 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really fun star card and I've got a guest crafter with me today and I've got my Nan. Say hello Nan. Hi. So you probably will see a photo of me and Nan at the beginning of this video but she is visiting at the moment and we thought how fun would it be to do some crafting together and you like making cards don't you? I do. You liar. She just hit me then. She doesn't make cards but you have knitted haven't you? What other crafts have you done? No was it crochet? No I've only done knitting. Knitting okay knitting. What else did you like when you were a little girl? Did you do much crafting in things as a young girl? I like to paint you know painting on books. Oh okay yeah. I used to like to make I used to like to cook a little bit. Yeah cooking that's always good. Yeah and um well up up me little animals I had. Okay what animals did you have? We had um we had a guinea pig for a while we've had rabbits. Okay and we've had a couple of chickens. Yes. I never knew that about you. Yes. I genuinely never knew you had chickens. Rabbits yeah little chickens as I had laid eggs and I had little chicks. Oh and that's sweet. That was so sweet. Okay so as I mentioned we're going to make this star card and the inspiration for this has actually come from the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials Magazine. It's issue 174 and it's actually the card that's featured on the front here. Now Nikki Gilbert she done some of the designs using the collection and for those of you that have this magazine you will already have seen and know what I'm talking about but she does some great inspiration with the free gift and this is the one here I thought we would recreate. I have changed it slightly um I've loosely followed these but um I've just put it together slightly differently and I just thought it would be a great one to actually make with Nan because it's quite simple to make but I think the results I think you agree Nan the card looks really really good and I like the way it stands. It's clever. Oh that is really lovely. It's good isn't it? Oh that is. So it actually stands on these two points here and when you open up the card it's just a normal six by six card base. It's clever. That is so nice. So that is what we're going to make. Okay so for anybody that hasn't seen all of the freebies that you get in the magazine you get all these pieces that are die cuts so they're all there you just need to pop them out. Nan is going to make a card today with Payella Bakewell. She's one of the characters in Wallace and Gromit and I'm going to do one with Wallace um on the front I believe it is. I've got it already anyway but some of the other ones that you get here as well we've got that one that popped out that's a really nice one of the two of them running. They do lovely gift tags so these are nice Nan. You can just put the ribbon through them. Oh they are. They're really good and then all the papers as well which I'll show you throughout the video. Okay Nan so I've prepared all of yours. We're going to make exactly the same but you're using Payella Bakewell but you might want to change that. I'll show you some other maybe choices that you might want to use when we get to it but I thought you like pink and then maybe maybe you can give this to one of your friends as a birthday card. I think it'd be a nice one for you to use and I'm going to do this one here using yeah it's got Wallace on the front enjoy your day. Okay so I've got my scoreboard here but you want to start off with a six by six card blank so this is just one that's pre-bought from the store or alternatively if you don't have a six by six card blank you just want a piece of 12 inch card stock cut to six and then score along the 12 inch side at six inches and fold it in half. Now everybody that's watching Nan will know exactly what I mean there so don't worry if you're sat there now thinking I don't know what she's talking about. That's what you need so that's our card blank so your card blank Nan is this one here okay so you've got exactly the same as me and there it is there and there's the fold on the left hand side all right so just keep that one to one side I'm just going to tell everybody what they need for the minute. So next you want some colored card stock to mat on top of your card blank so this piece here measures um five and three quarters by five and three quarters okay so I've got red and Nan you have this lovely pink color oh I like that yeah I thought you would then we've got this piece of card stock which is going to start to create one of the kind of star parts of the card and this is um look at this one right here so this is the same size as the card blank I just basically cut down one so although saying that I've got this at five and three quarters by five and three quarters you can have it six by six if you want it's not really going to make too much of a difference but that is going to go over the top like that and there you go Nan there's your one that's going to go like this and we'll stick them all together then I've got this pattern paper from the freebie and this is five and a half by five and a half and that is going to stick over the top like this and Nan you've got this nice wallpaper style from the pack so it all ties together nicely all right then you want another white piece of card stock and this one here is five and a quarter by five and a quarter and that one you guessed it is going to go something like that here we go it kind of works out and that's your one there so again once they're all down we know we'll be sticking them and then again I've got this is probably one of my favorites from the free papers I really like that one and it says Wallace inventing for Britain and this is five by five and that one is going to go over the top you should have a nice little border around each one and then you've got that pretty one which is all part of the same so all matches really well all right and then this one here is for kind of the topper and this is three and a half by three and a half and that is going to go in the middle and there is your one there something like that and then I've got the same pattern colored