 Hi everybody it's Sam at MixUpCraft thank you for watching my tutorial today. Now usually I would upload my scrapbook layout but I wanted to do something a bit different and very special and something that I have a huge interest in. So today is November the 11th 2018 which is Remembrance Sunday and it's also the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. And I have these really beautiful World War One silks or silk postcards. Now these are very rare and something I've had for a while and they are beautiful and I thought I would share them and show you a way of making these because I've made a card. So these were made by the kind of local workers and refugees in Northern France and Belgium during you know World War One. They actually came about in the 1900s but they became very popular within the World War and the soldiers would buy them and send them home to their loved ones family friends. So these are very rare and I am so pleased I've been able to get these three. Like I said I brought these at a market and it was like an antiques market and I didn't pay too much for them but they are you know they are harder to find. Now basically this is a embroidery and you can see here and it's all with a silk thread it's an untwisted silk and for anybody that is interested in embroidery they the most common stitches were satin stitch, back stitch, running stitch and stem stitch. And you can just see the shine there that this still gives and the colors. I mean this is a hundred years old that I'm holding and you know for something to still be this well preserved. Now the beauty of these these were obviously a postcard and you can see here this one has been filled out this went to Mrs Philpot in Kent, England and inside is this beautiful little card so this says to my dear mother. So Mrs Philpot was his mum and this says my Christmas wishes and it is actually embossed so even 100 years ago we had embossing and there is still a very very slight little shimmer to it and then on the back they would sometimes write a note. Now these I'm I'm told from the person I brought them from are all from the same family so I know that this soldier was called Sid because on another one here is this one and I just find it really quite touching and emotional to know whether you know did this man survive you know just I'd love to have been able to find out more but unfortunately I won't be able to but this one here says with loving wishes Sid and again it's just a lovely little card there with all the flags and just look at all the little pretty little images you know even back then and the color again the colors are just so so vibrant so like I said these are very very delicate so I'm just going to pop that one back in there and that one didn't get filled out on the back and then this last one here is beautiful with these pansy flowers souvenir from Belgium and then this one here is really cute my heart's greetings and you can see there that lady and on the back here it says mother from Sid. So yeah so I just have these three and if I did ever see any more I would certainly look at snapping them up because it's a rare piece of history something that I'm interested in not only is it obviously to do with papercraft but yeah I just think it just kind of reminds us of how much just sending you know a postcard a card means to someone this was the only means of communication back then through postcards and letters and this was the lifeline for a lot of people you know they would you know be you know desperate to hear from their loved ones and these were the things that they would you know be receiving so that's just a little bit a little bit of a history just a few kind of you know bits that I know about it if you do want to find out there's lots of information on you know the internet and have a little look on like Amazon and eBay or private sellers and you can have a little bit you know more of a search because there's some amazing designs I mean these are beautiful anyway but have a look I mean yeah they're incredible so we're going to actually be making one of these today I've kind of done a version and also I just thought I'd show you because I was just going through some of my old stuff this is just a selection I've got loads but these are old postcards which is another thing I just love to collect there's a Christmas scene and this one here is from 1906 so again this is over a hundred years old but on the top here can you see if it's going to catch it that is all gold embossing to wish you a happy Christmas and I just love it I I can I just keep these all in a letter rack and I just pull them out sometimes and just look through them I mean that's an old Christmas one there they're not all filled out to Edwin from Jen wishing you a merry many happy returns of the day so that's a brother on his birthday and again they've they've all got this one's an Easter one I just think yeah and that actually says a joyful eager tide Easter tide Easter tide of course eager tide I don't know about her first duty I mean look at that that's just yeah so this was just something that I these are really old very very old postcards this one here is 1908 so again that's a hundred years old in December actually December the 24th wishing you a happy Christmas and bright new year from Mr and Mrs H Dunstall East York I believe ross just a miss grace something I can't quite read it all but anyway I have lots of these and I find them in charity shops and all sorts of stuff so that was just yeah I just wanted to bring you something a bit different this Sunday so I am talking a lot but hopefully you don't mind so this was the one that I've put together now this was kind of me playing around there are um there are a few things that I'm not happy with that I'm going to change in the next one I think it's two whites that's one of them but I have done the embossing on the border like the originals and then I've created just a nice little kind of you know seen well not seen but you know the flowers and the sentiment there and then inside I've got my little card there to someone who makes others so happy and I've just stamped the same image there on the front and then that just sits there inside now I want to lift that up a bit because it does slide in there but I'm just like I said I've got a few little things that I'm going to change about this one and I've got then the bow with the ribbon and then inside I just need to mat that and then obviously you can fill out as normal so it's a top folding card which I think does look nice now these silks were put on cards as well so during you know over the years and the soldiers would actually ask the the local ladies to you know personalize them as well or you know have them mounted on a card so they would pay more so there are different versions floating around and if you ever find one with the original envelope which is like a tracing paper a brown tracing paper then those are you know even more because there's very very few of those because people would receive them rip them up like we do today we rip the envelopes and throw them away so yeah so this is the one I don't so I'm really pleased it is a five by seven just because the the things I'm using that's what it fitted for was a five by seven card but I mean that there to me is more of an a two size so yeah this is just to give you inspiration really and you know then you can go away and and do what you want so I have already got some bits and pieces here so this one I'm going to do on a white card base and then I've got my mat to go on top so this is a five by seven card base and then this mat going on top here is four and seven eighths of an inch by six and seven eighths of an inch so it just gives me that one eighth of an inch white border and then this is what I'm going to be cutting my actual kind of envelope you know yeah the envelope here on top out of the white against the red and I think that's just going to work better so the red is actually what I'm going to end up embossing and then I've just got this large rectangle frame here so in terms of measurements they're the only ones I'm really going to give you is the the card base size because everything else is dependent on what you have so I went and raided my dies and I found these two little kind of border edge dies really pretty and I use this one on this one here and then I'm going to use this one today so that's kind of why you can't really I can't I think these were free in a magazine a long time ago and these measure five and a half in length so again if you've got anything kind of that length then you would be able to follow this tutorial you know more accurately okay so first of all I want to I've just rounded off the corners there I want to cut this frame out and then I will emboss it afterwards so I'm just going to grab some of my washi tape and just come up a bit there I've got more of my card in shot than I do this piece here there we go and just kind of make sure that sits nice and centered okay so there's my frame next I'm going to grab my embossing folder so I've got this one here which is not Christmasy so this is going to be a Christmas card but it's um I think it's still going to be fine now I want to make sure I get kind of because you've got kind of blank spaces here at the end so I just want to make sure I get an even kind of blank bit at the end so I'm going to kind of just come up a little bit like so so I'm just going to run that through my die machine okay so yeah perfect so I've got a nice even kind of slightly blank part on each side there so that is now going to sit on here like so okay so next what we need to do is cut our these pieces here now I've cut a piece of cardstock that fits underneath here perfectly so this piece here is six and a half by four and a half okay now what you want to do is this piece here you obviously need it to be further down because look this is if you imagine that's that piece there and then this is cut kind of through the middle so I want this to sit just a little bit higher up let's have it about there I reckon that's right you want to get it nice and straight and again I'm going to use a little bit of my washi tape like so and then I'm just going to run that through my die cut machine okay and then I'm just going to peel that piece off you do get a kind of impressed line you can't really see it there I'm not too worried because once I stamp over it you're not going to see it anyway but now what we're going to do is we're going to cut all the way up there and there so it actually becomes two separate pieces so if I go along the side here first just very neatly just snip in like so okay and then I'm actually now going to use my trimmer and I'm just going to get these sides really nice and neat so I'm just going to trim right to the edge there okay and again this one I'll just line up with my grid so I know it's nice and straight okay now this will probably be trimmed again in a moment because we now need to kind of line it all up the bottom one you don't need to worry about because that one we will put into place in a second but this now may just perfectly know it does it fits through perfectly I don't need to trim it at all and I'm good just going to score a quarter of an inch tab because I want to have a nice area to stamp on and then basically just fold that one and then what's going to happen so once we've stamped and decorated it this piece will stick underneath that side there creating your flap for your kind of envelope this piece will then stick underneath and we will line it up so it closes perfectly so I keep going out of shot there we go but we're going to now stamp all of this so it stands out a lot more and I'm going to also add ribbon and all that kind of stuff so I've just gone and raided all of my stamps and I have this one here which I think was an old magazine freebie but it's got this little Ponsettia stamp which I'm going to use for that one there so I'm going to use that and possibly a few other sprigs the thing I'm going to do differently with this one is I'm going to cover all of this with flowers and I'm actually going to have something stamped on the bottom part instead I just think it might look a bit better so I'm going to speed this section up but you will get to see what it is that I'm actually going to be stamping that's what I've done so just yeah just stamped loads of those Ponsettia flowers and filled it with leaves and little flowers and some sprigs and stuff and just tried to make it really festive I'm going to be putting a quite a big bow over this as well so I wasn't too worried on you know a lot of it because it is going to be hidden so what I'm going to do now is attach it to the frame so I'm just going to run some double-sided tape along that top piece that I just put the score line perfectly with that score line like so okay so there we've got our little flap and then I'm going to be putting it on some foam adhesive and then that's going to go on there so next you can stick this but before I do so I do want to stamp on this so I am planning I want to use this one here again I wanted to try and stick with stamps that look like they are vintage so this one just says here it is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air and I'm going to stamp that down the bottom here so again I want to make sure what I get this in the middle bear in mind some of this is also going to be so you want to do it in the middle of that pattern not the middle of the paper so I think that's about there again I'm just going to use my first one up that's lovely that's really really pretty right let's get rid of that you can see there how nice that looks so I also want to stamp some more of the kind of flowers and some of those sprigs I'm just going to do that again and just framed that sentiment with loads of those same sprigs that were up here because then that's going to go over the top in fact you're not really going to see oh I didn't think about that did I you're not even going to see the ones on the bottom right I'm going to change this because what you would usually do that's what I did is lined that up so it sits perfectly back in that bit there but I don't want to lose that all that sprig detail so I'm actually just going to have mine just flapping over so that when you lift it up you still get to see all of that there and all along the bottom so what I'm going to do is grab oh don't want that grab my really thin red tape you just want to run a thin strip along the bottom or you'll be using wet glue if that's what you've got I'm going to put one there and then just up each side okay and then I'm going to sit that down and I'm going to pop this over the top now I would usually do it the other way but I'm going to do it this way because I want to make sure that I get as much of that detail in as possible I think about there so I'm going to stick that down so now that will go on our card on some foam adhesive like so and then we're going to have that little envelope inside I think that looks really quite sweet very Christmassy and very vintage looking which is what I wanted to get okay so now I'm just going to pop some foam on the back okay so I have gone ahead and I've stuck my bow down I've also put a couple of my real looking leaves behind there as well and I just think it's all starting to look really really pretty really old and you know it's got that nice vintage look which is what I wanted I've already gone ahead and done my card which I've just done matching there and then I've just got some of these flat back red pearls and I'm just kind of really pushing them in to the top of that bow there just to again just to give it something extra a little bit of sparkle a little shine I'm going to do groups of three they kind of look like berries I know I'm not using holly but it's it's that Christmas kind of thing so I'm going to just put three there you can just see them in there and they're quite sweet and I think that's it I don't really want to go too too crazy with it I don't think I need to put any on there but yeah there you go that is my inspired world war one silk card and I hope you like it there's the other one so again so thank you one with the little card and there's this one here I mean I'm going to put a white piece on the back as well just so I can pop a little message on that but that will now sit because it's on foam it sits in there a lot easier because it's obviously raised but how cute is that I just think they are they're so sweet really nice little different kind of style card I hope it's I've shown you something new a little bit of history class I don't know and I hope you all take a minute to remember you know the lives that were lost to give us the life that I've been able to live and you know I appreciate them every day and coming from a military family and this has always been something that's very close to my heart so without going into too much details and stuff because I understand that not everybody will remember this or acknowledge this day and all that kind of stuff so I don't want to get into all the politics of it but anyway that's something that I like and it's close to my heart so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial and yeah I'll be back again on Monday with a normal Christmas project thanks for watching bye