 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Brown thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got another fun card for this year's series and this is a record card so the idea for this has actually come from Angela who's also on the design team for Trimcraft. She made this quite a few years ago I think she shared one of her you know on Facebook when it like you can share stuff that you've made years ago memory things come up and she shared one of those and I asked her oh my god that's brilliant would you mind if I done my version and she very kindly said yes. So this is what I've done so you have this six by six envelope but slightly it's six in width but it's slightly higher just because of this little vellum kind of sleeve that I've made for the record so you just pull out your record and then I don't know how well it's picking up but can you see all the lines I've created those using my gel pen and then I've got this record card and then inside you can write your message and it's got a little flat piece on the back there which I do on my any circle cards I've done them on the easel cards it just means it will keep the base straight so it kind of lands the back of it so it doesn't roll but how cute's that so for any music lovers you have in your family and I just thought it was so cute and I also did play around with a CD as well can you see the acetate in the middle here haven't decorated it I've been playing around with that one but it will work so much better with the holographic cardstock but I am out of it and I brought all the rose gold and totally forgot about the holographic so I need to order some more so if you want to do the CD I think it's going to look brilliant it will be exactly the same way as I do this except in between like here you'll see this is this kind of black I guess figure of eight is done separately and joined there and then this is another separate piece of black on top so in between the two black pieces there you would put a piece of acetate or window sheet to make it look like that center of a CD but otherwise yeah just do it exactly the same way but get the holographic because it looks so good and you can see the holographic in these tiles and these are the metallic letter tiles by Dovecraft so I've used those and I'll be using them again today but that's in the cardstock which I used a few like months back I've just yeah it's amazing then for the birthday I've used the birthday words this is the bright rosa collection range and I've used the birthday there really like that and I've just popped it on some foam as well so I die cut it in the holographic and then I die cut it in some foam and then the music notes I cut from my cricket and then yeah it's it's pretty straightforward but I think it looks really cool and I love all these little extras so I just think what a nice little gift so it's really easy to personalize as well the paper packs I've used this is the paper addicts weaver forever because it had the good vibes so I thought that looked really good on the envelope and then for this one I've just pulled out this one here the bunting for the envelope and for the middle I've got this piece here for the middle of that one I used the polka dots so yeah let me show you how to make it okay so for the envelope you have to make your own envelope so I've used the envelope punch board and you will want to follow the one for a six by six which is nine and a half by nine and a half but I do extend the score line on one side and I'll show you that at the end when we get to it but that's what I've used to make my envelope and I'll link this in the description box below so that's my piece of nine and a half by nine and a half for my envelope then for the actual card itself this is just my a4 length which is 11 and three quarters so if you're using 11 then you will just have a shorter you'll have a smaller circle you can make this any size you want once you see what I'm doing so you can use your 11 inch but you'll have a smaller circle so this is the default length 12 inches is fine then score at six and fold in half with this one here you want to score at five and seven eighths of an inch along the long side and fold in half and that will give you this five and seven eighths by five and seven eighths squared piece so this is what we're going to cut the main case or card from then you want a piece of I've just done these at six by six it's just a couple more circles from so that's to write our message inside which is six by six this is another circle that we will actually have the record on so all the detail the decoration will be on this and again I've just cut it to six by six but you'll cut that down and then for your sleeve this is again the length of a4 this is my vellum and then I've just scored five and seven eighths again yeah so then you have a piece of five and seven eighths by five and seven eighths like this so again it's almost like a card side folding card but we're going to run some tape along the two sides there just so we've got a little pocket so that's really straightforward to do okay so I'm going to be using again my trusty x cut circle cutter I will link this there's a few other companies now that have started doing them I know Hobbycraft have them as well but I will link where I get this one from below but I know so many of you have it now if you don't then you want something that's going to be you know five and a half to six inches in diameter well no just below six inches because this is six so yeah five and three quarters is where I'm setting this one I've just got my dial there at five and three quarters which is about 14 just over 14 and a half centimeters now what you want to do with this just take the back off is you want your folded piece okay so you want to have your fold at the top so you've got a top folding card your blade here you want to make sure comes off the top so use your mat or something below to keep everything nice and straight but my blade here I'm not going to have on the top it's going to start cutting off the mat because we want to keep it connected so you see I've got about one inch of this piece here connected so I have card if you don't do that then yeah and you let me do it and then I'll tell you kind of roughly how high I do it because it's a hard one to really gauge but if you're using say for example this is a plate you want your plate to come off like that you see it comes off the top and then start cutting or draw your pencil and then cut with scissors okay you want to you want to make sure you've got about one to one and a half inches joint okay so I'm just going to fill my blade and start there and then just I hover this first just to make sure I can feel it cutting on the card and that it doesn't go over the edge I think I'm going to just shift it across a little bit there yep I'm happy with that so then I'm just going to cut this so I've got even more joined there but it doesn't matter but you want to have this kind of number eight okay then whilst I've got it set at that size I'm going to cut now a whole circle so you don't need to come off the square but again you want to make sure that you're within within your circle you want to cut your square as bigger to start with you can do you don't have to have them as six by six you can have them seven by seven so now that is going to go over the top of that so I have my record a full circle but then inside it's connected but from the front and you should just have see where we've got the overhang all right then with this one here because that's for my message I'm going to reduce this down to five and a half so you just want a slightly smaller circle and the only reason I done it is just so it creates a frame so I've just dropped down a size and you can see I've got that black frame I just thought it just finished it a little bit nicer so then again I'm just going to sit that down so it's just kind of planning really all of your circles getting them already once you've done it you just stick them together so it's very quick and it's exactly the same as the shaker cards that I've done they look really good as well I'll link those in because if you like this kind of circle style card you'll probably like them as well so the reason that's stuck there go so now that one will go inside but what you'll need to do is probably trim a little bit off the top where you've got that flat piece so if you just lie it down so you have a nice frame ignore the line there where it folds make sure you get the circle just bang on and then I'm just going to grab my pencil and I'm just going to come down just below the score line you know so I'm creating the same kind of frame and then just with my trimmer I'm just going to join those two pencil marks up like so and then I can stick that in there there we go all right so you get a nice neat inside and then we'll be cutting a hole through that in the minutes okay so next what you want to do is stick that down right over the top okay make sure you follow it around the bottom because you want that to hang over the edge now because you have that hanging that piece hanging over I would add your glue onto this piece here and then stick that on top so I'm just going to run my callow glue over this again this dries really stiff so it's great for again adding strength to your cards if you're using maybe you know a light card stock this black one isn't particularly heavy I reckon it's about 160 so by adding this glue and by doubling up my layers anyway it does then become you see how much stronger this is now that's more like a 300 gsm feel to it so just going to stick that one down there and then while that one's drying I'm going to stick this one inside okay then I've gone and die cut this piece here and this is roughly you want something it's entirely up to you to be honest this is two and a half in diameter okay so I've chosen that and that's going to go in the center and then we're going to cut through all of this so what I would say is if you because you're going to cut through bit by bit so I'm going to stick this one down first of all so you want to make sure you get this I open that up and just line up this along my grid then I know that that circles the right way up and then I'm just going to pop this down and get it as centered as possible and then open it all back up again okay then I've got this glitter gel pen I'm just going to create all of these glittery rings here just to you know just made it look a little bit more authentic now the easiest way to do this is just using your dies so I've just got loads of different dies here you kind of just want to work your way out now mine are all different kind of like you know mine are all spaced differently because when you look on a record some songs are longer than others you know you'll have they're not all the same so I'm just going to pop this in here and what I'm going to do is draw on the inside around it and then I'll draw on the other side of it and then just kind of keep working out with different sized circle dies until you've kind of you're happy and you've covered it again it's completely optional you don't have to do this and you may well be decorating yours very differently but I just thought it added something to it so I'm just going to go and do all of that okay so now you can see all of those rings and because you've got the gel pen it's just I don't know the way the glitter catches I think it looks really cool so now what you want to do is die cut a very small circle through the middle and I would say what you want to do first of all is go through the top kind of go through the front first and then we'll go through the back so I'm going to just use some of my tape here and pop that there you may have to add a shim because obviously it's quite thick depends on what card you're using but I'm just going to run that through my die machine okay and then just peel that off and I'm using my big shot so it does cut through that really well and just kind of smooth that off but there you've got the center and then if you grab a pencil and just draw around the inside like so and with the same die just line that up over the top and I'm just going to pop some tape and I'm going to run that through okay and again just carefully peel that all off and there you have your record so now you just need to decorate it so I'm going to bring in all of these pieces here so I'm going to decorate it exactly the same way what I would say is open it up line up these here through a line so you know everything straight and then you know that this is the bottom here and not like here or somewhere because you don't want it to be a bit wonky but I'm going to do pretty much exactly the same setup because I really like the way that one looked and I love these tiles and they're really cheap they're not very expensive at all so again I'll link them below because you get 150 I think it is in the pack so I'm going to do that and then I've got a different color music notes and stuff here so again I like the way they are so I'm going to copy exactly the same way something like that so I'm going to stick this down and then afterwards I'll show you how I did the envelope okay so there's my record all finished and decorated so next you want to make your little sleeve so that's that piece of lm so it was six and a quarter by five and seven eighths of an inch and I'm just going to run some thin red tape because the red tape is really good at kind of well it doesn't completely disappear on the bell end but it certainly doesn't show up as much as others this is very thin as well you do want a thin tape so obviously if you go in too far you won't actually fit this inside so again once you see what I'm doing you can easily you know change this up if you want to and you don't even have to do it it was just a little extra but I thought it looked quite nice I'm just going to run two strips up each side and then very carefully just kind of tack it to the each end and then just roll it up like so and then again just go over and make sure that's all stuck down there you have it so it just fits me using that tape so you do have to yeah make sure you've got a thin tape for that to fit but like I said you might want to make it wider and then in that if that's the case you'll then want to make your envelope bigger so now on to the envelope so for anybody that doesn't know what this is it's the envelope punch board and it is something you need in your stash if you make cards because this is what will allow you to make any size envelope you want so like I said I'm following the six by six card size it tells you you need one piece of nine and a half by nine and a half and your first score line needs to be at four and three quarters you pop the card in line this up at four and three quarters punch and score okay and under here there's this score line that you follow what I then like to do is rotate the whole thing and then go back in at four and three quarters punch and score and then I'm just going to line up these score lines with the score guide there which is this bit that sticks out punch and score and then the opposite side again punch and score and then because I have this vellum is obviously longer than it is higher I need to make where so just my pattern purpose is bunting so I'm going to have it like that so that's going to be the top this one here if I fold that one down first I'm just going to pop it in here and line it up with any score line track it doesn't matter as long as it lines up and then I'm just going to score another score line up from that so what I've created is two score lines so there's the initial first one that inner one but then I've done another one and I'm just going to burnish that and that's the one that I'm going to use now to fold the top of the envelope so I've just basically just adapted it slightly rather than doing a six and a half by six which would be a piece of 10 by 10 by just doing that extra score line it gives you that little bit of height to enable me to fit that in so then you just fold in your sides and your base my ring seems to be stretching there and that one there and then I'm going to use some thin double-sided tape here and I'm going to run this is the bottom so just run a piece along both sides like so folding your two sides and then bring up the bottom all right and that's it and then I've got this piece here which was two by four and it was just so I could write the person's name rather than writing directly onto that pattern paper I'm just going to stick that in the middle so now you have a lovely matching envelope open it up to reveal this cool little pocket or sleeve and then inside you have this fun record card you've got lots of room to write inside but there you have it two really fun cards I absolutely love these I just think they're so fun the perfect personalize you can have someone's name on this and do anything with them and I think they're really fun so I hope you've enjoyed it if you have please give me a thumbs up and remember to subscribe to the channel so you get to see not only the rest of the creative card series but also all my other future tutorials thanks for watching bye