 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This video kick starts the beginning of my Christmas workshop 2018, so I know quite a few of you are going to be excited because you have been messaging me saying Sam when are you going to do Christmas projects and I've done it a bit later this time. So last year I did do like a creative card series in the September, don't worry I'm still going to be doing fun cards as well but I'm going to just combine it all together and pretty much throughout November and into December I'm going to be sharing lots of fun at Christmas projects and I'm so excited. Okay the first one is a requested one, now this one's been requested to me for a while but I kind of wanted to get it right. So this is called the Booker Tricks or Booker Trick. Okay now it's really it is a very very old style so let me just pull it out for you and so basically it's an envelope gift bag which I'll talk you through in a moment and you get this stand which I've made but it's meant to look like an open book. Obviously you're going to see it from not the best view from the camera there but you'll see in the videos it's beautiful this looks so lovely and I'm just super pleased with how it's turned out so I don't really know much about the word the term Booker Trick or Booker Tricks but basically this is a it's a scoreboard I found tutorials from 11 years ago on YouTube like when YouTube just started and it's and the way the women were talking with the scoreboard it had been going from you know years before that as well and basically you score each of these different sized pages on this scoreboard. Now the difference with mine and the scoreboard is the scoreboard does do like fancy edges and all that kind of stuff but I wanted to bring you a way of doing it with just normal straight edges and I still think it looks really nice and if I bring it up you can see where you just kind of lift up the pages to create that kind of you know dome effect and an open book look. Now to decorate it I've used the Hell's Couple Ditch Christmas Village which I'll show you in a minute and then I've just this is a stamp from my own stash but I just loved it because it says towards the night before Christmas went all through the house not a creature was staring not even a mouse the stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there and I just thought that looked really nice on the front of this book but obviously you could have that just to have your to and from. Mine is going to be on the back so here I'm going to have another white piece of paper card and I will write a nice little message and that's going to be stuck on the back. Now this is a card that you would need to hand deliver I would say so it's one of those really special cards hence the envelope gift bag here that I've made to fit this specifically. Now this is a handy size as well if you've got other things that you think oh actually like a photo frame that would fit nicely in this as well so there were lots of elements to this there are lots of ways for you to change and adapt it to your you know your needs but let's get into it so I'm super excited to share this one so lots and lots of bits to it but like I said this is that special card so you know if you've got someone in mind that you want to make this for then it's going to be perfect so I will talk through everything as we go and I've made a few little differences things that you won't really notice in this video but I will talk you through so let's get all the main card stock that's the stand okay and I'm also going to show you the decoupage that I've used as well so we'll go through all of that so there's lots and lots of bits it will all be broken down so don't worry okay so this is what we are using here so it's Christmas Village this is the decoupage kit and this is the papers this is just the top sheet but just to show you there it's so fun I used the beach life last time which was the house couple ditch the illustrations that she does are beautiful and if you follow her on Instagram and Facebook then you know you'll get to see what she's creating she's a very talented lady okay so that is the paper pack and again I'll share all the links to everything and then this is the decoupage which you will be seeing me use quite a lot and I just love all the fun little toppers you can make from this and gift tags love these okay so to make the main card that the book you are going to need four pieces of card stock now it's up to you what order you do them in and what you know colors and all that kind of thing obviously mine's Christmas theme but you may be making a birthday card a wedding card that would look really nice so it's up to you my merry card is my base cards it's a strong card stock are buffer for all of those fingerprints although you won't see it hardly any that's it get covered basically for this first piece this is the main card size this is ten and a half by seven okay and there's no reason why you can't shrink this down either but I wanted it to look like a nice big open book that's why I've done it big piece of ten by six and a half then my green piece to go on top of that is a piece of nine and a quarter by six and then my decorative paper on top is eight and a half by five and a half okay so those are our three pieces so we're just gonna get straight into that first of all so with your largest piece along the longest side so this is the ten and a half inch side you want to score at five and five and a half okay and that's gonna be our spine we're gonna decorate that and everything then on the next size down so the next biggest one so this will be along the ten inch side you're gonna score at four and three quarters and five and a quarter so basically what I've done is I found the halfway point of each size and then I've done a quarter of an inch to the left and a quarter of an inch to the right giving me a half inch spine okay then my green piece is along the now I've already put sticky tape underneath so along the nine and a quarter inch side you want to score at four and three eighths and four and seven eighths okay and then that last decorative piece you want to score at if I can see my score lines here four and four and a half okay so that's those pieces then while I've got my scoreboard out let's go through the back piece so this is to decorate the back and I'm gonna stick a white piece on top with my message so if you want to do this this is nine and a half by six and a half and again along the nine and a half inch side you want to score at four and a half and five okay two pieces of a four okay so this is eleven and three quarters eleven and five eighths always varies by eight and a quarter okay so you need two pieces of that you want to score along the longest side at half an inch okay and then just flip it around to do half an inch because some A fours are slightly different so it's easier to do that way and then on one of the pop it on a short side it doesn't matter which one and then score at half an inch okay so do that on both pieces then I've got a piece here which is to decorate and seal the top of the envelope gift bag and that is five by two okay I'll talk through the stand at the end but I think we're there for the minute right so let's start assembling our book of tricks so with your largest piece what you want to do is just kind of burnish you're not really folding it right over it's it's more just a marker you see that I've just kind of bent up slightly don't start folding it right over you don't need to and again so just do that with all of your sizes okay so they should all kind of be like that and then what you want to do is use I've got this like it's a really cheap kind of rolling pin but it's really handy but basically if you just pop the end and just kind of hold it like so just so it starts to you see you just want to start to kind of help it into that kind of open book look so again just going to kind of squeeze it around on that side so you can kind of see the the shape that I've got there so again do that on all of your pieces okay so there is my mary card then I've got my white and if you kind of layer each one on top you will see you will get a nice quarter of an inch you know border with each color card there from the top and the bottom and then the side is a bit different because you're going to be lifting each one kind of up to create your open book so first of all what you want to do is even on no don't need to do it on the very the largest one for every size so your three smaller size size pieces you want to put some tape along your middle spine and then just on the outer bits there that's all you need to do because none of this is actually going to be stuck down okay and then first of all what you want to do is take off your middle and get that stuck down so if you start from the bottom and bring it up a quarter of an inch keeping your score lines lined up and then just make sure it lines up to the top or start from the top down actually except look better if your top's all you know lined up properly a little sticky mark so now you will have that and then you want to take off one of the sides now the idea here is not to have it too you don't want to have it too raised because the the actual case here that we're going to put it in is only half an inch now mine is a bit thicker than half an inch so it doesn't matter if you do go over that but ideally you just want it to kind of just be lifted up slightly so all I'm doing is keeping it in its curved kind of position and sticking it down can you see it's just slightly lifted off there okay and again just take this side and you want to make sure that you've got an even it's about three eighths of an inch there again on this side with a similar kind of like dome effect on top like so you see there so that's what you want to do so then you grab your next one so I've got my green again take the middle out first and stick that down okay and then again I'm going to take my backing off of this one here and just very slightly lifted up so you've got the same kind of gap between this red one and the white one so again I'll just bring that up now you can see what I've got there so it's entirely up to you if you're not even going to put it in a gift bag you can have even more layers and really you know lift them up even more so it's entirely up to you so again just gonna bring this one down and just lift it up slightly that that one could have come up a bit more yeah it's not really raised too much on actually it's fine it doesn't really actually matter because then this one's gonna go on top anyway and that one's gonna come up again so then the last one goes down okay and then again and some people use foam adhesive on these bits here to lift it so it's entirely up to you if you want to do that as well but again I'm trying to just show you a nice way to do it with very few supplies and you can do this without a scoreboard just with your ruler and you can do it without you know you don't need a trimmer you can just use scissors to cut it all so yeah hopefully lots of people can do this so look at that and then just kind of bring it in a little bit there but you can see it all lifted up and looks like a nice book and once that's on its stand just think that looks absolutely gorgeous next what we can do is I'm gonna stick this back piece down while we've got it in this design actually no before we do that you want to decorate some if you want to add ribbon now's the time to do it so I've got this strip of ribbon which is going to go right through the middle and it's going to fold over and then that back piece will cover and conceal your ribbon so best way to use and stick the ribbon down is with red tape because again that works really really well with fabric so I'm just going to run a strip through the middle it doesn't need to cover the whole of the spine actually I want to wrap it around a little bit as well to add a piece onto this side here so just pop that bit there and just trim that off so undo that in a minute just make sure that's all nice and stuck down and then again you can put anything here you know you don't have to have ribbon you might want to put some washi tapes anything ready okay so I'm just going to lie this down in the middle because it's not a half an inch width wide ribbon so I'm just making sure it's in the middle so put that over obviously I don't want to put any pressure on this because I don't want to squash it just fold that over there and bring that one down and just trim okay so that's just in place because we've got more decoration to do so now we can stick down with this piece again you can put you know if you want to put a double-sided tape all over it but I'm not worrying you're only going to have your message on the back of this but it you won't do a you're just going to follow the curve that's already in the card here so again just stick that down so it is in the same position on the as the fronts are so just line it up with your inside score lines there one side and just let it follow the curve and then stick it it's gone crooked what did I cut it wrong oh well never mind again I don't know I'm not worried about that it's homemade and again just stick that one down so next I'm going to do the deco pudge so in the pack you get loads of these sheets now on the sheets you've got one two three four five and then sentiments there might be six seven eight they might you know it don't worry about the number but the rule of thumb is the higher the number or the smaller sorry that was it was what I was saying in before in videos if you've already popped these all out and lost your sheet don't worry the smaller the kind of whatever the image is that's your last piece that you would stick down apart from your sentiments but the smallest pieces here so these guys will be the last ones that I would stick down basically just pop them all out okay and then you start with your scene which is this one here now if there's any kind of little kind of bits where it was attached to still kind of showing you can just trim them off or you can use an actual an actual you can use a nail file and just kind of sand off the sides but that's fine and then you just want to use foam adhesive now the term decoupage means to layer so it's basically layers on top of each other so that's what this is so there's decoupage where you would use like paper mache where you're just rip lots of different pieces of fabric or papers and layer them and cover something so a lot of mixed media projects are used with that form of decoupage this form of decoupage is these cutouts and you layer each one on top of each other with a layer of foam in the middle some form of adhesive well you don't have to but that's the whole point is to kind of give the dimension so I'm just taking off the backs there and then you lift it up and you basically mirror and stick it right over the image underneath because it will be exactly the same so you just want to line everything up and that's your first layer so now if I bring that up you can see I've got this little raised scene so then you get the next size so remember your smallest ones will be your last one so this will be the next one I stick down and that is going to go right over the top of that one okay so now if I bring that one up you can see now this one is raised up then we've got these ones like so you can see now all those different layers and then we've got the little penguin and the smaller snowman there so I'm just going to cut one of these pieces in half so I've got two thin strips okay and then my little sentiment I've actually taken from one of the other scenes because I like the green and the glitter on this one it matches nicely so again I'm just going to cut a couple of thin strips of my foam and then that one is going to sit across like so then I'm going to stick this down onto here but I don't need to I'm not going to put it on any foam I'm just going to add a strip of my red tape here so just strip through the middle there okay and then just line that up and kind of push down might just put my ruler underneath there there we go and I can make sure that's really stuck down okay so that's just a simple page that I've done there my opening page I absolutely love this then I've got a bow which is going to go there and I've got some of my little bells here should have another one that's run away somewhere and I've got some twine so I'm going to use this darker twine here and I'm basically just going to thread them through the little bells and they are going to be hot glued underneath that bow okay so I've put all my string on my little bells there and basically I'm just going to kind of hold them and stagger the bells so they're all hanging at different lengths so something like that okay and then I'm just going to snip off the edge there so it's all the same okay and tighten a knot if you want but what I'm going to do is put a blob of hot glue like so just knocked it over but it's okay and then I'm going to lie this glue over okay and I'm just trimming off loose bits because then my bow is going to cover all of that again so I'm just going to pop that that's a nicer yeah that's the right way a little bit of hot glue okay you can see that what I've done it looks so nice then I've got my piece for here so this is just that same stamp sentiment and I've just taken a few of the singular little decoupage pieces there I put a stripper tape again just down the back and then that one is going to sit in the middle like so ruler in there you can see how lovely that looks so that is it done so now we need to make the stand so the easiest way to do the stand is I'm using a pre-made card okay so I've got my card base here now this is a 5 by 7 okay so you do want that 7 inch height yeah along the top here now what you want to do these is for me to do this for you so this is a piece of 10 by 7 cardstock scored along the 10 inch side at 5 and folded in half okay but otherwise it's a pre-made 5 by 7 so with it folded in half along the top grab my pencil along the top where the folded side is side where the folded side is you want to come in at half an inch and just put a pencil mark there okay so you can just see my pencil mark then along the bottom you want to come out at two inches and put a pencil mark and at three and a half and put a pencil mark from that two inch pencil mark you want to come up one inch and just put a little cross and then from that three and a half inch marker you want to come up one and a half and put a little cross. So there's my half inch pencil mark, my two inch, my three and a half and then I've come up one inch and I've come up one and a half. Then you can just draw a pencil line down to that cross there and then draw another pencil line to that other cross and then draw a pencil line down like so. We're now going to cut up here, cut down there and cut all the way up there to give us this shape and there is your stand. It's a really strong stand as well so that's why I wanted to use it with this card that I've got. So you're cutting through two layers at the same time so just very neatly come up that one and then I'll go right across that one and rub all my pencil marks out in a minute and then okay I'm just going to rub out those pencil marks okay and there's my stand. Now I may decorate this as well I'm not sure but basically now that will stand up like so and your card will sit perfectly on top. Okay it looks so nice I love this. Okay so that's our that done so you may be finished now and you're like well I don't want to make the bag that's fine but obviously if you do then you're going to need these pieces that we went through earlier and that one there as well and I've also got some pretty pre-made tag handles there as well and these are gold so they work really well. Okay so we want to burnish all of our sides okay decide what one you want to be your front and your back this is going to be the back so what you want to do is just cut up that first little square like so and again that one alright and then just take a very tiny little wedge off of each of them they're just tiny tiny little tabs really really small so that's what you should have little tab there okay on both corners then you want to add tape onto the back of this so you can use wet glue if you want but I'm going to use my same red tape which has got all fluff on it from where I stuck the bells down and basically you're just going to run it I'm not going to cover the whole thing it's it's not heavy but you just want to run some tape kind of sticking towards the score line side okay okay see all that fluff there it will get covered but how annoying and then I'm just going to take a very very tiny little wedge off of the tops there okay so that's the back piece all done and then this piece here is what we're going to have on the front so this is when you want to stick down this piece here I have changed the size of this slightly because I had ruined the end of it so this piece is seven by nine and a half okay so I'm going to stick that down on the front there okay and then with that front piece you want to remove the squares completely okay like that and then we can stick it together so grab your base fold up the bottom one here where we pop that tape and take the run-off and then this bottom piece here you're going to stick perfectly over the top so just make sure the bottom is all nice and flush like so okay that's what you will have and then these side pieces are going to now come in and stick to the bottom of your base there so just pop a little bit of glue okay so just fold it up that tab there and put some glue on it bring it in and you can see that I'm just sticking it down on the bottom there so it starts to give off envelope bag its shape and again just going to try and do this with one hand holding it at the same time so again pop glue underneath there okay and then stick it down on the base just hold that there for a second and then bring up one of the sides and take off your backing this one's got my fluffy thread on it so make sure that all hides I'm going to start with the top and line it up just kind of tack it down there and then you can just run that all the way along and it will perfectly cover up the side there pop it on its side and just use your ruler to make sure it's all nicely stuck down and then again do the same with this side okay so there is your envelope bag now I've just popped a Velcro dot in the middle there and then I'm going to stick this piece which was my 2x5 and that's going to go like so it's a little bit off actually but it's fine because it's underneath like that actually I should have told you to just curve it you can score it if you want but I'm just take it off actually just if you just do that with it so we're just going to curve it around so again just stick that down bring it over and then again I'm just going to add some of my wet glue about I don't know an inch up you can pop obviously double-sided tape there if you want and then just bring that over making sure it still stays nice and like arched curved like that because basically what you want to do is give it that space to be able to open so obviously you've got your thick card going in there okay so you can see what I've done there and again I can just undo my Velcro and just make sure that's all stuck down okay and then you just need to pop some hole punches so I'm going to come in I'm going to do it in the middle of this piece to here going through both pieces of card so I've gone through the front and the back and again just line it up with the center it's entirely up to you where you want to put it and then I've got those gold pieces you can use eyelets if you want but if I use eyelets on this one then my these won't fit through so I want to use these gold handles and that's going to bug me that that's not in the middle so I'm going to have to take that off without ripping too much that's better it's going to bug me otherwise okay so that is it all done so now I'm going to open that and grab our card and it will fit perfectly inside like so I love this so much oh and you'll put your stand in there as well so let's take that back out again just so we can enjoy it so we've got all the decorative projects you need to be careful that's that one there and if I kind of hold it up you can see how that's going to look like said I think I will decorate this maybe put a strip of some red or something down there but it doesn't matter if not but I just love this I think it's absolutely gorgeous so there you go guys I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial showing you how to make the book of tricks without any templates I really do love these I think they look absolutely gorgeous and I can't wait to give these to my family and I hope you've enjoyed the first tutorial for the Christmas workshop I have so many fun things to show you if you haven't already subscribed please do so so you don't miss out on any of that and also make sure you go over to mixed up crafters Facebook group and you can start sharing all of your makes that are inspired by my tutorials I would love to see your versions of the book of tricks so until next time thanks for watching guys bye