 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is the start of my Mother's Day series 2018. I done one last year and I'll share all the links for those tutorials above. A little bit of a twist this morning after we stop laughing I've got my mum in the house. Say hi mum! Hi everybody! So we've had a few bloopers. I should have recorded them actually well they are recorded so I might edit them in later. Mum still can't stop laughing but I thought as a nice way to introduce Mother's Day week I would do some crafting with my mum. So we are going to make today this really lovely so if it's the biggest envelope you can do on the envelope scoreboard and I'll show you here. It is the six by eight and a half. It's the very last one on your scoreboard. It will give you the perfect envelope size for this. So this is a rocker card. Really easy to make. If I just bring it up there you can see all the detail. I've got little embellishments on there, die-cut circles and then basically it sits up like so and it rocks. So what do you think of that mum? I think it's lovely. I really do like it. So inside here as well. I'm going to talk. Yeah you are. Inside here I've got a little hinge as well just to stop it because it's quite weighted to stop it kind of falling out and kind of just going flat on the mantle or bedside or anywhere where people will keep it and it's you've got to balance it out as well so I'll talk you through that in a minute because obviously you've got a lot of weight on this side so you have to kind of balance it out on each side. So there you have it. So I'm using papers today. I keep raving about these. I absolutely love them. So the paper pack is the Nature's Grace Dovecraft which mum is like drawing over and I think she's going to pinch it from me. Lovely. But you're not allowed to because it's mine. Because it's Mother's Day I might let you have some. That's nice. And the card I'm using is this Ducast Paper Mania. So capsule assorted colossal colours. Solid card stock. It's card stock. It's lovely. Really really nice and you just get a whole rainbow of all different tones and stuff there in the back. So that is what we're using. Again as always I will share all these links in my blog and there will be a link for that below. Okay so mum is going to be doing all of the preparing of the flowers. No we're not having a lunch. This is actually what you're going to need today is a dinner plate and I'll talk through the sizes. A side plate. Oh sorry a side plate. Sorry I do apologize. I did ask her for a dinner plate and brought it up and it was like 12 inches and thought that's a bit of a big card. So we've sized it down but again so this is what we're doing. So I'm just going to pop that to one side. So the best way to, so you need, now if you've got a compass as again I'm crafting with my mum in my mum's craft room. Some of you that have watched old tutorials of me I've got these big circle plastic kind of rings with a cutter by X cuts and I'll share the links to them but I want to check the dimensions of it as well but you should be able to use those otherwise use a compass and what else. If you've even got any big circle dies that would work as well. So I am using a side plate that is coming in at eight and a quarter in diameter. So you want something as close to that really. If you've got your compass you want to set your compass at four and one eighth of an inch. So you want to set it at half of the diameter and then you'll put that into the middle, swirl it around your paper and it will give you an eight and a quarter circle. But I'm always conscious and aware that you know we've always got people starting off the crafting. Some people don't have all the bits and pieces so I'm going to show you how to do it with a good old dinner plate. Side plate. Alright. Okay so don't need the scoreboard. So grab your side plate just pop it upside down and with a pencil we're just going to draw around like so and then you just want to cut that circle out which is what I'm going to do. Now what I'm doing that I'd like mum, I would like you to die cut and punch. So basically what I've got is all these punches. Again this is all my mum's stuff. So we've got three punches here of assorted sizes and then I've got these dies here, that one and also that one there. So you can see here this one quite a pointy one is with this die here. So we just come up a bit in there. It's that one then this one at the back is I think it was just two of them actually I didn't use that one in the end so we'll get rid of that one we don't need that one. So it was two of those ones two of those and then just little hole punch two of those. That one was just one there. I don't actually think I didn't use that one in the end either so you can pop that to one side. So if you can for me mum if you can die cut two of those. So I just got scrap paper here from the card that I made before. Everything's here for your mum, I've got your dying machine. So yeah so if you can do two of those on the yellow for me, two of those on the yellow and then I'll show you the other ones to do in a minute. So mum's gonna crack on and prep the flowers so again if you're doing similar that's what you want to do as well and then I'm gonna cut out this big circle here. So let's remove the dinner plate or the side plate. I keep saying dinner plate that's it now it's stuck. Okay so pop that to one side so that's all the measurements. So you just want to really as neat as possible because obviously this is going to affect the rocking mechanism which is why I mentioned if you you know if you do have a compass if you're very good with a cutting knife or if you do have those circles that I have which I will share the links to then you might find that easier if you are worried that you're not going to get a perfect cut. You have to be quite steady with this piece. Okay so I've got my circle or cut out. So the next thing you want to do is just fold that in half so make sure it's all lined up really well. Oh you need to use I noticed that actually if you just use that extra bit of this here I gave you. So just you have to do another one. Just sit on top and just put that shim in it. Okay so just burnish off there and now you have the main part so the rocker so that's really really straightforward. Now if you want you can die cut some circles you can put them right in the middle have a nice big sentiment I have some flowers down here and that could be your rocker as simple as that and put the little bit in here which I'm going to do but I just want to show you other ways to kind of add a bit more fun to it a little bit more dimension so open it back out again and what you want to do is using a metal ruler and I've got my cutting knife here so first of all with a pencil you want to cut what did I say it was going to be so okay so you want to come in at two and a half on this score line so come in two and a half and just put a little marker just there at two and a half then you want to do a line I'm going to use my grid my mat here just so I can make sure that I'm getting so I'm going to start with this line here just because you're using a circle you want to make sure that you get it then again from this score line you want to come up one inch okay so from that marker that we the two and a half marker there you then want to mark up one inch and down one inch okay like so and then again with your ruler you just want to do a nice straight line just bring that up there can you see what I've done that was the two and a half inch in point there and do that full pencil mark all the way through and then come up one inch there and come down one inch there okay like so now what we're going to do so we're going to put with your metal ruler we're going to cut from that top one inch line down to the bottom one inch line so I just again do this and bring it up so you can see like so so all I've done is I've just cut on the top of that one inch one down to the bottom okay then you want to grab your stylus and then you're going to score the other two pencil marks because we're going to actually burnish these and you're quite a strong score line through there now before we burnish it we can now rub out all of those pencil marks so most of it will be covered with DSP and stuff but just in case some of it does come through be careful over the piece that you've cut how you getting on with the flowers mum okay you do need a shim though for one of the um one of those dyes okay so that is now what we've got so I've got two scored lines because I've rubbed out the pencil here in here and then that piece that's cut so now what you want to do is fold down that back one this one now will fold down and then that other one will fold up like so light all down flat and then you can just burnish everything so okay now obviously we've got this piece poking out so all you want to do is very neatly with your scissors is just follow around that curve and just remove that okay and now we've got this little step piece that kind of goes down like so and now we can grab this little piece here so I've cut a piece let me grab my scoreboard again this piece here is a piece of three by three quarters of an inch and what you want to do is just score at a quarter of an inch one and a half and two and three quarters along that three inch side again get rid of this and then all you want to do is just fold the two ones down and then the middle one up so you're creating that shape okay so the outer ones have gone out folded and then that one's just folded down okay and then okay so so what have you died cut now then so we've got almost four two to two yeah yeah just die cut as many as you want mom and we can just add them in wherever okay then I'm just gonna on the outsides just put some double sided sticky which I don't use I do not use these rolls but my mom does so I'm gonna give hers a go so so just the outsides there both of those and then the very bottom just roughly in the middle don't worry too much just gonna stick one down and then the other side like so that's what you'll have okay and then actually then I need to fold up I think I've told you to fold it the other way but basically that needs to fold up inside like so and all it means is now that that will only ever expand to that width like so just stop no matter what how much weight now you put on that it will always stand up okay so that's that piece done so now we need to do the DSP for the front so you need to cut a piece of Bob whatever paper is that you're using and my piece here measures at use my scoreboard actually measurement so this measures eight by three and three quarters okay and then underneath along the eight inch side with a pencil you just want to mark at four inches so just in the middle there and then grab your side plate and you're gonna mark you're gonna score you're gonna do a pencil mark sorry you're just gonna trace the outside of the plate from the very top what's it top right hand side here like so all the way down so it meets up with that pencil mark at the bottom okay and then again on this side I'm gonna do exactly the same so again I'm just making sure the plate comes up to the edge there and saying that alright so that is just bring that up that is what you want okay and then again you just want to cut that out so again with my scissors and what I'm gonna get also mum to do if you don't mind mum and so I've got the piece here this is what's gonna be the main sentiment so I've already die-cut to with the purple background and then the same print the outer one comes in roughly three and a quarter inch squared and then the inside one is two and five eighths squared and then the next one down again is this one here and this is two inches squared and that's gonna go on top with our sentiment so I've already got the sentiment here and it just says first and mother always a friend I'm giving her a hug right now okay so and I'm using again mom's got all the stamping up colors I've got quite a few but mom's got even more so I did use rich raspberry but I thought it was a bit too pinky but the perfect plum went really nice so if you can stamp this is when mum's starting to sweat now I am sweating I don't I don't free stamp she loves her stamp positioner I love my stuff okay so if you can ink that one up for me and it's neat and as centered as possible I want you to stamp in the middle okay so while mom's doing that which you can see her doing I'm gonna cut this piece out all right mom we've got faith just hold it make sure it's all really inked up nicely and then just hold it down I always hold it in place for like remember the sentiment okay ten seconds always a friend there's always more paper we can dive that one don't worry that's it now you've committed I have committed no see what's wrong that's okay if it's a bit no no you've gone a bit heavy on the maybe you put a bit too much weight on the left and the this well if you want to grab the other side I don't think and I think I'd already put stuff I know you can okay just be a bit lighter don't be so heavy okay can I use my steps if you want so I'll try this again it's just it's just a little stamp just yeah don't be don't push down so heavy oh but enough but obviously that's okay I'm happy with that because it'll be for me so I'm going to know it's not for you do you want to move that to one side so we can get it on okay so can you stick that for me on there and if you can a little secret like I have there as well so just put a little secret in the bottom there and I'm gonna make the bow because my mum always moans at me whenever I do tutorials afterwards we talk about them and stuff then she always says I'm gonna teach you how to do both properly and I think I've got it I'm gonna show you how I do it now okay so my measurement then so you need to on the paper now I can't show you it on the reverse because if I do it on the reverse side what I'm gonna do next it then will be on this left hand side and it needs to be on the right so I have to do it over the top of this pattern paper so it won't be easy for you to see but you get what I'm doing so now we need to make this is gonna fit nicely over the top so you can see already I've got a lovely border but I need to make this piece here so I need to cut this piece away so what you want to do is you need to come down was it so I came down one and one eighth of an inch and came in two and five eighths of an inch so I can come along the bottom here actually so come along the top here two and five eighths of an inch like so so that's just from that side in is two and five eighths of an inch and then just gonna line that up on the front and just do that pencil mark on here as well so I can see I can rub this out I've just done on the front because then I need to come down from that pencil mark by one and one eighth of an inch so do a little cross there okay again it's hardly to see but then from that marker need to come down one and one eighth of an inch which is about there and then you need to come across in a nice straight line so this piece on the outside okay so now we're gonna cut that out very nice and neat just along and then come down so okay I'm not used to having someone looking over my shoulder literally mum is looking over my shoulder okay so now fingers crossed there we go so you pop that in place and you get a nice even order okay so quickly stick that down yeah I do like them but like I've said before I find I go through them really quickly I think I'm maybe too heavy handed on them and I think they can end up costing you lots of money I think as I'm in China I get that roll that I use that scotch roll I get it so cheap so you just want to lie this down now making sure that you get a nice even border you still kind of move it around a little bit because you're looking at you got obviously make sure this is fine this is fine the bottom so you have to play around a bit this bit here is going to be covered by a lot of flowers so I would say your main kind of focus is making sure that this bottom and along the top here because that's what's really gonna be seen okay so you can see that's all down now and then this lovely piece that's been stamped by mum is gonna go here so we just need to put some tape just along the bottom and then you just want to sit it so again so it's in the middle of this top line here and bring it down so it's kind of lining up with the bottom bit of the DSP here so that's about right okay there we go so that's that piece so now if I rock this it's just always going off to the left so this is why now you need to balance it out with the flowers that you're gonna put down here so man what have you done so these ones here okay I think we're gonna need because that so I'm just looking mirroring this so we're gonna have the orange one up there I'm gonna do this purple one this was one of the rosettes which actually comes matching with the nature's grace pack but I'm just gonna do all flowers on this one yeah can you do me that pointy one where's the pointy one gone remember is that green yeah can you do that can you do that in yellow for me yeah two of those in yellow yeah okay so that's that piece there and then I should have a tiny bit of acetate here we go trying to find it thank you so I got a tiny piece of acetate here and this measures at two and three eighths of an inch by half an inch there's just a very very small piece there and that's what I've got this one at the back kind of on now if you haven't got any acetate just use some of the purple card here it still look fine I just liked it you know kind of looking like it was floating and then I've got just a piece of foam that mum's got here and she's got loads of these and they're great they're really heavy where did you get these from can you remember I got them online somewhere but again I never take any notice I just put in I will try and find these or if anybody else has got these because they are really heavy and they're really good they were in set as well yeah no I've seen them yeah there's I think there's about maybe three or four yeah so I will have a look for you and I will try and share links to them but basically on this foam backing once you die cut your flowers if you just kind of rub it around with the ball there on the end it just brings them to life a little bit and I've done lots of tutorials with flowers and just stressing them and stuff like that so I will share some of those links at the end of this video as well but again they just see how quickly that all works and kind of just like I said brings them all to life so whilst mum's doing those other ones I'll bring in she's so she's done these little ones here as well for me so again even if they're tiny I mean the tiny ones take seconds so that one and then maybe yeah we do that's these are dinky dinky ones so that's those ones there thank you mum and then she's just done these other ones here okay so now you just need to put them all together so the flowers are really easy just move all this out of the way okay so first of all I'm going to do the one that's floating which is going to do this one here so just using some of the actually just use this tape here because it's quite a big area so just gonna put a little bit of tape in the middle you don't need a lot these are such so lightweight and just stick it in the middle so it's kind of overlapping like so and then I've raided mum's embellishment drawer so I'm going to take one of the big kind of creamy pearly ones there like so put another bit of tape on the back here thanks man and then just stick that to the top turn the acetate over here actually just stick it on the back there to the top of that acetate like so okay and then on the bottom on the back of that acetate as well just put a bit more tape and then I'm sitting it in this stepped bit so this kind of valley and just popping it in on an angle like so okay now if you want to do lots more on acetate you can but what you don't want to do is you don't want to go any further past this this 8 inch piece here your whole width because you won't fit in your envelope so you can see with mine here I've got that one right up to the edge but if you're going to do any more make sure they kind of come around this way they can kind of feel behind this area here but don't go off over that way because you just wouldn't be able to fit them in your envelope so that's that one there then and just stick this one down so they have all been cut out thank you mom so now we can just start putting them where we want so I'm gonna have that one so again don't need much on these are so light but like I said make sure even these bits here don't go past this this most outer point so it just will not fit in your envelope and that's gonna cover this kind of join here so see what I mean so if you are slightly out with your border at all don't worry because it's easily doctored and that's why I like things like this we like hiding things with embellishments yeah that's a good one for mum so if I ever see like a rogue embellishment on any of my mum's projects I usually say to her was there a little mistake then she goes yeah cover it with an embellishment always works what's your favorite thing you like to make mum oh boxes bags give boxes and bags and who's your favorite paper grafter who's your favorite don't be careful there's a right answer I think it's mixed up card oh good answer some of you may have read things that I've wrote on my blog posts and stuff and mum is my inspiration mum got me started on all of this although I've always been crafting or definitely mom encouraged me to share it with you lot so yeah I think we might need another little orange one maybe do that one yeah in orange or me all yellow it's yellow is not orange I choose it in fact yes we're gonna have one more extra on here because we're gonna do a yellow I think it needs a yellow one down there not this purple one I might put the purple I'll put the purple there we can always have an extra one it's not gonna hurt I think it's in oh no it's here I'm gonna add one more I need two please yeah one more just for the top thank you just again you can just stress these with inks as well you can add obviously leaves depending on what kind of paper you've got so you know this is just as always just a nice I'm just I do like so okay so that's all that there and then I've got to do the bow and a few more embellishments so while I'm doing the bow mum can you put a few more little sequins just like I've done in this one yeah if you can just decorate the middle of that so while mum's doing that I'm gonna cut off mom's got a big ribbon wall like I have so I'm just gonna trim off some ribbon and then mum you should be proud of me now I think I've mastered bow making I hope you can have a look she might always tells me off it when she watches my tutorials if I show her I'm gonna do this right live perfect I have brought a little ribbon machine a tiny little one just this little plastic device just to help me out if I do sometimes I'm alright but I think I've got this down better than I used to anyway that's it yeah yeah you just have to say you need to come that side a little bit you're happy is that yeah your standard there just about yeah yeah yeah yeah fine okay so I'm just gonna trim off the edges like so and then with a little foam I find the ribbon sticks really well with the foam squares so I just cut it down I'm just gonna stick a bit on the back there take off the backing and then when mum's done with the sequins I can stick that on top there so this one then I've just gotten a little angle just to the left because then it kind of again balances out all what you've got going on on this right-hand side and then I think the sequins yeah I think that's fine if the sequins just bring it just bring a little bit more shine we can add a bit more after I guess but they have it so now that will rock it's nice and even it's like so keep playing around with it rock it every now and then make sure you're not then going too heavy on the right-hand side to the left but you can see now when it stops rocking it stays centered which is what we want so there you have it two rocker Mother's Day cards as I mentioned the envelope you just need to use the biggest the last sorry scoring what's the word measurement on the scoreboard and I do have a envelope making tutorial which I will share as well so if any of you do want to look at that you can do but I hope you liked the first of this Mother's Day series 2018 thanks for joining me mum that's alright I enjoyed every minute of it you can now treat me to lunch yes we're gonna go out for lunch now tune in every day this week there will be a different Mother's Day themed project but as always they can be used for any occasion so hope you liked today's tutorial please give us a thumbs up if you did love for my mum and subscribe to the channel and I'll see you again soon take care bye