 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorials today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this double column card or double pillar card. Whenever you kind of put in that word this is the kind of shape that you get in cards. So some of them are just singular with just this piece and then you know bits and pieces around it but that's the closest I could find to really kind of call this. I may change it, you'll know if I did or not because it would be in the title. But I've put this one together and again I really like it because it just folds completely flat like so. So this then becomes a six and a half by six and I've made an envelope with my envelope punch board and you can see there that it just very neatly fits inside. Obviously be careful of any decorative bits that you've got on it but it makes it really nice obviously to post. So this one here is just using mainly hobby base. So we've got hobby base dies here and the hobby base bird cage die which is really pretty. Now I haven't put a sentiment on it because I'm not sure whether I would end up using this for a wedding or an anniversary or an engagement so there's a few there that it's kind of ready to be ready for. So if I just bring it up a bit close there you can just see I've just made little clusters there and made this bunting using one of the dies from the Nestor 5 and then those lovely papers there. So the one I'm going to be showing you today is using the May, most of the supplies from the May hobby base kit. So I'm going to pop that one to one side and just bring in what I'm going to be using. So I've just got this one piece here for the minute. Now basically in the unboxing I had this card here which was a gatefold so it came like that and then I thought actually I can make it into this card here which I'd already had made so I was waiting to kind of you know share it with you guys so I'm going to share it this way. So now the measurements of this one are slightly different to this one here so I'm actually going to tell you the measurements because this is the one you want because this one actually isn't I thought it was six by six but it's actually just shy of that so I had to score mine slightly different but in terms of putting it together I'm going to talk you through. So this is your piece here and yours will be 12 by six okay so you want a piece of cardstock that's 12 by six you can see there mine's coming in slightly short just a little bit there but it just meant that I had to adapt my measurements so I'm going to talk you through but I'm not going to actually score myself but you want to score at a quarter of an inch then one and one quarter two and one quarter and three and one quarter and then all the way along here and you then want to do eight and three quarters nine and three quarters ten and three quarters and eleven and three quarters okay so you will have two tabs that are a quarter of an inch and then you should have three panels on each side that are one inch in width minus seven eighths of an inch so I just had to alter mine just ever so slightly. So then you will need for the mat inside here this piece measures three and three quarters by five and three quarters for the side panels here these are five and three quarters by three quarters of an inch and then for this strip here it's five and a half by one for the red one behind and then the blue one on top is five and a half by three quarters okay so that's all the measurements to have that exact same size. Now I'm going to show you how to put it together so I'm going to get rid of that one oh and what you want to do is I'm going to use some of my red tape just because this card has got a glossy finish but it's absolutely gorgeous and I just I yeah I just had to use it straight away as soon as I got the box that was the first thing I wanted to use so flip it over and you want to run your tape along that very small quarter inch panel. Mine's a little bit bigger than yours will be again so I just had to alter those measurements just to fit this piece so I'm just running a piece along there and a piece on this side make sure that's always nicely secure so the red tape's always very good if you are using anything with like a gloss or a sheen to it find my pokey tool there okay so I'm just going to take off the backing just do one side at a time and then you just want to basically I'm trying to remember which way is easiest to do it so that you get yeah so just fold that piece right over okay and fold it in half so you've got two of the panels folded so you should have two facing you if you do that and then just lie it down completely flat like so you will then have a perfect square okay and that's one of your columns or your pillars so again then with this side here just take off the backing fold it over so you've got two of them okay facing up you should have one and then that half inch panel underneath and just lie the whole thing down and again you will have your squares so now straight away it stands up but it's a bit boring like that so we want to add some more to it so you will have your mat now that you want to put in the middle now I'm going to do something different and I haven't done this for a while but I absolutely love the the result it gives and that's embossing vellum so I have got this was the embossing folder gosh I'm dropping everything today this was the embossing folder that we received and it matches the pattern on this beautiful piece here that we've got so again I thought this with wedding and that kind of theme just vellum and all those nice pearlized tones and I just thought embossing folder and vellum is just going to be brilliant so what you want to do is with your if you are going to do similar to me with that mat piece that's three and three quarters by five and three quarters you want to sit that in your embossing folder so I've got my piece here and the patterns generic it kind of repeats itself so it doesn't matter too much but I do want to make sure it's lined up just so I get because it doesn't quite meet the top and bottom so I'm just going to make sure it stays nice and straight okay so I've now got my embossing folder and embossing folder my dye machine setup for embossing folders I'm just going to pop my plate get that one down flat there and this one and just run that one through you can hear it really cutting through that vellum let's take the folder out so now you take this out look at the gorgeous effect it leaves on the vellum it's gives it's like a paper piercing effect it creates a really white where it's kind of almost breaking through the vellum it goes very white and it is just gorgeous I love it so I'm going to now with my just grab my mat and what I'm going to do is I'm going to distress over the top of this with the gold ink that we received this gold ink pad with the kit so just ink up whatever it is you use for blending and just rub over the top and it will just start to really bring out that gorgeous design and you can use any color ink for this it doesn't have to be gold you should be able to start to see and this has got a shine to it as well this and it just looks there we go it's just gorgeous it's really really nice so I'm going to carry on finishing this okay so there you go finish that piece and just look how that's transformed what was just a plain piece of vellum has now become a beautiful textured paper so that's all ready for me to mount on the back now it's a little bit tacky because this is a heavy pigment you can see it's all on my fingers there so I'm just going to get cleaned up okay so that is pretty much dry so now because I've got this darker kind of gold over the top now vellum generally when you have like a double sided tape or a glue behind it you will see it but with this one here because I've now put the gold over it it becomes quite dark so I'm just putting a very thin amount of my wet glue just in parts of it just to kind of keep it in place and it should just blend in and you shouldn't actually notice this glue so it's still actually a little bit wet because I can see it's come off on my mat so I'm going to be ever so careful and then just sit yours in again and you should have a nice even border on the top and the bottom and on the sides okay so that's now all dry and if I just bring it up closer then and it can you just see it's just it's gorgeous and I'm hoping the pictures will do this justice when you you see it at the beginning so I've already got my two strips here so these were the five and a half by one and five and a half by three quarters and I've just this was white but I've just gone over it with my with that gold ink again just so just to keep everything matching and kind of all tying in together so you're going to stick it across there and that's up to you whether you want to go at the top in the middle again I'm doing mine at the bottom because I want it to look the same and make sure that it's flush and it should when you pull it out make sure you pull out your side so that it all lines up perfectly so just pop some glue on the ends of both of those actually I'm going to take that glue off I've got a wet wipe here and just dry that and I'm going to use red tape because again I am sticking it onto that slightly shiny surface okay so just decide where about you want it do one side first make sure your sides nice and flush I'm coming up about one inch stick that one down and then I can just go across to this side here and just make sure that it lines up with that in there okay and then just keep checking it does dry completely and I've wiped it as well with a dry cloth because that gets rid of a lot of the any kind of residue and then that one is going to go over the top just giving you that lovely band now if you want to stamp a sentiment here before or you may just be popping another kind of you know a sticker or a separate piece with the sentiment on you may be doing your sentiment somewhere else but with this piece here again because I've got that pigment ink I'm going to run another strip of my red tape along this piece so again this would be nice for a golden wedding anniversary so I'm not going to put um well there is a sentiment I might put a sentiment I'm not sure so again this one here you should have a nice border at the top and bottom so do one side first and then it will meet up perfectly with the other end again if I just bring that up and you can see now just when it catches how shiny that is and just test it but it should all lie completely flat which it does and again go that way as well but it will naturally pop up and whoever gets it will know that that's how it's meant to be anyway so that's that piece done so now we've got the fun part of decorating it so we also received in the kit these gorgeous you can get them out catching them need to put them back in the clear these beautiful laser cut sentiments so I just bring them up then you cut them all out separately so I'm going to have to think about which ones I want to do but I'm going to do a little cluster and a little nest of something here and then we also received this pack of these dried flowers now I mentioned in the unboxing that when you add you can add pigment to these you can add a very very small amount of a watercolor and it will bleed into the leaves because these are all paper and just to show you here's one that I've done using that gold and you can just see how nice that's going to be so I'm going to have a cluster of these flowers in the corner here with a laser cut image and possibly the happily ever after stamp that we also received which has that font there so I'm going to have a play around get all those bits and pieces ready okay so I've just been playing around I've just distressed and distressed I've just covered all of these with that gold ink and I've got a variety of sizes there are so many because it's such fine paper there are tons here all kind of stuck together so they're going to last ages and then all I do is just any kind of stylus that you've got anything with like a large ball on the end just rub around inside there kind of if it's small ones just you can kind of do this with them and you can see that just brings them to life and then what I'm going to use is I've got the faceted gems from last month's kit and these are obviously gold so it works perfectly and these large ones will go perfectly in the large flowers and then the small ones I have got I don't know whether to use this is my own stash but I've got the Nuvo glitter what's this one here actually I can't remember what this one's called um oh Aztec gold or I've got the liquid pearls the range of liquid pearls so one of those is going go in the smaller flowers okay so there is the finished card so I went for the bird cage which was one of those laser cut pieces I stuck with three flowers in the end and I've used my hot glue to secure these I've put a little bow in there again I've used the hot glue I've put a little pearl in the middle of that flower and then I went for the sentiment in the middle so this is the happily ever after stamp that came in the kit and then I used the embossing powder from a couple of kits ago which was shampoos so it was the perfect colour to match so again it's nice that we can like you know mix in our kits and then again I matted it on a piece of card which I coloured with the same gold that I done for this strip here and then I've just finished with three of the faceted gems again on that side there but I think that is a gorgeous really luxurious you can see it really catches that it's really shiny and it just stands up perfectly on its so I forgot to mention as well on the back if you just add a mat you can then write your your message and stamp your sentiment again I don't really know what this one's going to be so I'm going to put another mat with the sentiment kind of in the middle there I guess and then I can write to them from if you've got anything overhanging like that just fold it that way and then it will obviously fit in the car because if you do it that way then it will overhang but that way it won't so that is my done so I'm going to fold it flat that way and it will fit perfectly in my white envelope which I've prepared there and that is my other one there as well so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial today as always all the information for the hobby base kit will be shared in the description box below this video and everything's always on my blog as well so you can pop over there but if you've enjoyed today please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye