 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixtape Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today this is another Easter themed project and because it's Wednesday it's using the hobby base monthly kit product from there as well so it's been really good because this month is an Easter themed box so the product the products worked really well for my themed week so this is what I've got here and this is my kind of sweet treat case I guess and basically you can see if I bring it up there sorry my lighting is probably you know it's not too bad this is a 3d I'm not 3d this is a die cut three times this bunny rabbit really detailed actually this isn't the kind of dies that I tend to go for it reminds me of tattered lace I'm not a huge tattered lace fan however I've really really fallen in love with this one I think once you kind of die cut them a lot and make them thicker for me anyway I tend to just like them more so I finished them off with flowers these come in the kit the sentiment the bunny the embellishments and this paper as well was all in this month's kit or some of the stuff that was in the kit so this is what we're going to make and basically you just open it up and inside it has these chocolate bars so not everybody always wants an egg for for Easter they just want just chocolate um so I've done these um things here and these twirl cabry's twirls now these are on their own to buy are really expensive now chocolate is not what it was years ago but these are a multi-pack that I purchased for a pound four or four from the co-op so that's widely available in the UK lots people will be able to get this they're slightly smaller than the normal ones but still much more better value for money so this was a pound and then you know the fun to make it this is just a really inexpensive um little Easter gift and also it's just a nice little case you could put cards in this um you know it's a three-quarters of an inch depth there so it can be used for other things as well and they're just stuck down with some glue dots so they can just easily be pulled off and then it's closed there with a velcro dot so it's just a really lovely little case so let's crack on and make it so I'm going to be using different papers again from the monthly kit so this is one of the things you get and these are the dovecraft um paper flowers so I used three of the yellow ones there one large one medium and one small probably not going to use them on this next one because this is more of a masculine um case it's exactly the same but you can see that I'm using browns because I want to give this one to a man and I just forget the flowers maybe wouldn't work so much but that's them on there and this is them there so easily added if you have them the stamp set is this one here Lindsay Mason designs and um when I done my um box reveal I really really like this one and I've used the really fun sentiment at the bottom here have an extraordinary extraordinary Easter um so that's the one there but again really nice set of photopolymer stamps there um and then this is the die so um there it is there it's a really nice size like I said I'd die cut that three times and then just stuck them on top of each other and it gives you this really nice thick hard you know um it's almost like got a wood veneer kind of feel to it now and that's just a really nice decorative piece now you could have that hanging off of a gift bag um you could you know make it into some kind of you know I mean there's loads of things to do with it once you make them harder um I think they work better that's my my theory anyway so that's the the bunny and also another little tip and I've mentioned this before in tutorials but this um came in this very strong plastic case and this plastic is brilliant for um using as your for your acetate windows for your shaker cards um and things like that so keep this it's a you know another good thing and I could actually incorporate it into projects because it has really come in the kit so there you go get some free um acetate um these are the little embellishments dinky dinky tiny ones these are two mil adhesive stones so I use them just to decorate you can see that just where it catches just around just thought I did a nice little bit of bling okay so I've got some scrap cards this is my own the the card stock the brown and this creamy color is from my own stash um you get card bases in the kit but I'm I everyone knows I'm a 3d um paper crafter more than anything so I'm using the other um papers so you had this printed one um like the gingham style here this one here with the chickens and then there's another one with polka dots on so I'm using this chicken one and I've just pulled out the colors and you know found this nice brown which is going to work well for this masculine um card and then I'm using a sheet of craft um card there so talking you through all the measurements your main case you need a piece this is a standard piece of a four so it's eight and a quarter by eleven and five eight eleven and three quarters they kind of fluctuate between that measurement so you need a piece that big then you need a piece of three by six and a half and then you're going to match on top of that a piece of five and seven eighths of an inch by two and a half then you need another piece of six and a half by one and three quarters and then you're going to match on top of that a piece of five and seven eighths of an inch by one and a quarter it's slightly just under but one and a quarter will be fine then I've just die cut two squares I'm not sure which color I want to use this is basically this square here that the bunny sat on and I'm not sure whether I want the craft card or the dark brown so I've just done it twice but this is a die that is three and five eighths of an inch squared but anything really I mean if you've got exactly this and you've got this kit and you're you are you know pretty much crafting along with me it's just something that sits that bunny inside like so okay so this is very easy to make and pretty quick as well so first of all with your card stock scoring along the eight and a quarter inch side you want to score at three quarters of an inch and at seven and a half then rotate onto the long side and you want to score at two inches two and three quarters of an inch and then four and three quarters just down to the first score line then flip it over and do four and three quarters again just down to that first score line this is just a cutting line and it's just there purely as a guide then flip it back over again and carry on scoring at seven and a half all the way down and eight and a quarter all the way down okay all the measurements and everything would be on my blog as normal that is all of the scoring done so we can get rid of that and then we just want to go along now and burnish all of our score lines so you'll have this thinner strip down the bottom and then you've got a big area which is your back and then this other one so basically that's going to be the flap coming down and this is the one coming up and it will go over like so okay so starting with this smaller one at the bottom we're going to do a little bit of cutting and basically just on these here these two and these two here you just want to cut in just to that first score line okay and tidy them all up a bit more in a minute you don't really need to be cutting anything off of these like I usually do you don't need to do that with this one then I'm just going to swap and get my bigger scissors because now rotate the whole thing around and you're going to cut from this score line here all the way down to that one here so we're cutting this whole strip out so let me just go down and do that one obviously you really need to make sure that you are staying nice and straight because this is all exposed oh yeah just cut up to sorry you cut up to that god is me going to rip it and I'm thinking no that's not right you just cut up to that score line you cut that all off and you won't be able to put the box together you're just cutting up to that that little score line that we done that um four and three quarter inch one um don't go past it so don't listen to me right in the beginning then okay and then the next one you just want to cut all the way down again just to that score line okay I'll put a little caption up at that point when I say cut all the way down to that bit because you don't don't do that okay again tidy that one up in a minute so that is now what you should have so these are all cut out like so and you got this big one like that then well you will do some decorating it's best to decorate it all when it's flat so flip it over and this big one here is where you're going to map that biggest piece first when you sit that on it should give you a really nice little frame all the way around so I've just popped some tape on the back of mine already so I'm just going to stand there the other one needs to go on top remember obviously that's going to fold down like so so make sure whatever um image you've got is facing the right way so best to have all that facing away from you and make sure your image is facing you and then you know you've got it all in the right direction okay and then flip it over you can fold this one up and the next piece is going to go in again you all know this is my favorite card to use absolutely love craft card okay and then this one again okay so now you will have your two mats like this you see this card coming together I love this print thing it's really really cute so now we want to stick in our side so what you want to do first is the tiny little tab this little square one put some glue on that okay and the back one you want to bring over like so okay so just fold that one and just hold it in place again make sure you got all your nice angles it's all nicely squared off I'm going to pop it on its side and just with my bone tool just work that card and spread out all that glue just so you know that this is all sticking down nicely like so and again the little one on the other side just pop a little bit of glue and again the back one first and again just make sure that all sticks down nice and then with these pieces now inside you want to put glue all on the tab and then you're going to stick it over that one again it should all join up nicely if you've got any overhang you can trim it off easily okay so again pop it on its side I can just pop my bone tool in there again make sure it's all spread out and just do the same on this end here you can see it's all coming together now what I did do on this one just because this card I've used although it was strong I think it's about 160 gsm still it just felt a bit flimsy I put a piece of card on the back I'm not going to do it with this one because the craft card is strong enough but if you did want to mat the back this is a four and a half by six and a half mats and it's just just kept that you know straight really but this one is fine so I don't need to do that but if you are using a thinner card because once you add these mats to this side obviously that strengthens it your back might become a bit thin you know flimsy so you can always do that so now what I'm going to do is add in the chocolate because it will help when you put pressure on the front here and basically these are the dairy milk ones again pack a four for a pound so it's just a very expensive gift these are slightly taller and not so fat but again it will fit most of our UK standard chocolate bars so you know everybody should be able to use you know use this so I'm just trying to evenly space them out here because you get a bit more a bit more room with these thinner ones like so and then that will come down but it means now I can push down on there but I think that looks really quite fun so now I just need to stick this down but I don't know whether I want to use that colour or the brown with the bunny on that's the brown I'm wondering whether I need to do a slightly no I don't okay so just been playing around I'm going to change this one I've just die cut smaller square again so this square now measures um three and one eighth of an inch squared I think because I'm not adding flowers to this one because I'm using a brown colour it can can sometimes look a bit flat but what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually stick so I put my double-sided tape on just just the partial part three quarters of the way on the back because obviously it's going to overhang and you're going to put the velcro dot on the bottom here so when you stick it down you obviously don't want anything hanging hanging over so you want to get it in the middle and you want to have an even cream at the top and the bottom and then evil evil even distance from the left and the right hand side there so just check that's all in place turn that over like so and then I'll grab my velcro dot down to my last one just get them all lined up so pop that one in the middle like so and then flip that back over and wait before you stick it down just make sure you do get it all up perfectly you know straight on your sides and everything and then you should have that little even cream border again at the bottom and just under your velcro and then you can just apply pressure on both there so they're all stuck down like so then what I was going to do is stick this one kind of off at an angle put the bunny right in the middle this time and then I'm going to have the sentiment coming off like so and then I just want to add like bling and stuff I think when I make mail kind of projects you always kind of it's like a little bit out of my comfort zone for me but it's uh we do need to do it so I'll pop some in the middle there because I'm going to be overhanging it I don't really want to put too much so it doesn't go all over the place like so and then I'm just going to put some on my hand just glue up the bunny rather than it's just easier doing it like this like so and then stick that so it's kind of all coming off I mean this has got lots of dimension to it which I'll bring up and show you in the camera in a minute because you might not be able to make it out too much but it looks really good close up like so and then with that scrap piece of cream here and some brown I've got my sentiment and I've just got this cherry cobbler ink color here and I'm just going to stamp that up on here it's a real deep deep brown color that one and then just cut this one you can obviously run this through your trimmer if you want I'm just doing this all by myself just put a little bit of glue on the back there and then I'm just going to stick it right up into the corner of one of these straight sides so it's already been framed on two of the sides and then all I have to do is just cut the same like so like so yeah so I'm going to pop a little piece of foam on the far right hand side just because obviously there's so much lifted now on this piece size will just put a little square I only need it on the end and then I can put glue on the rest and then I'm going to add a little bit of bling even though it's for a man man then like a bit of bling as well there's nothing wrong with that let's put a little bit there it just needs something I'm just going to these are so tiny but they really do give off a lovely little lovely bit of foam I'm going to put one in the eye like I did on the other one I forgot to mention that actually but one of these fits perfectly in the eye if I can get it back in there of the bunny just push it in right inside there we go I think that's enough I won't go too too crazy let me just bring that up now again the lighting dips we know there you go oh there we go you can see a little bit of sparkle it's got so much dimension there you go that just shows you exactly how it's lifted but it does look really good I'm actually really pleased with how that's turned out now so they have it two little cases to hold loads of sweets for a pound so it's a bargain little gift but I think it looks really lovely and whoever you give it to will know that you've put a lot of work into that so there you go so that's the first project this month using the new March kit if you are interested in subscribing to receive the monthly kits you have until the 21st of every month to subscribe to the next month so you've got until the 21st of March to subscribe for April's Box for next month so yeah so I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial another one for my Easter series 2018 stay tuned I'll be back again tomorrow with another project so I'm trying to remember then how many we are now um yeah please hit the thumbs up if you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel to see more thanks for watching bye