 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today, this kicks off my Valentine's series 2020, this is my third Valentine's one now I believe, so this one's going to be a little bit different because by the time this goes up I would have already had a weekend away with my best girlfriends, so it was my birthday last Wednesday and what we've started to do now every year is we go away for my birthday because you can get such amazing cheap deals in January so that's one good thing about January, so yeah we go away and we are staying in a beautiful lodge, we've got a sauna, we've got a hot tub, everything is just going to be so good so what I've started to do now it's become a little thing that I like to do is I leave a little gift on every one of their bed sides, so there's six of us going and then myself says seven in total and they are my high school friends we've known each other for a long long time and so this series is going to kind of have maybe three, put yeah probably three projects are going to be things I've made for this weekend but I think because it's showing my love to my friends that's why I've included it into my Valentine's series, so these I've got five here and I'm going to do the sixth one with you on the video and these I really love these so what they are and I've done something similar before but much smaller and it's a gift and a card in one and this box I've made specifically to hold a small bottle of wine so here it is here so I've got they've got two reds two rosé and two whites so they can fight between themselves if they want to mix them up but I'll show you inside in a moment and then the card here so I've got best friends don't care if your house is clean they care if you have wine and then inside it says lucky to have a friend like you so I just yeah I just thought this would work really well for Valentine's but again you can use this for any occasion as with pretty much anything on my channel just change your papers and it will work for a lot of things and then I've done this fastening before I really like it but you just take and you know undo the string so I thought it was stuck then and then open up your lid and then you've got this one here's got a bottle of rosé oh that must be is that a rosé as well I don't know what I've got here anyway no white although it looks no it's definitely rosé anyway and it will hold that very comfortably um it's very strong and then again that just goes around so I've used the little cardstock and I've used the I can't remember the name of the pad I'll show you it in a moment so I've got a nice mixture of coloured paper and then the that paper pack works really well with these so if you've got the little cardstock it's that kind of lovely aqua kind of green we've got like a wine colour pink and then the two purples the light and the dark and then I've used silver cardstock to matte all of it just to give it a little bit of shine so let's get into the tutorial and I'll show you how to make them because they're very quick and easy to do okay so a few bits to go through with you but I will talk through that as and when did I need that piece I'm not sure um that's the stamp set I've used for the one inside so lucky to have a friend like you I know loads of you have this because it just kept selling so well when um dovecraft first released it and um it was only it's either $1.99 or $2.99 it's really inexpensive but it's probably one of my most used sentiment stamps so I've already done my one for the middle and then those funny ones where it says friend best friends don't care if your house is clean they care if you have wine it's from the making cards magazine it's the best friends march issue from 2018 I don't think you'll be able to get this one anymore but there may well be stamps available on their website so again I will link to it you know you can always maybe drop them a message and they might be able to help you for the big heart you'll see there's a large heart and then there's that decorative like geometric heart the large heart is just the outer one from the landmark occasions one this is the spectacular swirls by the card making magic and then the geometric one is from the bright rosa heartband and it's this one here okay so I've gone ahead and done that one and then that one and I've also taken this a chunk off the side but again I can talk you through that now for the cover I've used the herringbone technique and I've done a separate tutorial for this so if you want to do the same cover go up to this video here the reason I do this is it's a great one to do when you've got lots of scraps left so I didn't actually have any large sheets left from the paper pad because I'd used a lot to do obviously you know six of these but I had loads of scraps so it's always my go-to kind of pattern or thing to do when I've got scraps because now I've got hardly anything nearly everything's gone from the paper pack so I think that's you know it's a good way to get the most out of your papers so like I said check out that video it's a really popular one I know lots of people enjoy that okay so that was the oh yeah and then the little heart is in the centre of that card making magic one here that's the die that just goes in the middle then I've just cut them out just again just to add a little bit more decoration okay so we'll talk through all those mats and layers in a moment it's gonna you know won't be a particularly long video because I've done all of the prep for you beforehand so you want a piece that is 12 by seven and a half so it is a slightly bigger card it ends up being a five by seven and a half card rather than a five by seven just because that height is what I needed for the bottle so that's why you've got the seven and a half along the 12 inch side you want to score at five inches okay and then just fold and burnish so there is your card and then that section there is two inches wide and that's where we're going to stick the box okay so that's that one and then to make the box you want a piece of eleven and a half by eight and a half along the eight and a half side you want to score every two inch so two four six and eight and then along the eleven and a half you want to score it two and nine and a half so you'll have a two inch section and two inch section then you want to fold and burnish all of those score lines okay then we want to do a bit of cutting so it doesn't really matter top or the bottom I've got my half inch tab on the right hand side there so you're just going to cut up all of these to the first score line and this one here just remove completely and then you can just take a little wedge off of that one and come around here again cut up all of those so that one remove it completely take a wedge off and then just cut along those okay and then with this one here just add some glue on the tab and then fold that one over and fold that one over and it will lay down perfectly okay like so and then I always like to have the where the join is here that'd be the back because that's going to be the side there that we stick onto the card so this will be the bottom so the one at the front you want to be the last one that you stick down so I'm going to pop that one up and then you may want to cut a little bit off of the sides of these ones in fact I'll do that just before I stick it down so just cut it just means you don't get anything overhanging a little wedge off of both sides there and stick one in pop glue on that one stick that one and then lastly that one there so now you've got that nice tidy that glue off the base and there's three layers which is why it's really strong and it's good for these wine bottles but again any drink doesn't have to be alcoholic and any kind of gift I suspect there will be perfume bottles that will fit nicely into this as well okay then you want to add some mats to decorate and these are all the other bits here so I'm using the silver love this stuff and this is the one that I picked up from B&M very inexpensive you get 20 sheets I've got something stuck in there 20 sheets and yeah just love it okay so I've got here four no is it four no you only need three but I'd cut four that was right so I mean you could put one on the back if you want but the back's just completely plain so I'll leave that up to you so you want three pieces of one and three quarters by seven and a quarter and they're going to go one here one here and one here and then you want three pieces of pattern paper but I've only got two I think that's because I was struggling to find a scrap big enough so for this one you will want three but I think I'm going to just do it there and there because you're actually going to see the inside you're not really going to see the outer side so this one I'll see I might get just get a different pattern that's within that collection because like I said I've got a few bits of scrap but not much so this is one and a half by seven so I'm going to go and get those all stuck down okay so that's all stuck down I also did find a strip to put in there so I've done that one and also done this as well so this is for the top of the lid and this silver piece is one and three-quarter squared and then the pattern paper is one and a half squared so you can stick it down first if you want but what it is so the back where you've got nothing on so you'll stick down the front well sorry you stick the two sides we'd need to cut a little bit off them again actually so with the two sides just cut a little wedge off of each corner and then stick the front one and then the back one's going to be actually last because that's where the string will be coming over so this will stick on top of there but I find it easier to do this bit first so these are one-inch circles which I've just used my punch and I'm just going to poke a hole in the centre with centre as you can that just jumps sometimes I find if you don't lock this in it yeah I didn't lock it in that's all it is right okay and then I've got these brads these are the ones I get from the pound shop and they're they're 25p at the moment because their class is Christmas but they put them in every collection pretty much and then just open up the split pin so you just got it like so and then again open up that one like that it's a little bit off centre so I'll have that one on the top okay and then you want to grab some string so I've got this pink twine cut some off and you want your hot glue and you're just going to put a bead of hot glue you want to do quite a nice like dollop of it dollop you know just a nice blob you're going to pop the end of the twine string ribbon whatever it is you might use and just let that glue just sit just kind of hold it there for a minute because you want to keep some of the dimension of the glue so that the string can kind of go around in fact the top one doesn't matter as much so we'll stick that one down it's the bottom one where you wrap the glue around so you want to put it on the decorative piece okay so like so in the middle mine is off centre which is annoying but hey ho just shows I don't get everything spot on and then I'm going to grab my glue on the back of this piece and then stick that on there like so and then this one here you just want to put a blob of hot glue and this is the one you just want to kind of hold it there for a second so it keeps a little bit of that shape almost starts to set then we're going to stick it on here about an inch down from maybe it's more an inch and a half actually it's about there so I'm just going to let that start to set a little bit okay so I'm just going to pop it just there wherever you do it make sure if you're doing more than one that you know you're doing it the same on all of them now let that glue completely harden don't start wrapping that around while it might still be tacky otherwise it will end up sticking to it so that's that piece done then with this one here I've got this bit already so the silver is a piece of four and three quarters by seven and a quarter and then the piece on top is four and a half by seven and I've put some foam on this piece here so it's got a bit of dimension to it so I'm just going to stick this one down and you will have a nice even order make sure you're sticking it onto the front there of the card not this piece because it's all the same color it's easy to you know stick it on the wrong one stick it upside down or something like we've all done before okay so that's that piece and then so this is why I've cut a chunk off the side there because I want this to kind of be you know coming off the side there I just well for one it didn't quite fit it would have overhung anyway but I do like that look so I'm going to stick this one down out there need to come up a bit I think my camera's dropped so it seemed to be having to come up a bit high I need to check that out and then this one here I'm just going to run a little bit of glue just around that outer frame and then that one's going to be just there kind of overhanging and then I've gone and stamped and then I've just given it a little silver frame and put it on some foam again and then that one is just going to sit just across the two there so just drop that one down there and then I've got that little silver heart again I'm just going to have that one kind of over there and then I'm going to finish it with some sequins in a moment so next that's all dry now so we can I'll put the wine in at the end so just square that all off bring that around and just I wrap it around about three times like so and then trim it because that way you know that it's going to be enough and then on the back of this one here you just want to add your glue right to the edges obviously this is going to hold you know some heavier pieces and I'll put up my playlist to the other you know box and cards in one I think I've got about two others on my channel and you want to stick it down so that it hugs the very end of the the card there and then close it now if it catches a little bit which mine is I'll show you what you can do you can trim it in a minute so if you test it first you might want to stick this before you stick that on the front it you're taking such a small amount off it really won't matter but um once it all squares off it's fine but yeah I can afford to take a little bit off so I'll do that in a second while that's drying I'm going to stick this piece in trying not sure if I gave the measurements to but it's four and three quarters by seven and a quarter I'm going to stick that one down and you will have a lovely even border like so and then what I'm going to do because it's such a tiny a bit a tiny bit that needs to come off I'm just going to pop it in my trimmer so if you don't want to do this you know if you want to do this before you um stick your thing on I am taking the smallest amount off it's like not even well it is about a millimeter but it doesn't affect the border see and I'll show you there that's what I've just cut away but now it closes perfectly okay and then lastly I'm just going to finish off with a few sequins so I just like to put a blob always work in threes or an odd number one there one there and one there and then one there one there and one there and these are a mix really so some of them are like pearl you've got white I've got iridescent still white one there okay so there's the front decorated so now I can just undo that one and pop the last bottle of wine in I know a couple of them what they drink but some of the others they drink kind of anyone really so once I fill the cards out I will um and I'll decide then yeah they have it nice and strong holds that perfectly stands up really nicely so yeah a gift and a card in one I think it's such a nice idea okay so that's all six done and I'll just put my bottle of wine in my bag I'm not too worried about having a box and stuff made for myself it's uh it's the joy of giving it to someone else isn't it and seeing how they liked it and I know they liked the ones that I done in the summer when we went away so um I'm sure they're going to enjoy these ones so tune in for my next video which will be another thing that's going to kind of go with this so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial as always please give me a thumbs up if you have and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching bye