Hello and welcome to day 22 of the Halloween craft countdown, where I'm releasing a new
Cricut craft every day for the whole of October.
Today we are making these cauldron cards.
This is a really cute handmade card which is covered in gemstones and sequins
and fancy things to look like the potion coming out of the cauldrons.
This is a Design Space project.
So for Cricut Access,
you'll be able to open this right up and cut with your Cricut machine.
If you have some other brand of cutting machine or if you don't have one at all,
this is a fairly simple design which you can cut by hand,
so instructions for that are in the step by step written tutorial.
And you can find the link
to that and the Design Space project in the description of this video.
So let's open Design Space and find out how to cut this fancy little cauldron card.
I've cut everything out now,
so it's time to start assembling my card. For each of the three squares,
we've got the biggest square and I've cut
this out of silver metallic card. I'm not sure if you can see, but that is silver.
Then you've got the smaller square,
which I've done from white hammer effect card, and the cauldron.
To start with, I'm going to glue the white piece
to the middle of the silver bit. You could use double sided tape
or 3D foam pads, but because I've got
mirror card, it tends to not play ball
with double sided tape very well, so glue tends to give a better stick.
So I'm just going to put that slap bang in the middle,
line it up.
Next for the cauldron.
I want a bit of depth to this, I'm going to add it on with a 3D foam pad.
So here are my pads and I'm just going to grab one of them,
put it on the back of the cauldron
and then stick the cauldron near the bottom of the white card.
Now it's time for the fun bit and that is putting all of the gemstones and sequins
to resemble the potion bubbling out of the cauldron.
So I've got a range of sticky gemstones and sequins here.
And this one I'm going to do with green bubbles.
Let's have another look at what I've got.
I think I'll use a couple of big ones on first and then
fill in the gaps with the smaller things.
That doesn't appear to have any sticky
left on it, if you need to add just a tiny bit of glue.
Now my glue's not coming out - helpful! Here, a bit of glue will help stick things,
something else there and then I'll add a couple of sequins on it.
Let's just another one of those up there
and then add the sequins.
I think that it's kind it's nice to have a range of different embellishments.
They sequins are good and of course, the gemstones and all the different colors.
If you had some tiny buttons, they might work or even just take a hole
punch and punch out some different shades of green card into little circles.
That would be really cute.
So I'm just positioning these so it looks
like that cauldron is bubbling over with exciting potion.
See what else I've got.
These dark ones are a bit of a darker green.
This is quite fiddly because they are small
and most of them are sticky on the back, so
they're kind of getting in each other's way a little.
It's really tiny ones.
No, I've stuck it to itself.
For the really small ones,
something like a pricking tool or your Cricut weeding tool can be helpful.
If you just get it on the end of there,
it can make it easier to put into place.
My gemstones, some of these are really old, like over 10 years old.
They've lost their stickiness a bit.
All right, so this is nearly done.
I'm just going to add a few
teeny tiny gems to look like the fumes of the potion coming off.
Oops I just moved that sequin.
And then what I like to do is to just if you've got two gemstones
that look kind of similar, but one's a bit smaller than the other, just add two.
One end to the other.
To kind of act like a potion drip.
There we go.
OK, that potion is done.
Let's move this out of the way and then
I've already done the other two, so I've got a purple one and a red one.
And now I can add these to my card.
Here's my card from and you see,
this is a shop bought envelope, but my card will fit nicely in there.
And I'm going to once again add some 3D foam pads
to give this bit of dimension.
I'm going to put them in the order that I want first,
roughly line them up on the card that I know they're going to fit.
So let's just get these roughly where I want them to go.
Here we go.
And then I will start with the top,
put some foam pads on the back.
Usually I'd cut my pads a bit smaller as
these ones are quite big, but because these type of things are quite
heavy with all the gemstones and mirror card, which is heavy -
oops, there was glue on there.
Oh, dear.
Yes, because I've used heavy cardstock and all these gemstones,
I'm going to keep my foam pads big to make sure I have the most grip possible.
So let's make that the right way round, put it
where I want it to go.
For now, I'm just going to kind of lightly
drop it into place rather than sticking it down, just in case
I need to move it in a minute.
So I'm going to do the same thing with all of these
foam pads.
Let's take this one
in the middle, and again, I'm just kind of lightly dropping it
into place so that if I need to, I can pick it up and move it
into place.
And I'm just going to make this a bit closer so I can see it better.
I think I managed to stick every single one of those wonky.
I'm bad at sticking things straight.
So you can just play about with the positioning
to get them where you want them to go
when you're happy, just push down to seal all those foam pads into place.
So that's my card.
And you could leave it like that.
Or you could add some
peel-off stickers along the edges.
I'm just going to put the lid on my glue.
So I think just a little bit of glitz down the side will look quite nice.
So let's take my peel-off sticker and -
it's just not quite long enough so I have to join together.
One,
and then
just complete that the bottom.
The other side.
I just need to extend it a bit
where it wasn't long enough with another one,
chop it up, and then we go, here is my super duper
sparkly witch's cauldron handmade card all finished.
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So be sure to check those out as there are loads more projects to choose from.
Thank you for watching.