How To Make Snap Clips Using Sizzix Big Shot Machine / Diy Snap Clip Tutorial / Snap Clip Tutorial

Hi everyone today, i'm going to be showing you how to make these snap clips, i'm going to be using my sizzix big shot machine today and the dye that i'm using is from felt better, which is this one here to show you. So it's this one and it's got three sizes, which is seven and a half centimeters six and a half centimeters and five and a half centimeters, and you need 70 um, millimeter or seven centimeter clips on the big one. You need six d millimeters or six centimeter clips on the medium and 45 or 4.5 centimeter clips on your small i'll, put all the information in the description below and just so you know you can get these dies in the um from felt better on pre-orders and From monkey bear craft supplies in the us, they don't currently have this plain edge version, but they have a scallop style and a few other options so, like i said, do have a look i'll put the links in the description below, and i've also done a couple More in the 60 because i have um loads and loads well, six and a half um with the 60 uh clips because, like i have loads and loads of 60 clips, but i haven't got any many other sizes at the moment. I'M going to show you a couple of tricks to make the most of your fabric. I always run a piece of card from first and cut myself out a set of templates, so what i can do with these now is, i can take my fabric and with my scraps i can make sure that i'm using the exact exact size that i need So i can literally cut what i want and with my 60 i'll show you so this is my six and a half and i'm going to make two clips. So this is the other trick. I'Ve learned because i've been having a problem recently with my fabric slipping, and i have learnt this trick with some lasting masking tape that doesn't hurt you die or damage your die, but keeps everything in place and stops it moving, and potentially you losing bits of fabric Because i kept on moving to one side or the other and, like i said i was just wasting bits, especially on your smaller dies, so i'm just going to cut my two pieces. Okay, so i've got two pieces here i like to place them um glitter size up just make sure that that fits where it's meant to place on there place the second piece: okay, i'm just going to double check, everything's where it's meant to be, and then i've Got this masking tape, just standard bog standard masking tape, you can get it for about a pound from like wilco's. Your crafting stores places like that hobby craft hobby lobby. I'M just going to take down each end. It doesn't affect anything at all. It just keeps it in place and stops it moving, and then i have my two plates and we sandwich those between our plates pop that in our machine and i've never put more than two through. You can sometimes do three of very thin materials, but i tend to stick to two on glitters and things like that. There you go it's in exactly the place, it's meant to be, it hasn't slipped or moved, so i've not lost any of our fabric at all, and all you do is you can take that off and that offend and then you've got two perfectly cut snap clip Pieces perfect for when you you just want two at a time, etc, or you just want to use one size rather than all three. Obviously, if you wanted to, you could cut a piece fabric and do three sizes at once and have you set like this one? Instead of obviously two at a time but like so it's entirely up to you so okay, so there's not masses of waste on that, like i said you could cut them in a little bit smaller and use a masking tape to hold it in place, but, like I said i just use a little bit just in case it slips just a tiny bit and then we've got our clip cover and obviously this is the fabric on both sides. So this is what it'll look like once it's clipped, so we're going to take our clip and what i like to do is open. It line this side. What i like to do is line the tip up there and make sure that none of this is showing. So you can't see the back of the clip once you're happy with everything you can sort of snap it in place and sort of move it. So it sits just where you want it, so you want it like this. You want it so that you've only got this back piece, not anywhere else, and the easiest thing that i have found to glue pinch it back and then on this piece, not anywhere here, because we don't want it to seep into this. So we can see it behind on the fabric a little bit of glue there and then hold that in place and make sure that that's firmly down, because we don't want any glue to go here. Okay, then you can pop it open. We want a bit of glue here and a bit of glue there, but don't go over the top. You want enough to stick it down, but not so much that it's seeping out. The sides of your clip. Okay make sure it's still lined up and then sort of press that against it, while it's still curved and then we can snap that back obviously you'll get a little bit of glue around the edges again resist the urge to glue onto this bit of the clip Stay at this top section only so i won't go past there on the glue on your actual clip and again you want a fair bit of glue to make sure your edges are going to seal nicely, but you don't want so much that tons of it's going To seep out the edges, okay and then line it all up, make sure it's all nice and even and then i just take my fingers, there's any glue i'll show you how to clean it up in a minute, because you will get a little bit, but just Press them together, so you've got nicely sealed edges there. We go, got no, no glue seeped here, no glue seat there, and then we can take our lighter. If you've got any glue coming out the edges, you can use your nails and then you can go like this with your lighter and any extra bits like so you can just take that and use it to tidy up those sides and there you go. So that's what it looks like just pinch again, make sure you've got no seals and then what i like to do is like to pop it open like this and check both sides and make sure it's all nicely sealed if you've not put enough glue. What happens? Is it pops open a little bit and it doesn't sit as nicely? So that's what you get there. You go nice, easy snap clip for you, like, i said they're so cute. You can make them in all the colors. You can do them in felt and do them all the colors in glitter and they look really pretty in suede and leatherettes, and things like that. So you've got so many options and, like i said, there's tons of other styles like scallops and rectangles, and things like that. So i'll put the links in the description below and thanks for watching bye. You