 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 these really fun cards which are filled with gel so you can use all different kinds of gels and I'll talk about those in more detail but look how fun they are they've got bubbles in them which look like the real bubbles in the pond or the sea I have done a water filled card before and I'll link that one up here because that was really fun but this one with the gel the I love love the gel I think more because when the card is you know upright it doesn't you know sink the water in the other one which actually did work really well with that style card that I done so it had the otters on it so it did look good but this one here it just stays there and I just love it I've been playing with it and I've tested this I've had the gel in here for a good week and it doesn't leak just like I did with the water ones as well but I'm going to show you how to make them also this one here you can see I've done this is all using the new paper discovery underwater world collection again I'll show you all of that as well but look how cool they are and these are underneath this again I'll show you all of that in a moment so this is birthday fishes and then inside I've just kept you know the theme there and stamped one of the little lilies with the pads and this one here I don't know how well the glitter is picking up but I've covered a die cut in vellum and then in black just paper pieced it a little bit and covered it with my sparkle pen but there's loads of dimension this is all embossed it's just a really lovely card to make so let me show you how okay so this is what I'm using so I've got here these tidy z these are just food and freezer bags so I've got the ones with the double zip the well the double closure there which yeah double seal that's the word I'm looking for and again I will talk through the measurements and everything about in a moment but this is some of the new collection it's lovely underwater world and there we've got into the pond die set and this is the elements die set so I've mixed those two because I've used these fish on one of them and then I've used pretty much everything apart from the kingfisher and the frogs and the bird on the other cards so that's those and then the stamp set I love the stamp set it's got some really nice sentiments and this is the sentiment stamp set and then I've also used this stamp set here on both the cards which is around the pond and then this is my favourite probably possibly my favourite ever embossing folder I just love it and you'll well you'll see anyway and then also the vellum the vellum packs are beautiful and I've already cut because there is actually it's probably that doesn't show too well but the vellum under here there's more bubbles can you kind of see the pictures of the bubbles there so that's from this one you can just see there and then on this one here there's actual lines so it's like the you know when you see all the kind of the green plants kind of on a real like um clear flowing stream and they all kind of drift down in the same direction it's that effect which I think you can just see it kind of through there as well but that is the around the pond vellum papers again as always everything will be linked below but this here is brilliant because it embosses and cuts so I'm going to take that off because we're going to need that in a moment so this is a six by six card so I've gone and just cut a piece of 12 by 6 and then scored at six inches and folded it in half so that's that piece then to cut this here so this is a six by six embossing folder but I've cut my paper down to five and three quarters squared because I want a border okay so you'll see there and again you might not have noticed but you can see the border there just you know I like borders and then I've got this piece here which is a five and a half squared so it's decorative vellum if you don't haven't got vellum even just a blue plain paper would look you know good it's just if you put well I'll talk about that now actually so I'll get rid of the scoreboard so the gel that I've got here I pick this up for 79p I got it from the it was like a a bargain shop but um I mean you can go to the pound shop but they're a pound but you can get them even cheaper and um this one's already blue there is clear as well but like I done with the water if you get when you get your sandwich bag okay so we're going to be I'm going to be cutting mine down but you could probably just fold this one in if you use some foam again we're going to more detail in a moment but one when you've got your sandwich bag open it up and grab an ink cube or some you know you might have your ink refill inks and just drip a few drops in there or just smear the pad of your um ink cube inside here and then add the water or the clear gel okay so but you can use hand gels you know your um might have your anti-back kind of things those gels there's all kinds but this is really thick so again I'm not going to link this because well I just can't but just look for a cheap one and then you just want to squeeze it down into one corner like so it's up to you how much I mean you don't want loads but I mean you can see how much I'm filling there because it will all spread out and we're going to be kind of pushing it all in a little bit so I'm going to just leave that there we'll go back to that in a minute I just want to do the embossing on this piece here so like I said this is slightly smaller than the six by six folder so I'm just going to bring that in so it's got equal um you know overhang of the embossing folder there and just get that one run through okay so now this bit will come out and then look at this gorgeous pattern it's so good this would be great for tunnel cards as well so the one that I used the paper discovery the kit that I had and it was like the whimsical kind of forest this would be brilliant and again oh I just love it when there's just so many ideas and ways to use things so that's how it looks but I did like I've used a silver I think it's a centurion of pearl I brought it from an independent store and she'd obviously split up lots of cardstock but you kind of get you know familiar with cardstocks and I've got other centurion of pearl and this feels like it is so it's almost like an oyster gray kind of color if that is such a thing anyway I've just got an ink pad here and I'm just going to just kind of lightly kiss all the sides and it just creates a shadow and more depth if anything it actually shows up all that detail even more so I'm just going to go all around the edges here and I'm just going around the middle as well so whatever it is that you're using for your window if you've embossed it or even if you haven't just lightly you know if you've got white just putting a very light gray against it will just really transform it and then just kind of I'm not going to add any more ink but just brush over the rest now you just really notice all of that detail so that's that bit done okay so back to this again now I want to make sure that this is five by five I just found that that was a nice size for this six by six so if you haven't got one of these mine's just well it's boiling hot now but this is the we are memory keepers fuse tool and I use this when I made the water card and it will basically seal your edges now this is just a sandwich bag they do have actual you know plastic pockets and stuff that they sell with it as well and I did do the December daily and I made my own pockets using it so that's what I'm going to be using but if you don't have that what you want to do is line it up with your grid or whatever it is you've got one two three four five and then kind of fold this down okay obviously seal it make sure there's no air in it because you know it's just going to be too bulky otherwise so just get it to that five by five size so just fold that one down and that one you don't want to cut any bulk off of here because it would just all ooze out so that's one way to do it okay but it will be a little bit bulky but if you add your foam which I've done all under here this is this is a sheet of foam if you double up your foam then that should level everything off but I'm not doing that so what I want to do is I'm just going to grab a ruler and one two three four five I'm just going to draw a line just with a marker just roughly on the plastic I have to be exact with this and then across one two three four five yeah that's right just go across there and I'm actually going to fuse these two points or sides together don't need to worry about all of that because that's obviously already done and yeah we can let all the air out in a moment so my fuse tool is nice and hot I'm going to just use my normal metal ruler it does come with one and we're just going to lay that down actually I'm going to bring in my board because I forgot to do that last time you want to make sure you've got something that can hold the heat and then you want to go slow and it needs to be boiling hot okay so this is very very hot and you can smell it as well not like terrible but you know when it's warm so I'm just going to very slowly run this down here okay and then I'm going to do the same you can see there it's just come away but that will be fused together you might get the odd little gap but I find I've you know over practice the slower you go the better the result okay and then what I also like to do is on the corners is I just take off corner and again I'm just going to do this corner because it's got one side that I have obviously had to fuse make sure I've got no plastic melting on there when it cools down you can just pick it off as well okay I'm not going to turn it off just yet and taste in case and taste in case I've got any you know gaps but now I'm just going to bring in some tissue I'm just going to start spreading it out and then you can kind of go up and just start pushing the gel against the sides probably could have put a little bit more in this one but it looks like oh no can you see it's just there all of this is fine this is fine but I've got a little bit there but in a minute I'm going to be flattening the about quarter of an inch all the way around the edge there so I'm not too worried if I had the odd leak because you're really going to seal it in a minute as well with your foam and everything but I'm just going to very lightly you can hear where the gels kind of hit against it I think we're okay let it cool for a second yeah definitely could have put a bit more in this one but it's fine and then I can just go back up there again yeah that's all sealed now perfect so it's you know pretty quick to do the practice more practice you have I probably just went my hand did slip a little bit so it probably went a bit quick there but the key tip for this is slow go slow with it and it works fine so I'm happy oh actually I need the tissue what yeah so I just said what I'm going to do so you want to just bring it in just kind of rub I don't know why I'm using the tissue I don't need to but just in case anything does come out but just push the gel kind of away from all of the sides just because you're going to add some tape to this to stick it in place so I just find that it's just a little bit easier to add the tape if you haven't got I must have another little leak there and just see a little bit of gel coming out but I just find it easier to add the the tape if it's flat I think I've got a little gap here it only just needs a little bit you're just melting that plastic there you go I'm not going to worry about checking that one because I know it'll be all right but now I have got just a flat kind of you know area around all four sides there I know that's kind of hard to see on camera but it will make all make sense in a moment okay so then I've got my card I've done all of them as top folding I just kind of I like that style and yeah well I've done it so you want to stick your vellum festival down here or your pattern paper whatever it is that you might have so I'm just going to use some double sided tape and just run a strip around all four sides obviously whatever tape you're using make sure it doesn't crawl into the aperture space that you have so just check I know this is going to be the right size because I've used this on the other two but um I'll just explain to you so you imagine obviously that's all down there when your window goes over you don't want to see any tape I mean all my areas are quite thick it's a bit thinner there but you can see them you know you're not going to see any of that so just bear that in mind so you now want to stick that onto your card okay then I have gone and kind of stamped and coloured a ton of images I've got things for other projects in here as well but I'm just going to pull out all the bits for this one okay so you can see here just how wonderful they all look there's the kingfisher I was going to use it but I've decided not to so put that one away but look at this one is it the herring I'm not massively confident with my bird names anyway so you want your fish or whatever it is that you want to have under the pond or under the under the pond under the water so I'm going to have these two here I have got another one I've done that in alcohol markers but I didn't quite like it whereas these are all in my artesia pencils so I think I prefer that one okay so I'm kind of happy with that how have I got those so that one yeah let's have it a little bit different so we're going to do that and then again just check that you know you're happy with where they're positioned so I think they're good so I'm going to just pop a little bit of glue on the back change your orientation there I've just prefer it that way I think the fish fit better and then before we stick that down this is now when you want to stick this piece so where you've kind of flattened all of the sides it's easier now to run your double sided tape now you know I might still have a little kind of hole with this but because it's the gel and the way I'm sticking it together it's not going to seep out and I should have said at the beginning I don't recommend posting these cards along with the water card I think they're best to be given you know by hand unfortunately not all of our you know delivery guys women whoever you know are careful and I've had things come through my door with footprints on them so I dread to think what's happened so I'd hate for you know for someone to receive this and you know be all squashed but also with the gel it's not going to just all leak out easily whereas with the water you have to be a hundred percent sure that that's not going to to split that it hasn't got any holes whereas the gel is a little bit more forgiving but like I said I'm going to be sealing it some more with the foam and nothing's going to come out I've been squeezing mine all day and it is secure so I'm just going to take the backing off of this and try not to pierce your uh I'm being very careful there don't pierce your plastic and if you do have the we are memory keeper fuse pockets and things like that then you know that you'll probably have no problems with them but you still have to do it slowly and everything so but I am using liquids so I don't think they've intended for it to be done like that next you want to stick this over the top and just get it in the middle you could have it the same size if you want as the five and three quarters you just want to make sure again that it's bigger than your aperture stick that all down so again if I bring this over you see everything is concealed and this is lifted because obviously there's you know we've got all this um gel in there so with this piece and my foam you can add two layers if you have folded your plastic like I said at the beginning then I would peel this off and add another layer on top but this is one less fine for you know if you fuse the bag you haven't got any of that added bulk so I'm just going to cover those corners take the backing off so what I would say you know is just have a play around with this first of all you know just test to get some sandwich bags if you've got the fuse tool and just fill it with water and practice and then when you're happy then you know move on to actually putting it into a card so now I'll bring this one in again make sure you've got your border that foam has also gone over the sides of or the edges of that bag with the gel in nothing's coming out of this card you're going to have to really squeeze and pop that so again I wouldn't give it to the young young kids that are really going to kind of you know what they're like they pull things apart and rip things but certainly for those you know the younger adults I think it's going to be all their older children then I think it's going to be perfect but now oh sorry I've just got all this stuck to my finger we've got our gel filled card isn't it cool I think you get a really good water effect with the gel as well and you can see the bubbles from the vellum print and everything so now I've just got all these bits and pieces to decorate so I'll bring in these two just so you can see again I've tried to do everyone different so those fish there are the die cut fish whereas these are the stamped ones that I've colored and then here I've got the frog on the lily pads I've got some of the the green kind of you know pond plants here and here and then the dragonfly so for this one I really want to bring in this beautiful bird so he's kind of looking down on those fish and I want to bring in some of these other maybe have like a bit more of a cluster of them and have maybe you know so the fish are a little bit more hidden maybe have those two together because they kind of look all the same and that's where the bird would kind of be hiding like so so we can kind of do something like that and then I want another lily pad up there with the frog or maybe he should come down maybe have that a bit higher have the lily pad and the frog down here this is going to be a get well soon so I'm going to have maybe that up there and this is what I like to do is is get everything ready and then kind of decide where you want it and lay it out I'm going to have a couple of lily pads together I might not end up using that one but I will use some more of these ones I like them full as you can probably tell so we could have that flower there as well the dragonfly would be kind of around these see how nice it all comes together and then I've been kind of ripping these in half and having them kind of just coming out I don't think I need another thing that's probably enough Sam you don't want to go too too mad but I do want to create an icing so in that though I think this needs something to cover maybe I should have that down there with that lily pad on that side maybe I don't have frog I do like that and I've used that there but then I've done that differently look I've given you an idea you can see what I'm doing and I think I do like that and I think I'll lose the frog I'll keep him for something another project because I've got a pad there for him to sit on but I quite like that I think that looks really nice and it just shows off all those stumps and dyes I think really well so I'm going to go and get this all stuck down I'm just using some of my glue liquid glue and foam pads so what I've been doing is the back pieces I've been just adding glue so let's just make sure I've got that positioned yeah so that's going to go about there so make sure it's all going to fit in your envelope you don't want anything overhanging too much but then things like this I will just be putting a little bit of foam onto them just again just to give it that dimension like I said these will be hand delivered so I could pop these in my envelope boxes yeah so I'm just going to get this all stuck down okay so there is the finished card I love it I think it's so so cool for the inside all you need to do is cut a piece of five and three quarters in the green in my case and then five and a half in the white and stamp and obviously do any more stamping and with the images and color and stuff if you want to but I think they're really nice I've really enjoyed making these cards they do have a bit of a weight to them so again you know I do think that these are better to be hand delivered I mean if you're going to put them if you do need to post them and you want to do it then I would suggest that you do the gel and not the water and that you put in a box card and then put it in another little box as well so just to protect it the last thing you want is it being squashed but yeah I really really like them so I hope you've enjoyed this card project and you are inspired and yeah if you do make one I'd love to see them so as always please join our mixed up crafters Facebook group and over there you know we've got a lovely group of people who share any of their cards and boxes and storage whatever I've made that's inspired you you are more than welcome to share on that channel so yeah thank you for watching please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and consider subscribing so you get to see more bye everyone so if you're still tuned in to this video thank you because that now means that you have the opportunity to win some of the wonderful product that I've just shared making that lovely gel filled card so when I was sent this product from craft stash they actually sent me some bundles which meant I had doubles of things so here I have doubles of the into the pond die set the elements die set and this one here which will create a very very similar look to what I've just shared in that video and it's a lovely big die six by six which will create again that 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