 Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I'm going to show you how to make this gatefold card and inside it has a book fold so it's kind of like a shadow box so I've got my woodland animals on the front here and I've made this belly band so you just slide this off and when you open it up you have this what they call a book fold. Now I actually saw this on Becky's place I think it was yeah Becky's place or Becky's blog spot I'll link it in my blog and you can see you just get this really cool effect so it is like a shadow box but the good thing about this is it will obviously you know fall more flat than you would with a shadow box shadow boxes you don't tend to squash down whereas this you can and I've done it so that it will this is a half inch I think side to it so it's really fun you've got your space on the back there to be able to write your message I actually made this one during a Facebook Live so there's a few things I'm going to tweak and I'll do that today in this YouTube video but you know anything you want you can have anything in your kind of diorama section there because you've got all those layers that you can attach to all these pieces here and it's just yeah I've really had fun creating this in this lovely little scene so let me show you how to make it. So first of all we'll do the square which is all those book folds you'll want four pieces of five and seven eighths of an inch by five and seven eighths of an inch. The reason I've done that size is because by the time you put them all together it will actually become more of a six by six size. With the live I actually done them so they were all six by six and then it went up to six and one eighth which was just a bit odd so I've come down a bit and it means that everything else will fit better so four pieces of five and seven eighths of an inch squared and then along one of the sides you're going to score every half an inch so half an inch one inch one and a half two two and a half three three and a half four four and a half five and then five and a half and don't worry that that end is just slightly under it's going to be all folded in and if anything that's actually going to be on the back and we're going to be putting a larger piece of cardstock to hold it all together okay so you've got all of those pieces there you will then want two pieces of six by six so this one here which is going to go on to the very back of the card and this piece is going to be on the front of the card and I'm going to cut my aperture into this so two pieces of six by six and then these pieces are for the gatefold and these are two pieces that are four and one eighth of an inch by six and one eighth because we need that height and along the short side you're going to score at that would be better if I do it this way you want to score at half an inch and one inch and we just do that on both pieces half an inch and one inch okay so that is all of the scoring done so I'm going to start off with a mountain and I'm going to go into a valley and each time I fold just burnish it and then again now I am using the 300 gsm cardstock you can just about get away with it but probably maybe a 250 would be better just a bit softer and easier to work with but like I said it does work with a 300 gsm and then when they're all together just kind of make sure they it lines up so it sits on top of each other sometimes they can kind of slope off to one side so just kind of build it up so it does sit nicely on top of itself you want to do that four times you can see I've got my pieces here then make sure you've got the smaller end you know that bit where I said don't worry if it's just slightly under half an inch have that on the bottom okay so I've got two pieces here so I've got on the top here I've got the full half inch sections what you're going to do is grab some I'm going to use my quick grab glue and the one in my left hand I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue just up here and then go in to sit this one over the top but just bring that up there okay you can see that I've just sat it on top of this one here make sure hold that in place okay and then when it's dry if you keep these two squashed down here so they go under this one here once you've got the first one started all of these that say all these valleys are going to lock under all of the mountains on this side so that one there and then it's hard for you to hold it up to the camera that one there and then that one there and just push them all in and you'll see all of a sudden it will just lock in and hold itself you see that and then with the one on the top whatever one is sitting over the top you're just going to pop a little bit of glue on and then close that but now you've got this kind of springy corner then I'm going to go to the next one again making sure I've got that slightly shorter side and whatever one I stuck so I had it on the back side here so I'm just going to pop a bit of glue and again I'm just going to stick that onto the back and just let that grab you do want to make sure you've got nice right angles with this as well so just kind of wrap it around like that maybe once you get it into place okay and then again the very bottom one is going to go right under at the end there and then you're going to start making sure that every valley is under a mountain and then I'll finish with the top and again it will kind of just pop into place like so you'll see it just pops in and then again the top one is going to go over the top so it matches this one here really push it up and you'll get that nice right angle anyway and then again a little bit of glue under there just let that grab okay and then again you'll see we've got that springy corner but this one here again I'm going to start with that one I'm going to pop a bit of glue on both ends there and then I'm just going to sit both of those corners in there and just bring up the side of it just again so you know it's right up as close as it can be and then again with this one I'm just going to pop that bottom one right down in there first and then just slot each one in do that side first okay that's a restick the bottom because one of them popped open but now I can just pop that glue in there again just make sure that you've got nice right angles on all your corners and you know you will because you'll be able to get it into that square shape okay so now you've got your frame you'll see that moves nice in that looks lovely you just stuck on the front of a six by six card you put a nice topper in there obviously if this was maybe in a different color and you can attach things all in here so you can do a lot more with it now I'm going to stick it onto one of my six by six pieces but before I do that I want to add my background so using my scenes paper pad this is currently sold out but we have it on order but that is six by six you can see it sits just perfectly over there so I'm just going to use some of my collow glue get that stuck down so just realize you actually want to bring this down to six because we made those five and seven eighths it's because I was thinking about the live so I'm just these two side pieces they were six and one eighth bring them down to six I made them six and one eighth originally because it was following the live but I've changed it slightly fold and burnish the two score lines and then you're going to stick this piece onto the back here okay and you shouldn't see it when you open this side because it will be flush with these because these are half inch so I know this tab slightly shorter but it will still be okay it's enough for it to grab on to so I'm just going to pop some glue down there I'm just going to stick the last piece and just let it hug itself around the card and just make sure that it sits nice and you got equal and if there is any overhang just make sure it's equal and that way you know it's going to close and cover everything that's inside there like that and then I do the same with this one I'm going to add the glue onto this smaller piece because if you add it onto the tab then you're going to get glue sticking onto the pieces inside here so again I'm just going to kind of let it hug around now you might feel you need to if you don't push these right in as much as you can then you might find that you don't have any overhang but you can see I've got a little bit there so I am just going to trim that off a little bit okay and you'll see there it will close up now if you don't like it overlapping the gatefolds then you can just snip it away a bit but I do it just ensures that everything's closed and when the belly bands over the top you know that's completely hidden and then when we open it you'll see everything inside so now that's all secure I can then run my glue over the top of this piece and then around all four sides and then I can get my piece here and this will line up perfectly with turn it over because it's easier to add the pressure from this side than the other okay so instantly we have our scene now I should have also mentioned and what I did in the live which I've not done here but it's fine because it won't make you know it's easy to add things in if you want to slot things in don't stick your top one on yet stick that down last so you can then bring in all of these bits now whilst that's drying this is the additions so I just want to show you that you can use the additions on its own so I know a lot of people have just purchased this so it's just giving you you know some nice ideas on the fun kind of cards that you can make so I've cut this piece here which is five and three-quarters squared and I'm going to stick this over the top here but before I done that I took the this die here and die cut that into that section okay so that will go here but before I add that one I also went ahead and I die cut this big one here and I've die cut it in lots of different colors there so I've got like a gold craft card and a brown and then I've also die cut it so I have just the bottom and I've just kind of snipped into it what I want to do is actually pop this over the bottom so I didn't do this in this card and I just pulled out pinks and oranges to pull out the colors in the pattern paper I did add the green there but not on the the rest of them so I just wanted to do on these and again just show you other ways to use these so I'm going to stick that one over that one and I'm going to stick at the darker brown at the back I might I probably won't use that gold so I have that one stuck on there so you can see how they're going to layer up in front of each other and then I've got this one which is going to oh no mate that was it so that was if I was going to have the three so I'll keep that one for another project I'm going to stick with those two that's the dies that I've used you also have the happy birthday which I'm going to use and then you've got your little toadstools here you've got your tree trunk but I already have those pre-cut and I'll show you all those in a moment but like I said if you leave this one off you can just kind of slide these down inside but it's really easy to just pop things in as you can see whilst it's open like so and then that means I've got the room to then stick them I can see where I'm sticking it along the top here as well so what I'm going to do with this it's easier just to use your quick grab and I need to stick this down first I'm getting ahead of myself so I'm going to pop some glue on this one and just lay that over the top there and then I'm just going to run my glue just a thin layer along the very bottom so that's all that's really going to sit in the bottom and then just a little bit along the tops here and then it doesn't really matter where you put this I'm just going to hold it up a bit just so I can see first of all where I'm putting it and then I'll bring it up so you can see so I think that you've got I'm probably going to stick it in the second ones you've got the one that's closest there then you've got this one I'm going to pop it in of there so I'm just going to stick that in so all those pieces are in and I can just push that down and they will stuck in place so we've got our first layer and you can pop things behind here you can see now we've got that dimension coming along and then with this one I'm going to pop the green piece over the top and then with this one I'm going to stick it not in the very front but in the second one from the front there so again there's just a little bit between each one so again I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue just along the top pieces and I'm not sure happy where it is just push them down so now it looks like a little storybook it looks so cool that's that in place and then I have this one which is going to go over the very front to complete that scene so I'm going to use this glue this time and then just lay that over the top and okay and then I have this piece here now I've actually cut this very small little call it my little beveled frame because it does it's got like a little arch to it and I got that from die cutting the squares in the slider you can make that frame with anything you want but in here it's just the two biggest squares I just cut them run them through at the same time and it will give you that very tiny frame so I'm just going to add a very small bead of glue get that stuck down that just kind of fills the green space there then you won't need that now I don't know why I thought you would need it because that's all completely covered so next I'm going to cut this piece here and this is going to cover these sections so these are three and one eighths so I'm going to cut two and seven eighths two five and three quarters then I'm going to have that one there and then that one there so it's just going to continue that kind of little storybook stick those down so I'm actually going to cut another two and have them for the front this is the six by six pad it's not available at the moment we'll get it back in stock you just got these lovely scenes get 24 sheets so I'm just going to cut the same again and stick them on the front okay so that's the front now stuck down really like the scene on the front and then you see when you open it I've gone ahead and I cut the sentiment that comes in the addition set I've decided to go for the red just to pull out the red here on the toadstool and I'm going to probably use a few more toadstools in the scene so I have already got loads of my I've got them mixed up here I've got the circle additions this is all from the circle here but you can see I've got my die cut tree trunk there so I'm going to pop that in somewhere but I have all of my woodland animals already ready here just from obviously when I done the launch I've got lots left over so I'm going to just start playing around with where I want to put them it's probably going to be quite similar to the other one I do want to use the deer and I'm going to have her probably a bit further back this time you can kind of like weave her you know in amongst the trees there so she's going to go there and then I bring in this one here you can see kind of what I've done I had you know different animals here I've got the snail crawling up the tree and I've got quite a lot of them together there so probably going to do similar there because I do love these two together and then add those in and then I'm just going to stick it all down and then decide on what I'm going to have for the belly band because you can see what I've done there just quite simple I'll put a couple together and then I'll show you what I've done that's everything now stuck down and then I've just got the little toadstools here so I thought I'd just show you so you just die cut the the dies here just die cut it in white and then I die cut it in red and just cut the tops off and stuck them on top of the white and then I'm just using a gel pen just to add a few little dots there and then I can just use a little bit of glue that's a little bit of interest there and then for the topper so I did start doing this one and then I thought actually I'm not so keen so what I've done is I've just pulled out this birthday wishes which is a card making magic sentiment and I've got my belly band here this is just a piece of A4 length it's about 11 and 3 quarters and I'm going to close up the card sit it on the belly band just so you've got roughly the same amount overhanging I'm hoping this sentiment is going to work behind it should do and you want to get it tight enough so it's you know it's not got like any kind of gaps on the side but you don't want it to be so tight that they can't pull it off but I think that is just going to work yeah I think that's going to be fine so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue on here and this side and if you just burnish the folds it just gives them a nicer finish and then you've got your belly band and you can see that there holds it together really nicely that's today's tutorial I hope you've enjoyed these bookfold cards they are fun to make and of course you don't need to use them with this woodland scene they will work with many other dyes that you have in your stash and for many other occasions as well so I look forward to seeing your styles if you're on Facebook over to mixed up crafters which is our Facebook group and you can share any thing that you make following my tutorials over there it's a really lovely group of people so yeah check it 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