Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video I'm continuing my theme of
making homemade cards with different stacker techniques. We've already done
side stackers and we've done duo corner stickers. For this video I'm
gonna be making a card using a wavy spiral side stacker. This one is
quite different to the other two videos, so even if you've already seen those two, you do
need to keep watching to learn how to do this one as it is a bit different. I've
chosen this gorgeous unicorn design. It's so cute - I love all the pinks and the
pastel colors and she's got a lovely rainbow sitting behind her. This design
is by Carol Clarke and it's available at craftsuprint.com. I'll put a link in the
description below this video to where you can get this gorgeous card-making
sheet. Craftsuprint allow you to buy digital downloads which you can download
straight to your computer and print at home, or you can pay a little bit extra
and they'll print it for you on to lovely glossy paper. Once you've
chosen your design - and there are hundreds if not thousands to choose from -
download it, print it out or get it printed and posted to you and
then you will need to cut out all of the different parts of the design. When
you're cutting it out, do not throw out these colored squares on the design
because that is the guide which shows you where to stick all the layers. You'll
notice each layer has a number and a color pointing to it and that relates to
these little sample pictures to show you where everything needs to be stuck. Go
ahead and cut everything out and then we can make our card. I've taken the main
unicorn image and I've put it on an 8x8 inch card. This is a really big card
and it's gonna look lovely when it's all finished. The papers I've used are from
this 'rainbows and daydreams' paper pad from 'love to craft. It's a really cute
paper pack - one of my favorites that I have, so of
course when I had the opportunity to make a unicorn card I was gonna use this
paper pack! It's got loads of pastel rainbows and unicorns and patterns in
there - look at that rainbow, so pretty. I love this paper pack and I will put a
link to where you can get it in the description below this video for if you want
to pick this up for yourself. I chose two different types of paper from that kit
for this card. I've got one with these shooting stars in the top right and then
a rainbow and unicorns patterned one in the bottom left. Because the papers are
six by six inches and my card is eight by eight I didn't need to do anything to
these papers - I didn't trim them or change the size or
anything. All I did was use a double-sided tape runner to stick them to my
card blank and then I went around the edge with some silver border peel-offs.
If you're not sure how to use these I will put a link to another video in
the top of this one and in the description below.
I stuck my main part of the printed design in the bottom and then finally
just finished it off with these pink gemstones in the corners. Already, even
if I didn't do anything else to this card, it is really cute and really nice
and any little girl would be happy to get this
unicom card. But we can make it better, and that is by adding the different
parts of the stacker onto the card. Here are all the little bits I cut out
and I'm just gonna turn them over so that they are the right way up and sort
them out. You've got two different sizes - you've got thinner bits and
thicker bits. We're gonna start with the thicker bits, so I'll move the thin ones
over to the side. I've got the thicker bits here.
I'm gonna line them up like that. If I bring the original design back
in, we can see from the numbers how this is going to go and then line it up
according to the picture. I've got some 3d foam pads - I'm just gonna keep
that in the shots that I can see which one I'm supposed to be sticking where.
Number one on the design is this bottom bit that's gonna be stuck along the
bottom of the unicorn, so that's this piece here. I'm gonna take this one, turn
it upside down and add some foam pads to the bottom. You can use 3D foam pads
that come on a sheet. If your pads are big then you might want to trim
them with some scissors to make them smaller. You don't need very many to
stick these bits on because they're quite small so you don't want to be
wasting your foam pads by putting on way more than you need. You can also use foam
that comes on a roll or 3D glue dots or whatever else it is you normally use to
give a 3D effect to your cards. Put four little bits along there then
bring my card back to make it easier and then I want to line this up along the bottom. To
make sure those edges are perfectly lined, I'm just gonna gently drop
this on the card to check that I'm happy with the alignment before I push it down.
By gently putting it on, it means if I need to I can pull it off
again to realign it if I had put it in the wrong place, but I'm happy with that so
I'm just gonna push it down and there we have the first layer done.
All right, so what's the next one? I'll look for the number two and it's this
one down here so it's actually the side. If you look on the picture you can see
number two goes down the side on the left here so that is this - nope - it's
a bit like a jigsaw puzzle which I was never very good at. All right, so I've
done the same thing with the foam pads on here. I've already stuck them on
to make this go a bit quicker. I'm gonna peel off the backing and stick it
onto the card. We're lining it up again, only this
time the top of the design is gonna stick to that original square and the
bottom is going on top of the layer one that we've already stuck. I haven't quite
lined that up so I'm just gonna carefully lift it and try again. There we
go. Okay, time to move on number three. Number three is up here; it's the top of
the unicorn and again that is shown in the little picture here. So, number three,
I'm gonna peel off these foam pads and stick it to the card.
I enjoy doing these wavy spiral stackers because it's something a little bit
different. You don't see this every day and it gives a really nice effect to the
cards. I've got the last of the larger pieces of this stacker and that's gonna go
down this side down here. Oops! See, I dropped it there that wasn't very
clever. That's the beauty of putting it down gently to start with - if you make
a mistake you can just pick it up and move it without too much fuss.
So that's our first layer done, now we need to move on to the second
picture which is where I will add pieces 5, 6, 7 & 8. Let's take these back in
and I want piece number 5 which is the bottom one, so I'm just gonna find that
and again I've put the foam pads on here already. I'm gonna peel them off and
stick it down. We've already got a nice 3D effect going on because
we've been sticking these pieces down. It really starts to come together once you
add the second layer to the edges. I'm gonna do this one next.
Hopefully you can see that the edges are starting to get really nice and 3D and
standing out from the card. You get all these nice shadows between the different
layers and it looks really pretty.
Now I've just got two more. I'm going to do the top -
here we go -
and just one more left now, down this right-hand side.
Now we have a wavy spiral side stacker all complete. You can see the different
layers and how that's all going through. I love it, it's very cute it creates kind of a
framed effect to draw the attention to the middle and it's really nice. I like
it, but I'm gonna add a little bit extra. I've got these unicorn toppers that I
got from Hobbycraft and I'm just going to stick these around the edge for even
more unicorn awesomeness on the card. Here we are. I've also got these little
hearts that I was considering adding, but I think actually that might be a
little bit too much. I think it's got enough on it now, so I'm not gonna add
them, but the beauty of these stacker cards is you can make them as
embellished or not embellished as you like - however you want to decorate them
is absolutely fine. Here is my unicorn card all ready for me to write my
message inside.Don't forget, if you want to make a card like this, I've put a link
in the description to where you can get the sheet. If you enjoyed this video,
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for more card making tutorials. I do new ones every single week. If you have a
Cricut machine or another electronic cutting machine, I do separate tutorials
for those as well, so definitely check them out if that is
something that you're interested in. Thank you for watching!