 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 pretty spectacular card. I love this and it's a pull-up card but I'm going to add in concertina because I think that defines it a little bit more. So a pull-up concertina card and it's, I love it. I've really really enjoyed making this. This idea came from a lady called Leslie on one of the Facebook groups that I you know I'm joined. I'm a member of I guess and she directed everybody to JK Arts on YouTube. So I had a look at theirs and I just thought this is really really really cool and it kind of bounces up and down as well. So you can write your sentiment on the bottom. I still need to add my white piece there. I forgot to do that one but yeah I just think it's great. I've got an envelope here for it as well so I'll talk through that in a minute but let's get into it. So you are going to need, so I've done loads of it because you don't need to watch me sticking on a load of squares so I've already done three of my concertina kind of strips so those ones can go there. So basically you are going to need, pull that off to one side for a moment, so you need four of these strips which measure two by twelve and along the twelve inch side you want to score at every two inches. So two inches, four inches, six inches, eight inches and ten. Now you want to do that on all of the four pieces okay so four of those. Then it comes down to all the kind of the little mats and layers on each of your strips so here's one of them here. So you have six squares but the bottom one you're not going to stick anything on that one's going to actually be hidden so it's only these five. So for the largest mat behind you would need 20 of those and they measure one and three quarters of an inch squared okay so that's three. Then the layers on top you would need so you would need 16 if you're going to do a sentiment like I am. If you're not and you just want them all the same then you'd need 20 of them again and those pieces measure up at my ruler there. These are one and a half inch squared okay so 16 or 20 of those depending on whether you want to put a sentiment in the middle of each one like I have. Right that's all those gone through we will assemble that all in a moment. Then you are going to need for your main base it's a piece of six and a quarter inch squared and then the mat to go on top of that is six by six. So if you're using six by six paper packs then just tear out one of them that's perfect that's your base. Then for your strips that go across to kind of hold it all together so this piece at the top here this criss-cross here I've got these pieces now I'm going a bit thicker this time and these are seven eighths of an inch by three and a quarter two of those and then if you want to finish it off again this just kind of covers it a little bit at the top you can see there I've got the little discs so I've got two of the large ones because there's one underneath and then I've got the same with that one on top and they are one and a half inch squared for the largest and the smaller one is one okay so that is everything there and that's all of our scoring done so get rid of all of this. So it is a very very easy card yeah it really does pack a punch I think it's an awesome card and I know what I'm going to be doing with this one so you will have these four strips if I just lay mine out there okay so you can already see what you've got to do it's like I said it's pretty self-explanatory so first of all with the bottom one okay you want to fold that down then up down up and then down okay so you will have that shape you want to make sure both the ends are facing down okay so it's a mat yeah you should have three mountain folds then lie it down and just so you remember not to stick on the bottom I just tuck it under so you should have one two three four and five then you want to mat all of your little one and a half by one and a half squares on top and then stick all these on top now I find it easier to decorate it all like this before we put it together because you can kind of see what you want to do and you can lean you know push down on your harder surface to make sure to make sure things stick and so on and so forth so I'm going to get those five stuck down quickly okay so they are all stuck so that's what you should now have is four of these with four blank squares at the bottom of each one and then if you've got the sentiments like I have I've got them running through the middle so now we need to assemble so you've got your main mat which is your six and a quarter which is my dart piece and then I've got my pattern piece here which is six by six this is the piece that we're going to be sticking these two and this is what I've done that's different to the other tutorials because they stick on top but I love my pattern paper and I just like to be able to see all of that so if you open up this you can just see you can see all of it and it's actually that last one is underneath that pattern paper there and sandwich between the pink so flip it over and what I've done is I've drawn a cross through the middle so just mark it three inches on each side and just join that up to create a cross this is just purely to help you line up these pieces here because what we're going to do is pop glue on the reverse side and then we're going to stick it on the back and you just want to use that pencil as a guide to make sure you get it halfway on each side so you know it's sat in the middle of this side and you need to do that on all four sides so I'll do this one first just to show you so just gonna swatch some glue there and then gosh pop it on the side first until you're kind of happy use your wet glue because it is easier than to wiggle it about a little bit but I can see there and if it's a couple of millimeters either way it's not going to make too much of a difference but overall you do want it as centered as possible like so so when I flip it over now you get that nice all you see is that lovely pattern paper so that's that one then you can just lie it down on the side like that then get the next one flip it over again put the glue on this side here and you can go straight down if you want but it's probably best to hook it on the side slightly and it should just join up the center when it's in the middle it will meet with the very corner of the last one that you stuck down so again it's just a good way to just help you get it really centered and all nicely lined up so I'm just going to go and do the other two okay so that's all stuck on the reverse you can see now so if I flip it over carefully and then you should be able to fold each one over on the other side so and you want them to all meet up like that so that was easy wasn't it so now you want to grab these two pieces here and you want to stick them over each other like this so I'm just going to put a little bit of glue in the middle and again you can just kind of hold it in place wiggle it around until you're happy if you want to get a pencil out and measure it all you can but as long as you get a pretty spot on there just let that dry a minute okay so that's all done then I'd already stuck my circle on top and I'm not going to stick any of this down yet but if you hold the circle over so it's all nicely lined up and then just with my whole punch I'm going to punch through the center of that circle it just means you get a nice kind of everything's even and then I can just use that circle you could do all four if you want but sometimes you can get quite thick and hurt your hands now I can just put those two together pop that one and then I've got that so that's just all our circles sorted now I'm going to grab this and basically you want to do two opposites first and you just want to stick them so they're equal so hang on a minute because I need to lie it all down so when it's flat them under each one like so you want it to I don't know how to explain this you can see what I'm doing basically they're going to stick you have about three quarters of an inch going under each one like so so you want that nice even cross in the middle so what I would do is sit it in place like that and then with my pencil I'm just going to draw a pencil line on each of those where they are and then if I bring that up you can see now move that there again let me just draw those pencil marks a little bit more defined because you're not going to see these and I can easily rub them out but basically I'm just drawing the pencil mark up to the point where the card covers so I know where I can glue so let me just measure what this is so half an inch yeah it's a little bit over a little yeah half an inch on each one so if you just draw a pencil mark they go half an inch up on each one that's where you need to glue okay so now I can just pop a little bit of glue I'm just going to do two at a time or you might get yourself into a bit of a mess so stick that one again make sure it's in the middle like so there we go I can rub those pencils out in a moment so I'm not too worried and then pop some glue push those down and push them down as long as you've got something underneath each one and that little cross is it in the middle is nice and centered it will be fine so now bring that one up oh it's glued it still needs to set a little bit okay so that's all now glued into place so now if I pop it on its side look at that it is just so cool really really cool so now oh we need to stick this on our base so it will go on nicely so you get a lovely frame and it just does kind of bring it all together so I am going to flip this one over and just pop my wet glue all on this okay so just put your hands inside there and you can just make sure that's all nicely stuck down and secure okay and then just bring that all in together like so here we go I love this these papers this is from the oh gosh which one's this one the first edition Wonderlust I believe sure it is pretty 100% pretty 100% I'm pretty sure okay so I've got some ribbon it's entirely up to you how long you want to do this but basically I'm going to do so I'm not tying a knot so I'm going to fasten it slightly differently let me just see how long this one was because I like I like what I've got on this one here so that's 10 so do 12 so I give you the little bit too so 14 let's just come down bit there so okay so I've got my 12 inch ribbon folding half and then basically you want to thread it through underneath like so that's going to be hard for me to show you this but you want to split the ribbon apart to be honest you can do anywhere you want but I just quite liked the way that I'd done this before because it means I'm going to do it that way actually that you don't get any bulk you don't get that knot just created more bulk so pop it in split it apart and basically so I've split my ribbon apart underneath there I know it's hard for you to see probably this is going to be the most fiddliest part of the whole card basically when you split it apart you don't want any of it overhanging so you can see it you want it all hidden because you're going to put glue all in here I find the hot glue works best and then you're going to stick that underneath and then thread that through the top again put some hot glue or wet glue would be fine there because it's just card on card but underneath it's obviously the fabric and just sandwich it all together you just want to hide that ribbon and I just thought it looked much much neater and like I said you don't get any bulk and it lies completely flat so I'm just going to finish that off okay so that is the card finished so you can see the ribbon there it's all nicely concealed and none of it is showing or hanging out underneath um yeah there it is finished absolutely love it so now we can do the envelope so if you want to if you know what you're doing I guess you can make a box but it does lie flat enough if you're going to be putting more in it maybe and put in photographs and stuff then I would guess you would need to make a box I chose not to because I'd use so much card and everything for that that I figured I'm just going to go for an envelope so you need a piece of nine and three quarters squared just double check though it was yep and you want to score at um let's just pop this one in it's at four and seven eighths of an inch so you want to punch and I can't find my little tool for this so I can't use that one that's way too big just do that one there um and just score if you haven't got one of these um I will share the tutorial where I'll show you how to use it so and then just line up those ones with your line so I've got a piece there to decorate the top just get rid of this and then what you can do is just grab your envelope and your envelope your card and sit it on the square and you'll see it sits perfectly just gives you a little bit of a border so just go around burnish all of those score lines okay and then choose which one's going to be top which I will have that one because it's not been cut into so these two are going to be folded in with that one going over to finish it all off so I'm just going to run do my tape on here take one off first and then you can stick the other one the top of it onto that and then the last one burnish all of those sides flip it over and then that's going to go there and I'll put a little white square on it near the time when I know who I'm going to give it to and if I am going to post this then I would put it inside another bag anyway so there we go just finishes that off and then when you get it I'm not going to decorate this anymore I mean I put you can see there and you're seeing all the pictures I put butterflies on the top of that one and I put these gorgeous little faceted like gemstones on the bottom there as well so I'm going to leave this kind of as is turn it over I need to put some other card on that base pop it in and you'll see that it does fit in nicely and then that can be sealed up there's a little bit of bulk but it does go flat and it all fits in that envelope so yeah I really really love this I just I've enjoyed it so much so take that one back out again just so you can see them both so there you have it two very unusual pull-up concertina cards I guess that's what I'm going to call them just trying to look for my other envelope I think I've just dropped it somewhere anyway there you go I've rubbled on it's done love them I think they're really really fun hope you've enjoyed them too give them a go remember to share them on my facebook page and yeah until next time thumbs up if you enjoyed today and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye