 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 storage box to hold the 6x9 die cutting plates. So if you have any of I guess the most common the standard size then this is going to be you know perfect for those. If it's the A4 size plates that you have then they won't fit in this but most people have this size die cutting machine and if you've got any of your smaller machines so your little mini plates and stuff like that they would fit in here as well. Now of course you don't have to use it for that you could put something completely different in here but I have made storage for 6x6 paper pads, 8x8 paper pads and other things as well. So if you click on the playlist up here you'll get lots of inspiration because they all kind of look the same. So if you haven't seen any of these and you think actually I want to make those then you could make everything matching. Mine are all odd so but I don't mind that at all. They're using papers that I love and this one here again some of you might recognise it. I love this cat paper it's the retro cat from the Dress My Craft Little Miracle and I'll show you that in a moment but I wanted something to use it on that I was going to keep and see myself and to be honest this is going to be probably the most used piece of storage in my craft room because I use my dies and these plates every single day. So it's very easy to do very straightforward doesn't take too long either it's using gray board or chipboard so it's nice and thick it's a solid piece the base as well. Literally this is not going to fall apart so let me show you how to make it. This is the paper pad The Little Miracle by Dress My Craft really really nice I have done a flip through of this when I shared it in one of my what did I get videos I think it was. No it was an actual Dress My Craft video that I done but I'm just trying to show you the other cat one because I'm sure there it is. Let me just bring it out there you can see it's just so cute so yeah so that's the one I use there I'll share all the links below. Now for today's I'm using the Hydrangea Lawns by Dress My Craft but unfortunately I don't know where the top she is I've looked everywhere and I cannot see it and I'm pretty sure I never got rid of it but it's gorgeous I did make the circular hinged gift bag using this and it's just I love the hydrangeas I think they look lovely you've got all these pretty fonts as well but look at all this it's just so nice and it's very thick it's 240 gsm cardstocks this isn't paper this is a card which is great for when you're making gift boxes and bags so the one I'm making today I'm actually making for my mum so I've cut into one of these gorgeous papers because I thought she's worth it so I don't mind but I've got those pieces there it's all deconstructed so that's all of that which I'll go through in a moment but I do just quickly want to show you how I cut my greyboard because many people do ask me this is my Fisker's Trimmer and I basically when the blades go blunt and they don't cut your paper anymore and I I mean by when it goes like fluffy and just starts to catch and buckle it just doesn't look very nice pop a little marker on it anything I just got black marker pen on this so I know that they're no good for paper but they're perfect for greyboard so don't throw them away because they will still work with this so I need to cut this is going to be my base I'll talk you through the measurements for that in a moment but this needs to be cut to three and a half by ten and a half so I'm just going to line it up there and this is a two mil greyboard from Every Crafts a Pound it's my standard greyboard that I always use so what you'll find you need to do is just run it over a couple of times on the top and then you could now just snap that but you it's best if you just flip it over and then go again on the other side and now already it's nice and wobbly and it just comes away okay so I need to cut that down to ten and a half I'll do that way so just a little bit needs to come off so again over the top a few times and then that way okay so that's how I cut my greyboard so the size is for everything so that was the base that I told you so that's three and a half by ten and a half you need two pieces for your sides which are two and a half by four and then these two here are for your front and back the sides and these are nine and a half by four so two pieces and then to cover everything so to cover the sides you want two pieces that are four and a half by six okay so I've got that lovely like script it's just a no it's like a nice joined up handwriting that's that one there and then I've got these two pieces here which are nine and a half by six and that's to cover again the front and back and then this is to cover the base and this is 12 by five and a half okay so first of all you want your two side pieces and your two side pieces of chipboard I'm going to pop my base to one side and we will work on those pieces later so okay so I'm going to be using the Kalau book binding glue since using this now I don't need to add any double-sided tape or anything so like when I was making mini albums I would cover this in double-sided tape then some liquid glue and then stick it all down but since using the kalau I'm just not even needing to it's so strong it's got such a strong grip and again I mean it's book binding glue so you know it's going to be good so all you want to do first of all is I'm just going to add some glue onto the back of this make sure it's all covered and you want to stick it in the center as close to the center as you can get it don't worry if it's a little bit off you don't you certainly don't need to be measuring it and then you want to stick this one down as well so while that's just grabbing I'm going to go back to this one flip it over and just make sure it's all stuck okay and then what you want to do is just go and fold the sides just like you would any mini albums you've seen me do this a lot in my tutorials and because this is a two mil chipboard it's got you know obviously it's got that depth to it I'm just going to burnish the sides there and then come up the bottom ones there as well you just want to start to kind of get it into its shape like so and then again with this one okay so next you want to get your front and your back the main ones don't worry about the decorative paper for now and these are now going to start to act as hinges okay so what we want to do pick one side it doesn't matter I'm going to go with this one here and we're going to stick it just glue on this bit here and stick this in here but you want to make sure that you give yourself a gap that is the depth of your grayboard and a little bit more so this is two mil so I'm basically I'm probably ending up giving that probably a gap of about one eighth of an inch and the way to test it is lift it up bring it up and you want it to be able to join perfectly there okay without it putting any tension you would be able to feel it if it was so I'm going to pop some glue just you know along the the height of the grayboard so just in that section there okay I'm just going to spread that out a little bit like so and then I'm just going to lay that down you can always bring that up just to check and then lay it down and you know that's where you want it to be the key part here is making sure that this is all lined up and straight so if I line it up with my mat there you can see I've got everything nice and straight so while that's kind of gripping I'm going to get my next one here and you want to do the same so you want to just pop this is very thick glue I need it to kind of stay upside down actually because it takes a while for it to work its way down there we go and again I'm just going to spread that out just spend a bit of time making sure that you've got it where you want it and it's completely stuck okay so both of those now can come up you can you see I've got a really nice join inside then we want to do the same on this end here so I'm going to grab my glue okay and then this one is now going to stick on there so you can see what we will have is our case like this okay so I'm going to add some glue on this one here I'm kind of sitting that one actually I'm just going to trim that little bit there just a few little random bits there but you can sit it on top of the greyboard there because this one you don't need to worry about the gap because that's it now it's in place it's in its 3d form that's how it's going to be okay so that's now where you should be then it's up to you how you want to do the next bit I like to stick these over like so because they will now fit that area and be the same height as these papers underneath or you can trim and cut into these pieces now before we do the next bit like I said I think it's better to stick this on stick all of this onto the tops of this and then cut it so you haven't got these like loose so it's up to you but I'm now going to add glue on the strips all the way down and then on all of this and then make sure you've got your paper up the right way and then I'm just going to lay that down and then flip it over I'm just going to hold it there for a minute just to kind of let everything get all in again for that glue to grip okay and then flip it over again making sure you've got it all up the right way and you want to stick the other one down exactly the same way okay so now you should have something like this I'm now going to leave mine to one side because it is still drying and then you want to bring in your base and we're now going to do pretty much the same thing again so flip that over you're going to add glue all onto this and stick it in the middle just like we did with the sides okay and you would have just seen me there just go around the sides again like you did before it just helps when you do go to fold them all over now we're going to just basically cover this so all you need to do now is just bring in your corners so you get a nice right angle okay and you get that triangle shape just fold them all over you're going to add glue underneath this is just how I cover all my mini mini mini all my mini albums I just prefer doing it this way and then you can obviously cover them with your metal corner protectors I am actually waiting for some more to come I go through them so quickly I'll just show you again here once we stick this piece all down then you'll add these ones but yeah once they come then I can add them on at a later date so now you just want to pop some glue all in that triangle section okay and then just kind of hold two at a time and just let it grip onto the grey board probably do them as well at the same time okay and then you should have your glue still tacky underneath these pieces if you just push your bone folder or a ruler into the side of the grey board this piece wouldn't actually want to start to lift which is all good it all helps when we go to bring those sides up but the glue will obviously stick to the side of the grey board and you want it to look like a vacuum pack so you can see there where it looks like it's sucked around the the grey board there I just think it gives it a really nice finish and then you can just stick those pieces down like so so that's now what you want to have so that's all secure and then all we've got to do is fold over those edges again I am using a strong cardstock so it's a little bit obviously harder to push those bits around but if you've got a lighter 200 160 then you know it will be nice and easy to do that okay now you should find that these bits will all start to you know easily wrap around so you just want to add some glue you can add it on to there if you want I'm just going to add it on to the the grey board itself and then we'll cover the middle part that you'll be still be able to see the grey board through with some paper in a minute and that is the base done okay so there's the top of my base and then underneath I've just gone and stuck this piece here which was 10 and a quarter by 3 and a quarter just check that was right I did measure it yeah 3 and a quarter yeah because it's 10 and a half long it was a bit of scrap I'm not too worried that it doesn't match but now if you want to go ahead and put your metal corners on pop them on turn it upside down I always like to put a little cloth or something and hammer them down so they obviously flatten against it but I really like that like I said it's a really nice font so now this piece here which is dried nicely so make sure you've got it the right way up so that's going to be the back I want that nice bloom on the front so we're going to work on the base first of all so I'm just going to grab my snips and you just want to basically just well first of all I would just cut up to if I go in from this way actually it's easier just cut up to the corner but not quite up to it so I'm leaving maybe about one eighth of an inch okay just do that on all of the corners we take a little bit of bulk off in a minute but if you do it step by step then none of you cut into it too much and reveal any of the greyboard because you want to keep that hidden so I'm just cutting in there now we're going to fold all these in on each other but what will happen is is there's going to become some you will get a little bit of buckling there so what you want to do is just still keeping straight but just if I just do this one and then show you you basically just want to remove like any of the fold like the crease so you're just taking a very small amount off and if I do this one here and show you what it's like when I fold it in that's what you want to achieve so you just want to take away small amounts like so and then this is going to fold in so see what I mean because once it hits against that bit of greyboard which is fine you want it to be a snug fit because you don't want to see any of that so now can you see that's folded in really nicely and we'll add glue under that in a minute so if I go to this side so I can then do the rest so I would just cut either side of the fold and then remove like I said any of the creased parts because that's just going to cause you bother otherwise I mean this is the base so practice on the base first because you're going to do exactly the same as this on the top but because you know this is the base you're not going to see if you did reveal any of the greyboard so do that's why I said do this one first and then I'm going to take a bit more for this one here so and then that one is going to fold in there but again you want it to be nice and tight and that one and I can fold that one in and then fold that one in actually the base ones you're not going to glue to the sides the top ones you will and then we're going to cover the inside as well but you just want to fold those ones in like that because this is going to become our base but we're going to cut the top the same so you still need to do that that's what you now want to want to have then I'm going to add I'm going to use my normal cologne now so I'm just sticking paper to paper so I'm just going to pop some glue under these pieces here and just stick them down keep it nice and square you might have to pop your finger under there you can turn it upside down actually what I might do is I'm just going to because this cologne gives me a bit of time I just do that and that one I'm going to hold them there for a second I've just quickly cut this piece here which is two and a quarter by nine and a quarter and it just covers that area so I'm just going to run it doesn't matter if I do it on this side because I'm going to cover the inside as well again I'll talk you through all this just follow what I'm doing and all these measurements will be in my blog anyway as normal it just be easier to do this because what you can do is stick that like that flip the whole thing over although there'll be some glue there but you can go in now and you know you've got something to actually push against and just make sure that all gets stuck down and we're going to cut another piece on top of this we're going to cut pieces for the inside so it all becomes very neat so while that's just setting you want to do the same now on the top here so just go around those corners like you did before and just remove any of the bulk again just push in all of those yes if you can see anything scratching against it then just take that away because you'll see what kind of starts to like say buckle like all that there was all catching so I can remove all of that much better okay and then once we cut our pieces for inside in the base it will completely be an encased piece and I think it'll look really nice but that's the frunks I love that big bloom that you can see so now you want to add some glue to all four sides of this so again I'm going to go back to the bookbinding glue and get them all stuck down okay so that's all secure it's all getting nice and strong now and it's nearly ready for us to stick to the base but first of all you just want to cover the insides it's completely optional I don't always because this one is being given as a gift then I am going to I did with my one as well but some of my other storage ones I haven't because yeah it's only me but basically these pieces now need to go inside but you need to just I've cut them just under two and a half the side pieces okay so you can see there it's about two it's actually two and three eighths but I'm going to come in a little bit more again but the idea is that you don't see any greyboard so when you put it in you want it to be as tight to the sides as possible like so there we go okay so and then I've done it three and three quarters okay so it goes right down to the bottom and then you've got that showing so you want two pieces like that you might have to just play around with your with your actual widths and then this one's for the base and I did check that one and that one was okay yeah that's fine get that one out this one was two and three eighths by I should have got my longer one out nine and three eighths okay and that's going to go along the base and then these two bits of the side so the same width as the other ones which is three and three quarters the same as them but the length of these ones again is yeah it's about nine and three eighths slightly maybe just slightly over but that now should yeah go in there you want to get it as tight a fit as possible you see there this looks quite nice so I'm going to get all them stuck down get the base stuck down and then cover that in glue and stick that onto your base okay so there it is all finished it's so strong now it's just like those chipboard or cardboard storage pieces that you buy in the shops is as strong as that so why not make your own and then you can use your lovely beautiful papers so that's the front there I'm not going to put any ribbon on and I will do the corners when they arrive I think I'm just going to leave that let my mum decide if she wants to put something on it she might not want a bow she might just want to keep it plain like that you can also make multiple of these and put them on a larger base so that's how I've done my six by six and eight by eight paper storage again it's all in that playlist so go and check it out but also I was just thinking about other things that you can put in here and things that I've got that fit I've got these mats here which I use sometimes as replacement mats for my die cutting but also my smaller stamp perfect that fits in there really nicely perfectly I've got more plates I've got plates coming out my ears but also my ek tools that one fits no that can go that way so it's yeah it's a really handy piece and it fits perfectly on your desk as well but you can see there even with all of that and this is heavy heavy pieces it's not rocking it's not falling over you know it's really supported so yeah chuffed to bits with these so I hope you enjoyed the tutorial I hope it's inspired you if you have as always please give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye