 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this card here. Now this one was actually given to me by the lovely Paula who is part of our Mixed Up Crafts group and she follows regularly on the live craft longs and she sent me this card about a month ago now and I was just really taken with it and I thought it looked wonderful. So we weren't sure what it was called during the live but we've since found out that it's called a block card or an inside block card or a building block card. So I had a little look on YouTube and I've seen that there's a tutorial from seven years ago by Splitcoaststampers. So it's quite an old style design and I just thought it'd be a really fun one to do during the live so I've made this one here in a five by seven because that's the size I like to do and you can see there how it looks. It's very similar to my Tower Fold card so if you've enjoyed that fold I'll link those ones up here because there's about three different styles that I've done but I've used all of my new collection on this one so I've used my new Geo Papers which are Geode Papers which are lovely and the makeup set there with all the dies. I've used glossy accents on the lips and on elements on the stamps there and also I've used some sequins which you can see catching and the holographic cardstock. So it stands up like so and then on the back so my glossy accents are a little bit tacky so try not to touch them you've got your space to stamp and write your message and the whole thing will fit into a five by seven envelope. So let me show you how to make it. Okay so I tend to not do the same card twice but I'm just building up my stash of cards to send out as like friend mail and as part of the giveaways that I do. If you haven't joined our group The Mixed Up Crafters you can find it on Facebook and I'll share the link below and also every Monday and Friday I do a Facebook Live and it was during the live that I first made this card and then I tend to do a YouTube tutorial to follow so if you'd like to kind of see YouTube exclusives head over to the Facebook page and you can just like my page and you'll be able to follow a like and they're really good fun. So I've done a template so this is what you need so it's a piece of 11 by 7 and then this is all what I've used so I've used the sentiments from my new let's hear it for the girls and then I've used lots of these stumped images here to build up that little kind of cluster the handbag I've used is just this one here from the handbag set and the dyes are on the back the dyes don't come with they are separate but you get all the dyes to cut them out as well and then that's my mats and layers that's the papers and I'm just a little bit obsessed well with all of them because they're lovely but with this one here this palette everybody was saying how they love the colors and you can see there the slider card that I made using those same colors and I just thought you know let's do it again so that is that set as well to make that card and I've just pulled out the lips which is what I've used on the top there I just really like those ones okay so that's everything that I've used and as always that will all be shared in the description box below so you want a piece of 11 by 7 pop that to one side now I'll take a picture of that and put it on my blog along the 11 inch side you want to score at three four and a half six and seven and a half okay so that was three four and a half six and seven and a half then what you want to do is fold it so that you're folding on that third score line so on that six inch score line just fold it in half so on the back here you've got that one score line and this piece and facing you you should have these two score lines you're then going to pop it like this so you've got the folded side away from you pop it back in here and we're now going to do these score lines here and you want to score one and a quarter just down to the first score line all of these score lines now adjust to this first one so one and a quarter one and three quarters three inches three and a half four and three quarters five and a quarter and six and a half just repeat that again one and a quarter one and three quarters three inches three and a half four and three quarters five and a quarter and six and a half. Okay that's what you'll have there and these are going to be cut lines so we're going to keep it folded in half and you know grab your scissors turn it so it's facing you and you're going to cut up all of those score lines that you just done to that first score line. Make sure you get a nice clean cut nice and straight because this is all going to be on show so you want to make sure you keep it as neat as possible. Okay so now you'll have all of those pieces cut. Turn it back again and open it up and now what you want to do is this first score line will become a mountain fold. If you burnish each one separately so you're not kind of you don't want to transfer any of this kind of score line on to other parts of the car because it will kind of leave a bit of a mark so that one the next one will then become a valley fold so I'm just going to open it up and burnish just again it doesn't print through. So we've got our mountain valley that one is already a mounting so that's the original one that we folded and then this last one would become a valley. I'm just opening it up just to again mountain valley mountain finish with a valley. When you lie it flat it will fit within that five by seven size. Then with these pieces you want to push the one inch sections away so just push them inside like so you see how they come out this side and then you just want to fold the whole thing in half and then you'll just be able to burnish the ends and that's how the card will be nice and flat make sure they all line up and then when they open the card there is your card shape really really fun and easy to do. Okay now we want all of our mats and layers so I've already stuck my layers on top of my holographic card. I want two pieces of your mat layer so that will be for the front here and for the back if you want to have the back for where you'll write your message and these pieces measure three and a quarter by six and three quarters so two pieces and then the pattern paper to go on top of this one is the same size as this white piece for the back so that's where I'm writing my message and that is three by six and a half so two pieces then this one here is to go on the front so this mat layer is two and three quarters by six and three quarters and the pattern piece is two and a half by six and a half again all the measurements will be in my blog and then I've got this strip here which will go inside this section here and this one measures one and a quarter by six and three quarters and then that small pattern piece is one by six and a half and then you want eight pieces here and these are going to cover each side of the blocks that we've got and these are one and a quarter by one and then the pattern paper is one by three quarters of an inch and you want eight of those sizes so I've stuck all of them already on top now I'm going to stick them on to here I'm going to use my kalau glue and then I've also gone ahead and I've die-cut all of these pieces and I've coloured them so if any of you do have this paper pad and you want on the live and I'll link that live as well because you might want to watch the card I stamped all these and coloured them all during the live but I've stamped them using this one here which is the Harmony Spectrum Iran it's the quick dry I think they have it also in the opaque and in the water resistant range but it's the lagoon colour and it matches perfectly with this paper pad just put it that way just so you can see the lights quite bright there and then the pencils I've used to colour I've used the Arteza watermelon pink for that deeper colour and then I've used the Arteza pink macaroon and that pink colour works really well with the pink that's in this one here as well okay so again I know lots of people like to know the colours that I've used I've also used the glossy accents I'm going to use them when we come to decorate so I'm going to get this all stuck down and then I'll just talk you through how I build that up okay so that's all my mats and legs stuck down so again just pop those bits through because I had it like you know I laid it down flat just so I could do everything but now you can see you're a lovely carver okay so to decorate I've got my Hello Fabulous which I'm going to have across the tops I'll put some foam on the back of that just to add some dimension and then I'm going to use my hot glue to stick it all down but you can use anything it's nice to have a bit of dimension so you know stick some of the elements using some foam pads and I just think that's a nice little touch so we're going to pop that one there hot glue gun here so I've got the little bow so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue on there and just pop that one kind of there I didn't want it to take away from the Hello but it's kind of just on the top there and then I've got my glasses so popped a bit of glue on each one there kind of have that like so let me just bring this in just so I can kind of copy what I've done there so there's that one and then I'm going to lay down the handbag so the kind of the bigger pieces first and then I've tucked all like the little makeup brushes and things like that kind of all in because this glue to it is piping hot always work with your glue when it's piping hot then you've got time to kind of wiggle it around you know you've still got a few minutes before that's really set so and then that one is going to go there so and then it's kind of bouncing let's pop that underneath there there we go hold it in place then I'm going to bring in this one and that can slide in like so just keep kind of you know nestling stuff in as it's drying do that my trim this one pop it in behind the bag and then with these two here and the lips and the other lips I'm going to pop on the back so I'll get rid of those blue strings and then I'm just going to pop some pads onto these and stick the mascara down here and then those lips along the top okay so that's that all stuck down I'm going to open it up and then I've just got some sequins a few of these out and I'm just going to add a few I want to do all of this before I use the glossy accents because that's kind of the last thing so I'm just doing a couple of little blobs of glue there and then lastly let's just close this back up again I can add my glossy accents so I'm going to pop them on the handle of the mascara I'll bring this up closer in a moment so you can see all that lovely shine you get you can sit on the top of the nail polish bottle there and you can see the mascara I mean it shines like the lips do I just think it's a lovely addition so you've got the holographic card stock there you've got the shine from the sequins and also that shine from the glossy accents and yeah I think it's a wonderful shape I really really do like this so Paula thank you for sending me that card and inspiring me Paula was in the chat as well when I actually did case this and show how to make it during the Facebook life and yeah I thoroughly enjoyed it so that's my take on this card style in the 5x7 size so I hope you like it two identical cards there and yeah everything will be shared below and I'll put all the measurements down on my blog as well so thank you for watching you need to hold that one there for a moment and yeah check out the Tower Fold cards that should be popping up on the screen now along with a picture of me if you have wanted to subscribe if you haven't already if you click on that and hit the notification bell then you'll be alerted when I next upload a video so thanks for watching and I'll be back again very soon bye