 Hi everybody it's Simon mixed up crowd thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really lovely little case to hold a mini bottle of whatever it is that you desire so I've got this sparkling rosé in this one purely because one I like rosé and the people that I will be giving this to too but also the colors are just perfect for valentines and they match these papers really well so yeah this is a standard mini bottle size so they're I think this is actually maybe even slightly larger only by a margin from the like wine ones this is more of a champagne style bottle the wine ones tend to be a little bit smaller so they will definitely fit in this fine so really really lovely I've got this holder here and it holds in really well you can literally hold it like that and it's fine this here is the most important part that is what is actually keeping your bottle in place and stopping it you can see it moves but it will not fall out and you can also pop a couple of glue dots on the bottom and that will just keep it secure as well but that's not going anywhere and it's you know lovely they make really nice little favors at the table as well and as always with all the projects that I've shared although I've done them as a valentine's theme this will work perfectly at Christmas for birthdays for weddings all sorts of things so yeah really nice so just bringing up a bit closer there so you can see when I've got a branded product product I was about to say project branded product whenever you've got you know there's the brand underneath this but I've popped a little heart there um there may be a color on here that might not work so say for example this is maybe a blue label you could cover the whole label with you know your papers that you've got so it's a nice way to you know you can you know jazz up the bottles as well to match what it is that you're you know you're using so the stickers here as well I'll show you that in a moment and the papers are the free downloads from the trim craft um from trim craft which is the craft blog so yeah I've got a little bit of mirrored rose gold cardstock at the bottom there and then I've used eyelets they do help a lot on this because there is a bit of weight so it does take that pressure off of those kind of maybe weaker spots when you've you've added your hole punch so yeah really really cute so let's pop that one to one side I've already got my bottle here this is what I mean so here was where the the company brand was along the bottom here as well but I'm going to be using the heart papers this time so I've just popped one there and I've covered that one again just using some of my glows so again just you know makes it all look nice when you put it all together okay so you're going to need um this is the acetate that I've used so I've got two this one's the one I've used for this project so it's uk cardcrafts a4 clear acetate it's 140 microns thick and that was fine because it is just really you can see there's just the you know the bit on the front the casing so there isn't really any kind of pressure on that as such so yeah you can you know pick up acetate on ebay amazon as well just look for 140 microns that's what I've used but this is www.ukcardcrafts.com I can't remember how much I paid it wasn't a lot and you've got five sheets so that's that one and the other one I've used a lot as well is the crafters companion but I did have two one was heat resistant and one was normal so I can't remember whether this was the heat resistant or not but again this feels about the same as that one but it doesn't tell you anything unfortunately once you lose the bit inside there's nothing on the the bit here so but yeah that's the acetate then again you've probably seen this a lot now but if you haven't and you're new to the channel this is the rose gold of the dovecraft mirrored card collections there's silver there's holographic there's gold and then rose gold so I'm using that one today and you get 10 sheets there it's about 2.50 so it's a really good value for money again all these links will be in my blog for the be mine sticker I picked these up from hobby craft I always get the two hobby base and hobby craft so I always check hobby craft um and these were 50p bargain so you get four there so I picked up two packets because I just thought they'd be really handy and that's obviously what I've stuck up there and it matched the papers perfectly even though they're not part of the same thing so yeah so that's that one okay so I've got some ribbon I've got my eyelids here I've got some white ones which I'll be using for the actual kind of little tray at the bottom that it sits in I've reinforced it because that does help give it some strength so this is um a piece of the 300 gsm smooth cardstock from paper mill direct that I'm using and it's seven and three quarters of an inch squared okay so you need one piece there then I've got this piece which is going to be the curved part at the top of the case so the carrier and that's two and a quarter by five and a half okay now I've realized when I cut it my direction is going to be wrong for this piece but I don't I'm not bothered and I'm not wasting this cardstock so you'll see there my hearts are going to be obviously on in the wrong direction but it doesn't matter that's what's going to be on the top this is the strip here on the back so this is this piece here so you want to make sure your pattern is obviously facing the right way this is two and a quarter so the width of it needs to have the pattern paper in you know the right direction then that is by eight and a quarter one piece and then you'll need the acetate the same as that I haven't cut mine yet but you want a piece of acetate the same as that one so again two and a quarter by eight and a quarter and then to decorate the bottom of the tray I've got these four here and then you need four pieces here and the mirrored cardstock size is two and one eighth in width it's slightly just shy if you're using a trimmer just come in just under it just gives you a nicer border and then that's by one and a quarter and then the piece on top is just under again one and one eighth but one and one eighth will be okay but if again if you're using a trimmer you can go just under then that would be a little bit better because it just gives you a nicer border and that's by one and seven eighths of an inch and that's the smaller pattern paper again you need four of each of those sizes okay so with your base all the piece that you're going to use for the actual case that sits in so on any side to pick one of your seven and three quarters of an inch sides and you want to score at one and three eighths of an inch two and three quarters of an inch five inches and six and three eighths of an inch then rotate the cardstock and repeat that again so it'll be one and three eighths of an inch two and three quarters of an inch five inches and six and three eighths of an inch okay so that's all the scoring oh there's my acetate you know what I'm sat here when I was just going through those measurements and I thought I'm sure I've got the acetate I'm sure I cut it but obviously I didn't there it is new I had right let's get rid of this one so then you just want to burnish all of those score lines because remember this is going to be a reinforced little tray so just do all of those lines okay and then any side it doesn't matter you will have four squares in each corner so four there and then four there and then you'll have two rectangles okay so what you want to do is where you've got the four squares is cut nice and neatly down the two of them so you go into your second score line that's your first score line there's your second and then again you want to go really neatly because you will see some of this so now you just cut down and just separated those four squares okay then go along past the rectangle piece and you're going to do the same with these ones here so that one okay so now you'll have these pieces so you just cut away all of them really rotate the whole thing round and do exactly the same on this side so again okay so that's what you should have then you're going to remove the outer ones completely so that one okay should be left with the two squares and the two rectangles so rotate again you can discard those pieces there so now that's what you should have all right and then with all of the outer ones here you're going to remove the top square only so that one again get rid of those pieces so now that's what you should have then you want to tidy up so all of the outer areas you just want to take little wedges off so that one this would just make the whole fold much nicer and then these these are now these squares will become tabs to glue the actual inside of the box together so you want to take a slightly bigger wedge off of these ones and it will just stop you having anything kind of poking out the tops again rotate the whole thing like so and then I just need to take a little bit off of these ones you don't want to take as much so you're touching all of the sides apart from these inner ones here and this is how you make a reinforced box and it's exactly the same principle you know for any size reinforced box that you do you'll cut away exactly the same pieces that I've just shown you here so that's now what you should have all right now these four squares here is where we're going to add our glue and stick it all together so again I'm going to use my tombote now this is the sticky tacky glue and again I always love using it as long as you don't go to the too far to the edges and if you do go right to the edge you only want the smallest amount so now I'm going very sparingly right up to that school line so that's actually going to be the main drawing for the box and then you're just going to bring that one down bring this side up and create a really nice right angle just stick that down and there you can see now already how quickly the shape of your little kind of trail box starts to come together so I'm going to go to the next one again with a very thin amount that one down inside and again bring up that next one okay so there's one of our sides then you can pop it down and just use your bone folder there just to smooth that all out another thing as well we call them bone folders because that's what they were called many many years ago when bone was used now that bone isn't used anymore unfortunately the name is still stuck and crafting companies still sell and advertise them as bone folders therefore people that buy them call them bone folders so I think I'm going to try and consciously say Teflon folder or bamboo folder but if I say bone folder I don't mean that it is physically bone it's just what they're called in the industry because I've had a few people send me messages very polite messages but people saying oh I don't like that you're using a bone folder or you know just correcting me in some way and that's fine I'm happy to receive these you know comments but you know the crafting industry I think maybe needs to also change how they advertise and sell some of these products that they sell because yeah you're right they're no longer bone and we don't use them as you know that so yeah so that's Teflon that's bamboo but we've been saying bone folder for many many years so it's going to take a while I think but anyway right so you've seen me just fold all of those sides in now we need to put glue on these four here so again like so fold it right over and then with your Teflon folder I'm going to just spread that out and get a really nice flat surface inside I've got a really nice side there to my base and again I don't need loads of glue because as long as it just kind of sits inside there but it does really allow you to get a really nice shape to your little tray so I'm just going to do the other two okay so now we have our tray so next we can decorate it because it's easy to do that before you start adding in the other pieces so that's now when you need these bits here that I'd already prepared so I've already popped my backing on so I'm just going to take this one off obviously you'll stick the other ones on top as well which I've already done but make sure if you've got a print that is facing up the right way and just sit them down and you should have a real nice little border in fact I'll go that way first so I can get it nice and centered like so okay so I'm just going to do that on all these all the other sides okay and then again inside I can just make sure that's nice and stuck and again by adding that now that's become a solid so really really nice strong little base there okay so now you want to take your piece of acetate and your patterned piece because see one's going to go on the front and one's going to go on the back and first of all we want to add our hole punched holes so these ones here so the back one I can't remember what the measurement was that I done yes six inches okay so take the acetate away for the minute with your rudder from the bottom up and grabbing a pencil I'm just going to pop a little marker there because I can rub that out and then just pop one on the other side here towards the other side like so and then I came in about half an inch so then coming in half an inch and just pop a little mark and again on the other side there okay so where those two pencil marks are I'm just going to grab my punch I'll not go on so there you can see my two hole punched holes and then I'm just going to pop this over my acetate make sure it's all perfectly lined up really push down so your acetate doesn't move and just punch through again it doesn't matter if you don't have the screw punch that I've got you'll be able to use a normal hole punch and just go in from the side there but now I've got my holes perfect to be able to wrap my ribbon through next decide if you've got a preference to a front or a back so I'm going to have that as my two hearts there and they've got that heart there I'll keep that one so this piece here with the pattern facing you is going to slide in that should be really snug you want it to really you know just slip in there okay if it's a little bit if you're thinking that it's going to buckle a little bit then just take a slither off the side or just down inside there but that fits in really snug okay so with that in there right at the bottom you want it to go right inside right at the bottom of the tray there flip it over and just put a pencil mark okay take that out so everything below that pencil mark is where I need to glue so again you don't want to go too crazy most glues work better when you use a small amount okay so again that was my front that one I forgot which one I was using again slide that back in right down inside pop it on its side and just again spread that out okay like so you can see it looks nice from the back then with your acetate one you want to do exactly the same that's going to go in the front okay like that so exactly the same way as that but it's going in the front now you don't want to use wet glue with your acetate because it just won't stick so I'm using my red tape now this is the half-inch red tape and I know that a couple of strips of this remember actually I do need to just put a marker I'm just going to do a little tiny little impression just put a little impression in the acetate you can just see it there so I know that that's my kind of mark that with my grid just so I can get it straight looks like again make sure you get all your bubbles air bubbles out it's all nice and stuff pop another piece just to cover the middle and then again kind of go in if you arch it like that and then you can kind of go in right up to the edge in the sides right at the bottom you make sure you get it all in because you want to make sure you stay nice and straight and again inside make sure you get all of the air bubbles out okay so now that is what you should have your acetate there and this piece on the back okay next we need to attach this piece so what I've already gone ahead and done is you just want to curve the card okay like so and then you want to inside you want to add tape or a d-sip to one inch on each end so this is half inch thick so I'm just doing two side by side so that end and then again at this end and then again we need to pop a couple of holes so this inside piece now should be three and a half which mine is okay so I've got a three and a half section there so put a pencil mark at halfway which is one and three quarters so just about there okay and then I'm just going to roughly eyeball that end as well you can draw a pencil in here because no one's going to see it you can see that I've just got a pencil mark through the center and then you want to add two holes so again coming in about half an inch right on that line one two okay so now if I turn it over we've got a hole punched pieces there so now I'm going to add some of my eyelets so I've got white ones here so I need two two for this piece and two for this piece you don't need to put any on here you can if you want but because it's plastic and acetate it's already very strong over there so I'm going to pop in there those two okay and then again with the back here and it just helps the risk really of it ripping your card so it's just a nice little touch as well I always think adding things like this just make it yeah it just looks like it's really professional and almost shop wrought so now we just need to stick this piece on so grab my photo tool just take your backing off okay and then you just want to use your tape as your guide really so if I turn you're sticking it on the front of the acetate so here's the front of my box this is the front of the acetate so I'm flipping it over now and I'm just lining up my acetate with my sticky tape just making sure you get a nice even side so you've got the acetate you know it's not coming out over the sides it's nice and straight again make sure that's all stuck down and then now this one kind of have to go in from this side because I can see the tape there so I'm going to stick it but can you see what I'm doing so there's the front it's coming up and around and it's sticking behind this here so I'm just going to very carefully so now we've just created a case all the way around and you should have these right at the top which they are and then the other two inside ready for our ribbon to go through and be fed through to the front here so now I'm going to grab my ribbon grab one of these pop an extra bit of glue on these because just think it definitely stays in place I was hoping these matched like I said match the paper perfectly okay be mine and pop this ribbon in half so all these scissors are a bit sticky now I know my other ones I can see them but they're just out of reach so it's my own fault this ribbon is 14 inches so I'm going to thread through the top first and then the bottom sorry thread the other one through as well so you're going to everything's inside so on the bottom and then you just want to tie a knot I'm just going to knot twice try and keep it as close to the edge so you're not using not losing the length of the ribbon like so just trim off you can you know burn the edges as well if you just want to keep it put my scissors if you um wonder how to clean scissors I use surgical spirit and it brings them up perfectly so once I've just wiped that with some surgical spirit it'd be fine but yeah red tape and your nice scissors do not go so now when I pull that ribbon through you've got the knot inside which no one's going to see and you've got a really nice handle just turn that around a little bit there we go and then this one you want to pop it from the back you're going to go through all your holes there and then this one through the back like so hopefully I've got enough spare grab your bottle pop it in and then you're going to go up again through the front of the acetate and again the other side and then bring it in you want it to kind of dip down because it's you know that's what's going to hold everything in place and I'm hoping I've got enough ribbon now to make my bow I think I'm just going to do it that was just the right amount because I'm out now of this ribbon so I will tidy up my edges off camera because I just need to play about with it a little bit but there you go you can see now and that bottle isn't going anywhere because this is the piece that's holding the the neck of that bottle in place and because it's the acetate look how nice it looks it's just got such a great profile I just love it and because you've decorated the bottle and you've added that as well it just ties it all in really nicely but now I've got two very nice gifts inexpensive again these bottles were £2.50 each so that is such a nice gift and like I said this will be perfect for all through the year I can see these on the Christmas table what a nice little gift to do you know if you're having a little gathering and these are the gifts for everybody I just think they're lovely so yeah so I hope you've enjoyed it I hope I've inspired you again I'm loving seeing all of your versions of what I've been making so again as I always say if you haven't joined do pop over to mixed up crafters on Facebook it's a group that I've got and it's really really good fun so I'd love to see your versions of these so until tomorrow I hope you've enjoyed it give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching