a little gem on there could I've got a little heart because that's not not been like stuck down that bow I could um yeah you'll see it in the photos I've got a lovely little heart charm which I think will work very well with that and it's like in the shape of a house with a heart in the middle so I think that'll just add a nice little bit of decoration but yeah there you have it so this is kind of like a floating easel card I think it looks fantastic I hope you like it I hope you like my coloring using the coloured pencils there and as always everything will be linked below so yeah hope you're enjoying the series and getting lots of inspiration and learning lots of new things get your coloring pencils out get your stamps out and start creating some lovely cards so yeah thank you for watching everybody please hit the thumbs up if you did enjoy today and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye