 Hi everybody, my name is Sal and thank you for watching today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this 5x7 stepper card. So 5x7 cards aren't usually made as a stepper fold because you would need a piece of 14-length cardstock. So a lot of these are already pre-made and a lot of companies sell them already done for you. But I've come up with a way to make it in two halves and it's actually very easy as well. So hopefully those of you that like the 5x7 card size will really enjoy making this card. Mine's got the lovely Wallace and Gromit on and I'll talk a little bit more about that in the video. And then on the back you've got space there to be able to write your message or if you'd like you can always write inside there. So let me show you how I made it. Okay so the papers I used here, the polka dot and the bone is all from this one. It's an older pad. I did buy this a couple of years ago maybe now. Yeah it would have been. Yeah it was a couple of years ago. Well just about 80 months anyway. It was from Paper Addicts which is by Craft Label and it was a pound. So if I can find any sellers online then I will link that one. So gone ahead, prepared everything. I've even done Wallace and then this time I've got Shaun the sheep which I've made there which is very cute. I've also embossed this one here. Anybody that was watching the live would have seen me make this one here which is probably one of the funniest lives I've done since I've been doing them. But this time I just swapped out his tie for a red tie and then he matched Shaun with the red in his knitted sweater and then the red on there. So that's all that ready and I just embossed the red pieces just to give it a little bit of texture and this is the X-cut tartan knit embossing photo. That's my cardstock and then the stamp here is the Happy Birthday which is from the stamps that go with this collection. It's all sold separately but I picked this up last year when it was all on offer and some of it is still on offer at the moment or it is as I make this video so hopefully it's still available when it goes up. But you build these up so you have all these separate pieces and you can build them. Now during the live this one took me some time because we were laughing and again if you like to watch the lives on Facebook I'll link it in the description box below. However after the live when I wasn't distracted by comments he actually took me no time at all. I put him together very quickly. So there are some fiddly little parts but like the black little pupils there that's actually a die but you could easily just pop a you know a black alcohol marker or a biro fine tip pen would go on there quite easily. So there are things that you don't have to do and we actually in the end well I realised that you can just do it all one colour so you can see there I've done his shirt all in white on here. Can you see all the different shades even on his hands? I just done it all the same and it still looked great. So these are the ones I've got but there is also fluffy sorry fluffles and paella and then I've got two embossing photos that also come with it which I didn't use on these projects but there's grommet there's Wallace which were on that one and then I haven't used Feathers McGraw yet but I've used Sean again with Wallace okay so that's everything there. So onto the scoring so you want one piece of five by seven and a half and along the five inch side you want to score at one and four inches but only down to the two and a half inch mark so it's slightly different to what I did in the live this is how I should have done it but I was like I do sometimes I get carried away so I'm just scoring at one but just down to that two and a half marker and again at the four inch just down to the two and a half inch marker then rotate it and score at five to join up with the bottom of that score line so you're not scoring all the way through you're just scoring so it meets the bottom of that one you just done and then if you flip the card stock over score again at five because these are just cut lines it doesn't matter that they're in the opposite direction but again it's just joining the bottom of that one and then you also want to score I'm just going to flip it back over again score at seven all the way through so I just hold that up there can you see ignore that one that I've done I've done that wrong and that one there just ignore them you'll just have this score line and this one on each side and then that's that seven inch score line all the way through this is the back then for the front you want a piece of five by seven and you're going to score again at one and four but this time you're going to score all the way down to five and a half inches so one inch down to five and a half and four inches down to five and a half and then again you're going to rotate and you're then going to score at four and a half and five and a half down to that score line so it's a lot of partial scoring so four and a half and five and a half and again just flip it over four and a half and five and a half just to give you the guides it's just easier that way and then you can also go back over them okay so you can see again there's the one and the four all the way down to five and a half inches and then you can see the other two it's all just meeting these score lines and then you would also need for mats and layers this is for the back so this is a piece of four and three quarters by six and three quarters and just so we get that nice effect here okay you want to score again at one down to two inches so one down to two and then three and three quarters down to two rotate it and then score it two so it joins the bottom and again just flip it over but you're just going to cut these out so it doesn't really matter too much about which way the score lines are again ignore that score line there but you just want to have these two corners and you'll cut those out and this one I've already stamped but again this is four and a half by six and a half you're scoring at one down to two again join it up and then this time at three and a half down to two rotate it and score it two to join up it's just the quickest way to get that all lined up and again if I just bring it up you see there we're going to cut this out in a minute and label mats and layer perfectly over each other and then on to the back of the card I'm going to start with a five by seven piece so all of this scoring at the bottom here you want it so it's facing away from you you're now going to cut down both of these score lines really neatly because this is all the front of the card if you'd rather use a trimmer you can and you're going to cut all the way down to the end of that score line I like to just get my little snips just to get a really nice neat cut up to the end there and then again on this side okay and then what you're going to do is create mountain folds first and then valley fold and you can start to see already the front of that stepper card coming together so this way of doing it you don't need to worry about having a trimmer you don't have to worry about having a cutting knife because sometimes you have to cut usually most stepper cards you have to cut inside the card area and this way it's just a little bit easier but then this time again you want this side now facing you where you've got that half inch tab and you're going to cut all the way down past the first score line all the way down to the end again like so and all of this backside here is all going to be the tabs to stick the front piece on like so and then just remove you don't have to but just take those off like so and again you're going to fold them so they're mountains and so that's an outing as well so you've just got a piece that looks like that next we want to stick it all together so I like to stick this tab first so I'm just going to pop some glue along there and I'm going to get this end and just join them up if you've got anything overhanging just take a little wedge off the side of that tab first but this lines up perfectly just give that a second to grab and then what's going to happen this front is going to stick over each of them cover the whole piece so all the joins are at the top here and here and here so I'll do one at a time so pop the glue on there it works better having a longer tab I did try it when I done my kind of just samples and I done it as a half inch tab but it ended up pushing the card out more so having a longer tab seemed to hold it better and then I'm just going to lay that over the top and just make sure you get a really nice clean join there okay and then again this one and then the whole card will fold flat and if you just grab bone folder and just go over everything just burnish all of those even the score lines under here like so and now you have your five by seven stepper card and it will stand up really nice so once you get your mats and layers on as well it will fold down more just going to go over those again there we go then I'm going to grab the back pieces and all you want to do is just remove those corners okay and then I've just stuck those over the top and then if you flip this over it will sit perfectly on the back of the card okay so that's the back all done and then I'm just going to decorate the front so I've got this piece here which is two and three quarters by five and a half and then I have this piece here which is that's going to go along the bottom like so I actually made this one a bit longer that one shorter but now I'm thinking I might take a little bit more off that because it was quite a big white gap underneath just there so I might shave a bit more off of that one but it's entirely up to you because I think then you'll have yeah it just seems a bit longer let me just take a little bit more off this one so I would take this one to five and three eighths so it's just a little bit of a slightly different measurement but there we go it gives you that perfect white border that piece was one and a quarter by four and three quarters and then these pieces here are three quarters by four and a quarter and they will go in and stick down like so okay and then I've got my Wallace and Sean which are going to go on the front there the happy birthdays from that stamp set and that's going to go along the bottom and then I've cut this bunting from just some of my old bunting dies and they're going to go along the top so I'm going to get everything stuck down that's now everything stuck down you see the black card stock I used on Sean the sheep it's got like a shine to it then I've already put the glossy accents on his eyes which you can probably just see someone did say Joe in the live as well maybe some googly eyes would look really cool but I'm going to use glossy accents so I'm just going to pop a couple of little dots on his eyes goes on a bit cloudy but that will dry nice and clear and then on the bunting here can you see all that shine and that's from the spectrum noir sparkle pen and you probably really notice it more on the red but just go over the bunting once it's dry you can go over it again it goes it will like darken the card stock but once it dries it will go back to its original colour but leave all the glitter so this is a clear one there you have it just bring that up again you can just there we go you can see all that sparkle so there are my two really cool stepper cards which every time I look at now just make me laugh because of the facebook live so again if you did want to watch something a bit funny it's more when I start to put him together so yeah feel free you can watch that one like I said it's linked below but there they are so I will link as much of the product if it's still available in the description box below and I hope you have fun making these five by seven stepper cards also coming up now will be the other size of stepper cards I've got a whole playlist of stepper cards six by six other sizes centre stepper double stair stepper there's lots of different variations of this kind of fold so if you'd like to meet more check out that playlist and otherwise I'll be back again very soon thanks for watching bye