 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Graph, thank you for watching my tutorials today. This is an extra tutorial, I don't usually upload on a Thursday, but yesterday I uploaded the big mama of lanterns, so this was the one that I shared yesterday and you seem to really be enjoying it. So much so that I received quite an overwhelming amount of emails and messages and some comments all saying, we'd love to make a small one. So I thought oh okay because usually I get requests and stuff but not to that degree and yeah so many of you were saying oh I really want to know how to shrink this down. Sam can you give me the measurements for the smaller size and I just thought oh my god I can't you know work this out and reply to everybody and it would just be too hard to do. So I showed my husband last night and he said well you're gonna have to make a smaller one. So that's what I've done. So if anybody missed this one I'll share the link up here now so you can have a look if you do want the big one and the the ones that I've seen people have made already that shared yesterday, they look amazing, they look so so nice. So thank you for sharing them and keep doing so because I do love seeing them but this was yeah this is lovely. It holds a big battery operated candle so really really nice. So this is my mini one and it holds one tea light and it is so dinky. It's two by two by three four four and a half yeah. So it's a really nice one and it hangs perfectly on the tree. You can see at the back there I've got the tea light. This is battery operated make sure it's battery operated. But also you could put sweets in there put them in a little cello bag and kind of stuff them in the back or when I talk you through it you could pop them in the bottom because this is a different construction. So this hasn't got that separate black base which I did on the larger one. This is all done together. So let me just turn the lights off and show you it lit up. It's as dark as I can go because it is still daylight. I've just drawn my curtains but you can see I bring it up there it seems to go darker. How cute and you can see I've got a little music note vellum there which shows up as well. I'm going to make loads of these. These are all going to be hanging on my tree. Okay so that is what we're going to make today so let's crack on. Okay I've made some variations. I don't want that there and yeah hopefully I've done it so that everybody can create it again. So you need obviously a little tealight these are just from IKEA. Yeah I think they were IKEA. That's the for the foliage again some people message. I do share everything in my blog so do go over there and the links always shared below. Sometimes it's a few hours after the video goes up but it will be there and it's this one here and it just cuts out these really lovely little sprigs. So that's what I've used there. I've used that same hardware that I used on the bigger one these were old stamping up little embellishments but they look like screws so I'll be using them again. Okay I've already made the little top a piece and again I've put a little bell on it and you can see those there. Okay right now I've done it in two separate pieces. Now the reason I've done it in two separate pieces you you cut this all from one piece of letter paper or A4 but rather than doing it as one continual strip because when it if you were to do it you know imagine that was all together. The height or width doesn't fit through my big shock because I have the I'll just show you here mine are just the oh gosh the six inch wide plates okay so you can see there it just overhangs and that way obviously it won't go because it's too wide. So I've done them as two separate pieces so that even people with a smaller cutting board and you know die cutting machine can do this. If you know what you're doing and you have the bigger big shot and you know to just keep that as one piece and like so you imagine that's all together so it would be a piece of eight and a quarter by six and three quarters and you would just need to score at two four six and eight okay so if you've got the bigger big shot then you can do it as one piece. If you don't like me I've already done that but I'll get rid of that now you need two pieces that are four and a quarter by six and three quarters okay so first of all along the four and a quarter inch side you just want to score at two and at four okay then rotate it so that that no actually we'll do it this way again because you can make this taller if you want to. So if you want to make it taller rotate the cardstock so that quarter inch tabs at the top and you want to score at three quarters of an inch one and three quarters of an inch and then rotate all the way around so that quarter inch tabs now at the bottom and score at two that way if you want to have this as nine inches 10 12 you might want a really long tall lantern for some reason for something specific to go in it if you rotate it and just make sure that the other end you scored at two then you know that your base will all fold in otherwise if you're just sticking with my measurements you're just going to score at three quarters of an inch one and three quarters and four and three quarters all like I said rotate and just score at two it's the same okay so you want to do that on two pieces of cardstock all right there's my other one but like I said I've already prepped that one then you need a little thin piece here for your handle which is well my other one was five so let's just stick with five by three eighths of an inch and then rather than having that separate black base that I did on the larger ones this is just a strip just for decoration and again the strip around the top there so you want one piece that is eight and a quarter by three eighths of an inch and again another piece as well we're not going to score these we're just going to wrap them it's so much easier and it is just there for decoration then for your vellum so again this is from that same pack that I used the other on the other one so I don't know where this vellum was from but again there you can see it's just little music notes it's really cute I thought quite festive so you're going to need three pieces that are one and seven eighths of an inch squared okay and I've also gone ahead that came out wrong I've also gone ahead and I popped my double-sided tape now I am using the very very thin it's just over one eighth of an inch if you don't have this don't use anything thicker what I would suggest is you use a little thin bead of wet glue or tacky glue okay but when we get to that bit I will explain it in more detail and then to cut my windows I've got this square here which is just a little die cut and this one is one and five eighths of an inch squared you need something that size or smaller don't go bigger because if you go any bigger look you've just not got the room I've literally gone to what I think is enough any bigger and you're just not going to have a good kind of side join there okay so yeah that size or smaller you need to do a little bit more scoring which I had forgot about so I told you how to do the the main ones what you want to do is pop it back in the four and a quarter inch orientation with the quarter inch tab on the right hand side and you're going to score three eighths of an inch just down to the first score line five eighths of an inch just down to the first score line and one and three eighths of an inch down to the first score line then go along and score at two and three eighths of an inch down to the first score line two and five eighths of an inch down to the first score line and three and three eighths down to the first score line okay so if I just bring that up you can see there these are all these other score lines all just down to this one here which is about three quarters of an inch score line that you've done before. These ones here these I'll talk you through. Again if you watch my other one you've already made it you'll be whizzing through this because you'll know exactly what it is that you need to do next. Okay so grab yourself a ruler a metal ruler or something with a metal side this Tim Holtz one does have that and what you're going to do is so this is your quarter inch tab and then you've got these larger rectangles here within those large rectangles you've got one here and then this one here that's where we're going to score these diagonal score lines to create this chimney effect. Now you don't want to do anything to that score line there so there's one there and then there's that random one there all that is is a tab to attach the chimney part together. You want to be working where this square is here and this is a three eighth of an inch is it three eighth of an inch what did I say that measurement was three quarters of an inch square so we're working from that one so you want to from the rectangle here from the bottom left or right you want to score up to the bottom left or right of that three quarter inch square like I said ignore that score line okay so I'm going to go in just define mine a little bit more so just score like I said from the left and the right down to the left and the right of the rectangle and go across to the next one it's exactly the same as the larger lantern it's just all been scaled down you can see there what I've done okay I'll pop a little template of this on my blog just like that just so that you can obviously you know make it out a bit better but it's pretty self-explanatory and if I show you this one where we've cut it you should be able to see that's those that random one that I said don't you know ignore because it becomes a tab and then these are all those triangles that we're going to be folding in okay so you want to do that on both pieces then on both pieces we need to do some die cutting before we burnish or anything like that so you've got your square here now what you want to do is bring it up about what was it I said five eighths of an inch yeah so I'm just going to pop my ruler down there so there's my five eighths of an inch pop that in but I am going to move it down just a tiny bit more because the cut line of this is actually in the middle of that metal frame it's not right on the outer side there so I want them to look as similar as I can I've got a bit of washi tape just to keep it in place because it is a smaller stamp prone to moving around and I obviously don't want this to budge okay so I'm just going to pop that one in my big shot okay so that is what you will have and you need to do that on both of your pieces that you've got here so next we are going to burnish these school lines so be careful along that join on your that kind of edge there because I'll see it is going to be a lot weaker and then just do all of those ones top one's going to go that way but I'm using craft cards so it doesn't matter about cracking and things like that okay so you can't don't worry about any of these other ones for the minute but that's what you should have then we just need to do some cutting so grab my scissors okay so with the tab on the right hand side okay you are going to cut up these ones here which are your base and again this one here and then just remove that one okay so we've just got this little tab rotate it all the way around so now facing away from you I'm just going to swap use my snips actually so you've got all these school lines here first of all actually along the tab just snip that little one there okay so you've got those that still got that school line there it's this one here that I'm going and cut down and then just cut that whole piece out like so so you see now where the tab so the tab should just stretch along the side where you've got this this big rectangle here that's all you want the tab to be apart attached to okay then go back along here so first of all you just want to cut down I'm just going to cut down that one there just tidy that up a little bit so that's the first score line then you've got your square here that little three quarters of an inch by three quarters of an inch square and then this other score line that's the one you want to cut down because you want to create this as a tab do not cut that one because otherwise you just cut it off then go along so there's your middle score line go past that and go to the next one which will be the start of the next square three quarters of an inch square and then you want to remove that piece completely like so go along remember you've got these other two here don't cut the first one cut the last one like so and then go back to that beginning one and just remove that completely okay then you want to just snip that one would have already been I've already done it but just snip underneath so you go along to create that little tab so you see I've just cut enough up to this again this three quarters of an inch square so again this one here just cut just to the start so you can fold it again I will put a little you know template of all those cut lines so you know which ones to cut and which ones not to but you know that's what you want these two need to be loose little tabs off of the left hand side of that little three quarter of an inch by three quarter of an inch square to create your chimney okay hopefully that's made sense and I haven't been too confusing it seemed a lot easier on the larger one I think because it is just so big it was very easy to see all the score lines so now with the triangle kind of sloped score lines you need to fold them in oh and you need to cut down this one here right through the middle just to the top of this score line here so the top of where your windows are just so that you can then burnish those okay there's a little bit more complex it's but it is still easy persevere like said I put those templates up and I'll try and get that up before the blog or whereas I'll get that blog up ready for when the video goes up okay so you will have two pieces like that and then you will have your vellum so you'll have three pieces I've already stuck one down now I'm treating this as my back so I'm going to keep this one empty because that's the one I'm going to use to pop my tea light through so flip it over and then take off your back in so like I said make sure that you only use a very very thin tape or if not use a wet glue because otherwise if you go too thick with your tape it will come through and show on the other side so this one I've got here literally is enough it's the border make sure my music notes the right way up it's the border if you see now when I pop it down I'm actually using that tape as a guide when I stick this down so now just make sure that's all stuck properly when I turn it over you can't see any of the tape okay so again with this one here okay so that's that one there and again you should do the same with that one but you'll just have obviously one empty it doesn't matter which one could be this one could be that one that one it really doesn't matter okay so next we want to start popping it all together so I'm going to use my red tape along my tab like so and again on this one here wet glue is fine but I'm just because it's so tiny this this piece it's just a bit easier and just make sure they're both stuck down I'm going to start with this one first and you're just lining everything up so just make sure your base score line is like here they're all lined up and the tops meet there and just go over that if when you go round and you pop your tabs down and it overhangs so I can get away with it it's just slightly ever so slightly coming in I'm going to just take off the very very outer part where the glue isn't and where I haven't actually put the tape on like so just so that when I bring it around it doesn't come into my window there you go you won't be able to see it now let's stick it down and then it'll make more sense so just fold this side over fold that all down flat it's just the same as constructing any other box so it should all lie down nicely so you can see there that hit that that join isn't coming into my little window frame there okay so that's what you will have then this is going to be my front says my back this is my front this is going to be the last one to stick down so all of these are going to go in now this is obviously how you can have your if you don't want to have this open you can put vellum on this as well and just have it as a treat box and what I would suggest is you attach another little piece of card stay like that just fold it in half and attach it to the bottom and then obviously cut it a bit shorter but put a little bit of velcro there or you know just seal it completely and then you could have it as a little box that that person can then undo the velcro and then unopen the box up and take out the gifts that way as well so if you do want to completely conceal it you can do that um but yeah there's obviously other ways to use this as well so before we stick the base down the base is actually going to be the last bit we do you want to do these all these side bits at the top so the easiest way I've found to do this because it's much smaller with my wet glue pick any one of the triangles and just do one side so they like pairs you've got one two three four pairs fold that in fold that then both in squeeze them together and put the whole box flat okay and then just spend some time making sure that's nice and secure and also all lined up as well okay so now already I've got a really nice corner then go to the opposite one okay so again pop some glue just on one of those triangles like so fold them both in and then fold it flat okay so now when you bring it together like that it will start to form it's more 3d form this bit now is a little bit more fiddly but as long as you go in from the top here with your finger it's still pretty easy to manage just turn in the next kind of pair that you're working on and again pop some glue like so fold them in and then what you need to do is with my finger I'm just kind of pushing it to one side so I've pushed both of them to this side here and it just allows me to get in there with my finger and my thumb and just really make sure that's all nicely secured so it is still easy to do but it's just that little bit fiddly you can also go up that side there if you've got some tweezers like so and then kind of fold it over to the neck the other side as well just so you kind of get an even join there you go it's just the same and then the last one fold them both in and I'm just going to squeeze it inside there like so again it's all going to kind of come out now because I've put too much on but that's fine like so the craft cards are really forgiving for stuff like this which is why I love using it so much okay so there you will have that piece next you want to do kind of the same thing but this time all of those tabs so there'll be four tabs pop your glue on a tab and bring it in and stick it down make sure you get it all nice and straight like so that glue will dry clear that's what you want so go to the next one and pop some glue bring it out fold it in and then pop it back in again okay so that is what you should have so there's your little chimney so now we can finish the bottom so fold in the back first and then I'm going to add some glue to both of the sides like so this would look so nice with a little piece of jewelry in it imagine a nice ring or something like the big present we always say you save till last and just leave it hanging on the tree and I think that would be so pretty especially if you've got any special birthdays around Christmas or near or on Christmas day I know some people that have birthdays on Christmas day and I think that would be really nice nice necklace you probably even get a watch in here actually if it's in a nice little pouch or something and then the last one I'm just going to fold down over the top there I didn't take any wedges off the bottom but it's so small it's fine and then you can just go inside the back there with your fingers and just squeeze it all down make sure it's all nice and secure okay and then just the fun part now to decorate so you've got your two larger strips and then you've got that smaller five inch strips that's your handle so the back is where I'm going to start and do my join so I'm just going to cover a little bit shorter than the width of my cardstock that I'm going to use with glue so I'm just going around all of my four sides there so this glue dries completely clear anyway so I'm not too worried start from the back like so and just wrap it around keeping it really hugging that bottom you don't want to see any other brown and then you can just pinch all of the corners just to kind of really embed it into the cardstock there and if you've got any overhang just pop a bit of glue but it should wrap around perfectly about eight and a quarter inch length there you go it keeps that look and then I'm going to do the same with the top you don't need it this long but it was just easier just to say that so again I'm just going to pop my glue around the top there starting from the back and again just wrap it around and then I'll just trim off just pop a bit of glue just to seal it and again just pinch it on all of the edges there there's that piece and I'll do my handle in a minute then I'm going to stick my lovely decoration that's what does it as soon as you put that on it just completely transforms it a proper bead of glue on the back again I can just go in there with my finger and just so I can really stick that down and then my little handle which is this piece put a splodge of glue on one side like so and then again on this side here and just kind of just curl it a little bit there and then it should wrap around perfectly again you can have this as short long you might not even want to put one on there but these how nice for these look is table favours as well with a nice little truffle inside or each one with a tea light in or lit up I just think it's going to look so pretty in fact I think I'm going to do that I might do then this little favours for my tree um for my table okay then any dry glue you might have I just use my amazing um cyron rubber here adhesive remover rubber is brilliant gets everything off there we go and then I've just got two of my little screws left here you can put brads like I said the the other tutorial pop one there and just stick them down okay and there you have it just bring it up there so you can see all the detail how adorable so I've got another candle that inside oh it is so cute I think it's the cutest thing I've made in terms of it's small I just absolutely love this so much you can just kind of see the candle there so there you have it two really really dinky cute lantern tree decorations or table favours whatever you want to use them for but I hope this has answered all those emails and comments and requests to do a smaller one I hope this is a good size I think it is I think it's balanced and everything else so yeah I think it should work really well so hope you've enjoyed it as always please share these over on mixed up crafters and I'll be back again with my normal tutorial tomorrow thanks for watching bye