 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 shoelace card, well that's what I'm calling it anyway, I actually saw this on Pinterest and it was on the Coastal Crafter, the one I saw was in blue and it's turned out brilliantly. I'll share the picture that I saw on my blog when I do that and I'll look back and see if there's a link to their version and I'll link that below this video as well so you can check it out. It's a really simple card, you can see there I've just kind of chopped off this side here, so I've done this as a 5x7, I'm not entirely sure, I think that one was like a 4x6 or something and yeah this is what I've done so it's just a really nice detail here, now of course you could, when I was doing this I thought actually you could change this for like a corset style as well, yeah there's definitely you know lots of ways that you can decorate this so it's very straightforward so let me show you how. Okay so as always I've got all my stuff here so that's the sentiment stamp set that I used for inside, it was this one here and it's the card making magic versus stamp set and then this is the stamp I used here so it's the high tops and you know they've got the laces on but if you've got any other trainer you know stamps that you might have yourself they would work as well, it's a lovely stamp set and you get all these other images as well which you would have seen me use in older tutorials and then for the sentiment I used the happy birthday here and then obviously the other one inside so I'll link everything as always below. Now one thing I'm going to do differently with this one and it wasn't until I was doing it and I went stick it down I thought this would be really nice to have eyelets all around them so I've got these ones here so I've got 16 silver eyelets and I just think it's going to be a really nice touch I think it's just going to really add some nice texture make it a real tactile card so for the card blank I've got this gorgeous like lime kind of color here so this is a piece of eight by seven and along the eight inch side you want to score it three okay and then just fold and burnish and that will give us our card blank. I've then got this piece here which is to go inside which is four and three quarters by six and three quarters and that's just going to go inside like so and then I've got this strip here which is just how I'm decorating the side because when you close it that's going to be like so and then you've got the tag I guess hanging down there but that's how I'm going to decorate it this is just half an inch by six and three quarters in the holographic then a quarter of an inch in the white by the same length and then one eighth or something just drop it down so you've got some strips there then for the actual kind of lace part you want two pieces that are one and three eighths of an inch by six and three quarters okay so what you want to do first of all is just mark where you want to have your holes it's up to you how many you do but what I've done is along the long side is I put a marker every three quarters of an inch so pencil mark at three quarters of an inch then one and a half and two and a quarter then three and three and three quarters four and a half five and a quarter and six okay then you can see where I've got my pencil marks there then put the other one underneath so they're both like so and then using my whole punch I'm just lining up with each of the pencil lines on that side actually as far in as I can go like so you want to keep them both together so that they all line up when we go to stick it down so just following the pencil marks okay now you can rub out those pencil marks if you want but all you need to do is just flip it over like so so now you can see we've got our shoelace bit I don't know what you would even call it but yeah that's what you want so now I'm going to set all of the eyelets so I'm just going to use this one here which I think is already in place this is the Cropper Dial but there's um there's lots on the market to do this job for you so I'm just going to pop it in I haven't done this for a while make sure it's on the right way and then yeah I think it's going to look great it's going to look so nice just I think we'll finish it off because you know that's how you'll you look at your trainers or your converse and stuff you know lots of them have this finish and I just think it's going to set it off so I'm just going to go and finish all of these okay so let me just bring them up look how good they look now really pleased with that so now I'm just going to flip it over and I'm going to run some foam tape on each side just to raise it up because I've still got the eyelets there and by the time you put your ribbon through it will you know it does give it quite a lot of dimension so it's good to kind of raise it up so it's all the same height and lots of people asked about this this is the Arteza tape roll which I've started using I wanted to wait till I got through my other rolls before I started on that one okay so I've got this lovely ribbon here and I first of all it's literally just like tiny shoes so I'm going to go in from the bottom and I'm going from the outside in festival I've got way too much here but I'd rather have too much than not enough I literally just scraped it with that pink ribbon because it was the perfect match okay like so and then you're just going to go under and then out across the opposite one there so I'm just going under don't worry too much about you know if they're too tight or anything because we can sort all that out in a minute you just for now just kind of start feeding them through and then you're going to go across I mean you can do this any way you like if you've got any teenagers I know at the moment it's quite the rage doing like really cool kind of different ways to you know lace up your trainers so if you do have children that are doing that then I'm sure you could maybe do one of the ways that they do theirs but I'm just going to do a pretty standard straightforward way of tying your shoes so I'm just going to carry on doing this okay so that's all done so I've got both of them coming out the top there what I'm going to do is stick one side down first of all and then you can pull this one kind of line it up where you need it like so all right so I'm going to take the backing off of this one first and you just want to get a nice even border so this side and just kind of pull it about like a little gap in the middle and then just bring the rest of you can see I've just made sure it's just nicely centered in this piece here like so so now I'm going to stick this and this down okay and then I'm going to pop a hole in this one I've already done that one there I've got the twine because I did attach it with the twine but I'm wondering whether I might just pop this straight through and I just let it hang down I mean I didn't put any tape underneath it or anything like that so you know if you want to secure it a little bit more than by all means so that bow I actually stuck on separately but I'm wondering this one because I've got so much left over I can just do it all in one go actually okay actually I think that turned out okay just keeping it all joined together so you know it's up to you you can attach your bow you know separately or just keep it as I did so I'm just going to stamp my sentiment always leave this to last minute I think that's okay I'm happy with that and there you have it yeah so I hope you've enjoyed my take on this card I think it's turned out brilliantly and I'm definitely be making some more and I think it's going to be a popular one with my friends for their children who are all starting to come into their teenage years now so I think these are going to be popular so thank you for watching and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye