 Hi 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 lovely Christmas card. So this is my first Christmas related project. It's much earlier than I've done before but then I wasn't on the TrimCraft design team last year. So this is using TrimCraft product and I just thought I wanted to start off with something that was pretty out there, pretty spectacular. So this is actually a requested card by Vanessa. She requested me to make this card from Mixed Up Crafters Group and it was from a Crafts You Print picture that she sent me. This is very bulky so it will fit perfectly in my 5x7 envelope boxes and I will link those up here so you can just go to that. But also you can make this any size you want so this is working on a 5x7 card but it's very easy to adapt. So let's get into it. This is how it looks. I've used these lovely toppers, got a nice gold ribbon there and then I've done the herringbone technique. On the back here is where you will write your message. So I've done a little bit of gold heat embossing. I've used one of my Crafts Companion stamps and everything I've used today will be linked below. Then when you open up the bow this all kind of sprays out and it is the five star fold card. Okay so basically it's five cards so this is one card here and it's that style. Now I'm still going to decorate this further but I will add pictures in my blog because like I said it's early on I may want to personalise this so I don't want to do too much with it now but the bases are here and then you can go and do what you want with it. But that hangs within this section here so you have all this room either side but these cards have been done, these are the centre pop out cards so it's just that but you do it five more times and you stick them all together. So there's this side here which matches these stars. These stars are the one and a half inch stars that I just cut from my Cricut machine. They're the default stars that they have on the file there so I just cut those and doubled them up but any dies that you have you can obviously use for this and you might want to have one piece hanging down and then here you've got that one there. These papers are gorgeous and then this one here and then this end here you then tie off to keep it together so it kind of becomes a little bit almost like I guess like an ornament you know so but they don't have to keep it like this if they want to close it down they can or just you know put it back in the box so you'd have that bit maybe facing at the back so you may want this one here to be your main one with your maybe Merry Christmas or whatever sentiment you're going to put on it but also you can use this for any occasion it doesn't have to be for Christmas this would make an amazing birthday card you know or a really grand wedding card so don't feel because I'm bringing it out as a Christmas card now that that's what it needs to be because no just change your papers and it's easily adapted and then again this and then you just undo it and then bring it back around these will all fall in if they catch just push something like that and then just tie it back off again okay so let me show you how to make this pretty easy card okay so this is the paper pad I've used it's the Twilight Wishes it's the Dovecraft premium collection really really lovely palette of colors that those real rich colors with that gold I just think it's really really lovely so that's the one I've used there then I have used for my ovals that I'm cutting out inside each one it's the one two three four five six seventh large or well depending how you look at it I'm going to say it's the seventh smallest oval from the card making magic A5 oval dies again they will be linked below I'll give you the exact measurement of that one in a moment so I've already gone ahead and done a huge chunk of the card because it is like I said it's five cards in one so once you've done one card then you just stick them all together so the topper here so I've done my front cover but I've done this really nice the herringbone technique and I'll link that tutorial up here because that's separate and I want to keep this video most of my videos as short as I can so if I just link you to other videos it's easier that way so click on that one if you want to be able to see how I done this background loads of you do enjoy this it's a really nice one for using up your scraps so I had a lot of leftover pieces when I done this bigger card so I thought well you know I'll just do this so it's really easy then I got a couple of circles there I've already put this ribbon in I'm going to talk you through all that when we get to it and then I've used one of those lovely sentiment toppers although the wow factor is in the card when we open it up I did want there to still be you know quite a nice front cover and I think this is a great way to show off the papers I've also pulled out the twilight wishes the little wooden shapes these are the baubles and the bows there I may well use those I'm not entirely sure yet for every card because you're going to have five cards all together for every card you also want two pieces of ten by seven I'm using paper that paper pack is paper and I would advise you to have a decorative paper rather than a card because there are so many parts this once it all comes together you want it to not be too bulky I mean there is a bulk but you don't want it to be too much and I find the paper works so much better so two pieces for each card and this is my five by seven pre-made card base so just ignore that I have already done the front cover on this one yours will be plain just keep them plain for the minute and once I put them all together and show you then you'll know which one to be your front cover because one of them you will need to add this onto it as well as what I'm going to show you in the middle so you don't actually need the scoreboard for this so I'm going to get rid of that and what I found easiest to create all those center pieces is to just fold it by hand it was much much easier so you want to decide what ones you want to have as your outer decorative paper and your inner decorative paper so for this one I'm going to have this one as my outer so what you want to do is fold it in half with the pattern on the outside I