 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Proud, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is another project using the January hobby base kit and this one here I've made this acetate front A6 card, obviously you can see there it just stands up normally like any other card, but just bring it up a bit closer, show you what I've done here. So this is, there's two pieces of acetate that come with the kit and this one here has some rose design at the top and the bottom but it's clear in the middle and I just wanted to use the clear for this one. So I've just trimmed that down, this is a set of three wood veneers and this one here I've just applied some glue and then sprinkled over the copper glitter that came with the kit and then these are the stickers that also come with the kit and these ones I've rubbed with the ink just to give them more of a rose gold color and then I've set in the middle there some of the ranger, this one here what's it called again the liquid pearls just to give some dimension there and then I've finished it off with the lovely foiled card and it just gives a really really lovely effect there. Okay so I'm going to make another one but the patterns will be slightly different but we're going to make this exact card so I'm just going to set that one up there just so you can kind of see it still. So you get two six by six card mats in the kit so that's what I've been using and I just need to trim them down. This is the wood veneers this one here I've already colored as well I'm going to show you how I done that one later on and that was there the piece of vellum so it was just an A5 so it's a bit longer and I've just cut a piece out there and then this bit here's the other bit that I'm going to cut but keep these because they're lovely and I do intend to use them you can see there on other projects that's the stickers and that's the paper I'm going to use today. Okay so this is the six by six card base that I've got here actually I will move that to one side a minute just so I've got room to trim. Okay so what we want to do is open up the card so if you don't have the kits and you're just following this just like any of my other tutorials you can cut a six by six card from a piece of 12 by 12 card just cut it at six inches and then score at six inches and it will give you your card base. So what we want to do with this is we need to trim so that we have two inches at the top we're going to take out the middle bit and then we have two inches at the bottom so you need to line lay your card down in your trimmer and the score line you want to line that up with the two inch mark. Okay so I'm just lining up my score line there with those sorry bring it down a bit there we go that score line I'm just lining up with the two inch marker there okay and then you can just cut that one like so okay then with this piece here because it's six inches you just then want to cut again at two inches so I'm just lining it up there at the two inch marker and cut and that bit there we're keeping because that is going to be what goes on the bottom here and then this middle bit will be where the acetate will go okay so keep that card that's a good bit of um scrap card to have pop that to one side so that's everything there the minute let me just get this trimmed up as well so I want the card to sit pretty much over the whole piece so it would be two by six that we need to cut this down to so because these are what these pieces measure up at two by six let me just double check yeah two by six okay so we need to cut two pieces of two by six out of this lovely paper here you get five sheets of this six by six in all different prints so it's this print the print I used the two prints that I used on the small bags that I uploaded yesterday and then I've got one more leftover as well so again lots and lots of lovely card so two just check that is coming in at six no it's a little bit bigger I'm just going to trim that down get all that out it's clogged up in my trimmer there two inch there keep that again to get rid of it and then just trim that one down like so so that's that piece then the acetate you can get between let me just try and get this on a background where you can see it you can see it there so that comes in at a five size so this piece here that's already taken out is what I used on that other card and that was two and a half inches and I worked it out that you can get another two and a half inches of clear acetate from this second half and then it leaves you these two end pieces of the with the rose print which again like I said keep because I will be using them again so with this piece here I'm just going to line up the rose so it's just coming off there and that oh it's actually two and three quarters so it's even more so that's perfect so I'm just going to trim that off there so I'm just taking off the rose patterned piece so I'm just left with that clear piece of acetate all right and like I said mine is measuring two and three quarters by six okay so that's all the trimming and then we can start assembling this piece of the card here so what you want to do is first of all is what we're going to do is this piece of acetate we want to stick on the front here just so it's kind of overlapping by I say a quarter of an inch so I'm just using some red tape here and I'm just going to apply it to the very edge of that acetate just trim that off there and again I'm going to lay the same amount down the very bottom you want the thinnest of tapes that you have so these quarter quarter inch ones are brilliant this is a little bit less actually I think this is about you just see what this one measures up actually I think it's even smaller than that this is the it's just under a quarter it's about three sixteenths of an inch okay so let's just make sure that's all nicely stuck down take off one side first do it bit by bit and then just sit it over you might have a little bit of white it might not quite meet this acetate slightly shorter just literally like minimal amount so just make sure you get an even amount on each side okay and then grab that other piece of white and that's going to sit that's what I would say is get the white piece and make sure that that sits perfectly with the white piece underneath so you're basically making the card back up again like so okay so what I can do now is I can actually put a bit more red tape because can you see that the the acetate's coming down more than this piece here so I'm going to run another piece of red tape just above that just so that the card underneath doesn't kind of flap around so just run that over there I think I did cut two and a half for the other one so I think that's why this is two and three quarter width this acetate whereas on the other card it was two and a half so that's why I've got a little bit extra okay so again just lie that down first like so and then bring this over and you can just sit that right down like so take that other piece off there okay so that's it coming together now and then we're going to be decorating over the top of all of this just to conceal it all and sticking these pieces on the top and the bottom like so okay so again you can use wet glue or you can use double sided tape I'm going to use my tear tape here just to stick this down okay so just make sure they're all stuck on there and what I will be doing is because I've started doing these kits towards the end of January and this is obviously the January kit in this kit was stamps dies and obviously the ink pads and stuff I will be making other projects with those bits and pieces and incorporating them where I can within the February kit as well so you know although I haven't used them now I will I will try and use them and put them into other projects and I will be sharing them on the hobby base subscribers club as well so if you are a subscriber you'll be able to see any other cards that I make or projects because I will share them on there as well so but this is going to be the only other YouTube tutorial for the January kit that will be going up so again I'm going to just sit this one down right over the top this top piece make sure it all sits nicely okay and then with this bottom one I'm going to line it all up perfectly like so and there you have your acetate window for your card so I mean it's just the gorgeous it's a really lovely way to just change a simple six by six card you could also have it you know portrait so it's quite fun that way and also have it a landscape in fact let's have a little play around because I might end up doing a portrait so what I'm doing next is with these wood veneers I'm just going to grab some copy paper here so what I've done with the because I was playing around with the hello is this is the encore satin rose little ink pad that comes with the kit and basically I just went over and just inked up the wood veneer and instantly it gives you a completely different look and it gives you a really nice embellishment there to now go ahead and decorate on your cards so there you go you can see there how quick that was and that's lovely now so that's the hello but I want to use the smile and I want to show you with the glitter that I've used so I've got the smile one here got some tacky glue and I've got just a paint brush here and all I'm going to do is just get some of the glue there on my brush and just go over and literally just paint this you can use any wet glue so any PVA glues things like that would be fine you don't want to have too much you just you just want it to be wet enough that the glitter will catch on it you don't want to have huge amounts of it kind of using all off the the wood because it would just take longer to dry and you'll have clumpy bits of glitter you can see there I'm just kind of because the good thing with this is there's anywhere where it doesn't stick we can just sprinkle the excess off and then just put a little bit more glue on and sprinkle it on again okay I think I'm pretty much covered there like so then don't put your glitter straight onto the same piece of card because your glitter will stick to all the blue by the bottom so I'm just going to fold this over just take a little bit of excess off there on that E little bit clumpy so I'm just going to fold that in half just so it's nice and dry and then with the lovely hunky dory sparkles this is the penny copper that comes in the kit there's so much in this tiny little pot this will last you forever and like any glitter I mean I remember doing this in school you know such a small amount it goes a long way so I'm just sprinkling it over and I'm going to pile it up a little bit higher okay like so just so you almost can't see the actual wood veneer anymore really the whole pot on there just like so then what you want to do is just grab a ruler and just kind of squash the ruler down over the wood there just to really make sure that that glitter really does stick down you get a really thick coverage as well tap off any excess and then I'm just going to grab my pokey tool just so I can see where I am tap off any excess from the back like so and I can see there I need to just put a little bit more on there and on there but can you see straight away how gorgeous that is and it matches perfectly with the gold on this card here so again I'm just going to pop a little bit more glue let me do it just on this end a bit here because I don't want to get too much just glue that up I'm just going over just where you can see is a few lighter patches so I'm just going to put a little bit there just on the top of the end so and there's a little bit on the end of the E there as well but otherwise I think we're okay and then what I can do is just turn it upside down just tap it all in there again that's covered nicely now I'm going to just get it on the end there like so okay so I'm going to let that dry now naturally or you can heat set it with your glue gun okay so I've heat set the veneer there and I've also done the back just because we've got that clear acetate if someone does lift it right over just makes a bit more pleasing on the eye so that's already there so I'm going to grab the card and like I said you could do this I think I'm going to do this on a portrait this time so it's going to be a cross like so or do we think that way the same as the other one I don't know I don't know which one I like now I think I'm going to go that way because I think you can see the smile stands out more so I'm putting it on an angle so you actually only need to glue the top of the L and just the S here and maybe a little bit of the E there as well if we bring a little bit of that up as well you don't want to put anything on the acetate really because it just won't stick and it would just yeah it just end up popping off just going to use a high tack glue like I said I just want to put a bit on the tip of the S like so the top of the L and a little bit on the E there as well okay and then just make sure I've got that nice and centered and move it across a bit the glue is clear so it will dry fine just let that adhere I'm just going to wipe a little bit of that away there okay just wipe that away if you've got any of those little glue erasers as well they're really handy especially when you're working with foil or any kind of mirror card sometimes the glue if it does smudge a bit you'll see it so I'm just holding that down for a minute okay so that's now all stuck down so now you just need to decorate it a little bit so I think I'm going to use some of the I'm going to use the heart I'm going to use this one this one maybe that one there as well and all I'm doing is grabbing get some scrap card here and I'm just going to stick them on to the scrap card like so so I'll use that one that one I'm going to take that little one there as well like so okay so I just want to make these colors a little bit more um so they match these ones here because if I bring over this one we're going to stain them like I done with this one here so it just gives it a more of a that kind of rose coppery I guess copper and rose are not the same color but you know what I mean it just kind of blended a bit more so I'm just going to literally you don't even need to do it for that long it kind of takes to it really quick as I said in the tutorial on the mini handbags um because these are glittered stickers they're obviously rough they just take to the um the color the pigment really well I'm just rubbing my finger over just so that some of the gold does come back through because it just gives it it's just nice gives it that shimmer okay and then I'm just going to fussy cut them out so just so that they're a little bit more stronger um and it gives a little bit more dimension to your card so literally I'm just going around there I'm just going to cut them all out okay so I've just cut them out and I've just got some glue dots here and I'm just going to put a few of the glue dots kind of layered on top of each other so it almost gives it dimension just acts a bit like a foam a foam dot so just put three or four on top of each other there and then just kind of randomly stick them down there we go like so just bring them up there you can just see kind of just make them out it doesn't pick it up as well in camera um but it's certainly there and if I just flip this over you can just see on the other side there it just looks nicer now you could certainly put more panels on this side as well if you wanted to um but there you have it so the envelopes come in the kit so there's two envelopes for um both of them um but there you have it so that's using the wood veneers um the glitter we've used some of the um the pearl liquid drops the acetate so lots of elements into these cards and I think they look great so there you have it so if you do like the kits and it's something that you're interested in um you have until the 21st of each month to subscribe for the following month's kit so unfortunately the 21st is already passed for the February kit but you have until the 21st of February now to get the March kit so if it is something you like and you know once you start seeing what I start to produce with the February kit um again it might be something that you think oh I really enjoy that um then all the links I will share below on what you need to do to get a hold of the kit they are also I've been informed going to be doing international shipping so to answer some of the questions that people have asked about the um if it's available outside of the UK the answer will be yes um just keep an eye on it I'm not sure if it's gone live today or not but I know that they are doing it so I will update everything on my blog as well and all those links again are all shared below um but if again if you do like what I've done here and it is something you'd like to do then just hop on over to the hobby base um page and you'll be able to subscribe for the kits so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial and these cards that I've made for you um please hit the like button if you did and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye