 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. So I wanted to show you how to make these really cute cards using my new dies but without using the mechanism part so I'm using the toppers and just the base part. Now I actually did show this during my launch on craft stash during the facebook live but I wanted to do this into a youtube video so you have it here as well for reference. But those of you that have these dies you'll see here by using the base and the topper you can create these small cards and I said that these would look lovely if you'd maybe done five maybe even ten all together and you could pop them make a little gift box and they could be something that you could sell or they would look really nice as little table placings as well so you could have you know the person's name on here I just think they're adorable and you can see here is the cupcake and it's just delicious so I've got that lovely sparkly cherry I've done the glitter here and then the sprinkles are using a stencil and again you can see that one there with the chocolate sprinkles and I've used my embossing folder on the base here and then I've got this is a slightly shimmery gold there can you see it's gorgeous and I've used some glossy accents on the holly there as well but they stand up just like normal cards but I just thought there's something really nice and very quick and easy to do so let me show you how. Okay so this is the die set this is the six by six pudding and cupcake die set so this is your mechanism to have the pop-up card I'm just going to focus on these dies today so I've already gone and cut one because I'm going to do the cupcake and the pudding together so this is how you create your card blanks this is what we want first of all so you want this die here and then what I've got here is just a piece of A4 paper and I just folded it in half and then I'm going to lay the die down and you want to lay it down so this side comes off the edge and then when you bring it back onto it you want it to catch and you want that score line or the cut line sorry to sit next to that score line that fold there so that isn't going to cut the card so you can see I can see the the cut section there of the die so it's not going to cut that we want it to stay attached all we want it to do is just to cut all around here so I would suggest just to pop in a little bit of tape just to keep it in place so it doesn't move and then I'm just going to run that one through my machine okay so you can get two of these out of a sheet of A4 I'm just going to take that off it should cut through both this is 300 gsm card stock if it is still attached which I think let's open this up here yeah mine's a tad tiny little bit attached I'll just grab my scissors here just along the bottom it's just a bit a thread there's hardly anything there and again you're not really cutting it's just like such as I can feel it's just so thin there we go okay it's a very little waste and we've got our two bases then you want to use this again to cut whatever color you want so I'm going to have this mint green for the base of my cupcake and then I've got the brown here for the base of my pudding because you've kind of lost a little bit of the size of it there because you've kept that attached but it just means when you put that over you get back that whole piece again okay so I'm going to stick these both down okay so I've just stuck the pudding one down so I actually want to emboss this piece so I've got this one here which is my zigzag embossing folder and I'm going to line it up with the bottom of the actual embossed part not the actual folder but just the pattern there and then I'm just going to run that one through my machine okay so now oh yeah it's turned out really well I just thought it was a nice pattern for the bottom of your cupcake you can see now you could ink that up distress it do whatever you want so now I'm going to stick that one onto this one okay so while they're drying I've then gone ahead and cut my toppings so there's the dye that will cut your icing and you could use this as a cupcake as well it doesn't have to be a pudding you change the colors I mean if I was to put that one on top of there you know there's no reason why you don't turn this one into some kind of cool looking cake you've got the cherry here which I've also cut you see it look really nice so but I've got the icing one here and you can see when it in when it die cuts it also embosses this here now I'm going to do a little bit of stenciling with the sprinkles and I'm going to put some glitter into this part here so we'll do that one in a moment so we'll just finish off the puddings and now I'm just going to lay that one right over the top just line it up like so okay so that's that one stuck down and then I've got my holly here which comes from this one where I'm also using this sentiment so a merry Christmas pudding and then the holly so I'm going to stamp the sentiment I'm just going to grab my stamp in platform here okay and then I'm just going to lay that down and you get a really nice sentiment printed there so I'm just going to ink it again so it's really nice and crisp there we go please with that of course you don't have to do it on the icing you could do it down here if you want and just bring the icing up a little bit high it's entirely up to you but now I have my little bit of holly here and I'm just going to pop that on the top though and there you have really quick but very effective Christmas card and it's very cute as well and you just open it up and inside there you've got loads of space to be able to obviously write your message so I really like that and it stands up perfectly as well I think these are just adorable very very cute so that is your Christmas pudding and then we're going to go back to this one here so I have here one of my new stencils and this one has this kind of wallpaper effect on the top there but then you also have sprinkles you've got dots and you've got these kind of wavy lines for the cake but you can do whatever you want with them I'm just going to ink this up just check my color yeah that's a really nice color it's going to work well and I'm just going to start going across this here so I'm just going to do bit by bit like so lift that off there we go you've got your sprinkles it looks so good and then I can see now underneath here so I can see exactly where they are so I'm just going to sit this one I want to come under here a little bit more so let's go maybe there we go if you work it out it will perfectly sit in so that's going to work out just right so now again like so there we go and then I just need to do that little corner at the top here so again just move the stencil around until you find the right piece of the puzzle there we go perfect really pleased with that one and now I'm going to go back over these sections here with my liquid glue and some glitter so just pop the glue right in where that embossed pattern is and then I've got this snow white glitter I seem to be using this a lot at the moment but it's just so nice and I'm just going to sprinkle that over the top top off in the excess and once all the rest of that glue dries clear but now you get your icing through the top and obviously once we've got our cherry on top there it's going to look very delicious makes me hungry okay and now we can attach this piece here so I'm just going to run the glue in this part here so just like the lower part of the cake of the icing sorry and then when you lay this down you'll want to line up so that it just conceals the top bit there so you'll find the top of this piece will be kind of in line with these pieces here where it kind of dips in and see now if I open it up you can see where it covers so see it just kind of hits the tops there and then I've got my sentiment here which I've just stamped and heat embossed with some white embossing powder again from the stamp set here and it's the Happy Bethday cupcake at the top there just popped it on some foam as well and I'm just going to attach that to the bottom and then I'm just going to pop this just off to the left hand side down the bottom there and then with this one I'm going to pop it on some foam as well just to give it a bit more dimension. What I've done is I've just die cut it with a red litter card then I've put a piece of white just copy paper behind so you get that highlight there and now we can stick this one just there and it will sit on that glue that's still drying anyway but there you have your cupcake Happy Bethday cupcake again really nice quick little cards handy ones to just keep in your stash I think they're great for if you've got a daughter or a son to give to their school friends I think that's super cute okay so those are the finished cards I think they look great so I just wanted to show you some other ways to use the dies hopefully this gives you some more inspiration and I look forward to seeing your versions so thanks for watching and I'll be back again very soon bye