 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 a little folio case or a little storage pocket. Basically I've always got little bits of paper lying around which is something that I've maybe got to do the next day or and I know I could probably just jot it down into a diary or something but it might be something I've seen or something someone's asked me to do and I'll just quickly put it on a post-it and I end up just having loads of post-it notes and bits of paper so I have got this that I've made and it is literally just a little kind of yeah just an envelope I guess just to pop bits and pieces in and then I can just slot that on my desk and it just looks much nicer than paper lying around and post-it notes stuck up on things so I'm using my laminator today I've used these papers from Beyond the Shore by First Edition and then this lovely sentiment which was from one of the Creative Stamping magazine sets a few months back might have even been last year actually towards the end of last year always be yourself unless you can be a mermaid then always be a mermaid so yeah perfect so that's my one there it's really really simple but it also does look like a card so if you wanted to do laminated cards then this would work for that as well so that's what we're going to do today so very easy a little bit of a stationary kind of project today so I've got this one here and I'm going to be making this one for my mum and this was just brilliant and this is one of the Fiskars stamp sets and I'll share all the links in my blog but whenever I go to my mum's craft room she is very tidy but not so organized not like me and I will say to her what's this what's out and she'll say oh it's just some stuff oh that's just stuff so when I saw this I thought this is perfect so mum this is for your stuff so you are going to need two pieces of five and a half by eight and then two pieces of three by eight and then just a sentiment or something to put on top now if you want you can have your sentiment under the plastic as well but it needs to be something very flat you might want to stamp directly onto this paper or heat emboss onto it first or maybe just have one of these and like you can see that I've got that mounted on foam you may not what you you know but you can't put it on the phone because it won't go through your laminator so just things to think about when you're putting it together so then you need one of your laminating pouches and obviously your machine and what you want to do first of all is set this all up so it's a very quick you can these are great for craft fairs as well so that because they're very quick to kind of churn out so what you need to do first of all is flip over so this is going to be my front with the captuses on and this is from the Simply Creative um so either razzle dazzle or stag um uh Tropicana set but again I'll share the links to those so you want to put it in there and right up to the edge of your pocket your laminating pouch sleeve pocket whatever they're called make sure you get no hair I've got a stray hair here let's get rid of that you don't want anything else in here that shouldn't be then this one here you're going to sit next to it leaving about a quarter of an inch gap because that's going to create your little spine like so and these pieces I've got them on the other other way around so I've got the cactus now facing up and again that one needs to butt right up over the top here so you don't want to see any of the green underneath and let's just move that one back into place once you put the the top of this sleeve down it does hold itself in place and then that one see I've cut that wrong haven't I because this one I've got it all facing the cactus the right way and then that one's facing that way but because they're pockets it doesn't actually really matter so I'm not too worried so again make sure that's all nicely lined up you could have this any shape you might want to do these on a kind of a triangle you might want to have a really little pocket like that just down in the corner some more of like a little um what are they called just like a little slot rather than a natural whole side pocket I guess and then just slide that over and a lot of them form static inside so they do kind of hold themselves shut and just make sure see that one there still needs to come down a tiny bit more bring with it until you're happy that it's all lined up like so and pinch the end the rest of it will all stay in place bring in your laminator make sure it's on the settings that it will stay in the manual that whatever whenever you got it because everybody's are different some of them you might have to have a feeder sheet you might have to put this through with some a4 copy paper I can just put this straight in so mine's got two settings it's got the 80 mic 125 that's basically the heat different heats are for different thicknesses of laminating pouches so if you're unsure or you've brought other laminating pouches after you've brought your actual laminator start off with the lowest first run through your stuff if you find it's maybe not quite sticking as well then turn it up and run it through again basically what will happen if it's too hot it will end up um really really warping so then just run this through okay so it's just the last bit coming out now and I'm holding this other side and keeping it straight because if you let it drop down because it's so hot again it will create like a curve so try and keep it as straight as possible when you bring it out and we'll be running this through again once we've cut it so right let's just pop that back out of you there okay so there really is all laminated so now we've got these pockets but you can't get into them so grab yourself a cutting knife now this bit is um you've got to take some care take your time with it but you just want to start off in one corner and you'll see here um it's hard to kind of pick it up but you can you can see where the join is well where the laminate where the laminating pouch has gone over that layer on top it hasn't quite stuck to this piece underneath there'd be a very very slightly um cloudy looking strip and it's that piece there that we want to just pop in our knife and just very carefully I need to lean down on here keep your knife more on the side obviously watch your fingers and you're just you're just wanting to just create a little like hole right on the edge just enough to start off with your knife like so and then I can just literally very easily just cut along and you can see now look I can get right under there but I haven't cut through to the paper underneath so you need to keep that knife really like flat and you're just cutting in to that piece and if I open that you can see that there's no laminator inside there that's just the normal paper okay and if it's lifted up a bit which it has there where it's gone a bit cloudy that's because we're going to run it through again and reset it so again go around to the next side just you want to just start off in the corner just kind of getting in there and then once you know that you're under it's almost like when you cut scissors very sharp scissors on a piece of paper and you can just run it along very quickly that's what you want see now look I can just run that long and it's just cutting that plastic really well so now I've got my two little side pockets so now we want to run that back through before I do that I'm just going to trim off this end here and some of my sides because then the last time we run it through it can kind of just tidy everything up so you just want to go around and give yourself about a quarter of an inch three eighths of an inch border of the laminate of the clear laminating plastic laminated plastic even so I'm just gonna don't worry if it's a little bit wonky it's it's clear you you know you're going to really struggle to see if it's perfectly straight anyway so don't worry I was one of these kids um that had a really old laminator and I would laminate everything it was it was ridiculous there was a little stationary kind of nerd when I was younger and we've had a bit of a running joke lately in our family because I broke my mum and dad's or my dad's laminator uh and not too long ago actually and um I promised I'd get a new one and I did I ordered it from amazon and then amazon emailed me to say it's been returned so they refunded me and then um I totally forgot to reorder it for him so I Skype them the other day and dad said look what I've got and he showed me his new laminator and he said yeah I went to go and use the laminator the other night and uh when I asked your mum where it was she said oh remember Samantha broke it um so yeah they were cursing my name in the household and dad had to go out and get himself a new laminator which I need to re reimburse him because I did break it didn't mean to but um it was when I made those um hunky dory um book cards with all the bookmarks one of those bookmarks got stuck inside the laminator and curled up around the the runners so yeah if you remember me making them I actually broke that laminator so he's got a new one now and everything's fine in the the laminating world so we're okay okay so I'm just running it through again there it's just coming to the end and already now I can see it's just finished it off really nicely and it just um it resets where you've cut and may have lifted it up slightly and it won't reseal it so don't worry so you can see now that that's come up but it just means that that's set now perfectly on that bottom piece and it's just given you a nice finish here and again on this side it's all set there as well so it's still warm just while it's warm just keep your hands on it just to keep it flat as possible I mean it's not really warped because it's it's intended to be that hot for this particular laminating pouches so if you're ever looking that's what this means is to do with the thickness of your um the pouches because you can buy them with um like I said 80 or 125 okay I've never used cold I don't know when I would cold laminate I'm not sure how that works maybe I should look that up because yeah I wouldn't do that okay so now that's done you want to fold it over and it will fold perfectly in half and then just grab your bone folder and just burnish that plastic it'd be a bit um kind of bouncy at the beginning because it's new but once that gets used and you're slotting it in where you need it to be and it's filled with stuff but I really like it so now I just need to decorate it so grab this one here and I put thick red tape on the back because that sticks really well to the plastic um I mean if you're going to sit there and pick it off then it will eventually come off but this is stationary so it's not going to get you know bashed about like that so um I'm going to stick it up the top give them myself a nice even border I think that's about right there and they have it a really cool fun I think they're great how lovely is that so now mum you can put little bits and pieces in there your stuff those just random bits that you never know where to go and they just annoy me when they're on your desk and everywhere but there are two very easy little laminated um folio cases or pouches sleeves whatever you want to call them so there you have it I have so many fun projects to do using the laminator um and I plan to maybe throw in maybe a couple of months um so look out for those and I'll have a separate playlist for all the laminating projects that I do and any previous ones I've done over the last couple of years I will throw them in there as well so I hope you've enjoyed today really quick really easy and give it a go give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel to see more thanks for watching bye