 Hi everybody it's Sam here and I'm going to be showing you how to make a slide and stand card. I've actually made, I've got two, three versions of this on the channel so I was looking back at some old ones and I thought I would revisit them and change the sizes slightly. So this is a five by seven version, this is how it looks when you take out the envelope and then the sides just slide down and it creates this card here. One of them was a floating slide and stand so all of this is acetate with butterflies on and then I've got two others which are in cardstock and they're also using pattern paper but today's is using this really cool stamp set. Now I actually made this during a Facebook live and you'll see there it stands up. Now you do need to weight it down with cardstock and I've used the Kalau glue so this has now become quite heavy so it kind of sits there quite nicely and obviously stands up. On the back here I've just got to cut a white panel when I write my message on and then I'll stick that onto the back there but this is a very fun comical Christmas card for anybody who hates the Brussels sprouts or even for lovers of Brussels sprouts. So it's very fun and it's very easy to do so don't be put off by this at all but then you just slide that back up and pop it in the envelope but you could also do it that way and pop it in the envelope. Be the same size and then that way when they open it the sides just fall down. It's not so much a slide and stand in that sense but if you are worried that maybe it's rocking or not quite standing up maybe if you put it in the envelope like that it's already then forced into that position and then those would just drop down and over time the weight anyway kind of settles and it will stand in place. So let me show you how to make this really fun card. Okay so the stamp set I've used is this one here that I picked up from Hobby Art and I got it last year in November and this one's the green thing so that's the main one I use to stamp all of the Brussels sprouts and if you want to see that colouring and stamping in more of a normal speed because it was during the Facebook live I'll link that Facebook live below this video and then this is the other one that I brought which works really nicely with this one because it has things for example that say watch out sprouts are about and you have your caution tape which I actually mentioned during the live it would be very good for Halloween as well so that's the two stamp sets there. This one is do not open to Christmas and this one's the green things so I've already gone ahead and done all of the colouring and I'll show you that in more detail in a moment but all you need is a piece of 11 by 5 inch cardstock this is a 225 gsm cardstock and along the 11 inch side you're going to score it one inch two and three quarters three and three quarters five and a half two and a quarter eight and a quarter and ten and these will be written in my blog so that's all the scoring done and then you need to do a little bit of cutting so you've got your middle five and a half score line here along that score line you want to come in half an inch on each side so I've just marked with a pencil at half an inch just here and then I've marked at four and a half there but you could lie your ruler that way at the half inch marker and put another pencil mark okay then using your metal ruler and your I'm using my cutting knife here you can pop it in your trim if that's easier you're going to cut down this but you actually want to remove the score line so you've got a little bit of a gap so I'm just going to cut to the left side there of the score line and I'm just going to cut down the other side so you're removing just a little sliver like so and then I'm just going to cut away the ends there so you can see that little bit and now if I lie it down you can see that section that I've cut away okay then I've got my mats and layers you might find this easier to stick it all down whilst it's flat so you'll see that I've covered the bottom even though you don't see it obviously when it's open but I think when that person takes it out of the envelope it's quite nice to see that but it's up to you so you may want two or four of the sizes that I'm going to give you so these ones here you'll want two or four that are one and a half by four and three quarters which is the black and then the white that I've stamped on is one and a quarter by four and a half and I'm going to obviously I need to have these ones facing away from me so they're going to go in there this one's going to be the front so I'll have that one there and then I'll put that one down there and then that one like so and these pieces so the black is three quarters of an inch by four and three quarters and you'll want two of them so I'm going to pop one there and then this one will go in here although that one looks like it's short it is that's okay it's on the back we can get away with that one get that all stuck down and then also on the very end sections you want to run some tape if I can find the end here we go bring your tape right to the very edge of the card stock okay and just cover the rest of that section so just that one inch part and the end here okay and then I can get that all stuck down you might want to burnish your score lines as well before just burnish them all so that mountain folds okay so that's all stuck down and what I'll do is I'll just actually fold and burnish my score lines now so okay then you want to grab this piece here so you'll see I've decorated this one already and like I said you can see how I've done the coloring and the masking on the facebook live but this is three and seven eighths by six and seven eighths so it's just slightly shorter than four by seven and what you want to do is pop it so make sure these are facing you those ones are facing away from me because obviously that'd be the right way once you put it together but you're going to pop this in okay and then so you can see there it's sticking inside okay this one here take the backing off the bottom and then you want to pull this down keep it nice and straight and lay it down so it runs flush with the bottom of that folded piece like so okay don't worry that this is sticky because what's going to happen now is you'll bring this one down take the backing off of this one here fold that now under there and then the whole thing will line up and stick together like so so now you slide that down it will stand up like so so now that's facing the correct way and that's facing the correct way then what I didn't do during the live was add my sentiment it wasn't till after the live I realized and thought oh my but what I've done here is I stamped the watch out sprouts are about and then I've also stamped the hat here because I just thought it would just make it more Christmassy and I've just cut four strips of this black card stock and I've used it now to look like a little pole for the sign it looks and again I've stuck it all together with the cloud glue so it's really really strong while that's drying I've got this piece here which is going to frame my actual sentiment when I write that on the back or stamp it and that's three by five so I'll just grab some glue on the back of that this is all adding strength to the card I'm just going to stick that one and you'll have a nice frame from when it's in its you know 3d shape you'll see there how it sits nicely within that section like so and then I'm just going to yeah I'll lie this one flat so I can stick down my watch out sprouts are about because you want to make sure that it doesn't go over this you know your five inch width otherwise it won't fit in your envelope but I'm going to have it just along there just like so okay so that's now had a chance to dry so that's how it looks when they take out the envelope and then you just slide down the sides and it will stand up like so that's how it looks from the side I love the sign but you could also put your sentiment here but make sure if you add any dimension onto this that it doesn't go below where this slides up so you've got all of that area there that you could add dimensions you'll see there the cap or the little Santa's hat I've actually put on foam because it doesn't go up that far but you need this to have the clearance to slide up and down okay like I said it does settle it will just stay there and the card will slowly just you know settle down into that shape but if you're worried that it's just too bouncy you do need to add the mats and layers and the collow glue I can't rave about it enough it's brilliant for adding strength and weight as well to your cards but you can also fold it that way if you would prefer and then when they take it out that will just naturally drop down and it will stand up so I'll just bring in the other one and we have it two very fun slightly different Christmas cards so I hope you've enjoyed it and thank you to everybody that watched the Facebook live it was really fun and I'll be back again very soon with more fun tutorials bye