 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. I've got something different I'm going to be showing you how to make five different cards using this one die. It's an absolutely gorgeous wreath Christmas die which is available at a hobby base and I just highly recommend that you should have a wreath die in your collection. So the first card I'm going to be making and this is for this month's edition of the social paper crafting magazine so you'll be able to see all of these pictures in close-up and also over on my blog and I'll share all those links below. So we're going to be making this beautiful green kind of more forest kind of looking I would say and all I'm doing here is just die cutting on some white cardstock and then I'm going to be coloring this in with my alcohol markers. So it cuts beautifully this one I didn't have to use a shim or anything and then just a little help in hand with my Sizzix little brush there just to get all of those kind of little bits and pieces out. So here I am I've got my mat down just to protect my other mat and I'm just going around with three different greens so I've got an olive green kind of like a yellowy green and then just more of a garden green I would say and I'm just they look quite block colors at the moment but by the end of it they're very very blended and you would have seen that in the picture at the beginning so even there they look like there's quite a lot of stripes but actually once I start blending it that soon disappears and it becomes very very well blended. So I've gone ahead and done that now I am die cutting the center I want to remove that just so again it's got more of that wreath kind of look with that gap because this is going to be a shaker card so I've just cut a small piece of acetate just to pop in the middle there and just trimming it down a little bit so it doesn't matter you don't have to have large cards this is only a five by five card and even a small space like this you can make a little shaker element which I love so I'm just applying some of my red double-sided tape which works really well when you're using acetate so I've just attached some on one side and I'm just using my bone folder to make sure you get all the air bubbles out and now I'm just cutting a strip of my double-sided foam because we need to raise that up so we can put a shaker element inside so I'm just going around with that thin strip and just not right up to the inside circle but just I've left a little bit of a gap just because you don't want to see that white foam when you're looking in from the other side so I'm just going around there make sure you get a really nice join at the very end so now I want to just matte a green so it's the same kind of greens that are in the actual colors that I used so that is a five by five card base and the mat there is four and three-quarters squared so my shaker elements are tiny little gold Christmas trees I've had them in my stash for a long long time so unfortunately I can't tell you where they're from but they just really look really nice and they catch the light really well and they're really flat so they really move around quite freely which is nice and then I'm just finishing off with my sentiment which is we wish you a Merry Christmas and just sticking that right across at the top and then just for some more added bling I've got these really nice little copper colored flat back pearls and I'm just going around and just lining them on that inner circle because I've made like a green ring to sit on top of that as well and I think it just finishes it off really really nicely and you can see now there close up what a cute little five by five card love it really really nice so that is card number one card number two is this gorgeous five by seven card using red mary card mary card is just lovely to use at christmas time anytime of the year but christmas time it really does make your cards kind of pop I think so I've got two mats I've got the mary card mat and then I've got a white mat and then I've die cut that wreath in the red mary card so there's lots and lots of shine to this one so I've stuck down this wreath onto the white card and then I want to wrap some ribbon around it just along that bottom so I'm going to be adding a bow so I've applied some glue and I've just clipped it around to the left hand side there with my finger and thumb and then I'm just wrapping that other side around just so it adheres to the foam adhesive as well I think did I put the foam on this one no not on this one actually sorry so it's just the glue direct but I've put glue on that ribbon as well to make sure that it sticks nicely and then just mat that on top so the mats are I've got a six and three quarter by four and three quarter and then the white one will be four and a half by six and a half and then I've just made my bow and just with some hot glue there I'm just going to stick that down into the center now I want to make my little sentiment or little message for the middle so this one is just happy Christmas and I'm just using some of my red ink here and my stamping platform just to make sure I get a really nice impression and that's the good thing about the platform you know if you miss a little bit you can go back in as many times as you like so all of that is just being raised up on some foam adhesive I've cut another circle in red mary just to frame that's happy Christmas so that one sits on top and then the happy Christmas will go on top again so there is quite a I guess dimension to this card but it will still fit perfectly into a normal five by seven envelope and you'll be able to post that and I hadn't stuck the bow down actually I just put it there now I stick the bow down but always use hot glue it works best with fabric and again I think that is an absolutely gorgeous really quick I mean I've sped these up double time but they don't take long at all and look at the shine on that card it's absolutely stunning I really really do love the mary card now on to card number three is an easel card a lot of you follow me you will see that I made the very similar circle easel card so I've gone straight in and cut it because if you want to see that I will link up now for you to be able to cut and get that template of what I've done there so basically the construction is exactly the same as the other circle easel card that I've done but because I was using the wreath I thought the circle easel card would work really well with this one so I'm kind of just building it all up now and putting my I guess the top apart on which is that piece that's just stuck on half of it and you can see there now you start to get that easel card come into shape and then I'm going to use this white circle die which overlaps it's got that kind of quarter of an inch overlap but that's what I want because that's going to frame the wreath die when I stick that on so I'm just sticking that onto the back of that white which is going to be the front of the card again you're it'll open in a minute and it will all make sense and you can see there now see how that's all going to come together so again these are so quick and easy to make so again if you want to do a fun full card the easel cards are brilliant to do for that so I'm just sticking this other white smaller disc now which is going inside and this can be where you write your message or you can write your message above there on the half section next I've die cut the wreath die in a kind of garden green again and just sticking in the middle there and you can see now the detail already pops as soon as you put that die against that white so I wanted something that was going to really kind of stand out now I'm using this merry christmas die which is the hobby based precision die and I've die cut some white foam the fun foam and then I'm just applying a little bit of glue just to the kind of main parts really and then that one I'm going to stick down so it's just got some really nice dimension and it's got a nice shadow to it because I've got that white fun foam behind there so that fits really nicely right through the middle gotta have wink a stellar at christmas time really really good stuff it's a just a glitter pen basically it's got mica in it so it really really does shimmer and you just brush over any surface and it will dry and it dries very very sparkly so there's the bow already done you don't want to see me make trying to do bows some more fingers and thumbs and that is going to sit there perfectly and it holds it up so nicely and just showing you there where you can write your message as well which I mentioned before so a little bit of hot glue hold it up where you want it to go and then pop it down so this is more of a decorative card like I said you could write your message inside there but I would say to write it on the half sides because that bow pretty much takes up all of the room but how cute is that and again it will fit perfectly into a small envelope and you could still post it it has got the bulk but it will work okay on to the next card this is a blue and mary card there's something about blue white and silver at Christmas time it's just I don't know it just works so nicely together so sorry I said blue mary card it's actually silver so this is a six by six card the mary card there then is five and three quarters by five and three quarters and then the blue will be five and a half by five and a half and then that silver square is just my largest square from my stitched framelets so I'm just going to start layering them all up and then the difference with this one is I've die cut that wreath die in vellum vellum's such a nice fabric well you know it's a paper basically but it's another nice textile to use it you know it does kind of feel like a fabric and some of them you can get really nice thicker ones and ones with you know foiling on and all sorts it's lovely so again I want to bring in some ribbon with this one so I'm going to have the ribbon this time going right through the center of that silver square so I've already put my foam adhesive on the back I'm just trimming it so I haven't got so much and just taking off a little bit just to stick each end of that ribbon and then pull it right the way around nice and tall and then just stick it on that other side and then I'll just add some glue again over those bits there just to make sure obviously it sticks down well because it is again obviously that fabric so that one then is just going to sit perfectly in the center and then you can see there just how nice that looks and that fabric is a really nice thick ribbon sorry that it's a really nice thick fabric whenever you're using mirror card if you're using wet glue let it dry and then I've got a microfiber cloth and just go over and buff it up and it comes out beautifully you don't get any finger marks no smears they completely disappear so if you ever have that problem or you think oh I hate using mirrored card when I've got you know wet glue just use a microfiber cloth works perfectly again I'm doing what I did on the easel card so I'm just using some of my foam adhesive sorry some of my fun foam and I'm die cutting that same Merry Christmas on a piece of grey fun foam and I've already die cut it there on the blue to match and then I'm just peeling it away this time I've used my double sided foam sheet just to show you that you can also use that and create these kind of stickers so it was a little bit fiddly but it did all come out fine um you just kind of have to play around but you can see now it's just another way it's exactly the same as before but just different colors and a different way to put it together and again that's going to sit there on the vellum now it did kind of look lost against the blue ribbon so I wanted to kind of lift that so I'm just die cutting a white circle and then I'm going to place that behind the Merry Christmas and you'll see now it just lifts it completely you can see it now and read it perfectly so it's just a way just to kind of help that along I still wanted people to see that it was a vellum and a different kind of texture without it kind of getting lost so again I'm raising it all up on some foam adhesive stick down the vellum first and then get that other piece that stuck down and it just looks really nice I always forget to use vellum I need to pull it out now and kind of keep it on my desk over the Christmas period and then just stick that again and just how lovely again simple doesn't take long at all but it just has a real kind of wow factor and then you've got to finish it off with a bow so I've just the same fabric there from the ribbon that I put through the middle just to finish off on the top and I think it looks gorgeous so that's a six by six card again very very quick to do so now on to the last card and this is my favorite now to look at it just looks pretty standard very traditional in color but with this wreath die when it's cut it cuts out and it has all these little like holes all around it so I'm going to die cut three because I want this to be really thick so I'm going to layer these all up on top of each other so just die cutting there got all the bits and pieces out so now I'm going to try and marry them all up because they're they're not a mirror image so you have to find the way you know the perfect position for them to sit exactly on top of each other and I did find that one of the bits there that I'm pointing at is kind of longer than all the rest so that was my kind of pointer my little marker I guess to make sure I stuck them all in the right place so now I'm just going to layer them all on top you can see them just popping the glue in between but I wanted the outside not stuck down because I'm going to now go around as you can see and lift it all up with my finger and thumb just to again kind of just make it a bit more you know dimensional and not so flat and because they're so thick there was lots of it so it did it you know it does look really good it's one of those cards on closer inspection you can really kind of appreciate what's in it so now I'm going to grab my I've got my tweezers and my ribbon and I'm going to just basically like stitch through those hole punch you know the the die cut holes that are on that wreath to make it look like a real wreath this is kind of you know what you would would have on a traditional one on your door so you can see I've gone all the way around there and then I'm just finishing off with a bow on the top this is quite a thin it's like an organza kind of ribbon so it was you know really easy to kind of thread through again popping it on some foam adhesive there and then sticking that on a pre made six by six card the same mats as the blue one and just having it weaved through just gives another really lovely look to the card and it's just another fun way to get the most out of that die so now I'm just stamping my sentiment here and this is tis the season so again just using my stamping platform to make sure I get a nice impression and I just wanted to show that you don't need to have a lot of you know you may just be starting off crafting and you just got maybe one or two dies and one stamp set or it might be a free stamp set from a magazine you don't need a lot of things to make beautiful cards and it's it's just understanding how many kind of different you know things and ways you can use what you've got and I just wanted to show that this die you know different colors different thumb folds and different actually you know using the die and parts of the die like I've done with this one here and you can create again beautiful beautiful cards so just finishing this one off now with some foam adhesive again because I just like to keep them all raised and that one just sits in there lovely and then to finish it off I coat this completely in wing castella and it does look really really good it shines and shines and I let it dry and then I put more on top I let it dry and kind of kept layering it up and it does it looks so so pretty and this is my favorite you can see now it catching the light so there you go there are my five cards using that one wreath die everything all the information will be found below in the video description go check it out there's loads of inspiration in this month's edition and hopefully this has inspired you today and yeah you go and make lots of Christmas cards thanks for stopping by and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye