 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed at Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This kick starts my Mother's Day series 2019. This is my third series now so if you're new to my channel and you've never seen the Mother's Day series then I will share a little drop-down up here and you will be able to look at last year's and the year before as well because it's full of inspiration. So I love doing this. I've done I think I've got quite a nice variety of projects and I always feature a Tonics Tea Cake project. Now if you're in the UK then you will know exactly what they are and as I always say they're a British institution. They are just marshmallow wonderful tasting treats and I love them and I can consume quite a few in a day so my mum loves them too so I always incorporate one project that has the Tonics Tea Cakes featured in them so I'll show you those in a moment but this is the first project so some of you will think oh she's using those daffodils again because on Friday I done a daffodil easel card using these beautiful dies which were from a magazine and I'll share all the links and everything to that in my blog post so I've used them again for this project and I think it's really great. So this is called a stepper box card or a stepper gift box so you take the lid off the top here and then this could be where you write your kind of card to and from or you can just write you know something else I might put another daffodil there I'm not sure and then as you open it you have all of these and inside are the Tonics Tea Cakes and then you can stand it up if you want to the idea is it stands up but there is four in this and if you look there you can see how it looks and again if you want to you can decorate all of this here as well which I might add a bit more to I'm not entirely sure but it's really fun to make it's dead easy as well and it all just slides in you can see there perfectly like so and then you just pop your lid on the top what a lovely gift they might think they're getting perfume but I'm sure they prefer the chocolate when they see anyway what's inside and there's the back there as well you can see there all the detail in those dies it's just absolutely stunning so yeah so this is what we're going to make so let's get into the tutorial so this is the die that I've used here that's the Altenew layered daffodil die collection this was free in a magazine and you can see the pieces that you get to it there so you get the one two three four pieces to the daffodil and then these are the three pieces for your stems and your leaves and it is gorgeous so again all the links to that will be shared in my blog post what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk through what we need I think as we get to that part because there's a lot of kind of mats that you need to decorate obviously all those boxes and bits and pieces so what I'm going to do first of all is do the main kind of piece that opens up with the boxes so I've already done my daffodils here I've got all that ready to go I've even stamped my little sentiment as well so we can just you know make this as quick as we can and um and easy to follow so for your main case you need a piece that's eleven and a quarter by six and one eighth now if you're using 11 inch letter paper that's fine all it will mean is that this back piece here will be a quarter inch short so you could extend it with some colored paper you could put a nice decorative trim on the end or just keep it slightly shorter it's not really going to make too much of a difference you could alternatively get rid of that panel together but it would mean that you've got that kind of exposed bit there because that's where it would literally just join up it would just have the four sides one two three four so you wouldn't you know it wouldn't have a corner like this kind of thing that just kind of keeps it all compact so have a look watch the tutorial then you can decide okay so we are going to score at two and a quarter at four and a half at six and three quarters and at nine okay so you should have five panels that are two and a quarter wide and then you can just burnish all of those and that's the case so again really really straightforward nice and easy to do and you can see now how that will fold like that and that piece so again if you haven't got that you're just going to have those four pieces like that minus this piece okay so this is the inside that's the outside so now I can decorate that so what I've got here is I've got five pieces for the outside so I'm going to do it the same the inside's going to be slightly different so these are these panels here so I've got one two three no it's four isn't it let me just double check was it five no it's five yeah of course because it's going over that one there so I knew I was right I just wanted to double check so these all measure two by five and seven eighths of an inch so they're just coming in by quarter of an inch on both sides you'll need five pieces in one design and then you'll want five pieces in another design for the inside again exactly the same measurements two by five and seven eighths of an inch and yeah it's intelligent you might want to do like a nice silver mirrored cardstock in this side in this size and then drop down again so you've got a mat and a layer it's entirely up to you but I'm going to go ahead now and get all of these stuck down okay so that's my case now all covered and also this is on 300 the white cardstock 300 gsm smooth paper mill direct cardstock and I printed the free downloads from the same magazine onto that same cardstock so you know you've got a 300 gsm a 300 gsm and another 300 gsm and this is pretty strong so yeah it looks great now and you can see how that all holds together like so okay next we want to make our boxes so you need four boxes for the inside it's entirely up to you again once you see how this is done you may just need two or three or you might want to add more I've done them so that they hold those tonics tks specifically so you need four pieces that are five and one eighth of an inch squared okay and on all four sides of every one you want to score at one inch you want to score at one and a half inches so one and a half one and a half one and a half and one and a half do that on all four pieces okay then you just want to fold and burnish all over your sides okay so now you'll have your four then we just need to do a little bit of cutting so you want to cut down on one of the sides it doesn't matter which one because they're all the same you just want to cut down to the first score line like that okay then rotate it so what you've done is now facing away and you've got the opposite side and just cut down again like so then with the four outer squares you just want to take wedges off of them like so just so you don't get any side pieces kind of hanging over the top like so and again do the same on the other side okay like so you just want to do that on all the other pieces okay so all those pieces are now be ready then with one of your corner pieces oh got a bit there get rid of that you want to add some glue to the top and the reason I chop and change glues is because this is a strong tacky glue so it's perfect for surface areas but when I'm doing corners sometimes I use that if I forget but I like to use this one because it dries clear it doesn't dry tacky so if you do get anything that kind of oozes out the side you can just wipe it away and it will just dry clear and won't be sticky so yeah that's why I do that so that you just want to bring up the side like so so again I'll show you on this one in there a glue bring that one down and that side up so you're creating your little box and you've got really nice right angles there okay do the same on the other side okay and there you will have your little box and let me just bring in here this is what they look like so you get six teacakes in here my tunnecks and now that fits in there perfectly I would love to be given this just this actually okay so you just want to do that now on all the others okay so I've done all my little boxes then you need to just add the decoration on these it's easy to do them when they're loose like this rather than stuck down but if I open it up you only need to decorate three sides so 1 2 3 so in total you need 3 6 9 12 pieces of the size that I'm going to give you now and then we can stick them down afterwards so these pieces measure make sure because I had to cut one slightly different let's just check here yeah see those are smaller whereas I think I preferred more coverage yeah so I'm going to change mine around a little bit see I prefer that one so is it I mean you know how to do your sizing for this but if you want to do the same ones as me these are two by one and three eighths of an inch okay and you'd need nine pieces so you want to choose what's going to be your back now I tend to go for where you folded in your pieces so you can see my folds are there and there so I'm going to have that on be stuck to this piece here and then the other fold piece will be facing the front so the bits where there's no folds are going to be my sides that's how I'm going to do it but if you've got a you know a preference so you can see there that's how mine are going to be so that's the bit that you're going to see at the front everything else will be stuck down at the back so I'm going to get all these stuck down okay so that's all my sides covered now on the four boxes so they can go on here so what you want to do easiest way to do this you're going to have one like that one like that one like that and one like that but in order to make sure you get them perfect you want to start with this bottom on first so you don't want to do the first panel you want to go straight into your second panel at the bottom here so I'm going to grab my glue you want to cover all of the back there and then pop it in between the score lines right down to the bottom and then lift it up and then you can make sure it's flush on the you know your mat here on the bottom and then just kind of stick it there get your bone folder or something in there just to really make sure that glue spread out and again just make sure that it does sit nice and flush so when you wrap that all around you see that you get it completely flat all right so that's what you want to kind of aim for that's the most important one because it's from that one that we then line everything else up with so and that the measurements I've given you will allow these to perfectly sit on top of each other right to the very top so again if I bring that all around you see they're all marries up nice and flush at the top okay so you do want to make sure that you get that first one in perfect okay so next pop some glue on this one and you're going to fold this one over like that and then I keep that up like that you're going to pop that one down so it sits on top then pop that one back and then you can again go in and make sure that it's nice and straight because the idea is is they've got obviously slot in underneath each other and you don't want them catching so if you do it like that then you know that you've got it nice and straight and also the you know the exact distance that it needs to be see there now that works really well and it doesn't catch or anything then grab the next one and you want to do the same again so you're going to bring both over so now if I bring it up like that hang on so we're going to be sticking on so you've done your second one so that's the first panel you just stuck on the second the third now we're sticking on the fourth so you want to bring that over I'm trying to do it so that you can see on the screen so again lining it up like so and then I can drop it back out and just make sure that it's coming up okay like so okay you can see now how great it starts to look it really is fun then your last one and the last one just bring that one down and sit that one in you just want to make sure you get it lined up at the top there I think catches so then you can just roll them all in go around kind of squeeze it make sure they're all nice and stuck in you should have that shape and it becomes a really strong compact lovely little you know box it's a great little keepsake as well because once the goodies have been used and eaten it's a nice little storage idea as well you know you can use that to pop little bits of jewelry in you could use it in your craft room just to store some little trinkets and embellishments and stuff so I think it's got quite a few uses but they have it so where you've got this piece on the back obviously decorate that however you want so where that's on the back there this is the front so this is now what I'm going to decorate so I've got these daffodils here now if you missed my card last week or you want to know how to put these together and assemble them just check out that tutorial and I'll share that up here for you just to show you how to put these together but I want to go for something similar to this because I just I love that I love working in threes and I just think these daffodils just look really nice like that so I am going to roughly stick them in the same way so I'm going to stick these down first and then I just kind of pop the green leaves underneath so I've got it hanging off the side there because again I just think that looks quite nice this one's all stuck down so I'll just pop my glue over all of it and that one's going to be about there and then this one here just turning the other way and that one is going to go so would I want it like that or like that hmm yeah it was about there wasn't it there we go bad I do like so and then these now you just kind of add in wherever so okay and then I've got my happy Mother's Day that I've already stamped and cut out and then I've just popped some foam adhesive and a little bit of glue and then just have it on an angle like so look at that isn't that gorgeous it looks so so pretty so that's your box all done now we need to do the lid put that one on top and you have a gorgeous gift box and a wonderful gift and there's that one there and if you want to know what's inside one because this one's been sat on my desk I'm going to show you so you open up before you and you have this lovely dome and then five it's full of marshmallow with a biscuit base and it's delicious so I'm going to finish this I finished the tutorial I'm going to have a cup of tea I hope you've enjoyed the first of my Mother's Day series I've got some really lovely treats for you this week so tune in subscribe if you haven't already and I'll be back again tomorrow with another tutorial see you later bye