 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is project number three of my Easter series 2019 and this is a triple egg dome carrier something like that anyway. I'm not sure exactly what I'll call it yet but these are cabri's cream eggs. I don't know if these are available worldwide I'm not quite sure I'd love to know. Anyway in the UK these are hugely popular all year round really but they are just sold in their millions during Easter. You can buy them in packs of five, you can buy them on their own, you can buy them as part of a bigger Easter egg kind of pack. I bought the pack I bought two packs of five and then I can do three of these and then have one to eat for myself so I just thought it was a nice way and a very inexpensive way to you know give these as a gift in this lovely little holder so you can carry it like so it's just got this acetate dome. They are stuck down with some foam sticky pads so they don't move anywhere they wobble a bit but you know I mean they're not going to fall out during transit finish with a nice little bow. So really simple to do you could pop any of this side this size egg in there. I have obviously these aren't traditional Easter colors as such but they are the colors that match the eggs so yeah that's what we're going to make so as I said really easy quick as well and you don't need much so I've got my ribbon to finish there that's my little handle and some tiny dinky little brads let me just show you how small they were. I found these little gold ones right at the bottom of my jar but they are the smallest brads but worked really nicely I don't know if you actually noticed them just on the bottoms of the handle there. So you need a piece that's four by seven and a half I know this only goes up to six and something but I know I cut this to seven and a half and then what you want to do is on all four sides is you want to score it half an inch and one inch okay then rotate it again half an inch and one inch just do that on all four sides okay so that's what you should have with all these score lines. This little piece here for the handle this is optional you might not even want to have a handle because it does look nice just as a nice little carrier or kind of case as such without the handle this is three eighths of an inch by six and a quarter and then for that base mat that it all sits on this is two and three eighths of an inch by six you don't need to score or do anything with that and then you want a piece of acetate that is oh gosh I can't even see it let me just pop this underneath just so I can see the measurements it's five and a half by six okay and that's a piece of acetate this is just the crafter's companion really thin acetate you want something that's going to not be too bulky and actually you want something that's not going to ping off or even though that's stuck with red tape if you've got a really strong acetate it will naturally want to go back to its straight you know original form whereas if you've got something that's really soft that isn't going to pull away so in this case you don't want a really strong acetate you want quite a flimsy acetate okay so first of all before you fold and burnish all of your score lines on this piece you want a circle die that's going to be roughly if you're using the same size cream eggs as me then you're going to want a circle die that is one and a quarter okay in diameter roughly that shape now the egg will sit in it but it won't completely touch the bottom and that's why I added the foam adhesive just to kind of allow it to be able to stick to something now if you've got a circle that's slightly bigger than that I would die cut it on a piece of rough paper first and sit your egg in it you want it to be able to hit or come through it's hard to explain you want it to sit inside that circle by half an inch so that you see what I mean this is half an inch here so if it sits half an inch down it's going to hit the bottom of this and you can just put some you know a glue dot or something because mine was slightly above it I've padded it out with them some foam adhesive which you'll see me do so that's the size I'm using if you've got slightly bigger than fine if you go too big it will just wobble about in the circle you don't want to be able to see the circle you can't see it just the eggs just sat nicely in there okay you don't want to be able to look inside it right so I've just got my big shot here and what you want to do is you're going to die cut three circles within the large rectangle in the middle okay so ignore all your lines you'll have this big rectangle and the easiest way to do it is first we'll start from the middle so I'm going to I've got a magnetic base plate and sometimes it does move your dies now if you want to get your ruler out you can I am just going to eyeball this because I've done that's my second one now I think I know where I am with it so that looks about right so I'm going to run that one through first okay so that's my first circle die cut and then you want to go either side of it again keeping a nice equal distance from that score line and to this circle here so just move that around a bit until I'm happy that's about right remember it always cuts slightly shorter than the actual full width of the die that looks about right there run that one through and then the last one you just want to do at the other end so again line it up make sure it's all nice and even equal sides and get that one die cut okay so that's now what you should have so next you can burn a shirt you may need to go in score some of those lines again because they you know each die machine's different um this has almost got rid of them but I can just about see them so yeah it's just having the score lines there makes it easy for you to line up where to put those circles if you don't look the other way around and done the circles first you're going to have to measure in everything so it's not so it's easier to do it that way so just fold and burnished all of those score lines and next you just want to cut where you've got these four squares here just like we would do with a reinforced lid or box you're going to cut down both of those pass the first score line down to the second these outer two you're going to remove completely and then just remove that top one so you're left with this tab okay and then just tidy off your all your edges here so just take little wedges off like so okay and go across this one here again cut nice and neatly down those two remove the two outer squares remove that top square and then again just take little wedges off of all of the sides okay so that's what you have flip the whole thing around and repeat that okay next you want to add some tape and it's easiest to do this now while it's flat rather than when it's all together so you want to add tape along all of the four sides don't go over the tabs because i'm going to be using wet glue to stick them together if you don't have any wet glue then i would just run your sticky tape right across there okay once you see what i'm doing it's easier to do this rather than when it's put together because you want to make sure that this is all stuck down and you're able to push down on it while it's flat once you put it together it's quite difficult well it's not to work it's just fiddly and then all right i'm just using a thin tape here it's only it's a small gift and it's not you know you don't need to go over the top with it like so now i'm going to bring in my wet glue pop it on these four tabs do one at a time so do that one first bring it down and bring this side one over and just make sure that you get a nice right angle there don't worry about this tape it's just easiest to put that on before we stick these sides down i'm just going to let that stick okay and then go to the next one pop a little bit of glue on bring it down and under and bring around the sides there and again and then do the same on this end okay and then if you it's up to you bring in the longer sides and then if you just pop a little bit of glue just at the ends there just to kind of tack those bits down there you're going to stick everything down in a second but if you pop it down like that and then just go in with something that you can push down in the corners and that way you'll know that you're getting that actually stuck down properly like so and then again this end here just pop a little bit of glue just on the tops there and then fold that over flip it upside down and just stick that out next we can bring in the base here and i'm going to pop glue you can use double sided tape all the way down here okay and then you just want to stick this down making sure it sits perfectly so that you have equal border on all four sides and again just using this i'm just going to go in and i can go over all that card inside making sure it's all nicely stuck down okay so that's now what you should have okay so now we want to stick these in so i've got my three cream eggs and i've just got some double sided pads here and what i find is if you just fold it in half and stick them together so this is the nice smooth piece on the outside and then peel that off peel just one half off like so and just stick it just roughly in the middle of that like so this is only because mine don't if i pop that in now it just it sits in there perfectly but it doesn't it would just fall out so like i said if you've got a slightly bigger circle there's enough room still to fit those three in even if you go slightly larger you just won't have so much of a gap you know a space here and that you can fill the egg hit the bottom then that's fine you just need to put a glue dot there and then it'll just hold it in place but because i'm just slightly free from it's actually touching the bottom by me just adding this like little foam sticky pad there it just lifts it up enough for then the egg to stick to so i'm just doing three of them folding them in half and then just sticking them there like so now because this obviously is is a case so it's actually completely enclosed the idea is is that they can take them out from the sides there and then once they've eaten one from each side they can just take out the middle one so or they can rip into it i mean again i'm not precious with things like that i don't mind it you know people want to rip it up rip it up you know enjoy it so now i want to make sure that you can see yeah that's better i'll put that one there actually like so um so that was the one that's down a little low and then i'm going to pop that one in the middle because that one really stands out and that one down the end there so now if i bring it up you can see how they look next you need your piece of acetate so the five and a half inch length is what's going to stick along this side wrap over and then stick on the back okay so with the five and a half facing you i'm going to use my grid here maybe if i bring in this red piece here what you want to do this is if you want to add the handle you might not want to this is six inches here so i'm just going to pop my ruler on top here and come down and at the three inch marker i know that that's the center here we've just got some sticky on that now after rub that off in a minute so this invisible line here is three inches that's the middle now roughly again i'm eyeballing all of this you might want to measure it all but there in there is where i want to pop two holes so i'm just using my screw punch by x-cut so there's one and i'm just going to go along give you the second one so i've completely eyeballed that but that is basically what you want you can see there so halfway along i'm putting the two holes mine are roughly two inches apart okay and um it's easy again to do that now rather than when you've done that so i'm just going to clean so i know just spray some surgical spirit it's a perfect way to clean off any sticky marks i use it to clean my mats use it in all kinds of things so it's brilliant but it removes anything sticky brilliantly okay so i've got a nice clean sheet of acetate okay so then what you want to do is with your little handle here i don't know if i gave the scoring measurements this is six and a quarter by three eight you just want to score it half an inch at each end so half and half okay and then just fold that over like so and then if you just probably should have done that before just curl it all and then fold those bits out and that's how you're going to get your handle okay again it's entirely up to you how big you want that to be and then i'm going to bring this piece back in again with those little brads and also just add some extra kind of strength to it i'm just popping some double-sided tape on the back of each of those tabs so the brad is actually decorative as well as obviously you know holding the handle in place but this just keeps all the the card actually stuck to the acetate so just make sure it's all stuck down like so and then just to help start it off i'm just going to poke a hole in the middle of this kind of little tab here this rectangle so just a little hole like so and then again on the other side like so and then if you take the backing off and you just want to stick it again with the five inch five and a half inch side facing you my two holes are there again let me bring in it's easier for you to see when i bring this in here and then i'm going to stick that now right over that circle that i've already punched just so the little circle you know it's slightly tacked down so i know that that's in the place that i want it to be and then i'm just going to remove the backing from here and again just stick that one down and then i can pop through both of my brads and it's just so much easier to do this before you stick it all down because you've got the eggs all in the way and stuff okay so you can see there and now when that curls over the handle will be nice and centered okay so now we just need to attach this so if you just remove the tape in fact yeah i'll do the front first because then if anything goes wrong at least it's hidden at the back so take the front one off and then just kind of lean it away from you and you want to make sure the acetate sits on the red card in my case right flush at the bottom and then lines up with either side of this yellow piece just make sure that's all stuck down like so and then i'm going to pop it on this side and just remove the backing and that's what i was meant to do as well but it doesn't matter i'll show you in a moment we should have put some sticky tape on the ends of the acetate so what i would say is before you stick the acetate down is run some double sided tape on the outer sides the same size that the same side that the handles on put some tape at the very edge because now when you see what we've got to do you understand why i said to stick the tape down before because now we need to put some tape back over this acetate again so yeah just always watch the tutorial through first and then you'll be able to see what you want to do so now you should have this all stuck down and you should have double tape here here here and here and now that's for me to attach my ribbon so i've got this nice yellow here and i'm going to start from i'm just going to make sure that's nice and neat i'm going to keep that bit in a minute you'll see why so first of all i'm going to take my backing off of the front that's it there and start from the middle because i'm going to cover this with a bow now if you're not going to put a bow on the front then do start this at the back okay because this is the join so i'm going to start in the middle there and just go along there and then take the backing off outside again follow that along so if you are a little bit off with your acetate or if there's anything that you're not happy with maybe the folds on the tray this is good to use the ribbon because it will cover all of that up you can see there that just covers up all the corners and everything so and obviously makes it look nice and pretty and then i can finish off now and i'm just going to roughly hover that there so i can see i need to cut that i just cleaned these scissors yesterday and already they are full of sticky and pop that on there so i'm going to cover that with a bow so again some more yellow i always use way too much but i'd rather have too much than not enough okay and then this little bit here i am going to very carefully cut it i'm just going to seal off the ends there and then i'm going to stick that over that join and then the bow over that so just kind of conceals everything and there's my bow so it was a little bit big i might move that one down but if i hold that one there you can see two of them how cute are they so there you have it guys two really lovely little triple egg cases or holders or something i'm not sure exactly what i'm going to call them yet but i really like them i think they make an inexpensive chocolate look like a really lovely gift so i hope you like it i hope you've been inspired i hope you're enjoying what i'm making for this year's easter series so far and i'll be back again on wednesday with another tutorial thanks for watching bye