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Welcome to day seven of the 30-day mixed
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media card challenge using craft
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supplies you've got at home. If you want
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to find the others, look on the screen
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for the link. Look in the description
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below or just take a look on my channel.
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But today, we're going to be making this
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card here. So, let's get started.
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I'm just going to use an ordinary piece
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of card that's folded in half or a card
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blank if you prefer to buy them. And
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we're just going to use some pages from
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an old book. Now, my advice here is look
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for old encyclopedias, old travel books,
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old gardening books. They have some
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great pictures in them and lots of text
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obviously, but the texture of the paper,
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the color of the paper, having it aged
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is great. And then just cut out some
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sections and then try positioning them.
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So, you can see all I'm doing here is
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laying them out. But the real attraction
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for me here with this page that I cut up
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was the flower pictures. I think they're
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just glorious. They're just so nice. And
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it's going to make such a vintage card.
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And that's what I'm going for here. So,
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play around with your arrangement before
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and adjust it. Move them around. Do what
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you want to do with it. And then it's
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simply a case of gluing them on. Now,
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I'm not going to use my trusty glue
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stick. I'm going to use a PVA base glue.
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Now, you could just put them on with a
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glue stick. That's absolutely fine. But
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I recommend the PVA glue approach. This
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one's labeled up deccoage glue, but it
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really doesn't matter. Is because you
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can stick it down and then you apply the
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glue over the top as well and it just
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seals it all beautifully and it gives
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you a really nice finish and you're not
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going to catch the edges and neither is
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anybody else and pull them up. So, just
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keep putting them on where you want them
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and doing the layout. If you're enjoying
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this video, please give me a thumbs up
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so it spreads to more people and keep
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So, as you can see, I'm very liberal
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with the glue. You want it all over
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everywhere. And you've also got to think
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about what you want underneath and what
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you want on top to make sure you glue
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them on in the right order, which can
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sometimes be a little bit of a
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So, let's just put this one on down
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here. So, I've just left a little gap at
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the top. I'm going to put my little
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header across. And then just leave it
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all to dry. Before you do anything else,
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you want it dry. And then you can
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embellish it to your heart's content.
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You might do some freestyle drawing. You
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might glue some more things on. Or you
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might do like I'm doing here, which is
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just stenciling some small flowers on.
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It's just to add a little bit more
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depth, a little bit more interest.
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They're not really really in your face.
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I'm just doing them in black, but you
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could go bright colors. But as I say,
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I'm looking for that vintage feel on
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this card. I'm not going to put a
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greeting on it, but I'll put a link on
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the screen so you can print off my free
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greetings if you want them. But I'm
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going to leave it like that because I
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think that's perfect to send to a friend
