 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Today I'm going to be showing you how to make this beautiful Christmas card. This is used in the paper discovery, build a door scene, one of those you'll see it all in a moment anyway, and it's just I love how this has come together. Now this is my second attempt. I will show you the yeah the failed first attempt but you just open up the doors and then you've got a little Christmas scene inside. I'm still going to add some glitter, I think it needs a little bit of sparkle or some shine in there and but yeah look at it look at the front you've got all that lovely hardware look with the door handles it's just so lovely I've got that lovely it's Christmas time sentiment on the top there but let me just show you so this was the first one I done it looked brilliant and then I added this snow and the snow just went so wrong. Now I did use my homemade embossing paste which I use all the time I love it but what I didn't anticipate was the red I actually distressed this red cardstock with a darker red. Now that has slowly been bleeding through and can you see it's just started to come around all the edges there and then there was a brown because there's a brown cardstock under this although you can't see it was more to give it strength and I distressed that but it's actually started to go yellow as it's been kind of bleeding into the embossing paste and it's just a hot mess and then I decided to put some of my artificial snow on the top thinking maybe that I cover everything up no it looks even worse so I don't think there's much to salvage possibly the the picture inside so yeah I was a bit gutted but then it was a learning curve so now I know I'm glad I've kind of done it now because I'm going to be using the well I was going to be using the embossing paste for a bigger project so I'm really glad that I you know I kind of found out now before I got to that so I think I prefer not using the snow for this for me but I know that Olga she uses it in hers and it looks fantastic so I think I just need to get the proper kind of stuff because she does use a snow text I think it is that she uses now I do have this which is the cosmic shimmer fluffy stuff but you have to apply a quite an intense amount of heat and if you add too much heat to this it's just going to warp so I didn't want to use it on cards I'd rather use that on more of my 3d projects so yeah that was my kind of bit of a lesson learn there but nonetheless I mean from a distance actually looking through the monitor it doesn't look too bad but in person it it doesn't look that great so you'll see they've slightly got it different I've got the lamp post in that one this is the one I'm going to be showing you how to make I'll talk through everything that I've done it's really really fun if you love detailed dyes and doing all these little fiddly bits like this then you're really going to enjoy these ones so let's get into this tutorial okay so for this one I'm using the paper discovery so this is paper discovery stamp set and this is the scene here which I'll be stamping and coloring later I'm using one of the embossing folders this one here is you can buy two these all coordinate together but I'm going to use this one again because I just love all the detail in that one and then I'm using the door builder set so this is all the dyes it's lovely I know lots of you already have the paper discovery she's done lots of other dyes before and it's just so detailed if you love spending time and doing all the details right down to little door handles there then you're really going to enjoy these I've already done the other one that she has the little you build a scene you've got the Christmas tree and the living room and all that kind of stuff and I'm going to be showing that tutorial with you shortly but that's what I'm using today so what I've gone ahead and done because I don't want this to be a very very long tutorial is I've gone ahead and cut everything but haven't distressed anything yet so what I've done is I want this to be on a it's a large six by eight card so this is a piece of A4 folded in half or letter paper folded in half you're looking at that kind of size however you don't have to you can have it just this size here and actually cut your outer frame here as your card so you just offset this left hand side and it would keep the side of your card intact here so that would be the fold but you'd have that dome there so you can have it that size if you want but I thought I want to do create that kind of house in the back here so I've got this kind of wood effect here and I just love the bigger kind of card for this because I think you need it with the street lamp and the the trees and everything here so I've gone ahead and cut all that out in here so you see what I mean there's lots of little bits tiny tiny pieces in there so I thought rather than me going right now you need to cut this now you need to cut that I thought I'd just you know start here so choose what colors you want so I've gone for this lovely rich blue this time and I'm going to distress this a little bit as well so I've already gone ahead and cut the door and that's using the frame and the detail so it's this one here which gives you all that detail and cuts out the window and then this is the frame okay now what you want to do then if you want to have this detail you need to run it through your embossing folder so I thought I'd show you how you do it is you just sit it inside and there's the circle in the middle here I just use that there and then these windows to make sure I've got everything lined up and it does it sits in there perfectly and you know you've got the right gap there on each side and then you just pop the top over and you can also see there that you're within the frame and everything of the detail so I'm just going to run that one through okay so if I just lift that off look at all that wonderful detail absolutely stunning so now we can take that out and that's our door all ready to go now I want to have my little Christmas scene behind that so I'm just going to pop that to one side for the minute and I'm just going to show you this piece here now the thing that I love that Olga does with her dies who is the lady behind paper discovery you can find her on youtube as well so do go and check her out because she's got some amazing tips and tricks so I've picked up some of those so this piece here if you sit this over the top okay so pop it back into your die again after you've cut it and then I'm just bringing my mat here what you can do so I want to use a darker blue on this okay so I've just got a real dark navy here and then what I'm going to do is with the die over the top all these lovely details here are for you to be able to use the dies your stencil so I'm just going to go over now and cover all of this okay so I've covered all that so be careful when you take it off probably gone a bit too heavy with some of it but you can see there how lovely is that you've got all that detail and obviously once this is now all on the door and it's got everything else I'm going to have a wreath on there it's going to come together and look really lovely so that is how you can use your dies as stencils so probably don't go as heavy as I did there but I'm just going to quickly get this cleaned up okay so that's that done next you can cut the same shape of this kind of top piece of the door but just the frame so you have the detail there and then you have the frame they both cut out completely though so this doesn't just cut into your car stock it does also cut it out with this piece here I want to create the stained glass look now with the coordinating stamp set you get these stamps here so I've already done this one here because I thought once you see me do one you don't need to see me do both but these are ready now to go behind the door and I've done the yellow because I want it to look like that's the light on inside the house so once it lines up they do line up perfectly like so okay so I want to keep that same yellow throughout but the easiest way to do this one here use the detail piece that you die cut and pop it over the top there and then just with a pencil you just want to draw around I'm just drawing around that the tops and sides not the whole thing just enough for you to be able to line it up and then you'll be able to rub that out then what you want to do is get your stamp so I've already got my stamp ready here so this is that smaller one and we're going to stamp into all of this now I've been using my Nuvo hybrid this is the black shadow because you can use you know watercolours or your markers with it so it's just easy I don't have to think about it and then I'm just going to go along now and just very carefully stamp in each of those sections oh I didn't do too bad with that one the other one I was a bit off okay so I'm just going to do that with the others then I'm just going to go over make sure it's completely dry and just rub out any pencil lines if you can see them then you can now line this back up and it should yeah I'm happy with that okay so now I want to colour them so I was kindly sent these by crafters companion to try and it's the new and these are the classic markers by spectrum noir and this is the brights and I thought oh I'm going to use them within this so the yellow I've been using is from this one here and it's the sunshine so I'm just going to go and do all my yellow and then I think I'm going to keep it the same colours here so I've used the red which is this one here it looks a bit pinky I didn't realise it was red but when it comes out is actually we can see there is a nice red colour so the other two I'm going to use so I'm just going to put this on high speed and quickly colour this in okay so I'm happy with that so next I want to stick that to this piece here so I'm just going to add some glue probably actually to the back of this rather than that because at least you know that this is the bit that's actually going to be sticking down you might get your glue in places you you know it'd be seen so I'm just going to just lightly pop some around there and then just sit this over the top I've got a few white areas but I think what I'm going to do just so it's not obvious to the eye you see where I'm slightly off there and I'm just going to go in with that yellow again okay you wouldn't even you wouldn't notice now okay so that's the top of my door already and you can see how this is all going to start to come together and then we've got these pieces here so I might as well put these on as well now what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut these down a little bit thinner enough so there's a border for me to add the glue and then I'm going to cover it again in some blue card because I don't want you to see this white when you open the door now you do get the pieces that come out of this here but if you want to stamp just within that small area then by all means do so with some white you could die you could die cut it again in white so you have a white piece to stick over the top with your stamp and then you can just paper piece them in so you have you know you'd have to still have something to attach it for me it's just a bit easier to just attach like this I'm just going to cut some blue and just put it over there it will also strengthen my door I think I'll cut two strips of this okay so now we've got the door coming together here okay next I want to do the scene inside so this is the one here okay you can see it also looks nice if you do it in a lighter almost like a gray color and you can have it as almost a watermark inside the card so if you do it really lightly you could actually end up writing over it so that looks really nice but I'm going to use again this Nuvo here so I'm just going to do that on some white card okay ignore that it's on a circle that's just a piece of scrap that I had so I'm just going to give that a few seconds to dry and then I'm going to start coloring that in okay so that's colored in it's colored in very basic I haven't really done any kind of shading I've just done some same color shading so I've just used my marker and just gone over you know more in one area with the same brown just to give a little bit of depth same with the pillows there that's the same purple I've just gone around the outside and I have showed that before in one of my marker tutorials you don't need to have you know five six different greens to get a blend you can do it just with one pen so that's just very very basic what I might just quickly do actually is just do this tree a little bit more it's not the cleanest of lines right that's better so now I want to cut it from this piece here okay and don't worry if it doesn't quite meet I mean like I said I've got the circle because if you put your door over you can see what's actually going to be seen and it actually all just covers it perfectly so I'm going to run this one through my machine okay so now I've got this piece and then I'm going to grab this and I'm going to add my glue to the back of this piece here because it's easier because it's got you've got that quite thin strip there and then just go up the sides and then I'm just going to line up hold the doors that way there we go that's easier do the top first and then you can just kind of move it around okay now I want to start sticking some of these elements down so I'm going to stick my door onto here before I do that I do want to just stress this up a little bit actually so I have got my brown and I'm using this one here chocolate chip and I just want to go around and just just darken up the edges you're not going to see much of the inside but I just wanted to give it a bit of a distressed edge okay and also when you stick this on here there will be a gap just through here so I want to add a little bit of more just through there just so it all ties in so now I want to stick this on here so I'm going to start using this glue now because it is I'm going to say it's like a hardener because it does it just really really strengthens everything so I'm going to stick this onto here especially if you're just using this as the card base so I'm going to be sticking this again onto something more but if you're just going to have this then I would so make sure you've got a nice strong glue and then this one here okay so now we've got that scene inside and the doors that close now we've got the fun part of adding all the accessories and this is what really brings it all together so first of all I'm going to add let's just tip this out so I can actually see everything we'll do the trees in a minute because I didn't know whether to have one or two or whether to do the lamp post again I'm thinking this time I'm going to just have this one just the two trees we'll see so I have gone and cut everything for that right so you get your knockers so I've cut two knockers out you get these panels and you get these circles and you also get a swirly bit that goes on the circle I've not done that one because it's just a bit too tiny for me but it is there so I'm going to pop one over that there okay and then you've got these circles here so I'm going to pop my other ones over those I should be using my little pickup tool which would be much much easier okay and then I want to add my little kind of handle the plates sorry so I've got this one it's going to go there there and it's when you start to add these that it really starts to all come together I think that looks so lovely and then you have your door handles so you can have the knocker you could have the knockers on the no you wouldn't have a knocker on glass would you that wouldn't be the best thing I mean I've I did do on the other one I put the knockers over there because that's how Olga had it in one of hers but for this one I'm going to put the door handles so I would say that looks like keyholes at the bottom so I'm going to do this one here okay I'll buff that off the mirrored cardstock whereas a bit of glue on there but look at the handles doesn't that look cool I love this so the knockers I think what I'm going to do is have them down on this bit here I think that's going to work quite well so I'm going to pop a little bit of blue and put one there might as well go all out let's throw everything on the nice thing about this is that you can use these you know in lots of ways so it's entirely up to you where you want to put them but I think that looks quite good so we're going to bring that up again okay so you got the knockers there got your door handles and then that piece there but you could have the doors shut and have the wreath kind of hanging as well on this because you don't have to have this open you don't have to have that seam behind there or anything like that okay so then I've got these here I'm going to just dress these up a bit but I quite like the thought of having tree in its pot either side and you have the little bit there so I think that looks nice or I go for that option again of having the see I do really like that now I'm going to do one on one that was easily changed so what I done is I cut it in this kind of gun metal it's got a shine to it because I thought this is a lamppost it's outside and they've got that obviously metal look and then I cut it again but I reduced the pressure so I just took one of the shims out of my mini machine just so it didn't actually punch the center pieces out you see they're still all in there and now what I'm able to do is just color right over this so I want to color all of those bits in yellow because that's going to be the lights so once we stick this behind the lamppost it will look like the lights on and then on the back of this again it's very delicate but because this is going to be stuck against the card it will all strengthen so I'm just going to pop little bits of glue and then you just want to stick each one behind each light now the street light looks like it's lit up then these are the bits that cut out as well you can paper piece different colors but I'm going to keep the same so I've got those bits there I should have another bit which I will find in a minute but what I'm going to do is I want to strengthen the whole thing I'm just going to cut this into a very thin strip and this will just act as a reinforcement going down through this here okay so by sticking that behind you're able to paper piece back on top like I said I'm not going to change the color I'm just keeping mine as a solid this solid kind of gray color so I'm just going to paper piece those same pieces back in again that one is somewhere but I've lost it so I will sort that out later but now probably have it a bit more like there when I stick it on the card that's going to look really nice and then with these I just distress them the same way that I did before so with this one with the brown I'm just going to pick up the brown that's already on there because I don't really want to change its color so much I just want to highlight the outside so you can just see there okay and then I'm going to use a green and do the same for this one here okay so it just kind of brings that gives it a little bit of shape and then for this one you get this which is your stem so it doesn't really matter how you do this I just put a little bit of glue on the bottom of that one and just stuck it behind because I don't want it very tall I think you've got the reason why it's so long is because you can have you don't have to have the stem on this at all you can have it right into the pot but you do have the option to have more of like a bay tree so you would have that obviously much higher but for this one I'm going to bring it down much much lower and cover most of that in glue just so you just see a little bit okay so I'm going to find that piece there I'm also just going to add a little bit of I feel it needs a bit of an orange glow it's looking a little bit too yellowy so what I'm going to do is just just kind of go in on the sides a little bit there again just need it a little bit of warmth added to it okay okay so for some reason I've lost some of my video footage and audio so all I'm doing now is I'm starting to build everything together the card is a six by eight so it's a large card so I just cut a mat to fit on my eight by six card and then I start layering everything up so I end up stamping as well on top of this with some gold heat embossing powder and it's it's Christmas from a crafter's companion set which I'll show you and yeah just start sticking everything down so I ended up going for the two trees in the end but just so you know why I've just jumped all of a sudden okay so to finish it off I changed it the title slightly I thought it's Christmas time and it's this lovely big stamp here from the crafter's companion it was that set of five that I got and this is the it's Christmas time so again I'll link them below because they are very handy but yeah what I've done is I heat embossed it and I've like it's kind of overlapped onto the top of the door there in person it looks really good it's not really picking it up so much on the camera because you have to catch it in the light to see all of it kind of like that that's how I see it more like that it looks really really nice so yeah I'm super pleased with it so it took a bit of time but if you've got the patience this special card will be going to somebody special and there's the little scene inside I think I'm going to add some glitter onto the star or something there as well and um yeah like so you don't have to have it open you can have it closed with the wreath there you don't have to have it as big as I've done it I think I might add something maybe onto these I'm going to hold off the snow on this one because even through doing this card this has just started to go all I mean there's bits of brown which are turning yellowy now from where I use brown ink I've got these red bits coming through it's just a bit of a hot mess now so I will salvage the picture but the rest of it I think I'm going to have to dump because maybe I could try and salvage the door but that's stuck on there it's just yeah it's just one of those things isn't it you know and I need to trim the bottom off because that was too long as well yeah it's just let's just push that one to one side and we will just look at this lovely one because that's I think a lot more pleasing to the eye so I hope you've liked it I hope I've inspired you I will link everything below and yeah look forward I will be sharing another card with the other door style and with the street light this time as well because that one's all ready to go and you can see how it does all work together really well so yeah I've really enjoyed it nonetheless even though there's been a few mistakes with the other one so thanks for watching and I'll be back in soon with another tutorial bye