 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. So this is project number six and the last tutorial for this year's Mother's Day series. I've really loved the ones that I've shared this year and this is I think just so pretty and a perfect one to finish off the series. So this has kind of evolved from the toffy box wrap that I've done. I was looking at some chocolates in the shop and I thought what a nice way to be able to dress up the packaging. So I've put together this so if I just bring it up a bit closer you can see that beautiful topper and the happy mother's day there which is done with silver embossing powder and then you just lift up these and inside you have a really nice tray of chocolates. These are lovely chocolates they're Marks and Spencer's chocolates and I've had these before they're not very expensive so it's a perfect way again to just give a nice little you know token gift but make it look really really special. I think it's beautiful I've used well I've actually made the flowers from scratch it's all using the flower forming foam and I will show you how to use that and I just think it gives such a beautiful effect and I thoroughly enjoyed making this it's been really really fun to do and that's what it's all about. So let's just get straight into the tutorial because I talk away and hopefully you'll pick up lots of tips along the way and enjoy the video. Okay so this is how the chocolates look when you buy them which is nice enough but you know we want to make it look even more special so they're a really I think really good value for money and they taste delicious and I have bought these quite a few times so what I'm going to do for the moment is just take this out carefully pop that to one side because all I want to use is the base so whatever let's just take those crumbs away so whatever it is that you're using you want to you can either take it apart this one here you can just pop out and you can line up the score lines like I done with the chocolate wrap okay so you can just deconstruct your cardstock which is probably going to be the easiest way to do this one it's reinforced I'm not going to take out the reinforced pieces because this one won't be I'm going to be adding some mats and layers which will strengthen it and once we add the side double flaps then that's going to you know work perfectly so I'm just going to bring it up to this score line here which is the actual side this is just all reinforcement so if I lay that down in the cardstock here it's coming in at bang on 11 inches so it should be 11 oh no it's actually so it's not an exact square so this is going to I'm going to cut this to 11 by 10 and 5 eighths okay so now you can see the score line here all lines up perfectly so I can see that these are one inch and actually when I lay my ruler down they're bang on one inch and I think all of them they should be yeah so everything is one inch so it's really easy now to just grab that piece of card and just score it one eight one inch on all four sides okay and then we just need to do a little bit of cutting and fold and burnish these score lines just done there is I've just cut on one side just cut down the two score lines to the first score line and then you just flip it and do the same there and then if you just take a little wedge off of each side of your tab it will just tidy it up and make sure we've got nothing overhanging and then I'm just going to grab my glue and I'm just going to add some glue onto the top of the tab and just like any other box just bring it under and bring up one of the sides and it should line up perfectly and then go around to the next one glue on the top pop it under and bring up that side and just repeat that on the other side of the box tray done and now the chocolates fit in there perfectly we're going to reinforce all this we're going to put mats and layers on it's all going to look really nice but you can see straight away just how easy it is to start to transform these chocolates which can I say smell amazing as well I am really really trying here not to eat any of these so right let's move on to the lid okay so I've done one half of the flip lid and I've also just got this piece here which is going to line the inside I just thought it looked quite nice so I've cut this one down to eight and three eighths by eight and three quarters I don't think I gave the final measurement of this one so once it's all together it's nine by eight and five eighths okay and I'm gonna like we're gonna you know put some card stock on the sides there with the cloud glue because that will just strengthen it more okay so to make one of these okay really really easy to do and I love this paper I'm using actually let me show you the paper pad this one here I've showed it before flowers blooming I picked it up at the works and it was three pound it's absolutely stunning I've made some really nice gift bags with this one as well so you want to score you want two pieces of card stock that are seven and five eighths of an inch I've got so much stuff on my desk at the moment okay so seven and five eighths of an inch by ten and three quarters and you want to score at one inch on three well all four sides actually so yeah do one inch on all four sides okay and then along one of the shorter side you would have just scored at one inch but you also want to score it two so just on one because that piece there is going to stick under the box that's going to be the side of the lid okay and this is just going to reinforce the other end so you'll see there just along one of the you know when you've got it in along the short side there just on one side score at one and two but one inch on all four sides okay so again fold and burnish the score lines and we want to do a bit of cutting so first of all along the long side with just the one inch piece you've got the one you've got the other outside there with the two one inch sections you want this one facing you and you're just going to remove the square in each corner so completely take it out and then flip it now so you're working on the other long side and what you want to do here is cut down pass the first score liner down to the second so you've got your two squares free there do that on the other side okay then remove just the top square on each side okay so you'll be left with this and then you just want to take a little wedge off of each side like that we'll just lay that down there and see what you should have again i'm going to bring in my longer scissors but what you want to do is from the outer side here but from the the corner here where the score line is you're going to cut right across to here so you're going to cut on the diagonal so we're going to create that now if you would rather draw a pencil line from the corner like i said where that score line is if you fold that under you're working within that rectangle but if you would rather do a pencil line like so okay and then follow that then you can do so i'm just going to cut from that corner you want to be you know really neat with this because it is the side and it's all going to be seen like so and then on this side here i'm going to go from this corner here actually and cut down okay so now we need to stick this together so i'm going to actually might want to take on that long part here is just take a little bit off of each and and then you're going to add glue around here and just make sure that glue sticks down and this just reinforces that bit a little bit by time we add all this on like i said in here is my kalau glue so it will make it all nice and strong and then you want to add glue to the top of both of these tabs and then just bring it under and around there and you should have this piece hanging down because that's what we're going to stick underneath the box and now you'll see we've got that nice side detail okay so now we've got the other ones you want to do that twice you will have two and you're going to see how they're going to sit side by side next i've got these two pieces here to match and layer so i've got this white cardstock which is four and three eighths by eight and a half and then i've got this lovely pattern paper which is from the same paper pad and this is four and one eighth of an inch by eight and a quarter so i'm going to stick the white down first and then that one on top so just stuck that down there and then with the bottom of this if you just again take a little bit off of each side it will allow you to kind of conceal it underneath the base of the box without anything sticking out so i'm just going to fold it out that way for a minute and on the inside here on this tab you just want to add your glue on the shorter side okay and you want to line up so basically stick that whole one inch piece underneath close the lid oh that lid closed down and then you'll be able to just push it against the base and when you lie it down open it up and then you can push it down against your um table so you see it drops down really nicely and then do the same with this one now we have the closure to our box it should overlap one of them just ever so slightly you can see they're all fits really well so let's grab the chocolates run in they sit perfectly look at that yay i love it right now i'm going to just add some decorative card i might just put white strips of cardstock on the sides actually and then we need to do the topper okay so the topper that i want to do i'm going to use the flower forming foam so this is the crafter's companion and this is your your standard kind of fun foam is two mil but this here is 0.5 mil i believe it's very very thin you can see there it's just yeah you'd almost think there's nothing too excuse if you can hear any that's the um the rain that's currently pounding against my window anyway so you can fold it in half and then in half again and i can actually get it to fit this panel on top perfectly and this is the this is the john next door it's the christmas rose but i said when i got this before christmas you can use it for anything and it creates this lovely this lovely cluster of flowers here and that's using cardstock but i'm going to use the foam and get some really nice effects and then the ivy behind is the plate die here that i've got as well so i've got my die machine here and you can just cut through those four you can probably cut through even more it's um you know because it is so fine but it cuts through really well okay so now you can pop it out and you have four of each you know shape that you've cut i'm going to keep them in their piles so i know where i am so and then these are the stamen detail which i'm still going to keep the in white i'm just going to color them with my inks which we'll do next and they do all come away they've all cut it's just as quite a few layers so just kind of wiggle it around until they all kind of come out these and you layer them all up again i'll show you that in a moment let's do this one here okay if you want to cut it and keep these sections so obviously you can you know get some smaller petals and things cut from that but that's just how easy it is to cut through your die machine okay so next i want to get these all linked up so i'm going to use the this is the harmony water reactive dies i won't be using any water but it's pink tulips a really nice color i'm just looking at my i'm going to use my little blending brushes here but i want to make sure this color is not going to run let's just make sure because i think that's a bit of brown mixed in from the brush so what you want to do is i'm going to grab one of the petals because we're going to shape all these with some heat in a moment so i want to get the color down first i'm not going to be too kind of you know careful pressures with it i'm just going to start from the middle and just kind of flick out because once these get shaped you know it's um it isn't going to matter really how you do this but you just want to kind of you know don't mind if it's a little bit darker in areas i want it to be really dark in the center but you know on the actual petals there where i'm kind of brushing it out you know you want kind of variation because that will just you know make them look more real you can see there what i've done so i'm just going to do that on all of these petals i probably won't use all the flowers on this one project but if you do them all in one go then you've got them there for something else later okay so i have already gone and done these four here and you can see just how well that ink gives them depth just by having the darker color in the centers there we've got to add the stamens so i'm going to do these i think i'm actually going to heat them white i think it's going to look really nice and you'll see here why she got an iron it's the quickest way to get the dimension you don't have to stretch them and all that kind of stuff which you can do but this is my craft iron so it's what i use for doing like my heat vinyl and um yeah you can see it's pretty pretty bad but it's perfect for this kind of thing so you want to have it i mean everybody's iron is going to be different and you'll kind of be able to gauge the temperature that you need i have mine actually quite hot it's on a silk setting so it's it's about halfway really but what you're going to do use some um tweezers and be very very careful and you just want to sit it i'm going to use my finger to pop it in place and just kind of like rub it around a little bit and you'll start to see it kind of lift can you see the the shape there that it's naturally formed and then i can just take that off it's not hot like you can touch it it's not a problem i'm using a flower shaping tool this was actually one of the ones in the recent papercraft society kit but now that is never going to go back to its flat form because it's been almost melted but can you see all that nice dimension that we've now got you see there i'm getting you know on my hand it really does lift and that's what i've just basically done and you can do it with any of the foam you can even do it with the thicker five mil foam but just kind of let it you know catch and you'll see it lift and if it doesn't really do anything don't be afraid to turn it up a bit but it just may take very quickly and then you just want to let it come off and it will kind of go a bit limp but just as it's kind of setting i just like to shape the the inside there so that just stretches a little bit but again that's now ready to go and it's it's you can feel it almost sounds a little bit crispy so it's like i said it's it's perfect now for you know starting to create nice flowers with so i'm just going to finish those three pieces that i've got there and and then i'll layer them up and show you kind of the order i stick them down just turn my eye and also should add that there is a craft eye that you can get and i think it's by sticks to so i'll share the links to it because i'm actually quite tempted to get it myself although i don't make tons of these it is nice to have there and i'm sure there are other things that you can do with it as well so now i'm going to keep my foam pad here because it's just handy to keep but you just basically want to start with the largest one first and then work your way down so that's the next largest and so on so i've just got my hot glue gun on i'm just going to pop a little bead of glue there and you just want to kind of work opposites really so i'm going to sit that one in there so they all kind of you know it's like overlap each other and then i'm going to go for one of these ones and just build it up each time trying to make sure they kind of you know you can see a bit of every leaf or every petal and then i'll do another three leaf three petal one give me words out today let's have that one like that and then i'm just pushing it down because again that will just create more dimension and then that one pop that one in there and then the last one so i've got five no yeah no five now i won't well i may use all five but i don't think i will and then we have that one let's have that one in there like so and just really push that down so we're going to add the stamen detail in a moment and that will really bring them together a little bit of hot glue on there but now if i bring that up you see of course that they're so so pretty i've got two left over there as well maybe i can just i'm going to pop that in here because i can actually might put it this one actually i'm going to put underneath because it feels like it's missing a like something there so let's do like so and then is there another one there looks like yeah that one looks a little bit that one looks a little bit odd let's just let that one set okay so unfortunately i forgot to push record but basically with these here you had all the different sizes you start with the largest first a little bit of hot glue stick it on top and then the next size again stick on top there's three different sizes and then i just used my bone tool put a little bit of glue on the back and just pushed it inside the flower there just the same way as you made the flower and you'll see you get all your little stamens there and there's room to pop a little gemstone or something in the center so we i'll do that but that's just a kind of a quick way and a cheap way if you use your iron to shape them but you can stretch them you can add other colors and things like that but there's also let me show you the other colors that i have so i've got the greens there which i'm going to use to die cut the ivy here i'm going to use this color because i think it goes quite nice with the paper and then i'm just going to pop it on my side of my iron just to give it a little bit of shape then you've got this is flower foam don't know what brand that is this company here this was from a charity shop and there's a nice selection of colors then this is flares again this was from charity shop 50p but um they do a huge range and it's always on creating craft this is periwinkle so some nice colors um and then i've got the white but white's a really good one because you can obviously change the colors yourself so i'm going to get the leaves done i'll put that on high speed but it's just exactly the same process and then i'm just going to start arranging them get a nice stamped image with mum on and finish off the topper okay so what i've done is i've die cut a four and a quarter diameter circle i've done it twice and just stuck them on top of each other and then just stuck it to one half of your lid and make sure it's the half that will overlap so this one sits on top of this one slightly okay and then i'm just starting to play around with these so i've i'm using my hot glue obviously remove the chocolates and just start placing everything down so just a little bit of glue and then just kind of feed them under that one so i want that one to be on the top the one in the middle and then i can feed in the rest of like the green ivy you know around it you just want to kind of cover up the circle i guess it's entirely up to you i mean you might if any of it's shown you might want to use more of a decorative paper or something or maybe like a silver or the holographic that would look really nice as well but i'm just kind of sitting them down there i'm going to have probably have my sentiment or something there so i'll keep that free and then just add kind of glue i mean there's no there's no kind of right or wrong just kind of you know cover the area really okay so i've finished it and i absolutely love it i think it has come together and it looks absolutely beautiful so i've done that the happy mother's day i'll talk you through what i've used and i've put it on a little wooden stick so it's like a little planter you know kind of sign like i did on the bouquet envelope box card it's just a really nice way to just add another little element onto this i've also added the butterfly and i've added these little sprigs in silver which i think work really well and then i was thinking about what to put inside the centers of the flowers and i've used this nuvo drop and this is the holiday cheer but the purple and the greens are exactly the same as the purple and greens in the paper so all i've gone and done is just literally get right into the flower and squeeze it in there until it starts to come out the top although now that's typical isn't it it's blocked i never get them blocked why's that done that there we go so you just pop it in there and just let it come up to the surface and it's self-leveling but once it dries because some of those are starting to dry now and you can see just in the center there and you get a real nice shine can you see it hit the light it's lovely so that's them that's the little sprig which is from the first of the paper craft society kits i really like that one and then for the happy mother's day i've used the apple blossom springtime sentiments this is quite new i've not long had it i've been using the happy easter already you got hello spring happy mother's day which is just a really lovely font and in that silver embossing powder i think it looks beautiful and you've got a happy birthday get real soon things like that and then the butterfly i've just taken from the butterfly band by bright rosa and i've used that one there is the in vellum on the very back there and then i've die cut two one in the same pink which was a bit of scrap from the the actual box and then in white so just thought the white really pops against the green and everything and that's in the detail there and then finished it all off with my sparkle pen this is the spectrum noir and just brush it over everything goes on darker but then it dries completely clear and i think it looks absolutely beautiful so yeah what a way to really make a box of chocolates really really special because i think they're just gonna wow i would love to receive this and you just change that for happy birthday change it for get well soon congratulations you know it will work for quite a few occasions and change all your colors and make it look a bit more masculine and you've got a really nice you know idea there for father's day and anything really merry christmas you know you can put the usual poncetta flat poncettia flowers all over this it's i love it so i hope you've enjoyed this last tutorial for this year's mother's day series this is project number six and i've really loved the ones that i've brought this year if you would like to see from previous mother's day series that i've done the whole playlist is up here and i think there's about 30 projects on there all kind of you know themed for mother's day but again you can easily change up the papers and the sentiments and stuff but there's lots of inspiration there so go and check it out if you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up and if you like what you've seen maybe consider subscribing so you get to see more fun projects that i share so thank you for watching and i'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye