 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Graph thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really lovely cascade card. It folds completely flat fitting inside your envelope and you've got room on the back there to write your message and then as it comes out of the envelope it will just open like so so the person will know what to do with it they will see that it does this and it will just stand up like so. That's the profile that they will see so you get that cascade effect all the different levels showing off all the lovely printed papers and all the little embellishments that you stick on it. You can see that I've got this really nice bunting and then I've got the happy birthday to you at the back and it all stands up really nicely, folds flat and like I said you do have lots of room on the back there and you can stamp anything you want there as well so let me show you how to make it. Okay so the inspiration for today's card actually came from Make Special Cards magazine this is the February 2019 issue 16 and it is a bumper pack it's really really good value for money I paid £11.99 which some of you may be like oh my gosh for a magazine but wait until you see what you got in it because I was a little bit like oh gosh here £12 that's quite a lot but I think it's really good value so I got like I said the inspiration here so they actually done this for Mother's Day but here are all the cascade cards their measurements were slightly different and they were in centimeters so I just played around and I've come up with my one and yeah it's full of inspiration I'm not going to go through it all there because obviously if you want it you can go and grab it but you get this stamp set that's my stuff for today's card there is the stamp so there we go it's a bit better really lovely so this is a just bigger than five by seven stamp set and these are the images and I went ahead and I fussy cut them and I coloured them in with my watercolor pencils but just how adorable are these look at those so many you get the lovely daffodils it's a real nice Easter spring like I said Mother's Day kind of thing but they are the stamps that you get plus all the wonderful sentiments and they're really nice when you've got a hoppy Easter on your special day happy Mother's Day have a blooming marvellous birthday for a special man which I liked that one and for you mum thank you will you be mine happy birthday to you and hip hip hooray and then somebody loves you so again really nice you get those and then just keep all that to one side all these amazing papers and there are tons and they're really good quality so you can see here how many you get and it's not that shiny paper it's really nice good quality paper and I'm thoroughly enjoying going through this plus you get all of these which are die cut I'm sorry that were pre die cut so you just pop them out and there are tons tons and tons and tons and that's what I've used to create this cascade card and that's what I'll be using on the other one as well so for the amount of cards that I will get out of this I think 1199 is really good plus there are also I believe downloads as well yeah 100 die cut toppers 60 patterned papers 27 stamp designs six square card blanks yeah six white envelopes and 52 page magazine full of inspiration so I'm sure somewhere there's some downloads as well I'm pretty sure but yeah you've got just tons so anyway enough about the magazine pop all that away let's crack on with the card so you're going to need I've already gone and cut it and then realize oops I need to film this so it's already cutting to shape but I'll talk you through that so you're going to need two pieces that are 10 by seven okay so this is going to be a five by seven card base so 10 by seven you want two pieces and on both of the pieces along the 10 inch side you want to score at two and a half and seven and a half and then flip it and score at five okay because you're going to fold this one different to the other ones so you're going to have two pieces two pieces that are like I said 10 by seven okay and then just score at two and a half and seven and a half flip it and score at five once you've got those two pieces you've got your seven inch side here you want to cut from that seven inch side you're going to cut all the way across here now this measurement what you want to do on this side here so you imagine yours is going to be a full piece here still okay you want to just come up at two and a half and put a pencil mark and then cut from the top corner here down to that two and a half marker and then this bit here you can either use for your mats and layers or you can just keep it in your scraps so you'll have this piece cut out okay so that was the bit I already went ahead and done and then thought oh gosh I should be filming this so yeah so you'll now have two pieces obviously if it's plain paper you just flip one over so they are like that okay you'll have them cut like this okay if you are using patterned paper then you will want to do this is the left hand side which is seven inches cut down to two and a half inches up on the other one you'll want to do it on the left hand side so if it's patterned paper you're using one you will cut it you will cut up from the right hand side one you will cut up from the left hand side because you want to make sure your prints are right because obviously with the plain we can just flip this it doesn't matter which way you know upside down it doesn't matter but if you're using patterned paper then you need to do yeah one from the right hand side one from the left hand side okay then what you want to do is fold one like so and like that okay and then you'll see you'll have these lines here which are really just cut lines we're not actually going to be doing anything with them these are the fold lines okay and one goes that way and one goes that way what's going to happen is is this is going to go over the top like so and that now gives us our five by seven card base so what we need to be doing next we're going to cut down here on this one and on this one we're going to cut up from the bottom halfway up and then that will slide over the top and again we're going to do the same with this one here on these score lines down here so first of all if I get rid of I don't need the scoreboard anymore so first of all starting with this one here now you can either use your scissors or a cutting knife I've got my long scissors lots of people ask me about these these are from a company called hey it I believe they are a Scandinavian company possibly Copenhagen because I think that's where I came across them anyway this is they're made in Italy they they're not cheap they are I'm more of an investment piece but they are wonderful for cutting you can see there they're so long so that's why I really like these ones but anyway I've tried to share links but because they're more of a I think people it's like a wholesale I'm not entirely sure but that's who they're by anyway so I'm going to use my just use my little metal ruler here actually and grab a pencil so you just want to come down if I do it that way here so this is on the one way you've got your seven inch side on the left hand side I'm coming in from the top and I'm going to come down that whole line is just under six inches it's five and seven eighths let's say it's six and you want to mark it three okay just under if you do the sixteenth just just put a little marker just under three inches and that will be halfway so I'm now going to cut down from the top I'm going to cut down to that pencil mark like so okay and then on this side keep them so they're facing like this okay so we've just cut down here on the same line on this one we're going to cut up and we're going to do the same measurement again so like I said halfway yeah it's five and seven eighths you want to just do um sort of just be just over three from the bottom okay let's roughly halfway and then you're going to cut up like so and now and then just go like so okay you'll start to see you get the back of that cascade so now we've got these pieces like so then we need to now cut the same so I've cut the top here I want to cut the top on this one here so this is three and five eighths so I'm going to put a marker just in between the one and three quarters and one and seven eighths it's that kind of sixteenths but you just want to roughly mark halfway okay and again on this one here okay and then cut the same way so if you've cut from the top down cut from the top down on that same piece so again go on over just a little bit just so I know a little definitely go over okay so again you're going to pop that one in like so bring it right down and then these ones here you want to slide in a little bit like a juicer like so once all your mats and layers are on it will stay in place and now you will have your cascade okay and like I said the whole thing folds flat so it is it is very straightforward to do it's just making sure I guess you just cut the right way and you don't cut too far down and now it's all ready to decorate so okay what I would say is why you've got it like this because we're going to be adding mats and layers if you just put a cross on all of the sections that you can see like so then you know that they're the ones that you want to decorate so they're all the ones that we're going to be adding on mats and layers on so now if I just take this all back out again it's just easy to decorate because when you open it up you know you just want to stick your mats and layers on those ones then flip it over and on those ones there it just makes it much easier to decorate it while it's in two separate pieces like this and you know flat so next you just want to decide on the colors and how you want to do all your mats and layers so I'll just bring this one in here so you can see so I've really bright yellow as my base and then I've done blue patterned on the next one I've done red and patterned and then blue and patterned and then red and patterned so I've got kind of a sequence I guess but you could do them all odd you could do them all exactly the same it's entirely up to you but I'm going to keep that one in frame there just so you can kind of see what I've done and then I changed it last minute just before I was starting to film because originally I was going to have this yellow at the back but I don't know there's something about that kind of yellow it's more of a mustardy yellow and I'm not feeling it as much this one's a real bright yellow so what I'm going to do is I'm going to change this and I think I'm going to bring in white and then I'm going to have this patterned paper against the white and I think it lifts and pops a lot better and by the time I've got all these wonderful bits to decorate I've got the bunting here and everything it should hopefully all come together really nicely so the easiest way to cut these mats and layers is every single mat so your first one so the blue and the red in this case these are all two and a quarter wide so lay it down bringing it up slightly so you can see that where I've given myself this nice border here here and here and then bring it all the way up and I'm going to put a pencil mark giving me that same border just there so I have just done a pencil mark at six and three quarters okay so six and three quarters there it's two and a quarter wide and you want to do a little marker at like I said six and three quarters and then if you come up this side I'm going to do my marker at five and five eighths of an inch okay this is for your two biggest ones so you want to do this twice if it's plain paper then it doesn't matter which direction you do this I now pop this in my trimmer and just line up the pencil marks so that's the five and five eighths that's the six and three quarters and then cut across and I get a perfect mat see there that fits in there perfectly and I've got that nice even border now I need to do that twice so again because I'm using white plain white paper or cardstock I'm just going to sit that one over the top pop it in my trimmer and just line them up like so because they're plain all I have to do now is flip one around that way and you'll see I'm now going to have one to go over that crossed section and then on this one here this one will go perfectly on that one there and you can see I get that really nice border on both of them okay now if you're using pattern paper here what you would need to do is have your patterns do one whatever side it doesn't matter do one like I've showed you then get your pattern paper and put the pattern to pattern like so and then cut it through your guillotine okay don't have the pattern on the top here and then this pattern piece on top that way put your patterns to pattern and then cut them in fact I'll probably have one here to show you in a moment so so you'll need two mats of that size that I've just given you and they are going to go on the back next I am going to do the pattern paper to go over the top so this one I'd already done I think let's just move that out of the way yeah so I think that one now just stands out so much better against the white than it did against the yellow so I've already done that one and I've already done that one there so the measurements for these are so all your layers will be two inches wide okay so choose all your pattern paper that will all be two inches wide like I said your mats will be two and a quarter for this particular one you are going to need to cut it by two by six and a quarter okay two by six and a quarter and then from that six and a quarter you want to measure on one side five and three eighths of an inch okay so from five and three eighths of an inch up to that six and a quarter cut it on your guillotine and like I said you want to put your pattern papers together like that okay so then when you cut them through your guillotine when you open them up you'll have them both one going from the right up to the left and one from the left up to the right like so because everything's a mirror image okay so hopefully I'm explaining this this is probably the just the most it's not even complicated it's just making sure you cut them all in the right direction so next for this here I'm going to use so I'm going to get rid of this yellow okay so again these ones I've already cut and these are that same width so two and a quarter because all our mats are two and a quarter and you can see how that fits in there perfectly so you just want to come down so two and a quarter by five and a half and you want two pieces and then from the five and a half on the other side you want to put a pencil mark at four and a half and then just cut from the five and a half down to the four and a half do that on both pieces and they will fit in like so okay so you can see now how they're coming together and then I want to have my pattern paper on top of that which again I'd already gone ahead and prepared so these pieces here are two okay so two inches wide and one of them is two inches by five and a quarter okay and then on the other side you want to mark at four and a quarter and then cut so again remember you put them together like so your two pieces that you will have that are two by five and a quarter yeah sandwiched together like that and then on this side here you will do four and a quarter and then just cut across so that when you open them up that's what you'll get so again that one's going to go on top of there and that one's going to go on top of there you see now how it's all going to come together so now these are going to fold over so I've got to do these ones here okay so for these ones here you want two pieces that are two and a quarter by four and three eighths okay and then again exactly the same so on one side so they're four and three eighths I'm going to then come across and this is three and three eighths here so I've got a pencil mark there at three and three eighths take both of your pieces the one that I've already done my measurement on so I'm just lining up the top there that's the four and three eighths and then line the three and three eighths up hopefully this makes sense and then I'm just going to put it over that one because it's plain so it doesn't matter it's just the pattern you're just going to make sure when you cut your pattern that your pattern is pattern to pattern and that one's going to go in there that one's going to go there okay and then my pattern papers to layer on those is four by two and you want to come down on one of the sides at three and a quarter so just put a pencil mark at three and a quarter again this one here line up your point and then line up the three and a quarter like so and then pop that one pattern to pattern okay and then that will go perfectly on top and by doing it that way you know that they're each everyone is the same you know that is exactly the same size because sometimes your pencil lines might be slightly out even if it's just by a millimeter or so but it will make the overall look slightly different but at least that way you can see that they do look the same and then I need to do so I'm going to have red again okay so these two pieces are two and a quarter by three and a quarter and again on one of the sides you want to come down to two and a quarter yep just they'll put a pencil mark at two and a quarter again exactly the same process and that one's going to go there and that one's going to go there and then my pattern papers go on top okay a pattern paper is two and seven eighths of an inch by two inches one two yep and again just check my measurement there yep so I've come up on this one two two inches okay and just put a pencil mark there again just pop that one through you can put both your pattern papers through at the same time I just like to keep them separate yeah that was my other piece I'm just going to again always put them pattern to pattern so that is now what you should have all your mats and layers all in place let's put that to one side and you can see there okay so now I'm going to go and get those all stuck down okay so now you can see all my mats and layers and they look really nice together I'm really pleased with those so next you can then go back and pop it all together so that one in there and cross that one over and slide that one in there and look how nice that looks it just instantly comes together absolutely gorgeous it will stand up and they are they're so easy they make a real impact these ones I love them so now it's just down to decorating so I have this piece here and I was kind of thinking about doing that same like bunting that I've got there because I really like that how it kind of comes out and then I have and I'll stick that down the same way but that's going to go there then I'm going to stick that one and the presents it's pretty much the same thinking about it and then that one's going to go there and then this here is going to stick make sure this is all lined up because this holds everything in place that one's going to go across there we're going to have to trim a little bit off of this end here just so I can get the whole of that one I didn't want to lose any of the little party hats and now that sits perfectly and that one's going to go across there so I'm going to get that all stuck down and there you have it and look how cute that looks really love it I also went and done the back panels as well which are the same size as these white ones here so you just need to do four of that size and I've got that lovely bunting there and then when it stands up you can see you get a nice cascade effect I mean that I guess does kind of stop it coming out further because you want it to be maybe more like that but I'm still quite happy with it like that that's the profile that's what people see and I think that looks really nice so you could put the bunting in another way if you wanted to now this one is bigger because this was my kind of prototype and I was playing around with it but again they both stand up really nicely I'm really pleased with them and they're going to make really fun lovely birthday cards so there you go guys that's my cascade card I hope you like it you'll find all of the measurements and the supplies that I've used over on my blog and all of that can always be found in the description box below thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon bye