 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you some fun ideas using washi tape. So I've recently received the new release by Dovecraft, this is the Pastels and the Brights and there's also the Sentiments. So I will link everything in the video description box below. So in each of these packs you get 20 rolls and each is three meters long so you've got lots of washi. So I'm going to first of all show you just how to decorate eight envelopes. This is a nice way to make it match your card, just brighten up an envelope, it's always nice to see that drop through the letterbox. So I'm just pulling out different rolls, just things that are going to work well next to each other. The Brights is my favourite out of the three just because I love all the colours. This one also has some nice foiling through it, you can see it on the hearts there. So I'm just finishing off this one and it just gives a real nice, I just, yeah just a lovely finish, I really like this and I do do this a lot on my envelopes or on parcels that I might send to people. So it's just, it is, it's just a nice little decorative way to tie everything together. So I'm just cutting off the edges there, it is low tax so it doesn't ruin your scissors, you can just wipe them at the end and yeah there you see a nice, yeah a nice batch of your envelope and then on the front I'm just going to add a strip of the one that says happy birthday on it. So you do get a couple of sentiments in all of the the packs as well or in the Brights and the pastels and like I said the other one that is sentiments is just full of really good sentiments. So there's that envelope finished and I'm really pleased with how that one come together and then I've also done one using the pastels. So again exactly the same process and yeah I think this is on the five by seven envelopes, so on the front of that I finished it with special delivery which I think is a really nice one and again they just, yeah look there they are two six by sixes and two five by sevens and yeah it's just a fun, if you're kind of stuck in a rut sometimes you just want to do a bit of crafting, things like this are perfect because you need your envelopes, so just sit down one day and just go and decorate a load of envelopes. So I think they look really really fun and I love the foiling throughout, I think it looks awesome. So yeah that's one idea. So the next is to make some cards to match those lovely envelopes and this one's really fun. I have done this numerous times and this is just creating candles with the washi tape. Now these washi's are thinner so they work perfectly for this kind of scene. So you just go along different kind of heights and just stick them all there and then I'm just bringing in a brush pen here and just creating the flames and then from there I will then add just a little black line to create the wick and then finish it off with a little happy birthday sentiment and these are just so quick to make. So if someone literally does just say to you I need a quick birthday card these are wicked and they're so easy to do. You can do them all with the same color wash sheet, it doesn't have to be different color but again that foiling and now with that envelope I just think it looks really really nice and very very easy. These are great ones to do with you know your friends and to do with the children it's perfect. So now I'm going to do another card so this one is a six by six card base. Again just going through using the rights because it is my favorite and I'm just going to start lining up different patterns there. I tried to do like a whitish one against the pattern so you can kind of see that and then kind of repeat it. So I'm just covering I think it was a five and three quarter by five and three quarter piece of cardstock and just peel that off my mat and again just trim off the excess there. Always do it from the backs and you know you're going to get it perfectly lined up and then that just peels straight off my scissors. Then I have trimmed it down and now just backed it with some foam adhesive just to give a little bit of dimension and something different to the card. Sit that on my six by six card base this is the Dovecraft Essentials Collection cards again I will link them below and then I just die cut this thanks sentiment and stuck it in the middle. Again very very quick but I think it really does yeah stand out. Then I'm doing this one here is using the pastels and I'm actually die cutting just loads of different butterflies on that kind of washy background that I've created. Run all of that through my die machine. I did have to crank it through a couple of times just because obviously it is going through that washy and a heavy weight cardstock and then create a card with them so again it just ties everything in. I've done a strip of the washy just underneath that sentiment. Those sentiments are also the new release by Dovecraft and again I will link them below really good sentiments I love that and then just sticking them all in a kind of little cluster and finishing off with some flat black pearls. Again just giving you ideas and different uses of washy. Don't just think you have to stick it or use it maybe on some packaging or something. I also wanted to kind of mark my tools so I've just wrapped some washy around my kind of bone folders there and also some styluses that I like to use and yeah just again just to try and give you some fun ideas and I think they look great so there's everything all together. I also done that bunting one in the middle exactly the same you just wrap the washy tape around the twine and then just stick it onto the top and you can see them all there now in better lighting and you can see that bunting one a bit better. That's really fun to do as well it's so easy just kind of stick it back on itself and yeah I think they look great so I hope this has inspired you hope it's encouraged you to go and get your washy tapes out go and make some lovely cards and projects and yeah until next time I will see you soon thanks for watching. Bye!