 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today this is project number two for this year's Easter series 2019. Now those of you that watched last year's series will be probably saying now more carrots. I don't know what it is about carrots I really like them I like them to eat but I also think they're really cute and they are perfect for Easter projects. The inspiration for this has actually come just from this little image here and I'll show you and tell you more about that one in a moment. But basically this is a small crate or little basket if you do go to last year's woven basket that I done I'll link that up here that has carrots in it as well but they are much bigger and a different style again so I always like to bring you different ways of doing things so there should hopefully be something that someone will prefer or enjoy more than you know the other. So I'm going to make one more carrot for this one today and I'm going to make another basket and then I'm going to be making more carrots because these are going to be for two separate people. Inside are little red lint chocolates so I'll show you those when I fill up the other one. They are very easy to make they are just cones and then I've just made this kind of grass effect for the the leaves and then finish them with a bow so when you open that bow out pours all of the eggs. Now I thought these are perfect if you're going to do an Easter egg hunt if you've got your grandchildren around or it's a party how nice would these be to give to each individual or maybe the winner gets to take the whole crate. I just think it's really cute you don't have to have carrot on the front here you can do anything you want there is a brad behind that so it does move so this obviously all moves here and you may not want to make the carrots you may just want to do the crate and you know and fill it with something else there is acetate behind this it's a really strong nice little project to do so that is what I'm going to show you. Okay so this is the magazine that has inspired me to create that so this is by house couple ditch I love her I follow her on facebook she's a fantastic illustrator and she's brought this magazine out which I purchased from her via her Etsy store I will share the links all over on my blog. I just love what she makes I love her style so when she said she was doing a magazine I jumped at the chance to get this and this is what's going to be featuring in a lot of my Easter tutorials going forward so although today all I've used is this little carrot you will see other things that will be popping up but she just creates absolutely gorgeous images so yeah this is all I'm going to show you I'm not going to show you inside you'd have to purchase it if you want it but I know a couple of you do already have this that I you know know through social media other crafty friends so yeah I hope you're enjoying it too then I'm going to be using more of the paper mania I forget the glare off there there we go the clear acetate this is the 12 by 12 it's just very strong I actually found it again in chaplains so I've been featuring that a few times it's just a local shop near me but it was again that's about the same price I've seen on Amazon I think the one I've got on my amazon storefront is 650 or 699 so you know we're all kind of in the same kind of area there in terms of price so I think the last time when I got it from Trago Mills for 3.99 I think that was just a one-off so yeah if you do get it I love it I think it's great and it's perfect for when you're doing those larger projects but you can use normal a4 for this tutorial today okay and then this is all what you're going to need so I'm going to be making one carrot with you sounds so funny so I've got a piece of a5 orange cardstock and then I've already gone and done this here but I'm going to do it again on some white paper because obviously I don't want to waste that that's the one I'm going to use and then I've just cut out one of those images there just bring that up closer you can see how nice that is so that's all ready so to make the crate I've got some brads there for my handle and that's the handle there so your base will be five by six and seven eighths of an inch okay and then you just want to score at half an inch on all four sides so half an inch half an inch half an inch and half an inch okay so just do that so that's all ready to go this is the acetate that I've got so you're going to need two pieces that are five by five and seven eighths of an inch so that's two pieces to go on the front and the back and then on the sides you're going to need four by five two pieces okay then for your side let's call them hinges so these bits here and they are slightly higher just ever so slightly because when you look at a crate you've always got a higher piece I've not gone too high with mine if you can if you want but I've just gone off enough and you can see there just where it comes off slightly okay so that is meant to be there so these are one by five and one eighths so you can see there how I've gone up slightly along the one inch side you want to score at half an inch fold and burnish and then I've just gone ahead and I've popped double-sided tape behind all of those so they're ready to go then for your side slats the wooden slat effect you're going to need eight pieces these are all one inch wide and then they're four inches in length okay so you'll need eight pieces and again I've gone over and already prepared these with the double-sided tape I'm using the red tape because I'm sticking it against acetate so I just find this works really well and then for your front and back slats you need eight and these are five and seven eighths of an inch by one inch and again you can see there I've prepared the backs of all of those for the handle I've just cut a piece of one inch by the full length of my A4 craft card this craft card is the Duke Crafts paper mania craft card it's the craft card I always use and I will share the links and I do believe it's over on my amazon store on the papers I use section okay again you can find that link just in the video description below for this piece here for your grass trim it's entirely up to you because when I show you how to make the cone everybody's cone is going to be a different size not one of my cones are the same size but I like that because carrots aren't all the same so but in terms of the grass inside the diameter is roughly between two and a quarter and two and a half that's how I've done them so this was just a piece of scrap that I had which is 12 inches in length I've stuck with the same three and a half inches roughly in height for all of them I just think that gives you because by the time you tie it all in you know I just think that gives you a nice height for your carrot so yeah but again you may want to shrink that down if you're doing an even bigger carrot then you might want it you know taller if you're doing a smaller version then again you'd want to go smaller but the length A4 will be fine but we're actually you're probably going to end up cutting down to maybe as much as seven you can't I don't think I could get it any shorter than that but again when we get to that I will show you okay so first of all I want to make up the crate so you've just done all your score lines and now you want to just fold and burnish all those so we've just fold and burnished our score lines and then you want to remove all of those squares from each corner so take them out completely we're not making a tray or a box base in the usual way because we're going to be sticking the acetate and the hinges that's what creates the corners for everything for this one so it's really easy now I'm actually going to fold all of mine up that way okay so you're going to have that effect what's going to happen is all of the acetate so you've got your side pieces which will fit in like so and then you've got your front and your back are going to go and they're all going to go inside the tray okay so what you want to do is I'm just going to pop some red tape inside these four little tabs so I've just got my red tape I'm coming down to the thinner ones now I need to order some more again I order this through every crafts a pound you get 23 rolls for 10 pound and they do last me quite a while because obviously I flip between different adhesives I don't just use this one so I do find they last me a long time again I will share those links so I'm just going to pop this on all four sides okay just go around and make sure the red tape's stuck down nicely take off your backing and grab one of your pieces of acetate the shorter side for the side pieces butt it right if you lie inside okay like this butt it right up to this fold this score line make sure it's within these score lines here so it should lie flush in that section and fold that piece right over and then lift it up and you see now we've got one of our sides coming together so again I'm going to go and do this one here pop the whole piece inside don't mind if it comes over the the side there because it is taller and then when it's all nice and straight fold that right over and then bring it up and those two should meet like that okay so you can see now how we're starting to get our lovely little box here or crate so now I'm just going to do these other two okay so they're already we've got our four sides so now when you bring it all up you'll start to see this shape all right the corners that you've done so these ones that you scored they're going to go on last so I'm going to keep them to one side and that's entirely up to you what side you want to start on first you might want to start on your front and backs or your sides I'm going to start on this one so you want to flip the whole thing over now okay um I'm going to start with my larger one here so I'm going to grab one of those larger the large eight strips so let's keep all those here for the minute so that's my handle and then we can keep everything together oh no that's a short one right so there we go I've got my two piles this is my short and the long ones so I'm just going to take the backing off and remember this is on the outside now so this first piece you want to stick over this tab and right up to that base score line so if I stick that down and use that as you guide grab another long one and stick this one on the very top okay and then this one you're going to stick giving yourself about three eighth of an inch gap now if you want to grab the other one without taking the backing off and lie that down there just so you know you're getting the same gap but because I've already made one we already know what I'm doing okay is that one so I guess the only thing you want to make sure you get right with this one is the same gap you want it to be consistent all the way around because if I show you this one if you look you can see they match up I've got the same acetate gap on all of them so if you would rather use your ruler and do it that way then that's fine I'm going to flip it around I'm going to do the same on this one and then you want to do exactly the same thing on the sides so again start from with that one over there one at the top and then the same gap okay so do that on both your side pieces okay so that is now what you should have so when you bring up now your side can you see how lovely your crate comes together looks really really cool now if you don't have acetate you don't have to use it because what you can do is stick grab that out there when you have this piece here you could stick these four pieces to this edge here with the same gap so you imagine you've got that piece stuck like that and then stick the next sides to it like so and so on and so forth and still just stick it to the base like I did so there is a way to do it without the acetate as well so next moving on now to those side pieces you just want to remove the backing I always like to do one at a time you'd also don't have to use craft card you could use coloured card for this so there's lots of ways to change it up it'll look nice for Christmas as well now remember it's not it's going to be slightly taller because it's supposed to be so I'm just going to butt it up to that score line like so making sure you've got that little bit coming over the top bring up the next side the first one's always a bit fiddly once you've done the first one and the kind of box starts to take its shape it's easier to do the rest like so and flip it over and just go in there and just all of that acetate that you've you know stuck down all of the sticky tape sorry just make sure it's all stuck down you'll see there and it's nice and neat inside looks really tidy so that's that one and you should have that little overhang from the top which just gives it a little bit of character and again just do that now on your other three corners and there is your crate how lovely is that it's a really decent size this one measures at six by four when finished or just over four now you don't need to add a handle if you want to just keep it like this you can because that is exactly how a crate looks I've added the handle because I'm giving it as a gift so I just thought it was nice for them to carry but if you're maybe using yours more of a decorative piece or as a centerpiece maybe on your Easter table when it's everybody's little favours after their dinner then you may not need to have the handle okay so that's that piece done so now we can move on and make the carrot okay so this is a piece of a five cardstock which measures five and five eighths by eight and a quarter okay so it's just a four cut in half now there are lots of ways to do a cone if you're using paper it will be much easier this is a cardstock this is about 200 200 I don't know 200 something you can hear it it's a nice cardstock so I think it was it was that from the packs I shared last week I can't remember what I said they were but anyway so you just want to kind of curl the cardstock now it's hard for me to really give a measurement because you can make a cone by cutting a circle and then cut up into the middle of the circle and then pull it around you can do that with this but the way I'm doing it I want quite a long length of this so yeah you see what I do and then you can decide yourselves I've just curled that cardstock just to make it a bit easier for me to roll and I'm just going to run this red tape along the short side like so and take the backing off now because I'm now on to my fifth one of these I've kind of you know mastered how I want mine but basically what you want to do is start turning this but keeping it right up this corner here this is going to fold around and stick down you can see straight away I've got my cone so what I want to do first of all is I'm just kind of really kind of curling the bottom bit around there can you see and I want to stick that bit first okay like so so that is now stuck down let's see what I've done and then I can pull this piece as big as I want I could go right around there and make one of those big like ice cream kind of waffle styles where I can bring it around I go about halfway like I said it doesn't matter that they're all different it gives this character it's nice that they are slightly different so if you're looking for an exact then well you're going to have to measure each one where is my oh that's what I used I'm just grabbing my long scissors because these are so long and pointy I could get them right in just a stick get right down in there and make sure that tape has stuck right down like so so that's what I've been doing that's how I've been making my cones and I'm really pleased with how they turned out then to save some of this cardstock if you just kind of cut like so and then I just cut really neatly down along that piece I can go in a little bit tighter there actually and that saves we're flapping about with measurements and then you can just go around and kind of shape it a bit better and then to just kind of tidy up the top you just want to start cutting around like so you are going to see this you do want to make sure there we go I'm pretty pleased with that and there's my ice cream cone so again if you want to make ice creams then that's the perfect way to do it you want to make one of those hats you can have a little gnome hat there so that's yeah it's worked for me so see what you think then that one measures let me just tell you what I come in there so yeah that one's two and a quarter and that's roughly where I've been two two and a quarter and I think one of them is two and a half but they all look great so that's that piece then with your grass what you want to do actually let me just grab some scrap okay this is just a piece of scrap that I've got so I gave you the width which was three and a half okay and then whatever length you don't want to be any shorter than seven inches and then you just want to I'm just using this scoreboard here you want to score it half an inch all down one of those sides okay so you're scoring down the long side like so and then to speed up the process I use these which are the vegetable scissors these are also on my Amazon storefront they have a green handle I do have the green handle and the blue and all you want to do is cut you can't see the score line but if I just fold it there's the score line that I've just created okay you're just cutting up to that bearing in mind yours will be longer here this is just a scrap and you're just cutting like so and this just makes life much easier and quicker so if you do want to make a lot of these I would say get these scissors otherwise you're out yeah otherwise your hands will ache and you can see there just how quickly and you get a nice consistent width for each of those kind of tassel trim pieces there like so okay so that then gives you this great for making headbands as well and grass friendly card designs so it's just really easy to do what I would do is then roll it up this is obviously longer than you need but if you're making smaller carrots you'd probably get two out of this pop it inside the carrot and then I'm just going to bring it around until I can see where I need it to be so you just want it to stick all on the inside and overlap about half an inch so I can see where that's going to overlap which is just here and I'm going to just cut oh gosh I'm just going to cut a little bit further like so so now that will go over and sit perfectly in there so you're going to stick your tape on the outer side hug the score line so now I've just trimmed off the excess just leaving enough where that tape is take your backing off okay and then start from the seam on the back kind of hold that piece there with one finger it's a little bit fiddly but once you kind of get the hang of it once you've done a few then it's fine and just start working around just making sure that score line runs all the way around the top of the carrot and then you'll get right to the edge and it joins up perfectly pop it down and again with my bone folder just go in make sure it's all nicely stuck down okay and then you can just scrunch that all together and there's your carrot how cool is that I love them okay so then we can fill it with some treats so this is what I'm filling it with these fit perfectly I can fit 10 2 4 6 8 10 so I think that's a really nice treat and these are those lovely Lindor chocolates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 okay I think maybe get a couple more in there as well if you want but I just found 10 was a nice amount and then bring it all together I've just got some of this floss fancy floss easy sew bakers twine whatever it's got loads of names trim off some of that keep my seam at the back and you just want to bring this around tie it really tightly okay don't worry thinking you're going to squash the card you don't because there's so much in there it kind of all supports itself and then just tie a nice little bow again you might want to put little name tags on these if you're giving them individually mine's all going to the same person so I don't need to worry about that tidy that up a little bit and then just push it down a bit and then if you want to curl these a bit more or whatever I like them actually quite straight you just kind of move them around a little bit like so and there's your carrots that's that now done get rid of that and then we can finish off our crate so you've got your handle piece that we showed earlier again just curve that and then I want to make a hole in the middle of this top one this is just if you want to do the handle there's that one flip it over if you want to measure you can I'm just going to eyeball the center there and then again mark the center like this like so I've got these huge brads here the green one I'm actually going to use for the front and cover with my little carrot tag and keep the cream no maybe I should have the no I have the green at the back actually cover the cream green at the back cover the cream that was they say I'm the same green and cream right like so how cute cute cute cute and this one here I'm going to stick with my glue guns I'm just going to pop a little bead of glue in the center and then just stick that there like so so that will still move I think it looks really nice and then the inside I shared this in one of my what did I get tutorials a couple of weeks ago but this is just some like straw orange kind of straw I'm going to pop that in there but there is a few like loose bits so I don't want to take it out now because it goes everywhere so I want to do that off camera but that will go all inside there ready for the carrots so now I can add that one in there to complete that one I think five's nice for this if you're doing the sizes that I'm doing bring that up how cute love it you can put their name on there there's just loads of ways to personalize it I like things quite simple and more decorative as well so that's going to look nice now by like the Easter tree the twig tree kind of thing I think it look lovely and there's that one there empty so I hope you like it I hope I've inspired you to go make lots of carrots there's something about them I just think they're really cute I will link in like I said that one and the tutorial will be at the end as well so you can check it out you may want to have the bigger crate from last year and fill it with lots of these for a party or something so you might want to just use this crate and pop Easter eggs in it so yeah loads of ways to use this hopefully you enjoy it and you give it a go as always remember to share it over on mixed up crafters Facebook page and I will be back on Sunday with a scrapbook layout and Monday with another Easter tutorial thanks for watching have a great weekend bye