Transcripts
1. Christmas Shadowbox Card Class Introduction: Hello and welcome to the
Christmas shadow box class. I am Cheryl and I'll be
teaching you this class. I absolutely love
special cards for special people that
fall flat to male. I love when they're pop-up in 3D and can really be used
as the decorating piece. Let's go take a look at what we're gonna
do in this class. So the Christmas
shuttle box card folds completely flat to male. I'll show you how to make
a custom envelope for it. It fits into an
A9 size envelope. I haven't checked to see how
easy they are to source. But you can make a
custom envelope for it. Now, obviously because there's a lot of detail on this card. This isn't a card that
you're going to make four 204060 people that you
have on your Christmas list. It's going to be a
card that you're going to make for special people. You'll notice I have a couple
of pieces of acetate in there that's just
to help fold it down for mailing so that it doesn't the dicots don't
catch on each other. So it folds up or stands up completely and can be used
as a decoration as well. We're going to go through
each of the layers step-by-step on how
to create them. And then we'll create
the entire card. And then finally the envelope
for the to fit the card. Now obviously this card
is a Christmas theme, but you can swap out
any of the dicots and create other themes, like I've done this card before with different
trees and stuff like that. And a bride and groom done
it as a wedding card. And then up here done Mr. and Mrs. it'd be great
for a spring card. Create it as a birthday card, put some birthday balloons are different birthday
themed things in there. Have fun with just
the base of the card and create something for someone special
for any occasion. This class comes with a
supply list pleat PDF that lets you know the
supplies that are used for each of the layers. And they're also sourced
to where you can find them to have them shipped
to your door if you choose. But it's a great resource to know exactly what
you're going to need for each one of the layers. Now let's go start
creating our card.
2. Cutting the Card Base Pieces: So the first step in creating
our card is we're going to die cut the pieces for
the base of the card. Now, the parked cars
stock that I'm using is Nina classic
crest cover stock. It's a £110 and I don't
know how paper is Wade. But I've also purchased
in the past Nina class, I think it's index stock, but it says it's also a £110. This is very, very flimsy. This one is not, so this one is going to hold
the weight of the cart. Something that's very, very thin will not So don't
just rely on the weight, rely on the feel
of the card stock. This is very, very sturdy
and can handle the weight. Now let's grab the dyes
that we're going to use. We're going to use 1 second. I'm going to use this, this part here is the base and the top. We're going to use
this part here. Then our front piece. So the front piece, the part that cuts a
window out is separate, so we'll need both of those. Let's put these guys to the
side and grabbed the machine. First part I'm going
to cut is the back. So these pieces of paper here, just a half a sheet
of 8.5 by 11. So they're 5.5 by 8.5. And they fit on the hard pieces perfectly
or they die is perfectly. So we need one of
these cut without that window and then we need
one cut with that window. I can see that it
isn't all the way through for the ornate
part at the top. So I'm just gonna go back and forth on that
a couple of times. You can see right through here, you'll be able to
see if a die or if the blade hasn't
completely gone through. And if it hasn't just
run it back and forth a couple times and that
will, that will do it. Now let's take this piece out. Any of those bits that
have stuck in there, those needs to be pumped
out before we cut it again. There we go. Those bits can go right
into the garbage. Now we will cut it
out with the window. There's a slight little bit of wiggle wiggle room where
that dye fits in there. I tried to make sure
that the outline or the opening in the bigger piece is about even all
the way around. Then run it through.
And because I know from the last one that taught partly were neat part
needs a couple of passes. I'm just gonna go back-and-forth over that multiple times. There we go. This part I'm going
to keep for die cutting little bits that we're going to need along the way. This part we will take out of the die and put those days
aside to put away liter. Pretty sure, yeah, I can fit the two little hills
on those scraps from the front pieces were a simple shapes so they only
need to go through once. We'll do one more of them. So we're going to need to Hills a front and a back and
then a top and a bottom. A couple of other dyes
that we're going to use from the base set. But we'll wait
until the later as the banner for the front and
then the Merry Christmas. But we'll wait till later
because I'm not cutting those out in white card stock. That can go to the side. And then I need two
of this one here, one for the top,
one for the bottom. And you'll hear my machine makes lots of noise while
it's going through, while that blade is poking through the cutting plane,
that's totally normal. I know when people first
get a dye cutting machine, that's the first thing
that we're worried about is that they're
ruining their machine, happens and it's totally doable. There we go. So like I said, the scraps will be using
for future pieces. I'm going to put the pieces of my die cuts for the
card base aside. We'll put it together later. We need to put the parts for
the inside layers together. First, we're doing
that step-by-step, and then we'll put the
whole cart together.
3. Cutting & Assembling the Mountains: Now we're going to
create the mountains and I'm using this die here. You could use any mountains die. It doesn't necessarily
need to be this one. And if you don't have
this one, you can always print picture of the mountains on some
really nice card stock and use that and cut it out. What I like to do when I find color combinations
that I like to use with with these
mountains or whatever. I like to take some scraps and staple them together
and just put them in my envelope so that I have color inspiration
when I get stuck. So let's do the base first know the card stock that I'm
using has a textured side and a non textured side. Some of them, I'm going
to have the texture side showing because I like it on, I think it's the
hills are the trees. I can't remember. There's
a side there's a text or card stock that I'm
using that I'd like the color but I don't
like the texture. Then I'll use the
non textured side. But it's really your
personal preference on what you like and don't like. The next piece here. Now I do like to put my dyes as close together as I can
without overlapping them just to get have more
waste or less waste. It, drop it di make sure you pick it up
so you don't lose it. Here we go. And then last but not
least, the white. Now there's one little
teeny tiny white piece that I always seem
to lose in the mix. I'm going to put them
down first and then put my piece of scrap
over top of it. This white is just a little bit thicker than my other
card stock there. So I'm just going to
put it one way and then go back the other way. Go get the machine to the side. And we can put this together. So this piece here
glues on there. I'm going to use some distress
collage medium because it dries completely clear
and it also dries matte. So if anything
happens to ooze out, once it's dry, you will have
no idea that it's there. You'll see I've used some
out of the sides there, but once it's dry,
you'll have no idea. You won't see that at all. And then I do keep my
scraps and I'll use them for die cutting other things. I do like to make
sure to get any of those little
tips or whatever, have those glued there as well. Then last but certainly
not least, the white part. This one here it
goes right there. If you're ever second
guessing where it goes, the cover of the dye is
always a good place to look because especially the shapes like this that are
so jaded and uneven. I've made these
mountains several times, so pretty much know
where they go, but I still second-guess
the upper once in a while. If by chance just like
that one piece did there, it lifts up a little bit. You can always put
an acrylic block or something to weigh it down. While it's drying. It usually only does that
while it's still wet. This one here it
goes right in there. And if they're not
placed exactly, It's not going to
make a difference. Like I tried to do it
as good as possible. But if they happen to
move a little bit, you'll still get the you'll still get the mountain
effect from it. This little tiny bit here, along that street,
little edge there. And while this is still wet, I like to take some articles and I don't make my white
piece completely glittered. If you wanted to
completely glittered, you could die cut some
glitter card stock. But I do kind of go
along some of the edges that are upper edges, basically where the sun would reflect and
sparkle off the snow. I just put a little
bit of speckles. I don't put a lot. And very much less
is more person. But by putting the
stickers on now, it'll have time to dry by the time we want to
put our cards together. And you definitely
can't put the stickers on once the card is
completely together. So you need to do this step
ahead of time so that it has time to completely dry before we start
messing around with it. So I'm going to set
that aside to dry. In the next video, we're going
to put the hills together.
4. Cutting & Assembling the Hills: Alright, so this is the dye that we're going to use
for the hills. Now, this one
happens to come with different trees or whatever
that go on top of it. I'm using it without
those trees simply because I'm going to use
this die here for the trees. And I think that
style and that style together just kinda
look a little bit odd. So I'm only using this
die for the hills. The extra dies aside. This one is very
simple to die cut. I'm just using my die cuts, scraps from my sample card. You could also just cut a piece of paper that
is bigger than your card. Now when I was picking
out the colors for the mountains and the hills, I picked out three
different blue shades that we're all nice together. So for the mountains, I just use the dark one and then
the next one down. And then for the
hills, I'm using the same as this one here. And then one that's a
little bit lighter. I want to have different shades, making it look like it's got a little bit of
perspective to it going from the distance
to a little bit closer. Then in the dye for the moment. This one here is a scrap
from the card base. By using the scraps, not
only do we use the scraps, but you also have
the same color, even though white as white, sometimes there's
different shades and it will look a little bit
blue or a little bit cream. I tried to use the same card
stock as much as possible. That guy out there and they just fall right out of the die, which is quite handy. And of course now
that I say that this one is not
going to do that, usually by smacking them, you
can at least loosen them. This one here has this thin
little bit up the top there. You want to make sure to be
careful pulling that out. So I'm going to use the same
collage medium to glue it. Really just going around
the edges and then a little bit on any of those thin
areas are the points. Just want to make sure that
those are glued down so they can't snag on anything. The first two is just a matter of playing one on
top of the other. They're pretty much the
same size. Here we go. And then the snow been on the diet itself with the trees has a little
bit more snow areas. Like I said, I don't like
using those trees with the other ones because
I think they look a little bit strange together. If you like them together,
you can absolutely mix and add them to it. It's just a personal
preference thing. We go. So once again, I'm going to add some stickers. I'm gonna do it with
top of the hill. And then the top of the white part there
around the creek. And then I'm gonna
put a little bit of Glossy Accents in that
creek area there. My jar is nearly empty. My mother's making tech. If you get a little
if it gets blocked, just grab a thumbtack and you
can usually unblock, then. Oops, didn't mean to
squeeze that hard. This just gives the creek a
little bit of shine to it. You don't necessarily
have to do it and I'm not sure really how visible
it is on the card. It's just one of those
details I like to do. And then I take a pin or I pick, I just move that Glossy Accents till it on the
edge of the creek. Sometimes they can have a little bubble or
something in it. And at this point it's really
easy to pop those bubbles out. There we go. So once again, I'm going
to let this completely dry so that it is
set this aside. So that's completely dry when we're ready to put
our cards together.
5. Cutting & Assembling the Trees: Alright, so now it's time
to cut the trees out. I'm using this tree die here. If you have a bunch of
individual tree dies, you can absolutely use that.
This is the card stock. This is kinda got
a plaid ish look to the texture and
I don't like it as well as the fact that
there's some marks on it. But this side is perfectly fine. I'm going to cut those out. And for this part, when we assemble
it, we're going to need one of our hills. Let's get the machine
out of the way here. Now this one sometimes fights a little bit
with getting out of the die simply because of all those branches
from the trees. It may take a little
bit of patience to do that, but it's worth it. I love how realistic
these trees look. Let's do from the other side so we can see our lines better. Then there's lots of little bits and holes and stuff like that. In these particular die
cut, I do it like this. I take the bits out of the
top for this particular card. You actually don't see the
bottom because I actually put those hills in front of it in order to have a
little bit of dimension. So we're not going
to have to take all of those pieces out. For this layer. We have another set of trees
that we're going to use in the exact same set, but we're gonna do it again
with a darker card stock in the next layer,
the last layer. For that one I would cut
all of or take all of those little bits
and pieces out and they're really not
hard to take out. It's just a matter of taking your die pick and
just poking them out. As long as it's cut all the
way through here there, as long as it's cut all the
way through which you'll be able to tell when you take
your diet or the machine. It's just a matter of poking
them out to get them out. Sometimes they'll stick to
the back and you just have to grab your finger and just move it and it usually
falls right off. Alright, there we go. Let's
get rid of the bits here. Now, this dye or this hill
piece has a score mark on it. I usually fold the score
mark and then I like to take a bone folder and just really
get a good score in there. And then this could wait until the end or it's till we're assembling, but
we might as well do it. Now. I'm going to grab some thicker, wider score tape and just put it in their
score takes to playing just a really good double-sided tape and we're going to
stick it in there. So the first one
that I'm going to glue in place is this white one. And I'm just gonna put glue on the bottoms of the lower
part of the trees. They're not in this area because it doesn't
touch the hills. And then glue it down. Center ish. There we go. Hold it for a second. And then it would
be funny to have the exact same formation
rate in front of it. So what I like to do is
I take this big tree off and I'm gonna glue
him on the other side. Just change it up a little bit. And then I'm just
actually going to take this grouping of trees here. For the next part. I tried to make kind of a
jagged line there simply because That's the way
the rest of it is. And I want it to fit
in there and I'm just gonna glue that there. This way. We don't
have a repeat of the exact same trees
in the same pattern. All right. So I'm just going to
set that aside to dry. If you wanted to
add some stickers and add a little bit
of sparkle to it. You absolutely could. I kinda figured you probably weren't going to see
a whole lot of that, so I left that off. But if you want to at this point is the time when
you would do that, this we're not going to
use for this project. You can save it for
something else. We'll just set that aside to dry and we'll go on to
the next piece.
6. Cutting & Assembling the People: Alright, so I have
the next part, ready to die, kind of
already die cut my trees. For this part, I do take all of the little bits
out because we're gonna be seeing it
a little bit more. It's the very front
part of our card. So I want to make sure that all of those little
bits or other here, now we're going to use this
dissect for the figures. You could use other figures. You could use the snowman,
you could use a Santa, you could use whatever you
wanted for the front of this. I just liked those figures. Now, this gentleman, that's how his poses
and I don't like it. I want him to be
standing upright. So I'm just going to completely eliminate die cutting this leg. And then I will smooth it out and cut it out
with the scissors. Let's run this through.
Most of the time. Or sometimes all die cut
one piece at a time. And sometimes they'll do
something like this where I just did a bunch of
things at a time. I might as well utilize the
entire space of your machine. Take the bits out of the lamppost in any little bits out of any of your figures. So let's just be just
the front of his jacket. I think it just looks
for this use anyways. A little better like that. This piece of card stock
that I cut the rethought, it is actually just
the scrap from the lighter of the
greens of the trees. And let's take the
bow out of there. And I believe I'm done
with machine for now. So let's get rid of it. For this piece,
I'm gonna be using the other hill that we die cut. I'm going to use it the
same in the same formation as the way it's **** height because I just
like the cut edge better. Because there's so
much stuff on here. You're not really going to
see that as the same hill. It's just a foundation to be
putting your dye cuts on. The first thing I'm
gonna do is do my tree. So again, I'm going
to cut this apart. I'm going to put one over
here and one over here. And this will end
up being behind or little figures there. So we're not going
to see some of it. I'm just going to be filling. Here we go. I put it right
to the end of the die cut. Same with this one here. So it goes to show
you don't necessarily have to keep your dicots exactly the same way
that eudicot them. You can absolutely
change them around. So for our lampposts, I'm gonna put a
tiny little bit of bellum behind the lamppost. They're just as if it was
some light coming out of it. So the way I like to do though, is just take a pencil
but the dye cut down. I'll just put some pencil marks. I know the outside of it
and I know where to cut. And then I'll cut just
inside of those marks. Then obviously before you
glue it down, just a touch, just put it on
there just to make sure I can take a little bit more off of
that top part there. And then just slide
it into place. Seem to have misplaced
my goal vote. Somehow it fell
into the garbage. We don't want that. I'm going to glue my
lamppost down first. Before we go and add our wreath. I'm just going to
leave this cap off rather than keep
screwing it on and off. There we go. I'm going to add
some gold accents to the lamppost just along. Typically, I would wait
for my glue to dry, but there we go. It just adds a little bit of
extra to your piece there. Little bit of glue, so it
glues onto the lamppost there. If you need to, you can hold
it in place for a second. Now I want the gentleman
just behind the woman there. So let's put him here. Just remember you
only need glue on the bottom parts of
these figures because the other parts are not
going to be actually on any card stock. Now let's add some adhesive to that bottom and I actually forgot to fold it ahead of time. It will be okay. I'll do that once everything
is completely dry because I don't want to ruin
anything right now. So I'm gonna use a
combination of my gold pen and some red circles to just accentuate a little
bit of the figures here. And you don't
necessarily need to do it the exact
same way that I am. I just the silhouettes look a little bit plane
I think on their own. I think just adding a little bit of gold gel pen or whatever. It just makes it
pop a little bit. Also adds a little bit of
color to the whole thing to. This may be a little bit
different from my sample. Or I didn't put anything on
the color on my sample there. Then a little bit of red
berries on the reef. Just to make it
some more festive. But you can definitely
tell how adding just a little accents to
it makes it really pop. So that is going to be set
aside to dry completely. And then while we're still
waiting for it to dry, we will do the background sky.
7. Inking the Sky Background: All right, So while
we're waiting everything for
everything else to dry, Let's do the back. Now. This isn't the piece that
I die cut for the back. If you wanted to, you could do your
inking rate on this. But when we cut, we
got a little bit of a halo around that
opening there. And by doing the inking on
a separate piece of paper, you're giving yourself
just a little bit of insurance just at the off chance that
you don't like it or you mess something
up or whatever. So by taking a piece
of extra card stock. Yeah. You're just giving yourself a little bit of insurance there. So I'd put a little mark
there with a dip in the mountains is because
that's where I'm gonna do my lightest color. I'm gonna do it as if
it was, say, sunrise. And by doing that,
you don't have to guess where that is going to go. So I've got saltwater
taffy here. I guess technically it could
be sunset because really, I'm not sure I've
heard of any Carol. Carol is being held at sunrise, but those are technicalities. Alright, so now I've got
some weathered wood, just a really nice light
wood or light blue to transition between the
peachy coral color to the blue, the dark blue. So I only ain't the sky. You could also add
some stars to it. Or even like Santa in the
slave would be really cute. And there's actually one. Where did I put that dissect? There's actually
one in the dataset, so that would be really
cute on this guy as well. So I'm doing the dark blue and
try to get it fairly dark. And obviously, you could alter these colors to
your liking if you weren't quite sure whether you liked these colors together. And obviously I don't make
it super, super opaque. To me. That's kind of
like clouds in the sky. But I do want to put ink
on this bottom part here simply because you
do see parts of it. You don't see a lot of
it be juicy parts of it. And personally, I don't like seeing an inked
things behind other things. And it really doesn't
take much longer to ink the whole piece. And obviously you can
tell I'm not worried about it being
blotchy behind there. I just want some
color behind there. Alright. So I'm going to
leave it at that. Just let it set it
aside to dry so it's ready for you when you go
to put your car together. Actually, now that
I'm looking at it, this white bit is
just bothering me. So I'm just going to put a tiny little bit
of blue in there. Then if you want to
check it, you can see your dicot piece on top of that. You can make this smaller if you wanted less of the coral color. I like how much there is there. So we're going to set that
aside to dry and that will be ready for us when we're
ready to assemble our card.
8. Assembling the Shadowbox Card: So now that we have all
of our pieces ready, Let's start to assemble. So first thing I'm
gonna do is glue my ink sky to the background. Now on this particular
card stock piece, I happened to have
wider edges here. You can cut your pool
width of your card, the bottom and the top bit. They already have score lines
for where they get folded. So I kinda do it
by hand to start. And then once I fold it over, I use the flat end of
my scoring tool to get a really nice score in there. Then I have some
quarter-inch going here. I'm going to put
that on these flaps. Ananda do both flaps
at the same time. Make sure to push
your tape on it, make sure it's got
some good contact with your paper first. Then I'm actually going to turn this over to
glue it together. This way I can see
the folded edge and I can see exactly where
the edges of my card, or I can put it
all down at once. It's a little bit harder to
see that from this side. So much easier to do that all
at once and have it done. I've got my mountain piece here. I created a flapper, whatever for the
bottom to glue it down because these aren't
don't already have it. And if I were to create
one at the bottom of this, it would just make my mountains
a little bit shorter. So created that just by measuring the width and
then it was an inch wide. And then I scored it in
half it a half an inch. For this, I use wider tape. It's not quite a half an inch. I want to say it's about
three-eighths of an inch. In Canada, I believe
it's nine millimeter. This one here. I'm going to put my
lap on the back of the mountains that down before I actually glue that down my hill part is
actually a little bit, the dye makes it a little bit
bigger than the mountains. I'm just going to cut that down so that they're the same width. The hills with the
trees and with the people are a little
bit wider than that, but I don't mind that,
but I just don't want everything to be a
different width here. So this is a half an inch here. I'm going to leave it at that. This whole bottom is two inches. So these flaps for all the
rest of them are half an inch. I'm just going to
cut them down a little bit because I don't want this front edge to be raised at the
front of the card. I want it to be
back a little bit. But I'm gonna keep the ball
back one the same width. And the reason is these mountains
are a little bit heavy. They tend to fall a
little bit forward. So I'm going to create a brace
to help to brace them up. So this piece here is foreign. Its an inch up and then there's
a half an inch gap there, which is the same as the
flap on the bottom here. So I've got these
measurements on your supply list so you
don't have to remember this. But basically I
took it, I scored it at one inch and 1.5 inches. And what this is gonna do, it's just going to
give a little bit of support for those mountains. There. There we go. Alright, now next one
is our tree layer. So I am going to cut this
a little bit farther down. Already, have the tape on there. So just take the backing off. And then I'm just
eyeballing it to make it as even a layer as possible. If it's a little bit angled, it's not going to
matter too much. And I ended up having to go RIP ended up putting it a
little bit too far over. So I'm just going
to snip that off. Let's put the flap on our hills. And you can see this tape. You can just rip it. You don't have to cut
it every single time, which ends up saving you time. Basically, it's nice to not have to take out your
scissors every single time to cut it down and put it on our piece. And I always like to trim
them down afterwards. So this is four and a quarter, but the hills are
just slightly here or the mountains were
just slightly narrower. Then I'm also going to. Narrower than a half an inch. If when cutting it, I happened to cut it a
little bit cricket, I don't sweat it too much. We're putting white
card stock on a white background so
it's not very visible. Let's hold this 1 first
before we cut it down. Now, when you're
putting this card up and down, these trees. And all these angles
like to stick to or catch on the other layers. And I had that with
the card pieces, the ones that actually came
in there with the houses and stuff like that. I
had that as well. And what I found the
best solution for that was to simply, and you probably saw
it at the beginning. Put pieces of acetate when
I'm sending them to people, put pieces of acetate between those pieces so
that they don't catch. And that helps it move
a little bit easier. And then the other thing too, is they slide out super easy. They're clear, so it's
not going to impede with the initial look or
reaction to the card, but it is going to help those pieces pop up a little bit easier and
not catch on each other. And because we use nice
heavy card stock with this, sometimes it's a little
bit harder to get a really good straight
crease on this. But you want it to be as
straight as possible, otherwise it doesn't
flatten out as nice. There we go. When I'm gluing using suit, going to glue pieces of card stock or like for
cards and stuff like that. I don't use the entire length, but for this I do because I want to make sure it's
glued all the way across. So now I'm going to take
this bottom part backing off because I can see
my fold right there. And I want to make
sure that it's as straight as possible
before pushing it down. There we go When I like
to push it both ways. But you'll see how the
lamp just stuck on the stuff on the tree. They're having those acetate and it only needs
to be in there. Well, it's in the envelope
and once it gets popped up, they can just slide radio. They still burrito. So now the top part here, I'm going to, I'm lining it up with the
straight edge from here, making sure my edges are, the edges are lined up with
the sides of the card. And then for this
last piece here, the best way to
make sure that it is 100% lined up, right? Everything down like this. The bottom part is down here. And then what we're gonna do is we're going to take one of the sides of the flaps
up the tape backing off. Hold this down flat. That way we know it's going to, it's going to flatten perfectly
for our card and then pull this so that
nothing has moved. There we go. Last step and I've already
cut is right here. I've already cut the
pieces for it in that shuttle box dice that is the banner and the
merry Christmas. So all I'm gonna do is
put a little bit of glue and glue those down. I wasn't sure how long it was going to take
to assemble the card, and I didn't want the
video to be too long. And I figured you've seen me die cut throughout the class. You didn't really need to
see this part die cut. So when I didn't put any
glue for this opening here, then once that's completely
done and everything's dried, you can put your acetate in their flatten it and
put it in your phone. But there we go.
Are finished card.
9. Creating a Custom Envelope: This card, when it is flattened, fits into an A9 size envelope, which is five and
three-quarters by 83 quarters. You may be able to
find them to buy, but because you're gonna be spending so much time on a card, you're probably not going to
make it for a ton of people. So why not customize your card? So the sample one I
just did in white, this one I'm going to do in red. Why not make it a
little bit festive? I'm gonna take my
tremor out there. I've got 1212 by 12 piece
of card stock here. I'm kinda cut it down to 93 quarters and then
take up my scoreboard. First thing I do down the whole length of
that 12 inch side, I'm going to score
at a half-inch. And I'm doing that twice
to make sure I get a really nice score line there. So do that to both sides. I'll have a diagram and
the measurements that you need for this in
your supply list. But if you need
to refer to this, I will say the
measurements as well. So the first score line is going to be at the
four inch mark. I do twice as well. The next one needs to
be at the 93 quarters, but because there's
no mark there, the way to do it is
get your card stock, put it up about a
quarter of an inch, and then do the score
line at ten inches. And again, I like to
do that twice as well. So now we've got our
pieces in there. Now typically when I do
cards or do envelopes, I'll use my envelope
punch board, but it doesn't make
envelopes this big. So that is not a
possibility for this. So this is another simple way to do envelopes without
having a punch board. This way, if you only
have one or two to make, you can customize them to
who you're making important. So along that half-inch side, that 12 inch length here, we're going to cut corners out. I'm only cutting down to
those score lines there. I want to keep this lab on here. Same for the other side. These little arrows on the side of the blade
make it really, really easy to see exactly where the blade is cutting too. You don't have to guess
this half-inch part here. I'm just going to cut
it with the scissors. You could use the tremor
to do that as well. But It's just as easy to
just snip it with scissors. There was bits we don't need, they can get tossed. I do like to take my corners hand corner that are around them
with a corner rounder. I just think it makes
it look prettier. Make sure you
actually have it in the corner rounder
and not too far. If you had a fancy
corner rounder that did a little bit
more of a fancy pointer. You could absolutely
use that as well. Let's see, I have some fluffy
edges on here and it's because my blade to my
tremor isn't super sharp. I need a new blade, but my
local store is not open today, so I didn't want to wait to
do this until it was open. So alright, now we're going
to fold those flaps in. Use my bone folder. I've got a flat side
on it that I like to use to really get a good crease on that flap. And then same with
the bottom part. Now, instead of putting the
tape on the sides here, It's hard to tell unless you put a mark exactly where that ends. Easiest way without
having to mark anything is to put the
tape on this side. No guesswork. You know exactly
where that paper ends. If you wanted, you could
put a little bit of printed Christmas paper or something in there.
I don't bother. But you absolutely could. Good way to use some scraps. If you happen to
have a blade that's not super sharp and
you need to trim, just trim it with scissors. And then you have an envelope that you can fit your burden. I do need to cut my acetate
pieces a little bit shorter, but it would go there my way. So I'm not going to
totally close it. But there you've got
a custom envelope to fit your card. And
I did it in red. You could do it in the blue,
you could do it in any of the colors that
are in this card. You don't necessarily
need to do it in red, but a fun way to coordinate and make it a little
bit more special.
10. Christmas Shadowbox Card Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the Christmas
shadow box class. And remember, just
swap out some of the dicots and create a completely different
theme for your card. But I love that it folds flat to male and it's perfect for that. Someone special, I hope to see
you soon in another class.
Artsy. Island Girl, Teacher
