Do Christians have authority? If so, what type of authority do we have? Human beings, whether young or old, male or female, no matter what part of the world they're from, would like to know that they have some sort of a power, some sort of ability. That's why sometimes we oftentimes fantasize as young children that we're this superhero, we're that superhero that we've got powers. And as we get older, if you get at us a little bit of power, what do we want to do? We want to exercise that. We want people to know that we have power or authority to either do or say certain things or to cause certain things to happen. The question is, though, as a believer, do we have that authority? Sometimes, though, we get a little too ahead of ourselves and we'll look at a passage and cause that passage to be reflective of us, as though God is speaking to us in this passage, because we have a desire to be more than what we really are. One such passage is Matthew 10-1, where Jesus summoned his 12 disciples and gave them authority over clean spirits to cast them out and to heal every kind of sickness and disease. Now, later on in the passage there's these other 70 who are with them and they said that even the the demons are subject to us. Now, it's not sure as to if they were given some sort of authority or just the mere fact that they are with the disciples or the fact that they are walking in the name of Jesus and presenting the gospel, if that's what the demons were kind of just backing up from and they could kind of see that, because it doesn't tell us, for example, that they actually cast any demons out. It just says that the demons were a subject to them and so it'd be probably a leap to make too much of that, but clearly he's given this power to the disciples. As a matter of fact, we don't see a lot of other people using or exemplifying some sort of power that was given to them by God. Now, one passage that people will go to to say they have some sort of power would be Mark 16. So, let's go there, Mark 16-17. This passage, if you were to take the longer ending as to be canonical, meaning that it belongs, and again, there are different endings to this passage that's debated. We won't cover that. There's even a longer ending than this. There's a couple shorter endings. So, let's just go for the sake of this. Deal with this passage. These signs will accompany those who believe, and in my name they will cast out demons. They will speak with new tongues. They will pick up serpents and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them and they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. The problem is, again, is how much of this is for us. It was always taken early that this passage, that whether it was added or it's canonical, is still referring to the apostles because we see them showing all of these where we did not see all of the believers, even in the early church being able to do so. One good example is when they call for Peter to come to heal the woman. Well, these are believers. Peter didn't tell them, you should have just healed her. No, he goes. And there are times where the apostles themselves can't even do it themselves. So, I think the power that we have, the authority we have, is only that that is given to us by God. And I think that's really the more important thing that we have to do. Remember, Paul makes this point in Philippians 2-12. He says, So then my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. He says, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. This has nothing to do with being, say, in a view of your salvation, now work. And here's the important part. For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to do, on start to will and to work for his good pleasure. In other words, it's God who's working. So, whatever is happening, whatever power that may actually come about as God is using you, he's just using you as a vessel. But for you to believe that you have some sort of power or some sort of authority, no, that would be a step too far. You do have the authority to speak boldly the gospel. But that's really it.  That's the only benefit that we have. That's the only power that we have, the only authority that we have. We have the authority to be called sons of God, those of us who have been, who have received the Spirit, but even receiving the Spirit, that's the work of him and not of us. And so, sometimes we might get too ahead of ourselves thinking that we've got the authority, the power to do whatever we want. As a matter of fact, one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible is Philippians 4.13. I can do all things through him who strengthens me. No, the point is, not that you can do all things, the point is, as Paul says, if we go back and read it earlier, he says that he's been up and been down. He's been in all these different circumstances, and he's learned to be content. And what he has learned is in all these things I can do, because it's Christ who strengthens me. Christ has given me the strength, the ability to go through whatever it is, even though I don't want to. It's not that Paul had or you and I have the authority or the power not to have these happen to us, not to allow these things to happen. No, we don't have that kind of power. We don't take dominion over this earth, and some will go back and say, well, God said to have dominion and subdue it. He didn't mean that you actually rule over it. You can control things. You can control the supernatural. No, that's not what you can do. All you have the authority to do is whatever he gives you, the authority to do or the power to do. And it's not you, but it is God working in you. As a matter of fact, one passage, another passage that's always taken out of kind of out of context is in Matthew 18. And this is even with the apostles, the disciples.  Some verse will say, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.  The perfect tense is a completed action that's happened in the past.  And so you will have, at least in their case, the ability to declare what heaven's already done. In other words, they're going to have some sort of insight, but they're not actually doing it themselves. In fact, with the case, they would have just bound the devil and lived happily ever after. They don't have that sort of ability. Neither do you or not. We don't have the ability to bind the devil. And so forth. Because if we did, if we've got the ability to bind them, well, then someone certainly has the ability to loose them and they keep doing so. He gets bound every Sunday, where every time there's a group of Christians to get together, but someone is either binding him either too loosely, leaving the back door open, or someone is going back. Maybe you ought to bind all the demons. The fact of the matter is we don't have those sort of abilities. We want to, but Paul tells us not to think more highly than we ought to, but be so reminded in our thinking. So we do not have any sort of special powers except that we are in him. We have the authority to call on our father in time of need. We have the authority to proclaim his gospel boldly and that's the extent of it. But guess what? That's really all we need. We have the authority to come to him boldly through the throne of grace. We have that. And again, that's all we need. If we would just rest in that instead of trying to figure out how much authority, how much power we have, I think we would probably be a little bit better, a little bit better off, a little happier, a little bit more content than we are trying to figure out why does our supposed power, why is it not working? Amen.


He's 17. Huge moments in the context of the championship. No doubt about that. Really has been a spectacular night of World Cup Speedway. Heat number 17. Takes her up and we go to the first turn. Doyle's made a really good start for a straighter off the inside. Dan Buley's there. Certainly here we go with Rasmus Jensen once again in the thick of the action. He goes charging up the inside. Jason Doyle there, hanging onto the front. Here comes Rasmus Jensen. Buley around the outside. Certainly a collage. Not out of it, but he's at the back. Buley now. Certainly now beginning to work the bike. He hits the front. Does he type for the lead? Doyle's going to run him one and turns three and four. He does. Buley now. Getting dropped back to the inside. Oh yes, there's something inside. How on earth did Jason Doyle hang onto the lead? I tell you what, Jason Doyle did everything right for his country there. But now it's getting tight again. Buley's up the inside this time. Jason Doyle is really soaking up the pressure. But Dan Buley again up the inside. Doyle out in front. Hanging on by the skin of his teeth. Buley following him through. Oh, it's tied in. He runs in the back of him. Kawajes at the back. That's going to allow the lead for Team Great Britain with three races to go. But Doyle is written down like a champion. He hangs on. Rasmus Jensen back in third. And the switch of riders there for Poland didn't work. Tough on Kawajes coming in a heat 17 for your first ride. He wasn't out of it, but crikey it was a tough race. How on earth Jason Doyle hung on there? I just don't know. Three points for Australia with Jason Doyle. Two points for Team Great Britain with Dan Buley. Rasmus Jensen, one point for Denmark. And the honest Kawajes misses out for Poland. And the couple of point lead now for Team Great Britain with three races to go. Three points for them. 26 for Poland. Australia on 24. Likewise Denmark. What a race again here. I tell you what, Jason Doyle did fantastically well to soak up the pressure. He soaked up for the entire four laps was unbelievable. Rasmus Jensen just sneaking up the inside there. Looks like he's going to have a run on Doyle as well as Buley with Kawajes at the back. Tough for him coming into this race in heat 17 for his first ride. Dan Buley threw absolutely everything at Jason Doyle. Really winding it up around the outside. Just lifted there. Lost a little bit of momentum. Now cuts back up the inside of Jason Doyle. Again grabs a little bit of extra grip which just makes him get out of the throttle. Meanwhile Rasmus Jensen is putting everybody under pressure up the inside. But Jason Doyle just kept making all the right moves. He would turn left, right, around the inside, around the outside. Unbelievable ride. Very determined character. Jason Doyle and it was on display there. There's no question about that. And there's the standings once again. The two point lead for Great Britain. 28 points. 26 for Poland. Australia on the 24. Denmark the same. So Anders Thompson comes in here. Has a replacement. Dominic Kvera for Poland off the inside gate. Gate number two for Australia is Chris Holder. Great Britain out of gate number three. And Anders Thompson coming in here for Michael Mickelson. Off the outside gate for Denmark. Just four points in it between first and fourth. So easily could turn around. But Great Britain have got their noses in front once again with three races to go. Can it be their night? Started so well. They've hung tough for so long. Wuffendon has had an up-and-down night. Literally an up-and-down night. Two wins, two lasts. P-18 were away. Great start off the inside by Kvera. He fires himself to the front. Chris Holder into second place. Round the outside. So Wuffendon now coming through. But he's relegated back to third. Certainly there. Anders Thompson now coming through into second place. A fine ride for him. Wuffendon trying to land a row into third place. For Poland, they'll close right back in on Team Great Britain. If it remains the same, Kvera out in front. Thompson coming on strong in second place for Denmark. Yeah, Thompson's really got the bike hooking up. He's stealing a march down there. It's all Kvera there. Off the fence. Great job for him to chop back across. And now Tyle Wuffendon's got the bike working up the inside. Oh, that's getting close. Very tight indeed for second and third. But out in front, Dominic Kvera being a hero for Poland here. Anders Thompson hanging tough back in second place. Wuffendon trying everything he knows back in third place. But Poland are surging back. They've responded. They've got two points down coming into this race. They're now going to be all square at the completion of Heat 18. Breathless stuff once again. Brilliant start from Kvera. And just look what that means to him. Truly stunning speedway again. All square between Great Britain and Poland on 29. Back on 26. Look what it means to the fans, Chris. They're just overjoyed. Unbelievable scenes. Dominic Kvera, fine ride. Three points for him for Poland. Anders Thompson for Denmark, two points. Tyle Wuffendon and Great Britain won. Chris Holder in Australia missed out there in Heat 18. That was a vital win for Poland. Really was. Wuffendon is now leading the race. He's got a good start from Wuffendon. He's had a... The last three races got one point as the standings. As we've got two races to go to determine who's going to be the Speedway World Cup champions of 2023. What a time to win your first race. And off the inside gate that's exactly what Dominic Kvera does. He explodes off the start. Both his legs out away from the bike. Trying to get all of his weight down on the seat there. Wuffendon draws up the inside. Looks like he's going to comfortably get himself into second place on the opening lap. But Anders Thompson has other ideas. And it's difficult to get up the inside of Anders Thompson. Been riding around the curb in all of the races so far that he's had in his semi-final. And of course the final here tonight. But Tyle Wuffendon, one point from him as you say. Kelvin he struggled in the latter part of this meeting. But it's all square at the top. It is indeed. It's looking like a shootout between Great Britain and Poland. There's a chart around the stadium. The Polish fans charting Polska, Polska. And that man certainly doing the business for his country in the very last race. That's for sure. Heat number 19 then. Drama here in the Olympic Stadium in Wroclaw. That's for sure. Liam Mattson for Denmark goes from the inside gate. Bartosz Marchek for Poland, gate number two. Gate number three for Australia is German Lidzi. And off the outside, Dan Buley who has replaced Adam Ellis here. The team, Great Britain. What a moment for Buley to try and bounce back here. But crikey. Crikey. Bartosz Marchek has been truly outstanding here for his country this evening. Poland have had a tough night. Probably harder than they expected. Possibly looking at Australia or Denmark, particularly after last night who could be there to close this threat. But Great Britain have been outstanding tonight. They've done themselves proud already tonight. Every chance of a gold. Here we go then. Heat number 19, the penultimate race of the night. Possibly could easily be a race off here this evening. Tapes up, underway. Mattson's made a good start off gate number one all. That was an untidy run there with German Lidzi getting shoved out of the way. Buley ran the outside of Smalsik. That's very important indeed. Smalsik now trying to respond. But Mattson's in front. Buley coming through in the second place. Bartosz Marchek hanging off the back of the bike. Straight line to the corner, up into second place. Buley now reads it. Back up the inside. Beautiful speedway from Dan Buley. But Smalsik, you know it's just going to get absolutely everything here. I think that was a bit of a mistake there from Dan Buley as he jumps back. But Smalsik using that little bit of grip to shoot himself into the corner. Leon Mattson doing fine work there out front for Denmark. Possibly not going to be enough for them. But here comes Smalsik again. Unbelievable speedway here in this speedway world cup. Leon Mattson out in front. Bartosz Marchek has had to right. So how beautiful is it to get tight through the last corner. Smalsik responds, slams the door shut. Leon Mattson. What a ride on Bartosz Marchek. They lead. Going into the last race. How hard did he have to ride to get the better at Buley? Sensational speedway once again in heat 20. Mattson are fine right out in front. But all the fireworks were going on behind him with Bartosz Marchek and Dan Buley with Poland. Going to heat number 20 with one point lead. 31 points to 30. And Denmark on 29 just two points out of it. Leon Mattson three points for Denmark. Bartosz Marchek two points for Poland. One point for Great Britain with Dan Buley and Jamie Lidzi in Australia. Well, it's a shootout for Gold here. In heat number 20. A three-way shootout for Gold in heat number 20. Poland, Great Britain and Denmark. Which way is it going to go? Well, heat 20 could decide this world championship. Of course it might come down to heat 21. Every chance. See it once again. A three-way shootout for once again. Leon Mattson just making the inside gate work. Very, very well to fires himself into the front round the first turn. But they got very tight there between Marchek and Lidzi. It looks like at this point that Dan Buley is going to have a good run around the outside. Marchek pushing him, pushing him. You can see Leon Mattson having a look over his right shoulder. What have I got to do? Have I got to move out? Have I got to creep around the inside? But Marchek battled for the last two laps tirelessly. And he manages to get the two points and give Poland a one point lead going into the final. How hard did Buley make him work? He responds superbly well here but Smalsik read it very well indeed. Buley running wide there and Smalsik being able to chop back to the inside. He covers every angle there. Off the fence, on the inside, on the curve. They go into the last race with a slender lead of one point over Great Britain. Only two points over Denmark, Australia. Unfortunately, they are just down to four riders. It's not going to be their evening. But Leon Mattson certainly doing the business here. What a conclusion we are looking forward to here in heat number 20. There is a change. Nicky Pedersen comes out of the lineup and Anders Thompson comes in here for Denmark. And the responsibility now. How much pressure is on their shoulders? Unbelievable. Robert Lambert for Great Britain off the inside, gate number two for Denmark is Anders Thompson. Mattson Janowski for Poland off a gate number three, a maximum for Australia off the outside. Janowski hasn't been in great form this year but what a moment for him. He lives here, he rides for the club and he hits the front, it's theirs. If he hits the front. But Robert Lambert has been in sparkling form. Heat number 20, Lambert has made a great jump. Superb stuff from the outside from Frick as well from Australia. They fire themselves to the front but Lambert is in a second place. Handy here, could get very tight and then it remains like this. It could well be a runoff for the gold here this evening. Robert Lambert elects him to go right round the inside and follow him. Janowski going to the back now with Thompson coming into third place. This is going to get tight. Janowski is riding out wide, we haven't seen too much of him doing that. Robert Lambert is now looking for a way for, he's going to get pinned down on the inside, gets awfully closer to Max Frick and Janowski is right behind him. Indeed he is, Max Frick there out in front. Here we go to a race of Janowski. Janowski now on the inside. Frick down the back straight, can do Robert Lambert do anything about it. Max Janowski is going to make himself a hero. Here we go, a poll at the World Champions. Unbelievable sees here in the Olympic Stadium. Incredible speedway meeting and Max Janowski has had such a difficult time. Gets the better of Robert Lambert with a hard break for Team Great Britain. You've got to feel for Harkable scenes. Anders Thompson just out the back. I'm just looking out of our commentary window the Polish fans are hugging each other.  Hard break for Great Britain but Poland unbelievable. I don't think, I've got no voice left. I need to lie down a bit. I do indeed, but Krajki would an artist's speedway. It's been a nervous night for them. They have so much pressure, so much expectation in this championship. For Max Janowski, you can see in his eyes. He's had such a difficult time in the Grand Prix. But there he found the extra, he found what he needed. Smars that played his part. Dominic Cabera of course with that fine ride and heats number 18. So disappointed for Great Britain.  Just come up short. Two points in it, 33 points for Poland. They are the world champions. Silver goes to Great Britain on 31. Bronze will go to Denmark on 29 and Australia on 27 just miss out.


What's up beautiful? So today we got a classic coming for you. We got a bleach fill reaction video You guys have all been requesting this so much lately. You guys are like bruh. Where's the classic bleach fill reaction videos? Like we've been seeing a lot of different stuff and I think you guys want the classic so I'm gonna bring you the classic I was planning on not making a reaction video today because listen I don't like over to the reaction video thing like I get it it gets a little annoying sometimes you guys still love Them and I really appreciate that I love making them a lot, but I want to show you that I'm not a one-hit wonder Sometimes you know that I can do more than reaction videos So I try to always come up with interesting content for you that has to do with hair Which isn't always the easiest thing to do, but I really really try to do it The only reason I'm talking about this right now is because I sat down for the last week and tried to come up with new concepts and None of them are just good enough for me and the real reason for all this is because I have the launch of X Mondo my own hair care brand it is not hair color it is not Anything else that you thought it was it is hair care products. I'm so excited It's been in the works for oh so long and now it's it's happening in seven days It's gonna be launched and I'm really excited and I just want you to know that I do care about you guys And I want to make the content as amazing as possible, but just give me a second I posted a glimpse at the first X Mando product on X Mando hair and Instagram and I'm very excited about it It'll be linked below if you want to see the glimpse of the product being released And if you guys want to get your hands on the first round of products being released on X Mando hair comm Then sign up for the newsletter, which will tell you exactly the time and date. It's released and Stay tuned for the launch video.  Let's watch some videos. Oh My god, by the way, my hair has faded so much I've watched it like twice and my hair just wants to be blonde apparently, but I'm not hating on this color actually All right, our first video is by a guy named rain jerry Let's see what's happening bleach hair fail hair falls out not clickbait amazing But also not amazing at the same time. Let's watch it Hey Okay I'm gonna guess it's the second option based on this title. Call me the psychic twins or me not Today, so this is my natural color right now I was gonna say what okay his hair already looks compromised to start It's not looking too healthy, but not bad. Don't hate it. Definitely don't love it But don't hate it. Don't think it's a bad color. Just looks dry as hell Oh girl, good luck The strongest bleach ever Besides like bw2 Let's review we have quick blue, which is Battery acid and we have 40 volume, which is battery acid. Wow. That's a lot of strength That'll lift black box. I have somebody's hair that was bleached their hair box I five hundred times over and over again that will lift anything out of hair and his hair It's already light and you can tell it's already dry already set up for a disaster. Definitely. This was definitely not clickbait That's it's definitely true title She's We are that's good because for this It's better to use a thicker consistency for sure. It doesn't dry out as easily All right. Well, here we go. He is starting to bleach his hair Oh, yes, he also seems to be going right on those roots, which is a horrible idea I mean, he would have known not to do that if you watch literally just one like Hair dresser do a double process on YouTube like it would have taken the least amount of research To know that you're not supposed to do that literally five minutes of research What I've told him that tell me at home why you shouldn't bleach the roots first because I've went over this a thousand times What? That's right because you have heat coming from your scalp a lot of heat You don't want to go and bleach the root first because it's gonna make it really warm It's gonna process way faster than the mids and the ends. So I'm gonna do yeah Highly doubt it Highly I'm I lost my words because I'm just trying to figure out what went right Because it all pretty much went wrong Basically all of it. Oh my god. Let's review We got yellow roots Check we got black spots because he didn't bleach every strand because he just mush around the bleach on his head then we got overly process ends to the absolute Maximum maximum like I don't even know how these things are still on his head I cannot wait to see if he bull drives it because that is gonna be a little bit funny It's a little bit to me a lot painful to me and a lot funny at the same time, but oh No, and he said he cut an inch of it off I'm ready to keep watching No, no, please do not tell me he's gonna put black box on his head Please do not tell me first of all his hair is gonna go green cuz you need to fill the hair first before you put black over it It's put red on it or orange whatever because there's no pigment left in the hair at all It's white and also these ends are not gonna hold any color because they're so porous the color We'll just completely fall out of the hair strand. It will not stay in there There's no hope for those ends.  It's just gonna make your hair a little healthier No, it's not Catch that. Um, I'm glad my hair is still intact. It's all fine Two seconds later when I run my hands through it. It does all fall out. I Need to see oh look plex is not gonna help you My baby also Please I hope you made money off this video I mean that that your hair is done like dawn like it would never once like breathe again Like it's just dead.  Uh, your hair is never coming back to life I'm so sorry. Is that a harsh? Good, okay. First of all, I can't see anything because on a black background. I'm upset. Okay. I'm Really confused. This has been the weirdest craziest video. First of all It doesn't look that bad And I don't know how he got it black with black box dye when it was so white That's this is like not how hair is supposed to work. You're not really lucky. Also.  It's not magic It is just science it it multiplies bonds in your hair as you're breaking them and bleaching them This is not olaplex's fault Okay, tea. Yeah, it's probably not real I'm pretty sure olaplex does not sell on amazon and that is fake olaplex. Oh There you go. There you have it. I'm done watching this video. That's that's that Also, just in general the whole thing went wrong because he's 40 volume with quick blue And then use fake olaplex all around messy situation. Let's watch another one So this one is by Shantrinas, uh, and this is I bleached my hair. Hey guys a long time no see. I know it's been What's up? Shani trust Shantra Shantrinas Santrina Shantrinas Hair video or at least what works for me. So I hope you guys enjoy it quick blue bleach That's one of my favorite bleaches. We're back with the quick blue volume developer. This time. We're doing 30 volume developer Probably still not a good idea with quick blue. I would recommend 20 to play safe My hands are already colored. I don't need to lighten them that much So I'm just kind of try to avoid that area until the very end that we get a nice even bleach I wanted to the shaft down first and then go back to do your roots because your roots process the fastest So you want to do those last and this is the first time that I've done it that way I thought this would be bad, but it's actually pretty good. We'll have to see what happens okay, so we're making progress and It looks to me like her ends are getting a little bleach Which is concerning because curly hair natural curly hair is very very dry And if that gets over processed those things are gonna burn off like they're gonna be like bye. I will see you Never again. So I've just washed out my hair What's going on for you to what I'm gonna see you want to take off me too, girl I'm seeing orange and this spot Lord help me. This is actually really good. Oh my god. This is really good you guys. Okay, perfect Right now my hair is a yellowy Wait What pretty good. That looks pretty good. Okay. All right. Let's do what she doesn't say about it So I'm I'm really amazed honestly. I've never gotten an even Bleached job like this, but this is perfect for what I need it for. Okay. So this is what we're working with now um, I have decided to Give my hair a break and wait until tomorrow to finish the dyeing and bleaching process. What are we doing? What is the plan here too much for my hair? So, okay, so here's a follow-up video. This is her the next day Whoa, that's some hair. Oh, yeah Lion roar And she's going purple Okay, see I didn't get this this at first. I didn't know she was going purple and pink This isn't gonna be like the worst thing ever except the purple is gonna mix mix with the orange Which is not gonna be a cute color. The hard part is over the color part. I mean anyone can do this, honestly We are going in with the purple It's looking snazzy is Fudge. Yes. I hope that it comes out just like that. I genuinely want to see her hair Look amazing, but her hair is orange and she's trying to put purple over it. So hopefully it's gonna work out Okay, I think it may be okay. Just because this purple is pigmented, but you never know Okay, now she's applying that pink to those ends, which is looking So good. I think the pink ends are gonna look amazing because our ends are pretty lights Already, there is some overlapping going on with the bleach. You can see there's like some spots that are whiter I think that they might give you kind of like a nice variation of color. I hope it really comes out good I'm so excited for it because I really love natural hair and I want to see it Look all gorgeous and purple and pink. Oh, these are really pretty colors together.  I should be the victim of my own hairdress reacts video today. Honestly. She's so excited SICKINING Yo, what? That looks so Beautiful. Wow, and her curl is still like completely intact. Oh my god. Yes, this Wait, this might be the most beautiful color I've ever seen on somebody in a self-done Hair video. Yo, I could Never it looks perfect and I take back everything I said No, I mean it was looking a little crazy before but she looks so good If you're watching please let me cap this color.  It's just amazing and that's not even being dramatic I'm not a dramatic person at all But this looks amazing All right, you guys that is all for today. I hope you thoroughly enjoyed watching these people I mean that guy first first of all that guy in the beginning. Oh boy. I feel bad for you Like that was really bad. This girl not so much feeling bad feeling really good feeling like wow. She looks amazing And please do not bleach your hair at home. Just don't because it's never a good idea It's not easy to do at home. I hope I don't look as crazy as I think I do right now But I probably do. All right, you guys I just moved houses last week. I'm gonna finish unpacking my house Again X mondo is released in seven days So make sure you look out for that follow X mondo and me on instagram if you guys want updates Thank you so much for watching today new creative content coming very soon. I promise just give me seven more days And you'll be seeing some cool stuff. Okay. Thank you guys for watching today. Don't forget to live your extra life and I will see you all Next time when my hair is painted more peace I gotta do my hair again. Honestly. I gotta figure this out Honestly kind of a luck though. Should I go blonde or should I keep it like this? I'll probably keep it. All right. Bye


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. I'm going to be showing you how to make a large rocker card. Now I've made one of these before, slightly different and I will share the link to that one now. This one is more of a simplified version again. These are very very easy to make but they have such a good effect and then they just rock. So it's really like I said dead easy to make, you just need to kind of make sure you've got things balanced so that when it stops rocking it doesn't go off to one side like that. Other than that you can do whatever you want on them. So I'll show you the papers that I'm using in a minute but I've made the rosettes. Just covered it in sequins, I've got a nice little bow here. I've used some glossy accents here just to make that happy look more like an embellishment. I've got little puffy stickers there for the bunting and then you just open it up and you write your sentiment inside. I do need to stamp there as well but I'll do that on another time when I know what I want to do. So yeah, this is what we're going to do and I've made a nice big envelope for it as well so everything matches really nicely. So the papers I'm using today are these really fun ones by First Edition and this is Beach Life by Hell's Couple Ditch and she's done some amazing papers for TrimCraft. So yeah, these ones are lovely. Lots of glittered ones. You get four glittered designs and it's just really nice. I made my screen fold card using papers from this as well which you can find amongst all my tutorials. So just to give you a little, I mean look at that one there. Can you see all the shimmer on it and that's all your icicle popsicles even and ice cream and all that kind of lovely stuff. Really fun little critters on the beach. Just some nice like beach hut kind of texture there. You've got the one with the shells, polka dots, more little critters on there, deck chairs. This one is the one that I used for the background behind the happy birthday there and the polka dot I used and that green that I showed you before. Then you've got buckets and spades, more beach huts and this one again is really really cool and that's all the rubber rings there. So it's some really really fun, great for the holiday season now especially if you're into doing scrapbooks these would make perfect scrapbook layout papers for your days at the beach and on holidays and stuff. Okay so what you will go into need now I've got this gadget which I've not used in a tutorial yet. My mum will be pleased that I'm using this because we both got it at the same time but it just I know I've got my cutting system the X cut cutting system which I've used a lot and I still love that but this is good to do even more a multiple of sizes so you with the cutting system you're limited to the circles that they give you the inside and the outside of the three sets whereas with this one you've got literally as much as you want there. Now what this means is you've got four six eight ten twelve that four inches is the whole circle diameter it's not four inches from the middle here that you've got a half it so that's two from this middle point to here it's two and then again you just undo it I think I've still got it yeah you bring it up to six then that's three inches from the middle outwards okay so just a few things there just to kind of get used to but I'm going to set mine at eight because I'm going to do an eight inch um diameter circle so you just pop it in place and you screw that in so it doesn't move now it's solid there's a little guard on the back you just clip that off and then you just basically want to put this kind of roughly and I just kind of hover it over making sure that it's going to fit my circle is going to fit now I know that this is eight and a half or eight and a quarter so I know it will but I'm going to just pop it down like so push it down so the blade goes in I'm on a cutting mat here as well so make sure your surface is cutting friendly then you put your pressure in the middle here to keep it in place and then you just hold this piece and you just bring it around now you can make this card without this so you don't need to have this just grab a plate or any of those other circles from the cutting system because let me grab the circle from this one so these are the cutting systems that I've got and these are by x cut I can't find my other circle I've got them all but there's a bigger one than that again I don't know where it is but again you could just have it that size because basically this cutting piece is on the outside so once you see what I'm doing you can have this any size you want it doesn't have to be this this big at all but I do like a nice big card so there straight away I've got a perfect eight inch circumference circle so yeah really really good so that's the base that we're starting with there and then basically all you want to do is just fold it in half like so and then just grab your bone folder and just tidy up that score line so there is the rocker so now you can decorate that entirely how you want but like I said just make sure you balance out everything so that it doesn't tip more to one side than the other so that's that piece in place then I want to cut my pattern paper so for this one I'm going to go for this stripe which is from the pack now I'm going to I want a nice border so you can see here I've got this quarter inch border so I'm just coming down now I'm going to unscrew this and just come down now to a quarter of an inch down from the eight there so it's so it'd be seven I'm putting it now it's seven and a half because you've got six there and then there's a gap so that would be where seven is and then it's halfway again there so that's seven and a half so again because I don't want to waste any paper I'm just going to hover it over and make sure I can get it that's about right and then again just hold make sure that you do not let it lift from the middle because then you'll get that perfect circle so there we go okay so really really quick so now I'm going to be cutting this in half and it's going to sit over there and let you just get a perfect border so that's really really good so I'm just going to fold this one in half because it's stripes I can just make sure my stripes are nice and lined up which they are so a little bit crooked hang on let's let's redo that one a little bit better there just because it will work me otherwise let's just bring that one around a bit more I can live with that now yeah okay and then we're going to cut that so you don't have to fold it like I just did you can just cut straight down but I'm going to cut along my score line like so so just cut down remove any of the bulk so I'm actually going to remove from both sides so you can see there I'm just cutting so it's a lot more there's not so much precision with this because you can do any size you want so I'm not really giving that many measurements as such because you know everybody's is going to be different just grab all different size dinner plates and and kind of cut those all out but I've gone really off there haven't I probably should have put this through my trimmer actually let's just go and take a bit more this one's going to go on the back so it won't matter too much there we go that's better so now this one is going to go on the front so you can see there you get a really nice order and then this one's going to go on the back and look just as good so get those two stuck down okay so those two sides are now all stuck down so that's that bit done next you want to do your circles for the kind of middle your main kind of focus focus I don't know what I was trying to say there your main focal point so this circle here is six so I need to grab some white card all the measurements for this one will be in my blog so don't worry but um you see once you you know what I'm doing now you don't have to have a six there you don't even have to have a circle you could have squares in the middle so it's entirely up to you and if you look at my other one that I've got that I've done as well that's um gives you another look so I'm just now setting this to the six because I know I want a six inch um diameter circle and again just going to kind of roughly make sure I'm good at not using too losing too much paper I could have gone in even more than never mind and it literally is perfect it gets you know the join there is so good so that's that one and then while I'm here I'm going to do that other white circle that I've got here which is I'm lining it up with the the folded part here and then I know that I'm getting the the center point of that circle so that's four and a half so just come in there just a four and a half and I might be able to get this one on here that's my two white ones then I need to decide on so what pattern let's have a look so I'm going to have that one sat on there and then I'm going to go for I think the green yeah let's have the green so now I need a piece of five and a half so again just move this one back up again so five and a half so the five isn't marked there but it goes up four six so you know halfway is five and then half again is half of that so it's very inexpensive as well so it's just another useful piece to have in your kit an x-cut do do really good tools I've never had any problems with them that's my corner punch that's x-cut I love this it does need sharp in mind you but I have had it a long long time so that's that one so that's going to go in there like so that's going to go on there I can just line all the lines up making sure it's all nice and straight and then I think I'm trying to use the bits of scraps from the one before you know whether I go for a polka dot with this one or cut out more I think I'll do that one again that should do the same so I didn't mind you though you want a bit different I do like that polka dot let's see if I can do the polka dot actually so this one is four so it's a very very last one that is the thing you can only do as small as a four inch diameter one so anything smaller you would just want to use your dies your nest of dies and things like that so this one I should be able to get in here yeah right so we've got that one it's going on there and then we've got that one and then that one's going in there yeah I think that looks really fun so you now want to get this one stuck onto there this one stuck onto there and then that stuck onto there all in place and then I'll show you in a minute when we stick that down okay so that's now all stuck down and then you need to stick it down on here now to fit it in the envelope that I will show you at the end you need to sit it in the same as I tell you now but if you want to go smaller then you can just bring it down obviously and if you're doing a smaller if your base card so this is obviously eight diameter yours might be six so you'll be able to use your envelope scoreboard for that one this one was too big so I had to make my own so um but I will talk you through that so for this one here you want to make sure I think it was seven was my yep seven so basically you just want to make sure you've got the nice even border make sure I've got my lines all straight there as well and then you want it to be no taller than seven inches so there we go that's perfect so it's just on for me it's just on that blue line slightly just above it so then what I'm going to do is just on half of it you don't need to go be too careful you see that I've just splotched it don't have to worry too much just above that blue make sure my green lines are all nice and straight with this so this paper's quite good to keep it in line make sure this is all the same and just stick that one down obviously if you're going to stamp it and stuff then you'll want to do that whilst this piece is flat pop it in your stamp positioner I've got some mucky I have to get my rubber out for that I don't know where that's come from but there you go so there is already a really fun really colorful these papers are so fun and the back looks really nice as well I mean you could obviously put more circles on there if you wanted to but I'm not too worried about that but now that stands up perfectly now in the one that I show you um that I done near the beginning of the year I put a piece in here to stop it splitting open but that's because it's a slightly different structure with this one you don't need to it literally it stands up even if you're going to put loads of stuff on that it will still stand up as long as you make sure you burnish that score line really well okay so now the fun of decorating so I am going to make some rosettes I'm going to do them off camera because I've done loads of these and I'll share the links to my tutorials to show you how to make the rosettes but just so you know these are a two inch rosette there and a one inch so you'll need to cut a strip that's half an inch by 12 and for this one that's one inch by 12 okay again I'll put that in my blog but in terms of showing you I will just show you the little tutorial I'll be up here now um and just pop to that and that'll show you how to make an easy rosette then um I have already stamped a um happy birthday this is a dovecraft happy birthday it's a huge one um I stamped it onto white it actually comes together like that but then I've gone and fussy cut all around the birthday and the happy separately and then what I'm actually going to do now is I'm going to stick this on top of the green okay and I'm going to fussy cut it again so it kind of pops out I mean it does lift against that pink but I think with the green around it um we'll just help it a bit more so I'm going to do that and I'm going to get the rosettes done and then we can finish off with the sequins and the other nice little stickers and stuff okay so I've made my two really dinky rosettes I should also mention that you score at every quarter of an inch along the 12 inch side so this one here like I said is one a strip of one inch by 12 inches score along the 12 inch at every quarter of an inch and then this one is half an an inch by 12 inches scoring again at every half every quarter of an inch so those are going to go just the same as before like so and then I'm going to have my birthday so I've just popped it on green the same green there and I fussy cut that but what I'm going to do with this one that I didn't do with this one is I'm going to pop this on some foam backing just because this has got dimension I thought the back then was too flat but I'd already stuck it down by that point so it's still fine it's it's me more than anything the person that gets it wouldn't think that at all but um us card makers we pick these things up don't we and uh wish we'd done them differently so I'm just popping a few little dots on that one there I've got mine in line with the this kind of uh the fold there of the base there we go so I think now me looking at it it does look better and you can see there just now how that's lifted off it does look much much much better so I'm going to stick this one just going to pop some hot glue on the back there and just make sure that when you pop it up it doesn't obviously rock too much to one side than the other and then that piece again I'm going to just pop on a bit of top here always use every part of these um dimensional packs even the uh the frame of them because obviously you don't see any of this so that one is going to go on an angle about there okay so you can see now how that is looking really cool so I have then got these are the puppy stickers so these are the little bunting ones and then I've got these stickers as well so I've popped stickers over the top here so I'll do those in a minute I'm going to do my bunting first so again if you've got a bunting die or you can just cut lots of little triangles um so there's lots of ways to be able to adapt and make this card without having the exact bits that I have but I'm just going to start laying down my hex here and there's just nice little um bits of interest on your card so that one's not going to meet I've done it a bit a little bit differently this time it's fine it's still okay there you go so I've got that little bit there and it's these bits that just pull it all together like I say it's all the accessories that make it make it a lovely card so what have I got here let's have a look um so I'm going to put the just for you one again there I'm going to put a bit of hot glue on the back of that as well just some of the stickers they're not they they will end up coming off so I'm just going to use the hot glue get rid of all of those and then I just need some kind of see I I don't really want the crab see I use the bird there on the ball oh they've got the same there okay let's use that again because I did like that oh I need to die cut another circle so I just had my um smallest I wonder where I've put it I seem to have lost that one the smallest circle from my nest of circle dies oh my gosh you won't believe how long it took me to find that and it was under my cutting mat that's so frustrating so I'm just going to cut that tiny one out in just a scrap piece of the um same papers that I've been using just to sit over that rosette just to hide the the glue there eight so again just grab my hot glue pop a little bit there like so and then grab that bird and again just gonna pop a little bit of I've only got I'm only using the hot glue because I've got it out you can use any glue got it slightly off off center a little bit like so then I've got my bow so this one is going so I could now have that one there on that side just to cover where I didn't join it so I think I'm going to pop that one slightly different see there's always ways to kind of doctor any bits may have gone wrong so pop that one there and now the fun part of decorating with the sequins and the newbie drops so I have got the um white blizzard I've got um bubble gun blush and I've also got glossy accents I might not use that this time it didn't make it is nice but it didn't make too much difference it is on the happy there if anything is made a little bit duller so I'm probably not going to use that one but with these ones and the sequins so I've just got a mix here of um these pink lovely pink ones take a few of those and these clear ones as well and basically I'm going to do my sequins first so I'm going to use my tombo glue and you can see how I've done them I've just done a little kind of trail of them there and again there so I'm going to stick stick with the same and just randomly blob some glue and then pop them down with the tweezers and just kind of I've done them quite randomly some of them are overhanging they're on the white part as well as the pattern part and then the gaps I'm going to fill in with the newbie drops so let's use that one there so I'm just going to go ahead now and get this all filled up okay that's all the sequins down and try and work in odd numbers so I've got what I've got there seven on that side and five on that side um it just makes it it works better um I don't know the reason but it just does so um and then I'm just going to fill in now with the um glittery one here so I've got literally just different sizes just kind of lift it off some are bigger than others I'm going to do one on there quite a big one and then okay so if I just bring this up you can see now I've gone completely over the top and it looks brilliant that's my style so I'm going to let that dry now and show you how to make the envelope you'll be able to see that really close up with the pictures but these are really fun they're just happy colorful cards I think they look great so I'm just going to pop that one let me just put that somewhere safe for them in it so it dries flat so for the envelope you need a piece of 12 by 12 so I'm going to pull out that same polka dot one I don't not like it I just don't I don't know I think it's better for an envelope all the rest of them are too nice but this one I'd say it's my least favorite so it worked well for an envelope so just grab that one and then with your still use your envelope punch board but you have to kind of doctor it a little bit so grab a ruler and what you're going to do is you need to score this one one two three four it's going to be although it says five there that's one inch two inch three inch four inches you then want to do four and three quarters so then pop your ruler right up to the edge here and come down to four and three quarters and line up the four and three quarters with the one okay so now we know that that is that three quarter bit there it's just because obviously it goes off we can't do it so I've got this lined up at four and three quarters and then I can just pop that one in there and I did I put my little lost my little things I'm just using my other stylus and then just score along the score line that's there flip it right the way around and pop it in again at four and three quarters so I'm just popping my ruler up there and line it all up if it's a little bit out it's not going to make too much of a difference and then score and then all you've got to do is line up that score line there with this here so it's a little bit harder to do again just bring your ruler in like so and then I know that that's in place and then this score line will meet perfectly with that corner so I know I've done it right and then rotate the whole thing round again and with your ruler the ruler is just the extension really because the papers obviously big and we're going off the the measurements that they actually give us okay and then again punch and score so again it all meets up nicely there so yeah just another way you can still use it even for even bigger um envelopes so then all you've got to do is just burnish and just kind of help it along because we couldn't score right to the end you can see there where the score line doesn't finish because obviously the papers just so big the newer one now has an extension arm on it um for the 12 by 12 so I should get that really so I know I use it or not okay and then pop in your sides I'm going to use my red tape here okay take off both the backings stick them in the middle and then just bring up the bottom again just go burnish all your score lines there once it's all folded in its shape and then that final one I'm just going to round off the edges there and then just cut a little piece just to seal it up okay there you go so I'm not going to use the one that I've got because obviously it's um still drying but you can see there how that fits perfectly inside just pop it on a slight angle and it is good to go so that's that one that's the other envelope that obviously is for that one and I'll bring this one back in again and you can see it there so yeah really nice I do you like a rocker card I think it's got a really fun dead easy to make like you could see that the beginning the actual base is is so easy the time really was just spent on me going over the top of the decoration so yeah hope you like it if you do please give me a thumbs up as always and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye