 Hey everybody it's Sam here and I'm back with another Scrap It video so I've got a Scraps playlist so if you do have lots of scraps and you're thinking what to do with them check that out it might give you some inspiration but today I'm going to show you the starburst effect. I have seen this around for a long time but the lady called Claire who was on the trim craft design team she used to always do a lot of starbursts and I wanted to you know give it a go and share it on my channel. So these are the ones that I've made now I've done one here where I've joined them right up and although I like the effect I don't think it gives you that real starburst look whereas if you see on these two here I've left a white space and I think that really does just make it a little bit more special and a bit more of an impact. So I'm doing mine all on six by six but you can do this on any size card I'll just talk through kind of adapting the lengths and the widths if that's what you want to do and I'm just making these as some simple thank you cards so let's get into the video and I'll show you how to do them. Okay so I have raided my scraps and I have basically cut these pieces here okay so these are one and a half by four and I found that to be a really nice size to use on a six by six card and if you want to do five by seven or smaller or wider then I would just say extend the length but the one and a half width is really good so like I said just extend the lengths and you can change them and you'll find that you'll just need longer lengths when you hit the corners shorter when you come around here and that will make sense once I start putting it together so this is the six by six size here now what I also find might help is if you actually break your space here into four quarters now you can also have this you don't have to have your center point in the center you can have you could have it all starting down here you could have a starburst coming right from this bottom line and all of the the pieces come up and come off the top here in that case you would need you know one and a half by seven inches because well six and a half because you want to make sure it's going to come off the edge and then you just trim around it so like I said once I start putting this together hopefully it will make sense and then you can just go and cut any lengths that you want but what I would suggest you do is just mark the halfway point here so this is a shop brought card blank so it's just under six inches so it's just under three inches is the halfway so I'm just put a little pencil mark there because you can rub this out but I think if you haven't done this before just giving yourself these little four segments will just help you keep everything placed correctly because yeah I just recommend putting this in just very lightly just so you get that center point like so and like I said I can rub this out but some of it you don't end up seeing anyway next so I've got all of my scraps here this is from a first edition paper pad and they're actually double-sided as well so I might end up flipping some of them but what I'm going to do first of all is start off in this section here and I'm just going to this is the point and I'm just going to sit it in the center point there and I'm going to run it along that pencil line like so so I'm just going to grab some glue I'm not going to go right to the end there I'm just going to focus on the point I'm using the cloud just so I've got that that wiggle time really because you will find that you might adjust this as you go around so I'm just going to I'm going to come away from the center just a little bit because you actually want to leave a little bit of a white space I mean you're going to cover it anyway but that would just continue the pattern that way and then I'm going to get the next one and again just going to add my glue and then I'm going to sit this one in this just above like so you'll get four in this segment so let's do yeah let's do this pattern and then I'll change and put the polka dot maybe on the other side and this one again just come away slightly giving yourself that same white space and then I'm going to do actually I'm going to you know and then I'm going to do the blue because then that's it next to next to that mirrored card again and then this one will go in like so and then just I can afford to move that up a little bit like so so I've got the same white gap there as I've got here here and here but by just focusing on that one corner I think it's much easier because otherwise you can probably see now how you could quite easily maybe have too much of a white gap there before you know it you might be short and by the time you come around to this side and you might not be able to fit another segment in if that's what you wanted to do but now you can see I've got one of my corners so next I'm going to go back to this one again and I'm going to focus on that pencil line again again just leave a little bit of a gap away from the center that same kind of white gap like so and just repeat okay so that's that done also one other thing when you do cut them make sure you cut them all the same so if you're going to do top left bottom right make sure you do them all and that means all your segments will be the same orientation so there you can see that one's done so I've done the polka dot there so what I'm going to do is make sure that that one is opposite that one and then I'll do the polka dot opposite that one so I'm going to continue now until I join back up here okay so that's now all done and I just had to cut some more scraps actually and these were only three inches but because of where it's positioned it's you know worked fine but now I'm going to flip this over make sure I've not stuck my card together and then I'm just going to trim I always like to trim it from the back because that way you can line your scissors right up with the side of the card and you can see exactly where you're cutting and you get a really nice finish okay so now you can really see that star best effect I love that shiny card stock as well I think it works really well and then I'm just finishing off with my thank you sentiment so I've already stamped this one here which is from the creative stamps thank you key worker set it's really nice if you do have anybody who is a key worker during these difficult times this stamp sets lovely it's got some really nice sentiments there so yeah if you do want to send any out and then that one is going to go right across there I'll just trim the size but I'm going to pop it with a bit of foam now if you do have any pencil showing and you don't want that to be seen I mean that's actually going to be hidden under there so I don't need to worry about that you can't see it there and you can't see it there so I don't need to worry about that at all but this is going to go just along the center so I'm just going to grab some of my foam and I'm actually going to add the foam along the card because you could add ribbon obviously there's you know you could you could make these as beautiful backgrounds and then cut them to size and mat and layer them on your you know your fancy cards it's almost like you're making your own patterned paper with this technique but it's a lovely one to just sit down pop a movie on it's a really easy thing to do you know you don't have to think too much at all so now I'm just going to pop that down in the center and again just flip it over and just trim off the sides like so okay so there's my three starbursts you can see they're all slightly different but they all have the well these two here have the four segments in each corner this one was the first one that I done I was playing around and it still works you can see I've got three but these were two inches wide by four inches so it just gives you a different effect again and you get three segments in the corner and then this one here again these were two inches wide but joined up and it's kind of starts to overlap you can see this kind of one two three four in that corner then three and then this one's got four again and then three so you know slightly different you'll see this one's slightly coming off down like off to the left a little bit but try out have your starting point here like I said you don't have to divide it into the four segments you could have your segments so that they are you know down here and then across here so your point your center points actually here and then start your starburst and have your sentiment over there there's lots of ways to do this check out Pinterest tons of inspiration on there but I'm really pleased with these simple ones for now but it's something I will definitely be doing in the future thank you for watching check out my scraps playlist because there's more inspiration on there as well and I'll be back very soon with another tutorial bye