 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this a really pretty easel chocolate box so that goes up like so so just like an easel card if I just pop it on the side there and then at the top here this opens up and it will fit a chocolate bar or anything else you want but I've done this is the third chocolate bar one I've done now and I'll link the other ones I'll do a little playlist for those because I've done the Easter one which was really popular and then I've done the one that actually looked like a chocolate bar which you all liked as well but this one is another card within a box so the Easter one is the same that one opens up like a normal card this one I thought I would do in the easel style so I have seen similar ones where people do little drawers and stuff as well which is nice but I thought I want to do it with chocolate because I like to give chocolate so I just bring up the top here and you can see I've used the Duffcraft holographic cardstock which you can see catching the light and this is using the first edition making memories which I'll show you in a moment I've done all the decoration I've done a lot of this off camera as well for the video today because once I talk you through what it is it's easy to do yourself I just want to show you the box and the little easel mechanism there so let's crack on okay so I've done everything there so this is my topper so I've already done this piece this is my easel bit that's going to pop up and I've just gone for a different color with the flowers I've done blue and my box is going to be this pinky color so for the leaves I used that plate there which was the ivy plate by John next door I've been using this a lot lately and it's being used on a lot of my Christmas projects so I will it's stuck to the magnet so strong I will link that one as always as I link everything below for the sentiment this time to the birthday I just used the birthday from the birthday words the bright rosa I'm always using this so I thought I'm going to pull these out a bit more so I just used the bit in and I stamped the happy and heat embossed it I just grabbed one of my stamps just a small one there I just like that the difference in font having the two together was just a bit much on this project but they do look nice together and then also I use the flowers from the flower border die set so I've used them to make those lovely border cards and I've just started to use these a little bit more on their own and you just really get to see all that detail in the center of the flower you've got so many layers to it even those little silver pieces that's a separate bit and yeah I just think it looks really nice you can see there in the blue and in the red okay so that's what I've used there the sentiment is from the Christina Griffiths so again it's that happy birthday it's the one I keep pulling out but it just works with so many things that one was a dovecraft one so that one says I hope your birthday is full of rainbows and sunshine again if I can find that one I'll link it because that one's a bit older but that one's still available and there's the paper pad so that's the making memories beautiful colours really really nice good for Valentine's but you can use it all year round as I'm showing you now okay so for the box you want a piece of this is nine and three quarters by nine and one eighth okay so first of all along the nine and three quarter side we're going to score at four and one eighth of an inch four and three quarters eight and seven eighths and nine and a half so you should have a small quarter inch tab just here okay then I'm going to rotate it and now along the nine and one eighth side you want to score at half an inch one and one eighth of an inch and eight and a half okay and then for the easel piece you want a piece of eight by four yeah eight by four along the eight inch side you want to score at three and five eighths of an inch and seven and three eighths okay and then you'll have this five eighth of a inch piece here and that's the bit that we're going to tuck inside the box so I'm just going to fold and burnish those okay and then the top of piece is just over four because this is going to sit over this piece here so you just want to check but it's going to sit over the top there and you can see that's going to fold the easel piece and then the width is the same as well so this is seven and three eighths because once you take that piece off that becomes seven and three eighths as well okay then the piece on top you just want to drop down so three and three and three quarters by it will be seven and one eighth okay so what I would do is have the quarter inch tab on your left hand side and we'll work along our base festival so in this bottom left hand corner you'll have a tiny little kind of rectangle okay just remove that one completely and then cut up the next score line and that will give you that little tab go along to the center and you should have two other small short score lines just cut them up to the first score line and then that will be it okay with these little squares just go in now and just take a wedge off of them okay and just make sure you've got no score lines on those longer pieces you can always tidy it up once you've folded it all together but try and do it all now that's how you want the bottom okay next you want to turn it all around and this bottom left large rectangle section so first of all if you just cut down all those other score lines to the second score line okay so all those lines I've just cut down past the first one down to the second this little one here just remove again completely and what you can do is just take off a wedge from each end of that tab over there then with these pieces here you want to remove the top kind of rectangle piece it won't quite be a square all right and again take wedges off of that if you've made these boxes before you'll you'll kind of know what you're doing okay then you'll have these pieces here this whole section here we're going to remove okay so I'm going to grab my longer scissors I'm just going to pop them in there and just take out that whole section okay so if I lie this down fat just before we do that this top piece here you just want to take not a lot because this is going to be your locking piece so you want it to make sure it kind of wedges in you can always take them more away if it's too tight but for the minute just take a little bit away okay so that's what you should have you've got your quarter inch tab here you should have tabs at the either end of that set next section which is your side piece then this will become the front the top of our box and you'll have another side with this with little tabs either end and then this will become the back and it will have these two pieces because the top one is the lock and that's going to be like the the top of the box and this is all the base okay so next we want to glue this together so you want to do the side piece first so I'm just going to run some glue along that quarter inch tab and if you fold the side piece over as well as that quarter inch tab and then just bring the whole side of the box it will all line up and then just fold it across just so it kind of gets used to being in that shape and now you'll have your case your chocolate box okay now you want it so that that join is on the bottom left because that means it's on it's on the back and this is going to come up and fold inside and like I said you want it to wedge in see that wedges in really nice it's not going to pop out then the bottom here this is the top you want to fold that one down last so fold the bottom in first add some more glue fold in each of your sides a bit more glue on the tabs and then fold over that one there now if you've got anything overhanging you can cut it away but mine's fine so you should be okay then if you open up this end again just grab a ruler and you can just push down the base there okay and then we'll do that back up again actually no leave that open now so that's already next you've got this piece here which you've folded which you've scored and burnished and this piece is going to slip in the top here okay and then if you fold that all in in fact you have to stick it first so it won't be easy to do so what you want to do is on the inside piece you want to add some glue and then I'm just popping it in the top there and then fold it over make sure it's in the center of the lid there because this is four and one eighth this is four okay so it just just sits within that top of the box okay and now I can fold them in and that one and that should wedge even more and that you've got such a nice finish so I really like the way that this has come together because it's completely concealed and that's the easier piece done so next you want to get this bit so decorate it first it's a bit easier because you're now going to stick that on there and it's going to cover the whole thing but I need to take a little bit off here so I'm just going to go up on a very very slight angle it's such a small amount just a little slither but it just there we go just hides that white behind and so all you want to do for this bit is just stick this bottom half down so I'm just adding glue just to the bottom square and then sit that over the top and lay it all down if that's easier you've got lots of places to write your message as well I didn't really talk about that you can have it inside here which is probably what I'll do you can have it here or you can have it on the very back or you can have it on that or here so there's so many spaces so it's a good one again if you've got maybe colleagues and people like that to sign because you could easy put a nice gift card in here as well okay so now we've got that effect so now we need our stopper so I've already got this piece here so I've put foam adhesive under the top one and also on the bottom one here you can have anything you want you could have flowers hearts anything as long as it's raised up so that the this piece can wedge itself against it and create that easel I'm going to bring this one up I'm going to have it about there okay if I just bring that up you can see now how nice that looks I need to put some hearts on there because I forgot to do that and I've got some hearts there but I've put that all away so I have to pull that out and do it later but I just bring them out there a bit hard to hold but you can see how lovely do they look I think they've got such a nice profile so as you know card and gift in one always go down well and I use these kind of things a lot and they're just nice as little token gifts as well so yeah I think it looks really really good and I love these papers I love all of the just all the shininess from the card stock and the the glitter in the little jewels that I've used and yeah I'm really pleased with it so I hope you like it I hope you 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