think I've cut mine slightly crooked there but it's fine okay so with the pattern on the outside fold it in half then fold it back on itself so you're folding this outer edge to this edge here right up to the score line where you just folded it okay flip it over and do the same with that one so now you should have this W okay and that means you've got even panels then with this one which is going to be my inner piece I'm just going to fold this in half now mine are going to cover your the whole of your card I'm not going to have any mats and layers I'm not going to have any borders anything like that so this piece here is going to go and cover the whole inside of this card like so this piece once we cut that middle oval out is going to be then stuck on the sides here okay and it's going to have that oval cut out and that's where we're going to have the dangle so okay so I'm going to use my kalau glue you don't have to use this one I do recommend it for this project because you're sticking so much together this not only makes it very very strong because this is paper and this is a quite a flimsy card base actually this these ones here they were quite cheap I think I actually picked them up from the pound shop but once I add this obviously it makes it very strong but it also there's no warping whatsoever because there's no water in this it's not a water base it's a solvent base so that's my recommendation I do have my Dawn Bibby my precision glues and stuff but I actually just forgiving it if anything that just that stiffness is it's just brilliant it really does make the card feel very professional and like a shop brought kind of card so I'm going to cover one side first because there is I guess a little kind of a way to stick this down because what you don't want is there to be any buckling on the inside so if you do one at a time and when you stick this down keep this on a right angle because you are never going to open the card up like this and if you stick it flat and then bring it up all this is going to buckle so if you stick it and keep it at a right angle so I've got that right up into that corner and then going to add some more glue onto the front of this one and then rather than fold that down flat I'm going to bring it up and again keep it on that right angle and just then spread that one out again ignore that I've got that ribbon there you can go right in there and get a really nice corner because all that's going to happen now is it's going to close and it's going to open no more than that it's probably going to only actually be there but like I said if you were to stick it all down when it's flat and then bring it up you're not going to have this all nice like this it's going to be you might even have a gap but if you see there I haven't got any gap at all because I've stuck it and been able to you know push it right into that corner and again you just get a really nice finish with your card okay so you want to do that and all those these two pieces here because this is for each card remember so you need to double it so you've got enough for five I'll give the full quantities in my blog but everything I do here you need to make obviously four more because that's how many cards we need five in total so yeah so stick that down on all the other four cards that you have then with this piece here I'm going to grab my oval now I have already folded it we are now going to flatten it again but because it's a paper it won't crack so this oval make sure yeah they are up the right way this oval is going to sit so you've got an equal amount over this center score line here so there's my fold and this is going to go over there so I want to make sure I've got the same amount it's about three quarters of an inch with this one here again I'll give you the measurements in a second let's just get this in place so I'll put one there okay so this one's five and seven eighths long and then the width of this oval is about three and a half inches so something around that size will will be good so now I'm going to run that through my die machine I do need to use my bigger one because this is seven inches but as I did set the very beginning you can make this any size card that you want once you see how the process is done it's very easy to you know adapt it for yourselves for your card sizes that you like to do so I'm just going to run that through my machine okay so that's cut nicely and now fold it up like so just kind of reinforce those folds again now if you want to so I was thinking about doing it but then I thought I don't want white there's you know there's no white on my card this is now going to go like that oh they're upside down let's do it the right way up like that okay so you get to appreciate this lovely pattern paper on the outside and then that on the inside however you can also fold these inwards okay and you could stick it like that making sure you butt them right up in that corner so you don't see any of that so you would have white so if you've got something that you really want to pop on the front then you can do that but I don't know there's no white in this collection and I just thought it looked a bit too sharp it just looked too bright against it but you can you see how that will look against it but I prefer for me for this card that I'm doing I'm going to have it with them that way I just need to fold them again but see what I mean this doesn't crack it's you know paper's a lot more softer so it's a bit more forgiving when you kind of want to fold in all directions but yeah I'm going to keep one like that but you can do it the other way now before I stick that down you want to pop your dangle piece in now I'm having this hanging freely but you can join it right up but the reason I'm not doing that is because if you have that completely joined when your card closes whatever you've got here so if you imagine because this will be the outside of your card if that's nice and straight these these bits are going to stick out they're going to be sticking out like that and these are only small so if you've got something bigger it could stick right out and then it's not going to fit in your you know your box envelope so I'm just having them dangling freely so on the back make sure again my cardstock is the right way up I'm going to put a very small bead of hot glue just there and then I'm just going to sit that over the top and just push that down okay so now I have that dangling nicely in the center all right so whatever you want but again you're going to need now to do that on all the others and then that is now going to stick so it's like that so I'm going to pop my glue on one side first and do it all step you know one at a time because it's just easy that way okay so I'm going to just lay that down slide it right up to the edge because again I'm not using I'm not having any mats and layers everything that I'm doing on this one is flush with the card so bring that right up and then on this side again just going to pop my glue okay so you will now have five that look like this now I will be decorating further but I'm not going to do that yet it's still too early and I may want to personalize this a little bit more so at the minute they're just going to be staying like this so ignore this okay ignore that I've put that on just imagine that you've just got five like this right now so I'm going to bring this in because this is what I've already gone ahead and so now here are my four other cards so I have one here two three and four and all you're going to do is stick each side so this is one card here and you're just going to stick the right hand side of that card to the left hand side of the next card so oh there's that one there and this is turned into chipboard this is so strong because I've used the Kalau glue and you're just sticking each side together so now I've got these two open sides here ready for this to go in okay now because this is the last one so you'll do your four like this your last one you're just going to stick the right hand side just this side to this one here because that is then going to become the front of this card when we have it closed and we present it they will then open it up and then what will happen is we're going to join those two together with the ribbon so this is going to be where I'm going to write my sentiment and I've got a piece there which I'll talk you through in a moment so what I'm going to do now is stick this one onto here and it will complete the five star card and then I'm going to stick this bit on with the ribbon and then that will close like that and you can see this is a wow card this is brilliant but it also then nicely closes and you will imagine these will all fold in don't worry it does that's because they're all hanging freely they all fold in and go nice and flat but that will be the front this is going to have a big bow here and then you've got this spine where they're stuck together so let's get this one stuck down so I'm going to cover this so just spend some time making sure you get it all lined up okay okay so that is now all stuck then what I've got so this piece here is five by seven and then this piece here is four and three quarters by six and three quarters and that's going to cover that back one there completely okay so before I stick that down I want to add some ribbon I want to sandwich a piece of ribbon in between this one here so I've already gone and stuck this one under here so do the whatever detail you're doing on the front cover and then this is stuck on some foam adhesive this disc with this sandwiched in between okay so all I'm going to do here is I'm going to use some of this glue which I cannot see there it is it is on there and I'm going to keep this attached because I'm just going to cut it down the middle but I'm just going to stick that in the center like so so I'm just going to let that dry a minute now when I stick this over the top it's going to stick right over where I've marked where I've stamped that sentiment so it shouldn't interfere when someone goes to write on it this one here which was stamped using the this is one of those crafters companion Christmas ones that I brought this is the winter wishes and it's lovely you get so many big sentiments well they've done a whole collection I've got all five of them this is the winter wishes one and it's this one here I hope your Christmas is filled with love and laughter but you've got lovely big sentiments and as I said when I got these these are the ones you're going to see me use in pretty much all my Christmas cards this year and probably next as well because they're just timeless so this one is hoping your Christmas year is filled with love and laughter so I just used my gold embossing powder and just the same papers from throughout from that collection so I'm just going to again stick this down with my cull out okay and then I'm just going to cut that there and tie this off and just check it all works and there you have it it seals up nicely on the back it is obviously going to be where you'd write your message because once even if they don't see that when they open it up it's going to naturally all fall out like this and then come around and once they do this they're going to see the back and see your message but then what you do is you tie it off this end am I still drying a little bit there so just do it loosely like so and then they have this lovely decorative piece I am going to decorate further like I said I'll probably do things on these panels I might have a nice merry Christmas I've got those bright rosa ones which I'll probably have hanging down you'll either see that in the pictures when this goes up or I'll update you on Facebook you know when I get around to actually sending this one out but it's a real solid piece and it is lovely it's a shame every time I bring it up though you don't really appreciate it but once I've got more decoration on this I just wanted to show you the basics because everybody's going to have their own thing to decorate so you don't need to watch me do all that but you will see it in the photos and then here is my box envelope for the five by seven and it fits in there perfectly okay and then I can decorate that further as and when but I'll keep that in there now to protect it so yeah so there you have it guys so I hope you've enjoyed it I hope it's inspired you to start making Christmas cards I can't believe this is my first one now done so thank you for watching today I hope you've enjoyed it if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye