 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 twisted easel card so this is how it looks when you take out the envelope and then you have this piece that folds and it will just kind of twist around and sit behind the stopper at the front there. It's a really nice style card I've made the twisted easel before I'll link up here that tutorial if you want a bit more inspiration and yeah it just it's very easy to do it's a simple six by six you know open close card you know side folding card but by just adding this diagonal score line you create this effect here and yeah it just gives a really really nice look and then inside you have lots of room to write your message you could if you want have white paper here and have your message there instead or alternatively you can put it on the back which is I think what I might have done on the other tutorial that's up there so yeah really really nice to do six by six all folds nice and flat to fit an envelope so let me show you how to make it. Okay so I've used a few bits and pieces for this card but I've used my two and a half scallop circle punch I've used my two inch circle punch just the plain one and then I've also used the one and a half scallop one these scallop ones are from Dress My Craft so again everything will be linked below. I've used my trusty Posca pen just to add a little bit of detail and then I'm using my bright rosa kit for this one so I hadn't you know gone actually like used it because Christmas just overtook everything so it's been really nice to sit down and do some crafting with this kit so the bright rosa one is floral and very very pretty so this is the die set that I used for the card that I just showed you here so for those of you that have the kit I've used that lovely kind of center like D tower as the topper here and then these squares this one are all using the dies here you can see where I've cut the silver using that that decorative edged one there these are some of the sentiment toppers and then there's all the different circled punches that I've used to create that stopper so that's the one I've used for this one but then I thought of the other bright rosa dies that I have and the sunflower one I thought that would look really nice is like the topper piece so I use this paper this one here which is the one that I've already prepared and I also use the some of these embellishments on that other one actually if you look a bit closer don't know how I can you see on all of the edges or the little you know bits there I've just used the smallest of those rhinestones it looks really really pretty so that's what I used for that card and then I'm using the happy birthday so that's a thank you card I needed one but then I've taken out the happy birthday here is going to be the stopper or topper depending on where you want to put it for the card that I'm going to show you today also all my scraps are in there as well because I like to keep them within my you know each kit so I know where I am okay so first of all you want a six by six card blank so I've got mine here and then all you want to do is within the left hand square is pop it into your scoreboard find the center all right and just keep your stylus in the track bring this piece in so it's the top left okay within this left hand square you want to sit at the six inches and then that score line you send to scoreline here you want to also be within that track so it sits right within that six inches like so and then you just want to score okay and it might be worth while flipping it over and just relining that as well and scoring again I always put my stylus in bring it down keep it in the track and then lie this down you can follow the track of the stylus so you know the bottom point here is nice and straight but just go over that and score again just so you get your folds in the right direction okay so again you should have all that folding on the left hand side and then you're just going to fold that up just need to make mine a bit straighter there don't know why and just crease that each your bone folder as well I'd already done mine before but now you'll see you get that kind of tent effect but it also will fold flat to fit in the envelope but that's the piece that's going to come up okay so that's all of the scoring needed just for that if it's already a pre-made carb length then you're just going to need your scoreboard just for that score line there so this is the dye this is the sunflower band dye by Broke Rosa and I did do a few samples when they launched it but I haven't actually used it for a tutorial yet I do have another card but I've kind of changed it a bit and I do so it's kind of there but I do need to do the video for that one but I've got I do have like I think it's going to work out I'm just still playing around with it because I did change it but it's beautiful this is the big band I've got a few of her band ones and they are lovely but I'm using the smaller one in here so just dye cut that one that one and that one and it's given me these pieces here and then I've also used the circle it's not a circle but just the inner detail that one there as well and yeah all I'm going to do is just shape it a little bit always nice to give any kind of flowers just a little bit of dimension so I always just flip them over and then I've just got this boom and this kind of style no ball bearing is plastic ones they're just a lot of them are for cake decorating I just go under each petal and just kind of shape it will start to curl up and once you kind of do that and then flip it over it just gives a really nice effect and you can just stress them as well and that always adds a little bit of you know more depth to them but now when I flip that over and you push it down you just get a bit more you can see the difference oh stuck there between the two that looks a lot nicer and because where it's creased it gives it again just a little bit more detail and if you add your inks to that it will pick that up even more so I'm just going to quickly flip this one over and do the same okay and I've also just done that piece there as well just to give it a little bit more shape and turn those two over and then I'm just going to use some of my glue and just stick one over the top just kind of you want to offset the top one just so it kind of overlaps like so so you create one big full flower you don't have to you can have one you can also do two different colors as well you know flowers are not perfect they can be anything you want to be but now again what I might do is yeah just kind of give that a little bit of shape in the middle there like so and then I'm just going to add a little bit of glue on the back of that one stick that one down now just put a bit of foam adhesive on the back of that one I'm just going to stick that over the top and then I've got this white one here which again that one's going to be too big I just cut that down again and then I am going to use these ones here from my own stash just because they were really big I wanted something to fill all of that kind of center part so I'm just again going to pop a little bit of glue and just pop that in the center okay so that is my kind of flower all ready to go it looks really really nice I'm gonna leave that to one side and we can get back to the card okay so quite a lot of mats and layers on this one again it's completely you know optional you don't have to have it like that at all but I did like it so what I've got here is I've got this white piece so open up the card ignore all that for the minute then we're just going to concentrate on this right-hand side so I've got this one here so it's six by six this square but this piece here you'll want it to be five and seven eighths of an inch squared so it's just got that very small border okay then I have this piece here which I've used the die from the kit to cut out but obviously not everybody will have that so you'll then want something that is well this is five and a half okay you'll see that sits in there nicely and then this pattern piece was cut with one of the squares from the kit and then I've got this white piece as well but the white is just over five by five and the pattern piece is four and seven eight seven inch square so it just gives you a rough idea of what I've done because I've been working with those dies within the kit but you'll see now when I sit them all over the top on top of each other they look really nice so that's where those are going to go then on the front you want to cut a piece of card stock that's five and a half by five and a half okay and then you're going to well caught then you're just going to cut this one in half on the diagonal so I'm just going to line up those points make sure they're bang on just cut that one in half or I need that again in a second you actually want two pieces that size because I just remembered I also went ahead and stamped my sentiment on the inside so the other half is on the other card so you want two pieces of that size cut them both in half on the diagonal and keep what you know one of them for the inside so these now will go perfectly within the two kind of triangle sections on the front okay then I went ahead and cut this one again which was five and a half and again on the diagonal you just want to cut that in half again and then I did take a little bit more off now the reason I had to take more off this piece is because I didn't want to lose this side this detail so if I go to lay these on top of here now you'll see they just don't they just cover it they just look silly so what I've done is sit this on here but focus on these two corners these two sides here and bring it up like so and you want I guess about 180th of an inch and a border something like that I'm going from the very outer side not those kind of little arches but then you just want to put a little marker here and then trim off that that way you don't lose the detail on the the sides you're just losing that straight edge so I'm just going to line this up in my trimmer and cut that away I'll do the other one in the second but now that sits perfectly and you've got a nice border and that's obviously going to go on the top like so okay so I'm just going to do the same with this one here I'm going to line this one up over the top this is only if you're using this pattern piece or any pattern piece really you'd need to do it that way because obviously it's a die cut so it's already you know the size is set but otherwise if you're just cutting this plane from mirrored card stock you just do this then you'll want it to be a piece of four and seven eighths of an inch squared okay and then just cut it on the diagonal so I've only had to do that just because it was that die that I'd used but now that one's going to go there and that one's going to go there okay and then we've got this piece here which is going to be for the flower to sit in the center of and that's going to be the main feature on the front of the card so the white piece here is four and one eighth of an inch squared and then that lime color is three and seven eighths of an inch squared so again it they're odd sizes because I'm using the dies from that kit but you just want to look at your square dies and anything that's close so if you're lime in my case here it's three and seven eighths if yours is four by four that's fine you know and then just cut your mats and layers if you're doing them freehand and you can follow my size as exact but just work with what you have it's very easy to adapt so I'm now going to go and stick all of these pieces down so the front ones and those mats and layers that I showed you just now inside okay so everything's now stuck down I've also gone and stuck that piece there and now that can come up like so so now I would now do your stopper so I've just gone and pop some foam adhesive on the back of mine you can see there just all the dimension on mine but I like that you don't have to you can just stick them all down but what you want to do now is bring this piece up and it's up to you really where you want it and I'm going to have mine similar to the one before so it's about there and then that will just stop itself there if it's bouncy mine's a little bit of a bounce to it just take your bone folder because I didn't actually burnish this properly and just go along and just burnish that scoreline you see now how flat it is and then it will now be really flat with that which is much better then just close up your card and you want this piece and you're going to line up your well the top right and the bottom left with the that diagonal scoreline like so and then also make sure you got even kind of you know border here but you're only sticking this side so what I would say to do is flip this over so make sure it's all lined up yeah I think that's about right and then and put a pencil mark there and there and now I mean if you've got directional paper you're gonna have to make sure when you flip it over that you're working on the right piece so I need mine to be yeah so I'm gonna add glue now to this car don't go right up to the pencil line leave about 1 eighth of an inch you know a few millimeters just so that it doesn't let any glue doesn't ooze out but you can now stick that half again line up those points onto that scoreline and just stick that all down again just make sure that this is nice and straight and again this kind of corner here is as well just let that kind of do its thing for a minute it's why that's just setting and then gonna bring in my flower and I'm also gonna add a foam pad to the back of this you can use some hot glue just normal glue you want something that's strong and that one there is just gonna stick perfectly in the center like so and then also another thing I forgot it's my Posca pen so this is just a white paint pen so it's just a white paint in there I'm not sure what kind of paint it is but you do need to make sure you give them a good shake when you ever you know whenever you go to first use this and although this is already a stitched die piece I did like you to be able to see the stitching can you see there that white just really love it as like I said in one of my videos when I've done it already I'm kind of on a bit of a thing with this Posca pen at the moment I'm using it so much and it's brilliant but I'm just going around again just kind of following the stitch marks that's already there but I'm kind of doing a double stitch if you haven't shaken the pen enough you'll find it fades it just disappears you can go over it again but do you have to really give it a good shake there's a little like ball bearing inside just to mix everything up because over time it will just kind of settle and split so I can probably give mine a bit more of a shake but I'm just gonna finish this off okay if I just bring out you can see now the difference that that makes I think I also yeah I done it on the topper just around the lime color there and I'd already gone and done it on the pink one there but there is the card all finished there are my two twisted easel cards really easy to make and it's just a nice if you're starting out with your funfold cards and you've just been doing you know your standard top-folding and side-folding a twisted easel ones a nice kind of step into that funfold card and kind of area really because it's just that simple score line yeah it creates such a I think eye-catching card you can imagine when that's you know displayed on someone's mantle side table it's gonna look really really nice so I'm really pleased with how these come out love the colors it's really nice to be working with you know new product and I hope you enjoy them so thank you for watching today as always all of the links to everything that I've used will be shared below and over on my blog please hit the subscribe button if you'd like to see more tutorials and I'll be back again very soon