 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. This week's hobby based card is using the Banner Dyes and I've created this really simple colourful happy birthday card which I think is quite a unisex card as well so you could give this for male or female. Very straightforward but I really do think it still does kind of pack a punch, I think it's got a really cool look about it. I've set the Banner Dyes all on foam so they are lifted off the page and then that birthday is stamped directly onto the card base so it's got a few levels to it, it's got the dimension there with the Nuvo drops as well and then some texture with the ribbon that I've tied in a knot on the top so that's today's card. So I'll pop that one just over there. It's on a 7x5 card base in landscape so if you're cutting this from your own card stock it'd be a piece of 10x7 and along the 10 inch side you want to score at 5 inches and then just fold it in half and that'll give you a landscape or portrait but we're going to be working in landscape orientation today. Then we have all the bits and pieces in so I've already gone ahead and die cut the same colours I've done four of them just because you don't need to watch me do all of that but I am going to do the yellow one and I've got my own stash there just some letter dies that I've pulled out so any small letter dies really depends how big you're doing your card if you're doing a smaller card you do have the smaller ones here and you also could use very small letters in those so it's entirely up to you but I've used the the middle one okay so yeah it's the third smallest or the third largest depending on how you look at it but it's that middle one here and sorry it's bunting not banner I always say banner but it's not it's the bunting one there so what you want to do is cut out these ones you may want to do the multi-colored I've done the multi-colored just because I wanted it to kind of be a card that would work for both male and female but again if you're doing this for someone specific then obviously you can match your colors however you want so you can really kind of change it up a bit but I quite liked that rainbow with the the black okay so just so you can see how these ones cut we've got a really nice stitched detail around the edge there as well so that's my colors done there and then what you need to do what I found was worked well for me to know that I was going to get everything nice and straight just grab a ruler keep that to one side so we need it in a minute and along every one of these we want to do is just mark a light pencil mark from the very top of that little flag part there so where it goes up to create that bunting effect just put a pencil line just the thin one you just see there okay and that's where we're going to line our letters up so it just means that every letter is exactly the same now you may want to have yours all different by all means you can do but this is how I found it easier easiest to do if you do want to do it the same way so I'm just going to go along there and just pop a pencil mark on all of my other pieces okay so I've gone along and done all the pencils and pencil lines and I've also gone ahead and die cut all bar one of the letters now I've kept the same sequence but I've just flipped it so rather than starting with the orange again I'm starting with the green and working backwards with this one here so if you are doing the same with the word happy obviously you will have the parts of the P in the middle are loose and again the a you need to make sure you keep that because we'll be sticking them inside the letters once we all attach it so I've just got the y here and just popping it in the middle just literally just above that pencil mark and if you keep the same that you know the same way with all your other letters and you'll get them nice and straight and then just again just carefully that one through and again keep all the little letters because they are handy for another card you could just do the reverse so you could just have a more simplified card with all of the letters that you've cut out right that is everything died cut so now what we want to do is grab your card base and I done a pencil mark on here what was it again I'm using it the wrong way around one of five eighths so just come up the side again this will depend on if you're using the same and bunting dies as me but basically with this one here I'm just coming up one one and five eighths of an inch and I keep forgetting I can do it with that ruler I'll just bring this one in here and just do a fine line and this is the line I'm going to use now with my stamping platform so that I can make sure I get my sentiment nice and straight and within a nice area like an equal distance from the bottom of all of the bunting there so what I have here is I wanted a nice big birthday word and I couldn't find any on their own I've got lots of small ones but nothing big but this dovecraft birthday boy is a really nice size at birthday so I'm going to show you a way to use part of a stamp so partial stamping and you can just basically you just cover one half so all I want to ink up here is the birthday so I'm just going to have got just got this piece of card here now I've already lined this up from the last card I done so I know that when I bring that over that birthday is going to sit nicely within this area here just below the pencil mark okay so you will line that up first lay your stamp down check that you've got it in the position that you want it to be in okay let me just grab my I'm just going to use my Versa fine pop my card over everything that I don't want stamped okay so in this instance it's the word boy I don't want that one then I can just go ahead and stamp as normal and then you must must must remember to take this off okay and then just go ahead and stamp as you normally would have a nice impression and again you can go back in and re-stamp it if you need to but I'm happy that I've got that where it needs to be okay so now I will rub out my pencil marks on all of my bunting there and also on my card okay so all my pencil lines are now rubbed out now you want to find the center point of your card now this is seven inches long so it'll be three and a half now I already know that three and a half sits perfectly between the letter H so I'm going to start from the middle and I'm going to attach this one first so the point inside here this bunting sits nicely in between the H there again you can stick it directly down onto the card but I am going to use some dimensional circles here so I'm just going to pop a couple on the back there and then just cut a couple in half and just pop them down the bottom there just so it keeps it nice and even so like I said start with the middle first this is an odd number as only five letters if you've got an even amount still work from the middle out so I'm coming down by about one eighth of an inch keeping it nice and straight that's the first one I'm going to stick all the little bits in afterwards now I'm going to go along to the next one and keep working your way out and then I'll do that one so just carry on and get those all stuck down okay so that's all now perfectly stuck down and nice and even just gonna pop a little bit of glue on my hand here with my tweezers just going to pop in the little parts to the letters there so make sure it's the right way up just a little bit of glue don't need to go too mad dinky dinky piece here which is so small that my tweezers are even struggling to pick it up okay so that while that's there drying I'm going to grab my ribbon and all I'm doing is tucking it under and over so I'm not even sticking this down you can pop a little bit of red tape on the back if you want to but I'm not too worried that this is going to kind of move around so off to the right hand side just in between the P and the Y you can twist it all around once you've done it but I'm just going to tie it quite a tight knot because you do want it to stay in place so just twist all the other bits around so they all lie nice and flat and then trim those bits right down so they're really short I want it to look like a knot that's the effect I'm going for okay and then with my Nuvo drops which I have wherever I put those there we go just to pop a few little dots make sure you get the air out so just squeeze it on a bit of scrap first and then you can just I always like to do three in different sizes really tiny one and then do a bigger one up there like so it's those little details that I think just really do give it a nice finish so they have it really quite quick to do but fun it's a nice way to play around with your dies and your alphabet dies and the stamping and you can still add all those other bits and pieces in there so but just bring that one in that's the reverse and I think they look really lovely so I hope you've enjoyed this week's hobby base tutorial and I'll be back again next week thanks 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