 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft and thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is project number five, yeah number five of the creative card series 2018. This is also a hobby base kit tutorial so I usually do them on a Wednesday but because I'm doing this series and I'm uploading every other day it's fallen that Tuesday is the day for the upload so it's coming to you a day earlier. I absolutely adore this card I think it's wicked, it's not my idea. I found this, I forgot the ladies channel, it's a five-year-old tutorial. I don't think she's going anymore but I'll share her when I find it again I'll share it below in the description box and she called it a twist and fold card and it is so easy. So I've sammified it, I've put my touch on it and I've done this for a friend and you can see there if I just see lovely little flowers there, these were in the kit, the papers were in the kit, this is a wood veneer which I've heat embossed which was my own stash but I'll show you how to do that and then basically you open it up and inside it has this little tuck here. Now I've just made this tag but this is perfect and the lady whose tutorial I saw she put a gift card in here and I thought that was a really good idea but if you weren't putting a gift card in here and she had a sentiment stamped here I've just made this tag to put another little message on you could put a few tags in there you could even put a little envelope with a little kind of flat gift in there as well piece of jewelry that would work as well so it's got lots and lots of you know uses and I'm going to talk you through the envelope at the end as well so that is the one I've done here and it's got these grays and kind of light greens you know all the kind of gray kind of tones but I really like the way it's come together. So the one I'm going to be using today or making today even is green with greens the base color and then this paper here which we also received in the kit and now I've already gone ahead and done all the the bits that you don't need to see me doing but I'm going to talk you through the basics. I am not going to I'm going to do this one as a friends card as well again but I'm going to leave all the inside plain and I'm not going to do the tag because again that was from my own stash so it's you know a tag is easy to do you can a lot of people have died and tag punches as well so we'll leave that bit out but what you need is for your main card base is a piece of six by twelve okay so that's really easy then to mat this piece here on the front and this piece here on the middle on the inside story is a piece of five by six and one eighth so you need two pieces of five by six and one eighth okay then you need one piece of three by six and that is for your first mat here so you see I've got that light color just there then to layer on top of that I've got a piece of two and three quarters by five and three quarters okay so that is all the paper that is needed so scoring you don't need the scoreboard I'm just going to get rid of that but get your stylus and a ruler down there so what you want to do okay so with your green piece here I've already just done one just to make sure I get it right for the video so your ruler we're going to score on the diagonal from the bottom left here to the top right now the ruler won't stretch so if you grab another ruler and just butt it up to the end there and just get it so it's all lined up so that your line from your rulers runs perfectly from corner to corner okay start scoring to all the way to the end of your 12 inch your normal ruler there and then you can get rid of that now because now you've got that score line you can just follow that score line to the end of that corner there okay so just so you get that continual line which you can see there then what you want to do is with your ruler is along the top you want to put a pencil mark at four and a half inches okay and then down on your bottom right hand side you want to again come in at four and a half inches then join those two lines up okay I wasn't sure which way I want to fold so I've got a slight fold there but you won't see that so you should now have this long score line here and then this from four and a half inches in pencil mark four and a half inches in on the bottom there pencil mark and then score that one then what you're going to do is fold over in half so you've got a perfect crease there get your bone folder that's all nice and then with this one you're just going to fold it in half and where we folded it it will give you that perfect fold now if it buckles a little bit like mine is there you just need to light down flat and get your bone folder and just really heavily burnish it to smooth it all out okay and there is your card so if you stand that up that's how it will look burnish this one again nice and crisp and there is the card so that is the I guess where she's got the name of twist and fold because you're twisting the paper across itself and then folding it in half so that's the card base done now for your all your kind of mats and layers so the bigger one of your two here depending on what it is that you decided to use grab your trimmer pop it in so this is the piece of three by six pop it in on an angle so you're going to do in my case I'm doing so with this the shorter I've got it in portrait mode so you want to go from top left to bottom right we're going to cut so pop it in your trimmer pop your points so they're in the track like so and then what I do when I'm cutting from a corner is I actually start in the card and that way you won't buckle your corners you see they have still got two nice sharp corners so now I've got two pieces which is perfect that's what we want and then the same with your other piece pop it in line up in the tracks if you've got directional you will have to do two of these pieces so the ones where I said it was two and three quarters by five and three quarters you will need to cut two because this one is going to go on here and then open it up and it's also going to go in here and because it doesn't matter which way my paper goes I can use both those pieces but if this was directional this piece would now be upside down because it was on the top like that you're then turning it around so bear that in mind you may need two pieces of your pattern paper so now that's all of our triangles done so they are now going to all sit on top of each other and you probably can't really pick it up so much here but when you see it and when it's against