 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really sweet, it's a Christmas card, so it's about the fourth Christmas card I think I've made now, but this is using supplies from the latest Kits 12 from Paid Craft Society, so it's the Daisy May kit and it's just so adorable, all the stamped images. So I made this one during my latest at Facebook Live and it was just really nice to kind of spend a couple of hours just coloring and chatting to everybody, but I thought I would put it into a YouTube video and obviously it'd be much much quicker. So what I've got here is this kind of little flap, I just wanted to do something different with the letterbox here, so I've turned it into this kind of little flap and then you open it up and you have all that space inside which I've decorated as well to write your message. I have added berries and some glossy accents here which I didn't do during the live and I've also built up more of a cluster here with some more of the sprigs, I added the holly, I've added that onto the top of the letterbox there as well and obviously all the new bedrocks and everything are dry now as well, so you can see all of that dimension and there's some fake snow as well which also comes in the kit. So it's really easy to make, you can use any die you want here, it's kind of like a pastoral die cut so anything you have really and it doesn't have to be Christmas of course, so let me show you how to make it. Okay so all you're going to need is two, I've got these two pre-made six by six card blanks, so whatever size card you want you just want two of that size and basically I'm going to stick this one over that one that will close and then this is what I'm going to partially die cut my piece on. Okay so with this one here you want to flip it over and you're going to work within the left hand square rectangle like I said whatever size you're doing it's entirely up to you. So this is the kit, there are also the words, it comes in a big box you get colour pencils as ribbons as all sorts in it but I just try and condense as much as I can down into this envelope so I've already taken bits and pieces out because I've been using them, there's tons of papers there which I need to be using as well that's how the kit looks but I'm going to be using the die festival, so these are all the die so I want the letterbox die and I want to sit it so that the bottom cut line is going to catch on the bottom of the card and I want this to go as close to the score line here as possible because it needs to stay partially connected which you can see on that one there okay so just going to grab a little bit of my tape so whatever die you've got you might have an edge die that you just cut all the way down here because this is all going to cut away so you know it's entirely up to you what you do here bring that in as close as I can pop some tape on I'm just going to run that through my machine okay so what you want to do is lay it on your plate and because you only want to partially die cut some of that die what we want pull this out here so I just whatever's between my cutting plates is what will cut now the bottom is off the card so that bottom cut line is hanging off the bottom here anyway but I want to make sure this all here come up a bit higher all of this side stays attached so I'm going to bring this up my plates right up as to that just before this cut line here all of this will cut but that won't so just always remember when you're doing this whatever's in between your plates will cut and all the rest will stay attached so just run that one through doesn't matter about any of acts I'm going to cut it all away so I'm now going to grab my scissors I'm going to remove the score line cut down and then I'm just going to kind of just join that up like so now I've got this piece okay now I've already stamped and colored this one here so this is I've colored all of these using my black widow colored pencils but that will now just stick directly over there and you can just see where it's attached but we do all that in a moment so I want to do a little bit of inking but now that will stick behind here and then we'll just wrap around the front there except whatever your edges here that will just obviously wrap around at the front so I'm going to add some glue onto the back of this one here and just make sure that can wrap around nicely and if you need to trim anything away then do so so again whilst that's kind of drying I'm going to stick this one inside so if yours is a 6x6 card then this will be five and three quarters if I shot brought they might be a bit smaller so you just need to cut it down accordingly but I'm going to pop some glue on the back of this one and let that dry and then the sentiment that I decided to use inside so I don't actually think I use this on the live but it was from this one which I got last year and it's the crafters companion the warm wishes and you get lots of sentiments I remember I brought four of them together and they're just so handy but I've also just got some new ones from card making magic and which I'll be sharing as well soon but I'll just ink that one up and this one here says have yourself a merry little Christmas oh and I've just caught it so hopefully try and hide the little ink mark that I just made there we go just got away with it I just knocked it just under the M there but you wouldn't know so there we go so that's the inside of my card already so now I need to decorate the front so on this one here you'll see I've got this tree bark background which I just thought was really nice and it added some texture so it's this one here by craft work cards unfortunately this one sold out but there are lots of companies that do similar ones I'm sure you'll be able to find something and if I can find something similar I'll link it below but I just put in a piece of cardstock there and I've run that through my machine so you'll see that lovely image that I've got and now I'm just going to tidy up the edges and then I'll just cut that down to size and I've got my mat here I'm just going around there on all the edges first just getting them darker than the rest and then without re-inking I'm just gonna brush over the rest so you get that dark edge and then that's slightly highlighted centre part you can see now all that nice pattern there so just some quick distressing I'm going to keep the brush there because I'll need that just to distress a few more edges on the card now in the kit you get this lovely burlap and I've also got this just hanging around so you'll see along the bottom there how I've got the two together so I'm just going to take this one away flip it over and I'm just going to pop a little bit of tape at either end on the backside catch it there wrap it around keeping it nice and straight nice and torqued and then just trim off the excess you get loads on here that I've still got tons left and then I'm going to do the same I'm going to do so struggled on the live with it sticking to the burlap so I'm actually going to stick it just a little bit further back just next to it there and then I'm going to do the same with the red ribbon and just trim off the excess keep that bit because it's still enough for another card now because that's quite raised and I want to attach it to my card I'm going to just add some foam pads just to kind of match the same dimension from the ribbon and then that way you won't have any kind of sinking with your card it won't dip so putting quite a few on you can use any you know you might have foam actual rolls these are just some foam squares which I've had for a while so okay so I'm just going to sit that over the top make sure I've got a nice equal border like so and that's going to fold now what I did do actually during the live is just added an extra score line just to accommodate the bulk from the ribbon so on here so I've got the score line there and just line it up with a track then I just went to the next one just lining it up like so and then I can just carefully burnish that and now it would just sit really nicely over your card there so next I can now start building everything up so I'm going to be sticking that on there see how it just it's so cute and then I've got all of these bits so I've cut everything this time so I didn't have it all you know kind of ready to go during the live but I'm going to have a cluster of the branches kind of like that trim off any excess okay I got a pancetta which I didn't add during the live but I'm going to have that back there I'm just going to recreate the same card I don't often do it but I really like it and I know they're all going to get used over Christmas time so I'm going to have that one and then the robin will sit possibly there and then you get these in the kit so they're really nice they've got this kind of faux stitching around and you've got all kinds of ones there so you've got warm winter wishes I think I'm going to use on this one seasons greetings peace love and joy Mary and bright happy Christmas which I used on the other one so this one I'm going to have warm up winter no let's do actually because I want it to be Christmas Easter because warm winter wishes can literally be I could use that in January or something let's do Christmas cheer and what I did just with a nail file you can get rid of any of the little pips that you might have from where it connected to the cardstock but also because this is a coated cardstock if you just rough up the edges like so and then with that brush without putting any more ink on it just give you that little distressed look and it will just grip really well to the card probably see it better in the photos which just now got a little bit of a brown frame so that will go there on some foam I've got my hot glue going on as well this time and then I'm going to have all these bits just the same as this this is what I'm going to recreate so I'm going to stick everything down and then I'm going to come back and we do the Nuvo drops the glossy accents and the white on the the white faux snow because you do get this as well in the kit which is your fake snow and also what I added because I found that it went a bit translucent you could see the red from the pillow box underneath it so I used my Posca pen over the top and it just really you know brought that kind of faux snow to life it just added that real opaque white to it so I'll add that as well but I'm going to go and get this all stuck down now please with this and then all I just add a little bit of dimension I mean I know it's going to go in an envelope and it gets a bit squashed but you'd be surprised some of it will still kind of you know roll up a bit so I've got that one to go on the letter box but I don't want to add it yet until I've added the snow because it's going to go over the top okay so I'm happy with that then I'm going to add the snow then the Nuvo drops and the glossy accents so like I said you've got it here I'm just going to use some copy paper and then I've just used the Cosmic Shimmer glue and I'm basically just going to color everywhere where that white snow has been drawn in so I'm just filling it all in you've got a little bit of time with this when it goes on obviously thick like I'm doing it's not going to dry straight away I'm going to do a bit set of times I'm just going to do this first I think I did also do along the top of here and along the top of the sign as well like so and then I'm just going to take this bit out here I put it in just so I remember what it is because it does come double-bagged and I'm just going to hold this up and just sprinkle it all over tap off any excess now you can just see all that dimension looks really really nice so I'm now going to carry on and add snow along the tops of the trees again if I bring it up can you see it all on that looks really nice but when it dries obviously at the moment the glue is very white because it's wet but when that glue dries clear you then start to see some of the coloring underneath and that's when I then went over it with my Posca pen so I won't get around to doing that now because this is going to take obviously a bit of time to dry but that's how I got that real opaque color and you can see again if I just bring this one in you'll see just how fluffy that looks as well now another alternative to this is this stuff which I've used last year on other tutorials or projects and it's the Cosmic Shimmer fluffy stuff and you put this on and then your heat set it and it turns into a foam like a fluffy foam and it's brilliant for the snow effect so you know if you do want to you know if you don't have this kit and you would like to get some snow effects then use that it's really nice so now I'm just going to clear this away and I'm going to finish it off with the I'm going to stick that on now and then add the Nuvo drops for the berries there which I'm using this one and some of the glossy accents in the center of the Ponsettia okay so just let you see inside one more time because obviously I'm going to close that up now and I'm just going to keep this flat someone mentioned about a peg during the live because I just put a heavy bottle on it but I'm going to keep that there because it keeps everything flat and now I can start with the Nuvo drops just always make sure you've got no there in your Nuvo drops because otherwise it will splat I think we're good to go there so I'm just going to there are kind of they have been drawn in the berries but I've probably gone over a lot of them so I'm just going to just pop a couple try and do different size blobs some bigger than others do a few little groupings of threes as well but just where all the Holly leaves are it's a real tactile card you've got the obviously the texture from the snow you've got the dimension from the Nuvo drops you've got the shine from the glossy accents that's that done and then this is the glossy accents I'll just put a blob in the center of the flowers just get in there like so and I also for some reason I just fancy doing the inside of the actual letterbox there goes on very cloudy but that will dry completely clear and then I also just put two tiny little dots on the robin's eyes there and that's it so now I can pop my Holly just underneath that bit there because I see the glue is still drying as well but keep the peg on for the minute I'll show you the other card again but I just bring that up again now you see all the Nuvo drops there you can see when this dries clear there and also this will all dry completely clear there we go it looks so so nice so this one over again just so you can see it better that's how it will look once I add like I said the Posca pen onto there you can see everything dry how clear that's now gone and all of the berries you can touch them and they keep their dimension yeah there's a couple of cards I've made or the first cards that I've made actually using the newest kit from Papercraft Society I'll link everything below there are still this kit available well there was as I was making this this video someone said in the group actually I didn't think there was and then I saw that there were so I'll link it below but also at the moment there's still the subscription still open for the next kit which is kit 11 kit 13 which is by Helen Griffin and it's Christmas again and it's got nutcrackers and just some really really cute Christmas theme kind of images and you can see all that in the unboxing video so that will be linked below so you can check it out see if it's something you'd like to receive so thank you for watching and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye