 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you another laminating project and that's how to make these little cute little pockets. So you can have these as posh envelopes, you can make them any size you want. Once you see how I put it together it's really straightforward but they just open with these little snaps which I'll show you and then inside you've got your little pocket there. Now these are making one more in this size today and these are going to hang where all my dies are because I've got quite a few loose just random ones from free film magazines and stuff which are handy and they're good if I'm ever crafting with other people then there's spares there for people to use but they're quite good to keep in these little pockets and with my labeler I will label on the outside so that if I change them I can just peel the label off because I did think about putting it inside then I thought if they ever changed the envelope for its purpose it's still going to have that in there so I'm going to label on the outside of these but I just thought they're really really cute and you can keep one in your purse just to keep receipts in and things like that as well so just a nice little project and I've done bigger ones and these ones here to put any bigger dies in and I've got that one there and I've just basically been using up the last of my nature's grace papers so you can see there these are nice big deep pockets which will fit the larger dies and things in and they sit perfectly with all the rest of my in my die storage because I've got one of those thin little baskets so everything fits in there so yeah once you know how to do this you can do any size you want so there's lots and lots here also wanted to show you the snaps and the pliers now I had this probably the summer last year and I've used snaps before but I use them in my more of my sewing projects and my dress making and things like that and that's another thing I love to do which I don't share it's just my thing and I've done it a long long time don't do it as often as I want now but um maybe I might share something one day but it's um it's another little passion of mine which I enjoy but these are great so these are the pliers and these are the snaps so I'm going to show you how to use those very very easy and it's quite a nice way to incorporate it incorporate it into your paper making so you are going to need to make the smaller ones that I've got here is so it's a deconstructed pocket and then the laminating pouch is what brings it all together so you need um so I've got on the backs of mine I've got all plain colors so you can see there so I'm doing another yellow so that I go in between just because I wanted to and it's the same colors that match in these papers so my main pocket size is uh what was it four by five and a half okay so you need two pieces that measure four by five and a half that's to make this size like said you can choose once you know what you're doing then this is your little closure this is the flap so this is one and a half by again five and a half okay so it's the same width um but just one and a half um length sorry but just one and a width then you need your laminating pouch which I've got here so you can I think when I've done it you can fit two of these on one sheet maybe that was another project I was doing let me just check no no you can't it must have been another thing I was doing oh no I think it is this sorry let me just do it so basically you're going to sandwich these two together they should sit perfectly and you shouldn't be able to see anything from the underside so I can't see any of the yellow poking through there pop it right down now this side here is where I've got this bit so I've kept um some of the acetate um on the what's that the left hand side so that you can create these little tabs you may not want these if you just want them singular um but basically you want to pop it in and to the left because this is now let me pop this in here so again it will make sense this then goes um right side down so you want your pattern facing down because this is going to obviously fold over and you want about a say about a quarter of an inch gap in between because that's where it's going to fold so we're creating this this gap here this piece okay like so now to the left if I bring this around that way this is that left hand side and it's about an inch okay you want to leave it one inch there and then you'll be able to cut this whole punch there and that will give you that little kind of hanging piece if you don't want that then butt this right up to there but I do believe you can fit it again another set of this in here okay um right so that's that all done then if you again if you're going to customize these in any way you want to do that beforehand so if you're going to have someone's name or anything you want do that now I've got my laminator all nice and ready to go nice and hot so I'm going to feed that in I would usually cut this down and save that but I'm not and this plastic is good to use once it's set it's like an acetate sheet so you can use it for like your pop-up cards and things like that so again if you have lots of laminating pouches but you don't have any acetate use this because it works really well so that's what they will do that piece I'll cut off and it'll go into my acetate drawer okay as it comes out make sure you hold it straight as possible and it will just help with the overall finish because as this is coming out it's cooling straight away okay so I've just taken that through and just while it's still warm just lie it down there and then you can cut this end off if you have left it like I have don't go really close I've left about half an inch there but like I said now that is a nice piece of acetate it's really strong so it's great for other projects okay so back to this now it's it works exactly the same way we've now got to kind of open up that pocket that we created so I've got my my knife and if you've watched the other two laminating projects I've done what you want to do is in between here there will be a very thin line where it's not stuck because it's had to lift up to go over those two layers of card that is where we're going to cut so you want to keep your knife as flat kind of to the the mat as possible and you're just going to pick the side the very corner there just ever so slightly until you can get the knife in between and basically it will end up sliding along just like you're cutting some paper with very very sharp scissors so now I've got that in there it just slides right the way along like so and we're going to run this back through again our machine just to kind of reseal it so now that has opened up that pocket for me and that's now going to be perfect for anything so this is the left hand side we want to keep that if you want to have that little hook kind of thing so this side here now you want to cut about a quarter of an inch to three eighths of an inch is my kind of border I would say now I rounded off my corners here as well I've got to say that because you can cut this on your punches so I will show you in a second I'm going to go right across that one then on this side here I'm going to cut down but just to the top of this piece here this corner of the main area then you want to cut in from the outside and then leave half an inch and cut in again giving yourself that again that border that quarter of an inch and carry on cutting down again so now that's given us this little tab which I can now grab my whole punch and remember how far in I went I probably just have to check change it again but you can just see you can just see the hole there I've punched through it okay so then we need to round off the edges might need to cut it a few times but it does go through mine is probably blunt because I've had it quite a while I'm just going to trim that bit there we go okay so we've got this now we need to add our snaps now the only I'd say negative with using the snaps in your paper crafting is you are restricted to the depth how far you can go in with it which is why it's great for fabric because you can stuff fabric in here so you can go quite far in um but you've only got that that width there which is about an inch so it works great for these pockets and the ones I've shown you but basically that is going to go in and that is where you can then punch your snap into place and then again we're going to go inside here and punch there but you see what I mean you can't go any deeper than what that gives you there so bear that in mind don't go you know piercing a hole all the way down here because you wouldn't be it it wouldn't work so with that in mind these ones here I um I think I'd um yeah three quarters of an inch um yeah three quarters of an inch so I am turning it over and I'm just going to grab a pencil just something just to leave a little impression so three quarters from let me just check yeah so it's three quarters from the actual paper don't do it from your border of the plastic there you want to come in and then find your center which is my five and three quarters so two and a half and then where am I one two three so I'm there so there is my center point you get this extremely sharp pokey tool that comes with the kit as well as replacements um and a little screwdriver and I'll share the links just pierce through that hole okay so you can see I've got that right through the middle and then again we want to come down from that same hole that we've just done and then we're going to come down so I've got three quarters of an inch there so again I'm just going to put a pencil mark you won't see this pencil mark you're going to completely cover it and again watch your fingers because this is very very sharp and just again just poke another hole through there okay so now I've got my bits you can't see it but I've got the hole there and I've got the other hole just there you can just see the yellow coming through so now grab your snaps so you get all different sets I've always used just plain white in the parcel I've got loads of white already in my stash um but this one here is really good and basically we will have all these different colors obviously in this case here so I want to use I think it was another yellow because I've got two purple yeah yeah yeah so this one here so what you need for every snap is you will get these ones here which have your little pin so it looks like a you know pin you're using your on your pin board so you want two of those one for the front one for the back then you will need what they call a male and a female it's the easiest way to describe and this is the piece that actually goes in so this one that is in my hand is the female so you can see it's got like a little well that goes inside and this is the male and you can see it's sticking up so basically that will end up going in there and that's what creates your snap so that's what will close it and then one of the pins will go in this one and one of the pins will go in that one to keep them in place now it doesn't matter where you put the male or the female so you might have the female so basically that's going to go through here my pin so that's my nice matching one for the front so it doesn't matter now whether I put the male or the female on top it they will work either way okay so don't worry about that so I'm just going to grab the male pop it on the top and now you can push it down quite far but basically what this is doing is inside here is a piece of metal now that metal is going to squash the pin of that head there that we've just put in and by squashing it it's going to it's going to squeeze that whole thing into place so what you do is with the black dish on the bottom there that will sit perfectly over the head okay so that is now I can feel that is in place and then just squeeze it down and it is so easy to do so if you have problems with your wrists and you're this should still be okay because it's the clever design in the spring it's doing all the work with very little pressure so now I've pushed it down and can you see that the pin is completely squashed that is now stuck that's not going nowhere you could never get that off and you'd have to cut it off and you'd obviously wreck the project so again then with the with the other pin this is going to go underneath and find the hole like so okay and then you pop that one on top again you can push it quite far down now this one needs to go in there so again just move it around and you can feel when it sits into that kind of little dish okay and then again just squeeze it and all it is doing is squashing that pin so now you can fold it over actually before we do that we need to burnish um I just grabbed my phone folder so what you want to do is fold it and kind of lift it up a bit you want to fold in between the plastic so I'm just going to bring that along before I snap it into place so and then I can just burnish that so and then there we go pops into place you got a lovely little envelope so again really easy to make you could have without that bit on you could just cut that off and just have them all um grab this one here you know you could have them all kind of in like a little plastic tray or something all labeled and you can flick through them so again if you're looking for ways to store your dies this could be a nice nice colorful alternative but mine's going to just hang near them with other ones so I've got these little rings here binder rings just going to pop that one on that side and they're going to hang like I said off the basket in front of my dies and they will all be labeled so that is that um if I give you the size of these ones if you want to make bigger ones so it's exactly the same process sandwich the two together obviously pop that one on top put it through your laminator and then pop them in but remember you can only go down the max you can really go down is an inch I went in three quarters of an inch but um I managed to get this in but you do have to kind of like bend the um acetate up around here so I would say if you get this play around with just some scrap first because you get so many in there and this is inexpensive this whole thing costs less than 20 pound I think it was about 15 13 15 13 to 15 maybe 16 it wasn't for what you get and for I mean like I said these are just going to last you they're a handy thing to have so quickly this measurement here is um the width is five and three quarters and then length you've got um or saying eight and one eighth there but eight would be fine and then this little flap here is two by the same width which is five and three quarters okay so they have it just another useful little project for your craft room um there are so many uses like I said they will fit nicely in one of my baskets just stacked behind each other they're going to be hanging but again would fit inside a little basket as well but I've used up all my nature's grace papers now and I'm really pleased with these so there you go another fun laminating tutorial from me today hope you've enjoyed it give me a thumbs up if you did and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye