 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is another project for my Easter series 2018 and I'm going to be showing you how to make these Easter cards which are partially die cut. So the idea is is that you die cut all of these letters but you leave a tiny bit of it still attached to the card so that you get this effect. So it's partially die cut. So I'm going to be showing how to make this one but I'm going also show and talk you through this style as well because the dies that I'm using are stamping up the letter dies and I just wanted to make sure that people that don't have those dies but have other letter dies can still create this style card. So to make this one here I've used these one inch dies. So when I talk you through this one to get this effect you can do exactly the same but with one inch dies two inch three inch whatever letter dies it is you've got you can use any but that's what I use for these ones here so that's these here and I'll share any links as well that I've got and basically you can see when it opens up that's where it's cut on the back okay and then it just lifts it up and it's attached to the top of the card. So I'm still going to decorate this one a bit more but I just thought I'd bring that in just to show you what I've been doing. Okay so the one we're going to be doing today is this one here the papers that I used for this one are the free principle downloads from Trimcraft it's their Easter papers that they've done I'll just bring it up there you get the little bunny I've just added some glitter on there as well and hoppy Easter I've got a nice little play on words there as well and again this one stands up the difference with this one is I've put um card on the back here and I'm also going to put another piece inside here because obviously you want to be able to write your sentiment because that's obviously where it was all die cut it just doesn't look so good so that's what I've done to cover that up but I'm going to go through all that now. Okay so you're going to need a piece of main card here which is three and one eighth of an inch by eight and a quarter so it's the standard width of a four card um and then it's just cut down to um six um did I just say three and one eighth it should be six and one eighth of an inch actually let me just bring my scoreboard up just so I know I'm getting them right yes six and one eighth of an inch by eight and a quarter okay then you will also need two more pieces which are eight and a quarter by three and you want two pieces and these are going to be the bits that will stick inside just to make it look more appealing to the eye and then for decorating I've already gone ahead and done most of it here but this matted piece here you'll recognize this paper if you watched my live Facebook live um a couple of weeks ago and I done um I used these downloadable papers from oh gosh um I can't remember the magazine I'll put a little link up now um but I printed them all off and this is eight by two and three quarters and you can see what I've done here because I've put this mesh kind of ribbon along the back first then I've put this brown craft card over the top and then I've put the word Easter there as well and then I'm going to get some of these same rabbits which I fussy cut and I'm going to put a couple of them along the bottom here as well okay so that's the decoration for this card so what you want to do first of all is yeah you don't need the scoreboard at the minute is just grab a ruler and a pencil and along the side here you just want to mark it three inches in now bear in mind it's six and one eighth of an inch you want to mark it three inches and it will all make sense as to why we've got that one eighth of an inch um extra piece here when we get to it but just mark it three inches at the top and at the bottom come up a little bit there okay and then just draw a pencil draw a pencil joining up those two dots like so okay then you'll notice here I've wrote the word cut on one side and I've just put a cross on the other again just do that so it makes sense when I'm talking to you through the tutorial of what bits we are see doing what bit with okay first of all you want to grab your um your die so whatever ones you're doing so I'm going to spell out the word hoppy again along here so just need to make sure so the side where I've wrote cut okay that is the side that we want to put the dies on okay so that should be the three inch side and the three and one eighth of an inch side will be this one here okay so then you want to line up your word basically so in my case it's hoppy this would be good though obviously if you've got happy because you'll have happy Easter happy birthday happy Christmas um any kind of um you know holiday um the word happy fits really comfortably along this width if you've got smaller again you could even if you've got smaller than one inch you could probably have happy birthday running all the way along the top this is a five by seven card but again if you're doing the card this size and the shape that I've got you could easily have happy birthday running right the way along the top so it's just a really nice fun um card to do so just making sure the letters are all the right way up now what you want to do this is the crucial part this pencil line you want to have a little bit of it showing through the top of each of your stamps um each of your dies when you lie them down so I'm going to lie it down just put a bit of washi tape on and then I'm going to bring it up closer so you can see so just taking off some of that sticky from this particular washi because it's quite strong I'm just going to pop that in place another piece there as well and if I just bring this one up you can see that the pencil mark is just inside that I can see it you need to be able to see it you want this to have the very bottom part of whatever letter or whatever it is you're die cutting it needs to be this side of this pencil line it's the most important part of this process and my mum when I was showing her this we had such a giggle and in the end after her third attempt she almost threw the cards across the craft room because it just you have to get this right so this is something that does take a lot of concentration um it is a little bit not fiddly maybe the word I'm not sure it's just you have to make sure that that piece of the bottom part of whatever die is is slightly over this side of this pencil mark okay so that is my H then I'm going to go along and put my next letter in place again you can kind of now if they're all the same height you can make sure they all line up with each other at the top here and then you'll know that you get a bit over but always just make sure you can see a little bit of pencil so again I'm confident that that one's in the right place and then again my P it's about it's literally maybe like two millimeters over that pencil mark so put my P and then because I've only got one P which you will do anyway most of your die sets I'm just going to put a pencil mark there just around that side I'm going to put the Y in place and I'll show you then just to make sure it's all going to line up so I've got a feeling I'm going to move that P a little bit over to the left a bit more pop my Y again making sure a little bit of it's there then take this one back off you want to put it the other side of that pencil mark and I can see it's too close to that Y so I'm actually going to bring it further towards the O about there redo my pencil mark again very pushing down very lightly so it's all easy to rub out and then I can move the P and that is now a much better spacing between my letters so I'll pop the P back get that one cut like so and then I can go back and put it in place in a minute okay let me just bring this all up a bit so you can see the bottom of every one of these letters is just below that pencil mark and the rest of it is all on this piece basically what's going to happen is when we put this through the machine got to place it in a particular way with the plates in a particular position but when you run it through the die machine it will die cut all of everything that's on this side of this pencil mark and this little bit that's overhanging on this side will not cut and that's what keeps it attached to the card and that's why it's called partially die cutting so this is the bit now where my mom she I get saying to her you're not listening to me and we were having a right old laugh because she done it and then she just went oh damn it you know and and I was going to see you haven't done it so everything you want cutting goes between the plates anything you don't want cutting sticks out at the end of the plates now the other reason why I've done this and it works so well is that this is using a A4 cutting machine I have the tattered lace A4 cutting machine and my mom has the A4 spell binders cutting machine again this one here will go through the smaller cutting machines like the big shot which is commonly used so again I've tried to do it so that even if you don't have this size die cutting machine you can still create this lovely partially die cut card okay bottom plate and you've got the piece here and this is what we want cut you're going to bring it right up to the edge of the plate and you need to line up that pencil mark with the top of the plate meaning that that little two mil will hang out at the top so if I just lie that down like so put my plate over the top and then what I'm going to do is bring the plates up put the plates down so they're completely flush and then I can line up the pencil mark from corner to corner and I can see the top of those letters poking out from the top so if I just now bring that you can see there those letters all poking out at the bottom so now I know when I run that through the machine all that's going to cut is everything sandwiched between these plates this tiny little bit that's not will not cut okay so bringing my mum's big one and pop it in and then keeping making sure this does not move I'm pinching it so tightly between with my other hand it's nice and squeaky and again before you even get to it just rearrange make sure you're happy okay so now I'm going to remove carefully my letters and take that one off take that one and the P which I need to put down again and now you can see that they are still connected because they haven't cut past that pencil line so again I'm just going to pop the okay so just get rid of all of this take off that final one now just going to rub out this is going to be covered anyway so I'm not too worried okay now we can just pop out all these other little pieces now you'll see with this H I've got this bit here because it's still attached and I need to remove that piece there so all you want to do is grab a metal ruler and your cutting knife oh gosh that was uh not very good let's come on down let me just pop that one back in so just sit that right over line it up with the pencil mark the ruler with the pencil mark and then just cut that tiny little piece you just want to remove then we can rub out again all of this okay now what we're going to do is create a score line because obviously we haven't burnished this yet and you know I've done it so it was cut this side will be three and one eighth of an inch just because now you're going to score right at the bottom of the cup piece so you're going to start scoring along here which is slightly further down than where the original pencil mark was so roughly where you will score now will be the exact center point and it just means now that when we fold it in half you'll have a nice equal-sided card so basically you want to be scoring along the bottom part of every letter where the the cut the piece that's cut finishes so like so I'll just bring that up now you can see where I've just scored that line you see it goes along the bottom at every single cut letter which is just below where the pencil mark was probably should have left the pencil mark there first and then scored it so you could see but the pencil mark originally was slightly above that okay and now what you can do is just very carefully fold that all down then on this side just go along and burnish very carefully all the top pieces there of that card do not burnish the actual letter again my mum she said oh I don't mind if you say all this in your video but she then went and burnished the letter and then that meant the letter folded over and it kind of then you know you lose the look of the card because now those letters are really firm and rigid and they're not going to fold and bend over do not bend the letters just burnish and fold this piece in between but there you have already a really nice card so the effect and the result is brilliant it's just that little you know you've really got to really concentrate with this one to get you know the perfect result so now it's just all down to the fun stuff of cutting it all sorry decorating it all so these are the two pieces which are three by eight and a quarter and basically I'm going to stick one underneath here and one over the top and it just gives your card visually it just makes it a lot more cleaner and so forth so I'm going to get that all stuck down so just turned it upside down fold this piece back over like so and just put glue around the letters so all the parts you can see there don't put the glue on the letter otherwise you end up sticking it down so it's everywhere in between really concentrate around the edges because obviously that's what really matters and then pop this piece over down here on this side and then bring this down on top of it okay like so and then bring it back up again and you can just make sure but that measurement will give you the exact piece like so and then on this side now you can put glue over all of it and that last piece will go nicely over the top and like I said with the bigger one the only reason I've done it on this is because it's obviously a shorter card and those letters it the back of it did really stand out but with something like this where the letters are smaller and it's such a large background you can still easily write your sentiment there but if you do want to cover it just do exactly the same as I did and just measure this exact piece of whatever size card it is but like I said that was a five by seven for that one and I think that still looks so nice it just gives it a completely different overall you know look okay so flip that over let that all set and then I just need to decorate it so that piece was already cut down which is going to go the right way don't know if I gave you the measurements for this so I will just tell you again it is two and three quarters by seven and seven eighths of an inch I've already put my tape on down again when this goes on it will give you a nice border all the way around again I absolutely love these free papers I think they look so good like so and then I'm just going to pop a few little bunnies on the top okay I've gone a little bit different there actually and I've just put a couple because I love this paper so much so I've put one just stuck on the top of the tee there and I've got this one kind of coming down from the oh some little hopping bunnies so there you have it and then open it up you've obviously got that nice inside to write your sentiment I'm going to put a little happy to stamp there and from the back there it looks obviously much nicer as well on the envelope there you have it this is a eight and a quarter by five card so you have here eight and a half by five which would be the closest measurement so you'll need a piece of paper that's ten and three quarters squared and you're going to cut your first line at four and one eighth of an inch you could also do if you're worried you know if you're maybe not I don't know some people their results on this can be you know they're not they're not always too sure you could also do five and a half by eight and a half which is a piece of 11 by 11 and the first score line is at four and a half okay so there's two envelopes you could do on this which would work for this one as well but there you have it so that is using obviously those stamping up letters love them think they're so good but equally as nice is this one here as well which is that little bit smaller but I've got lots of room we're going to do something nice still there as well which you'll see in the pictures so they have it so I hope you like the Easter card for me today the partially die cut just type that into youtube and you'll see lots of you know other partial die cut cards using butterflies and just any die that you have you can use it in this same way so I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you learned something new um I hope you're enjoying the series and uh yeah please hit the thumbs up button and subscribe to my channel to see 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