 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is another project using my July hobby base kit which was themed and titled Under the Sea and I have come up, well I haven't come up, this was one of the suggestions in the kit which was this pop-up box card. I've made many of these before, this is the smallest I've done, this is really cute, very dinky and I've used the for the lover stamps under the sea little critters there and I have pretty much coloured it like I did for last week's card because I really like that and I just think those colors work really well. I've just created a similar scene but obviously this time it's to go in this pop-up card. I've got the anchor there which I haven't used before, that was a stamp which I'll show you, I've put a little eyelet through it and then just put a little vacus twine just to give you know a little something there and then this one's your Fintastic and then you turn it around and on the back you can write your message. These you can decorate as well if you want but I had so much going on here I've just kind of kept these free but I've made my own paper using watercolour so I've done a wash there which I'll show you, put a little navy mat there just to kind of lift them off the white card base and then I have used the embossing folder that we've received in the kit over that watercolour paper and you've also got it underneath there as well. I've used the, this is the wow embossing powder sulta that we got again to create that treasure look and then I've just used, this is from my own stash which are those succulent stamps that I've used in last week's card everything else was in the kit so let's crack on and make it. So this one was a pre-made die cut die so it was we just popped it out of the paper and then assembled it so I'm going to show you what that one looks like now okay so this is the pop-up box card that we received in the kit so it's all ready to go you just need to burnish all your score lines and pop it together so I'm going to make this one up and show you it ready and then I'm going to make it again just to show you that you don't need to have this you can still make them I'm going to do the same size everything the only thing that will be different is it probably will not have this kind of fancy edge because I'm going to have a look but I'm not sure I've got something that's going to be the same so we will see but just wanted to show you that's how it comes and I'll share links to where you can get hold of these ones if you want to as well in my blog post so this is the stamps that we received it's the hunky dory for the lover stamps under the sea and these will go clean but all the stamps are ready to be cleaned after making this card that's the dovecraft anchor so I just stamped that one fussy cut it and you'll see all those because I've got them already okay so I've already prepared my back piece and all my cards and then I'm going to do the watercolor background and embossing with you but this is what you need for your pop-up box card and that's very similar as you would have seen to the kind of the pop-out piece that we've got I just haven't done this fancy edge so as you can see this is pretty similar to that pre-made one that I showed you just before it's just this is all straight so what you need to do is a piece of eight and a quarter by four and a half okay along the eight and a quarter inch side you want to score at two four six and eight and then you'll have this quarter inch tab flip the paper over so the quarter inch tab is at the top and then you want to score at two and a quarter all the way down to the last score line okay so don't go right to the bottom just go to that last score line and what that's going to do is give us our nice straight back here because this piece isn't folded over now you also notice that I've cut a piece off the front here because a lot of the box cards and I've made them like that you keep that also you keep that piece down at the front but it just when I was kind of playing around it wasn't really working with what I wanted to do so I've chopped it off and I still think it looks really nice and also I've got to say that's how they all fold flat fold completely flat so you can pop them in an envelope and post them so yeah really really fun okay so that's your score now the reason we flipped it over is because you're going to be folding the box around one way and then you're going to be bringing your kind of side panels and folding them out another way so it's just it will stop your score lines cracking then you need these three pieces which are going to be our little tabs inside to hold our little um critters on so they're all attached by acetate so this is two and a half by three quarters of an inch and you'll need three of them you may only want two you may want more it's a tie lift you once you see me put it together then you'll be able to determine whether you want to change it or not so on these pieces along the longest length you just want to score a quarter of an inch and two and a quarter just do that on all three okay and then what you can do is just burnish over all those little tabs and that's what we're going to pop our tape to and they're going to stick inside our pop-up box then to decorate the back my mat on the back is one and seven eighths of an inch by four and three eighths of an inch and then the white piece on top is two uh one and three quarters by four and five eighths no four and one eighth of an inch sorry so I've just dropped it down by one eighth of an inch just to give a small little border just so it lifts it against that white background there okay just looks a bit lost otherwise so get that ready and then what you want to do is burnish your two four six and eight okay they should face up and then your score line that went this way when you're looking at it you should have a lump should be like a little bridge okay you should be able to feel it whereas the other ones you can't really feel because they've they're um you've scored into them whereas this one's raised upwards so with the tab on the right hand side that's the easiest way for you guys to know fold all of your score lines down okay so I'm folding them all down it's not the end of the world if you get this wrong but it just means you may get some cracking okay so that's what we've got for the minute now don't do this other score line because we need to do a little bit of cutting but before we do that I find it easier to do some of your decoration now while it's nice and flat so this long piece is going to go on the piece where we haven't got that score line going through the middle and that's my back so I'm going to attach that now so I've already got my tape on the back I'm using red tape for most of this project because it's nice and strong um because we're going to be working with acetate the red tape sticks to that really well so again make sure you've got a nice even border it would be a very very small white border maybe a bit more on the top actually I think I've cut that a little bit doesn't matter but got a little bit more white on the the shorter side there than the longer one stick that down it also really reinforces your box as well whatever card you're using because you're adding lots of layers there's two layers on everything so if it's more of a a thinner card I mean this one's quite thick anyway but if it is a thinner card things like this when you're layering up they will obviously help then I've got six pieces of this blue card which is what I've mapped there behind my washed kind of card that I've got so you'll need six pieces and these are one and seven eighths of an inch by two and one eighth of an inch okay and then basically what you're going to do is with it facing this way with this facing up three of them are going to go in the bottom three squares like so okay so get those ones stuck down first then flip it over and you are going to let me just double check which one yeah so basically that tab's going to come around and it's going to stick to the back there so you're going to have this box we're going to cut down these in a minute we're actually going to remove that whole square there so what you need to do is just stick so it was like that flip it over the three top squares that you've got so here now is our long one my quarter inch tabs on the left got that longer tab there three on the bottom three on the top three on the top ignore the middle one we're going to cut that one away these two here or where you want to stick your other two blue pieces like so so just stick them down and then I'll flip it over again so you can see exactly how that all looks okay so there's that one three on the bottom flip it over you've then got two there now you also do need a sixth one because I've got one on this top half of the long one on the inside so you need to cut another one that size as well apologies okay so then the next piece is going to be I would say stick these layers down but I haven't done them yet so when I show you that bit but you want to stick that now it just makes it easy it's not the end of the world you can see that it's still quite easy to stick that down if you need to okay so now we've got these pieces here I'll actually we need to cut so let's cut into our box and get that more looking like it should okay so so I have it like that with that piece that I've just stuck down this is that long piece on my left hand side I'm just going to flip it around because it's easier for you to see what you're doing here and basically you want to cut down the score line that is right next to this one then you're going to cut down the next score line and the next one you see each time I'm just cutting down to that middle score line and then that tab right down okay and then I'm just going to take a little wedge out and do one on the bottom there so you've just got that little tab so now you should have these three like so and then what I would say is just go over those edges where the score line is like I always say and just tidy it up and just removing the score line there okay again you can cut this even before you stick your mats down as well just obviously once you see me do it you can do it whatever way you want so now with this facing this way all these need to fold yeah I'm doing it the right way yeah fold back so they're going to fold outwards now like so and that middle one we are going to completely remove now so the one that you've not stuck anything on you fold them over just take that whole thing out really neatly so it's going to be the front of your box so now with that tab when it comes around you will see our little pop-up box coming together so you can see now how they resemble just this one straight that one's got the detailed sides so now we need to bring it open bring it open open it up and where the tab is put across just lightly on the first square miss the one where we've cut that piece out and another one the two of the crosses is where we now need to stick these okay so I'm going to use my now there's two ways to do this you can stick them in when it's all put together and in its 3d form but a lot of people find that quite fiddly you've got to get your fingers right inside the boxes is quite a small box so another way to do it is by doing it like this and sticking one side down first and then doing the other side when it is together so with your tabs fold them in like this okay so there they are out fold them and just run I'm just running my little quarter inch red tape on all the little tabs there okay so start off with the first one now again it's like I said it's up to you whether you want to have three you can have two you can just have one in the middle if you want to it's entirely up to you I'm just going to take these really fiddly static little pieces off there which are everywhere right so first of all you've got to remember that this is the front so when these get stuck in you want them you want the tabs facing away from you so when I flip it back around again now okay the tabs you want to face you okay so have them facing up like they are now there they you can see them there they're facing me okay I would stick the first one there's the score line you've got that square there in the middle and just come down about I don't know one eighth of an inch keep me it nice and straight and stick it down then get your next one I'll just take off one side for the minute and this one I'm going to then stick in the middle of where the score line is here to this one that I've just stuck down so I'm going to stick it about there okay try and keep it straight you can't don't worry if it's a little bit out I'm going to stick that bit back on top and then the last one I'm then going to stick in the middle of the tab score line and the one that I stuck down there like so okay so that's about right so now when that comes around that side will now just stick on there okay okay now you can do it with it open which I guess we do now so take your first tab off the front one okay in fact I'm just going to rub out my crosses because you will see them inside just get that one out of the way there as well there we go okay so bring it around you've got the tab here bring that first one around and start to bring the box into its right angle like square and you can see it's already it's just tacked itself on there and that was I'm pretty happy with that can you see now that's nice and straight so just it will kind of almost go into its straight form so if you let it do that then you're kind of getting the work done for you so again they're just going to squeeze them together slightly just so it's tacking on a little bit again don't worry if it's a little bit crooked it's really not going to make any difference all this is doing is it's giving your acetate strips somewhere to stick and then that one like so okay so now we've got our three little tabs inside and then this last one so you can just fold the whole thing flat and you're just going to run some tape along with that tab take off your backing and just fold that one over and it will perfectly meet up if it doesn't and a little bit out there just fold it down like so just go and burnish really flatten it down there and bring it up again you can you see now but at the moment these are facing up like that which is no good so bring them down cap it down flat and just burnish them once we've added more mats onto them they will drop down a bit more there we go all right so that is again if I pop it up to that one there apart from the blue mat that should be on the back there as well because you would cut six but can you see now how almost perfect a size those are so next we need to you need to start now making like your scene but what I'm going to do first of all with you is do the watercolor I always find that when I water color my images I want something that's going to match perfectly so I tend to always make my own background so it's just what I've done here and I you know you can it's the same blues that are in the whale there so everything ties in nicely so I've just got some watercolor paper here and I've got some water and I've got a selection of blues here and I'm basically just going to scribble over my paper now I'm going to completely saturate this in a minute and I'm going to move the water around more dark over there I think move the water around to create oh dear a kind of sea like image or background should I say pattern that's the word I'm looking for so a bit more lighter down here a few little white areas like so then I've just got my thick brush here and I'm literally going to just brush it all on loads and loads of water on this because I want it to really move and then just start lifting all the pencil now this will dry much lighter as well than it is and then I'm just going to grab my heat gum and just start drying it and you can see the water moving and then with these bits here and just bring this move my paper there we go start to let it drip like that and that's where you get that kind of more natural water background okay so there is now my background so after moving it all around also any blue that dripped off on my mat I just turned my paper over splodged it on there and it just gave it even more pattern and stuff so yeah that's all I need that's the size I need so now I'm just going to use the embossing folder that come with the kit and this is the bubbles and I used this one last week so I'm just going to run that through my machine I showed you me doing that last week so I don't need to do it again but I'm just going to run it through just over two parts of this that I'll trim it down a little bit so just I can get more into my folder there and just get that all embossed okay so that's those two now done so they are going to be cut down now and they're going to mat on top of my blue ones here so okay so you need it to be one and one and three quarters by one and seven eighths and you're going to need one for the backs of one two three four five six six pieces of that size and that one mat on top so I'm just going to go and do all of those now so there is the box all ready to now be decorated so I'm going to bring in everything that I've already prepared there's all my succulent little kind of seabed plants there and then there's my anchor which I've already put a little eyelet through and then I've done all my creatures I've painted and painted I've colored them just like I did last week and in the tutorial before that because I just really love these colors with them so you can see them all there and then I've got my little sentiment and just wanted to show you this little thing that you can do if you don't have any dies like this or something that you want to look like a flower bed just cut like little bits of grass so just cut a strip of green or whatever it is and then just cut tiny tiny tiny little slithers and then just cut into them creating different heights and kind of roll them with your bone folder one way and the other way and you can see that and then if I was to stick that along the bottom and you kind of then you know nestle in your little sea creatures and stuff amongst it you'll get just a nice effect okay so just a quick way to do it though if you don't have these kind of dies so I'll do that one later so now you need your acetate now I'm just going to cut mine I've just got this I tend to use quite thick acetate and this is from the packaging that I get my stamps and dies I just keep that so and this is from the back of my stamps the a4 stamps that I get in magazines I just use that as well so I would say what you want to do is cut a strip or cut as many strips as you think you need that a half an inch I'm just eyeballing this I've got a half inch strip there and then that's by four and a half so a half by four and a half but you're not going to need it that high because basically there you're going to stick red tape onto this and then stick it onto these bits inside so they all need to be different heights so I'm going to start from the back so you start with your height the when you're doing these you're I mean my my pun will be right at the very back my little sentiment there but the whale he's the tallest okay and he is just coming up to the top of the back of the box there so again I'm going to have him about there so I'm going to pop some I'm going to use my thicker tape there I'm going to pop it on the very top about three quarters of an inch down there you need to make sure that you've you've got enough to cover the back of whatever your image is that you want to stick okay so now I'm going to pop that in the back of him and you can see now he stands up nicely then when I pop him he's going to be sticking to the back of this last one here so I'm going to put my red tape on the front of my acetate strip so I'm going to pop him in now already it's too long so I'm just going to snip a little bit off there and then I can see now I want him to just be like that just coming up to the top of the box and I'm putting my finger and thumb just where I need I know I need to put some sticky tape just when my fingers move in there so I'm going to bring that out and I know I've got to put some red tape around there so I'm just going to stick it like so and then just cut it so you've got about half an inch you don't want to cut it to you don't want to cut it longer than the width of what we've cut these tabs and they were three quarters of an inch wide so I've covered the tape there on the back half of an inch up and then I'm going to bring him in pop him on a slight angle because I want him to look like he's diving into the sea so my acetate is going off to the side which is fine and just stick him down so now you can see he moves about freely and he's stuck behind that back on there okay so now the next one is the octopus so and sometimes you can use the acetate that you may have cut off which I can't see now so I'm just going to cut in another piece so again about half an inch and this is four and a half inches wide some of them you'll want to do thinner because when you get to these tiny little ones although they're still fit across the half inch but you may have to cut your acetate so it's easy to just cut it to what you think you need rather than me tell you um you know it may not work then work so again I've got quite a large area on the back of the octopus this we can cover don't want the acetate showing but it just fits behind the lower half of his body there and again now he's going to stick on the second one behind it but on this second one so again I can already see that I've got way too much acetate so if I come in now and he's going to be just coming up so he's kind of just coming up to the where his little fin is there on his tail so again I've got my finger and thumb kind of holding it in place and I know I need to put my glue on my adhesive this is why the red tape's good wet glue it will just peel off or a strong um score tape will work again peel that off and again he's on a slight angle and what you want to make sure you do is that you've got no stickiness of that tape coming over the top here or coming underneath because all it's going to do is when you have it folded flat it's going to stick together all right so just rub your finger and your thumb in there make sure nothing's sticky and then you just want to keep building your scene so I'm going to carry on and do that and then I'll come back and talk you through how I put that together and I think we're pretty much done okay so I've already gone and done the front there everything's been stuck with these little foam squares just to give it dimension um I've stuck there all the flowers the flowers all the plants down first and then I've put the crab the starfish and then the little treasure chest there is kind of tucked in under that one in front of that one just look like it's kind of nestled amongst it and now I'm just starting to put the little green ones other ones behind these bits so you can use your um wet glue here if you're sticking it directly onto the cardstock like this one is at the back here so it's just going over to the left hand side but if some of it goes over the acetate then I suggest you just use a little bit of red tape at the bottom there and then you can just stick it again on the back there it's a bit fiddly you've got to get your finger and thumb in there but you can see now where it's kind of stuck but just under that puff of fish but it's stuck on the acetate there so I'm just going to fill up the rest of these okay and then the last one there is just the anchor I'll just pop the foam there and I'm just going to have it kind of overhanging a little bit like so I'll just trim off the tops there so there is the card and then there's the back for you to write your message and then the whole thing folds completely flat pop in your envelope or you can fold up like so and pop it in that way it's entirely up to you I suggest that way just then it means that they stay down so that when that person opens it straight away they are obviously dangling down like that but I just adore them I think they're so cute um lots of work lots of time get everything prepared but really really fun and I hope I've inspired you so that's this week's hobby based kit tutorial by the time this tutorial goes out the 21st of the month would have passed and you have until the 21st of every month to subscribe 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