 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this really cute little Easter decorations. It's a little hanging, yeah, decoration. This is using supplies from my hobby-based kit this month. Obviously it's Wednesday, so it's always a hobby-based monthly project using the monthly kits that I receive. So this is really, really easy to do, but it's just showcasing lots of the bits that we received in our kit this month. And I loved it, it's so, so good. So what I've done is, first of all, bring in here, so this is the die. It's kind of, I'd say the main status die within the pack, because we've got the Happy Easter dies as well, but this is the bunny, and it's really, really nice. It's by Sweet Dixie, and it's the bunny rabbit. And yeah, it's just got a really, really lovely design about it, and as I said before, it wasn't something that initially, I think if it was in the shop, I probably wouldn't have gone for it, but that's the thing I like about these craft kits is that it forces you to maybe use things that you wouldn't necessarily buy, and I'm able to create it in a style that I like. So yeah, that's what I've done with this one. So I've die-cut three of them, and these two are already stuck together, and I'm gonna be sticking this one on top in a minute. And then I've colored it myself using the really lovely Dandelion Memento Yellow that comes in the kit. So it's just ways to use that ink as well, I mean, you think that was cut from yellow card stock, but it's not. Then you get this, one of the stamp sets is this Easter egg, and it is, let's just put it, here we go. So this is the, we had another stamp set as well, but this one here, it's got Cheap Cheap above it, I've just cut that bit off. You can just put masking tape over that, pop it in your ink pad, then lift the masking tape off and stamp, and you would just have the egg, but I've just cut it, so. But there it is, that's just this nice, simple Easter egg. I've already done one, I'm gonna be doing another one with you. Then the flowers, we've received these lovely paper flowers here, and I've used three of the yellow ones, I've only got two yellow left, but that'll still be okay. And then I've just grabbed some of my own ribbon, and then done a few little other bits with just some scrap card. The Doily is completely optional, it didn't come in the kit, but I have a load of these doilys, and I do wanna get using them, and I've just got some all different ones here, and I just thought the white one would be lovely. And again, you could distress that with the yellow around the edges, but if you haven't got the doilys, it really doesn't matter, it would still look lovely just on a simple, you know, circle background. So that's what I've done. So to get what it's gonna be on is, I've just dyed cut two pieces of card, obviously you can use any color you want just from my stash. This particular die here measures, is four and a quarter diameter, but if you don't have any dies, you can use a small plate or a large cup, a little bowl, anything, and you'll be able to get that and then just cut it out. So again, it's easy ways to do this without having all the bits and pieces. So first of all, I am going to stick these together and pop my ribbon in between to kind of get the base all, because it's really strong, it's a really sturdy, you know, that's not gonna bend, that's a real solid little piece, so it hangs lovely. I'm gonna grab some of my wet glue and just add this to the edge, just so I get it, see nice and secure and then just put it in the gaps there like so. And then with the ribbon, this ribbon is 14 inches and I'm basically just going to put each piece flat inside like so, doing this one a little bit longer than the other one so they can all hang at kind of different lengths. Then I'm just gonna grab some more of the wet glue, put it back over the top of that ribbon. Okay. And then just very neatly, you wanna stick your disc over the top, so you're sandwiching that all together like so. So that's how it will look if you don't have the doily. So already still that's lovely because you're gonna be dressing it up and covering it with lots and lots of pieces. But I am gonna grab one of mine and these are just from the baking departments in any of the shops, so these are very, very inexpensive. So a good thing to have in your stash and I'm only putting it in the middle, I don't need it everywhere else on there so it doesn't leak and then just sit that over and it slightly overhangs, which is nice as well and it just completely covers that up. You don't wanna go too mad with glue on doilies because it's so thin, it can end up almost disintegrating. So I'm just putting a little bit there in the middle. So all that's lifted, but again, it just all adds to it, okay. So now I know that that's obviously the right way up, so I wanna keep that all nice. Okay, leave that to one side, just let that set and I'm gonna go back to my little bunnies here. So I cut, I cut three and I've got the two here and again, if I just bring it up there for you to see, it is such a lovely detail one and this one cuts and embosses. So if you can see there's little bits of embossed detail around it as well. So it's a really detailed one, lovely. So I'm just gonna stick this one, just gonna pop some glue. And just so I can stick this down and then we can get it all inked up. You just start from one of the edges and you can kind of move it around until it's in place. And I always kind of, you know, layer up my die, especially intricate ones like this because the bottom two I'd done in preparation for this, I'd done this yesterday. But if I drop it, you can hear how hard it's a real solid piece and these are lovely. Again, if you're ever bored and you just want to do something in your craft room, just die cut lots of things and sit them on top of each other and you end up making really nice, I always say they look, they end up, you know, forming almost like a wood veneer kind of, you know, structure, you know, they're so strong and they're perfect for all kinds of things. So yeah, something I love doing is that. Okay, so grab some scrappy paper and then we're gonna ink it up. Now this ink comes out almost a lot darker, almost like mustard color, but once it dries and sets, it's this beautiful, really spring, lovely, fresh yellow. And basically I just go over and just rub it over it. It's as simple as that. And straight away it transforms. And if you wanna do like a different color here, you could then add pink, you could do blue, you could do all sorts. But these are such good little tools to have these little ink pads because they're great, you know, for little bits like this. So you don't have those great big ink pads everywhere. So like so, and if you wanna do underneath, you can. You can go around the sides there as well. Just obviously a bit more color coming through. I'm not gonna go worry too much because again, this is lying down. But if you were having this as hanging on its own like this, then I would suggest do that side as well. Put some ribbon through one of these little holes and you could just have them hanging. Cause my mom has one, she's got a beautiful twig tree which she uses at Easter and she has little like porcelain eggs hanging from it, little homemade. One of these will hang from it, you know, it's just nice, it's the Easter tree. So it looks very pretty. So there you go. So that's that one all done. And while I'm here, I'm also just gonna ink a bit of this paper to make this strip here underneath where it says happy Easter. These are two pieces of paper or card and this yellow one I also just colored. So I'm just rubbing it just over my card like so. Then they're straight away, it gives you some yellow cards. So again, don't worry if you don't have cards, if you've got lots of inks and just make your own color card, you really need a little bit like so. So like I said, as that now slowly sits and dries, it will slightly lighten in color and it's really, really nice. So I'm gonna sit that to one side. Now I'm gonna do a little bit of heating bossing and create this Easter egg here. So basically that is heat embossed with white embossing powder. And then with a paintbrush and some water, I've colored that in myself with the same yellow ink. So again, I'm gonna show you how to use that with water. Now, last month in the February kit, we had the Shampoos embossing powder. So you could use that one. If that's the only embossing powder you have, and you're just starting up, then use the Shampoos one. It will look lovely with this project. But I have also got the same product, the WoW, which is the same as the Shampoos was the WoW one as well, but this is the white. So I'm just gonna use some of the white today. So I'm just using my anti-static little tool here, just over my card, just so I don't get any bits going where I don't want to. And I also get rid of any grease marks. So I have some of your Watermark ink, ink the stamp up. So this is that Easter egg. And just stamp that down, like so. Yeah, I can just about see that there. You possibly will pick it up, maybe not, but it is there. And then I am going to grab my embossing powder, just sprinkle that over the top, and try and shake it back in here. Try and use a thickish white card if you're doing this, because we're gonna be applying a little bit of water onto it. The thicker the card, the better. Obviously, if you've got watercolor card, then you know, I'd say maybe use that, but this isn't. This is just a thick card, it's about 280 GSM. So you can see there, the image is now stuck, the powder's stuck to the image there. So I've just got my heat gun. Get it nice and hot, and that's that now all done. If I bring that up, can you see now that shine that that white embossing powder has created? So basically now when I color that in, the color won't go out over the lines, and it will leave you this effect here. So I've still got that shine, but everything's colored in with the yellow, and it still gives you that really nice detail. Obviously if you want to use all different colored inks, you can, but I'm just showing you, obviously with what's come in the kit here. So now what I've got is a little bit of water in a well here. I've got a clear acrylic block, and I'm literally just gonna rub some of that yellow just onto the block, and then I've just got a little bit of tissue here. Get my brush nice and wet, dab off a bit. I don't want it's really, really wet, and then I'm just gonna pick up that yellow here, and then basically just go over now and color in your egg. And I'm just going straight over everything. I'm just staying within the main outer part of the egg. Just keep picking up more. Obviously if you pick it up now the second time, it's gonna be a lot drier, so you'll get a more intense color like so. And then if you add more water again, and kind of dilute it down, and wash it all over. Again, you don't have to be too, too careful with this. So staying within the lines isn't something you're good at. This is gonna be good for you because you've got that raised edge from the embossing powder, so it stops you going over. It certainly stops the color running over anyway. So you can see how quickly that was. I'm gonna just make it a little bit darker, so I'm just gonna apply some more of my ink and just pick that up now without putting it in. You can see there you get a more intense yellow, and that white embossed area really pops. And like I said, if you're using that Shampoos, you'll get exactly the same. And because the Shampoos is, you know, is that creamy golden color that'll work really nice with this yellow as well. And again, just kind of go around until you're happy. So it's quite a dry, it's not a very wet area. So you don't want to drench this paper with water, because like I said, it will just end up, you know, going all horrible really. So there you go, just rinse that off. And I'm just going to just take the rest of that water out of there. I'll just wipe that down clean, so that's all very quickly done. And then I'm just gonna pop a little bit more heat on it and just dry that off. That's going to nice and dry and all set. If I just bring that up now, you can see how lovely that is. You got a really lovely looking egg. So now I'm just gonna quickly fussy cut that. I'm leaving a little bit of a white border, just like I've done there. Again, it's just a nice simple shape, so it's very easy to just go around. So that's now finished. And I've got my two little eggs ready to build up. Okay, so there's another stage done. Then also I've got this lovely happy birthday, happy Easter sentiment. And that is from the other free dye that came. So this is it. I'm a huge fan of X cut dyes. I do really like them, they always cut lovely. And this one is the happy Easter. So again, I've cut three of them out. So I've cut three of the Easter word, three of the happy word. Stack them all on top of each other just like you saw me do with the bunny there. And it just gives you this really nice, thick sentiment. Okay, so it just gives it a bit more than just that completely flat word. And I've also dye cut a little Easter egg as well. And it's so tiny that I think I've lost it. So let me, oh no, there it is. Really, really small. You can see there what it's like. Okay, so I've dyed cut that as well. So have all those ready. And then I'm just gonna take out the flowers. And also you get these embellishments, these tiny little mini two millimeter adhesive stones. I can't speak today. I don't know what's wrong. And these are so small, but they fit perfectly within the eye part of the bunny. So if you can see there, just in here, it's a tiny little embellishment. And again, it's one of those things that when you've got it here in real life, you do notice it. So it's just those little details and these are perfect for that. So I'll be using one of them. So I'm just gonna grab the two yellow ones. Now they come on metal like stems, but I always cut them off because I'm never gonna, oh did I just put it? Oh, there it is. Yeah, they're just much, much easier to stick down. So I just cut them off just with normal scissors. They're very, very thin. Right up to the edge there so you get a completely flat base. And now they're perfect for sticking in place. So let's go back to this. And first of all, I'm gonna stick the bunny down because that is going right in the middle of our little doily here or our circle. Okay, so all you need to do is just put some glue on the main areas on the back. So obviously the ears, you've got a nice big surface area there. And then I'll put a little bit around the eyes, around the top there, just on any of the larger areas and focus on that kind of outer part. Again, you don't need a lot. It's only a very lightweight little decorative piece so you don't need to go crazy with all your adhesive and stuff. And put a little bit around the center there, just so. Because you don't want all this glue kind of splodging through the sides. And although it dries clear, you don't really want it to be coming out all over your project, like so. So again, like I said, just pop it nice and centered like so. So that's all in place. Then you wanna put the X down. So I've got one that's kind of like so. And then I've got another one like that. So we've got the sentiment going over the top. So I'm just gonna splodge a bit of glue and have it like that. This one's kind of coming off the doily a little bit, which again is nice. It just gives a bit more dimension to it. Kind of balances it all out as well. So that one can be there. Stick that last little one down in a minute. Now we need to... So I've just got this little thin die here, which I'm gonna use just to die cut out that yellow. And then I'll show you how to just get a really simple white border around the outside of that. So just quickly run this one through. So now we've got a lovely, perfect yellow strip. And then don't need that anymore. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna pop a little bit of tape on the back of this. This piece of card I've got here has got a nice corner. I'll have to rub that piece out there, actually. You can use this same bit here, because it hasn't got yellow all the way around you. I'm gonna use this bit, because that one's a little bit rough. This has got a nice edge. Use that bit down there, I can just get away with it. So I'm gonna pop it right down into the corner, just giving it a tiny, almost like just a couple of millimetre little frame, like so. And I'm using my biggest scissors so I can get a nice cut. I'm just gonna do the same border up that side. And then in one big cut, so you get a nice straight line. I'm gonna go all the way down that side there. Just, there we go. So now you've just got a nice little framed, and that's a good way to just make any kind of you've got little sentiments that you wanna stamp. It's a good way just to create that kind of frame. Then sticking on our happy Easter. And the reason I've done it is just to make that word pop, so you can see it with that yellow background. I just thought it stood out a bit more. So again, I'm just gonna pop some glue on my hand, just to get this all stuck down. Bit of glue onto the back of that. Okay, Easter. So now we can stick that one down the top of our bunny. So again, I'm just gonna rub some glue over the back of this, and then sit that one down. So it's literally just sitting on the bottom of the bunny. Gonna make sure it's all nice and even, like so. And that tiny little egg, a little bit of glue should have my tweezers really, it's gonna just sit again on top of those. And then the flowers. You can use hot glue, I'm just gonna pick up the last of this glue here. And they're just kind of sitting just above the bunny, like so. If you've got any glitter pens, gel pens, Winkastella, things like that, you can obviously apply that as well, just to give it a bit of shine. But there you have it, a really quick little decorative hanging. And these are lovely to put inside cards. You can give these to people as a little gift that way as well. But there you have it. So I've got two there that are gonna look really nice hanging on the little twig tree, as I call it. And yeah, I just think they're gonna make lovely gifts and you can obviously design these however you want, but that is using a lot of the product from this month's March Hobby Base Kit. If you are interested or you'd like to know more about that kit, you can just click on the links below this video, which I always share all of those as well over on my blog. So yeah, hope you enjoyed it. Please hit the thumbs up if you did and subscribe to the channel to see more. Thanks for watching. Bye.