 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I've got this really lovely very cute explosion box it's using the free downloadable papers by Trimcraft and on one of the printouts that you can get they've got this lovely A4 sheet of some cutouts and one of them is this one you're the bomb and it's a tag and as soon as I saw it I thought yeah I know what I want to do this you know use it with what project so I've decorated the box with all the other papers you've got the love ones there with the hearts and I've used the holographic dovecraft mirrored cardstocks you can see all the wonderful rainbow colors that it picks up there which is great really nice bow and just a little flower there and then basically you just take the lid off and this happens and they're just so fun now I have done a graduation cap one which I've done a couple of years ago and I'll share the link to that style because again you know you might want to do it a different theme or you know just just have a look at some other you know ways to do them so that one like I said will be linked up there for you but this is my valentine's themed one so really really pleased with it and inside it has a lovely bath bomb gift so this is the wild rose by bomb cosmetics and they do beautiful bath bombs really really nice and I just thought how lovely does this all go together so you can use when we get to that but depending on what size circle you die cut here will depend on the size I guess of your bath bomb so I had some smaller bath bombs which I've made but they just looked a bit lost so these ones here I purchased and I just think it's a really nice way to to obviously give these as a gift and it sits perfectly in there now what I am going to do is pop a couple of glue dots just again I guess if it's being transported just to stop the risk of that falling out but otherwise it sits in there really nicely then you've got your four sides here so this one I've added a little greeting card so this is a two and a half by two and a half small card so you can write your little message in there and it's again using the same holographic cardstock and I just die cut one of my little love dies and then I've just with my hot glue popped a little ball dog clip just there in the pink and then I've just gone around you know that's from the cutouts the free downloads again all the papers in here this is another die it just says all my love and I've just added some flowers on there and again you can see there and then the butterflies again I've died cut three of them so there's the white in between and then there's the base and then the detail and I've got a little gemstone in the middle and then I've done this heart effect on the sides and you just fold up your sides like so and then the lid will fit perfectly on the top and it's a reinforced lid so it's very very strong and again I just think they make lovely gifts and as I've always said you can make this for anything you want so although mine's Valentine's you know happy birthday like I said the graduation one that I've done all kinds of things so let's crack on and make it so this is the other bomb really again like I said this is the the rose wild rose um I'll share links to where I got these from and the the kind of I guess cream in the center there is actually sheer butter and the lady said that when that's in the bath it just becomes really nice and soft and it's like a nice like almost cream for your skin and then you get the rose leaves and petals just floating on the top so yeah really really lovely that one okay so I've already gone ahead and die cut out another one of the tickets there or the tag and what I've just gone ahead and done is kind of you want to create like a wave effect so on the end I just kind of you know curve it one way with my folder here and then in the middle kind of go the opposite way and then on the end go back out again the other way so you just created this kind of wave and I think it just makes that kind of tag look I don't know just just looks quite good and it's kind of how a tag would really sit I guess I'm thinking of like the old school style ones but yeah so I've just done that one and then I've already gone ahead and die cut all those same bits and pieces ready to stick in place so there's my little peg I've put a little bow on this one and again that's already there and I'll show you how to get that stuck down I'll go through the measurements of that card as well so don't worry I've got my little flowers there I've got my bow for the top deces and all the other bits right so for the main actual case you will need one piece of 12 by 12 cardstock so this is the do crafts colossal 216 gsm cardstock and I've just got this really lovely pink color and again it matches and complements really well with the papers that I'm using so that's what you need there I'm going to keep that on there while I go through these measurements for the very top mat so this is actually going on the lid here the mirrored cardstock so the biggest piece is three and three quarters squared and then the piece on top is three and a half inches squared okay so that's for the top of the lid and that's going to have my ticket on the top and my bow and so on all right so decide what you want to do there then you're going to need eight pieces of the measurements I'm going to give you now and this is to mat all the four sides on the outside and all the four sides on the inside so the white piece here is three and three quarters the mirrored cardstock which is the second layer is three and a half inches squared and then the one on top of that so the pattern paper is three inches squared sorry start again they drop down in quarter of an inch increments so the white one is three and three quarters the mirrored cardstock is three and a half inches squared and the smaller one the patterned one is three and a quarter squared so like I said you want eight of them but what I've done is I've done four with the hearts which is going to go inside and then I've done four with the love which will go on the outside okay so again it's up to you if you want to do them all the same you might want to do every one different you might want to put photos on the inside so there's lots and lots of ways to do it then this piece here is to decorate the top of the kind of platform that the bath bomb sits in in the middle this is optional you can keep the card you can keep it plain white which I'll show you in a moment or you can add this piece so if you do decide to add it this is three and a half inches squared okay then for that little like I said platform that the bath bomb sits in this is a piece of five and three quarters by five and three quarters and this is the white um paper mill direct 300 gsm smooth cardstock I'm just using this for everything at the moment but that's that and then to decorate the sides of your lid you'll need four pieces and this is the mirrored cardstock again so it's three quarters of an inch by get this one in here it's because I'm doing it on top of this card by three and three quarters and then the one on top grab my ruler here it is three and a half by half okay so again four of those and then for the little card like I said this was a two and a quarter two and a half by two and a half so it's a piece of five by two and a half and along the five inch side you just want to score at two and a half fold it in half and you'll have that and then on the top here this is two and a quarter by two and a quarter pattern paper and then again I've just finished it off with that little sentiment so that is all the measurements the circle and all that lot I'm going to go through and give you the sizes once we get to it so using our cardstock here grab my stylus so really simple scoring all you want to do is score at four and eight and then rotate your cardstock and again score at four and eight okay remove your scoreboard now you can do this next bit you can either fold freehand or you can use your ruler and stylus I prefer to use my ruler and stylus just because I think you get a much crisper nicer score line as opposed to just folding it freehand and what we're going to do is we're going to concentrate on the four outer squares and we're going to score from here to the outside and then here to the outside and then here to the outside and here to the outside so the middle square all four corners of that middle square that's where you're starting from and just scoring out so we're going to create a score line through the half you know of these squares here so if I just show you you want to make sure that you get it from point to point so it's always best to put your stylus down and then your ruler but can you see now so there's my middle square top right of that one I've gone all the way up to the top right of that outer square okay so top right of this square which is the bottom left of this one you can see what you're doing you're just going right across you just want to do that in every one so again this one here okay so that's what you should have and just pick up the light there there we go so this is the top one and then if I rotate and you've got the same with those ones all right let's see there just where they're coming out so now what we want to do is burnish all of our score lines so just go along doing all the straight ones first okay and then these outer ones here this is basically going to be the box coming in so these ones you want to bring up so you can just see your score line coming through you just want to fold them like so and then what I do is I fold them back out that way as well okay but do it outwards first it might help you better so you're just doing just that square on the outside you can see how easy it is to to do it because the other ones just want to kind of come up so if you fold it over and then fold that back this just automatically all comes up with it which is fine again just burnish it and then fold it out the other way just make sure you're getting really nice crisp score lines and just bring them back in just try and do them on both sides okay like so so you've kind of got this almost like a weird shaped bowl coming together like so because now this bit's optional so on my other one that I've shared up here you can now if you can remove these these four outer squares and not have them at all and you just bring up these four here so that's how I do it on the other one whereas with this one I wanted to create a heart shape so the easiest way to do it is if you fold it like this grab a pencil and you just want to roughly draw a heart half a heart so because we're folding it in half like this you can see what I'm working on and I mean you might want to download a heart you might you might be doing this on your digital cutting machines but all I'm kind of doing is coming down about one inch along this score line here and then just kind of kind of sketching that kind of effect because you've got to imagine that this is one half of your heart okay so if I just I think I'm kind of happy with that actually I'm not even going to faff about too much with it because in a minute we're going to make a template but you do kind of have to have to do this first one yourself you might have an object that you want to draw around I mean I've got a punch here just at hand but you know what I mean just as an example you're just going to just roughly do something like that all right you may just want to do a curve and just have it because what happens when you cut it that would then be just like that a half kind of circle effect it's just to create a pattern really in the corner so now if I grab my my snips holding the two together pinching the two together then you're just going to really neatly just cut this out and you're just cutting up to the score line there and then you're going to actually cut down you can just pinch it together but you're going to cut down both we can go and tidy this all up again in a minute it's like so and now when I open it I've got this heart now I've gone a bit too straight there so what I can do now because this is the one that you're kind of playing around with but I can come in a little bit more there and a little bit more there you see what I've just done you can see how that's going to look more like a heart now so again with my snips I can just just give it more of that kind of rounded heart shape because it was looking a bit straight before I'm much much happier with that okay now what you do is grab some paper pop it underneath making sure it kind of covers that whole area like so and you're going to draw around this one and basically now that means that you don't have to do this on the same one every single one okay and then cut this out so I'm just going to go in anywhere like that just cut this out you can if you want just draw it on each one you know if you want to just you know go for it and you're quite happy to do them then that's fine but if you do want to just make a little template so you know you've got an exact this is the way I found easiest to do it and again just kind of go off so you can just see what I've done now I can take this to the next one and you just want to marry up the two kind of ends here to the sides of this one so just bring them down until they meet the score line here and here which that has and then I'm just going to draw around it and the middle here should line up with the middle score line there so you just got to make sure that you get all that in the right place get any pencil marks you can rub out but now there's that one all ready to be cut go around to this one here so it's just getting that first one right and the good thing is you're using a pencil so you can rub it out so don't cut it the first one don't cut it until you're really you know 100% sure you're happy with it so you might have a heart shaped die you can pop that in there if you've got something that's big enough you just want it to go over the width of this you know kind of square there we go like so now again you can fold this in half like so and cut it out if you want but I'm going to just do it as one just because I feel a bit better doing it that way so I'm just going to go ahead and cut this all out okay so there you have it all cut out how cool does that look and I just like that I know that they're all the same now one other thing I also do as well is around all these when you cut it remove any score line that you've got on these pieces here these flat pieces get rid of any of that bulky score line because it will help when we go to close the box and put the lid on see I've got a bit there you still see where I've got the lip of that score line so I'm just going to come in just ever so slightly it's only a tiny little slither but you'll be surprised what a difference that will make when you know we go to put the lid on there we go okay it just looks much much neater so now it's just the fun part of decorating so like I said I'd already gone ahead and done all these I'm going to work from the inside first so that's my outside ones so that is going to go in there and you will have a perfect border now I've done it so that my print is facing up the right way as if you were sat in the middle here and you were to look out to all of the sides they'd all be facing you if you want to have them that way you can but I've done them so they all face in that way okay so they're going to go there we're going to make the platform for that piece and also I've just realized I haven't cut my lid there was another piece missing so I'll give you the measurement for that one in a minute anyway um so yeah so I'm going to go ahead and get these ones stuck down then if you flip it over and this is now the outside so these ones here are going to go like so again all facing that way because when we go to put it up then they'll be facing up the right way okay so you want them all going in to the center you know all the hearts you can see are all pointing down so it's going to face upright like so when we put it together so again I'm going to stick them all down okay so that's now stuck down so if I flip it back over again bring up your heart so just kind of start to work them into you know where they want to go so you're going to bring them in keep them on one side you might want to have one on one on the other fold those in you can see now when it comes up all of your outer sides are facing up the right way okay right next we want to do this platform for our little you know uh bath bomb to sit on so let's just pop that pop that behind me for the moment so you are going to need your scoreboard and you're going to score at a quarter of an inch one inch four and three quarters and five and a half then rotate your card stock and score exactly the same so quarter of an inch one inch four and three quarters and five and a half okay and then you just want to burnish all of those score lines so just be careful with your little quarter inch ones I'm just going to do those one inch ones first and then I'll go back in the ones and these are just enough just to stick it you know to the center of that explosion box plus I've done it this size so that it will fit through your smaller big shock because not everybody has the A4 machine so I try to do it so that you know everybody this will fit in your um show you my one here the six inch width plates okay okay so now we've done all of that then we want to I mean to be honest you can burnish before or after we've ran it through the machine it doesn't make too much of a difference because it's going to be stuck down I'd say if I was doing a gift box I wouldn't burnish I'd die cut first but it's not so bad in this case so I have here a circle die which has a diameter of two and three quarters but this is to fit this size bath bomb so again it's it's entirely up to you but you can see there it just sits inside all right bearing in mind it's going to be slightly thicker than that because the cut line for the die is you know on more towards the outer part than the inner part so the bath bomb will sit in a little bit more but basically I'm going to grab my bring in my plates here that sits perfectly you want to sit it centered to this white piece of cardstock here the center square you want to pop it right in the middle there so actually I'm just having a thought you want to do it on this bit of paper first so this is my patterned piece that I told you earlier that's going to sit inside there okay like so you actually want to die cut this piece first because we use this then to trace around that to make sure we get it all nice and centered so again you want to make sure you get it smack rang in the middle on this piece and then run that through this piece here is the measurement was four by four square so it's three and three quarters by three and three quarters that plain piece that I showed you so let me just check yeah I'll know three and a half so this piece here is three and a half by three and a half and now that will go back in here and then with your pencil like so and now it means that you'll get this bang in the middle and that will all match up nicely so make sure you get it like there and then the plates again this is when your magnetic base plate comes in handy which is what this is here so this actually stays here already it's kind of stuck it's where I need it to stay which is there get that one die cut okay and now that one will go perfectly over the top but still be nice and centered and gather nice little white border around there so this piece we can now stick down it's a bit easier to do while it's all um flat so I'm just going to pop some wet glue like so okay next we need to do some cutting so pick a side it doesn't matter and you're going to cut up if I just show you here because it's a bit easier because this is white you can't really see it that well but you've got this little piece and then you've got that bigger piece you want to just cut down past this little quarter inch score line down to this main line here okay this outer one you're going to remove completely and you're going to remove that piece there so now we've just got this tab and if you just take some wedges off it's my snips I think I've got something on them again but that's what you want to have okay then go along again here cut all the way down that one and that one remove that very small side one and then that base there and again take little wedges out okay so you can see now what you've got then rotate the whole thing around and do the same again so cut all the way down okay so that is now what you should have next we want to glue this down so I'm just going to bring in my wet glue here and you just want to cover the tab don't go crazy as I always say with the glue you only need a little amount bring that one down and under and this one's going to go over the top you can kind of see now how it's all going to work these are going to be our tabs to attach this piece to the actual explosion box so you just want to make sure you've got a really nice crisp angle there on the corner and it's all stuck in inside okay go across the next one again pop a bit of glue on the top fold it down and bring around that other one like so and then you're going to do the same with these two here so okay so that's now what you should have with these little quarter inch ones so if you go and fold them all in inside like so and you'll see you'll get little corners that overlap each other like that and you just want to pop a little bit of glue just on the very very end there just put a little bit of glue and just fold that piece over okay and you can just pinch inside there between your finger and your thumb you just want to create a little surface now that we can run our tape around so can you see now that's stuck down so just do that on all of the corners just pop a little bit of glue just doesn't matter which one's over which one or under as long as they're all attached okay so that is now what we've got this tiny little lip that goes around and now we can put glue all around that so I'm going to use my other glues this is just got that high attack on it and it dries quicker and you don't need loads like so okay move everything out the way make sure you're working on the right side because obviously that's my outside of the love writing turn it over and you're going to sit this inside the square and you should have a nice like one eighth of an inch border all the way around and then what you can do is with your any of your kind of tools or even a ruler as you can get in you can actually push down on that little lip inside making sure it's all nice and stuck down like so now it's intelligent if you want to decorate inside so that one there I can just put a bit of glue on and we'll sit I line up the hearts like so so I can have it the same but you're not really going to see that but I did up this one I think I'm going to do that one instead inside there but anyway you can see what I mean you can put anything in there disguise in fact I might just keep it empty but now that will sit perfectly inside like I said put a couple of glue dots and pop it in there but I'm undecided whether I'm going to add them in or not so for now I'm just going to leave it like so so next we need to make the lid okay so this is a piece of eight by eight cardstock and it's really simple we're making this reinforced so you just want to score it one and two inches and just do that on all four sides so one and two and that will give us a four by four centered square in the middle here which will form the top of our lid so just get rid of that and again just go along and burnish all of the score lines okay and just the same as any other reinforced lid or box we need to cut as I always say you've got these four squares in either the bottom left or bottom right hand corners you'll want to cut down both of them always pass the first score line down to the bottom it's very much a similar cutting that we've just done with that little platform that we've just put in the middle remove the outer two like so and remove that top one okay so we've got that tab again and then just tidy up all of the edges so the top one you're going to take a little wedge off you're going to take bigger little bigger little bigger wedges off of that one and again take a wedge off of that one so you've got a really tidy corner there go along here and do the same so cut down pass these two remove the outer two completely and remove that one and again just go around like so okay rotate the whole thing and do exactly the same again okay so that's now what you should have and we're going to glue it exactly the same way again so the four top bits of the tabs four the top four tabs is where you're going to add your glue or the top of the four tabs even because I say the same thing over and over a lot of the time sometimes think god I'm not even making any sense so you can see that I'm sticking it exactly the same way so I've got the glue on the top hold that down and bring that around it's very hard to you know teach and do at the same time which is obviously what I'm doing when I'm recording and I'm always thinking about this rather than what I'm saying sometimes so the amount of times I look back and when I go to edit I'm like my god you know what am I saying I don't even understand myself so I'm just a normal craft I'd like you all I've just yeah just choose to share them but um it just goes to show that um yeah I am normal I'm a bit crazy so again and then the last one I'm just going to pull that one out of it and then tuck it in and then I always like to go in with my folder there and just make sure they're all mostly stuck down okay and then you'll have these outer ones and you just want to stick them all down the same way so I'm going to go back to my other glue and just along there fold it right in and again just really burnish it all down so it's nice and flat and you've got a really nice side so just do that on all four okay so that is our lid done then you'll have this piece so I've already stuck mine all down that's going to go on the top of my lid so I'm just going to stick that one on again you'll have a nice little white border flip it over make sure it's all stuck down I've got a little bit coming off there stick that down again like so then you'll have all of these pieces and you want to stick them on all of your four sides okay then I'm going to decorate the top so I've got one of my flowers I've got my hot glue on and I'm going to pop some adhesive foam I'm going to pop one underneath where the actual little dip is so I'll show I'll turn it over and I'm going to show you and I'm going to pop one there and one there so just where it dips is where I put the foam adhesive because that's the part that's going to be obviously touching the top of our lid I always like to put a little bit of extra glue on for good measure and then I'm going to have it at an angle with some of it hanging over I just like that so you can see now oh it's just kind of lifted up the bow is going to go right in on that piece there so it kind of the hot glue will go through and under and then this little flower here again I'm just going to pop a little bit of hot glue just onto the back and just sit that just at the end and just bring that up a bit now and you can see how that all looks really pretty so that's the lid all done bring this all back in and work on the inside so I'd already gone ahead with that one and that's going to go in there so again with my hot glue I'm just going to pop a bead of glue on the back of the peg there and that way I can line this up so it's all within that smaller square like so then I've got the butterfly I wouldn't usually use my hot glue for this but because it's out I'm going to pop the butterfly opposite which you can't see we do there we go just going to make sure it's all nicely lined up like so I just realised I haven't cut my thing for the other side I'll do that off camera and you'll see it in the photos anyway and then for this one here pop some glue on the back of my hand because it's a more of an intricate dye probably should have put this through I've got a little xyron sticker machine but I will just pop a little bit of glue on the edges there pop that on and again using my hot glue here just pop a few flowers so that looks really pretty get rid of all my stringy bits make sure it's all nice and stuck down which it is and then grab my bath bomb then what you want to do before you go to put it all together is we want to take a few little bits off now we've stuck all this in place we're just going to cut tiny little more like little kind of wedges off but without it looking too you know like we've cut into it you just want to cut little bits off and this will just make it easier for our lid to fit on so I'm going in just from the very very top because I didn't give you that one sixteenth measurement on the lid because a lot of people find it confusing but you can see I've just taken tiny bits out without it compromising the the overall look really so just enough and this will be that kind of one sixteenth measurement that's that one just a very small amount you might find your lid fits but it doesn't always and you don't want it to start to buckle or damage your card stock so it's only some you might want to do just do on one side you may have stuck your card slightly wonky so at least this way you can kind of even it out there we go that'll do okay and then just bring it up and you want your hearts to go in against the side where there's least bulk so I've got the bulkiness of my card and the butterflies so I'm going to bring this one in here because even when I do stick down what goes there it's not bulky at all and you'll just see it allows yeah just gives it more space so you can see how it all sits in make sure it's all nice and tight together and then with your lid because you've taken off all those edges your lid will now have a real nice snug because you want it to hold it in place because there's lots you know there may be obviously something quite heavy in there but can you see now how that all fits in and then lift the lid and out pops this loveliness and your bath bomb or whatever gift it is you have because you don't have to put that platform in there you might have another gift and then you might have a mini birthday cake there's so many different you know options and ways to use this but again the more you use it and the more you open and close it the easier you know this will kind of all stay in place but just make sure that they do all sit in there quite comfortably and then like I said it all closes up and fits down and you want it to be snug that's why you just need to take away just keep cutting away little slithers from the side but not enough that it's going to you know ruin your design and your border but you can see there just the very very tiny bits have taken off and that's enough for you to get that really nice tight lid closure which I've got on both of these so again lift them off there we go and that is what I hadn't stuck down on the other one so just this one here with the circle which is from those again free downloads but there you have it keep the lid there so you can see it how cute are those any occasion wedding birthdays engagements and then valentines so I hope you've enjoyed this look at the color of that green that it's bringing out there and then it goes that pink I love love the holographic mirrored card stock thing is so fun but there you go hope you've enjoyed it if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks 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