the green bring it in here it's got a nice it does give it a border you can kind of just pick it up there so and you'll see it better in the pictures so that's that piece then with these pieces here so these are our six and a quarter by five along the six and a quarter inch side you want to with your ruler just come in and put a pencil mark at four inches along the top here so you can see already I've put a little pencil mark just there four inches then along the other side you want to put a pencil mark at three inches and I've already done that so three inches up here four inches here pop it again in your trimmer and you're going to cut from those corners those points sorry so like so and then from that four inch one you're going to cut down to the bottom right hand corner of that card that will now give us a perfect layer Matt even for inside there it's gonna go in that pocket sorry like so okay see how that one goes in just need to move it around a bit so that's that one there now what you can do is cut it again or just sit it on top of your second piece and just trace it or you can sit it in your trimmer which I'm going to do here and lay my bit on top so I can see now that's in place and I can just go straight in and cut that and now I know that that's cut point there I just need to line that up to the bottom like so so now you will have those two pieces okay so that's all your mats and legs done so now you want to start sticking them all down so like I said these ones are going in here and in here and then your bigger so your plain pieces so that one is going to go there with more pattern on top and then again on the inside there and then we can start decorating with all the bobbits pieces so I'm just going to go ahead and get all that stuck down and when you go also when you go to stick this one down if you just open it up and then you can sit it in there and it just makes it a bit easier for you to obviously work where it needs to go okay I wasn't happy with this mat when I put it down it's not I mean I've moved it a bit on that background you're not going to see it so it's okay but when I put it on here it just doesn't seem to be doesn't work right so what I've worked out is actually you want to come in so this one was at three inches coming up on the side that one's fine but then the the marker that you've done along the top there I think it's actually going to be better let me just line this up with my grid but you want to come in at three and three quarters so come along there three and three quarters and come up this side at three I'll put it all on my blog but yeah I just it wasn't giving me that nice border and I done this all by hand at first and then I measured it and I think I've probably just measured it slightly wrong so now open up the front one see that sits in there perfectly you've got a nice like quarter-inch frame all the way around okay so like I said everything will be in my blog and I will also write that up on this video as well just so you know exactly what it is you've got to do okay so there is the card with all of the mats and the layers done and there's inside as well so it's it really starts come together and you start to really see the shape now one thing I did do on the one here is I oh I've got a bit of glue there and it's not got worried then I thought I dropped a bit of glue and I've sealed this pocket on the front so here it's open at the moment I'm gonna actually seal that shut but entirely up to you because you could imagine this is here you could do something with the front there and you could have a little tag you know have that with something on it if you wanted to but I've kept mine in the inside I just quite like it kind of poking out the top there so I am going to stick that down so I'm just going to open this up and just put my glue just all in that top triangle and what I found as well by gluing it down is it did kind of make it a bit stronger and kind of stay in place you know this doesn't want to like pop open or anything so again once you do it and you can you know see for yourself you can decide which way you prefer so just stuck that one down just gonna flip it over just make sure that glue and just really burnish all those lines again get that all spread out and by doing this as the glue dries you you really flatten it and straighten it as well I mean this glue is paper friendly so it doesn't warp anyway but this would just help just to make it really really strong okay so you can see now I've got a real nice sharp side there to my card and it just I just personally I think I prefer it that way okay so I went ahead as I showed you at the beginning and I die cut all of these I don't know what color I was gonna have on the top basically I've done six flowers because with these ones that we got in the kit remember if I showed the diet the beginning or not it's one of the dinky guys we've got to and this was the flower one that we got and I really like it so I'm just layering them up so I don't know whether I'm gonna have the darker on the back like I did on this one and then starts layering them there or whether I'm gonna have the the darker color on the front and pop them there so I'm just gonna have a little play around and see what I decide to do okay so I'm gonna go for the green on top so I think I'll do first is just on the one that's going on the back and just spudging some glue in the middle there and then with the one going on top you just want to overlap them slightly just so you see little bits of the one underneath okay so again it just brings them to life a bit more just you know it's better than just a flat flower nobody likes a flat flower and again just move it around until you get all of your points underneath poking through okay so that's those in place then I'm gonna start popping them down so the back one there I'm just kind of mirroring what I've done here so pop some glue it's kind of coming over the edge there and then these ones went on some dimensional stickers so just put one there and on that and this was so that I could feed these kind of leaves behind so that one is gonna go there I can there will do and then this one overlaps all three of them like so okay then I've got all of these here so again I've used what four so too dark and too light so I'll pop them away with the other bits and pieces for later and then it just literally there's no kind of rule with this just pop them in I always trim a bit off because I don't want them too long a little bit of glue on the very ends there and then with my pokey tool because this one's flatter just gonna lift it up a little bit and just pop that under and then with the lighter one cut it at a different length so you just got you know they're not all the same okay so you can see now how cool that's all coming together so I need to get my sequins but also what I'm gonna do first of all show you how to heat emboss any kind of wood for nears or anything really as long as it's not plastic because you'll melt it so as long as it's and if it's metal you need to be careful because that will obviously get very very hot so just be careful but wood is okay as long as you're careful with the heat so again it could it could burn so you just want to be careful with it so I have got my okay so grab some VersaMark and I've got a piece of copy paper here and just ink up just covering that like so and then my silver embossing powder here just going to just drop it over the top there and just kind of with the back of my spoon here you can see I'm completely covering it just so I can press down on top just so that it does completely cover it I'm gonna do two layers you can do three it gives it more of a metal look but I think two on that one was fine it does almost give that effect anyway and then just find where you popped it and shake off any excess and then we want to heat set that so I'm just going to pop that over there for a second make sure it heats all nice and hot first and then just as you would just keep it moving don't keep the heat in one area because that's when you will cause it to walk or even burn and that's not what you want to do because some of the embossing powder has gone on to the sides I'm gonna heat set the sides as well because you don't want any of this powder like still kind of tacky or not set it's just gonna end up coming off on your card so you do need to make sure it's sealed right up to the end and then just go along the sides and you can see any bits that you might have missed okay so that's that one done there and I've noticed that some of it is just inside I'm just going to carefully just get rid of that like so and then bring over your powder again just give it a little bit longer than you would usually just to set but already that's dry and then just ink it up again and just repeat but what you can do this time is just with the powder that's already on the paper there as I can just move that around making sure it's completely covered and the good thing about this is if you've missed a bit you can just go back into it again and let me just check there that all looks good again always tap off any access any excess so and then just heat set that again okay so let's just bring that up now and you can just see just with two layers gives it almost like a bubble effect and it looks brilliant it's really really cool so it's just a fun way to transform any wood veneers that you may have and you're just like actually I don't use them like that you can paint them which is what a lot of people do but you can emboss them as well so heat emboss should I say so I'm just going to let that just set a little bit while that one's just drying I'm just going to pop some embellishments on my flowers here sticking with the silver theme and we got these in a kit couple of months back so everything gets used there we go okay so that one is dried pretty much I think so I'm just using my tacky glue here it's very lightweight and this glue dries completely clear so I'm just popping some glue on the back and then I just popped it across on an angle of course you can pop any sentiment you want stamp sentiment I just thought this looks quite nice across the card like so so there are the two twist and fold cards like I said I'm not going to do the tag for the inside this was just a nest of tag dyes that I had but you could just cut out if you've got rectangle and dyes you just cut the three sizes down hole punch it pops and ribbon and there's your tag but I thought I'd leave this one playing because I may want to use it for a gift card or another little envelope in there or just something different so I'm leaving that one playing for the moment now envelope I'm going to just let that one sit so I'm going to use this one here so the envelope I'm going to make is to match the green but you will use this sorry not use this I'm not thinking for the minute where's my oh here's my punch board right so we are coming in along the longest point here at six and three quarters so it will have to be a seven inch width and then our height is five between five and a quarter it's five and three eighths so let's say five and a half so five and a half by seven so we grab our punch board here five and a half by seven is an a seven size so it's telling us we need a piece of ten and one eighth by ten and one eighth so just going to get this trimmed so ten and one eighth and then we need to a seven ten and one eighth so four and a half is where we need to score so line this up here four and a half punch and score if you haven't used the envelope punch board before I will share a tutorial on how to use it there are lots of uses for this and it's a very very handy gadget to have in your kit okay so you can see now what you end up wanting is this shape which resembles the same as what's on the front there so just pop that one away and just fold in all of our grab my double-sided tape and you just want to rub rub run even just on the two small inside side edges here so one two this paper is all from the Be Happy dovecraft range and I already had the 12 by 12 papers so that's why I've been able to do the matching envelope here but you can obviously buy extras that match the kits as well that you receive so you can round off the edges if you want I'm going to leave these ones and then that one which is dry now some embossing powder on the back which I need to brush off so one more time there's the card and like I said it all stands up lovely and then that will fit inside perfectly like so there we have it so I hope you enjoy enjoyed this project number five but also another hobby base kit tutorial you've now got until the 21st of July to register for August kit so getting quick because we're already what we know yeah we're halfway through the month so you'll need to register to receive the kit for August any other questions or anything you've got about the kit just leave them in the comments below but also check out my blogs I have all the links to that and I'll have the links to the hobby base subscribers page as well so there you go so I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye