لتخلق الله وكامله ، لتكون تقريباً بينهم لتكون تقريباً بينهم ، إذا فريقهم منهم مُعرضون ، فطرأ مجردهم وإيَكُم لهم الحقُّ but if what is being judged is in favor for them. إذا كنتوا تعلمون ما سيكون تقريباً خلقاً فيها ، الله سبحانه وتعالى يسأل يأتوا إليه مع العليم ، They come submitted. ها نرى now when it's in their favor but when they know if they look in the book of الله and the sunnah rather it's going to be not their rights it's going to be somebody else's rights what's going to happen he doesn't want to go to the book of Allah and the sunnah he wants to follow his desires. الله then says في قلوبه مرض is in their hearts illness. أمير تابو or have they doubted about it. أم يخافون أن يحيف الله عليه ورسوله من أولايكا وموظالمون. Do they not believe that this is from Allah and his messenger. Do they not believe that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to give protection to the prophet and his messenger. Because the hypocrites when they follow the prophet they only followed him because they thought their blood can be protected or they can tell the other their followers and their lovers the reality of Muhammad's affairs. But they didn't know Allah is going to protect him and give him the upper hand. Also Allah سبحانه وتعالى he said about the hypocrites and those who have who has got illness in their hearts. أسأل الله رب العرش العظيم I ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى the Lord of the Thrones. أن يرزقن الإيمان that Allah provides us truthful إيمان. وإذا قيل لهم تعالوا when it said to them come إلا ما أنزل الله come to that which Allah has sent down وإلا الرسولي and to the messenger رأيت المنافقين يصدون عنك صدودة you find that the hypocrites they turn away attaining from you. They don't want to listen they don't want to hear anything. So brothers what we have to understand is إيمان has benefits and it has benefits عاجلة means it takes place in this world and I mentioned some of those benefits and those that it has. Now I'm going to finally conclude the last point which is a story of the people when إيمان went into their hearts how it changed their lives and how we may have been when the إيمان came to us the way we act. I want to talk about a Sahara the magicians of Pharaoh when they believed in our Prophet موسى عليه السلام I want to bring that to your attention Insha'Allah. They were people who were magicians for Pharaoh. High ranked who loved Pharaoh طلعب الدنيا. They were people who wanted the dunya who ran after it and they also what their إيمان their aspiration was قاسرة it was short it was just this world nothing but this world. يحبون الشهوات they loved the desires. والعرادة الدنيا ويه and worldly gain all they wanted and before the battle took place between them and موسى عليه السلام they asked the one that they loved the most Pharaoh they said to him أئن لنا لأجراء do we have a reward with you do we have what. do we have a reward in كنا نحن الغاليبين if we beat فرعون موسى and his followers and we put them to their knees today will we have any reward from you will we get anything from you. فرعون said to them قال نعم of course you will what is it وإنكم إذا لمن المقربين you will be very close to me this is فرعون فرعون he was worshipped قال الله تعالى الله said فاستخفقومه فأطاعوه he put fear and terror in the heart of the people and they worshipped him he was the one who said أنا ربكم الأعلى I am your supreme lord lace he believed that he was or he convinced the people that he was إله he put terror in their hearts so for the magicians to be told if they will today. فرعون الإله الذي يُعبَد فهي إله that is worshipped for them that is a high rank that's the way they looked at it and they perceived it that today فرعون will be them close what did he promise them a joy very short very little very pathetic he promised them they were happy they came to that place the سحر that they had they bought and everything that they wanted to do موسى عليه السلام came with him and his brother and his followers who followed him and they came فرعون the magicians they said to فرعون with all the conviction now having belief in themselves that today no one's going to beat them they said to موسى and حرون قالوا يا موسى وموسى إما أن تلقي وإما أن نكون نحن الملقين موسى you are going to throw in another aya in صورة الطاها they said to him قالوا يا موسى إما أن تلقي it is either that you throw وإما أن نكون نحن وإما أن نكون أول من ألقا or we are going to be the first to throw. No, they're not scared. You want to go first or should we go first? And this is خوثقة من أنفسهم they had full conviction that today get this job and done over with get that position from فرعون destroy موسى and everything he has to bring and you guys they have the upper hand موسى عليه السلام scared he is scared and الله سبحانه وتعالى speaks to him after قال لهم موسى موسى says to them ألقوا throw you guys throw ما أنت ملقون throw what you are going to throw فألقوا then they said okay no problem they went back and they threw فألقوا شبالهم وعصيهم وعصيهم they threw their sticks whatever they had they threw it their ropes and their sticks they threw it وقالوا and then they said look بعزة فرعون the انا فرعون إنا نحن الغالبين we are the winners today so when they threw it they interceded or they actually worshipped and they spoke on the name of who فرعون بعزة فرعون the power of who فرعون إخوة الاسلام our brothers of islam religion this is what they had they did not leave anything behind that they could they were علامة in this field they put everything that they had when they threw what happened قال الله تعالى فلما ألقوا when they threw صحروا اعيون الناسي the people's eyes were amazed they deluded the people the whole place became their magic وسترهبوهم وجاءوا بسحر عظيم and they put fear in the heart of the people and Allah said it Allah said it and they came with a big magic but something small وجاءوا بسحر عظيم عظيم الله رفته أنه جيد شيء كبير هو ما they put to the people what happened to موسى فأوجس في نفسه خيفة موسى فاني نفسه خفية he got scared and he was worried how am I able to the whole place was covered with their ropes it became snakes demons الله سبحانه وتعالى said قلنا ويساتهم لا تخف إنك أنت لا تخفوا منهم لا تخفوا من موسى فهو كنت أباهم اليوم كنت أعيون أعيون كنت أعيون أن تتركوا معهم مع the good result الله then said to him وألق ما في يمينك and throw it in your right hand تلقفوا ما صنعوا it will start to pick on each rope that they threw all of it إنما صنعوا كيدو ساحر what they have done is just a plotting of a magician ولا يفلحوا الساحر حيث أتا and magic wherever it comes from it will not it will not be successful whatever magic does with the Quran and the religion of Allah نبي الله موسى عليه السلام when he threw his stick it started to take off every single thing that he had on the table it all went who did Allah سبحانه وتعالى give the wind to my goal from the story is not what happened between that has a lot of a lot of explanations I want the magicians how were they before the battle and how were they after when they saw what I did to the magic that they presented and the work that they put to the table and they were not brothers they were not just magicians they were the greatest magicians to have ever walked on the earth that day نبي الله موسى عليه سلام when he was the prophet of Allah and Pharaoh had a discussion and Pharaoh said to him what بيننا وبينك موعيدا لا نخليفو نحن ولا أنت مكان السواء يوم زينا it was a day of celebration for the people of Israel the people of Pharaoh the day of what زينا beauty فرعون requested for a year and what did he do for that year he bought all the magicians that existed all of them from the city from the town from the bed from the lights all of them this is all this is the نخباء these are the elite magicians that he hamp chose hamp it hamp it and he bought them to the place even they believe that they're going to win because they believed just this one man or two men but when they saw this it baffled them and you know what they realized that this was not magic because they knew what magic was they were the elite of magic they knew that this wasn't magic so what did they do فألقيا سحارة سجدى they fell into a position the highest position a servant to fall into سدود to who to Allah what was the first thing that they said قالوا آمنة we believe برب حارون وموسى we believe in theرب of حارون الموسى we believe in it in another ayah what did they say فألقيا سحارة سجدى all of them they fell فألقيا سحارة سجدى all of them did it but they prostrated a great number of them prostrated fell on the ground what did they say قالوا آمنة برب الحالمين we believe in the Lord of the heavens رب موسى وحارون and they emphasized it even more the lower the other one the one موسى and حارون believed it last one we believe in قبل قليل just before a little bit what would they say قالوا بعزة just a little bit before the battle they were saying and the honor of who let's see when the iman entered their heart what did it do to them how did it react how did they react فرعون said to them قالوا آمنتم به قبل أن آدن لكم you believed in mousa and in whatever he bought before I gave you permission إنه لكمير قوم الذي علمكم السحر all this blame goes to the biggest one فالسوفة علمون you will all know what will happen لأقط عن ايديكم وارجلكم من خلاف ولا أصلب انكم في جدوء النخف I promise that I will cut your hands and your legs off like this one hand and the other on it and I will hang you on the trees look what they answered وَلَا تَعْلَمُنَّ أَيُونَ أَشَدُ عَدَابًا وَأَبْقَا and you will know which one is more severe in punishment me or the lord of mousa you will know in another place what did he say وارجلكم من خلاف ولا أصلب انكم في جدوء النخف all of you I will crucify you what did they say what did they reply when he entered the person's heart قالوا لا طير don't worry no blame إنه إلى ربنا مقالبون we are going back to Allah is he we are going to meet in another place what did he say قال أمنتم لو قبل أن آذن لكم إنه لكبيركم الذي علمكم السحر فلأقبت عن أيديكم وارجلكم من خلاف ولا أصلب انكم في جدوء النخف ولا تعلم ان أينا أشد عذاب وأبقى قالوا لن نؤثر from this minute onward it will not affect us على ما جاء أنا or that which has come to us from the clear guidance والذي فطرنا which Allah has made our basic instincts فقضي ما أنت قاد do whatever you want judge and do whatever you wish do it إنما تقضي هذه الحياة الدنيا you will only be able to do it in this world إن أمن بربنا in his face we believe in Allah سبحانه وتعالى why خطيانا أو الشؤق come is on our sins that we did وما أكره تنع عليه من السحر and that which you had forced us on the magic والله خير Allah is the best وأبقى أن الله is the remain الله then says إنه من يأتي ربه anyone who comes to Allah سبحانه وتعالى مجريما a criminal فإن له جهنم anyone who comes to Allah sitting as a criminal he will not die in jehannam ولا يحيا أني will not live in it ومن يأتي مؤمنا for anyone who comes to Allah in the state of iman قد عمل الصالحات this is what they say look at this anyone who comes with righteous actions فأولائك لهم الدرجات العلاء for them is what لحاية سرقس الجنة إخواني بعزة فرعون أإن لنا لأجرة to what قالوا لا طير إن إلى ربنا من قلبون وما قالوا لأنه طيرك على ما جعله من البيئات والهودة من بأ all of this doesn't matter to us anymore doesn't concern us it is the clear proof that we are going to now follow and what did they say after all of that they said ربنا أولود أفرغ علينا صبغا spread amongst us patience وتوافنا مسلمين and take our life in the state of iman and Islam what also did they say إنّا نطمع أن يغفر لنا ربنا قطايانا we wish that Allah forgives us for our sins for our sins أن كنا أول المؤمنين because of the fact that we are the first believers the first patch of believers so إخواني that is the people who have tasted iman and they for the arm promise they put them through he destroyed them but they still stood by it and they did not move when iman enters a person's heart they stick to it regardless of what the situation is regardless of what yes a person gets stronger and stronger the gold when it's burnt does it not then shine even more the more the believer is tested the more his iman shines and the more he becomes even more stronger and powerful I ask Allah that He makes us true believers may Allah return the Muslims to your religion may Allah bring back the people back to your religion the best way سبحانك اللهم والحمدك أشهد والله إلهي اللهم استغفركوا أتوب إلي I just wanted to mention one thing إن شاء الله and we are in the 10 days of the Al-Hijjah just wanted to mention some benefits just one Hadith إن شاء الله and one calam of our great scholar إبن رجب ألحم بلي رحمه الله الإمام البخاري ناريتن إنه صحيح من حديث عبد الله بن عباس رد مسج صلى الله عليه وسلم حيسن ما من أيام العمل الصالح فيها أحب إلى الله من هذه الأيام يعني أيام العشر قالوا يا رسول الله ولا الجهاد في سبيل الله قال ولا الجهاد في سبيل الله إلا رجل الخرج بنفسه وماله ثم لم يرجع من ذلك بشيء ديس حديث مسج صلى الله عليه وسلم مخاري ناريتن إنه صحيح عبد الله بن عباس is the company who narrated from the prophet that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said ما من أيام that there is no days of the days العملو that the actions are more righteous actions are more beloved to Allah than these days these 10 days that we are in right now which started today the company's days say يا رسول الله these 10 days the actions that your person does even jihad the prophet said ولا الجهاد في سبيل الله even jihad except إلا رجل الخرج بنفسه وماله except a person who left with his wealth and is himself ثم لم يرجع من ذلك بشيء and he didn't come back with anything he died and he saw the olive's money got destroyed in the battle that individual is better and a person who comes back with either one of the two is what stop it الله هو أكبر إبن رجل بيس كلامي زي وين I'm gonna read on you all and insha'Allah I will conclude there he says وقد دل هذا الحريث على أن العمل في أيامه that the actions in these days أحبوا إلى الله من العملي any actions في أيام الدنيا from the other days of the days of the year من غير استثناء without any exception شيء منها any exceptions even even even the last 10 days of Ramadan وإذا كان أحب إلى الله فأو أفضل عنده if it's the most beloved to Allah then it becomes what the most virtuous وقد ورد هذا الحريث and this hadith has been narrated also in another wording في أيام there isn't no days العملو that righteous actions فيها أفضل that they're more virtuous من أيام العشرة these 10 days وإذا كان العملو if the actions are what في أيام العشرة أفضل if it's more virtuous وأحبة and it's more beloved إلى الله to Allah من العملي في غيره in other than the days of the year وإذا كان العملو فيه then the actions come in it وإن كان المفضولة even if the actions have ranks then all the same so the smallest actions is better than what you could do in any other year whether that action is مفضول it's low whether it's father it's high these 10 days there is nothing like it wherever you do in it and the Prophet explained that he said يبروه الرجب says only one thing the Prophet he done an exception from which is what the jihad the person who loses his wealth and he loses himself that person is high in rank وصاحبه أفضل الناس درجة عند الله that person is higher in rank to Allah subhanahu و تعالى وأما بقية أنواع الجهاد as for other the other types of jihad فإن العمالة the action a person can do في أشري ذي الحجة these 10 days what he can do أفضل و أحب إلى الله عز وجل منها وكذلك سائر الأعمال and all the other actions and this is an indication على أن العمل المفضولة في الوقت الفاضلي يلتحق بالعمل الفاضلي في غير و يزيد عليه بمضاعفة ثواب و أجري if a person does an action which is low in rank at a time when the time is big that low passes the other virtuous actions in the other times of the year does that make sense so if a person does a righteous action in other than these 10 days so he goes in these other 10 days he goes and he fasts he fasts is fasting a high rank reward as it is he does it and another person who says and a person who says لو الملك و لو الحمد يحيوي و هو على كل شيء قدر are they the same and the one that fasts no the one that fasts is higher and the one that says that is lower the one that says that in the month of in these 10 days you notice that it is higher than the one who fasts any other days in the year so everything is higher this month and the righteous actions are multiplied more than the other times when it is multiplied in these 10 days that a person has to comprehend and then he goes into some of the the things that they used to do so fast these days fast give صدقة recite the Quran as much as you can do good خير Insha'Allah all with it


Hello and welcome to MIP TV. With me is the veritable Bob Cook from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy. Bob is going to help us and review one of his most favourite books. It's Modes of Therapeutic Action, I believe, isn't it, Bob? Yes, by Martha Stock. What's tiddled you fancy with this book, Bob? I've had this book for a long time, since it came out in 2000, actually. It's not a TA book, but it's one of my favourite books, and it became a really seminal book. And if you go to most training institutes, you'll find that this book is on their reading list. And it talks about modes of therapeutic action, and Martha Stock talks about three particular modes, which she calls mode one, mode one and a half, and mode three. Very quickly, then. Mode one is where the therapist or the analyst takes centre stage, where they will give interpretations, they will come in with techniques, like in TA, classical TA, everyone likes interpretive techniques like game analysis, calm and triangle, but he'd come in with the interpretation. He'd come in with the treatment plan, if you like. He would be interpreting that. He would be the expert, wouldn't he? He would be the expert, and the client would come into the picture. So that's why she would call it mode one, because the expert is there, the therapist is there, and interprets the therapeutic process or the insight for the client. And really, that was the sort of expert, if you like, process of psychoanalysis was set up with, but it was very much one down, if you like. It was the analyst, sorry, the client who, through free association, lying on the couch with the expert giving a few interpretations, was the major order of the day. So that's the mode one. And mode one and a half, which is really where the therapist comes into the picture and does talk about the history of the client, and the client comes into the picture, but more from the therapist still looking for the deficit. So the therapist may self-discourse, but it's usually in a more like a reparenting school, if you like, or a reparenting process where the therapist still doesn't really share the countertransference or talk about what's happening in the relationship. So the relationship still isn't the focus. It's more of a focus, but it's certainly a developmental process. It's still not good to bilateral exchange, really, between the therapist and the client. And then in 1992, you got the revolutionist psychotherapy, where most schools of thought started to see the focus of the relationship as a vehicle for cure. So the third mode is just basically both the therapist and the client being in a relationship together and where the therapist would have a focus on that relationship and bring their own selves into the relationship and also encourage the client to share the power in the relationship. Yeah, this is what we call sometimes called a co-created relationship, isn't it? Yes, yeah. And I think that's where you see a lot of the focus for many of the different psychotherapy schools heading to the therapist and the client being the focus through the relationship. What she's called mode two. Oh, interesting. Yeah, so it really tracks the arc of the relationship within psychotherapeutic work through being very, very expert led right to the point where it's now a co-created relationship where the client and therapist collaborate together for the benefit of the clients. Yeah, it's quite a, I think it's about 250-300 pages. She cites quite a bit of research and it's very important for psychotherapy trainees or students of psychotherapy looking at what you've just said, the history of the relationship and the, to date, now we're focusing on the relationship as cure back in, of course, pre-1940, it was very much about how the analysts stayed out of the relationship rather than being in the relationship. Yes, a complete sea change, isn't it? You know, moving from even using the term analog sand, which was what was used, wasn't it? For clients who are called analog sand to clients, you know, some more equally of power. Well, it sounds a fascinating book, Bob, and I'm guessing for trainee or even a practitioner it's going to be really useful just to see just how it's changed and that important sea change that you mentioned in 1992. Yeah, if you went into a psychotherapy bookshop pre-1930, 1940, you wouldn't find any books talking about the relationship between the therapist and the client in an equal manner. All the books would be about how you stayed out of the relationship. Yeah. So there's a real sea change, as you said. Yeah. So there's a fabulous book, and Marta Stark is really well known. She writes well. And even if you're not a student of psychotherapy, but just interested, like you just said about the development of the use of relationship in the therapeutic process, it's a very valuable book. It sounds it, Bob. And what we'll do is at the end of this video, we'll put a picture up on the title. If you go to the link below, click on the link below, you can click on and go to the distributor who sells the book. I want to mention that this isn't a paid placement or a paid promotion. This is just Bob and me talking around Bob's favourite books. So thank you so much for sharing that book, Bob. Thank you. And we will see you in the next one. We will. And we'll be up to number 13, I believe, because this is number 12. It is. So we'll see you at book review 13. Thank you very much. Yes. See you. Bye-bye.


I'm here with a CTN member highlight and this time we're featuring the city, specifically their Art at Work project that they're doing with TerraMoto. And I have with me, Marty Pottinger, who is the executive and artistic director of TerraMoto. And we're wanting to know a little bit about, really, first of all, what is Art at Work? Art at Work started, it's a national initiative and it's actually been piloted here in Portland, Maine with the city government in a partnership for the last seven years. And during that time, 70 artists, local professional artists, photographers, poets, painters, drummers have offered their art and their creativity to help lead workshops with city officials, with public service workers, with police officers, with neighborhood residents, to actually tackle non-arts problems. So we figure out problems that actually don't have an arts base and figure out and design an arts project that could make a difference and go ahead and do it. So the longest project has been a couple of years, that was with the police, called Thin Blue Lines, and a recent project that people might've heard about is called Meeting Place, and it was with four neighborhoods here in the city. Now the police one, there was quite a lot done with policemen doing poetry and that sort of thing. Yeah, that's where we started. They had historic Loma Rale and one of the officers died accidentally and it turned out in his eulogy, his wife shared that he had written poetry which no one knew, and that was after I had already been building relationships with them for about a year, but that was the deciding factor where they agreed to write poetry and they found out that it not only didn't turn them gay unless they already were, which was news, in writing poetry, but they also found out that they were actually really powerful poets and when I first announced the project or when their lieutenant announced it, one of the officers wrote a rhyming limerick and read it at roll call about the fact that his cruiser and the sky and his uniform and his balls were all blue. It was the first roll call I attended so I just sat there and I come from a construction background so I felt right at home, but a year later he actually volunteered to be one of the poets unexpectedly and a year later he wrote a poem called Jenny and I, which is comparing his services of Marine and his meeting and experience with a young two-year-old girl who was battered who he'd met on a call. It's called Jenny and I and for me it's like that's the difference art can make, that's the kind of power we're talking about. Now you have a couple of projects that are coming up but in order to support that, you're starting on a fundraiser right now, an Indiegogo fundraiser, right? Indiegogo, yes. How does that work? Indiegogo, it's very similar to crowdsource funding and it's similar to Kickstarter but a different site and we have just last week launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $25,000 in 25 days and you don't try things like art at work and not be used to taking risks. So we'll see if we succeed but we really worked hard and it's a great place to go, it's indiegogo.com and I think people search on art at work all spelled out those three words and you could see videos about the projects, you can see Portland police officers reading poems including that officer, you can see Portland police officers excerpts from a performance they did on stage for all the high schools and just lots more. So now when they support this, there are two projects that you're doing that they'll be funding, what are those? Yes, one is called, we've already started working on one and we have some good partners. It's called All the Way Home and it's a story exchange project for veterans and it's for veterans who are facing PTSD and also battling suicide but also it's for veterans who are not. So there's kind of an explicit and implicit buddy, buddy situation there and it's a story exchange and it may or may not lead to public performances but it certainly will lead to story exchanges at Togus and at veteran centers and our partners are Portland Vet Center and Main Military Community Network and then the other project is called Hearts, Minds and Homes and it's a two-year performance project, community performance project which I've done several in my life and it's focusing on the issues around gentrification and homelessness which obviously all of us here in Portland know are two critical issues and we haven't gotten the money to start it yet so we haven't, the other, the veterans project we just got an NEA grant which we have to match for 20,000 so hopefully we'll raise enough money for Hearts, Minds and Homes as well and get to start it. I think that will involve elected officials it'll involve certainly homeless voices for justice and Preble Street but also the real estate community means how to really have a deep and kind of potentially transformative city-wide conversation and several of them in dialogues to really get a chance to see where's new thinking gonna come for what's this gonna look like five or 10 years out? How do we do this better? This greater Portland community has such a rich arts community that it seems really great that you're matching up that resource with basic services that people get in the issues. Is there any favorite story or anything that you have that comes to mind with all the work that you've done? Oh, there's so many but when comes to mind in Libbytown we had the Libbytown fair they were one of the meeting place neighborhoods and a woman in her 90s came and we had gathered at Maine Historical Society had several story nights where residents came and share stories. People got to meet each other they hadn't seen each other since third grade in the different neighborhoods and you know, kindergarten and they'd worked together or their parents had been friends and just every night it was West End, Libbytown Bayside and East Bayside were the four neighborhoods so everyone was completely unique and just kind of heart openly mesmerizing and so they said the Libbytown fair outside Tony's doughnuts a 90 year old woman came up and she opened this kind of like candy bag storage plastic and she took out letters that had been written to her and from her when she lived in Libbytown as a young one and she read them to us and I got to hold the microphone. How nice, how nice. Well, now can you just repeat again so now the people heard what they're supporting what they need to do to support us. We're hoping folks spend a little bit of time at Indiegogo, I-N-D-I-E-G-O-G-O dot com, Indiegogo campaign and that they search on art at work and there's a bunch of videos and stories there and then our website is simply art at work dot US. Great, great. I'll spell it out. Thanks, Tom. Well thanks very much and thanks for all the great work you're doing. Yeah, absolutely, bye bye.


Hey everybody it's Sam at mix.graph thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really elegant spinning pop-out card so I've done the or pop-out box card I've done these before with a strip of acetate through the middle and this centerpiece then pops out but I wanted to change it up a bit and I've also changed the size so I will share the pop-up ones there because those ones are six by six so if you'd rather make six by six just substitute the acetate strip that's in those tutorials for this piece that I'm going to show you today but for those of you that have made that and you want to try something different and a different size this one is five by seven so when it folds flat it will fit down into a five by seven envelope but the nice thing about this is is you can wind it up or you can just leave it doesn't matter I've got it on a very thin piece of elastic here but just wrap it around like so it's up to you how far you go then you would lie it flat and pop it in the envelope and then when the person takes it out and it pops into its shape it will spin around and it's really nice because it's got that elastic it's got a little bit of a bounce so it does just spin really nicely and then I've popped this on one of my hinges that I like to make whenever I make these boxes so that you can have your sentiment still right in the middle but it will also pop out with the card when that stands and it's really nice my mat's a little bit wonky there we go it does stand straight and then on the back you've got room to write your message I've just got have a fun festive time this Christmas so let me show you how to make it okay so I've got all the bits and pieces here all the sentiments I've used from the crafters companion it's the it's christmas time warm wishes and merry christmas sentiment stamp sets I brought these a while back as a bundle but I think they're still available I know quite a few of you've got them now because I've been sharing them a lot but um I'll try and find the links as normal then I'm using the scissics plain circle dies and I'll talk through the sizes of those in a moment I've already done a few bits there so the papers I used for that one before was the winter rose not got too much left of this one actually I've it's funny because I didn't think I was going to use it as much as all of them but I've actually ended up using it more than the rest so that's um a really lovely pad and then this one here is the believe in magic which is just so cute and I've pulled out this lovely one today which has got the reindeer there with the bow and everything on so again everything will be linked below let's just get straight into scoring the actual pop-up or the box the card piece whatever you want to call it so this is a piece of 10 and a half by seven along the 10 and a half inch side you want to score it two and a half five seven and a half and ten so you will have four panels that are two and a half inches wide and then this half an inch panel on the end okay and then you'll need this tiny piece here which is for your sentiments if you do want to have the sentiment like that you might choose to put acetate through this and in that case you'll see some of them I had the sentiment on the acetate so do check out that playlist because if anything it'll just give you more ideas and inspiration on maybe how to put this together but this is a piece of four by half an inch and along the four inch side you want to score it one inch one and a half two and a half and three okay so that's all scoring you need to do okay so before we do anything really we want to start deciding on what circle sizes you want now you don't have to do circle you might want to do an oval you may do a square you may do a rectangle so play around use what you've got and if you don't have anything like this then you might have to cut something on your trimmer or even on your cutting your digital cutting machines okay and you can also use like a little cup and saucer something like that to draw around okay so you just need to cut that freehand or I know a lot of you also have this which is the x-cut circle cutter really handy tool I always recommend that one okay so I'm using for the actual center circle so I'm keep I've kept these two together purely because of the like frame that I've done here so you'll see there I've got this gold frame around there to get that you will use the larger of whatever circle size it is that you use for this the middle so to cut the actual main window the aperture I've used this size circle here and this one measures it is a three and three quarter diameter and then the next size up which is the largest one in that particular set you then pop them together with a bit of washi tape and make sure you get a nice even frame like I've got there and then die cut it and I've used this holographic card stock and it's giving me the ring so that ring when we go to put everything together because I'm going to cut this one in a minute but that ring will sit perfectly around it to give you a nice frame completely optional but it is a nice little touch so with this style I've got my circle more towards the top there's no reason why you can't have it in the middle again it's all down to however you think you're going to decorate yours but I am going to have mine about there because these particular dies it's really nice and I wish in a way more dies would do it but the cutting line is that in a circle so you'll see there that the blade but it's not you know but I guess it is a bluntish blade but it's right on that in a circle and it's it's really good because a lot of dies they have that cutting line like in the middle so sometimes it's hard to line out whereas this is it's just so easy okay so what I've got here is a piece of pattern paper which is four and three quarters by six and three quarters yeah just double check yeah that's my standard mat size for whenever I make a five by seven card and that is going to stick across these two so you know ignore the fold there for the minute that's going to be there to help you fold this piece once we stuck everything down now there's two ways you can do this you can either stick this down and then die cut through both pieces okay and that's really easy to do but because of the cuts being within that inner diameter there that is the cut circle I find well that's just the way I've done it but I found that die cutting them separately was just easier because I don't know I just done it that way so if you are worried that you're not going to line this piece up then I would recommend sticking this down now then pop your circle over and die cut it but make sure if you're using a liquid glue that it's dry I'm going to do mine separately so I've got this one here and I'm just going to pop a little bit of washi tape and then I'm going to draw around it on the other one so I'm just going to lay this down where I want it so again about there that looks about centre so you're working within those two panels on the left hand side so I'm just going to run this through my die machine oh and also you will need a larger die machine if you're making the five by seven because it's a it's got a seven inch width whereas your kind of standard die machines have a six inch width so you will need an a4 die machine for this size but that's why I said if you go to the six by six that'll fit through a smaller die machine okay so that one's now cut nicely like so and then what I'm going to do to take that off is I'm going to flip it over actually no I'm not I'm going to sit this on top of here make sure you've got a nice equal frame okay I'm going to just lightly tuck it in place flip it over and then with a pencil I'm going to just draw around it so now I can remove that and then I can grab that die and I can just line it up because that cut line is the inner diameter of this one is very easy although I've got a real crazy pattern here but there that's all lined up so now I'm just going to get that one die cut so there's two ways to do it you know this is the way if you want to you know draw around it and do them separately or if you'd rather just stick them both down and die cut it in one go you might have to add a few shims metal shim things like that to make sure you get a good cut then you can do okay and now take that one off there that's from the other piece there we go now I will have this piece here and because I lined it all up and drew it drew around it it sits perfectly over that circle giving me that nice frame okay so I'm now going to stick this one down I'm going to use the Palau glue and then once it's dry or as it's drying that's when you kind of want to fold that score line because you don't want that to be really stiff when we go to put it together so I'm just going to cover this in glue you can use double sided tape if you'd rather I'm just going to lay that on there for a minute and just give that a second to grab itself okay and then I'm just going to very carefully just fold like so and you don't need to fold it all the way back because the card's only ever going to be like that it's not really going to come out any further so I'm just going to kind of get it nice and sharp but then I'm going to just kind of hold it out like that you see so it's got enough for it to fold flat but also enough for it to pop out then while that's still kind of drying I've got my back pieces so I've got my each drink and bean merry which is going to go in there and these measure two and a quarter by six and three quarters and then I've got another one of the pattern paper because it's going to be on the back the same size and that's going to go next to it there so I'm just going to stick those two down okay so that's all stuck down then flip it over you can always you can fold those lines now actually as well those score lines I've got a very thick cardstock here it's just an odd one feels like the little cardstock it's very similar to the color of one of them but it isn't this is a this was a piece of A4 and we'll do that last one there as well okay so you can see now that that is going to join at the front there and we've got our back already and the front coming together but then I've got this piece here which is just from the same pad it's the reverse of this fox one I like the fox one but it doesn't screen Christmas to me so I've got this kind of snowy background but against that one I think it looks nice and because I've got that snowflake I wanted a background that it's going to really stand out against so again the same size as the other two that you done here so I'm just going to stick them down okay so that's how mine's going to look so now I've got these snowflakes here so you want something that's going to be a mirror image you want it to be equal sides symmetrical that kind of stuff because when you stick them obviously back to back you want them to join up as if they're one piece that's if you want to do like I have you may just have a nice sentiment that spins around and it's you know it isn't high up to you but to get this effect you do some want something that's going to be you know equal so I have got this here is strong no strong and strong and stretch stretchy I was wondering what it said then but it's just your just elastic thread and I was trying to see if there's a size for this one I think it's the same as the other one I've got and that was from the range but it doesn't have to be stretchy at all it can just be normal thread or some twine or something that you've got but you just want to cut some off that's going to obviously cover the circle you know the aperture that we've got and then I'm going to I'm going to actually going to use the Cosmic Shimmer because this is a real sticky very very sticky kind of PVA glue or acrylic is this one yeah acrylic glue so I'm just going to although now it seems like it's blocked okay so I'm just going to cover this just a thin amount on one side okay I'm just going to lay that one down and then with my piece of elastic here I'm just going to run it through the centre so it's just sat along that that hexagon there and then I'm going to stick this one over the top I let that set for a minute and I've just got these really lovely faceted embellishments just to cover the inside there look at the shine on that absolutely adore this card I've brought so much of it and then I'm just going to put a little tiny little blob of some hot glue there just so that these definitely don't move and just sit that one on the other side okay so now that's ready to twist and when it goes so fast it just looks look at the way that catches the light such a pretty pretty piece okay so then what we want to do is attach it inside here so you're working within that score line now what I did find was quite handy was just to cut just a thin couple of strips of just like some not like a copy paper something a little bit stronger than that but just yeah just a strong paper just to kind of pop over the top of it once we stick it down so because I'm using the elastic I'm going to kind of stick the top one down first and not bother stretching it out and then I'll pull it down so I'll come up a little bit higher there and I'm going to use a mix what I'm going to do actually festivals I'm going to put a very thin blob of hot glue and this is what I've done in the other ones actually so I'm just going to sit there obviously you don't want to melt this elastic so I'm going to keep that there and then I'm just going to pop because I don't want there to be too much bulk and the hot glue can be quite bulky when it dries hard so then I'm going to pop a little bit of this glue either side be a little bit messy unless I cover most of it with this but you don't see any of this I'm just going to squash the hot glue and then that bit of paper and it just all adds some strength really to that piece because there'd be a little bit little bit of tension because I'm pulling the elastic but I'll just clear away that glue okay and then I'm just going to snip off anything overhanging there and now I can just pull this down until it sits in the middle so about there and I'm just going to hold my finger there and just repeat the same thing again so I'm just going to pop a little bit of hot glue okay and then trim the bottom of that off now that will still be able to fold but when we bring it all together we've got a really nice spinny spinny piece love it absolutely love this got a little bit of glue there let's just get rid of that because it's bugging me I always get asked whenever I use this it's an array it's a glue eraser rubber glue eraser but it's a glue eraser and it is brilliant so I just pick off all these bits when it gets a bit dirty but they last well last forever really okay so now we want to stick this together so I'm just going to bring in my cull out I want to stick this one so it's flat okay so just fold that piece under and lie the whole card flat okay while that's there drying I'm going to bring in my ring and I'm going to again pop some glue all the way around just a thin layer and then just sit that one it's easy to line up just focus on the inner circle it just frames that snowflake perfectly again kind of leave that there flat for the minute and while that's all drying you've got this piece here so what you want to do is you will have four score lines I've got glue all on my fingers so you've got one two three four the two inner ones you want to make mountain folds and the outer ones you want to become valley so that it folds like that okay you're then going to add glue to this top piece and stick your message down your message can be anything you want as long as it fits when flat within the bottom of your card so within this section so the one I've got here you'll see when it's flat fits nicely there so I'm going to turn this over and just stick this piece so the two flat sides are facing up because that's what we're going to use to attach it to our card try and get it in the center because it will just help when you stick it all together okay so that's what you should have and now what you want to do is add glue to these two pieces okay and then you just want to these two to fold in so that you've got the two pieces together like that so the glued pieces almost look joined and you want to get the middle of that to kind of run through the middle of this piece here so I'm just going to roughly stick it there for a minute and if you let it lift up you'll be able to see and you want it to sit over the fold so look if I bring mine up you've got time to move it across so I just need to shift mine across just a little bit but there we go and you can wiggle it a bit make sure your sentiment's straight doesn't matter underneath is that's a little bit wonky as long as the sentiment's straight but now it will pop out with the you know whatever you've got spinning and I just think it's really nice I like things in the center and when you make these kind of cards it's hard to have something like that some people just run a thin piece of glue on that middle piece and stick it down you can do that if you want but I quite like the way that this moves kind of with the card so just check that circle stuck nicely there you have it and then again just test it kind of spin it around you'd like it flat that's how the person will see in the card which I think looks really nice and then when they pop it out it spins around isn't it gorgeous love these okay so there are my two spinning pop out box cards I think they've got you know such a nice profile they're one of my favorite style cards to do I love box cards in general but these ones I think look lovely so if you're new to this style do go check out that playlist up here because like I said the pop out style with the acetate is a really nice effect and yeah it's been well received that card I've had lots of people ask me to make that one as well for you know when my friends and stuff want me to make cards so yeah now maybe they'll want me to make these as well but there you have it so thank you for watching I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up if you have and consider subscribing if you haven't so you get to see more thanks for watching bye