 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. So some of you are going to be looking now thinking, oh she's got Stampin' Up products. This is unusual. Yes it is, but I'm very very excited. So I, one of the best things about doing crafting and being on social media and sharing your products is you get to meet, projects are you get to meet lots and lots of people and I can very confidently say I've got a really nice handful of virtual friends. So people I've never met face-to-face but I speak to quite regularly on Facebook and we message and we check in and we see how each other are, how each other are, how each other is and it's just really really nice and I've been asked to do numerous mini projects you know over the last 18 months and stuff and it's just really fun and I was last year made friends with Kaylee from Create with Kaylee who is a fantastic Stampin' Up demonstrator and she's been doing it for the last five years and she reached out to me and you know expressed her love for paper craft and she liked what I done and if I would like to have some goodies and create with them and of course you know we all want nice things to play with and stuff so I was super pleased to get on board and do that with her and so we're doing this kind of like little collaboration so I urge you all to go check out her social media her blog all those links will be shared below here she does a lot of Facebook live as well and she really knows what she's doing she creates some beautiful projects and so yeah definitely go over there and also stay tuned for some future collaborations which will be happening very very soon but that's all I'm going to tell you but I'm really excited with what's coming there as well so I got to choose what I wanted and I loved the Oso eclectic I do love Stampin' Up I have expressed that if I wasn't living in China Stampin' Up being a Stampin' Up demonstrator is possibly something that I would do because yeah their stuff's just amazing and yeah I love it so I chose the Oso eclectic so I got this ribbon which is the I think I did say in another tutorial so actually this is the first of three but I've done it last so I've used all of this mainly very best there we go so it's this beautiful fabric ribbon here and then I have the framelits here which are the eclectic layers thinlets sorry I'm using loads of these so I've really really enjoyed that and then this is the stamp set which is the Oso eclectic and these have been my favorites these these kind of ones here I love that kind of blended faded kind of look there so that's those ones and then got the paper pack so like I said this is the last thing that I've made but it's the first tutorial so I've actually used most of the papers these are the only ones I've got left and I've got a little bit of this one here but just to show you some of these here I mean they're gorgeous I always love their papers they all match they all you know correspond to each other when they're folded over so again if you were making a bag without that matches really nicely and then this one here and then it's got that really fun print on the back there and on the backs of all of them first columns in English and it lists all of the colors and the ink pads that match now I do have quite a lot of these ink pads because I do they are really nice and they're easy to get the refills and stuff but I didn't have the in colors which are actually going to be going I believe very soon it's like lemon line twist and things like that which were used to match this but I have used for the projects I'm going to show you I have used these ones so I've used rich razzleberry perfect plum pumpkin pie and garden green and I think they've worked just as well with this as well because a lot of the colors do still work well together even if they're not the ones that they state so yes but obviously you can make this project it doesn't have to be with stamping up you know supplies but they are good to use so like I said I will share all of the links if you do want to purchase any of this stuff go via Kaley's page and you can shop with her and yeah it's it's worthwhile especially just maybe treating yourself to the little bit every month or every now and then is good anyway enough of me rabbling on this is what we are going to make today so this is this gorgeous tuxedo what would you call it explosion box card kind of thing and this is what we're going to do so I don't I didn't even stick that one down it's not even got glue I must have just been playing around with where that one was going to go I think actually that one was going there yeah to kind of bring that one forward a little bit but you can see here now what I am going to do for this one is I'm going to shrink it down because I made this and then do you know what put that in an envelope you're going to need a big a4 envelope which is okay it's a white you know the big white a4 one so if you do want to make this size and you're not bothered about having to put it in one of those big envelopes your piece will be five and three quarters even six inches high but the other measurement that I give in a minute will be the same and the scoring will be the same and everything else but if you do want a tall one but this one here is just a decorative kind of like vase of flowers that my mum has got in her craft room so it just stands up there and it's just gorgeous I love how it just all stands around kind of balances off you know dangles around moves around and things like that it's just really really fun and I thoroughly enjoyed making this if I just bring it up there you can see you're just lovely it's one of the sentiments that's the ribbon and then it just folds over at the front just to create this kind of tuxedo look now they can be pointy at the back as well but I've not done that I've just kept mine completely flat okay so and I do love an explosion boxed box card so I'll probably use that one on this one actually so you are going to need for this one let me just bring over only a few bits and pieces because the main part of it all is the stamping and there is a bit of fussy cutting as well if you want to do it the way I've done it so I've got some acetate this is just the front packaging from a die set that I received but it's really really strong and so I'm going to be using that to stick all the flowers down then you're going to need just grab my scoreboard