 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 graduation cap card and basically all it is is the reverse of this diamond easel card that I've done. So there is the one that I shared a few weeks ago now, many of you have been making that one and basically I've done exactly the same thing but I've just flipped it around and it has the same mechanism as the, I think it was pop-up easel or pop-up diamond card that I've done. So both of those different card styles so if you haven't seen this one and you like the look of this one I will link that one up because you could easily have the cap where this piece is just like this one and I will also share the one that has more of a kind of a spring on it, you could also add the cap to that as well. So you've got three options plus I've already done two years ago I done the graduation explosion box which was in the shape of a cap and that's been really, really popular and lots of you have been enjoying that one as well but I never done anything for graduation last year so there's lots of graduations obviously going on and you know it's the season now with that all happening so I thought I would do one. This is really easy to do I think it's come out really nicely so you lift it up and that's you can kind of see how it all works together there so that is purely decorative that just pops in there and then you can write your message it folds flat it will fit in a six by six envelope and then on the back there you've got lots of room to write your message alternatively you could put card in here you could actually have that whole piece in here and have your message but you would kind of see some of it so again it's entirely up to you there's plenty of space anyway but doesn't that look really cool I'll show you how to make your tassel and then I've just used some of the gold cardstock there and yeah it looks really good so let's make it. Okay so I've got this baker's twine here which I picked up from the works no sorry this was from the range it's just the baker's twine you've got five different colors I'm going to use the black and white then I have die cut the celebrate and these stars are just from my own stash the circle is the same circle I used when I made the explosion box and this is the very smallest of my circle dies so that's the one I've used there and this celebrate was part of a celebration die set you've got celebrate amazing you so they're really nice it's a lovely font you can see there and all I've done is I've die cut everything with some thumb foam as well so I pick up the the kind of packs of thumb foam from the range you get all different colors and I just use the black there so I've die cut it in the gold and then I've just die cut one piece of the foam and it just gives you a really nice dimension to your sentiments and you can see there just how much it's lifted off so really like that I do that a lot to be honest okay so you are going to need one piece of so you basically want a six by six card blank but I wanted black and I don't have any black card blank so I've cut this my own now I only had black a four card size so the length of that is just under 12 inches so this card is actually going to be five and seven eighths by five and seven eighths so I know there's probably going to be quite a few of you especially in the UK that will have this same issue with me I don't have a lot of colored card blanks mine are usually just white or maybe cream and things like that so if you're using a four you want to cut some card stock to five and seven eighths of an inch by your um 11 and three quarters which is your A4 default obviously anybody else you would have to cut down some 12 by 12 paper or if you're using letter card size or letter yeah letter paper size yours would be 11 so yours would be a five and a half by five and a half card base so you can do it that way as well just be a little bit smaller so if you do want to use your letter paper then you'll want yours to be five and a half by 11 but for us here in the UK you want a piece that is your A4 standard length by five and seven eighths of an inch so along the longest side you've got your first score line at five and seven eighths so that's our halfway okay and then you're going to score another one at nine I believe it was just down there okay so it's kind of halfway it doesn't really matter with the easel part whether it's you know halfway or slightly off it really doesn't make any difference but now you can fold it in half and you'll see it will line up perfectly so like I said that's five and seven eighths by five and seven eighths you would have scored at five and a half and then you will want to score at two and three quarters which will give you your halfway so you can score at two and three quarters and then five and a half okay so I'm just going to burnish those ones there so right now we just got this normal easel card okay next open it up so you've got your fold facing you okay and then we're going to do our triangles going in here and then out to here so what we need to do is just mark our halfway points so you want to mark halfway along that middle score line so no matter what size you're using you want to mark halfway now because ours is five and seven eighths you just want to mark just slightly shy of three again it's not going to make a huge amount of difference but just slightly there I've just popped my pencil marker just under three we're then going to be joining this score line here this corner up to there and this corner up to there then in this section here along each of these sides again you want to mark the halfway so you know just around about three and again here so again whatever you're using just make sure you mark the halfway and now we're going to score from there to there and there to there okay okay now you can score right across if you want just make sure that you go through that middle point that's why I do I do each one differently because I'm working slightly off just purely because of the size of this but if it is say a bang on six by six piece then you could just go right across there okay so that is our scoring there then all you need to do is this very bottom one is you want to mark again halfway so around about three and you're going to actually cut so you don't need to score you want to do a pencil mark or pencil line even from there and there and you're going to cut that one okay that's what you should have and then these score lines you're going to create mountain folds so that one there and that one there and again mountain folds with the back two like so so those are mountain these ones will then be in the valley fold position fold it all in together and you will have your card okay and now this piece when you pop it into that easel position you fold it down like so it will actually lie against that fold and that is how we're going to have the card then you want a piece that's four and three quarters by four and three quarters and that is going to stick right over there okay like so you want to line up really these left and right corners here with the ones over there it's going to overhang that's what you want it to do you want it to cover so if I turn upside down here probably can just make out there is the actual piece underneath you can see how much it overhangs about a quarter of an inch overhang okay like so so what I would say to do is if you add glue all on the bottom half of that triangle so I'm just going to run some blue all along here and just turn it over just pop that down and just make sure you have that equal overhang like so you should all lie nice and flat okay so now when you bring it up just let it rest against that and that is where your kind of stopper is going to be you can see exactly it's got a really nice shape to it I like this it's really strong as well okay so next we just need to add our mats and layers on the front and I've got this piece here for the cap so this measures four by four I believe yeah four by four and then I've also done a piece of foam foam fun foam underneath in case you can just see how thick that is there okay so again I'm just going to stick that down on top and that will just start to give you your graduation cap look really lie the whole thing down and again this should give you a nice even about a quarter of an inch border or overhang you can see there just get rid of my glue so then I've got these mats and layers so this one is going on the front and this is five and five eighths of an inch by two and three quarters and that one is going to stick directly down in that bottom section again you should have a nice border like so so I'm going to stick that one down okay there's that one and then this one here I'm going to stick on some fun foam and this is the one that's going to start to create our stopper so this piece measures one and a half by five and one eighth and that one is going to if you bring your easel kind of into position and then you just want to make sure that you get a nice little border on the front piece here like so okay and then that one will clip in there probably need to burnish I didn't say actually yeah because you don't want it to be as springy as it is so just burnish there we go and now it will just sit in there like so and then this piece I again I'm going to add some foam and this one measures one and a quarter by four and seven eighths of an inch so again just going to take my backing off and just focus on your border make sure that's all even like so and then I've got all these bits to decorate so I'm going to stick my celebrate down there this just I think really does pull it all together really nicely and then I've got my four stars I'm going to go in like so should have one more which looks like I've dropped it on the floors we'll find that in a second and then I've got my circle and I'm going to show you how to make the tassel once I've stuck all this down okay I still can't find the other star so I will look for that in a minute but I just want to get this all put together so I'm just going to unravel this black and white twine and just with my three fingers here have your end right at the bottom because that will actually become one of the tassels and just wrap it around a few times it depends how thick you want your tassel really so I like mine quite thick so I've gone and done one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve about twelve okay and then finish again at the bottom that's fine then go up and you want to be at the top bunch it all together okay and then come down about a quarter of an inch and just start wrapping around like so and then what I've done is got some glue just all around there and you want to start to kind of stick that down so it doesn't come undone like so and then from the back again add a blob of glue you're going to add hot glue to this eventually and just kind of have it sticking up okay like so just hold that there a second make sure that glue all sets like I said once you add your hot glue to it as well that will really fix it in place and then I'm just going to turn it over and then all of these pieces on the bottom you just want to cut and there is your tassels easy peasy and then you want to cut some off and depending on how much you want overhanging if I bring this one in here you'll see I've got I've stuck hot glue under there so that doesn't move that's stuck there but I've got about barely mind it goes underneath there it's about two inches so I'm just going to double up like so and just get rid of the excess there because we can trim this again in a moment and where you've stuck it on the back you just want to kind of add that to it so I'm just going to pop another bit of glue and just stick that end so now you've got this effect here now if you want to cut all those little loops there you can I'm just going to leave mine as they are but next I'm going to grab my hot glue okay I've turned my hot glue off so I'm just going to use this glue for them and it will still work and I'm just going to add a nice blob of it one on the back there and I stick it about halfway down okay like so and then this comes into the middle and you're going to stick your circle as centred as you can get it so again I'm just going to trim that now so that glue is already starting to dry and then that is going to go and cover the ends but you just want to make sure you do get it really nice and centred so again have a nice amount of glue I think that's about right just let that all stick down there you have it I think they look really really good I love this style and like I said it will work on those other diamond cards that I've shared as well so do go and check them out there will also be a playlist at the end you'll be able to look at those and I will link them on my blog as well but yeah I think they look great you can do them any colors you can go to town with them personalize them with their name here you could have your you know your messages and stuff actually on the cap there's there's so many ways to decorate them I will be back Sunday with my scrapbook layout and Monday with another fun tutorial thanks for watching bye