 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today's tutorial. This is a easel card which is made using the supplies from the June hobby base kit. So we had the theme of be happy so it had bumblebees, nature, nice sentiments, stamps, all that kind of stuff and it was all around this lovely kind of bee theme. So I've used the honeycomb stencil, bumblebee dye, don't worry be happy stamps, this paper here from the Dovecraft bee happy paper pack. I've fussy cut sorry the stamps from the same stamp set so lots and lots going on here and I just really like it. I've used the craft card here from my own stash but this is the actual card. It was just a five by seven card like so and then I just scored it through the middle on the top one, popped it on to landscape and there you have an easel card. So that's the envelope it comes with even with that little flower there it does still fit in the envelope perfectly but obviously you would probably end up paying a little bit extra in your for your postage because it is that little bit bulky there but it still fits nicely in your envelope. So let's crack on so I'm doing different colors this time so I'm using black and gray and I've done silver embossing silver I'm not talking very well today silver embossing so I've stamped the same stumps let me just see I've got that at hand there we go so that's the stamp set we got which is the bee happy so use the don't worry be happy sentiment and then I've used this lovely flower or leaf there so I stamped it four times and just used my silver embossing powder and heat set all of those and then fussy cut them I do love to fussy cut so yeah this was fun for me so that's that I'm going to go through these pieces in a minute so then I've die cut three of the bumble bees which was one of the dinky dies again I'll show the box reveal up here somewhere now so if you want to see what we get you can so they're really really fun so they match nicely with my embossed leaves and then that is the sentiment there don't worry be happy which again I've heat embossed so that's all my bits and pieces there this is the stencil we got that I'll be using and it is a creative expressions one it's the honey comb these are great they've got a little you'll see it in a minute anyway but might as well get it out ready they've got these here these little holes so I've got all mine on a little ring binder just hanging from my trolley just makes them easy to get hold of but they're really really thick ones they're great for embossing pasting stuff so handy to have gone through the stamps okay so all the pieces you need so if you already have pre-made cards you can use any size card that you want to be fair but if you want to follow exactly my instructions then obviously you will need a 5 by 7 card base which is this if you don't have that and you're cutting from your 12 by 12 card or your A4 letter size that kind of thing you need a piece that is 10 by 7 okay then along the 10 inch side you are going to score so it's already got my ones already got the score line at 5 so you will score at 5 inches so directly in the middle then this is the piece that is going to fold to create that easel so you want to score here at two and a half okay so two and a half and five if it's already pre-made five by seven you just need to score it two and a half on this side and then you will just furnish that piece over and there you have your easel card okay easy easy peasy that's that piece then for all your mats and layers to go on top of this you need so for the bottom so to create I get this one out just to give you an example so we know where we are so this very bottom piece this green piece is this black piece here now this measures six and three quarters by four and a half I've decided to put this pattern paper on top because we received all of the six by six be happy papers I also have the 12 by 12 paper pad so I decided to pull this piece out so if you want to layer on top of that then that's six and a half by four and a quarter so I'm just dropping down in quarter inch increments with all my mats and layers then to create this piece here the gray piece is what is this craft card piece here so this measures five by four then to layer on top of that it would be this green piece here so this is four and three quarters by three and three quarters and then the pattern piece of this piece here I'm using this one which is four and a half by three and a half then for these two pieces here so if I like flat you've got these two green pieces they are two and a quarter by six and three quarters okay so that's all your bits that you need for that so no more scoring or anything so I can get rid of this pop that over there so now we can start putting it together so again easel cards are just a fun way to have it's a very easy funfold card so if you're new to papercraft new to card making and you're just making your normal open-close ones and you want to start you know experimenting and doing more of a 3d fun-filled style I would always say start off with an easel card because it is one of the easiest things to do so and you don't have to change too much so I'm just using my wet glue here and I'm just going to start building up all my mats and layers so here that one is going to stick inside it give you a nice let me just get that one lined up nice border and then this one again just pop that one on top and then that one like so so you can see there how that will look and then that is going to be over the top so I'm going to go and get these two stuck down okay so that's that one now stuck down and that's going to sit over the top what you can also do is in this piece here is put a white piece of paper and to write your message because on this one it's already plain I can write my message directly onto that green but now I've got this patterned paper I would need to put a white piece there just to write my message so you can add that in when you like so now we need to pop these two pieces on here so again they're going to sit within each of those panels so you've got those two and a half inch two and a half inch you want to sit them in each one and you'll get a nice even border so again just going to stick those two down okay so that is what you should have at the minute so now we can go to this piece here so let's just say this is the topper that bit that's going to stick and kind of lift off so you want to just again just stick down all of your mats and layers together so as you can already see it is dead easy to make it's just getting all those pieces prepared and then it's just a matter of popping them all together the thumb bit really is just doing the decoration well all of its fun that's why I love doing card making but you know what I mean get this done and then you've got so you can start getting all your other pieces together so again that one and that one down there we go so now that is going to lift up like so so the best way to do this is lie your card flat pop this over the top and turn it over okay make sure you get a nice even top bottom and sides there and then just grab a pencil line it up with that black layer or whatever yours will be just roughly just kind of pencil line down there now everything on this side here so the right hand side is where it's getting you blue this one's just on its way out is where you're going to pop your glue or your double-sided tape and then pop it over and just go up to the pencil side like so there we go and again just make sure you've got even sides if you've got a grid obviously use that I'm just going to eyeball this I can see I've got as best as I can get there there we go and then fold it over make sure it's all nicely stuck down and then you can lift that one up and there is your easel okay so I'm a little bit off they see I've got less there but because that is the bit lifting up it actually doesn't matter so there is the card done so at the moment you can see it's not staying up because we need to make little raised detail pieces here all these embellishments they're all stuck down with foam those butterflies and they actually clip the card there to hold it in place so I'm going to get all these lovely leaves and my butterflies like so get these pieces here as well I just remembered I haven't brought my flower over let me just go oh the paper flowers that we got in the kit and they go perfectly this kind of peachy colour go nice with this paper as well so I'm going to stick this one down my sentiment first and just put it on some again some foam double-sided foam pieces there just to give it a little bit more dimension when it's all and it's assembled when it's up in its position so this one here is going to go in the middle and I think that's about right just looking through my screen there sorry the door keeps slamming some I've got every window open in the house at the moment because it is so hot wonderfully hot I'm not complaining it's glorious weather so I'm just going to pop a bit of glue just on one part of the bee there just so the wing is stuck down so he's actually lifted off there on that that rest of his body okay so that's that one and then the flower I'm going to just rearrange a little bit kind of bring it back to life it's been a bit squashed in the packaging there we go and let's just grab a scissors here and I just want to cut most of the wire off and all I'm going to do is where I use the foam is I'm just going to stab it through so you actually don't even have to worry about sticking it down because it's now been pushed through the foam underneath and you can see now where it just sits in place perfectly that's that then also we received all these embellishments the same matching embellishments for the papers and these are really nice I don't have any orange so I was really nice to have all these orange ones but I'm going to use the very pale pink ones that are here and I'm just going to pop or just lost that one just flicked off so I'm going to put one there and pop another one just there so again that matches in perfectly and there is going to be another one added down here in a minute so now let's grab our bees first of all a little bit more foam I'm going to cut one of these squares in half and that one and then just pop it in the center of the body there you don't need to cover the whole thing that's such delicate little die-cuts and then take those backings off and then it's entirely up to you I might turn one around actually because I had them both kind of flying the idea was they were flying up to the flower there and meeting their friend kind of thing so do you think silly things like that sometimes when you do your cards so I'm going to have one there and just kind of move this and decide you might want to have it really high up you might want to do really like loads of stuff down here that's entirely up to you there is no rule with this you can go as high back far back there even or you can be you know further down that way I guess so it's entirely up to you so I think I'm going to do them the same as before I quite like them kind of mirrored like that so let's pop that one there so now that card automatically sits in place so I think that's really cute now with these pieces I ended up cutting them back quite a bit because I ended up feeding them underneath each of the bees so I just cut that down and then popped a little bit of glue just on the end so it's so light I mean I'm confused I'm complaining now that I've got too much light but you can just see where I put the glue there and then just kind of slide it underneath the beaver like so and then I'm going to do just do a bigger bit and again this one's going to go that way and there you have it so again that will fit into a 5 by 7 envelope so it's great if you've got loads of those pre-made envelopes lying around I will share what you would need to use what measurements if you're using your envelope punch board but they have it let me just bring this one up closer and you can see the beautiful detail that lovely embossed sentiment the back looks really nice as well it's all nice and neat and then obviously you can write your sentiment there but it just clips in perfectly you can see so there you have it so there's two really nice easel cards oh I've just thought I've just forgot something the stencil so and I've done it at the end as well now this you know you might now go oh my god you know what happens if you go wrong yes there is that risk element of this is when you ruin your whole card so you may want to do it differently to me but I'm just grabbing the silver ink here okay so I've just got a blending tool silver ink you don't have to use silver obviously it's going against it's a metallic one because it's going against this black now what I've done is with the stencil just stenciled I didn't go over this piece here this gray mat there so you can see there so just bring that one in can you see I've only gone up just around the edges there this again you don't have to do this at all but I just wanted to show you how to use all the pieces really that you get so I'm just kind of clipping it underneath that one there ink this up okay and then just dab over it and it's just a little accent it's not you know it's just to kind of just tie in that bumblebee theme and yeah I think it looks really quite fun so you can still add bits even when you've completed the card because it was like that I done that kind of thought oh it needs something else and then I you know saw that we still had the stencil so they go now so if I bring that up and you can see and that metallic is lovely when it catches the light so again I'm just going to go over this side here and do the same so let's start it there okay so that's that one and then I'm going to do a tiny bit more I'm just going to do those two at the bottom very carefully like so there let's just get that out of the way clear up my mat in a moment and again just bring that all out the metallic inks do take a little bit longer to dry so I'm just treading carefully there but you can see there how lovely that looks so there they are so I'm going to pop that one there bring this one back in just so you can see it but that's my two easel cards so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial if you do you want to find out more about joining the Hobby Base Club I'll share all the information below and I share it all over on my blog as well you we've now it's missed we're not missed the closing has closed to receive the July kit because you have to the 21st of each month so now you've got till the 21st of July to sign up for the August kit and yeah I hope you enjoy it hope you like this one thumbs up if you did and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye