 Hi everybody it's Sam here, thank you for watching my tutorial today so I'm going to be showing you how to make this beautiful lattice or plat fold card. This was requested quite a few people asked me to do a version of this style. Now I had a little look on Pinterest and there are hundreds and hundreds of different templates, there's just so many, but I wanted one that was quite thin and that ran from the very bottom to the very top so looking at the templates that were on there I've come up with this version and I think it's come together really nicely so that's one version, this is on five by seven but you can do this on any size card and then with this one here I've actually done that same piece here and I've popped it inside the card so you can see this is like a Cadbury's purple colour, so beautiful, really like these and I've used the new Butterfly Kisses collection by Dovecraft so let me show you how to make, I promise you, these easy cards. So first of all we need to make our template, like I said there are loads on Pinterest, lots of them are offering free downloads so you can download from there. If you do make your own template you can then photocopy it so you've got it to print whatever you need or if you want to make a digital version then you can use like Cricut Design Space or if you've got any software that you want that you know that you prefer to use then you can do. This here I'm using a piece of copy paper and this is a piece of two by six so this is my template and I'm going to redo another one so you know exactly how I've done it. So first of all along the two inch side here lay your ruler down and you want to mark at half an inch and one inch make sure your pencil is nice and sharp okay and then mark the same along the bottom so half an inch and one inch and then just join those markers up like so then you want to run along this side and I'm going to lay my ruler down and you're going to mark at every quarter of an inch so a quarter half an inch three quarters one and then again quarter half three quarters two quarter half three quarters three just every single quarter of an inch okay so if I just hold that up you'll see I've got all those little markers there and then those two lines. Next we want to go along this one here this line here and you're going to mark it every half an inch so I'm going to do like a little circle I'm going to just keep my ruler just slightly above that line and I'm just going to put every half an inch just a little dot okay and then bring your ruler down to the next line and repeat so again every half inch just bring that up there so you can see so you've got quarter inch increments along the outside here and then half inch increments on these two lines here then you want to just pop a line along the top here so you'll have a quarter inch marker here and here it's that second quarter inch marker in which will be half an inch you'll line up with these other half inch markers here this whole section now will become our fold and it's what we're going to use to wrap it around the top of the card and again at the opposite end just line up these two here which will hit the second quarter inch marker there and again just kind of blank that out so you know where you're working next what we want to do is create these now I've marked with a red line just to indicate that these are going to be your cut lines I'm going to pop it just on a angle there because that's how we're going to work what you want to do first of all is from the corner here which is here you're going to draw a line on the diagonal up to the first half inch section on the outer main line here so I'm just going to lay my ruler down and line it up with the dot like so then the next quarter inch marker so this one here you're going to line up to the first dot on the inner line here so again just lining that up and the key here is the precision and getting these lines you know perfect so all of the shorter lines will hit the first line here and all of the longer lines will hit the second outer line and if you stick with that then you'll get it you know you can't go wrong so again longer then the next one shorter longer shorter and once you get into the rhythm of doing that it will be very easy and I think by making your own template you really get an understanding of how everything's kind of coming together so I'm just going to carry on doing this until I've done all of them and when you're left with these last two just join them up to the very top so that one will join up like so and then that smaller one like so so you will have something like this next you want to grab your card blank so I have a pre-made store brought 5x7 and this left hand side you want to run along the folded side of your card and these two lines here will line up perfectly with the top and bottom of your 5x7 if it's a 6x6 just line up the markers until you're happy where they're positioned and then fold over any excess but I'm now just going to fold that one like so and then get yourself a strong clip and clip it within this section here you need to keep this free because this is where we're going to cut and then again fold over the bottom and make sure that paper's pulled nice and taut and again I'm just going to clip that one in place there okay so this is lined up with the fold of that card these are the Tim Holtz scissors here I want something that's got that real point because that will mean you won't get any splitting at the end of your cuts starting from the very corner the very bottom line you're just going to follow that to the end of the line and what I said during the live when I first made this is if you can try and do it in one cut so just position your scissors so that they will lay down and cut that all in one go you'll get a much neater finish and I'm just working my way along that template like so and just keep doing that until you get to the very end okay now when you get to the second to last so the last longest line you're actually just going to cut the whole corner away so like so but do not throw away that piece of cardstock because we're going to now stick that on the bottom so remove your template you can now throw that away because you've cut into it and you'll have all these cut lines here so now we're going to open this up and I'm going to turn it around next what you're going to do is every long arrow or big arrow so you'll see you've got a small arrow which would be your small cuts then you'll have a large arrow small large and so on miss the small arrow and you want to take the large arrow I'm going to bring it down to do it and you're going to fold it back on itself and I would burnish the sides so you have that effect so you can see the smaller arrows underneath and I've just brought that large arrow and pulled it down over the top now I'm using a 300 gsm cardstock I would recommend if this is the first time you're doing it maybe try it with a lighter cardstock so like a 220 or 240 so it's a bit softer but it does work with 300 but you do have to really kind of you know fold that cardstock down next you're going to grab the next large arrow so you're always missing the small one grab the larger one and fold it again back and the key to this is making sure that you're folding nice and flat but also the score line and the point of each of your arrows lines up with the score line here of the card now when you bring that one over you're then going to lock it underneath the previous one so you have that effect again miss the short one or the smaller one bring down the larger one again and just pop it under each time now I don't use any glue on the actual lattice I only add a little bit of glue on the bottom when we add this one on so I'm going to continue that now taking the every other and it will always be the larger arrow and folding it back over on itself okay so now you'll have something like that this one here you'll get a stick under that smallest arrow and then just line it up with the bottom of the card making sure that the fold on this little piece again lines up with all of that there so I'm just going to add a tiny bead of glue just along the bottom of that piece again I'm not adding any glue to the middle just feed it under the edge there and then if you use liquid glue you've got a little bit of wiggle time just just make sure that middle score line lines up with the middle of the card like so and we're going to trim a little bit away of this in a moment okay so that's now dry and then just very carefully fold the card back into its original shape and you can just grab your own folder now with this bottom piece here you see I've got a little bit where I've gone up probably a little bit higher there we go I can just pull it down a bit but you can just snip that away there like so and then what you want to do is just follow the same angle and just snip off the bottom there it just means you just get that same pattern and angle okay and that's it best now is just decorating the card now also another thing that's nice to do and I'll tell you how to create this effect here is with this card it's just open it up pop it in your scoreboard I'm going to do it so this flat edge is along the top and I just scored it three and three quarters on each side now I'm not going to do it on this one because I don't want to do it with this card but just score it three and three quarters and then flip it over and score again at three and three quarters and that's those two score lines the three and three quarter ones there and then you'll just fold it like that and stick it inside the card it's as simple as that so this one your both the three and three quarter score lines will be valleys and then this is the mountain which it already is so it's really easy and it just gives you a completely different look and then you can just decorate your card as you wish but for this one I do want to just keep it like so I'm going to have this end at the top and this one at the bottom so I've pulled out I'll show you all of the collection here and I will link the unboxing video so this is the new butterfly kisses there's just so much to the collection but I've focused on the decoupage and the paper pad for these cards so this is the decoupage kit and the decoupage will allow you to make these 3d toppers and there are eight I think it is yeah eight designs so that's one of them you have this one here with the bouquet I've got this one here which I made up before and then I have this one which is like a gift tag which I'm going to use on today's card and you can see all of them on there there's other ones as well and then that will all coordinate with the paper pad so again you can see some of the papers here I've pulled out all the kind of the geometric ones for these cards so I've got that purple one the green one and then I'm using this it reminds me of the spirograph when you used to create those flowers that's the one I'm using today so I've got a piece of silver card here which is three and three quarters by six and three quarters and then the pattern paper is three and a half by six and a half I've already stuck the pink on top of the silver there and then I'm going to stick that piece within this section and then I'm going to show you how you can weave some ribbon through so I've just stuck the topper down and then I've got one of the bows which also come in this new collection and I'm just going to add a little bit of hot glue and just stick that into the top of the topper and I'll just show you those are the bows there so you get the kind of magenta color there as well okay so first of all open up the card and I just want to weave this one in here like so then this one is going to go in the top one here and then just pull them both together so we've attached it to the card like so keeping it together and this is just the way I'm doing it there are you know lots of other ways that you can weave your ribbon if you would prefer so now with the end I'm going to then come back in the next one here so both of them through at the same time keeping them nice and flat and then again in through the next one and each time I'm just pulling it so that they sit on top of each other like so and you'll see you get the same nice pattern there and just keep repeating that until you get to the end and then when you get to the top just have one of them go through the very end one so this one can come around and that way you can tie your bow okay so that's that done and then I'm just going to finish it off with some Nuvo drops so I'm going to use the plum pudding and I love this one here which is the morning dew I'm just going to pop a few just around the sides so that's the finished card I like to do all different sizes so it takes a little bit of time to dry but not too long and then you can see that lovely design on the side there lots of room inside I'm just going to quickly open it there you can see that lovely pattern throughout and also if you use a white core then you'll get that lovely design there where you get the two colors together so do have a play around use pattern paper as well pattern card you can create some beautiful effects again if I bring that up a bit close you can see the Nuvo drops there as well and just all this dimension there's just you know there's a lot going on and again I'll bring that one back up so you can see and all the glitter's already on there as well it's just such a nice design and I hope for some of you that maybe have seen this design before and maybe been a bit nervous to try it hopefully this video now has encouraged you to you know give this card a go go check out some other templates as well that are out there and hopefully make some really beautiful cards so thank you for watching today if you have enjoyed today's tutorial then please check out some of the others that are popping up now if you haven't subscribed again and you've enjoyed what I've showed you today please hit the subscription button or subscribe button and hit the notification bell and that way you'll be notified every time I upload a new video thanks for 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