 Hi everybody it's Simon at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to do partial die cutting so you can use any dies that you have it's a great technique and it's a really fun way to just get a bit more from your dies. Now I actually first done this during a Facebook live and I will link that full live video below in the description box so if you do want to just have a look you know see it in more detail and over a longer period I guess then do check out that video but I've condensed it down for today's and I'm actually going to show you how I've made this one here which is my Father's Day card so I just wanted to bring in these two here because they're you know both different but this is using flowers as your partial die cut so all I've cut here is just the tops of these three Ponsettias they're actually cut into the card so it gives you a really nice effect and these will fit into a six by six envelope but I'll talk you through and you can use any size you know that you want and this one's a Christmas card so this is actually for my Nan she loves red she loves sparkle she's going to adore this card and then this one here is kind of I guess this one's going to be similar I show you in a moment I love these dies and I'll show you those as well but this one's just using die cuts very similar to this I guess but just in a real bold way and I love these dies here as well which are by bright Rosa and then this is a very similar again style using the same happy but this is all using stamps and coloring and inking so it's just I want to kind of show you the different ways so that you should have something in your stash to recreate something similar so whether you're a stamper and you have a lot of stamped images you can create this style or if you just have a lot of dies then you'll be able to do something like this as well so they're very easy to do you can make them as difficult as you want or as easy as you want so let me show you how to make these fun cards okay so when my card folds flat I want it to fit into a six by six envelope I think the six by six size is going to work well with the die the sentiment here and also the images that I'm going to be using so these are the creative stamps I link everything below and you can see there creative and it's the happy I really like it so I'm going to use the the shadow the outer frame to actually have as the partial die cut and the piece that all lift up and then I'm going to die cut this one again in possibly a green so I think it's going to work quite well with the images here or maybe the blue and that will be stuck over the top once we get to that bit so I'm going to pop that one side so what I've got here is this is just a piece of six by 12 it doesn't have to be 12 in length it will actually you could probably even drop down it well you'll see what I mean in a minute because it depends on what you have partially die cut really but what I'm going to do is I've got my T square ruler here so what I've done is I've just marked the just well you want to create the area of the size that your card will be when folded so I've just marked with a pencil here six inches so if you're doing a five by seven and it's in landscape then you will mark at five inches here if it's a five by seven but because I'm doing six by six I marked at six and just put a light pencil mark she will rub that out so basically this is now the area that you can work in okay so this is my die cut this needs to you know line up with this line here if you go over then you're going to need a bigger envelope that's all that you know that's the worst thing that's going to happen so you want to try and stay within that area so you know whether it's a four by six card you know then you will just need to make sure you just do that pencil there is a guide and I think it's really helpful so I now did need to decide how much of this I actually want to have partially die cut because you you know you want to make sure that you've got something attached to this piece but you know I want quite a lot of this to be cut similar to the card that I showed you at the beginning so I'm just grabbing some my tape here and you can see also if you bring in if you have a die like this and you can see how the happy or the word if it if that's what you're having you might have a shape here you know the flowers like I showed you but I quite like that I think I'm going to know I think I'm going to go straight actually so I'm going to go about there and then I'm just going to pop just going to take a little bit of the stickiness off of that so just popped it on my jeans there and just stick that one just there okay so just laid it on my plate there now anything you have between your cutting plates is going to cut so I want to cut all of this and just have the bottom part here attached so I'm going to lay my top plate in here but I'll take the plate off just so you can see really because it's not it shouldn't leave I just pop that underneath I have the copy paper so it doesn't leave any markings on my paper so now I'm going to lay this down about there so none of this will cut I just bring it in a little bit further there none of that will cut so that's going to keep it attached to this part here but everything above it will cut so I'm just going to run that through so that will work with any dies anything you use whatever is between the plates will cut so now run that through rub that out in a minute now what we want to do is we want to run I'm actually going to cut that away with a cutting knife in a minute but we want to now do a score line partially through this now you can use a scoreboard if you want in fact I think I will use the scoreboard I'm going to bring in this one here and I'm just going to find a marker so for me here the four and a quarter will line up perfectly with the bottoms here so I'm just going to score just to the start of where I've cut that I'm going to remove that so then I'm just going to carry on scoring just here like so okay and then using my cutting knife I'm going to remove that tiny piece there because it's you know it's not going to make it's probably better removing it than keeping it in like so and now all I need to do is just fold those score lines there and then with my trimmer this is why the length it didn't really matter because now I'm going to bring this in and I'm going to line it up with the bottom there so it's four and a quarter in the end so you would have for this one I would have used it would have been a piece of eight and a half just trim that down and now we have our partially die cut card like so now you do have this here you'll get this with any partial die cut no matter whether they're specially made die you know partially die cut dies you will always have this so if you want to cover that you can but I'm actually going to leave this I've still got plenty of room there to be able to stamp and write my message so I'm going to keep it just as it is now this is ready for me to ink up to decorate to add my happy and to add all my lovely little stamped images so while I'm just going to plan out what I'm going to do I'm just going to link in a short video of me coloring these really cute images okay so I'm just going to do a little bit of inking on the background and then I'm just going to stick everything down so what I want to do is just create some kind of little happy hills I'm sure that's what Bob would call them so some happy heels rolling heels so I've just got some copy paper here and I'm just going to do something like that maybe make that a little bit smoother obviously if you've got stencils for this but I just want to show you an easy way that you can create hills keep this piece as well because that's always handy if you want to use that I'm going to cut off the excess here but you could do more curves there as well but I just what I'm going to do is just do something like that and then I can fit it and I can do that and you can turn it upside down then to kind of you know or you can use this piece here to then do the the ground below here so I think actually yeah no that's what I'm going to do so I'm going to lay this down first so I'm going to have green up here and then I'm going to have the happy with the green behind these are my favorite well the green is my favorite color for whenever I'm doing you know the grass and the sky and things like that so I'm not going to do any sky on this one because I've got that lovely happy you know that's up where the sky would be so I'm just going to keep this all green and then I think these are going to sit really nicely with it so I'm going to probably come in let's start a little bit higher here take the excess off on the copy paper and then I'm just going to start flicking off so I'm just going to go and cover all of this background now I'm going to start building everything on top so I've got my happy I've also just found some other stamps I've got wishing you a which was part of a dovecraft stamp but I've just stamped just the wishing you a because underneath it said a day of happiness so just ways to pull out you know maybe just certain words from a stamp so wishing you a happy Father's Day will be below and then I'm going to range now this lovely little scene with the trees below okay so there is my finished card I'm so pleased with how this one's come together I've finished off with some glossy accents which is still drying so you can see just when it catches the light can you see that and it just looks like that painting is wet and I've put a little bit above all on all of the little paint pots there and the thinner and then on the end of the paintbrush and on the blobs of paint there as well and also on all of the eyes and once that dries it will be completely clear so you'll really see that image better as well I just love everything about it love the little squirrel there and then I've popped a little bit of acetate on that one just so it floats it may fit in the six by six I may now have to make a slightly bigger envelope don't mind at all and I think I might just ink just a little bit darker just literally just kissing the bottom there just to really make that lift a bit more but I'm again it was a joy to color and to create and then just bring in these ones again so you can see they're creating a very different style you know no coloring on this one it's just all die-cuts and then this one is using your flowers as your partial die-cut and I've just used the Happy Christmas there as well so hopefully that's inspired you giving you some inspiration on how you can use your dies the full Facebook live will be linked below as always thank you for watching if you click on one of these boxes here there will be the partial die cut which is a hoppy Easter card I believe so that will pop up and I will also link something else that is you know going to be similar and that you might be interested in and also just click on my face that you'll see pop up there as well that will mean you will subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and if you click the bell you'll get notifications when I upload another video so thanks for watching and I'll be back again very soon bye