 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. This week's hobby based card is this one here so at the moment all you can see is this little box and then inside we have this card and it's beautiful. I really enjoyed making this one so it's kind of got this curved part here which is just tucked in so this little kind of cluster of dried paper little roses there is just a nice little tuck spot for that to sit in like so. Now the reason I've made this box kind of envelope gift box I mean you can use it for obviously many things as well is for that reason but if you're making this and maybe you don't have as much dimension on there you could have it you know flatten this and pop it in a normal envelope with maybe a little bit of bulk it's entirely up to you depending on how you make it but it's gorgeous so I've used here and I'll show you in a moment this is the Gemini filigree lace corner dye and it creates this absolutely stunning it's just so detailed it's beautiful and then I've used the original V&A papers there which you've probably seen a while back in other tutorials but I've still got some and it just worked really nice so this is a thank you one and then I'm going to be doing another one with you and then on the back you could write your message here or you could have your message inside here if you just want to have a white piece of you know card stock you could go over that and conceal the red if you wanted to but I'm going to show you all the steps anyway it's a beautiful card now the box is it's got a bit of room there because I'm actually going to be putting some tissue paper around this as well so I want when I give it to that person they'll be able to open up the tissue and then kind of get it this would also be a beautiful as a wedding card or a special you know anniversary card so simply changing that you know sentiment there and you've you've got yeah endless possibilities so and I've just used a standard that's just the whole six by six piece of paper from the pack there on top which is the same so I'm just going to pop that one to one side and let's bring in everything here okay so you are going to need these flowers here you can get these many many companies sell these and I'll share all the links as always in my blog post I've got some of my stones all these bits I've already prepared many parts because obviously you don't need to see all of that so this one that I'm going to be doing now is sorry you're sick get better quick okay so difference again now this is the beautiful die pop that there it's stunning and it's really big now it's got two parts so you can just have that die cut design in your card and it won't come out you're just taking out all the detail and it'll leave that whole shape if you then add that that piece to it which I'm going to be doing it will cut that whole part away like so okay so that's what I've used there to cut that away so again I will show you all that I'm going to leave that one out so probably revert to it a few times throughout the tutorials we'll just stand that up over there so that's what we're going to be using and I said it's the germini by crafters companion and it's the filigree lace one there and you can just see lots of inspiration and ideas for this one but it shows you the two there so that's it leaving the actual die cut image in the card stock and that's it cutting it completely away there okay all of this is obviously available at hobby base and again all those links will be shared below and you'll probably see the product running along the bottom of this video as well so I'm using a six by six card blank card base which is here that's all for the box let's get that away and then I'm not confusing myself so six by six card base if you don't have this you want a piece of 12 by six and then along the 12 inch side you just want to score it six inches okay that'll give you a card base and then I've got all these bits here ready so this bit here is going to mat inside the card because it's one of those cards where you actually see the inside okay it's more of a decorative like just piece of artwork as such because you just have it like that that person takes it out so I think for me I'm going to be putting my message on the back and what I'll probably do is cut down a smaller piece of red again and then a smaller piece of white and then I'll be able to write my message but that is I want them to just open it up and that's how it is straight away ready to go so for the piece inside which is going to go here this is a five and seven eighths of an inch squared it's going to go like so there we go and then this is the decorative piece to go on tops this is your main pattern that they're going to see as soon as they open the card and this here is five and five and five eighths squared okay so again I've just dropped down by a quarter of an inch there and you can see when that's on top you get that really nice frame so those two bits really really simple what you need to do then is have another piece of card stock in whatever colors you're using and this is what we're going to have behind this so when we cut this out this is cut out of the card so you can see there there is the card just the same as this here and then when I cut that die cut image you can obviously see right through it and I wanted to kind of back it so I've used some red so you just want to make sure you've got a card stock that is going to be the width of your six and the height by six so mine's a bit higher but that doesn't matter okay and then you just want something that you can use to create like a little tuck spot for this piece here and then decoration and your sentiment and everything else okay so first of all don't need the scoreboard I just have that to keep everything on let's get this die cut so pop that to one side now I didn't trim the card down to fit the die I've actually kept it in its six by six form and if you can see here I've just cut down the card there and if that was to lie flat you would see there it wouldn't quite meet to the end I just preferred that I thought that looks quite nice and again it just shows off this lovely detail and everything I just really like the final result so yeah you don't need to alter the card around the die for this one so what you want to do is sit it towards the bottom left and you do want to hug it as close to the edge as possible leaving just a tiny tiny tiny bit of the white card stock showing because if you look underneath you can actually see there's already a border around the die so if I was to bring it out like that you're actually you can see where the image starts you're going to have an even bigger white space so really kind of bring it right down as far as you can to the bottom left hand side there okay and then I'm going to bring in this one here and with some of just a low-tack washi if you've got a really sticky washi tape just pop it on your jumper or your jeans a few times just to remove some of the initial stickiness and then it won't ruin any of your paper but you can see that I've got a very very minimal white space and you want that piece to go right in really tight it sits perfectly next to that die and then I'm just going to pop I'm just going to remove some of the lint actually before because I don't want this any of it coming away I don't want it taking any of that white away and then obviously open up the card and you're just going to run through this first half through your die sheet so I'm just going to bring line over here and then pop that one down there now by the at the end this whole piece here is going to be removed so don't worry if it may get marked or anything you know you're not going to see it usually I would lay a white piece of copy paper down but I'm not going to now with my plate I just want my plate to go to the end of the die and make sure your plate underneath covers that as well and that way you don't run the risk of making any marks on the other side of your cardstock so now I'm just going to run that one through you might need to do it a couple of times or add another shim it depends on the pressure everybody knows their own die machine this one is really going through so it should cut perfectly okay and then just very carefully start lifting it up and that washi tape just lifts off nicely as well like I said that is going to be removed eventually this other half anyway so I'm not too worried just very careful you see it takes most of it out but I can see now that is all been completely die cut let's see what I mean when I was saying about the frame it's already got given itself a frame there can you see and all the way along the bottom so if you brought it out even further that would have become a really you know large space so what I'm going to do now before I start picking all those bits out is I'm just going to cut really neatly and just snip up and that gives me that edge that's going to be tucked in you're not going to see that and then from here it goes my phone you can cut down like so there you can see now if I fold this back over you may need to burnish it again I just grab my own folder there and just kind of rework that like so once we pop all those pieces out look how nicely how nice that looks okay so just for a bit of speed if you don't have one of these they're brilliant and these just remove all the little bits much much quicker than sitting there now they've gone everywhere it's like glitter and yeah it is like glitter actually all the pieces everywhere but it just saves you sitting there with your pokey tool you might get the odd little stubborn ones but you can see how quickly they all pop through and then go just get that last one out look how gorgeous that detail is it is beautiful love love love it now that is nice on its own you know you can just stress it color it with your inks but once I bring in this card stock just look how much that transforms that card it's just it is it's stunning so what you want to do with this piece here is we need let me just I'm just going to clear all this away because it does it like someone's just got married and just throwing confetti everywhere okay so what you want to do here is get your card stock whatever color you're going to have underneath line it up with the bottom of your card below okay so it's nice and straight now you don't want it to be right to the edge so bring it up a little bit you can see there we've got a border so we've got enough room as long as there's room to be able to stick it like so okay I'm going to grab this piece and I've got some more washi tape and just pretend this is the die you're going to lie that piece down like so making sure it is right up to it you may have to flatten it a little bit there but just get it in place and then again kind of stick it down but lift that bit up and just make sure that's in place and then I'm going to just run that through my machine again okay just put that back right so remove this very carefully put a washi tape on that side and then again I'm just going to trim up that piece there as neat as possible and now this piece should fit perfectly behind that piece which it will do once we stick it down so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a very very thin layer because now when you pop that right in if you pop it right up to that score line when it folds over it's going to create a bit of bulk so I'm just going to take a very very small amount off of that side so I'm just going to come in and just literally a sliver there you go see there all right and now it will still be enough to stick against it but look there's no bulk okay so it covers it I'm going to stick it from this side there won't be any bulk you want it to come down just below so you've got a bit of a white there so actually I'm going to take a little bit off that bottom side as well so you just want to just it's one of those things you know everybody's going to be slightly different so you just want to kind of you know just chop little bits away until you get it so there we go now you can see it covers the back perfectly and I've got a little bit of a white frame all the way around which is what you want you don't want any of the red coming out over the side but at the same time you obviously want it to cover all of that there okay so now to stick this down I like to get my glue and pop it all over my hand I've done this in many many tutorials and the thing I like about this as well obviously don't get it too close to your hair once it dries you get to peel it all off so I'm just going to splotch that all around you could obviously put double-sided sticky tape on these and run that through your dye machine you know with that on the back you can go with the precision glues and just go along all the kind of main areas but what I'm going to do is now just very carefully wave that over my hand and it just gives you a nice thin layer of glue like so and then with this piece you can come in and make sure I've got a bit of wiggle room as well until I'm happy and this dries completely clear and it's not tacky either so even if I've gone over a little bit on the side there it doesn't matter like so so again as long as it's all see it's all contained within that white area so now when I flip it over isn't that gorgeous so so pretty and it's got a really nice you know finish to it so you know that person opens it they can see there you know a lot of work has gone into that again don't worry if any glue does kind of come through here as long as you're using a non-tacky clear drying it would be fine if anything it just gives it a little bit of shine which isn't a bad thing so I'm going to let that dry on my hand so you'll watch that dry through the rest of the tutorial so now it's really easy that's the hardest bit but it's it's not hard in you know doing it all as long as you've got all your tools ready you know the dye does all the work but now I've already put some double sided tape on the back okay I'm going to stick this one down you should have a nice even border like so and then I've already again put my double sided tape on my layered pieces I'm just going to get that taken off and again just sit that neatly over the top again just focusing on getting your sides all equal and already now look how lovely that looks and what you want to start doing is just start to curve this piece especially I'd say if you've got the wet glue there because as that kind of dries it will you know stay in that shape but you can see now just by lifting that up and we're going to create this tuck spot down here so I've lifted mine and it's about what did I measure that that's how I created my box my arch is one and it's about one and one eighth one and you know a quarter so you don't really want to go any higher than that and you can see it that's all it needs to she says to stand up there we go okay so what I've done is I just die cut this small little circle you know it's entirely up to you really what kind of size but what I'm going to do is with a so with this piece of foam adhesive I'm just going to pop it onto the back side here and then bring this up arch it I mean I've brought it in might be easy if I just say how far in keep it one ruler down and then picking up another one so again yeah one and one and one eighth of an inch so it's coming in the same so I'm going to just eyeball mine because I know but if you want to bring that kind of arch up so it's coming in by about one and one eighth of an inch pop this stopper down so that that kind of stays in that position so if you want it to permanently stay there because if you're just going to have it like I am in that gift box then you can actually almost stick it down underneath the foam but I'm still going to have it so it's like a little tuck spot as you can see there so I can just take that out and it just pops in there okay and just check every time you pop it in that it stands up like so all right so I'm happy with where that is I'm not worried that you see some of it because now with these bits I'm going to stick three very tightly together like so you can see there and then also I'm going to have one of these which I just got from my stash take the edge off and that's going to stick down like so okay so with my hot glue I'm just going to pop a little bead making sure they all still stick to that little disc it was I think a one inch and just try not to you know make sure they go down and overhang from the bottom so obviously the card won't stand up I've said I want them really really snug and close together and then that piece there I will use just a normal wet glue and just kind of nestle that underneath like so just bring that up so you can see there how nice that looks okay next you just need to finish off with your sentiment so I've already popped some foam adhesive onto this just raid your stash obviously see what stamps you've got and I've just stamped it on white and then I have mounted it on the same red that I've used in the card there okay and just found a nice red ink and then I'm going to bring it in by about three eighths of an inch making sure it's nice and straight there we go and then again I'm going to have another one stuck there with some more green leaves like so I think that looks really pretty and then these ones here I just kind of ripped off like so and then they will go underneath the bottom here again you can do it entirely how you like but that's how I'm doing this and then we've got a couple embellishments as well so I'm going to get all that stuck down okay so there is a gorgeous gorgeous card so pop that to one side and now we want to make our box so you are going to need otherwise scoreboard so for the base you need a piece that is eight and three quarters square so eight three quarters by eight and three quarters and for your lid seven and three quarters by seven and three quarters and you want to just score every on every side of three quarters of an inch three quarters rotate three quarters rotate three quarters and she's just gone off there because my finger was in the way. I'll cover that with that paper and again three quarters, there we go. And then this is just a piece of six by six as I mentioned before and that's just going to go on top. Of course you can decorate even more you know I could add more of these on but as I plan to probably post it I just think I'm going to keep the box probably quite basic but that doesn't mean obviously you have to. So first of all with your base piece of card so your largest piece that you've got you actually want to trim a little bit off of this. So this is when this particular trimmer comes in very handy or any very good guillotine. Guillotines are really good for taking slithers off or if you've got a brand new blade on your trimmer that works brilliant as well but you just want to take literally it's like you know one sixteenths a few millimeters look tiny tiny tiny you want to do that on two sides so there's one side and then another and this will just give us a really nice closure when we go to put our lid on by just taking that a little bit off okay so now we've done that you want to score at one and a quarter on all four sides so one and a quarter one and a quarter one and a quarter and one and a quarter okay so that's our base already furnish all of my score lines okay again choose a side and this time you're going to cut right down again to the first score line and then rotate right so we've just got those four squares and then you just want to again very neatly take the little wedges off and again you just lay that down there that's how it should look okay next we need to stick them together so you'll stick the base and the lid together exactly the same way so with those tabs facing up just add some glue a little bit too crazy there just take some of that off and just fold it in and bring around one of those sides and it should match up perfectly like so go along to the next one making sure you get a nice join on that where that score line is because obviously that's what you see on the side of your box like so and do the same on the other side like so so there you can see we've got a simple that was not stuck there we go a simple box and just kind of start to work the score lines in there just so it wants to stay in that position okay all right easy peasy want to burnish all of the score lines and starting on any sides and tell you which you want to cut down you'll have these little squares in each corner you're going to cut down two like so then flip the whole thing around to the opposite sides facing you and again very neatly cut up both of them just to that first score line and then you just want to take a little wedges off of each side so you're creating that tab so again like so and then rotate it and just lay that down that is what you should have so again on each of those little tabs pop a little bit of glue like so bring it down and bring that side down okay and just do that again on all four sides okay and then grab your base and it should be a really nice snug fit like so how nice that looks and then you just need to decorate it so i've got that piece there that's going to go right on the top like so how nice does that look and then i'm just going to bring in this one here i've just added a couple of the little embellishments there on top as well and then that just sits perfectly like i said i'm going to put some tissue paper so i'm going to get some blue tissue paper for this one and it does it's got a really nice you know when you've got a good closure i always say you can feel feel the air coming out of the side so that's that one and then this is my blue so you can see the two different colors there my blue one with that one like so i think they are gorgeous what really special beautiful card so that is using that stunning dye which again will all be linked below and also in my blog post so i love this style we'll certainly be making more of these there you have it if you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye