 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. It's Wednesday so that means it's a hobby based monthly kit tutorial and this one is a really cool loaded gift tag and I've called it my loaded gift tag because it is loaded and it's got all kinds of little bits and pieces going on so this is actually a shaker, of course it would be a shaker it's my favourite thing to make so there's little easter eggs inside that little window. I've got heat embossing and Winkastella with this little easter egg here, I've got this embellishment which is a brad, I've got this tiny little rose here which I've dyed, I've done a fussy cut of a little chicken and then it's got this little top here and then I've put my ribbon through and then on the back you can just write your message, you can stamp it there as well once I've stuck it down I thought oh I could have stamped that so yeah you can obviously put another little sentiment there on the back but aren't they adorable, I absolutely have really thoroughly enjoyed making these. I've zoomed in quite far today just so that you can see in a bit more detail because it's quite a small project as you can see with my hand there, my hands look huge. The amount of mess I made making this gift tag, why is it such a small little thing yet my craft room is like a bomb has exploded and there was literally stuff everywhere because I think because I've done heat embossing obviously a shaker card, fussy cutting, I've done ink dyeing so you think of all the things that we use obviously to do those bits and pieces so yeah it's a bit of a bit of a mess in a minute. So I've done most of the preparation so again just to keep this video as short as possible but I'm going to go through now and show you all these things and yeah I just absolutely love this, it's such a, oh love it, cute, anyway right so you are going to need to die cut two pieces of white card or any color card really depending on what theme you're doing because this is obviously using the supplies that were in this much the march kit which is obviously got much an Easter theme about it so although the papers those papers aren't particularly Eastery some of them are which I've used in the first tutorial was it last week's tutorial I can't remember anyway I'll share the links to those bits and pieces but you need two pieces here now I've die cut these using my rectangle nest dies but let me just give you the measurements if you don't have them you can just cut this on your trimmer it's four and one eighth of an inch by two and three quarters okay so you want two pieces in a good card so put one's going to be on the front one's going to be on the back and then on top of that you also want to do the paper so this was a sheet of six by six that came in the pack and I'm going to get this one cut with my so I'm just looking around amongst all this mess and I think I'll put them away yeah so I'm just going to run this through my machine and I think it was that one there yeah so that's the one that I use it's just this nest here of all these different sizes okay so let me just trim off so I can get two tags from this one piece of six by six so that's always good I'm just going to bring in my little machine here and just get that one die cut so that one is now we'll cut out just save that bit there because I can go in my scrap drawer okay um right now we need to die cut the little window here for our um shaker card so if I bring it up you can see I've got this white um frame and then the pattern paper and that's just by using two different um circle dies to do so so the largest one is going on my pattern paper so the top piece then the smaller one goes on your background so first of all do this one so just position it where you want you might want it in the middle at the top whatever so I'm just going to put mine kind of there like so did I bring my washi tape I've left it over the other side okay I should be able to just hold it in place let me just pop this down so yeah get it lined up where you want that's about right and just run that through your machine so you'll have that keep this you're going to be using that shortly then with your one of the pieces of white card sit this perfectly over the top because they will obviously match up exact because they were cut from the same die like so and then I'm just going to lightly draw around this the pencil okay and then with the smaller die you want to pop it in the middle again get it nice and centered let me just pop it back on my plate like so and again just run that through your die machine so again keep that white piece as well so now we've got that we need to rub out the pencil mark so I'll do that in a sec I'm going to find where my rubber is okay so what we can do now is stick this piece over the top like so you're not really going to see that rubber yeah the pencil you do kind of see it's fine I can get rid of that so just want to stick that one on top perfectly like so use my wet glue there just so I can kind of wiggle it around make sure I'm happy with where it sits okay so you can see now that's just stuck down perfectly flip it over and we're going to add some acetate onto the back so I've got this acetate which is from the case that the bunny die came in in the kit so if you for those of you that watched the unboxing or maybe the first tutorial I said keep the plastic from the packaging because it was in perfect condition and you can use this as your window sheets and to make shaker cards so I've used it I've cleaned it up I just rubbed it over with a little bit of surgical spirit just to give that a really nice shine you can see that's perfect so I'm just cutting a rough square here I'll give you a measurement you just want it to be able to sit over the top of your circle on the back there and this is two by two will be fine mine's two and a quarter two and a quarter but two by two will be okay so um or maybe do two and a quarter by two and a quarter actually because I'm just thinking by the time you run some red tape around the edges it might you might run the risk of it coming into that circle face which obviously you don't want so do two and a quarter by two and a quarter and then you know it would be okay and basically you just want to run some red tape just along the very outer edge of this piece of acetate like so okay so just do that on all four sides and then just take off all of your backing there okay and then you just want to sit that on the back obviously make sure you've got nothing stuck to it although you can wipe the front when we turn it the other way around but there you go so now you've got that backing you've got a nice little window there looks like the window of a boat something the side of a cruise line or a ship that's a good idea for any cards or anything with that kind of theme that you want to use okay so now we can do the shake I'm just thinking okay so what I've done because I think I've not gone through the measurements and everything at the beginning like I usually do just because it's well I just haven't I don't know why I didn't anyway right I have die cut one two three four five six seven I guess it's entirely up to you seven of these tiny little eggs and now these ones come from the dies that came in the kit and this says happy easter and there's this little easter egg here so I just die cut that now what I've done is to get this color is I've just used an ink pad a red ink pad rubbed it over my flame white card like so and it's given me that and then I just die cut my little eggs through it okay because what I'm going to be doing and showing you later is these little flowers here I just bring them up and I've covered them with Winkastella they have been dyed I've dyed them that color using my ink pads because these are what we received so we received purple and some yellow but that's a slightly different yellow to the yellow that we got but I wanted to do these different colored themes so this one here that that flower there it's got this turquoise color it was purple it was this one here okay so it's just showing you how you know sometimes you might think oh I wish I had it in that color you can change these things up they're only paper so they absorb pigment really really easily so just other ways to make your kind of products go further so I wanted to have the bread theme for this card or it's like a ready pinky color so I've colored this one here in the same ink that I rubbed on here so now I know that my eggs match my flower and then I've also stamped um one two three four five of these Easter eggs and these are from the stamp set that we received so let me just grab this one here is what we received in the kit oops trying to put it so you see the back and it's this Easter egg here at the very top right hand side okay so I stamped them in the same ready pinky color that I used and then these little bits that have come out of these eggs are just all these bits here and I'm using these to put inside my shaker so all these little bits here that are shaking and moving around that is how I got them so you know you don't have to worry about having sequins or any other kind of you know embellishments like that you can make your own so um you know it's it's a long-winded project I guess it's a lot of work just for that little tag but sometimes if you just have a really special gift tag you can just wrap a present really kind of plain and then it can all be about the beautiful gift tag or imagine that hanging on the side of just a plain gift bag you know that's just as nice so what I'm going to do so I've got all my bits to go inside my little window here so now we need to prepare um but before we turn it over and put that in I want to do the little um kind of bit here at the top so I said to keep hold of that circle okay so all you want to do is fold it in half obviously if you've got any pattern like directional pattern make sure you have it facing the right way and then all you're going to do is just cut it in half like so okay and this is going to be stuck behind that one like so and then also what I want to do is um with this little gosh throwing things with this whole punch here I'm just going to cut um punch out this circle like so there we go okay and then again I'm going to cut this just not quite in half just a little bit more than half okay you can see what I'm cutting there okay and then basically I'm going to sit that under under over the top like so okay so I'm just going to grab a little bit of my glue here and just stick that down like so okay you want to just run just move that back a bit there we go and then you just want to run a very thin amount of glue along the bottom there and then that is going to stick bearing in mind this is going to be sandwiched between the foam in a bit when we put together our shaker but you just want to line that up so you get it now I flip it over and we can start um doing the foam part so I'm doing my good old trick here where you add your foam to grease proof paper or um wax paper it just makes it a lot more manageable so this was the thickness this was my um foam and I went along and just stuck it down on the grease proof or whatever baking paper and um or wax paper sorry and then I've layered it up then I took the top um uh of my tape off and then I stuck it on top again so you can see there there is two two layers of that foam backing and then I've cut it with my scissors perfectly so I don't get any goo or anything on my scissors that's why I do this and then I've got this thin piece and now this is perfect for me to be able to do my shake a bit so I'm just going to take off the backing here and then I'm going to come away by about I'd say just under about one eighth of an inch you don't want to go right up to the circle but now I can just start turning this don't worry if the backing on the top is starting to crinkle because once we peel it off it will be fine and just go all the way around the circle and this is to stop all our little bits falling out okay and then once you get to the very end you want to make sure that you've got it touching like so and then keeping the parchment down you're putting your scissors over the parchment and that will stop your scissors getting all yucky and then just cut that away and then what you can do is just push that bit in so if I just bring that up there you can see what I've done okay and then when I peel off that backing that'd be a nice circle of foam okay then all we need to do is with the rest of the backing although now I'm going to use the thicker piece here is just to raise up the rest of the actually let me just trim that off so it's nice and straight and then you can just run a piece along the top like so okay again just cut it away using making sure your scissors are over the paper and then again take it off this very strong tape and then run I'm going to run two bits along the bottom here like so okay so now we just easily make sure that's not coming over the side no you just want to make sure none of your foam is coming over the edges there and that is that bit now I'm going to pop all my little shaker bits in here so I want to turn them all over like so they won't turn back around because there's not enough room it's not that deep so they wouldn't be able to flip over um but I'm going to put a few underneath as well and they do all move around maybe I've got more than I need in this one but it can be a fuller one and then we just need to remove the backing here this one here and just grab there we go and it just comes around and you can see if I just bring this up carefully how that all looks okay then you want to grab your plain other white piece obviously if you want to stamp now do so if you want to decorate this even more you can and then I'd start I'm lifting it up so I'm starting with this top part first and making sure that that is perfectly lined up and then once I'm happy that's in place with my finger and my thumb I can feel the bottom piece of card so I know it's all lined up because you don't want it over hanging on one side more than the other just make sure that's all stuck down obviously make sure that circle's secure because you don't want your bits falling out and now you can see all the bits inside moving around and they do they all move really freely which is great and they do all kind of come over each other and stuff but there you go that's just one element of it now we can do what are the next bit oh let me show you so we also received these in the kit and I'm going to be completely honest I wasn't blown away with them they want really my cup of tea just in terms of the colors but I thought there's got to be a way to change these and there is because they are brads you can see what I've done here and this is like iridescent so when you move it around it's all pearlized it's lovely it catches all different colors so basically if you just on the back of them here you can see the little split pins just take it out and you can literally take off all the layers so I just took off two of these bigger yellow ones and then I just created different and now look at that one it's a lovely little yellow one it looks almost like it's got like a sunflower look about it you've got this one here now so they're more for me now I can use them more and also you can change the middle brad if you've got more brads like I have I've got loads so now I've got these and I've got a great big thing of brads here and you can just now add any color so because I'm using quite a that deep reddy pinky color I need to painfully try and add them again perfect and it's got glitter in it which is what I want because I'm going to be adding winkestella to pretty much everything I can just push that through let me just I need to make the yeah I'm just going to poke through my scissors they're going to make that hole a little bit bigger and then that will just go right the way through and it completely just transforms just move it around a bit there how lovely is that so then I'm going to open that up and then I'll be glue gunning this I'll just like stuck that done that this is when I've got a dodgy what the hell it's like it's not opening this must be typical the one that I want right well I'm not wasting it because it's just going to be glue gun I'm just going to fold it over one way it should split apart but it's secure basically now that is going to sit down the bottom here once we've got that kind of little cluster of all these little bits and pieces so that was another little top tip so when you get things like this you know take them apart play around with them make them work for you and you know your style and stuff um so I've got my flower so I've told you what I've done there and what I might do is I'm going to show quickly as well because I think some of you will like that um so I'm going to use another one here and I might I'm going to do the red because I'm going to use two so I'm going to I've only got the one there but I'm going to put two on this one just so it's it's not getting wasted so basically I've just got my perspex block here and I've already inked it up and I literally just got my ink and just dabbed it on top and then I've got um just one of these brushes here and basically just pick up you don't want too much water because like I said they are papers they will absorb it but if I just ink it up there and literally just paint over it it's as simple as that and then I just blasted it with my heat gun and and then just literally doused it with the winkestella and um yeah it's just another way to just transform things so if you've got lots of dry flowers or particular colors obviously if it's really really dark flower then you're not going to be able to put yellow on it but if it's light in color or if you see any in the shops and you think I know they're never the color I like but if they're light buy them and just you know spend an afternoon changing the colors on them but like I said don't go really really heavy with the water side of it um you don't need but you do want to dilute it down a little bit because it just it just means you can cover it much much quicker um yeah so that is how you do that so again another hopefully another good little tip okay so that's now all colored so again if I just bring that up there we go you can see it better now you would never have thought that that was one of those purple flowers so I'm just going to give that a quick blast okay and I've just got my winkestella here and literally oh gosh cover that too much just literally go over it again your brush may pick up some of the color but I did just uh go through and um dry this off so it should be okay but these are clear ones do sometimes pick up some of the pigment but it just brings a really nice can you see it catching the light there it's just got a lovely little shimmer to it now so there you go so that's how you can change your paper flowers now let me just get rid of this messy messy stuff right where are we so let's cut off this metal here so I'm just grabbing my old scissors just removing like so so I've got my two little flowers ready um I've got the flower ready which I've showed you then I just stamped this little chick which is the chick in this stamp here so I just stamped the whole thing and then I just cut him out separately I just liked it and I've done it again in that same color um so now we need to do the egg so the egg is done by using um some in bottom powder so you will have received if you received last month's kit which was the February kit you got the shampoo as well embossing powder and I did say I think it was either last week's project um you can use that if you've got white use white um but that one will work as well um so I've just got some of my um embossing powder here and just going to rub my anti-static powder over and then I'm using the Easter egg stamp which also came in the kit and that is this little one here okay so it had the cheap cheap attached to it I just cut it but it's that one that we're using it's just a really nice Easter egg so I'm just going to ink that up stamp that down there is yep just make just done it there and then I'm going to scrap mine over here and then just rub this it's like a creamy powder this one is didn't quite all go in but most of it is but there you go you can see that egg there go it's now covered with the powder so I'm just and then I'm just going to heat set that there you go you can see now that that's all set and now we're going to color it in exactly the same way that I did with my um little doily kind of hanging decoration that I done um so it's exactly the same um way so I've just got that again that same block I'm just going to grab my ink just ink up some more on my block there there we go nice and vibrant and again you don't want to go too heavy with the water I mean it's not really going to matter if this warps because you can just run it through your dye machine and we're going to fussy cut it it's quite a small piece um but I'm just again putting my brush in there and when you rub the brush over it will resist against the embossing um powder so you will just see the um the white coming through and you'll get a really nice egg so exactly the same I just used the yellow last time which came in this kit so a really nice dandelion yellow um but I used it last time so I wanted to do some different colors this time um you can see there I'm just going straight over and you can see how that embossing powder lifts up through and then what we can do when it's dry is you just rub over it with a very very slightly damp piece of tissue um and it will just swipe away to be honest I don't think I'll need to so I think this is all just coming off itself now if you want to go over a bit darker just pick up more of that color but I'm going to be rubbing over some wincastella again I said I coated this card in wincastella um again it's just ways to make this kit go a lot further you can do so many things with the product in it so um and make your project projects match as well I mean you know that was the paper in the packs you know and I just picked out a color that I had and I've this is the same color here from the paper this bit here which would be doing so like I said just really kind of start to think out of the box and other ways that you can use your bits and pieces but now if I just bring that up you can see where it's resisted against the um embossing powder and you've got a really cool image so now I'm going to fussy cut that one out so I've just got my snips here cut away all this bulky hard and then just go around neatly and I'm just I mean it's already got a white border from the edge of the um the egg stamp so I'm kind of just following that really and yeah just get that cut okay so just quickly heat set that a bit more just to dry off any of that oh what's that just left from my uh I'm going to go over that again that was a bit of a annoyance obviously got something on my tweezers that's going to stay there now isn't it it's not even going to budge oh well we'll have to cover it with something oh I can cover it with the other flower right so that's that done and then we just need the again my winged stela so you can see I've got a little bit of pink on there so I need to clean that off and literally I just covered colored in all of the little circles on the stamp and again I don't know how well this is picking up in the camera I'll show you in a second again give that time to dry a bit if I just bring that up can you see how it's catching the light there now it's so sparkly so there you go really cool little um detail then I need to do my sentiments a little um stamp which is from this stamp set here by Lindsay Mason designs and just get this one take it off there so again I'm going to stamp this with the same color that I've used for everything else um going to make sure that's straight it's got a little okay and then I've just got a tiny little rectangle die here obviously you can cut it out by hand just trim off some of that there we've got our nice little image and then I'm going to stick it on to here anywhere and then I'm going to freehand I'm going to cut around that so I'm just going to use some of my red tape here and then I'll mount the final piece on um some foam just to lift it that's what I've done there it's just kind of lifted it off so again just stick that doesn't have to be dead straight because now we're going to cut it I'm going to use my big scissors so I can get one nice cut and just follow that white line like so again it's just to let that sentiment kind of pop and be seen like so okay so there you go I've got a nice little sentiment now so now we just need to start assembling it all which I was finding the fun bit so and I always like to prepare everything because then I can play around and decide whether I'm happy with it being there because already now I want to cover up that horrible little mark um so let me grab I'm going to snip off a little bit of this tape to put my sentiment on so that can go on but my actually right above that circle and just in the middle like so okay um then start playing around where we want this I think I'm going to have one flower there yeah to cover that up then the others can be the same as before so it's going to kind of be like that isn't that sweet so I've got my hop gun on because this is obviously this plastic and I want to make sure it's going to stick really securely so that one is going to be just kind of sitting just over the plastic there then this one just going to use the hot glue that one is just going to sit there like so these ones I've got some foam on the back so I'm just going to use some okay now we just need to hold punch up here so just make sure it's in the center and just punch it through like so and then I've just got this similar pinky ribbon here and I'm just going to thread that through loop it through and just trim off and there you have it push all my mess out the way there is a gift tag and I think they are so cute let me just bring it up a little bit closer so you can see what I've done so we've got two cute little roses here that we've been dyed fussy cut little chicken this heat embossed egg with more glitter kind of a DIY flower there all these little die cuts nice sentiment and then a homemade tag which is a shaker tag so yeah that's my loaded tags and I'm really really pleased with them so they're going to look lovely now on the gift bags so yeah hope you've enjoyed this hobby base kit tutorial if you are interested in subscribing or just knowing more about the hobby base monthly kits all the links are shared below and I'll also add on to this video more of the projects that I've done and the unboxing video as well just so you can get an idea of what kind of comes from month to month it's always a complete surprise we never know what's coming in them which I like and as I've said before in tutorials it kind of forces you to maybe use things that you wouldn't and I like that I can kind of really kind of work out different ways to use things to make them suit my style and work for me really so yeah so I hope you've enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye