 Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I'm going to show you how to make this four step card this is a six by six version you can make these in any size some people add an extra piece here so it closes like a card so you open it up and then this comes out as well but I've just stuck with the four here I think I've done a three on the channel and I've got other kind of step cubes and things like that so I'll add this to the playlist I thought is July I've got to do a little bit of Christmas in July I'm not going to do too much maybe two or three cards I will be starting my full blown Christmas makes at the beginning of November but I will be also launching my own collection very soon so this is what we're going to make you've got room on the back there to be able to decorate further and write your message so let me show you how I made it so I've got this template here so you want a piece of cardstock that's nine by six I've got my white piece here but I wanted to do this template it just helped me explain it better during the live now I have done pencil lines all the way through here so I've kind of got a grid and then I've just popped the black lines and the red is the cut line so you can see already there where I've cut into it so what I think is best to do is I'm going to score directly onto this one and I'm going to talk you through how I score you might want to lightly do the grid all over the cardstock you want to use and then score where I'm going to tell you and then use your trim out your cutting knife to cut these sections here like I said I during the live I just went straight in to score this and all I'm going to do is score all of these lines here and use my scoreboard the measurements along there so if you don't want to use the scoreboard and you want to mark all the pencil marks first of all you want to mark along the top and the bottom one and a half first of all then at three then at four and a half six and seven and a half so every one and a half you want to put a little marker on with a pencil and then again you know you could just sit your cardstock at the top here and just mark again at every one and a half then you want to pop it on its side and you're going to do one and a half three and four and a half and again one and a half three and four and a half and just join those markers up along the top and the bottom until you have that grid okay and now we want to start the scoring so I want to make sure you can get the measurements in at the top there and then you can just see this here so first of all if you've got all your grid marks in now you just want to score it one and a half down to one and a half so you'll have your little grid there so you're just going to score down I'm going to just use the side of my scoreboard here and I'm going to score one and a half down to one and a half like so next I'm going to score at three down to three okay three all the way down to three again if you don't have a ruler on the side of your scoreboard just pop a ruler there and you can even lay a ruler down right underneath the number if you'd prefer then a lady mentioned in the live just to flip the card around like so and do again that mark so one and a half down to one and a half and then three down to three okay now all we need to do is this middle score line here so it's at the halfway mark so it's at four and a half but you're going to miss the first one and a half and miss the last one and a half you just want to score from one and a half down to four and a half so I'm going to come in here you can see roughly there so one and a half down to four and a half about there okay so you can see there's my four lines or five because obviously that one there as well so one two three four five then I'm going to pop it on the short side and now I'm going to get everything in shot there I'm now going to join up this marker so the end now you're focusing on the end of the score lines so I'm going to join that one up to this one here and that's at the one and a half inch so again I'm just going to hovering it over there I'm going to start joining it up here and you'll kind of find your track and then come all the way down if I haven't joined up that's that's better if you go over then you might have to just kind of burnish the score line kind of rub it out if you've done your grid with your pencil marks then you won't go over anyway but this is me being a bit lazy in all honesty I just go in this way it's kind of how I work so you can see there I've not joined that up so I'm just going to pop it back in and just join them up there so back to that way again so we've just done this score line although it's a cut line as well I just think it's quite good to score them next you want to come down to the next one where you've got the end and you're going to join that to the next end one and that's at three inches so pop in my stylus in the track like so and again you can see I've not joined that one up so popping it back in and that's at six inches so I'm just gonna join that up so you can start to see now how we've got this kind of step effect coming down and then I'm just going to flip it now to the other end so we've just joined up that line and that line so now I'm flipping it and I'm going to join up this last one here so again it's at the one and a half so I'm going to start there and then come down again not quite joined it up so that's fine you can come in that way and these and I know it's nice and neat so you'll see now we've got that pattern which is exactly the same as that now when you cut you're just cutting these three lines you're cutting between those two which again you can see there so I'm just going to get rid of the scoreboard and get my cutting mat out okay so I've got my metal ruler and you want to make sure you're cutting nice nice and sharp and I'm going to sit this down so first of all I'm cutting this one here so make sure you just push the ruler right down and then with your knife on a slight angle you're going to cut into the ruler so all the way down like so so if I just bring that up you'll see now I've cut that slot and then again do the middle one and the same with the last one if you don't have a cutting knife or you don't like using cutter knife and ruler then you can use your trimmer because you can just drop the pin down and just move that way you need it to go next we want to just start to fold them now I'm going to actually stamp in these ones here so I'm going to do that now and then decorate it but I want to stamp it while this is still completely flat but we do next want to burnish it and I'll show you that in a second okay so I've just gone and stamped ho ho ho and I've popped a little image of a present there and I'm going to colour that in in a moment so next you want to do your folding so start with the top that score line here is going to become a valley and this one a mountain okay so actually all of those need to be valleys so if you just kind of push all of these ones here so they all become valleys and then just start pushing this out the rest will just fall into place so if you just focus on like I said these ones here so they're all a valley fold all these will become mountains and then you'll be able to fold the whole thing over into the six by six size and then just burnish it with your bone folder just be careful you don't want to get any markings so I wouldn't burnish this because you might mark and this is the front of your card so I'm going to just go under here and just burnish those score lines just keeps everything nice but now you'll see it's almost flat and then they're really easy for the person to open it up and stand it up and you can see the ho ho ho there looks really cool so that's the main card blank now you may have done all of this in pattern paper so you won't need to worry about your mats and layers so what I would suggest you do in first is make the template which I've got here because now I just use that on all my colored paper and I just draw around this and cut it out so I'll keep that with all my other templates so if you cut yourself a piece of scrap paper to five and three quarters by five and three quarters and then with a ruler so all the squares are the same within this section here so these three six nine they're all the same size these ones are slightly different they're more of a rectangle so you want to mark at one and a quarter two and three quarters and four and a quarter and then do the same along the bottom so one and a quarter two and three quarters and four and a quarter join those lines up now when you rotate it make sure you rotate it because this is the one and a quarter rotate it so that now is over this side here and then again do the same one and a quarter two and three quarters and four and a quarter and again one and a quarter two and three quarters and four and a quarter and just join up the line so you've made the grid like I have. When you go to mark all this off here make sure you've got your one and a quarter here and so on you'll see anyway and then you're just going to mark out so they're all the one and a half by one and a half one two three four five six and that's what you're going to cut away to give you this. Okay so you're keeping all of those rectangle ones on your template and then you've got three one and a half by one and a half squared sizes in the middle there. I'll take photos of this again it will go on to my blog so you'll have that for reference. Once you've got your template and like I said you can then just lay it on your paper so I'm using this lovely paper from the same pad that I used for this one so you can see the stars there and it's called North Star it was actually out last I think it was last year so I'm using this one here because I thought it still looked like a snowy background so I think for the front I'm gonna have this corner down here so I'm just gonna sit this I'm actually going to flip it over so all the pencil marks on the back and I'm just gonna lay the template down and then just draw around it. Now this is a non-directional paper so it doesn't really matter you know how I have this but I'm gonna have that one in the corner and then so to not waste this paper I'm then gonna bring my template down and bring it as close as I can to the previous one but I'll come out a little bit just so I can fit my pencil lines in and then again I'm just gonna draw around this one okay and then if you want to do two more for the back then just draw around two more but now I'm just gonna cut all of that out okay so now I'm gonna stick those down so that's stuck down now I've actually just swapped it because I just I love this snow effect here but if it's down here you're not really gonna see it because I'm gonna do the same decoration here minus the flowers whereas just with the Merry Christmas up there I think it's you're just gonna see all that more so I've already gone ahead and cut all these and I've had a couple of the gnomes left over from the live and I'll just show you everything I've used so the gnomes are from an old issue of card making and papercraft magazines from 2018 and it's Nick the Gnome but I know some people had success getting this off of eBay I believe I can find some links I will share them it's really cute and then you also had these which was a November edition which was the cutest couple they're very sweet as well so I've used that and then I've taken the Merry Christmas this was a hobby base die for the sentiment which I've already done that and I die cut it with foam and then a glitter card and that's gonna go on the top there so it's really lifted it's got lots of dimension it's really nice and then for the big tree here so I'm gonna have more trees on the front it's the paper discovery and it was the elegant room builder and it builds a lovely Christmas scene there's little Christmas decorations but because this is more of a woodland outdoors I didn't bother with the decorations and for the Ponsettias on that one it's this here which is a Lisa Horton Creative Expressions one I think it was again a couple of years ago and it's the cut and lift collection it was the Ponsettias again if I can find any of those links I will share them below but I'm just gonna pretty much copy this one I'll talk through the glitter that I've added at the end actually no I'll show that before I stick the gnomes down it's but I'll show it now it's just the Nuvo Vintage drops in white so I just squeeze it along and then whilst it's still wet I just use this inexpensive snow-like glitter and sprinkled it over the top and that's what gave me that really nice effect so you'll see me do that in a moment and then yeah I'm just gonna stick them down and then trim it so I think I'm gonna do them three staggered like that and then just a couple more lifted on foam so it's just got more of that that woodland look so I've actually got five of them there and then I've got my three little gnomes which I'm gonna pop on the front around the presents. It's all finished now so you just see me add the glitter I've just layered everything up so it's still drying a bit there but I love the ho ho ho that appears on the side so although they are the same card style I think that slight change in decoration there so you can see these ones here actually one and a quarter squared pieces if you do want them out there because I don't think I mentioned that again it will be in my blog both ways look really nice but I do really love that ho ho ho and then they both stand up really nicely so thank you for watching today as always everything that I've used will be listed in the description box below there'll be some more tutorials popping up now the playlist for these kind of cards I've probably already shared along the way so yeah have a look at that maybe watch the videos that are showing if you haven't subscribed click on the subscribe button hit the bell and it will go red and that way you'll be notified every time I upload a new video thanks for watching and I'll be back again soon