 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today so I'm going to be showing you how to make a kind of gift tag mini album but it's actually already done because it's that easy to make that I'm just going to show you how to make the the last one and yeah then you just decorate and do whatever you want with it so so this one I have already done all my photos so this is full of photos and you can see there so this is when I visited the UK I need to check back on the date I think it was 2015 when I was living abroad and I came home and my mum does these little things like she's done a balloon welcome home and then she done a little kind of um like a basket on my bed full of like conditioner and face wipes and just little things for my stay she made me a little handmade card and then she's gone well I say she my dad was there as well welcome home and then we went out for a walk so I was extremely jet lagged because I've flown back from Asia and I was desperately needing to stay awake and um this was early in the morning that I'd arrived so we went went out straight away went for a nice walk along the beach um we had a pasty so I've made this little pop-out piece here with the pasty and then I'm going to write a little bit there and this is all using the punch which is this one which I'll show you more pictures there of the wonderful scenery me and my glamorous hat and that was a day out that me and my dad had so it's like a daddy daughter day and it's all home it's this is all where I live so I think sometimes we don't maybe scrapbook so much about actually where we live and what's on our doorsteps it's always when we go on holiday so here's a cream tea yes I lay the jam down and then the the cream and so on so I'm just going to go I'm not going to show every single one there then we went into Easter because it was I came back for Easter so there's one of me and my sister with Easter eggs and bunny hats on so you kind of get the gist you can do as many pages as you want so this one I think I've got it'd be 18 altogether once I do the front so I've also done this little piece here which says Devon but I'm also going to do my cover I've got the big ring here which I'll tell you through I'm not sure about this bit of ribbon and then I've got these bits here to decorate now the papers I've used are these beautiful leg side blooms this is by the paper tree so you've got the actual paper pad and then this is the essentials paper pad so it's all the plain kind of pieces so I'm going to do one of the flip out pages and I'm going to do the top page which will be the same as all the others so this is the punch it's a really really I love it it's really useful it's does two and a half two and one and a half there are two styles this is the hunky dory one so you've got this one here which I and then there was more of a decorative edge again I'll link both of them below but it's it's great for speed but I wanted to just kind of you know show you you don't just have to make gift tags with it you can make things like this little mini albums so what I've done is that whole mini album is using the largest tag so it's the two and a half inch so I'm just going to because I'm going to do my cover so I'm going to pull out the there was one that I really like yeah this one here so I'm going to grab this one here because they're my scraps I've only got a few scraps because I use them for something else so what I do find with the punches you want to just cut just slightly just a smidge under the two and a half because it has to sit within the two and a half section so it's just literally a smidge it's like a sixteenth of an inch so I'm just cutting just shy there okay so that's this is going to be for the cover now for doing one of the no actually I'll just stick with that for a minute then I've done mine by four inches so you can get two out of an you know one strip from an eight by eight pad because yeah that's the eight by eight and then because it's just under two and a half you can get another yeah two more out of this you can get six all together from one sheet so I was trying to do quick maths there okay so then you just pop it in the punch and it will sit within you have you can see here you've got your two and a half your two and the one and a half so you just sit it in it sits perfectly within that two and a half and punch okay and then we just could the excess will come out the bottom now I want to do on the back of this I want to do a plain print so that's where I'm going to use the essentials and I think I'm going to do this greeny color I think it's come apart I hate all this gum on the end anyway I usually pull it off so again I'm going to cut just a smidge under two and a half and again by four you can do longer you don't have to do them by four and then I'm just going to slide that one in again and this is what I do for every page because I double it up so there's the two how they look and then I'm going to stick one over the other because they will marry up perfectly and then that is a page but this is also going to be my front I haven't used like any kind of construction board gray boards you know anything stronger because I just didn't feel it needed it once I add the glue to this that stiffens it up a little bit anyway so yeah that is going to be the front and then I'm going to have this piece here which says the happy life because I love where I live and I'm just going to sit that probably down here somewhere and then I've got some flowers these are prima flowers I've had them for a while and I keep getting around to using them I've got these from Thompson's craft supply so I'll link those below but I quite like that quite simple one actually so I may end up using that one so I'm just going to stick the two of these together now if you want to add ribbons and pieces coming out you might want to have like a pom-pom trim then put that between these two before you stick them together okay so now that's that one done so I'm just going to open up my ring here I'll tell you the measurement of this one I think two I think oh no two yeah I know it is it's the two diameter two inch diameters it's not the bigger bigger ones that I've got because I do have bigger but um you can go smaller and if you don't have rings you can just put some ribbon through and tie in it it'll still look nice these are also great for swatching so if you swatch out lots of colors you can do them like this as well okay so I've got a bit scrap here for that drop down page that kind of flip page so you want to cut this again to just under the two and a half and then you want it to be four five six and seven no six and three eighths of an inch because it's going to fold up so six and three sorry six and three quarters not three eighths so three quarters is that okay and then you want to score at four okay I'll probably add some more of these pages I'm not entirely sure this is a piece of scrap photo um photo paper because it's got a shine on it but that's fine okay then you're going to fold it up so you'll have the shorter side pop this in make sure I take that piece out for the minute just slide it right up you'll feel when it gets to the top and then you'll get that piece and then when you fold that up you'll get a nice little flap and then that's another one to go in so for this one then you just want to decide what you want to do for your kind of mat so I'm going to again I'm trying to use the scrap you know where I can so I'm just going to use a pencil for this one um because I don't have much of a border just a little white border so this is just under two and three eighths because obviously it was just under the two and a half so the measurements are slightly different but it doesn't matter if you haven't got the tag punch you can use dies you can cut it yourself it's easy to do you know just the scissors and you can you know cut two little kind of angled corners there just to give it a gift tag look it's very easy to do with limited supplies so that's one of the mats and then I'll do that same size again one there one there and one on the backs it's four little kind of mats and four photos so all my photos here are two by two ish some of them are slightly like two and a quarter I did some of them are slightly I did vary them depending on obviously the the way the photo itself looked um but if you've got the car there that was the higher car I picked up the reason I've put it in there is because within four hours of getting it I reversed it into a pillar and really wrecked it but fortunately my cousin um has a very good position with the higher company and um yeah I didn't have to pay for anything so I was so so lucky but um couldn't believe it and I had it for three weeks so yeah had to drive around with it not looking very good okay so that's another little flip down so I'm going to pop that actually I'm going to put that near where that car picture is because it's a funny little story to kind of tell so I'm going to pop that around the back here and that's the nice things you can open it up you know wherever and kind of pop them in so I've got two little flip down there but once I go to fill it out and kind of go through them a bit more then I can write like I might do a little one to just talk about the kind of day with me and dad I've got one there for like the Easter me and mum had a day out in there as well and then that's just kind of a meal that we had towards the end of my stay so okay then I have that little the happy life which I just thought was quite appropriate so I'm going to just stick this down it did have sticky on it but they're never that sticky so I took it off this was from a page Evans I think it's the whimsical collection so um yeah I just thought I'd throw that one in there like the colors work perfectly with this paper pad so I'm going to bring it up do I want it right up now I'm going to keep it down low because I'm going to add the flower that's that one there okay I'm actually going to add those three flowers and not that one because I quite like those three together so again I'm sure these will still be available so over on Thompson's Cross supply Louise has got a lot of Prima flowers so um I'm sure if there's these ones aren't there you'll be able to get something equally as nice because they are you can spot a Prima flower and then let's just pop that one just kind of over the top there okay and now I'm going to let me just bring that up a little bit further yeah if I just bring it out there you can see I've got the little Devon tag which I really like these flowers the happy life and now what I'm going to do is just go through and do some journaling I'm going to sort this out because I don't want it like that I might just do a nice bow we'll see and then I'll show you the kind of end result okay so I showed you all this I decided to go for the bow I love that ribbon it's a velvet ribbon it just matches so well so I haven't done masses but just to give you an idea so I've done this one here on this page it just says choose happy and again I've used the Posca pen there to do the faux stitching I've got a little puffy sticker there from one of my thicker sets I've got a little butterfly there let's show you some of the ones where I've actually I haven't done the journaling I'm going to do that off-camera because that is my private stuff they go I like that one blue skies big smiles I've just put like a little these are from a rosie studio set that I've got and their little um like bulldog clips so it looks like I've pinned the picture on there um what else we've got I've done that one I did I do that one I heart this I was just all eating this one here I've just done this little tag getting that through there there we go so it's captured and it's obviously for that picture there or for any of them really another little paperclip thing there this one I like I've got a little handbag just hanging there again a lot of these are rosie studio then I've got their story because yeah there is and then that's where I'm going to write something I've got a puffy sticker there and then again I'm going to put a photo or something little butterfly and then at the end here it says laughing all day long which we do we laugh a lot which is always good and then I've got a couple free there because there are maybe three or four other photos I could probably print off still from that time there but yeah that's that's it really I have also got this which I was going to I like this one here home is where your heart is and I'm thinking whether I could tag that but because that's there I think you're going to see it so I just want to see if there's any other ones no I am going to use that one but I've got a little idea I'm going to cut it as close to the top as possible and kind of come up here that never stopped dreaming I probably wouldn't use that so I'm not too worried about cutting that one away there okay then I'm going to trim this down to again just under two and a half oh my god that literally that is just under two and a half and then it's going to be shorter than the four that's fine what I'm going to do is add like the the top to it so again cut this down this is some scrap so the same amount and then I'm going to do it by one and a half do two of those and I'm going to stick I've got the smallest amount to use but I think I can make it work I really want it to just be like a little page I'm going to use some of my double-sided tape and just run a very very thin strip along both parts take this off and then I'm going to stick and then I'm going to add some glue I hope this works I don't know you should do and then stick this piece over the top and then I need to trim it down so now that is four inches the same as that and then there's two layers so I don't know if this is going to punch through I might have to end up just doing a whole punch I'm hoping it will I'm going to literally add some brute force through this so I'm going to slide it in this could all wreck but at least I'm doing a test if you tool see when it went through oh perfect it's worked so there you go just made a little tag so now I can have that home is where your heart is I'm going to have it toward the end with that picture there because that is a picture of the local church is where my sister got married and we go to the pub nearby and that's where we had our dinner so yeah home is where the heart is that's the last one so there you go that's just a really quick way to show you a nice little mini album idea again you don't need the punch the punch does make it much much quicker and like I said there are two styles designs in that one I think I don't think this is the decorative one I think this is the plain one and then the other one is more of a decorative style but hopefully I've just given you some ideas on how to decorate you can add as many pages as you want you don't have to use it as a mini album you can have this like I said for swatches there's you know yeah it's entirely up to you I just thought this was really sweet and as you know I am slowly you know making more and more albums so that I can put a lot of photos in because I've got a lot of traveling photos that I need to work through so yeah I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you like it all the links to everything I've used today will be shared in the description box below if you have liked it give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye