 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Growl, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these cards and it's using the herringbone technique and you're just creating the herringbone pattern so they're really really easy to do and they create really lovely backgrounds and the great thing about these cards is they use up your scraps so you don't need to chop into any of your you know nice big full sheets of paper you can just go and raid your scrap drawers and you could do real clashing kind of styles or in my case I've stuck with the same paper packs and just use the scraps from those so they're really really nice they've got all different designs I've got this is I guess the more true true to the style of the herringbone pattern and then you've got this one here which is I'd say a larger style of the pattern sorry not that one nor that one I think is yeah these ones here which to you looking at them they probably all look the same but I'm going to be showing you this one which is the I guess the the proper one but if I just bring it out these are all separate strips of cardstock so all of those are going in that direction and then you've got probably best to show you here so you've got one here and then this one that comes down past it and then this one comes up and then this one comes down past it again and so on and so forth and you're kind of working in like a point they're just really really nice you can you start off with a focal piece so in this case I've used this dark one so these are the ones that I lay down first and then you work out in each kind of sections you have four sections you have one two three four and that's in between these four darker ones here and you choose whatever you want and yeah there's again no real rule with it in terms of patterns that you use you just use whatever you want and they're really really nice so there's that one there and then I've just added a nice little butterfly these are all five by seven cards and I also I also I always like to do a batch of just quite simple cards I didn't just need to add a butterfly to that one that are there for when I need to send a quick card or you know someone says to me oh I just need a you know just a really nice simple birthday card for you know somebody in work or you might be good friends with your postman you know just those kind of quick quick cards when we just need to grab a card these are handy to have so I always like to make a batch just to keep at hand so these are the ones I've gone for at the moment so I'll pop them to one side this you do need a good cutting I mean scissors are fine the scissors are going to be completely fine but I do find this trimmer and this is the Tim Holtz mini guillotine it's just brilliant for cutting real tiny strips because you can make you can have different strips when you make this card style so that's what I'm going to be using throughout and then I've used again that's my card base I've got my butterfly for later that's the the mirrored card stock again and I've been using a lot this is the dovecraft a4 premium card and again I'll share all of this in my blog that's the paper pack so but I've used the scraps so this is scraps that I'm using from the 12 by 12 and the 8 by 8 paper pack so it's always nice to use those up and then these are all the bits I'm going to be using and the double-sided sheets to show you the brand as well so first of all you want to start off with a 5 by 7 card base if that's a size any card this will work for it doesn't matter what size card any size card but I'm using a 5 by 7 so that's my envelope I then cut this mat to go on top which is that silver miri card stock and this measures it's just a quarter of an inch down so this is four and three quarters along the shortest side and six and three quarters here okay and that means it will match nicely on top of my five by seven giving me that nice frame there okay so that's that all prepped and that's kind of the last thing you do in here I've got my double-sided sheet my little topper and then these are all my scraps now I am going to be cutting some more to show you but I'll probably will dig in to these and you use even these tiniest pieces as well so you know do kind of keep them all because you you'd be surprised how many bits you will actually use so I've just got lots here and you can see a lot of this is the patterns from the ones before but I'm going to cut into I want a bit more of that one there and I want to use this one here and it's nice because where was the other one who was that one there yeah you've got that pattern as well the double side so next you want to have a layered piece of card stock to go on top of this again so this one here will be four and a half by six and a half and that will you can see there go perfectly on top so they all sit together giving you that this is the top one here that's going to be what we're sticking everything on it can be any colored card stock so I've just got a dark teal here this is just a strong card stock and I've covered it with a piece of double-sided sticky sheet now the ones I use are the ones from stick to anything and these are the a4 double-sided tape sheets you get five and I've always used these ones they're really really good so what it is is just imagine your double-sided sticky tape your bowl of sticky tape been in sheet form so I've said I've already prepared it there but this here will have a tab on the far left okay you peel that piece and you peel off this whole side is sticky so whatever say this is my then piece of card you will then stick that over the top and just stick so I can stick that on there actually that's got a shooter I can just show you because I can stick it down pretend on this piece here because it's got that coating on it so it won't physically stick to it so this is your piece that you've cut you've got your double-sided sheet and you've just taken off the backing there and basically you can stick that down so pretend that we're sticking it like so lift it up pop the back back down so it's all inside and then cut around it that way you won't waste any of your double-sided tapes you've got it all to say for another project now luckily obviously that isn't actually going to stick to it because it's got the same backing it's that backing that's still on that so once it's stuck down it will be covered and then I can peel this top part here I can get into it peel that off and that is now a big sticker and that is what we're going to be using to stick all of our scraps on to create our herringbone look so I'm now just going to sit that up there for the moment go back to this pop all that to one side so I don't get any messes and basically now this is just entirely up to you how you want to I'm going to pop that there so I've got a bit more room there we go um entirely up to you so I've got larger strips here I think these are about three quarters of an inch I've got ones there about half an inch I've got a quarter of an inch there's probably as small as I go as the quarter of an inch there you don't need there's no need to go any smaller in terms of length you want to kind of have it as long as you can with in terms of the scraps um just because you need to be able to get one piece needs to be able to well it doesn't need to go from point to point because you can have it here if you want but if you imagine they've got to cover at least half of that area so I'd say you want them yeah six six inches or less will be fine you don't need any longer than that but I'm just going to cut these strips here so just with my trimmer I'm not actually going to be using this side of the measurement I'm just looking at what's overhanging here so I'm going to do one that length one bit smaller do another smaller one other slightly bigger I think that will be enough and then I'm going to grab this one again do one slightly bigger thinner one another thinner one I'd say have a variety of maybe lights and darks because that way will help to really bring out the print because as you can see there having that dark and then the light against it you can really kind of see the prints and I've got ones that may be a bit more planar in terms of the pattern themselves you can see the the busier ones there with the butterflies so you know you do want to I wouldn't say having it all kind of the same color or near to the same pattern because you won't really then get to appreciate the the technique that you're trying to do so that's what you need to do so you can see now I've just got a few varieties there in size and pattern and even colors so you can see now if I was to put you know that against that you know you can see them more and then if I had that dark one you know in between you can you can really see the differences so they're all now going to stay to one side and then I'm going to grab my sticky sheet and again because I'm keeping mine all the same so I'm going to start with this darker one so it doesn't quite meet point to point that doesn't matter but you need to make sure that your you create your four sections first and they need to be your middle piece needs to be the same and it needs to run off from one side to the other so I'm going to stick this one down there in case you can see it runs off the side there and it runs off the side there and that's what you want then with this one I'm going to just going to snip it in half because I actually think I don't have another one there so I thought I was running out of those ones so then with this one so you remember you want to create four sections oh this is when you want to be careful you don't get your fingers stuck everywhere like me so this one I'm going to have my section there so you want to kind of butt it right up to this is the I'd say the the most crucial part of this technique is make sure you don't have any gaps so stick that one down like so okay now if you don't have double-sided sticky sheet you can just cover this with double-sided tape you just want a sticky area and even wet glue wet glue will get a bit messy um so yeah the double-sided tape I think is better in terms of you know less mess and then I want to create so I've got one two three I need to half this one well I say you need to it just make it easy for the technique but you can again you can do loads of different things with it really but for the herringbone we stick to this way so this one is going to be like so so there's now my four sections one two three four and next you just then want to start building up your patterns so again no you know um rule I'm going to start with a lighter against the dark so I've got this one here it depends which way you want to start you might want to do this one in that way I'm going to do this one this way so once you see how to do it you'll get how you know you can add any add any any way you want again you want to make sure that you're not showing any of the double-sided tape underneath okay so that's that one there you can just get your bone folder there and you can just you know really flatten it down I tend to do that right at the end so there's that one then the next one so whatever one you lay down in that direction you're then going to work from the opposite you know side so now I'm going to do this one and you're going to butt it up against the one you've just laid down and that will start to create the herringbone pattern so then this one I'm going to pop in like so don't worry about all this overhanging because we'll be trimming all that off at the very end so now there's that one there then I'm going to grab this one not that one I've got bits flying everywhere like this one it's going to go in here so see it's nice to have all the different sizes in in terms of width so that one it's going to go that way then I'm going to add in this one here you come back to this side so you just always working one way then the next one way then the next again always butting it right up up to the next one that one there then I've got this nice I might have to cut a few more strips of this lovely pearlized one I love this one and that one there looks so and then I've got this pattern here I'll use that one so again you know that one's quite a plain darker purple so then I've got this patterned floral next to it I could do with something quite light again so I'm going to go for this one here one can go in like so and then let's do I've got this dark one here and then because you've got such a small triangle left at the very top rather than getting really really kind of thin pieces I'm just going to finish it with um yeah that one so I'm just going to put that one in the in the same way in the same direction I mean you can go that way if you want maybe I will no because it won't stretch let's get a bigger one then um yeah let's do this piece here cover that whole little triangle at the end like so okay and that's what you'll have so far and then we can just trim that now I'm going to trim it now because I might want to use these pieces again in these smaller sections now always when you trim turn it over because that way you can get a really nice cut right against the cardstock and also it won't damage your scissors and get them in a mess so you just basically just want to cut slightly on an angle so you're almost cutting under the cardstock and then you can use all these bits again you know and other parts of that card so it's just a really nice technique to just sit down and do like I said with all your scraps you need very very few you know supplies to do this like I said it doesn't matter if you don't have the double-sided sheet so now already can you see how lovely that pattern is and how we've got that section now done so next time I'm going to move around to this larger one here and again it doesn't matter how you start off but I'm going to add this really thick strip right down in the middle now I've got my sentiment going in the middle so it's going to cover a lot of it but you will see some poking out so that's why if you imagine that's going to be right over there you're only actually going to see that bit a bit so that will fill a big gap then let's go for this one because it's got to go against that as well so now we're going back in this direction and if you do have any sticky exposed what you can always do is use your embossing buddy so just use some of your powder that you'd use for heat embossing just to go over and just to remove any tackiness that may come through if you've used your you know if the sticky or the wet glue or anything is coming through then I'm going to use this one here so let's go for a much thinner strip like so I'm going to go for this darker one here that can go down because it's quite plain you need to go in a little bit there a bit too much of a gap like so but you can see how it is it's just really quite relaxing I enjoyed or I have enjoyed I've had done this a few times before in the past and it is just a nice technique to do so that's that one and then whatever I have not used I've not used this one that one looks good against that real dark again I don't think that was straight to start with so it's coming there we go I'm going to use that one I'm just going to pop the whole piece in just to fill that bottom triangle so again flip it over okay and there's another section and then I'm going to just carry on so I'm going to speed up the video now and you can just watch me finish these two sections off okay so there is our card base I really really like that I think that's just such a nice fun you know fun use of your scraps so next we just need to finish it off with some easy decoration so I'm going to grab my card base we've got some of this raffia here which I've been enjoying using so I've got this nice purple that matches really well so I'm going to with my red tape just run a strip bring this down a little bit just so I can get it in the middle both sides around there and then just remove and just line that up straight or as straight as I can get it there we go again just gives a really nice texture I bring it up there you can see it's not even it's all crinkled but it's just yeah just like it and then I've already just stamped a nice happy birthday sentiment there and just die cut it with my nest of rectangle dies I've got popped some foam adhesive on both there just to give it some dimension so obviously the card is very flat and then that one and just hold that up facing me I think I might go that way or is that gone too late now is it gone nope just saved it I thought I needed to go across just a little bit there we go that will do like so I've got my little butterfly so I'm just going to pop a little bit of the tape again on the back because these are the little acetate ones I always remove these from the sticker they come with like a holographic sticker which is pretty but it's I just yeah I prefer them without I just think they look a bit more authentic and look like real butterflies that's going to just stick on the top there okay and then on the back of this I'm going to just add some of my I'm not going to use my wet glue I haven't got my thicker red tape so I'm just going to stick with this one and I'm just going to pop a few strips on the back which will be fine actually I just realized I didn't even use that I used double-sided foam tape so I'm not even going to worry now I won't take off the rest of that red I'll just leave it on there a little bit of wastage but not too much it was just the silver yeah it was the silver one I stuck right down I thought when I was doing it I thought I'm sure I added foam anyway at least I realized so then these these this I've done quite a lot of filming today so let's just start from that side make sure my board is right and there we go and again look how nice that mirrored card stop just frames it almost just yeah like a little piece of art and then these are top-folding landscape cards so now I'm just going to stick that down and I'm going to use my wet glue to stick this piece because it's quite heavy a little bit of wiggle room to get it in position like so and there you have it a really nice card and apart from speeding up those two sections that's a real-time tutorial these take no time at all and like I said it's just really is a nice way of using up all of your scraps and I've now one two three four five six I could keep going and make even more with the scraps that I've got but it just shows use what you have and you can create beautiful things so I love these and yeah I feel like I'm very organized at the beginning of the year which is a nice feeling so I hope you've enjoyed this I've got to get a butterfly on that one before I forget if you have as always please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye