 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. So I'm going to be showing you how to make this arrow fold card but this is a new size, this is using five by seven card blanks or just a five by seven size cut from a larger piece of cardstock. Now I shared this about three or four weeks ago over on my hobby base live which was on Facebook so not everybody obviously would have seen that who follows me on YouTube and I know a lot of people on YouTube don't have Facebook and also you've asked in comments prior to do this style card in other sizes. So I shared this design first probably about a year and a half ago now and that was the six by six size and that's just under the name arrow fold card if you punch it into YouTube you will find it straight away and I will also share it up here as well but you have absolutely loved that card and it seems to be one of those cards that just is a good all-rounder because it's constantly shared with me weekly over on the Facebook group mixed up crafters and I love to see all the different styles you know in terms of decorating that you come up with. So this is my one today like I said I have made it a few weeks ago and I will share those pictures of those cards over on my blog because they've actually gone now they've they've gone off and been appreciated by others so I don't have them at hand but this is the one we're going to be making today. Okay so to make this card you're going to need a piece of 10 by 7 or a pre-made 5 by 7 card base so if you're cutting it like I have from a piece of white card stock this is 10 by 7 and score along the 10 inch side at 5 inches fold in half and that will give you your card blank. So this is going to be in the landscape orientation so you want the fold along the top there then for your mats and your layers I've got these two pieces here so I've got this really lovely green glimmer card stock can you see that it's really smooth it's lovely this was one that I picked up from B&M I shared it in one of my what did I get videos this you get loads you get about I think it was 10 different colors for £1.99 really nice card stock so I'm using that one so this is four and three quarters by six and a half okay and then to layer on top that beautiful daisy print love this one this is five and three quarters by four and a quarter and then this is just a decorative strip to go on the envelope so this is one by it's like seven inches it will be cut down slightly shorter when we come to pop that on the envelope I believe you want it longer than the envelope length just so you can cut behind it just so you get a nice finish and then I've got all these pieces here to decorate and this is the papers this is the crafter's consortium at the herbarian premium collection I have shared this again in the what did I get video I've used quite a few bits now started to make more and more projects with it I'm not going to go into it in too much detail but you've got so many wonderful images and patterns that's just really really pretty so I'm picked out like I said that lovely daisy print there so first of all with your card blank open it up so you've got your score line here okay and just grab yourself I've got my metal ruler and a pencil and you want to mark the halfway mark between and you want to mark halfway along the seven inch side here so you're going to score sorry not score we will score in a minute you're going to just pop a little pencil mark at three and a half okay so just down there if you don't want to use a pencil because you're going to have to end up rubbing this out if you just want to use a stylus just like that and you can just pop a little dent in your cardstock that way as well then what you want to do is along either sides here you're going to come down two and a half inches so two and a half I'm just going to pop a little pencil mark just there and again so it's halfway two and a half like so okay so that's all you need to do so you'll have halfway markers there and a halfway marker here next what you want to do is with your stylus is you're going to score first of all from this school line here you're going to score from the top left and the top right down to this middle pencil mark so I'm going to start with the left hand side here line my ruler down and then with my stylus it's a very thin stylus this one I do like this this is the by www.paperbox.co.uk but it's paper as in P-A-Y-P-E-R and it's just got a really nice slightly smaller than all of your kind of scoreboard stylus is is this one here so yeah it's just nice when you're doing free kind of scoring like I'm doing here and then again just from the top right hand side again score straight down and then you're going to score now from those center markers here so again that pencil mark to that pencil mark it's all about precision make sure you get this scoring really spot on you want all of them to meet up perfectly with that point so you get that lovely arrow shape when we come to fold all together and then again just that one there like so so whether this will pick it up but you should be able to just see that I've got the score line here and I've got a score line here and again on that side there there we go you can just see them both so one score line goes all the way up there and one goes off to that one there okay now I'm just going to rub those pencil marks out okay like so and then we just need to do some folding so turn it over and just very carefully follow your first longest score line and you want to fold that in okay so you've created a mountain fold like so and again this one here hold that one okay so now I've got those two mountain folds and then with this score line here you're going to fold that one out like so and again like so and there we have our arrow fold okay so this is a mountain and that's like that fold there is a valley now what I'm going to do is I'm going to stick all that down in a moment but when you fold that over now you can see how you get your arrow shape now the reason I'm going to stick this down is this reason here it just it's too much bulk it's too bouncy I mean this is a 300 gsm cardstock that I'm using you can obviously use lighter but you will still get this springiness and I just think that when it's completely stuck down flat which is how I showed it off in other videos it just lies better it stands up nicer and it's easier to post so it's entirely up to you but I do prefer to stick it down so I'm just going to lift up the sides here and first of all I'm just going to add not much you really just kind of tacking it down just going to add some glue on that larger these two insides here and just stick them down okay and then you want to add glue in this piece here again just roughly this glue dries very clear so I'm not too worried if it comes over the edges a little bit and stick that down so I'm just going to hold that there for a minute and if you've got your find where mine is oh there it is my bone folder just go over your score lines really making sure they're nice and flat and that will help just spread out that glue as well okay so now if I re-burnish that one look how flat that now lies I can open it up and it falls straight down much easier to post so if you're going to make a few of these I would say if you go along now and just make these to this stage it's much much easier then to you know decorate them all together as well but I just think it's a lovely fold really like this one that's so popular lots of you and during making this one okay so now you want to bring in your two mats and layers so you've got your largest one and your smallest one and both of these you're going to score I'm sorry you're going to cut exactly the same way but first of all you need to mark the halfway point along the longest side so this is six and a half so I'm going to be scoring this one at three and a quarter so just in the middle there I can't really see there we go don't grab that cut most of that out so yeah three and a quarter along the largest one and then this one here make sure you've got your pattern up the right way okay and along the bottom so again this is five and three quarters so you're going to pop a pencil mark at two and seven eighths okay which will be your halfway point then grab your trimmer or if you're just going to use scissors you basically want to cut from that pencil mark up to that corner and from that pencil mark up to that corner I'm going to use my trimmer that's how I showed it off in the other videos but I'm going to line up the pencil mark along my blade here and then the top piece here along the blade okay and it's just much much quicker keep all of these pieces you will use every single piece there's little waste if any with this card as well which is good and then cut that one okay so that is what you want you're just removing those pieces but keep them all so that's that one and then do exactly the same with this piece okay so now we've got all those pieces so that is everything next I'm going to now stick all these pieces down so this main one will stick right on top of your main triangle and you should have a really nice even border on all of those three sides I'm going to try and get rid of some of that oh there we go perfect yeah so that one's going to go there then the two pieces that you cut from either side will sit perfectly underneath here like so I like to keep my arrow piece here plain if you want to mat and layer that then you can do but you need to work that one out yourself but I know I think a few people have I haven't seen many people do it and then this piece make sure you've got your pattern paper up the right way but that will sit perfectly again giving you a nice even border and then these pieces are going to go on top like so now because I'm using a glimmer cardstock it is smooth but there's a very very slight I guess roughness to it and because of that I'm going to be using double-sided tape and not wet glue because I just find wet glue even the strong good quality glues it will just peel off so that is how everything will be so what I'm going to do first of all is stick all my mats and layers or the layers on top of the mats and then I'll stick all of that down together and then basically we're going to finish it off by decorating and I've got these larger daisies and everything that should all come together really nicely okay so there's that one now all decorated so this is ready to write your message if you want to stamp something there you can I'm going to leave that blank for now until near the time if I do you know give this to somebody or if one of my friends decides to buy it from me but I am going to still keep it as a happy birthday card and I'd already gone ahead here and just stamped happy birthday with white embossing powder it's the wow embossing powder a few of you do ask which one I use and it's this one here I will share links to that one for you because it's really nice it's ultra fine as well so you get a really nice finish and then I just went in to die cut some these are daisy dies I've had these for years and I've done a daisy week a couple of years ago and use these and they're just one of those dies especially in terms of a flower that will always be used and it worked perfectly with this print so I'm going to have probably that one there and then I've die cut two smaller ones so I think I'm going to do something like that and then I've cut some of the leaves there in that same green glimmer card stock so they're going to kind of nest so always try and work in an odd number so I'm working in threes here it's just nice odd numbers are good when you're designing and then that's going to sit on top like so I think that looks lovely now I was unsure whether to add obviously you do have a yellow center with daisies but I didn't know whether to add this here and then do something with the smaller ones whole punch the same card so I'm not sure you'll see what I decide to do but okay before I stick that all down I've had an idea what I'm going to do is use the nouveau pure sheen glitter this is the glitter light gold again super super fine it's really nice so I'm going to just pop a load of wet glue in the center there this is a nice way to fill the middles maybe if you don't have any gemstones or anything or you know something that might not quite match I put a few stones in these but I just don't know something about them or wasn't sure about so instead I'm going to try some glitter so I'm going to grab just some paper here just to catch all that glitter and then just tip oh wow I dumped that out a bit much didn't I okay there we go that looks really really pretty there you go nice little bit of gold as well to add to it so it's still that yellow look but add a bit of sparkle instead and there's that one there and then this one I'm going to let that dry and then I'm going to go in again on top with a bit more glue just because there's a few little white spaces you don't know if you can see it there there's a little white space right in the middle there so I'm just going to let that dry and then I'm going to reapply another layer and then that will be done but I think they look really cute okay so there is the finished card so I popped another layer of the glitter there in the middles which I just think looks much better stuck the happy birthday on top there stuck that all down with my hot glue and I love it I think it's a really nice special card so like I said I'm not stamped inside because I'm not sure whether I'm going to fill it with lots of writing or if I will you know pop a sentiment I can do that later but that is the card so it stands up really nicely and I just think it's a really nice size as well the five by seven which is one of my favorites so then just with this piece here I thought mine was longer but it wasn't it literally just fits it's just a stick I just I don't know it's just nice sometimes to just match your envelopes with your cards so I'm just going to stick this this was by pure fluke that this has come in at this size because it was just scrap but if yours comes over flip it over and then cut it you'll get a much nicer finish but now I've got that piece and it just matches my card nicely so there you have it guys hope you've enjoyed this new size because like I said a lot of you were asking and I think it's nice to revisit cards that I've done you know quite some time ago now so I really love this one I'm looking forward to giving it to somebody when the time comes so that's it from me today guys I hope you've 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