here so I'm going to be making this one so that it fits inside a six by eight envelope so it's the second to last one here so if you've got the envelope punch board whether it be a stamping up punch board or this one here which I've got which we are memory keepers and there's also other brands as well but it's the one to fit the card size which is six by eight that telling you that you need a piece of paper that's 11 by 11 and then you will use do your first scoreline at four and seven eighths an inch okay so I just thought it would just be a bit more easy for people to do it a little bit smaller rather than the big one that I have done so the case here is going to be four by ten and a half so yours will be the same width ten and a half but it will be by six rather than four if you want to create this same size here okay then you need two pieces of two and three eighths of an inch by three and seven eighths of an inch and these are going to be to decorate the front and then when we cut the bits out here they will be on the piece that we're going to fold over and then I've just rubbed some of my rich razzleberry over some card and that is going to be what I am going to stamp my little sentiment and then it's going to be framed with that color there and you can see how that matches nicely it pulls out the color there okay so first of all scoring along this piece here which is the ten and a half inch side you want to score two and a half five seven and a half and ten okay and that's it that's all we need to score so it's very very easy get rid of all of that just one side so now if we burnish these score lines I'm just going to do this I'm not going to use my bone tool so that back piece there is what is going to stick it together okay and then this is going to be on a you know a diamond shape like so so a normal pop-up box card would be like this okay but this one is going to be like that so when it folds flat that width that width that width is obviously going to be going into the envelope so you don't want any of the bits that are going to be your flowers or whatever it is you're using you don't want them really coming over to the left or to the the right to the left or the right too much because otherwise it won't fit in the envelope so that's going to be like that and then this bit here is where we're going to do a little cut down here and then fold it over and that's going to create that like tuxedo style so like the lapel of a jacket is is where this name comes from so all I'm going to do is entirely up to you how far down you want to go so on this one here I see see how far down I went on this one so it was I cut down two inches but obviously that was a much much taller piece of card so two inches again if you're doing this style I'm going to do one inch on this one here so with your piece of card you've got your tab at the top here and you got one two three four rectangles the middle of those four that's where you want to go down okay so I'm just using my ruler with one inch and I'm just going to pop a little pencil mark just down there okay and that's where I'm going to cut down to like so okay like that and then what I'm going to do is grab my stylus again grab my ruler and using the thinner end from that pencil mark up to the top of the other side I'm just going to score like like so okay so just scored from where I've cut down up there and then do the same on the other side this just helps you fold it over you don't have to do this if you want to just fold it straight over you can but I just find you get a much nicer crease and finish if you do it with the score line like so and then just carefully put that over like so now the other thing you can do is just do that one there is you can leave them like that so when we fold this all round in a minute we'll stick all that down you can leave them just kind of up like that because I guess a collar it is kind of loosely maybe I'll leave that one actually now looking at it I might just leave it right because what I've done is on this one here is I stuck it down okay so that's what it looks like stuck down with the white border or we can leave it up so I think I'm going to leave this one up for the purpose of the video so you get to see what it looks like both ways so that's that piece there then we've got these two pieces that we cut down and obviously they're going to go inside so if I just bring that one back up they're going to go like so and what you want to do because this will have a little white frame around it it's like this piece over and where I've just got that pencil mark on the card behind just going to put the same on my paper here okay there just put a little pencil mark there which is the same as where that pen you could just get your ruler and just measure one inch down I'm then going to start cutting a little bit down from that again so maybe another one inch down from that pencil mark but up to that point and basically now I can sit that underneath in that piece and still have that nice white frame around it because I come down by 1 eighth of an inch you just get it and then that can come over the top there and you see you get that fitting perfectly then with your second piece again pop it in and just do the same or just bring your ruler and just measure one inch down obviously you want to do it on the you know so on this one I done on the left hand side on this one I'm doing it on the right hand side and again I'm just going to come down by about 1 eighth of an inch and just cut up again and that one will sit inside like so and those can just then kind of freely hang like so so again then these bits here will be able to how did I do it oh no I didn't I used different pieces again I was thinking then I could use them no I did the wrong side yeah so okay I'll talk to you about that in a minute right let's get these stuck down so I'm going to grab my just gonna use my tear tape okay so they are now stuck down so you can see already now how that looks like the collar of the top and yeah I just think it's a really nice different way to just change up a normal pop-up box card so now I'm just gonna rub out that little pencil mark this is optional if you want to pop this on top but basically that one was cut off of the left-hand side so it's now going to go upside down and then go on to the right-hand side and if you just pop it in again giving yourself that same kind of white border like you did before and then with a pencil mark I'm just gonna put a pencil down here so I'm coming in by about a quarter of an inch okay down here and then again just cut all the way along like so so you can see what I just cut off there this piece now will sit inside like so you can see there what I've done okay you get that really nice little frame that's that one and then again just rub off I think I end up cutting that off anyway and all I do now is with this piece is just flip it over pop it on top like so and then I can just cut down right next to it and that way you know that you've got two pieces the same so now they will both sit like so so I'm gonna use my wet glue now because I've got these really tiny little points how the front of that's all come together really nicely now we can stick down the back here as well I'm gonna use some red tape for this just because it's the main frame I just want to make sure it obviously stays nice and strong so I'm just gonna run it along the score line there so I know I get a nice join just make sure you get all the air bubbles out get glue on my jumper turn it over bring that side down and then fold this one over and it should all join up perfectly like so and now you've got the base the shell of your top case and the next piece you need which I forgot to mention is this piece here so this is what I find is what you would usually do with a normal square pop-up card is it would obviously be this way and you would then attach pieces of cardboard maybe two or three inside here and they'd obviously all be parallel with each other and facing this way and then you'd slot in all of your bits and pieces but because this sits this way and it's a diamond shape some people still stick with having those bits of card going this way but what I found is that a lot of those whatever you've got stuck just tends to just face this off in this direction here and obviously I want it all facing front right in front of me so what I've done and what I have done in with previous ones I've made this way is just have one piece like this now this is four and a quarter by I think it was one and a half yeah yeah one and a half be fine but this is one and a quarter I guess because this is smaller still one and a quarter score a half inch on each side so it was scored at half an inch and then at three and three and three quarters I think yeah so half an inch and then three and three quarters okay and then basically what we're gonna do is I'm gonna use some wet glue it's best to use wet glue on this bit so you've got room to move it around because you're gonna be popping it inside if you use the red tape you just yeah if you get a little bit of it stuck wrong then you'll just throw it across the room like I've done before so use the wet glue probably used a bit too much so let's just take some of that off so I've got no hat no hairs on my hands because I've put so much glue on them over the years and it's all comes off okay like so glue's facing me you're then going to it's gonna be arched like this and it's gonna sit inside so I'm gonna stick this in first it is a little bit fiddly but it's worth it and that's why it's best used in the wet glue so get one side in now you want to make sure that it comes down so it's below this piece here so look if I put that completely on its side now you can't see it so it's got to come down below this point and that's about it just make sure it comes down below that point and then you want to make sure that you spread it out so that when you close this card it goes flat with it as well so I've probably gone in let me just bring that over a bit more there we go that's why it's good to use the wet glue because I can just lift it off like so so basically when that folds flat that's what you want it to be like but when it opens can you see it creates that it means that you can put your things all around there and they will all face this way rather than go off that way so I much much prefer this now if you want to do an even smaller one in here you can do another one you can put another little arch inside that bit but what I tend to do is I stick flowers on this actual piece of card here that I want right the front all the ones in the middle go on that piece of card and then anything on the back is actually stuck on the back of this so I find one is all you need I'm just going to cut off got a little bit of sticky tape poked out the top there there we go right now we can get it all all the flowers put in place I'm going to leave that to one side so I have already stamped and die cut lots of bits because I had already made the other two projects which are going to follow this week so I had other bits from other things that I've made and yeah I've figured you know don't waste it so I got the same card that I used to make the actual base and I have used these three here which are this one this one and this little one here and that's the little detail and now there are framelets thinlets framelets for the little piece and for the leaves but for this particular flower which is this one here there is no die to cut it so I fussy cut all of these now if you want to do this one here you can stamp this one and there is a die for that one but actually I know it doesn't really look at here but this is smaller than this one so the die would kind of fit around this but you'd lose a lot of the outer detail so if you do want to do this and you're like oh god I hate fussy cutting don't want to do it you can still do it but use this flower instead and it will still look lovely okay so I'm just going to show you what they stamp like but I think I've got enough here for this smaller card but I used one two three four five six seven eight for the big one two four I'm using six for the smaller one okay and I'm using more greenery where it greenery whereas on this one I added in some purple as well so yeah I'm not going to on this one so just to show you what they look like I've got the perfect plum here and just ink that one up and pop that one there and you can see you get that gorgeous effect I just love it I think it's really nice really subtle looks really nice and if you so if I stamp again like so and then stamp it off and you can get just two different styles but they work really well together so there's a slightly faded one there so that's that one then the I use the garden green for the leaf leaves so again that one stamp it off to get a lighter in pressure and you can give yourself two different greens there but from the same ink pad so again if you're doing foliage and you just want to have that kind of you've only got one green just stamp off each time and you'll get really nice results so these just all worked really really well together so I've gone ahead like I said and I've die-cut the leaves and then stamped all the little detail in the middle and that is using okay so that's the one now that you just sit over the top run that through your die machine and you'll get all of these and again I've used this a lot so really all coming off and then the other one this is the outer die to cut that other stamped image that I just said which is that one there okay yeah because it's too small for that one so and then there's this tiny little one here and that's to cut these little bits here which you can see I've mounted on some foam and now it's given them that 3d look inside and I'm going to finish that off with some Winkastella as well painted over the top which is what I done on the finished one okay so that's all the bits and pieces there in terms of the leaves I have cut out gosh I mean I'm probably going to maybe use two on maybe half of the flowers that's six and then one on them so maybe nine cut ten out things like this I always say you know if you're bored just cut a load of them you got them in your stash because they're great for cards and things like that that's that then I've got the acetate here so I kind of don't really want to give a measurement of what length acetate you need because every card is kind of different it's I cut it as I need it as I go along so as I make this I'm going to tell you the kind of length of the acetate I'm using because it's you know it depends how high you want it and bits and pieces like that everybody's is different but I'm always going to do them about half an inch in width okay so what I'm going to do is just cut some half inch strips of this very strong acetate so don't throw away packaging it's so handy for things like this for your craft room so I've got six flowers so I need six pieces so one two three four and I'll just take off the end bits there so I'm just going to trim I'll probably use the full width for a couple of them at the back and then the ones at the front are cut obviously down so they're much shorter but that piece inside is one and a half inches wide that piece of card there and I've done it quite thick because it just gives you more of a surface area to stick this acetate against and whenever I'm using the acetate I always use the red tape because it's nice and strong and it sticks to the acetate really well okay so there's my sticks my six strips so first of all I'm going to have a purple one and I want this purple one to be right down here at the bottom but you only see it maybe about half an inch of the acetate and I'm going to have two of these stuck behind so I'm going to have one like so and one like that okay so I'm going to put a blob of glue on my I'm just going to pop a bit there maybe put a little bit like so and so that one is going to go like that and then this one because I've just put glue I'll put a little bit more on there actually and again don't you know you don't have to be too particular with it because if you want it to look kind of well it's paper but as natural as you can be they you know leaves are everywhere aren't they so it doesn't matter too much then on the very top of this acetate I'm gonna stick coming down by about half an inch just stick a piece on the top there peel that off just stick it across like so okay and then this one is going to stick obviously on this front piece of card at the front like so so I only need the tiniest I'm going to cut now so I've got about an inch there coming down okay and then coming up by about half an inch I'm going to stick again some of the red so this is what I mean it's it's hard to really give exact exact measurements because some of you might not want to put one right the front there these are very easy to just then do however you want okay so because we've got the scoreline in the middle there I'm still going to stick it right in the middle because the acetate bends and it will actually help that card kind of go into that shape when whoever gets it opens it up so I have still stuck it right in the middle of that scoreline okay because it's only going to come up to that shape you can see now that looks really nice in the middle okay so that's the only one that's probably going to be stuck on the front now the other four I'm going to do on that curved piece and then the last two I'm going to stick on the back so now I'm going to do this red what's not red because it looks I think I must have mixed it actually with I think I stamped in the purple and then I stamped it onto the peek-a-boo peach no pumpkin pie and it's come out with this kind of color here so again you know you can really kind of mix it up and add whatever you want there with whatever papers is that you're using so again I'm going to add a little bit about half an inch each time to stick onto the flower and I'm going to add you can always add more leaves on as well once it's all in place if you think oh I've got a bit of a blank area you know it's a bit bit sparse there then you can just add the leaves in again later but I'm just going to add one on this one and then take off the backing here and remember what I said about making sure that your leaves don't go too off to the left or the right because it won't fit in your envelope so I want the cluster of them to stay quite you know within the this shape here this width so that one there is going to go like so and if you hold it up like this you can kind of move it up and down so I want this kind of leave to still kind of cover it a bit but I think there is about right so I've got my thumb over the back piece when I pull it out now I can see that this area here is what's going to be glued down so I'm just going to trim off about an inch so the one going behind is now a piece of acetate that measures three and a half inches okay so if you are following along and then again I'm now putting my tape over the last half inch it's now three inches of it is what's obviously going to be you know hanging up hanging up you know hanging around like dangling so now I can stick that behind or in front it's entirely up to you that piece of card like so now if I bring that over you can see we're starting to come up so now the ones behind will come up there like so already that's starting to come along so I'm going to go and stick the other three along this piece here and then I'll give you the measurements of what I've used okay so you can see now where I've stuck them all in so I actually put three in the middle so I realize that six not seven for some reason I said I was going to put four in the middle with three's fine and then I've got two on the back and the one on the front so you can see where I've stuck them these ones are all pretty much the same set three and a half inch and then these are again three and a half inch but obviously I've just brought them up higher on that back piece you can see where they're stuck inside here okay so I thought I'd do all the flowers and then with all those kind of blank spaces and bits here I can add the flowers but again when this is folded flat so if I just bring that down I think even that one now I'm gonna have to maybe move that one's fine on that side just check your envelope because you don't want it to overhang too much otherwise you just have to make a bigger envelope that's all so again when that comes up it's all okay so let me just grab some more of these and I'm just going to go around now and just add them if you lie it flat you can see where you can add in so I could add something in there just stick it in place again just add a bit of glue here and put that one in there and it's much much easier have something down here to hide the the plastic there as well from the the acetate so okay so I'm pretty happy with that so it's kind of like I said at the beginning it's kind of hard to really tell you where to put things and how you want it because everybody's different but when I lie that down flat I can see I've kind of covered all of like the background so I've got this you know my shape around here but you can't see through it I mean I could put something else there for want but when it's up like so you don't see that bit anyway so I'm quite happy you can see how that all looks I think it looks gorgeous it's a really really I again I just love this style card so now it's just the little sentiment so for this one here I am going to use gosh what should I do I'm going to do oh hello friend so this one here and I'm going to stamp it in you're going to stamp it in Night of Navy because that is one of the corresponding colors and I'm going to go quite nicely so I'm just going to stamp it here like so and they're lovely cute little sentiments I'm just going to get that cut out a little bit of this glue that's left on my hand before it dries up and then with that piece of paper that I just covered with the rich razzleberry I'm just going to frame the top left hand side there of my sentiment and then just cut the rest of that out okay so that's that one now all ready and then I've just made myself a little bow and I've got some foam backing here always find the foam and fits really and sticks really well to your ribbon just pop that fat that side looks better that's more finished so I will stick it on this side here and that bow is going to go right underneath that flower right in the very very top there which kind of needs to stick kind of goes under the lapel I'm just going to fold that flat a minute just so I can stick that in place like so straighten that all up and then the little sentiment here is again going to go on some foam only needs a little bit because again it is kind of sitting on the score line so I'm going to just put it right down the middle like so and again lie it down flat and it's going to sit just like tweezers I'm going to push it right up kind of over the bow a little bit like so like that and kind of pushed up in the middle isn't that a gorgeous card now what you can do is right to and from you've got room for your sentiment if you want to put more fat and more fabric more colored DSP is the word I'm looking for on the back here you can do you see the backs all nice and neat as well and I just think it's a glorious card so let's check the measurements of this one and the envelope because obviously I will have to make one for this so it is coming in at well it's going to be an eight and a half inch envelope so that's because you don't want to go any higher than that because eight and a half is the highest measurement you've got so it's going to be eight and a half there and then it's probably going to be the six inch or actually I'm going to have to move that up a bit yeah I can get it to six so I like I said I'm going to move that what that leave there is just going to come up a bit you don't want to go too far past the the widest part of whatever the bases of your card okay so I want that one to come in at six and then I can use the six by eight and a half on my envelope punch ball okay so I've still got a nice envelope for that as well but there you have it so I've made lots of mess I've had lots of fun creating these I do enjoy these these and shaker cards are big favorites of mine so you've got this one here which is more of a decorative piece so if you just want a nice vase effect just for your craft room then go for this or if you're happy to put it in a very large white envelope then fine but I'm still going to add more to this I think because it's definitely got the room and I've got these spare leaves now as well so I can decorate that up a bit more and then you've got the gorgeous little one here they are stronger when they're on shorter bits of acetate as well so that's another one is make sure you use a nice strong acetate probably gone a bit too high up with these some might shrink the back ones down a little bit as well but lots of tips lots of ways and things that you can do with them and I hope that you've learned a bit from me today enjoyed what I've made and I've got two more projects that I'm going to be doing this week with this this kind of kit I guess that I've got and I hope you enjoy those as well like I said do check out pop on over to Kaley's social media channels all that will be shared below and I'll be continuing to show all of that throughout this week but until then please give me a nice thumbs up if you enjoyed today and hit that subscribe button if you haven't already so you get to see more thanks for watching guys bye