 Hey everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I'm going to show you how to make this floating shadow box. I have already made these before on the channel. This is a six by six size and I think I made the other six by six probably about two years ago but I'm pretty sure it's not as deep as this one. They're all under a shadow box playlist that will be popping up now. I've also done a five by seven version which I've shared and I think I have another five by seven as well on there so there's plenty of other inspiration if you like this style. It's really fun. I've got ones where you don't attach anything onto the sides it's just a nice shaped fun fold card. You don't have to cut the aperture out you can leave that as a solid piece and just have nice decorative papers on there and I think if you did want to cut the aperture you could pop vellum in there and then lights and have it as maybe a decorative piece or a 3d card that stays in that shape because you wouldn't be able to pop it flat if you had the lights. Maybe you could play around but the whole thing folds flat and you'll see that will fit into your six by six envelope or one of my box cards. Again they pop up along the tutorial and then on the back you have your space to write your message as well. I'll just show you the five by seven. This was one I made a couple years ago and I keep this one in my craft room. I really love this and it's featuring Jerry the giraffe. Lots of you would be familiar with this one and I've got my embossing folder in the background there so if you've got this product and you've maybe missed this tutorial again I'll link that in this video but today I'm going to show you how to make this fun six by six one and we're going to make it as a Christmas card. So I've got a big pile of stuff here because I've actually used so many different bits and pieces to make the card because it's a Christmas version I was pulling out bits from old collections and just having some fun with it. So I've used the Daisy Mae Designs Kit. This was box number 12 and I pulled out the bird bath after a lady in the live craft along where I made this one said it would look really nice with the bird bath so if you've got the Daisy Mae Kit this is the bird bath stamp that I've used here. I've just got mine just stuffed with all of the bits and pieces that came in the kit there and just so I always remember to use them. So you'll see I've already stamped and coloured the bird bath I started doing a funny brown colour and thought no I don't like that at all but you're not going to see any of that anyway and then I've just used Nuvo Drops with some glitter on top and then I've used glossy accents there as well just to get that lovely wintery effect. For all of the decoration I'm not going to use the leaves that I die cut like I've done on this one I have stamped and coloured these holly leaves in all different sizes and they're using the John Next Door stamp and holly die plate there. This may still be available I'm not sure but that's how it looks when you stamp it and you have these registration markers which you then line up your die with and then run that through so you can see there that just you line up each corner and then that will give you the perfect cut. So I've already gone ahead and cut coloured done all that kind of stuff. The sentiment on the front I've already stamped and heat embossed the Christmas wishes and this is from a Simply Made Crafts Christmas stamp set again I think this one's still available everything will be linked below and then for the lovely birds that you would have seen in that first card this time I've done the robins and I've actually done the outline die this time with them and then stamped them I've actually coloured them with some coloured pencil as well this time but it's using this lovely stamp set here and it's your layered birds and it's from the Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine Little Birdies. When I last looked this was still available so again just check the links below if you like it but it gives you three different style birds so you can see I've got the blue tip there without the dark outline. This is the robin and then there's also a finch I'll just show you because you want to keep this this is what you can do like print this off I can't remember if it was printed or if it was in the magazine but this is it here and it shows you how to stamp and layer up those different birds so it's nice that you can use it all round you know all through the seasons the die I use there is what I've used in this one along with these smaller leaves and then they're just the circle dies and I also popped googly eyes on them which you may or may not notice but there's just a little bit more detail there which is quite cute. Everybody always asks what I use so I always like to go through it at the beginning and then the paper pad for the background papers so I actually used my scene paper pad for the bird one here and it's just this one in the middle but for today I'm using the North Star again and I've got this lovely snow scene and you'll see how that one looks there really lovely okay so first of all really easy to do you want two pieces of 10 by six card I've got this gorgeous I want to say it was a phil martin cardstock it's got that lovely kind of glimmer to it it's like an oyster color so this is 10 by six two pieces so you're going to score it one two eight and nine and you want to do that on both pieces you then want two pieces of pattern paper that are five and three-quarter squared I've also got another piece of five and three-quarter square and this is for the back I've already stamped my message there and then I've got a piece of acetate which is also five and three-quarter square the acetate's optional but it really does give that front piece stability again after you've cut your aperture out and I just think it gives it a really kind of special look looks like you know a really expensive looking card so that's all of the measurements so before we burnish anything I want to stick down these two pieces here so if you've got you know two different kind of patterns you might want one that's going to go on the inside and then a different one on the front we'll say this is the one that's going to be on the inside so I'm sticking that one down there and then I've got this one for the front and it's going to go in that middle square and you should have a nice little border and then I'm also going to stick down these four pieces here which I've got to get the measurements for but they're five and three quarters by three quarters of an inch and they're going to go in these little panels and it just continues that scene so I'm going to get all of that stuck down and then I'm going to take the frame from this is a tonic studio seamlessly beautiful Celtic cross and I'm going to pop this in the center here I'll give you the measurements I think it was about four and yeah four and well it was in between yeah so four and five eights or four and three quarters four and a half around that kind of size you don't have to have it as a square shape you could have this any shape that you want I'm just going to tape this down and run it through my machine then I'm going to burnish the score lines so the two closest to the inside so the two you're just going to fold so they're mounting folds like so and then these ones here you're going to fold into valley folds if you want to flip it over and run it and you know score back over the lines on the opposite side in your scoreboard then do so this is a really strong cardstock and I'm not getting any cracking at all there but you want that shape okay so again you're going to fold both of those inside ones and then like so so actually these the back one you have them as valleys and then these are mountains you basically want to have it so that they can form that shape there so you can see our now I've got my scene you know flows throughout so next I want to start kind of positioning the birds because I'm well I'm going to have the one inside it's going to be the same as this one and you can see it's on some acetate which is sandwiched between these two pieces here now because I'm bringing in this one I need to decide whether I want that on the outside or inside because I'm kind of thinking on the inside and having him as if he's just flying down to it and then I just want to position my sentiment will work quite nicely there so it's like he's just going to land on it so when you pull him in and out it will yeah I think that'll look quite nice and then that's going to come down here I think like so that can come down a little bit because I'm going to cut off the bottom anyway I think that's going to look quite nice and then this bird is going to be here on this twig and then I'm just going to cover the area with the holly and the berries here I've got a little piece of acetate here the width of it's entirely up to you it depends on what you're going to have attached but I think I done one inch on the other one and then I'm going to bring this down I think I went quite I know I remember cutting it down it's again it's entirely up to you because you're going to have a different scene to me four inches I think I done three and a half so I'm going to take mine three and a half by one and I'm just popping some red tape at the end and I'm going to stick this about there you don't need to stick it right up to the edge because you don't want it to be seen but now I can just pop the bird on there and that's going to move back and forth like so I think that's going to work perfectly so then I'm just going to pop some red tape on the other end and then just stick my bird down like so okay again I'm just going to pop this on just so I could see yeah I think that's going to be fine so now I'm just going to snip along the bottom of that and I'm going to pop this on a little bit of foam and stick that one down okay so that's all I'm going to have inside once you're happy with what you've put inside the card then you can attach your piece of acetate if you're using it so I've just ran my red tape already around this again this was five and three quarters squared I'm just going to flip this over this is actually a piece of shrink plastic I found it really cheap and I thought that's going to work fine so it's really really strong just make sure that you burnish it well so it goes darker in color and that means that it's stuck fully onto your surface like so so now I don't know if you noticed before but it was bowing when you would pull it in and out whereas now it's completely straight and that will go like so and you can really see the bird moving so I'm going to stick this down but before I do that I'm just going to run some tape just over the plastic here because the glue will just kind of slide on that it won't really stick very well you might end up having it lift slightly so I'm just going to cover that and then I'm just going to add my calale glue down the other sides I've just added my glue there and then just stick down do one at a time it lined up and then you can pop the other one like so just give that a moment to dry okay so now all that's left is the rest of the decoration so like I said I'm going to have a branch here with the other bird on top I'm going to have my sentiment here and then I've got these holly leaves which I'm going to have just dotted around so I'm probably going to have one up there I've got to remember I want to keep it within that size otherwise I'm going to have to make an even bigger envelope so I might just bring that across a little bit so it's more like more like that and then we'll have some around the bird so it's like it's actually you know perched in the holly bush something like that I might even just pop a little bit of holly on the actual bird bath there as well I've got even smaller ones here so I could pop a very small one on that bit of the branch you get the idea I'm just going to have a little play around pop it on high speed and you can see where I go with it that's everything stuck down I think it looks really nice I'd already added the glossy accents to the berries you can see them shining as well and then with the leftover little die cuts there I've popped them on the back stuck my mat layer down there as well and that's already for me to make my box which I'll do nearer to Christmas once I know exactly how many I need to make then I can just batch make those but I think it's come together lovely so I'll just bring in the other version this is actually going to probably end up being a retirement card take it easy and then I'll have happy retirement on the back but again just to show you how you can turn these card shapes into cards for so many occasions and I think now that's the third Christmas card that I've made so I'm quite pleased with myself so I hope you've enjoyed the tutorial today I will link as much as I can in the description box below I will pop up now the other pop-up shadow box cards so the other six by six and the five by seven versions if you want to check those out and if you've enjoyed today and you haven't subscribed to my channel if you hit the subscribe button and then click the little grey bell that will go red and that means that you'll then get notified every time I upload a new video as always thank you for watching and I'll be back again soon