 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. These videos are what I'm calling bonus videos so they're just little short very easy tutorials just showing you some other little things that I make that sometimes I think should I do a tutorial no I won't blah blah blah. So this one I've had for a while and I've never done a tutorial but now I want to do a Christmas version and basically it's a little well not little it's quite a nice size actually but this is a fridge memo pad so it's got a nice magnetic sheet on the back really strong chipboard and then I've just created this fun scene and I've just stamped don't forget and it's a really thick memo pad here just plain and we've got a pen pot by our fridge anyway so I didn't feel the need to put a little thing to keep the pen on here but by all means you can add that but yeah this is what we're going to make it's really really simple to do and these would also be nice for craft fair ideas you can pick up these pads I mean I've got this here in China just in a like the pound shop equivalent but I know you can get quite a few pads like you can buy blocks of them you know maybe five in a pack and this is just already pre die-cut pieces that I had lying around but if you imagine them in a little cello bag with a nice pen I think they'd make nice little craft fair gifts and certainly nice little stocking stuffers and things like that as well so all you need is this here I've got some chipboard so again this is just from the back of my paper packs it's about yeah one mil that one is and then I've got a magnetic sheet now this is an A4 sheet and I've then I cut them down to five by five and I did have some you can probably just see it there I said I had some oval dies but I've now moved them on to another one and this was free so I just yeah I thought I used this one so whatever patch size you have so I've got this piece here on top which I actually want to remove so I'm just going to trim that off there okay I've just got rid of that top piece and then I need to draw around the pad because you want your magnet to cover the whole back now I just put across there because this is the side that isn't magnetic so this is the side that is going to stick to the back of the pad this is the magnetic side so what I would say is go and check on your fridge just pop your sheet on the fridge and check which side does obviously stick but for the minute it doesn't matter because I'm just tracing around but fortunately this A5 length width is the exact length of the pad that I'm using you don't want to see the magnet so just you know come in a little bit shy so I'm just going to draw a pencil line there you can cut this through your trimmer this does cut but I've got my big scissors here so I'm just going to do two nice big cuts and then that's done so there we go and again I'll just put across just so I remember so I've got again if you're getting A4 and you've got these little what size pad is this actually it's a four by four by five isn't it yeah four by five you could get four sheets of these magnetic you could get four of these cut from one of your magnetic sheets so already you know you can pick these up you can get them in the pound shops you can get them on ebay you can get them from a lot of craft suppliers you can you know because people use them as their magnetic shims as well so there's yeah lots and lots of ways and then I can just pop that on the back there and you can see it covers a little bit curved there but I'm not too worried you're not going to see any of this but as long as you can't see any of the magnetic strip then that is fine then with your chipboard you want to again make it the same size but you want to come up so I'm just going to do the width here and just do a pencil mark and first of all I'm going to just cut that all the way up so I'm just going to use my ruler here and I've got my old blade in here because I was already making a mini album so let's just put that chipboard like so and it depends it's entitled up to you how much overhang you want so that is now going to perfectly sit on the back in fact I think that's the right amount to have as an overhang because this is what I'm going to start building my scene up on this so if you see here this piece here that's that piece there okay so you're going to stick this down first on the back there so I'm going to apply glue all to the back of this piece okay so I'm just going to sit that over see I still use pen and paper I've got you know smartphone and my husband last because he uses his phone for everything so but for me especially in the kitchen if I have just cooked a meal and then I've used the last of the pasta the last of the cheese the last of the milk straight away I have to write it on something and usually it's just a scrappy bit of you know post-it note that's next to the fridge and I thought no I'm going to make something nicer and I thought it would be nice to have a Christmas one because there's so much to remember during Christmas so that's what I've done so now that is nice and secure and then your magnetic sheet with the cross with the the negative side will then sit over the top like so now I'm going to use double sided my strong red double sided tape for this piece now if you want to tidy that up and put something else on there you can but you're not going to see it at all and nobody's going to come in my house and take my memo pad off my fridge and investigate it so I'm really not worried about that okay so for this one here I use the rosie studio soul and shine and the stamp here is the alphabet labella from stamping up which I think is still going it's just a good all-rounder so you know there are some things from stamping up that you know don't retire like quickly they they keep going and I think I do think that is still going okay so what I have here is I recently purchased well I did when this went out these ones here so this is cozy and bright by pebbles ink american crafts and these are all your little what do they actually call them printed cardstock shapes so they're just two different kind of themes this is another one this is cozy and bright again pebbles ink so I don't know why they're both called the same though because they are different unless they just are quite few you know sets but I prefer this one because I like the little gnomes but this is why I like this project because it's just it's easy it's quick so you want to choose you can see what I've done there kind of just got larger pieces on the outside done some nice bits along the bottom and then just started kind of sticking it and then they end up being stuck on each other so at the top here I mean the rainbow and that green leaf and stuff they're not even stuck to that they're actually stuck just on you know the other pieces so just start creating you know fun little scenes you know you might want to stamp some images and die cut them but these are just so cute I think I'm going to have like the big house in the middle there's another one there as well and maybe I have that house in the middle that you've got a fun toad stall I just I like to look at this and the nice thing about this memo pad is this one will go away and there's no way I'm going to go through all of that you know through the month of December so I'll have it again for next year and you know I can create create something again or you know keep this one going so there you go that's the one I wanted to use so I'm going to have him on one side you don't want you want to make sure it covers all the chipboard you don't want to see any of that so I'm going to have him there the house will go in the middle then you've got a funny look Christmas sloth how cool he's going to look really fun kind of up the top there so might have him there that way and then you've got the nice flowers as well but basically the aim is to completely cover the chipboard and have that kind of fan effect okay so I'm going to have a little play around here enjoy it have fun you know I love all these lovely little creatures although look at him as well oh look maybe I could have one on each side who knows right leave me to it and I will see what I come up with okay so it's going to be something like that none of it's stuck down yet so I'm just gonna the base pieces will be stuck with wet glue and then some bits are actually on foam as well so you have a bit of dimension so like this little guy here and maybe the bird you know him they're all going to be kind of lifted as well so you just then want to get it all stuck down okay so that is what I've done I love it how cool is that that just looks so nice to look at now on my fridge and yeah if you did want to add a pencil then just like somewhere to pop it like maybe you want to sit it like above here what you can do is just get some cardstock and then if you obviously there's a pencil for example just kind of wrap it around and then you want to stick those together and then you will fold it in half in fact I might as well just do one so because I've done something similar in the past so just fold it in half like so keep the pencil in there if you want just to make sure so it keeps its nice shape like so and then just fold it to one side like so so there's my pencil stuck in it and then you know I'm going to end up using this now and I because they've just got this round in piece just trim it off so it's nice and neat and then you can stick it on the top of your thing and then your pencil just sits like so okay that's the easiest way to do it obviously once your paper goes down that will end up becoming thinner and thinner the other option is just to have some ribbon and have your pencil attached to the ribbon and just kind of dangling down the side but like I said we've got a pen pot so and most people do anyway and I've also realized that the reason I had brought both of these is because this is all the messages this is all your sentiments and this is all the images so on here they all match you've got really really fun you know the flowers are the same and look at these beautiful snow globes so I'll share all the links these are from Thompson's craft supplies look at that one there with the house let it snow we're staying home and it's got so much sparkle on all of these and they're they're great look you've got premade gift tags lovely little toppers for cards that one there cup of cheer look there's the sloth again eat sleep and be merry how cute are they so yeah that's the two packs so like I said I'll share all of those for you but there you have it two really fun one festive one all you know anytime of year but you can change these up obviously going in you know for spring summer autumn and then winter again I think they will look really really fun but I do love that and it's so full and yeah happy there you have it I hope you've enjoyed this quick little like I said bonus tutorials there will be a few more and if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye