 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is the start of my Easter week and I am so excited to show you the things that I have come up with for this week. Starting off with this one, I thought I'd start off with this amazing I think because I just love it when something in my head comes together. This is a wicker woven style gift bag or basket. It's so easy to make, I have made sure that you know the instructions I give you are very straightforward but I just love the way that it's turned out and with a little bit of distressing with some inks and literally just using craft card. I think I hope you agree that this is a really large nice size basket and underneath it's got this proper crate looking base. You could put some more card over the top if you were worried that what you're putting in may be very very heavy but even like a bottle of wine will be fine in this as well. So I wanted to start off with the basket at the beginning because then everything I make through the week, this is seven days as well so seven projects this year. Last year I done five and I'll share those projects as well, the links to that. But I'm going to be putting the things in the basket so by the end of the week I'm going to have two full baskets of gifts for family members. So these little lovely little carrots as well, I just think finish it off really nicely. Of course you can put anything on it, you can put a nice big sentiment in the middle. The handle moves, you could have two handles if you wanted but I only really do need just the one just to hold it obviously and then I've just put this shredder paper inside as well but I absolutely adore this and I really hope you enjoy the tutorial. So what you're going to need, you do need a fair amount of card, these are the carrots, you get a pack of seven and these are from Poundland so obviously it was a pound for seven of them and I'll be using another two and then I'll be using that random one, oh no three sorry and then there was one more which I've used on another project so yeah they're the three for today. So you need, I think it was five pieces of a four card in total. Now I'm using my favorite craft card which is by Dew Crafts. I get the pack of a hundred sheets for £9.99, might have been £8.99 actually from The Range and again I'll share all the links to that but you can also buy packs of £24 or no packs of £25 for I think £3 or £4.99 possibly, I think it's £3.99. Again I'll share all those links for you. So let me just go through everything you're going to need. So I've already prepared one side so this is basically what you have is these two main you know your front and your back and that is how it's going to look and then the side pieces are just separate pieces of card okay so it's kind of all put together by one two four pieces. So this is what we'll be putting together in a moment so I'll leave that to one side. So you need for your side panels you need two pieces of four by eight and a quarter so it's the full length of standard UK A4 card. If you're in other parts of the world where you use letter paper which is eight and a half by 11 you'll just need to bring your eight and a half piece in slightly. So I've you know I've made it so that everyone can use their A4 or letter paper rather than 12 by 12. So yeah two pieces of the four by eight and a quarter and you want to score along the four inch side at three eighths of an inch then at three and five eighths of an inch and then in the middle you want to score at two inches roughly just down to six inches so I've got a little marker here otherwise just hold your ruler up along this side and just score down just roughly it's just to help us put this piece here we're just squeezing it in there and then rotate it onto the eight and a quarter inch side and you're going to score it seven and three quarters like so okay so you need to do that twice so you've got them two pieces like this. Now again the craft card was just the perfect card for this because the color it looks like it's a real kind of like wicker basket and it just works so well and it's super strong once you've added glue to it as well so this is 300 gsm 280 or 300 I'm sure it's 300 okay so I'm going to show you cutting all the strips but basically to make um so one two that's my hand also but one two three four five six yes seven so you need 14 strips for each side so to total you need 24 20 no sorry 14 so 28 strips of one by 11 okay so I've already cut here a piece of my A4 and I've cut it down to eight and a quarter by 11 again those of you using letter paper yours will already be at 11 so all you need to do is cut the eight and a half down to eight and a quarter okay so you get your sheet um of that size so the eight and a quarter by 11 and then you're just going to cut strips that are one inch thick so let me just grab my trimmer and you'll get seven pieces out of this so that's why I said so you need 28 in total so that I use four pieces of this then you'll get your sides out of the other piece plus your handle so that's your five pieces in total so pop this in and line it up to one inch make sure it's nice and straight all the way down and then just cut your straight okay now I've got my seven strips and you'll have a little bit left over okay so do that with all four pieces of eight and a quarter by 11 and you will have 28 strips and you will have four piles of seven okay two of those piles will create one of these sides all right so I hope I'm making sense here now what you want to do is this is all where you're going to be weaving it in and out and it's very very easy now the easiest way that I find to do this is if you've got a grid background it's really going to help now if not you'll probably find that if you've got two rulers that will be just fine as well now what I'm going to do is first of all grab one of my strips and I'm just going to line it along any of these lines it doesn't matter so I'm just going to pick this line here I just want to make sure that that stays nice and straight with this line here then I'm going to put my ruler up the other side actually I'm going to come down a bit and go down to here and I'm going to line my ruler up with the very bottom of that same line that this piece of card is up against so you see there what I'm doing I'm just sitting it against and you can see it comes up to that one inch marker and again I want to make sure that ruler stays nice and straight with the line running up this way okay so I've created a perfect right angle now that is then what we're going to use to then lie down but basically first of all you're just laying all your pieces out and this by doing it this way it just means that you get it in a perfect square and once you've started it off then you can get rid of all this and it's quite easy now the the height of this will come in at seven you want to come up to seven and three quarters so let me just pull them all down I'm taking from different piles it doesn't matter but you want it to the top one needs to come up to seven and three quarters and the bottom one is right at the bottom here at one then all the ones in between you just want to spread them out so you've got equal little gaps and there are only small gaps you can see here just little squares okay so I would say the gaps I've got in between are probably one eighth of an inch okay so you can see now I've got them pretty neatly laid out for some reason that one's coming in a little bit short let me just check the measurement of that maybe I came in yeah it's slightly under 11 I'm going to put that to one side for a minute I'll recut that one because I don't want it to be because this is the face of the the bag there you go that one's better so I'll pop that one over and I'm probably gonna have to cut I've got some scraps one two three four five six seven oh how weird's that one two three four five six seven I had a spare and it's a dud so there you go that doesn't matter I don't need to cut anymore okay so this is what you want so your bottom one running dead straight along a line other what or another ruler up the side here you want another ruler and then you're just sitting them all the way up until it gets to seven and three quarters okay then start with your next pile of seven put your hand down don't matter if it's moving a little bit this is all just to kind of keep you in place and now you're just going to start with this one so it's on the top and then it's going to go under and then over the next one under over the next one under and then over like so okay so you can see now I've just wove them over under over under over under then bring it right down and you want it to sit perfectly on the corner there and perfectly along all those edges so all of your edges should all perfectly meet and this is the edge we're creating here so all this is is just them woven and stuck down on top of each other and all we're sticking is just the top all the the outer parts of the top bottom and the side you're not sticking all of the inside bits here these aren't stuck down all right so there's little sticking going once you start doing this is very easy I'm just trying to make sure I explain it as well as I can so once you've got that one in place keeping all this nice and straight making sure it's staying at that seven and three quarters you can get these ones glued down straight away because this once you've got this kind of stuck in place the rest is just going to be very very easy to do so I'm just going to kind of fold this one up and just put some glue on the bottom here and as I always mentioned with this craft glue it kind of um it absorbs the glue really well so you can see now just laying it back down and just making sure that you that you get a perfect right angle those two sit perfectly over the top of each other I'm just going to hold that up a minute just so I can get it nice and straight like so and get that one stuck into place you can see now that it's running still nice against that seven and three quarter marker up here okay so that's the most important one is getting this one and this one dead straight then we can kind of just lie all the rest in place now start with the bottom one and get that one stuck down because then everything in between you can then use to kind of you know work out where it needs to be but if you get your top and your bottom perfect then you know all the others inside even if they're slightly out least your outer frame is exactly the size it needs to be so again just making sure I keep my ruler rearranges again make sure it's nice and straight and then this bottom one is nice and lined up and again I'm just going to put some glue in keeping that at the seven and three quarters hold it there and then bring this down and make sure that it lines up nice and straight on this side here like so so again just make sure this is lined up against that bottom line the ruler's nicely lined up that's still at seven and three quarters and now we can just go and get this one here put some glue on this one because this is obviously just sticking directly on top and you just want to keep that kind of one eighth of an inch gap this is nice and flush with the outer part there and it's dead straight all the way along okay you can see there make sure that that stays nice and straight again don't worry if it's a little bit one slightly you know got a bigger gap than the other you know if you look at the you know real wicker baskets they're all a little bit higgledy-piggledy and after you know really old ones they're kind of all a bit sloppy and knuckered so it doesn't matter okay so that's then that one the next one is obviously going under so you remember that one stuck under this one stuck over this one's got a stick under that bit of paper there that card so again and I could keep saying once you've done this bit here this bit of work the rest is really really easy so again just sticking that one down and making sure it's all nice and straight okay can you see that gap slightly bigger than that one so just need to bring it up a little bit make sure it doesn't poke out past this one here so again you're keeping it nice and straight I think they're about right again it's still they're all nice and flush with the side of the ruler as well so you know you're not kind of coming up down at an angle or going up at an angle then this one has got to be stuck on top I'm going to show you every step of this first bit and then I'll whizz through a lot of the other bit because you'll know once I show you what you've got to do so again just sticking that one I'm keeping it all straight at any time okay so that one was under over under over this one's stuck on top if you were not using this color card you're using other colors and maybe the glues going all over the place I'm going to be distressing it with ink and that hides lots of those kind of like you know little I guess mistakes grubby marks things like that so again don't worry maybe if you're using like a white or a light yellow or something like an Easter color you can easily disguise all of those little glue marks and stuff so again just rearranging this one and the bottom one just making sure it's all still in its place which it is and then this one is obviously going under there so again you've got all this excess glue and I'm rubbing it all off that's why I love the craft card because it just disappears completely it just absorbs anything okay that's all still perfectly lined up everything is straight and then the last one is going to go in here and that's going to go on top like so that is that now done now what we can do let's get rid of the ruler don't need that anymore and you don't need to worry about lining up with the bottom that is now stuck in place okay so they're not going to go anywhere but what you do want to do is get this side put in now so again so it's nice and flush and then we'll do one in the middle and then kind of work inwards and then you know you've got it all equally spaced so this one here again is going to be woven the same pack the same way that this one is so you're starting with it over the top okay so it's over this top one then it's under this one over the next one under this one over the next one and then under and then it finishes being over the top of the other one and again you can see now just line it up till they're all nice and straight if you've got any bits are slightly coming over we can trim them right at the end you can see maybe that one's a little bit over and this one here we trim all that off so again don't worry too much again just going to get some glue and just pop it like so this is the time bit this is the bit that's but it's so different and fun to do I've really enjoyed doing this once you've done this bit the sides and the base is very very quick to do but even now this bit is much much quicker to what we started off with so you can see now because it's all just falling once that top piece is in the rest I'm just going to take these ones out a minute just so I can go under on this next one that's going over the top like so and then that one's going over the top if for some reason you've got one wrong the wrong way or for example this one is meant to go over the top but I stuck it underneath just like the one before it's not the end of the world look you can see it still looks good but obviously that one does need to go over there so again there's lots of yeah just don't don't beat yourself up if you do stick one down and you think oh no it was meant to go under over well you know it's been woven the wrong way don't worry okay and then again this one I'm just going and already I can feel it starting to really kind of get nice and strong like this side already is starting to really strengthen okay then you want to get another piece and you're going to go in the middle and again this is going to go the top one is going to start over the top and then you this is when you're you're really starting to weave your card so I'm going starting with it over the top of the first one then it's going under the second okay then over the top then under over the top under and you can see if I lift it up where you've got the three you should have three that are on the top and four that are underneath of those strips okay and again then I can just bring that top one right down and make sure it's you know in the center use your grid on your mat again if you have so just line it up here and I can see everything is all staying nice and straight and it's all lining up where I want it to be so now again I can just put some glue it's like one inch squares so you see I know roughly where I need to glue turn this one back around just so I can make sure I get this one straight and in the middle and then we're not going to glue any of these ones all you're then gluing is just the bottom one so don't worry about gluing you don't need to so then this bottom one here I'm just going to put some glue and I think this just also adds to the effect of it you know looking even more genuine because once we put more and more in these won't be flapping like they are at the moment so that's those ones and then you will have four pieces left so two and two and I think by doing the outer first then the middle and then the two you know that you're always going to have it the right distances apart okay so then the next one now I just realized is you actually need nine strips going along this way it's only seven going down I don't know why when I prepared it or I've done seven and seven so it's actually nine so you will need what's that another so it's actually five and a half sheets so oops sorry my bad um you do need a little bit more card um so you actually need nine strips to go along this way because I was thinking that's not going to be right and my gaps are too big that's why so that one is um like I said that's so that this next one we started with it going under over under over under over under so we just need to stick this one in place and we're actually putting three in this gap so actually before I stick it down in this section and another three there so this one then is going to start by going over the top of that one under over under over and then finishes over that bottom one like so and then this one will go under see it just starts to really kind of reinforce itself once you start putting all these bits you know once you're weaving them in and out it becomes so strong and then again that one's going to sit so you can see now how nicely that's coming together and these will be stuck down and these three here at the bottom will be stuck down so I'm going to crack them do that now if once you start doing this and you've seen what I'm doing this is very easy to adapt to any you know kind of size that you want so if you don't want something this big and you don't want to use that much card it's very easy to just you know make it work for whatever size you want so but I just love this size and these are really special as well so I don't mind so you can see how I'm sticking them all down there just you know just splodging the glue obviously making sure that they're all nice and flush with the top like so and again you've got nice even little squares there little holes like so okay and then again just for these bottom ones here that's that side all in place and then again with this one so that one there is over so this one has to start under so under okay so that is now all stuck down so you just want to make sure that you go along all of the edges and make sure that every bit is stuck on all of your sides and you should have from where the the bottom one starts here up that side that should be seven and three quarters which it is and your width of your box or your bag should be 11 okay so it's a really nice size and then all of this here is going to be the base so flip it over and you're just going to fold up keeping them nice and straight so I'm folding this one just make sure it's nice and flush with the side there and then the next one you need to be a bit more careful with those ones because they're obviously stuck on top and again you're just following the same piece you're folding it back on itself keeping it nice and straight each time you fold them because you're going to be sticking these directly on top of that other piece so all what I've done now obviously you need to do again so you've got two pieces of these eight and a quarter by 11 woven okay so that's going to be the base and then this one is going to stick on top like so now before we do that keeps falling down there we go turn it back over again and I'm going to distress it now you don't have to because it does look really lovely like this and actually you might not be able to see the ink showing up too well because it's not I guess if I put the two together probably will come up better in the pictures but you can see it's just like highlighted on the edges of this one it just looks a little bit more 3d that one looks I don't know actually it's hard it's really really hard to see again the the brown that I've used is very similar so this is completely optional but basically I've just got this little brown cube of ink and just inking up there and I'm just going over and you can you can actually see yeah you can in the picture now can you see the difference and it's just highlighting the edges just the joints of the wicker and just again just you know gives it that slightly more realistic look and you can see I'm being very very rough with it I'm not taking too much care because again I want that kind of naturally looking distressed and again just pick up and you can just go on the edges and on all of your corners so this bit's optional I'm just going to go over and just finish this okay nice now all distressed up and again if I kind of pick that up when it catches against the light you see it's got this really cool look to it okay so now we need to stick the down so that's them you know both are upright so this is the sides that you're going to see so you want to flip them over and then put them on top like this okay so the side that you're distressed will be on the bottom and then basically each one you're going to stick over the top okay and they should if everything else is all lined up they should all perfectly sit over the top of each other if they don't if it's slightly out do not worry because it's on the bottom anyway you're not going to see it and you can also put some more card over the top if you want to reinforce it anyway so I'm going to turn it this way and I'm just going to put glue all on the bottom there and then stick that first one on top I'm going to make sure this end comes right up and then again I'm going to go on to the next one just go along and stick all of those down okay so they're all stuck down as long as your outer one is nice and straight the two you know two outside parts I've got two that are maybe a little bit off that one there and that one there which is funny because it's the same one so obviously the the second one's in from both sides but it's not enough to make me you know worry and it's fine so they are now all hard thing up really nicely so then when that now comes together it will be like this now this would also when I was doing it would make a really good big huge journal and like you know scrapbook you know that could be the start you'd have to obviously put card on there but what a lovely cover to a book that would make as well so again endless possibilities with this and it's a lovely shopping bag style as well so again lots and lots of ideas now grab your two side and we're going to do a little bit of cutting and burnishing so you just want to burnish the score lines like so okay and then that middle line that we just scored down to six inches just pinch and then all you want to do is along the the short end here is just cut up scissors are a bit funny just cut up each one and then just cut it i'm just notching it off slightly on the sides there okay and then on the top ones very very slightly just maybe take a slither off just so it doesn't kind of come over the edge if it does you can trim it again but this should stop it doing that all together and again just take a very small amount off of the tops just removing the little squares and that's what you should have is that cut out like so okay so then with the make sure you've got your distressed side facing down start with this side here this short side here fold it up and you're going to put glue on there and then we're going to stick it perfectly within this section here so i'm just going to stick that so it should meet that strip perfectly and then lift it up fold it right over and make sure it's obviously nice and straight all that side there just give that a little bit of time to set go over to this side do exactly the same with this for the other one up and leave that one a minute go back to the other side and now we're going to start bringing the sides up so this side first i'm just going to run glue all along this little tab like so and then keeping it folded inwards okay bring this up and just make sure that it all sticks nicely and it should meet perfectly with the top and just hold that in place just so it can kind of stick pop it on its side and then you can really make sure you stick it down and again you want to make sure you've got a nice straight side there and that will all stick in lovely my mum's ribbon wall there on the back is catching let's just push that all back in okay and then again with this one so put some more glue just get your bone tool in there as well and you can just make sure that you get a really nice join okay so now you can see now that's coming together i need to rub out i've put side there totally for that and on that one totally forgot i need to rub those out and then this one so you can just fold those in and that's going to come and sit down over the top so i'm just going to run glue on these two and stick them in place so there is the main you know the base of our basket you can see there the bottom looks really really cool looks like a proper like crate old crate so like i said if you wanted to reinforce that you do want to put some card inside like over the top there then i would say you were going to need a piece of i would do three and one eighth of an inch by 10 and seven eighths of an inch okay so it's just slightly shorter and it should get you should have quite a snug fit then right now we need to let's stick on my little carrots so i've got these three here i've got my glue gun nice and hot and just going to run some glue down there and stick that one stick the middle one first obviously you can decorate however you want but yeah if you can get these from the pound land i just thought they looked really good some of the stuff in there is really naff but i actually thought these looked rather fun that's those and then we just need to do a handle so your handle will be the same strip again one by and then you just want to just kind of roll it between your finger and your thumb i'm going to just stress it up a little bit as well that same brown okay so it's now just a little bit dirty looking and this is then basically going to sit over the top of the very center of the front so it's the one two three four the fifth strip in it will go perfectly over the top there now if you want to have it underneath you can do but i personally i like it over the top so i'm just lining it up exactly over the top and so it's you know just coming up it's in line with the bottom of the strip as well so they all fit perfectly i've just got a little hole punch here one eighth of an inch punch i'm just going to try and center that in the middle there and then i've just got these big brads which i can't remember where they were from um they would have been the range of the works it's usually those places and just open that one and then go on to the other side and again just line that one up punch like so and then just pop your bra in again and there you have it and then i'm just going to finish it off with let me just get rid of those strings there i've just got the paper shred this is again from the pound land um you get loads to be honest i could probably put that you know it would be enough for both but i'm just gonna open it all up a bit stick that all inside again any colors you want if you've got yellow um paper shredded paper and then you've got little chicks kind of stuck on the outside that would look really nice again you've got such a blank canvas with these i think anything will look great against them nice spring colors but isn't that just so adorable absolutely so pleased with these um so that is the first project of easter 2018 and then through this week you're going to watch me make projects to fill up this for these little they're not little rather big baskets so i can't even get them both in my view there but there you have it so i hope you've liked the first tutorial for this week um if you haven't already subscribed please do so and give the video a thumbs up if you've enjoyed it stay tuned thanks for watching bye