Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this mini album. I have done a couple again in the past but it's something I've just not shared and it is another form of papercraft that I really enjoy doing. I originally have just not long done another one which I was going to show first but I've decided I'm going to show this one first. So when you hear me talking through this one I revert back to and the one you would have seen last week but that's the reason why I've actually switched them around. So I decided to go with this one first. It's a bit more easier I guess and yeah I just hope you like it. This is using the Dewcrafts Freshly Cut Flowers collection. It's a kind of a kit I guess it's the 48 page and it's got die cuts, it's got vellum, it's got decoupage, it's got loads of paper and I've also got the 12x12 paper pad and I did share all of that stuff before and I've used it in a card, the double easel gatefold card that I've done. Anyway this is what I've got. So it's gorgeous I absolutely love this. I haven't put the pictures in yet I will share them separately in my blog just because there's other people in them and I didn't want to put them out on my video. So it's got this gorgeous spine here with this bow and this is just a part of the old broken necklace that I had.   I've used my corner protectors then I've used my snaps to create the fastening here which pops in nicely and then you open it up and you have your pages. So this is a four page mini album with obviously eight sides and each page has a paper photo mat that comes out of the top. So you also have one, two big photos can go on there. So you've got room here for eight big photos and then well as many big photos as you want it depends on how you lay out your pages but for example I've got this mat here for pictures on one of the pages. This one here you open and flip out and you can put more photos in there. You can put little tickets, your you know flight tickets, things like that, any kind of memories. These two big tags I'm going to put photos on and I've decorated the same little paper flowers throughout which match. I've finished the little spine there. This has got little mirror card circle punches on the top there just to help you pull them out. There is so much going on but it is very simple in terms of other mini albums out there so I've you know I just thought I'd show you something quite basic. I will also share links to other people that I enjoy watching in the video description below and I also mentioned them in my tutorial that you'll see next week so yeah. There's lots here it's really fun to make and you can still make this without the snaps without the corner protectors here. That's things that I've had in my stash for a long time so but you can certainly obviously put this together and also I've done little eyelet rings there on my tags and finished it off with some ribbon which just sticks out the top there which I think looks really nice and yeah it's a lovely decorative piece. This is going to sit on my shelf for me to just enjoy so it's got no message or sentiments or anything on it. It didn't need to be because it's just for me I might I've got little tags that say memories and things on it and maybe add something like that later but yeah this is what we're going to make so enjoy the tutorial and yeah I hope you like it. Okay so for this smaller version you're going to need a piece of 12 by seven and a half I've got the lovely slight lavender colors here with the green spray flowers beautiful beautiful and then I've got my chipboard which is four and a half by six and a half you need two pieces of that and then you need one piece of two by six and a half okay so couple these to one side and I need to just check which way I had it because I was laying out yes this bit's going to be near the front so flip it over and these will fit perfectly with a half inch hanging over and this piece in the middle. Now when you're same as I mentioned in my other mini album tutorial when you line this all up just lift up as if you're opening and closing when you lift it up when it goes down try not to move it you see the gap you get that's the gap that you want to have you can have a little bit more which I tend to give just to account for the paper that will also add extra bulk so just make sure it's all nice and even I would say make sure you've got your front and your back all nice and lined up there and then that middle piece like so okay now once you're happy that that's all in place then we need to get it all stuck down so first of all I'm going to grab my what am I going to use today let's use some of my score tape although I don't seem to have a lot of it left okay I'm going to use some of my new thicker tape here which I totally forgot I had terrible isn't it and I brought it not too long ago actually as well so just trim off the end there okay so take these off doesn't matter which side I'm just going to go around and just cover these with my tape okay I've just covered all of those and then I'm just going to go over and just make sure that that's all stuck to my chipboard okay the one thing I totally forgot to do on my other album and it's not made an issue at all to it um but a lot of people use tie-back and if you didn't watch the tutorial before it's basically a material that doesn't rip and it's really good to put on the spines and the bends of your mini albums and or any albums that you make if you don't have it you can also run some of the double sided tape it won't obviously stop it from tearing but it will give it just that little bit more of a hold so just roughly where these go here I'm just going to run in fact let me just grab my pencil one was roughly there I'm just putting pencil mark where that would be and then I'm just going to run because I know that that's going to be where that that spine is like so and then I'm going to remove the backing as normal like I said it's not going to stop it ripping but it does just give it that little extra something so let's stick down these and I'm also going to run over some of my and just make sure you stick with that half inch border don't worry if it's a little bit off a bit more on the top there than I have on the bottom that will do because this one now will be my guide for all the rest so again just make sure that's all stuck down and then do the same with all the other bits okay so that's now all in place and you can see it all looks nice there and then just carefully just bring up your sides there just to start kind of stretching that card into place and you can see that you're going to get a nice spine then we need to start to bring all these in so just fold them all up again get them to kind of start sitting in place you need to do the corners first so I'm just using my glue here pop it in all four corners to go a little bit down the sides actually I just forget to go down the sides and just bring up each corner so that you're creating a little square in the bottom corner of the chipboard there and then with your bone folder just go in and push down against that corner if I just bring that up so you can see what I've done so I've just pushed it right in and then you want to start really kind of working it into the corners there with your bone folders you can see the chipboard silhouette the shape of it through the pattern paper there okay so again just do that one so just bring it in so that you've got another square shape and then just using my bone folder there just to work that into that glue set again you might be able to see it better on that one there you can see what I've just done so just do that on the other two corners okay so that's all my corners in and then you just need to go in now and stick down all of your sides so I'm just going to run my tacky glue all the way along and just fold them all in and stick them all down okay so that's all done and again just with those bits there just push them into the kind of edges there and then when that comes around you'll get your little album okay so yeah that was my front because it's got the biggest spray there although that does look quite cool as well we'll see I'll probably end up changing it okay then to cover all of the inside you need a piece that is six and a quarter by 11 this is the same print but it's just in this kind of apricot color and that will sit perfectly over just giving you a tiny bit of a border there so get that all stuck down you can use your double-sided tape I'm going to actually put my tape on here and then I'm going to put glue on the the paper as well okay so I'm just putting my glue just in this bit here and just along any bits where I feel I want to always cover it you can never have too much not when it's something like this just along the edges there really any that comes over I'll just use my rubber but I don't think that's going to be going anywhere and then start from one side because I've got a bit of wiggle room there because I've got that glue and check I get it exactly where I want it perfect and then just go over that and just make sure all the glue is spread out and it's all nice and fat and just lift it up just so you can see and just kind of use your bone folder just so you get a nice crease and again that glue because it's a tacky glue it stays quite like elastic so it will move all the time which is again good but everything now is concealed and you've got a really nice pace so now I need to do my corners and I've got a few I've got these little silver ones so whether I go for silver this time because they sit quite nicely on there or again go for the big gold ones but I think they are so I don't know because even really large still look good on a cute so it does look quite cute doesn't it all right I'm going to go for small just because they're different because I've used the big gold ones I've got some other ones there as well some plain ones and I've got somewhere some really like over the top ones but they wouldn't go with this but I've got little plain ones there as well now I'm going to go for one two three four and then I have got a hammer you can use pliers but I actually find a hammer is better and you have a bit more control with it on the last tutorial I didn't push record or I it didn't record or something so you actually get to see me do it properly this time but basically you just want to sit one over the top lie it all down flat you want to do this now before you've got anything in it for this reason so lie down flat push it right in butt it right up to the corner actually you want to turn it over doesn't matter because I've got the tissue but it's the other side you want to do you will see a perfect corner really really nice so you just want to go and do that on all four sides okay so there I now have my corners already it looks lovely so now we need to do our hinges okay so for the hinges you're going to need a piece of four and a half by five and three quarters so I've already scored and done this because I just wanted to check that it is all going to fit so along the four and a half inch side you just want to score every half inch so half inch one one and a half two two and a half three three and a half four flip it over and do exactly the same so this is just to really soften up the fibers in those score lines so that we can fold it in both ways so since the hinge it's going to be moving from left and right all the time okay so that's that piece then what you need to do is the two outer ones will be your single hinges every and then the other two in the middle will be our double hinges because obviously they'll be stuck together so what you want to do it doesn't matter really which side but you want to fold the first one up okay then you're going to leave one flat bring the next one up and then the next one down so you create so this one fold up this one stays flat and then you're creating this mountain or a valley as you're looking at it but it's a mountain fold it'd be that way okay then this next one is going to stay flat so this one here is going to go up and you're going to create another mountain fold and then the last one's going to be flat and then that very last one is going to fold up so you should have that shape if I keep it like that for a minute it looks like a heart rate okay so you want to have it peak here the outer bit and then it goes flat then up into a mountain then flat another mountain and flat and then on the back here where you've got those flat pieces just put an F and when you go to stick this that's what you want you want those three Fs to face you so then you know you stuck it correctly put a cross on the outer one and put another cross on that one all the empty ones are what we're now going to stick our tape to so just lie it down flat and I am going to this other score tape we've got the half inch one here and run it through and I always forget to do this where is it yeah quick way just to rip and get a perfect line I always rip it but I've ripped it for years so it's really hard to start doing something you know that you're not used to doing but I'm gonna try and remember because it is it's so so good I've seen a few people do this now and it it's also really quick as well there we go okay so just remove and where's my bone folder secure okay and again just for good measure some glue just down one side of the middle ones there and then you're just going to squash them together and the other two squash them together so now I've got those three Fs facing and then the two crosses so now when it's this way that's going to stick inside and they are our four hinges one two three four so just to make sure it's all stuck down nicely just fold it to one side burnish you can see some glue coming out the edges there so I know I've spread it all out fold it over to the other side in the other direction lots of glue but that means it's nice and stuck and then again with the other one just fold it in each direction just again just to get it used to the fact that that's what it's going to be doing this is 300 gsm which is 110 pound so it's you know it's the thick thick card so it can withhold kind of what's the word I'm looking for pressure and strain okay so that is now ready to go in and it's going to stick right in the middle so you should have a quarter of an inch from the spine where it bends here okay and then a quarter inch on this side and about half an inch from the top in the bottom there so I'm just going to again flip it over just like down flat and just pop sticky tape all on where it says f okay nowhere else just across the parts where it says f okay so just remove the backing and then I'm just going to pop glue across those three okay so again if I just pull up it's just on that bit there so you should have pop these back up we've just been flattened okay you've got your four facing up you put your glue on those three pieces there and then it doesn't matter which way up at the minute because these make no difference whatsoever and you just want to make sure I need to face this way I think that's better so pull it straight nice and tall and then you can see that's as good as I'm going to get it and then just again okay so there are our hinges ready you can see now the room that we've got so next we need to make our pages okay so for the pages you're going to need four pieces of eight and three quarters by six and along the eight and three quarter inch side you want to score it four and three eighths okay and then just fold that in half and that is going to give us one of our pages and this is a obviously a top um pocket page if you want to do the side pocket like my other tutorial revert back to that and just do that that one it's easy to do so I've already got my four there now what we want to do first is so I'm going to run my double sided tape along every side of these four hinges so on each side so that one and then turn it over and do the other side because each side of this is going to go over hinge okay and again make sure it's all stuck down nicely so and then your pages are going to open out like this we're going to stick that in there and then that's going to be stuck over like so so the hinge will end up being completely concealed if you want to distress anything you want to distress it now before you stick it all down and I would suggest that maybe you depends you might struggle decorating your pages unless you're going to do separate mats and stick the mats on top but otherwise you might want to decorate your pages now before you stick them but again watch the tutorial see what you've decided and feel that you want to do so you want your opening on the left hand side okay opening on the left hand side you're then going to run some tape just along the bottom of that left hand side so just down there okay and do that on all four pieces okay so that's all the four of them done and again just going to quickly just make sure okay so grab one of them and I'm going to start with the far right hand side one here and just take off the backing on both sides obviously don't push it over too far otherwise it will end up sticking to your other hinge just kind of hold it up there until you can pick it off okay now this is going to come over each end by one eighth of an inch okay so make sure by bringing up can you see it comes over the top of the hinge there by one eighth of an inch and it comes down the bottom just try and keep it as centered as possible once you put one in then you'll use that as your guide for your other three I'm just making sure that I've got an even kind of that peachy color paper there as well just an even amount of that showing but the bottom is flat on the bottom of the the case here but it right up to that hinge fold the hinge over so it sticks and then you can just fold that whole piece down over the top okay and then we have our first page okay so again on to the next one peel off my backing okay get the next page take off the tape there and again now I'm going to line it up with the page that I've just stuck down and again stick that side and then pop that one down so now we've got two pages and just do that on the other ones okay so there now we have our four pockets with our top our four pages with our top pockets okay so next we need to make the mats to go into those okay so I've gone ahead and I've just laid down there all of my mats so every page so you'll need eight pieces of four and one eighth of an inch by five and three quarters okay so eight pieces and then I've got my pocket mats here and the white actual main piece is three and three quarters of an inch by five and five eighths of an inch and then the mats on top there are three and three eighths of an inch by five and three eighths of an inch you'll need eight pieces of that obviously for each side and four pieces of the actual main piece of card okay so they sit in there nicely I'm going to finish that with ribbon probably put some eyelets on it as well but next I'm going to talk you through decorating your pages decorating the front the spine and the fastening okay so I have started decorating some of it I've still got more to do but if I just show you what I've done here I've got these um lilac colored uh nuvo drops I've used a little brad and I just cut the metal off there and stuck it down this was just in my little embellishment stash dry flowers I've got an enamel embellishment there and that's the leaves I've used in previous tutorials and then one of my little butterflies so I don't think I'm going to have a any wording on this I think I'm just going to keep it plain but I want to do something down on here as well but that's still coming to me I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet so what I've gone ahead and done is I've done four different pages and I'm going to repeat them again on the other four sides so then we've got our eight sides so this is the first one so it just opens up if you've got magnets obviously magnets will work fine I've actually run out and the tiny ones I've got are not going to work for this so I've just used my velcro dots but I've got one you could even use that mat as well even though it's got the velcro there but you've got three mats there to put pictures on and then that just closes then this one here opens up this way so again you've got two mats here and then we've got this page with two tags and you can put pictures on each side of those and then this back one here has just got this large mat so they're really simple ones for what I'm going to be putting in here um this is enough for me and then we've also got all of these ones in the tops here as well so I am going to show you how I make each one I'm going to make little tops to be able to pull those top mats in and out as well so first of all I've got all my bits here and I've already gone and decorated them all as well so I'm just going to talk you through each bit so this first one here is this one and I'll just grab my scoreboard so to make this one you need a piece that is 11 and three quarters by uh three and seven eighths of an inch so the reason I've got 11 and three quarters is because I'm using a four but if you've got 12 by 12 then just use your 12 inch length and then along that long side you want to score it three and a half and nine okay and then just fold over your two bits there and you'll have this pocket just opening now for all the mats and layers so for the top ones here you're going to need a piece of three and three eighths no three and five eighths of an inch by two and three eighths of an inch you'll need two pieces because to go on that side this pieces need one because this is going to be the bit that we glue down so this piece again is that three and five eighths of an inch width and then it is five and one eighth of an inch long and then this one again you'll need two pieces so it's that same width which was yeah three and five eighths that one's gone a little shorter but it's three and five eighths by three and one eighth do you need two of them stick them all down now this one I'm gonna put at the back because I'm kind of reverse the order now so I've got it at the front on this one but I'm gonna have it on the back on this one here so I have got my Velcro dots just make sure they are lined up just there there you go okay mine just meets on the 11 and a half inch length if you've got 12 inches then obviously you'll have a bit more there so then I just need to add my glue and I'm just gonna pop that one on this back page here you'll have a nice one eighth of an inch border all the way around just open it up like I said you'll probably have your you won't have stuck your pages in like I mentioned before so it'd be easy for you to do but I don't mind doing it this way okay so that is now that one in the back so that is all ready to fill with pictures so now the next page we will do is this one here so for that one you need a piece of nine and a half by five and a half and along the nine and a half inch side you want to score it three and three eighths and seven and five eighths of an inch again fold over all of your sides and the one that goes in will be slightly shorter just so it fits in there nicely and that's how mine's going to look so again I'm now going to do that on the second to last page that's going to be this one here and it's going to sit in like so okay so all the mats and layers for this one so the front so again you'll need two pieces of this one now I'm telling you which is five and three quarters by five and one eighth then you'll need one piece of five and one eighth by three and a half and then two pieces of again five and one eighth by three and three eighths because that one's slightly shorter whatever that is okay so that was going like that and again I've got my Velcro I'm just going to stick that one in the middle just stick that one on one side and then fold that one over side there it's going to open out since I looked you which way you want to have it depended on which way you stick down your card and if it's directional doesn't really matter whether it opens out to the left or to the right and again just lie that one down okay so then we've got that other one so again you'll have two of all of this everything I'm giving you you will do it twice because obviously that's the same pocket that I've got here okay that one I rounded off the edges that one I didn't I forgot but it still it looks fine so now the next pocket is going to be the same so these two are gonna mirror each other now because it's the middle so this piece here is grab my tags so this is just a little pocket and then tags so for the little pocket it's four and five and four and seven eighths of an inch by two and a half okay and you want to score along the four and seven eighths of an inch side at half an inch and four and three eighths and then along the short side you want to score at half an inch okay and then what we're going to do is just cut keep putting down my scissors I've been using and then I'm going to grab another pair anyway then you just want to cut right across the cross of the score lines there and again on that one and I'm just going to take a little wedge out of the top of each bit there fold and burnish all of your score lines okay and again I'm just using my Tombow just a little bit of glue that one in here and again just make sure you've got that even little one eighth of an inch border okay so here are my two tags so those are going to sit in I've got different patterns on different sides so again it all matches it's all from that same collection so they're going to go like so but I just show you just to how I do my little eyelets holes so you just need a hole punch and I'm just going to come in the tops there and then I've got some silver eyelets here and my pliers I'm just going to pop them in squeeze that on okay it gives you a really nice finish on your tags like so really really nice now and then I've just got the same yellow ribbon I'm just sticking with the same all the way through and this is again just purely decorative really you can use them to pull the tags out but there's there's not really a need to do it like that I'm just going to loop those through and then just trim so you got one longer than the other and again this just gives you a mini album a little bit of texture and a bit of something something and then those will now sit in there already to be filled with pictures that's a really nice center part there and then the last one I've got to do is just this other simple pocket which is the side pocket and this is a piece of two and a half by six and a half along the six and a half inch side you want to score at half an inch and that's six and then along two and a half you want to score at half an inch okay and you put this together exactly the same way as that smaller pocket that I just did so along the crossed score lines you're just going to cut then just take little wedges off the tops here and again just fold and burnish and pop the glue on the backs of all of those three sides okay and then again this one you can have it that way or you can have it that way so I've got mine out so I'm going to pop it back in again that same little border and then the mat to go on top or to go in the pocket even is a piece of three and three quarters by one two three four five and a quarter and then you'll need two mats to go on top so that's three and a half by five so in between four seven eighths and five but you'll need two of that to give you your little pocket there should go in there we go okay so that is that's all my pages done and you can see that it still closes nicely it's before I mean I have to decorate it I've got to put my embellishments on so it will bulk it a bit but there's so much room now to bulk that out with our photos now I'm going to next make some little kind of tabs to pull these in and out more because they do drop down further I've got them lifted out in the moment so I can easily get them and just show you how I decorate them and make a fuss thing okay so I have just gone and put some like flowers bits and pieces on there I'm still working on that but I've gone and put some mary card one-inch circle punches on the tops of every single mat picture mat from the top there and it looks not only does it look really nice seeing all those kind of silver bits popping up there but it does make it much much easier to just grab those and pull them out so that works really like that now I've been playing around with clasps I've also got this bow here which was part of this I keep saying kit but I'm going to pop that at the top there on the spine and then I'm going to have some little charms I've got where is it I've got this broken necklace here so I plan on doing something with this hanging down the side but I've been working on the closure so I'm doing something a bit different and I'm hoping it's going to work basically what I've done is I've cut two strips so a purple here is five and three eighths of an inch by one inch and then I've got the same pattern paper that was that I used for my cover so I kept a bit back and this is five and a quarter by three quarters I believe yeah stick them on top of each other so I've used my red tape and some tombo glue so it's nice and nice nice and nice it's nice and strong and then just use your bone folder so much stuff here and just roll it around like so okay and the idea is that this is going to sit an inch in on the back there and an inch in on the front now at the minute when I'm squeezing it you've got this all bubbling out but already mine's getting quite fat and it will allow it to expand and it will obviously completely straighten out so this is the test let's see if it works so I'm going to mark with a pencil on this back bit first at one inch now I'm going to stick it down initially and then I'm going to add the snap over the top which I'll talk through purely on the back it's decorative but it will also give it that extra secure that extra yeah it will make it more secure that's what I want to say so it definitely won't come off so I'm just popping my tombo glue here one inch in so just mark the pencil mark there and then you want to make sure it's in the middle and pop that on the back there now I guess if I was to do this again I've not done this closure before it's something I've thought up myself I would probably go in under this layer on the back here but I haven't which is why I'm going to make one of these snaps a decorative just you know piece just so it looks nice on the back I mean people aren't going to see this so much anyway but it does also look good so that's all stuck down just gonna give that a few more minutes okay now I thought I was going to do the cream let me just lie this one down so you can see I was going to have the cream in the middle there which I still might but I've also got it's not the right purple go light okay so after all that it's taking me ages I'm gonna go for white because I think it matches nicer on the front with the flower that's my thought and I've got such a white area here so that's what I'm doing I'm gonna go for it so you need so I'm gonna need a bit more here because the one on the back is just going to be decorative so for the front here for this to clip on to this bit here you'll need two of the ones with the points so the two male I guess in this case and then you will need and then you will have a male and a female here so this piece is raised up that one's inset so those will snap inside each other okay so two points and then a male and a female and then you will need for the back one another point and that one's just gonna snap straight in let me get to that in a minute I can't think I'm trying to do two things at once right okay so this one here again you want to come in about one inch I'm just gonna put a light pencil mark here check and rub out in a minute I just need a line there just so I know where I'm working so just put a light pencil mark just there so I know I'm within this area and it's going to be roughly there so the whole thing comes in about one inch but my actual snap is gonna be about half an inch in what's three quarters actually it's a one and a quarter I'm coming in apologies one and a quarter I'm coming in and then my cross is at three quarters of an inch in all right this cross here that seems to be right yeah okay so you need your really sharp pokey tool which comes with this kit I have used this in my laminating projects and all the links will be in my blog but carefully just go through this it is so sharp it's sharper than my Tim Holtz pokey tool so just go through both sides there so I can see that's come through well and then what we're going to do is pop in our I'm sure do this the right way yeah so your female so that's your male that's your female the female one and one of the points is what you need here so you put through this piece so it's nice and neat there and then this piece goes on top just pop it in place and then this is going to squash it together so this black like little tray is what you want to sit this disk in and it will kind of pop itself into place and then the rest just it just finds itself just make sure it's all nice and lined up so now that is squashed and what happens is the point gets squashed onto the top in that little well there you can just see it so that's my bit all in place there and then so that is now going to be gonna have to kind of eyeball there's my pencil mark give you the measurement okay so I now I've put across at half an inch in on this bit so again just make sure it's nice and centered and then you're just going to go through that again with your pokey tool I'm so scared with this one but it does really work it's so sharp and then again one of your pins goes in the top because you want that to be the nice bit from the front there and then your male piece is what you're now going to attach on the inner side and then again grab your pliers the dish is what the flat piece goes in once that's in place everything else lines up it's really easy to squeeze in but now you can see how that looks and hopefully it clicks in and already you can see and I haven't even got my pictures in I still got more embellishments to do but you can see how that is already starting to pull out because it's gonna probably end up being about there reckon so yeah I really like it I think it looks cute so now I'm actually questioning whether to even put it on the back I think it's gonna look silly I think I'm just gonna leave that I might put an embellishment or something but I'm just gonna leave the back it's entirely up to you if you want to do that or not I really like that I'm really pleased with that that's turned out few because that is the first time I've done it through that chipboard and using it on a mini album because usually I've used them in my sewing so I don't tend to use it with my paper crafts so much but I am starting to okay so now I'm gonna move on to my spine so I have got these bits here I'm just kind of taking bits apart I want this bit here and I'm gonna have it hanging down so far so I loved this necklace but I totally I caught it and it got ruined all that side got broke but that's gonna look lovely on something that middle bit there alone will look gorgeous but I'm just gonna use this bit for now but I want to cut off I need to get my pliers I'm just gonna remove that little hook there unless I do it that way up maybe that way I know that weighs more of a drop note yeah I'm gonna remove that bottom bit okay so just remove that and now this is all gonna be glue gunned on so the idea is that this is gonna hang down in fact I think I'm gonna just glue gun it all in place and have it like so okay I've just got some of my foam here and I've just cut a thin strip just a stick in the middle of that back of that bow and I've also used hot glue to attach it just so it's really really strong so that's just drying now and then I'm gonna peel off the backing of that and just line up this is gonna go probably should have done the spine before I done the front so I'm trying to hold that in place but so it's going to be so this is sat just below that green sprig there so just gonna pop a bit more hot glue on the back of this sit over the top of that there we go that looks gorgeous it sits nicely on the side that it looks visually it looks nice I love that and then it looks nice on the side view that I mean this is decorative this is once I filled it with my pictures this is just gonna sit on my shelf and I'm just gonna enjoy looking at it because I absolutely love it I think it's adorable so I'm gonna continue doing a couple more bits inside and then I think we're done okay so I think I'm done the extra bit I added I forgot to mention is I we got these like long strips decorative strips on the paper pads which you just you know punt like kind of pull out because they're just perforated and there was these ones here exact look perfect down there fact that love looks really nice maybe I should have used the love instead I might end up changing that so I think I prefer the love yeah I'm gonna change that so I'll do that now so basically you need a piece of this is three eighths of an inch should be fine by and it literally two of the one of this cutting half was exactly the lengths that I needed so again it just worked perfectly so the length that you need is five and three quarters I'm just gonna trim that so I've got a nice straight line and then I am gonna run just a bead of this glue just down there will be fine I thought the love one was gonna be a bit much but I didn't bother line it down but actually I prefer it to the other one so just pop that down there there we go so I've done one there one there that worked really nicely and then that one's the same as well so I've got those two and love which sits there so yeah I've got a flower on every page I may add a bit more once I start putting pictures down because once the photo is in place so for example here I might put a little message or another little tag or something there as well so yeah I think I think that's about all I need to show you today so I've got a bit of glue there which I need to rub off that's got this way made its way in there somehow but yeah I've got the rosette there which was just one in my stash I've talked through all of that this just clips in it's got a nice sound as well I just love that I know it's nice and secure and there you have it so I can't wait I'm gonna spend the afternoon now filling it with my photos and you'll see all that in the pictures so there hope you've enjoyed it my mini album tutorial and enjoy making them share your versions I always like to see them and have fun with it if you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye


Okay, name the slimes from the movie. Ready? Here we go. Here's the movie. Okay.  Isn't that from your scene? No. Hold on. My wife knows.  He's standing there, two guys, and they're at a motel.  Good films. No. Green book. Green book. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. That's right. Hey, welcome back to our SuperDirect. It's up Corbin. You can follow us on Instagram and Twitter. There's more juicy content. But subscribe if you haven't hit the like button, please. Thank you so much. Thank you all for supporting us on Patreon. There's watchlongs there for those of you who don't know. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but you can go check. Yeah. I mean, it might eventually hit the channel. Maybe. We'll see. We'll see. But today, what do we got, Rick? We've got swollen testicles. True. Because it's hot outside. So they're not only swollen, they're swampy. Okay, so this is a trailer from a 2021 film. Apparently, we missed the trailer for it. I don't know how. For this film last year? It's a thought about the video. What? By the same director as Beast. I remember hearing, I don't know how I missed the trailer. So I do apologize. No clue. Better late than never, I suppose. I have no clue. Because obviously it's a thought about the video. I don't know why. That would be weird for us to miss that. Yeah, I'm sorry. Maybe in like two years ago, but not last year. Yeah, I'm sorry. I have no clue why I missed this one. Sorry, guys. But it's the same director as Beast. Okay. And so this is a film called Doctor with thought about the VJ. Do all of his films have one name? Beast. Doctor. Master. Master. I doubt it. Yeah, I doubt it. If I made a movie called Master, I would create a sequel named Bader. Nice. But I honestly, one word titles usually just sound better as films. They do. Yeah. I mean, Green Book is not as strong as like. Inception. Penis. True. You know what? There should be a, well, the probably is, it's just. Don't search the film. Don't search that film. I do that with song titles though. I come up with song titles in my mind and I'm like, okay, I want to see if anyone wrote that song. And I put it into Apple music and search. Like I was certain there was, didn't I do this once on the channel, the dirty song? Yeah.  There wasn't. Not in the Apple music library.  No way. Isn't that weird? That is weird. There has to be one. Here we go. Hold on. Hold on. What the... That was Spanish. Okay. Sorry. It was being weird. Here we go. It was really strange. It was hearing Spanish. Oh. Nice red ball ad. Beautiful. Okay, bubble. 50 crores. Lose it. That's it. Lose it. Where is the girl who left the resort last night? She was at a different place. Let's go. To figure out how to dress up as an ice-cream shop, I rented a room. Nazir. I'm a doctor. Doctor. Ah, knew it. Doc or...? Are you okay, Dan? After finishing the song, I got stuck in my throat and got stuck in my throat. It's all the same, dad. Right, yeah, Nelson, same writer-director. Which great name, just a single name for directors. Always cool. Why doesn't Quentin go by Quentin? For the same reason Jack Nicholson doesn't just let himself be called Jack. Some people do. Yeah. When you say Jack, who do you think of? I think of Sparrow, actually. I think of my buddy Rich's son.  Yeah, I'm looking for, I don't see a VJ anybody. It says VJ. Hold on, let me look it up, Rick. I'm sorry, I thought it was Thotapathy VJ that was in it.  Forget the cast, I'm looking at just all of the filmmakers to see if there's anybody on the crew named VJ. Doctor, 2021. Ah, the cinematographer.  It's Dyslexia acting up everyone, I do apologize. It says Vinay. You've just watched Dyslexia in real time. It's true. That'll happen all the time. I'll look it down like that clue says VJ. VJ, I wouldn't look at it again. It doesn't say VJ, and I'm sorry. But I swear to you, in the beat, like in Beast, maybe it's just because maybe I was just misinformed just because it was the same director as Doctor. I thought people said that VJ was also in Doctor. I do apologize. Don't, you already have. You may know this, but you know Tom Cruise has Dyslexia and has talked about what he's done to be able to memorize lines because it's that difficult.  It's actually not memorizing really easy for me. Almost nothing to do with my dyslexia. Oh. It's really just a normal reading. So when you're reading a script though, don't you have to find some things and make sure you're seeing them the right way? Yeah, but obviously if I'm reading it, it all makes sense and I know what it says. It's really just a first glance. It's the first glance that really messes me. But yeah, memorizing's always been incredibly easy for me. Well, in English, if I have to memorize in a different language, that's a whole different thing. Obviously. Obviously. It's hard to do memorize in Spanish if I don't know Spanish. But anyways, it was cool looking trailer. Sorry, I was looking for VJ the whole time. Me too. That's not VJ. Does he have prosthetics? About halfway through, I'm like, I don't think this is him because I was waiting for him to appear and then I'm like, OK, no, that's the lead actor and that's not him. Nelson Dilip Kumar is the writer and director. Nelson Cleaner. And there's also Dilip Kumar, really famous Dilip Kumar. That's true. When his fiance's niece is kidnapped, a stoic army doctor and his motley team launch a rescue operation in which they need both wit and their wits. They've got some good action too. That's promising for a film like Beast, which I'm sure. And also, is Yogi Babu in everything? I feel like him and Subin. They're in everything now. They're in absolutely everything. If you need a good supporting actor, you're going to call Subin or Yogi Babu. Am I saying his name correctly? Yogi Babu? It's either Babu or Babu. So the accentuation, there's only two options. And also, this guy who I believe is also the composer for Beast.  Beast, yep. You saw it? Yep, right here. Oh, he's also... And Jersey. He's doing everything. I just released all my films in one week so I can be done, please. Well, man, he had a busy year. Good night. I guess it's... Man, I don't know because obviously I'm not a composer. So somebody of his stature probably has a whole team that he probably... He's kind of like Aya Ramon. Probably has a stumper. Maybe has final say. Maybe so, but... I mean, because if you've got... I mean, I know that... If you have the equipment to record, which I know these composers do, right? So I'm not a film composer, but there were days where when I was songwriting, if I had everything I needed because that helps with the inspiration, not just a single instrument. So like, if you have multi-tracking capability, you have a guitar, you have a keyboard, you have drum pads that can give you all these other options, I've written four songs in a day. So the output of creativity can be there if you've got the inspiration to pound it all out. I've also had sex four times in a day, so my output in pounding it out is also top-notch. That's good. I just want everybody to know. You ever yank it four times in a day? Oh my God. Yes. Me too.


If you're the type of person who trains really well, has great sessions for two weeks, and then has very remedial, pretty much painful sessions for two weeks, then you need to hear what I have to say. Hey everybody, I'm Lance Coyke, and today we're going to talk about an article that I wrote for TonyGentleCore.com. Tony was a dude that I watched, you know, read some of his stuff when I was coming up into fitness, and he taught me a lot. I learned a lot from reading his stuff. And now, you know, it's 12, 15 years later, and I wrote an article for his site. How cool is that?  This was a wonderful topic to talk about on Tony's site, because this is kind of a pet peeve of both of ours. The idea is people try too hard, and that holds you back. Now this becomes more and more important as you get more and more advanced in your training. The trainer doesn't really know how to push their body to the brink of its limits, its physical abilities. So you can kind of set PRs every week for your first maybe six months of training, and you don't have to push yourself terribly hard. The issue is when you have adapted, when you're stronger, higher levels of training wear your body down. You have the same body more or less. Your tissues have changed a bit. You probably have a lot more muscle, and maybe even some less fat. But your joints can only handle so much, and that's kind of the principle behind this.  Instead, what I'm going to try to pitch to you is you should prioritize technique and push yourself maybe one out of every four weeks. It's called periodization of training. Purposefully try hard one week, and then purposefully try easy one week, and then try somewhere in the middle the other two. Now I hear a lot that personal records aren't supposed to look pretty. And that's just kind of false. If you're really an experienced, that's generally true because the poop hits the fan, and you don't really know how to adapt to it, and so you lose all of the technique that you've built up because you haven't been building it for very long. But if you've been training for 10 years, and you're used to setting personal records, whether that be a 1RM or whether that be a 6RM or a 10RM, it's the best you've ever done for a given weight and rep range. If you're really experienced, you can hang on to your form, even through the hard reps. The problem here is that we spend too much time testing our strength instead of building our strength. If my goal is to squat as much weight as possible, I get fixated on this one rep maximum squat weight that I use because that's the measure that I'm using to tell me if I'm getting better or not. The issue is strength happens in various ways. We're kind of chasing force production, but we're measuring how much weight we can lift. And sorry, I hit my chord. And how much weight you can lift is only a representation of what your body has figured out how to do in any given day. So the example might be if I'm doing a deadlift and I pick that weight up and then I let my back start to round, that's not something I really want to practice. I don't want my back to round when under load. But if this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, I'm deadlifting in front of some very famous people and I'm trying to impress them, then I'll let you back around and that's fine as long as you get the lift. It's important to not conflate the weight that you're lifting with your actual strength. That's all I want to say here.  Like you have to say, you have to be confident that you're going to get it, right? And you have to kind of, you know, it's not going to be easy, but you need to stick with it. The problem arises when you say that all the time because you start to train this poor technique instead of reinforcing good technique and your body just doesn't know where you're trying to teach it to be during these heavy lifts. Now mindset is definitely an important piece of setting a personal record, but biomechanics is probably even more complex. There's a bunch of muscles.  There's all these nerves that control all of this. And even something as simple as like a lateral raise hardly occurs in isolation, even though we're tending to isolate a singular muscle group when we do that, i.e. the deltoid. If we don't know what to expect from the brain once a lift starts to get tough, then we tend to hyper-react to it. It's not even conscious, right? It's subconscious.   So yes, these technique changes generally allow you to lift a little bit more weight on that day in an acute short-term sense. But it does compromise joint position for longevity and even for long-term muscle gain. Instead of having inconsistent technique, I would I would suggest striving for consistent technique. Check out my graphs over here. So we've got this top one is showing us this is this is how we don't want to respond to a set getting tougher. We don't want our technique to be really good at like 40 or 50% of our one RM. You'll notice it's really low there at the beginning because we don't have any weight. We don't have any feedback. We're super stiff. We don't practice really good technique even in our warm-up sets. That's what that left part of the graph is saying. Then we get these easier weights and then we get to some harder weights and our technique starts to fall down. And then at some point, we just can't even do the lift. What we would like is 10 out of 10 technique through all 10 out of 10 sets and then eventually you just can't complete the rep. And I think that with enough time and enough discipline, you too can get there. Back maybe about seven years ago now, I was lifting really regularly and I was pushing really hard, but I frequently had setbacks and it wasn't until I really started to periodize my training, like purposefully take some days easier that I was able to get on top of anything. What I would do is I would just push too hard even if I didn't feel well and even if I already pushed hard last week and I would just break. I would break for two weeks and I would have two weeks of good training, two weeks of bad training, just this seesaw back and forth. So you make gains for two weeks and then you regress two weeks worth of gains and then you make gains for two weeks. It's just this perpetual vicious cycle that hopefully you will now avoid now that you know all of these things. So I wanted to talk about a couple examples of this first one that I think about when I think of technique changing during a heavy lift is a deadlift. Now it's definitely hard to nitpick anything when it's almost a thousand pounds. Watch this. So he stops and he leans back and he puts the weight on his leg. He's doing this so that he can get better leverage through. He can utilize his quads to straighten up a little bit more. He's bringing his hips closer to the bar, narrowing, not narrowing, but shortening the moment arm for that and giving his glutes better leverage to then help him lean back and stand up and he gets it, which is super cool. That's I mean, that's really heavy. Very impressive. I'm not nitpicking him. I think this was a testing day and this is good for him to do, but this is what it looks like. So I'm doing this every week. I'm probably not really training my lockout to the extent that I could be. Next one I want to talk about is really common in Olympic weightlifting and that is a forward weight shift when you're squatting. Now this is going to happen really quickly in this video, but watch her heels at the bottom. Bam. They come up. Okay. You can replay that if you need to. The idea here is I'm trying to stretch the knee and the ankle more because maybe I don't want to sit back so much and load the glutes and hamstrings. You see this a lot with newbies too, but you know, generally with a lot less weight and other parts of the technique are going wrong. Something like this is can be indicative of one, maybe I'm just getting used to this. Maybe there's a pattern that I've trained, which is really common in Olympic weightlifting, especially in the United States and in China too. Yes. They do that too because they have the ankle mobility, right? So they need to let the knees bend forward more so that they can get the stretch so that they can shorten back up. This can also be indicative of a posterior chain of muscle weakness. So glutes, hamstrings, lack of muscle strength can be the reason that I shift forward because then I can overuse the anterior chain of muscles. Something like this makes quad stiffness really common. So definitely check out my video on quad stretches and some better alternatives if you want some help with something like that. And if you have a weakness in a posterior chain of muscles like in the hamstring area, which is really super common, you might try exercises like Romanian deadlifts or even a good morning where you're trying to bow at the waist but not bend the back at all. All right. And then last one I want to talk about is the bench press torso twist. Now this one is a lot more complicated and it's going to be harder to see. So I have a couple videos for us to look at here. But I think this is, you know, the stuff we've watched up until now has been very symmetrically focused, which is easier to see when we start talking about this. But the real world is asymmetrical humans are asymmetrical. So we got to kind of consider that. So this first one, not to put this guy on blast. This one is a little bit weaker of a weight. They're doing 135 pounds as many reps as they can and you'll watch, you can see it there. It starts twisting, but watch his left pec in relation to his right pec. Look at that. And so it's coming up away from the bench and the right shoulder is falling down toward the bench. That is just, that is a torso twist. And if I'm, now this is a testing day. So again, I'm not putting them on blast. You go for it. Get what you got to get. But if I'm doing this as a training, you know, I'm doing this every week when I'm training my bench press, then I'm practicing bad technique. Next one is another one. So you see this a lot in like, I see this some in really heavy weights, but generally if, if somebody is pretty advanced in heavier weights, then they don't, they don't get stuck so easily. They don't get falling back. They don't get stuck falling back into these bad techniques.  And you can, you can do some sort of like contortion to shift the load, maybe only to your triceps and alleviate the load on the pecs. And then you can get another rep. And so you're going to do that. So that was pretty good. He's starting to flare his elbow out though. You see that? Yeah. Come help. So that's not too bad. But the thing that I want to demonstrate there is that the elbows will fly out on something like that. All right. Let's do another one. This guy does a few more reps, but you can also see a little bit of the elbow flare and the chest turn kind of starts right there. Yeah. Yeah. And it just progressively turns and turns and turns. So he's holding that together pretty well, honestly, but you still have even this. Well, obviously, I mean, that is your PRs don't look pretty rep, but you'll see the sternum turn slightly even on the last like five reps or so. And even something as subtle as that is not exactly what we want to train, right? Now I mentioned before, like PRs don't look pretty. They could look pretty pretty. But for something like a 20 rep max, they're probably not going to look very pretty. And then one last video here. How hard to nitpick a 675 pound bench press? Just take a look at it. Like, watch, see how real that is. This guy is very, very advanced, has a lot of experience training. And when he gets a PR or a really heavy rep, it still looks pretty good, right? Now the torso twist during the bench press is pretty tough to fix. You might want to consider some dedicated shoulder mobility exercises and link up here for a follow along circuit that you can do. Or, you know, even some unilateral type exercise in the lower body still provides this asymmetry in the upper body as well. So something like a split squat link up here for my way too much information on the split squat, if you want to learn more about that. Just remember, you need to be disciplined about your technique when you're exhausted. Now to wrap us up here, I want to reiterate that it is OK to try hard on your sets. Like, you can't just do nothing and expect progress. But you need to be as mentally disciplined about your technique as you are physically disciplined about your effort that you're putting into your lifts. To finish this off, I'm just going to read some of these guidelines for building strength that I find useful. Test strength at most one out of every four weeks. Quote, testing strength does not mean a single rep maximum, but a max effort for the preplanned training program set and rep scheme. That means I'm not going off plan, I'm doing what is planned. Train like a bodybuilder, aim to feel the right muscles working. Using less weight doesn't mean you're de-training. Strength can fluctuate up to 18% in either direction on any given day. Don't forget to de-load your training one out of every four weeks. Don't forget to train endurance, even if your goals are strength oriented. And use cardio to speed up your recovery from strength workouts. Check out a cardio workout. If I still have links left, I'll link to a cardio workout up here. And remember, spend more time building strength rather than testing strength. That's going to be it for me. Thanks so much for watching slash reading slash listening. If you learned something, hit the like button and subscribe to be notified when I release new videos. If you need something else to watch while I link to a bunch of stuff during this video or I mentioned it all, so I'll just leave some of it here.


One of the biggest things is challenge. I just I love the challenge of being outside The mission of the outdoor leadership program is that we help students to learn how to facilitate outdoor experiences for others So that they can grow in their Christlikeness We teach them skills that they'll need to do to facilitate those experiences But they also need to know the why behind it. Why do we even Feel like the outdoors are a vehicle for that growth and development in our faith It offers students the ability to grow in their character There's something to be said about when you're Trudging through, you know, too fee of snow and it's freezing and you know, you're having a soak camp and Just that when you're really challenging environment helps with character development for sure And as well as their leadership development throughout scripture from from Genesis to Revelation you will see many examples where God uses his creation to shape and mold people and to to build their character to help them Ultimately be upgraded to the call that these put on their life People often say when I'm outside I Experience God more and that's that's pride You know That's above everything else. That's why One of the ways that you you're familiar with chemistry where you catalyze a chemical reaction Ignited if you will one of the best ways to catalyze Deep relationships is in the struggle of mother nature My greatest hope for our outdoor leadership grads is that they represent the kingdom well in the outdoor industry We can use wilderness to Transform the world