card that I used here just to keep everything together and this is three and a quarter by three and a quarter and that one is going to go on there and then there's your piece which is going to go there all right and then it's just choosing your topper so like I said I've got that one we're going to use some little embellishments and then Nan I really like her she's really cute she's going to be however you want to kind of have her thinking Lisa's birthday Lisa's birthday that would be a good one wouldn't it here a special card but I must upload this is a special card well you don't shop bright you don't shop bye when you're don't I don't like to hear that word I'm sorry no not let's say shop brought we make cards here now I hope you're going to delete that okay so what we want to do first of all now I've got a few different glues to stick all this down but what we want to start off with is pop that one all up there and we're going to stick this onto this card blank okay so that's the way the card opens and we're going to stick that and you see you've got a nice even little border that's what we want to try and achieve when we stick it down right and mine's going to be stuck here now what you might find will help is this cool little gadget now this is by taser and it's really really good and basically what you do turn this over well it's the same side but you just stamp it and can you see that little square of glue oh yeah and that's it so you give that a go and just stamp just stamp it all over try maybe do like one in each corner first so you use the square as kind of a guide just push it down and lift yep there we go yep and then do one in this corner and it's basically glue it's just you're gluing so you just want to make sure and just kind of cover that square that is so clever it's good isn't it do you want to do a couple there just on that side and I'll stick this one down okay so I'm just going to quickly stick this one and then I'll give you a hand with yours so if you want to line that up maybe what you what I find easy is if you start with the top kind of keep this lifted up get your tops all in place and then you can kind of stick everything else down so lean over if you need to if you find it a bit easier but that looks about right that's pretty good none perfect yep stick that one down oh lovely and then if you want to make sure that you've really stuck it down if you flip it over turn the whole card over and then we've got these here yeah that's fine just turn it over there they go and then use this and you just rub over that and it just makes sure everything so when you go and stick all the other ones down if you do that yeah all right and it just makes sure that you get everything stuck down so we keep that one there and you can use that one so we turn it back over again okay so next now we want to stick down this big white one okay so there's your one that's your one there so what this is when we need to start creating so this white one here is this one here so you can see when it stands we want to make sure so it's actually going to be one of the stands for the card so if you turn your card kind of like that and then this one you want to pop like that yep that's about right we'll move it again in a minute and what you want to look at is you want this here yeah to be kind of straight if that makes sense because that is where this is going to be the stand here so I think that looks about right we can like I said when we come to see you want to make sure all your triangles are equal or as equal as you can get them really all right so again an easy way to do this is if you now carefully flip the whole thing over and with a pencil just do a little marker on the edges if you hold in the middle there hold that in place you just want to do a little marker on there I'm going to do it on this one because you won't see any of this that's it and it just then will tell you oops sorry I don't realize you know that one you just want to do kind of a little line like that all right and basically now you can take this off okay so take that top one off and within this area so for you you just want to come down a little bit it's for where we can put our glue all right because we don't want to obviously have glue in these triangles here so again if you grab your little glue thing there and for you you just want to just whack some glue squares amongst that area there just there anywhere just a few because you want to stick that down so just stamp it around a little bit and I'm just going to add glue all in this area here yeah do you want me to do a few more because I don't it's not easy to see these do one there there but it's so quick isn't it really handy and you've got quite a lot on there it is good okay so then you want to grab this again now you want to stick that down so you want to make sure you've got all your points I'm going to grab my one if you want to watch me do mine first and then you can do so you want to make sure that you've got your card opening up so you've got your fold on the left hand side you want to have it slightly tilted down like this and then you're going to have this perfectly sitting over it so you've got equal triangles in all four corners so you just want to make sure you've got an equal kind of overhang and these triangles are all the same as well all right so there's your yeah so you've got that square and now you want to make sure that one of these points is coming off each of these sides all right and move it up a little bit more and then maybe come across this way a little bit I think that's about right sure yeah if you look along the bottom here remember that's going to be your stand yeah I think that's fine now go for it and then flip the whole thing over again okay turn it all over and then use that to just flatten all of the back remember you don't want to pen don't use it like a pencil use it like that all right it's almost like a bit like a spatula I guess something like that that you just want to use it it's just to help that glue stick yeah so just where you put the glue really all right yeah you just want to help it stick down okay and then what you need to do is rub those out because you can you're going to see them a bit more just rub those pencil marks out that you made earlier they're really just a guide for you to be able to that's one there yeah that's it they're just the guide for us to know where really to put our glue okay so that's all rubbed out do you want to turn it back over now nan okay and now you should be able to open your card up because you've got your obviously card underneath that's it and then stand it up look at that whatever isn't it and then yours would go like that corner of the back yeah acts as a stand it's a bit like an easel but there you go look at that see how easy is that brilliant so now we need to start adding all the fun decorations so you've got this piece here so now you want to stick your next mat onto that square and you just want to make sure that you've got that nice even border yeah use your glue again so if you want to stick everything on the back of that and I'm going to use this one here again and then turn it over and just push it all down or you can use that again if you want to you can sometimes you can put them literally like that and kind of just push it it's just a handy tool that's all it's more if you're using kind of wet glue and stuff but it does help and then flip it over again okay so now we're working as if the card is now like that because that is the right way up okay so like me there that is how the card is going to stand these are our feet okay so that that's our kind of yeah making sure it's up the right way so then we've got this these two here so there's your two oh yeah yeah it's so okay so now you want to stick this one on top of this so if you do it separate we'll put the cards now to one side and just work on these two so if you pop your glue on this one here and now if you bring down your card see this one here okay so again there's the bottom so we want to stick this now on here so that each of these corners are in between these corners and that's how it will create that star so look if you see if I lie mine down there yeah can you see I've got like a little corner coming out in between move it down a little bit like that so yours you would want to remember that's the bottom so if you lay it down so you've got the wallpaper facing up the right way so we have it about there I reckon because remember this is the bottom yeah so that's facing you now I think that looks about right there okay so what we do for these ones because now what we want to do is add a little bit of dimension it's nice to lift things up so these are some foam sticky squares so they're sticky on one side but they're foam so it gives things a little bit of height yeah so on the back I'll stick one down for you and then you'll know what to do with the rest but if you want to now peel another one off you can see it there and just stick one in each corner okay you don't want to stick them in the corner you want to stick them in a bit because the corners are going to be sticking out and it would be sticky otherwise wouldn't it so just I'm going to stick one there for you if you want to stick the other one maybe there you just need a couple and I'm going to do the same with mine so I'm going to stick one there and one there I sit push them down make sure they're all nice and secure and then there's a backing on the top so if you just peel it off all right there should be a little lip that helps you peel it off all right now I'll take that okay so let me do mine first and you can see how I do it so again I'm going to have mine make sure that you've got your card opens like so and then these bottom pieces are facing down like this because that is the base and then I'm going to have mine just make sure each corner is over hanging evenly I'm going to stick that down like so so again turn your one over hold your make sure you've got your wallpaper up the right way which is that way so we've got your base already there we now need to add this little square here so again push your card to one side and you want to add some of your adhesive here onto the back of that one and I'm going to do the same with my red one here and then you're going to stick it on the white one like I have so turn that one over because that's got your sticky on and you want to stick that in the middle of that one there okay and then this one is going to stick in the middle like this one here so we're going to stick it down it's this one here that we're using so bring your card down again and you just want to stick it I'd say maybe like that but we're going to add some of these foam squares again so you just want to add turn that one over and just add one of these sticky squares onto the back just stick it in the middle anywhere like so that's it make sure it's pushed right down and then peel off the backing go don't tell me I'm doing it am I no you're peeling the whole thing off and then this one I'm going to stick again remember always remember your bottom part here bring mine over here a little bit so people can see so you want this one to be again on another angle I'm going to keep this one so it's the same orientation as this one here so if you look if I lay that like that is exactly the same position as that one yeah so I'm going to stick that one just down okay so now we're going to add all of our nice little bits of decoration so now I did say you could obviously choose but you seem to really like her but I do I do like her there are some more of her so you've got that one you've also got her poodle so there's the other one of her you've got these poodle ones and you've also got a best day cake so you could have a best day cake on there as well and there's one of her holding the rolling pin but she looks really cross so you've got a choice there of what one you'd like to do okay so Nan has decided that she wants to do all of this together because you're going to give this to my daughter yeah so my auntie Lisa she's going to give this to um and she loves to cook so we're going to have the one with um Piola Bake while they're holding her rolling pin and they've also got a dog buddy so although buddy doesn't look anything like a poodle it's still a dog and then the best day cake but I think that looks really nice so we're going to stick all that down in a moment I'm going to quickly stick my one down and just finish the decoration and then I'm going to help Nan and we're kind of put that bit on high speed so I'm just going to every time you go to stick something down always open your card to make sure right that you know that you're getting everything kind of you know lined up so again I'm going to stick him in there and again you can see now when that stands up that's the profile that people see when they look at that it's cool isn't it I really like him and then what I'm also going to do here is I punched using some mirrored cardstock just this little scrap piece here and just using this circle punch I just punched out four circles so one two three four and we'll add some of these onto yours as well Nan if you want and then so with those four there they were just nice because they complement the silver that's around the picture so I just put one in each corner like so and then on top of that do you think they look nice oh I think so and then I've got these lovely um just kind of pearl little sticker um embellishments that are going to go in the middle and that's what I've put on there so you can just see all the dimension can you feel those there Nan I like little pearl beautiful nice aren't they so we can add them to yours as well we can add some real glittery ones actually we'll pop them on in a moment or we could use these hearts do you like these silver hearts Lisa likes her right so we're going to use these silver hearts so I'm going to finish off sticking these down and we're going to stick these embellishments on mine and I'm going to help Nan stick all of hers together okay so we have are we happy with the fronts of our cards I am very much what do you like the most about it I like it all these I like awesome out there honestly it's really pretty nice nothing I don't I think I wish I never done that all put that on it's perfect absolutely because I've done it well you've done it you've done it all I done was cut everything you've stuck it down and you've decided where you want it to go with everything so I think it looks great okay so next we need to do these pieces for the inside so again this is optional if you're using a white card blank some people will just want to stamp something and write in that you don't have to but I thought it would be nice just to kind of continue this inside so I've got this piece here which I think I might just trim down just a little bit just to show a bit more of a white border so currently I've got this out yeah so I'm going to go to five and a half and I'll trim yours in a moment for you Nan before we stick it actually I'll do it here while I've got it okay so first of all we're going to stick that in yeah that's better it's got a bit more of a white white border there so I'm going to use the glue for my one here so I'll just quickly stick mine down okay we're going to stamp on this one in a moment so Nan if you want to grab your piece there and again there's your glue bit there I'm going to get this ready to stamp grab this one here open that one up and you're going to stick that in that square there again just making sure it's okay again just move that no it's fine it's okay I think so there you're happy with that yeah yeah okay perfect okay so that's the inside done so now we want to do a little bit of stamping now one of the great things also is you get this lovely stamp set and we find it Nan but this is also free in the magazine and these are stamps that match the papers and all the die cuts isn't it lovely can you see them they're coming out let me see if I can I just put it on that white background there you go you can really see the images so you've got Wallace and Gromit there with the spoon and the rolling pin and they've got their chef's hats on you've got Gromit he's sat there on the sofa knitting and there's his knitting bag in his wool there's the two of them running there's Gromit making something Gromit in his dog hut his little you know dog kennel home whatever you want to call it that's Gromit pouring some tea and then there's Wallace and Gromit again saying hello so you've got happy birthday nice cheesy have a grand cracking day and they're all separate stamps so you can change obviously what way you want to have it and then this here says genuine WNG which is obviously Wallace and Gromit and you've got the teapot and also we've got some cheese there on a cheese board lovely aren't they so I'm going to use this happy birthday for the inside of mine do you want to have that same happy birthday as well okay so first of all I'm going to stamp mine in the same kind of blue that I used for the card before so this here do you know what this is Nan this device ever seen anything like this before no this is called a stamp positioner they all have their own like kind of brand names but basically it's a stamp positioner and what you can do is you pop in the piece of cardstock that you you want to stamp on I always put mine right up into the corner there and these are magnets this is magnetic so these magnets hold it in place and then you can lie your stamp down so I'm going to pop that in the middle there okay and then you bring over this clear perspex push it down it will pick that stamp up because now when I go to add my ink and stamp it I'll get a perfect impression and if I don't on the initial stamp I can reapply ink and go back in again because before these came around it was so hard if you were to stamp something and then miss a bit to be able to line that up again when you re-ink your ink was almost impossible do you kind of get yeah I can imagine it's like clever good isn't it so I'm using this this is island indigo and it's a stamping up old color this is the ink here and you just push it down on there Nan you can see all the colors going on to the stamp bring it over and then do you want to push that down just push on top of this plastic all over that stamp just to kind of push that ink that's it okay and then we'll lift it up you can you see it stamped oh it's perfect isn't it perfect but you might not be able to see it as maybe clear as I can see but there's a little bit where it's not quite covered oh I can't see that but just a little bit but if you're I ink this again now that is so clever and then I ink it again and lay it down and then lift it up look how much darker it is now oh isn't that good it's beautiful it is now I'm really impressed clever isn't it I'm enthralled by that so now I'm going to take that one out and I'm just going to set that to one side just let that dry a little bit I've got some more magic to show you so I'm going to just clean this one off and now I'm going to show Nan how to do some heating bossing okay so now we're going to do your one now the same but because I don't know I just don't think maybe the pink I haven't got a pink that would really match I think yours will look nice with some silver embossed all right so I'll show you how to do that so we're going to lay this down against the same happy birthday we're going to sit that in the middle like so we're going to pop that over pick it up like normal okay and then you've got this little thing here so inside this I keep this kind of little it's just a little pillow and inside it's got like a powder you can use cornstarch anything like that and you rub it over your surface and it will remove any greasy marks it will just kind of clean that off completely all right so I'll just keep that all in there and then we're going to use this stuff here so this is Versa mark and it is basically a watermark pigment so we can lay this down on here just cover it you won't be able to see any of this no it's a very sticky yeah it's just a sticky substance really and what it will do is it will leave an impression of the happy birthday you can just see it catches the light I don't know how well can you see a faint like watermark no okay it's just there anyway it is hard to see I'm just going to lay that down again make sure that's completely covered okay pop this all away and now what we're going to do is we're going to sprinkle it with some embossing powder so I'm just going to bring down this is silver silver embossing powder okay so what we're going to do sprinkle it and what will happen is this powder will stick to all of that sticky stamped image but because we laid that powder down on top it won't stick anywhere else on the paper so we just sprinkle it over it's a bit like glitter you use it the same way that you would use glitter and then tap off any excess and can you see the happy birthday okay and then we've got a heat set it with a heat gun because it melts and it goes all nice and shiny so I'm just going to move this out the way and now we're going to use this and this is basically like a hairdryer but it's even hotter you don't ever use this on your hair but it is like a crafting hair hairdryer turn it on make sure it gets really hot first of all so and now if you watch this carefully you'll see this turn shiny okay where it all melts so I'm just going to go in can you see that marvelous isn't it yeah I can isn't that lovely how clever is that oh and that's what got me hooked on crafting that's what mum showed me yeah mum showed me this quite a few years ago now and it was the thing that got me really seriously into doing more yeah papercraft clever isn't it so now don't you agree that matches really nicely definitely with the card because you've got all that shine yeah so we'll turn it all over and then I never really touch it straight away because it can sometimes still be that little bit but now yeah that's fine do you want to touch that I feel it clever isn't it now because it's a little bit warped can you see the paper's just that little bit I would find rather than using this here I would use a wet glue just a liquid glue so I'm just going to help you with this bit here and just cover that because you want this to be completely flat so just want to make sure I get all the glue everywhere for you so there's the inside of nuns card and then there's the front do you want to hold that one up and show it closer to the camera so people can see it so if you just bring it up just look on the monitor there that's it come up a bit more if you go in that way come into it there we go I think it looks great now just move it a little bit there for people to see you see it in the monitor it's good isn't it really really pretty and I'm just going to stick down the inside of my one here because that's dried now as well there's that one and then I've just stuck mine in there as well that's a nice color as well nice isn't it like that on the white well I thought that color worked well it's like the same that's a lovely one so now you've done a gorgeous one as well so now we've got these three really lovely Wallace and grommet cards what was your favorite you can be biased no you meant to say your own no yeah mine is yeah you're two I've got to pick one of your two no and yeah I don't mind beautiful I love yours I do I really like it yeah I think it looks lovely keep that oh yes she will because you've made it and it's the first card have you it's the first card you've ever made yes in all of your years yes apart from maybe as a child in school you may have made some maybe I've been but there you go well done it's another thing to tick off your bucket list you've done a few this week okay everybody so there are our finished cards I hope you agree I think they look really really nice it's such a simple card style yet I think the results and the impact is wonderful don't you yes I do so I've loved having my Nan crafting with me I hope you've enjoyed this video as well and yeah I think that's it for today don't you know yes and I've thoroughly enjoyed it oh well I'm sure people are going to comment because they always comment when you feature in my scrapbook layouts which you love seeing don't you yeah so um yeah Nan loves her card and we're going to go and have cup of tea now on a biscuit I'm going to show my daughter other daughter yeah she's gonna love that what we're going to have with our cup of tea should we have a tonic's tea cake yes that'd be nice okay guys got envelopes for these I will yep I will share envelopes or envelopes the directions for them I'll share that in my blog thank you for watching everybody and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye bye bye wave Nan bye wave bye