 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is a hobby-based kit tutorial and this week I've decided to combine lots of different kits and make up a card that way. So I'm using parts from January, February, last month. I think I've got something from pretty much everyone. So it was just quite fun. I just thought I've got all these bits. I keep them all together so I know what I'm working with. And yeah, I really like what I've come up with. So this is an envelope card or a loaded envelope card. And basically this piece here slides out so this is for you to write your message on. Now I haven't put any sentiments at all because I wasn't sure. I mean these would make lovely wedding cards or an announcement because you've got that lovely, you know, space there to be able to write something. Alternatively you can decorate that even more which is what I'm going to do today and then just keep the back for your message. So it just slides in the front there which is the little pocket or the envelope part I guess. Now the difference with this one that I've done is I've made a stand. So on the back there which goes completely flat so it fits in an envelope. I just, for me personally, I like a card that can stand up. If it's just flat or someone's got to prop it up somewhere, I don't know. I just think you make all these, you know, beautiful cards and you put lots of your time into them. They need to stand up so we really can appreciate them. So this one here's just got a little stand there and it sits up perfectly. If I just bring it up a bit closer there you can see it's just got so much shine to it. It really is lovely. It's the hobby based butterfly die. These are the V&A papers which from a couple of months back. It's the rose die. I've used the leaves. This is the dinky die from last month. Embellishments from a couple of months ago. This is the foiling that we received. I've used some of that. I'm going to use that again today. So yeah it was really nice and it's just another way to show you how you can mix up your kits and get it all matching. So one thing that is extra is this because I do have the 12 by 12 V&A collection myself. So I was able to match my envelope to the smaller 6 by 6 that we received in the kits. But any a plain envelope would be fine because although it's a 6 by 6 base because you've got this little piece here it does mean it won't fit in a normal 6 by 6 envelope. So this is on the envelope punch board. This is a 6.5 by 6. However if you didn't want to do that or you don't have the punch board or you don't have bigger paper to make envelopes what I would suggest and when we get to it I'll point it out but you can actually punch a semicircle here and have your kind of pull out piece kind of sat down deeper and you would pull it out. So actually it stays all within that 6 by 6 area. So there is a way to adapt it. Okay so I'm just going to pop that over there. So I'm going to use today I've got my for my card base I've just got a sheet of 12 by 12. This is just some of my own stash and you basically want to cut this in half at 6 inches. It's reinforced the whole 6 by 6 the back of it is two pieces of card sat on top of each other. So what we're going to do now is just do the back one bring in your scoreboard. You want to score at 6 inches. It seems to be just coming under ever so slightly I'm pulling mine out a little bit but you want to score along the 12 inch side at 6 inches. Grab your other piece again score at 6 inches make sure that's all correct okay and then fold both of them over like so and then what's going to happen is you're going to sit one piece over the back of another like so. So now you have this style okay and I've done similar before the gatefold drop down gatefold card that I've done with past products was like this. So once you've got them like that what we're going to do then is cut. So if you put a little pencil here because you won't see this pencil because it's all going to be stuck in but if you put across there and there so I put a cross down you can just see the bottom right corner of the left hand big square the outer square and then the other one is the outer right square and it's the bottom left there okay get rid of this again bring back in your trimmer and then what we're going to do is the side that's got the cross on you're going to score maybe if I do a pencil mark first just so that you can see. So you've got your cross down here this is the in the bottom left hand side of this particular one and you just want to do a pencil from the top left there down to the bottom right and then pop that through your trimmer. If you don't have a trimmer just cut along that line with your scissors so I'm just going to lie this in make sure the pencil mark is in the track there and start from always start when you if you're you want to end up with a point if I just bring that up a little bit more always start from the flat side so then you won't buckle your edge and you'll get a nice point there okay so that's one side now of that thing together keep that because you might want to use that to die cut the flowers which is what I've done for I'll show you here okay so to make sure the flowers matched this is what I die cut my bits and pieces from and then with the other one so this crosses on the left and it's in the bottom right hand corner there so again get your pencil and ruler and you're going to go from corner to corner again but this time it's the top right hand corner down to the bottom left and then again pop that in my trimmer so in this instance now I've got my point at the top so I will cut from the bottom up so okay so you can rub out the pencil marks if you want to but like I said you're not going to see them at all so now that is going to sit perfectly over the top and then that one and that one are going to go over but we're not going to stick those down yet all you want to do now is stick this piece onto there or that piece onto there it's entirely up to you if you've got one that's maybe cut a bit differently and you want to hide it then just decide that way but there's no right or wrong as to which one you want to stick down first so I'm going to grab my wet glue here and just okay so just line it all up and with my just go along and just spread out all that glue okay so that is now our card base okay so you can see now that pocket that's going to form okay sorry I didn't push record again so next you need a piece of five and a quarter by five and a quarter which is this piece here now we got six two pieces and sorry six pieces of six by six in the kit so this is one of the pieces left over you then want to cut it down the middle corner to corner now because this is a directional piece of paper I'm actually only going to be using the bottom right of this because I want it to obviously face upright so now when I sit that in there you get that nice quarter of an inch border around it there you can see it better if I there we go okay now if I was to use that piece in there you see now the patterns go in the other way which actually looking at it isn't a bad thing I could use it but me being me I don't I want to use so I've got another piece of the same card and I'm just going to trim it down because I don't I just cut it from six by six so I just need to trim it a bit more and pop it in that side so if you're using paper and it doesn't matter which way it's going then you'll just need one piece of six by six however like me if you do want to make sure that you've got it facing up then you'll need to cut two pieces of the six by six okay so I've just trimmed my other piece down so I've got one piece that's going on the front like so just move it around until you get your border equal and then that one will go underneath so you want to stick these down first before we actually stick the card together like so okay so I'm going to stick this one down first so now you want to stick whichever one over it's entirely up to you you could go left over right or right over left I'm going to stick with right over left and what I've done is just put a very light pencil mark just on the paper there and then you know that from that pencil mark down is where you can glue okay and then just fold that over and stick it all down and if you can see the pencil slightly then let's see just rub that piece out there okay so now you have this and then all you have to do is just pop a little bit of glue just inside at the bottom there if you want to run a little bit more along you can you can put tape in there beforehand but it's literally just to just to tack it in place because it's only got that very one you know thin piece of card that's going in it's just to stop it obviously dropping out the bottom but I mean you don't really have to fuff about with a strip of tape or anything like that there we go so now we've got the pocket so that's all done so now we will move on to the decoration and the card that's going to go inside okay so you're going to need a piece of five and a half by five and a half and this will sit nicely inside giving you that same border at the top that you have all over here okay and then what we're going to do is I'm going to cover this whole piece with this piece of foil transfer so again one of the kits two three months ago we received these crafters companion foil transfers and I've got this whole piece here and I'm going to sit it right over the top so it's going to come right over the edge and I think that's going to look really cool so like I said this one you won't write your message on the front it will be on the back and I'm probably going to mat it again with a white piece of card so I'm going to sit this over the top so what you do with these is there will be a backing so remove the backing so the clear piece you can discard or keep some people like to I've done it before put it on top of this just to help um it not maybe damage your cardstock underneath but it doesn't I don't find it really makes that much of a difference so just cover the whole area so I'm just making sure and it will have a low tack it's a bit like a masking tape just to keep it in place I just made sure I've got an even kind of overhang there on all four sides so that's that piece and then you get a lollipop stick inside and basically you just want to rub that over the whole thing and basically you're transferring the sticky image underneath onto the card under so I'm just rubbing over the whole thing you can just use your finger if you want the lollipop is what you need to use for the actual foil itself but it gives you a good pressure to make sure that it's all stuck down this way as well okay I don't know if that's picking it up you can just see oh there you go perfect so it's just transferred all of that sticky image onto the card so the key to this when you're using a large piece is really go over it doesn't matter how long you do it for until you are confident and now there's nothing sticky on that reverse side now that would make a nice window sheet so I'm going to keep that because that would be nice in a shaker card so um another way there to recycle bits and pieces as well make them last even longer so now that's all done I'm going to lift it up because it's got a little bit of tack on the corners flip this over so this foil doesn't stick to anything else I'm just going to it's okay and then we received this roll of gold but I'm working with silvers today but this is the gold and I've still got loads left so we've got a whole two meter roll there but I'm going to use my own stash and that's the silver so I've just got a couple of sheets of silver foil because I'm going to need two for this piece I'm going to stick one try and do half and half and it will stick can you see how it just sticks down so again you don't have to worry overlap that one slightly okay and then this is when you use your lollipop and just rub over it and it will you will see the transfer the image start to come through because basically you always lay your foil with the right side facing you so the silver facing you because this is actually a clear film over the top and the silver is all underneath and by doing that it means it it sticks on directly right way up it won't go the other way anyway so even if you put it in wrong and you can just see it just takes it's much easier this this next stage than the the first one making sure the image is actually all transferred and the foil will start to lift up because once that silver has transferred it's then just the plastic there's no stickiness because obviously that's all covered so it will just peel off a bit of this bit here before I lift it up make sure everything and you can go back into it so once we pull this off don't worry if you've missed it you can go back in again okay so I've just spent some time just going over rubbing that so I'm going to start from the bottom here first and you will see I just lift it up always transferred and like I said if you miss any bits don't worry we will go back into that like so now I've got a little line there so what I'm going to do is grab this piece here never stick the clear back over onto anything sticky because it will then stick down onto your paper it will onto your cardstock it will be yeah could ruin it I'm just going to go around there I'll just kind of pick up but I just bring that up there you see how cool that looks so now that whole piece and it's not sticky at all it's going to go inside here that what I'm going to do is where I was round off the corners of this so I've just got my corner around here so it's a gorgeous pattern do you love that really really do and then pop that in there like so you can see now you start to get a really cool effect so keep any bits like that that would work still for a nice strip but always discard those other bits and pieces there because you won't need them so next we need to do the tab and all of the flowers okay so I have dye cut five of these flowers which are the dinky dye and the X cut dinky dye that we received last month's kit I really like this flower and you can see there has got an impression on it which really did show up with the mirror card that I used on I think it was last week's or the week before and then the butterfly dye which is the hobby based precision dye I've just used and dye cut that twice and that came in one of the past kits as well so then I've got the sheet of my own mirror card here and just a two inch circle punch and I'm just going to punch out two circles there and they are going to be for my tab and I'm going to stick them together and like I said you can have one half over the front showing if you want but I'm going to have it I think hidden I don't know now I'm looking at it let's see when I get to that bit let's decorate it first so these are basically going like so and then they're going to have these big silver embellishments in the middle which again came with the kit so first of all want to get these all stuck down so start with the middle one and you're basically sticking it so that it overhangs half of the overhangs but it's actually sticking onto this card here you don't obviously want to make sure none of it sticks onto that bit there did this one go over the top or under under let's just pop that one there just so I can kind of follow I'm not too worried about all the bits in the middle because I'm covering it with the what you call it the the gem there pop that one in and it's all this decoration now that brings the card together so once I add those leaves in everything looks quite flat at the moment but once you start lifting it all up with the decoration that's what does it so that's those bits all together then I'm going to pop these on cut those ones there I'm going to pop some tombo again I don't trust the adhesive on a lot of these I like to put some more on and that way I know it's definitely not coming off okay so with that same mirror card I've just cut three bases so just the bottom part of the rose die that we again we received in past kits and then basically just trim off just the leaves and these are going to be what we just pop in underneath the flowers so 12 all together basically just as I've done with this one here is just kind of put them wherever really I'm going to try and mirror what I've already done and just get some tweezers just to lift up the edge because you've only popped the glue in the center and just feed it underneath like so and kind of move it until you're happy and just stick it down so just work your way around all of those flowers you can add even more if you want I mean I've just I think 12 is enough but by all means you know go to go to town with it it's entirely up to you okay so they are now all stuck down and you can see just it's just so shiny I love mirror card I think it looks brilliant in your paper crafts with your cards and stuff so anyway now we've got the two butterflies again if you want to do these in mirror card and have even more shine to your card go for it so I'm just lifting up the wings like I always do and pop a little bit on the body there and you're just going to literally sit this one directly over the top if you want to use different colors I just like to tie in whatever the color of that piece was so in that instance there I've got the cream with the cream there and then pop a bit of glue on the body and pop that one down now if you wanted to pop a sentiment I will recommend doing one here maybe have it coming out underneath the butterfly's wings and then have a flag tail at the end here or you could have a circle sentiment or something there as well so but it's all coming together nicely so now with this one I still haven't decided whether I'm going to do half and half now I'm going to stick it towards the back obviously you can put it over if you want but I'm going to sandwich these two together the bit of red tape I'm going to pop it quite high up because you're only having a little bit of this sticking out like so pull this out just make sure it's obviously in the middle I've got about half an inch showing and stick that one down also with this if you've got any bits that may have gone onto your card that you don't like just get a rough brush just like you would with your gilding flakes you can see a few little bits coming off there and it will just take off any excess that you may have okay so yeah so and now on the back obviously that looks nice there and then you put a white piece of card there if you want and obviously add your sentiment and now that can slide in and out really easily like so so now we just need to put our stand on and make the envelope so I've got a piece of card here which is seven and a half by four and you need to score this slightly different one to what I've done on there but I'm using the card I've got but it just shows that you can have all different ones so pop it along the seven and a half inch side and you want to score at three six six and a half and seven and then you're going to fold this one down the main one so you've got the two same pieces there then you're going to fold the one the next one under and the next score line over and the last score line under so this is your tab so you will have a tent and then a w shape underneath this piece here is what we're going to stick down I'm just going to well I've got this red tape here it's half an inch wide so I'll use a strip of that and then just make sure it all sticks down nice and flush and then the side that you've stuck is the side that you're going to stick to your card so the front there's nice and neat let's get rid of this so just go and burnish it again now it's all in its position again didn't even do it the first time I just thought it doesn't matter so now it's a nice crisp stand so like I said the side with the join is the side to add your glue so like so flip your card over and then you just want to make sure that this runs flush with the bottom of your card and as central as possible and just again get your bone folder there underneath okay so that's your stand all done and then it just will obviously kind of pop open anyway as it's taken out of its envelope an envelope in an envelope and and it does stand up there we go okay you can obviously just play around with that if you want to put more bling in there and stuff you can as well but yeah I think they're really different so now just to make your envelope so you need a piece of 10 by 10 and I've got my scoreboard here again because I've got that 12 by 12 paper pack I'm able to make matching envelopes um but yeah just check yeah 10 by 10 which is six by six and a half so the first score line is at four and three quarters so pop this one in grab a little score tool so what did I say it was four and three quarters so just line this up here at four and three quarters punch and I always flip mine right around the opposite side and do it as well and then you just want to line up the score line with this score tool here I do have a full tutorial as I always mention on how to use this um envelope punch board so just check that out um on my one of my playlists so that's that done and then I like to corner punch my edges and then just burnish all the score lines and then choose I'm gonna have this as my bottom so tape along these two inside smaller sides and you want to do it on the the bottom half of whatever side it is that you're sticking this one up okay stick that all down like so and then I always put another little bit up there and there's your envelope so I also did have a piece of card that had already prepared as well and this is four by three and that's just to stick over the top again just so that you can write who is two um if I was posting this I would put this inside a brown envelope again just because I like to protect the envelopes um so I only really literally need to put the person's name on this it's not like I've got to put their full address if you're just using the plain envelope anyway or plain paper it won't matter you won't need to do that so there you go so grab the envelope put it in that way this is the six and a half inch length that's the six inch and it all folds up nicely into our envelope so yeah I really like it it's really quite different it's got quite a a well factor again and they both stand up really nicely one two both with matching envelopes so there you go so this week is a mash-up of lots of different previous kits but I think it's a nice way to show off that you can mix them all together and still make really cool wacky things which is what I like to do so this is a nice shiny project for you hope you like it um if you are interested to sign up for the hobby base kit um the deadline now for the august kit has just passed that was the 21st so you've now got until the 21st of august to register for september's kit that seems really strange saying september I can't believe how quickly this year's going but there you go so um I'll share all the links to the hobby base club um in the video description below so um it will have all the information there for you and I have it all in my blog as well but until then please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today's tutorial and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye