 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today, so this is my first tutorial of 2021 and I thought I'd start with something very easy and quick to do, so I actually saw something similar on Pinterest and it was by the Craft Spa, but I have seen other versions of this as well so there's lots of other inspirations out there if you do have a look, but this I'm going to call it an envelope card or all in one card something like that because you open the fastening and you have this but then you can close this and it becomes a gatefold card and that's how you display it, you could also have the back area if you want to write your message there but the idea is is that you'd write your message under these two triangular parts so you can't see it when it's displayed, but you could stamp and have other decorative things here as well, but I just thought it's really really nice and very very easy to do, this is a six by six size but you could also change this to suit other card sizes that you like, so let me show you how I've made it so the paper pad I'm using is this one here, it's lipstick basics, I picked this up from the range and I think it was part of that, I shared in one of my what did I get videos, I think I paid $2.99 for it but I got it not too long before I started my Christmas projects so it's kind of just been sitting there and I think I used it for one project so it's been really nice to get all those newer papers out and start to use them, so this is the one I'm using I will try and link it in the description box but I'm sure there's some Amazon sellers that might have this as well, I've got everything ready to go here so you want a piece of 12 by 12 but like I said you can easily adapt this and shrink it down so if you don't have 12 by 12 you will be able to make this with smaller cardstock but this is a piece of 12 by 12 black cardstock and I'm going to be scoring at three and nine and then rotate and you want to score it three and nine again, I want to put a little marker at six and then just flip it and do another little marker at six that's just a guide for you that's all the scoring done, next you want to fold and burnish those score lines okay and then where you've got the notches you might want to draw a pencil line first I'm just going to cut straight away and I'll show you what I'm going to do but basically from that notch which is just there I'm going to cut down nice and neatly because this becomes that envelope part you're going to cut to the corner there you can see it really well in there on this black cardstock and then again I'm just going to cut right across up to there okay I'm then going to bring in my other scissors and I'm now just going to snip away this section and remove all of the score line make sure it's nice and straight because this becomes the top of the gatefold or the bottom because you can obviously flip this around if you want to so you just want to make sure you get a nice finish there again on this one okay and then you just want to repeat that now on this side so again starting from that little notch if you want you could take the squares out first you know do whatever works best for you I'm just going to finish this one off okay so you now have something like this and now you just want to add all your maths and layers that's it the card is you know that in terms of the the main base is done so I've got this piece of white cardstock which is going to go in the center and this is five and three-quarters squared before I stick this down I'm going to stamp my sentiment so I'm going to have happy birthday on the front I'm going to do the same as what I've done before on the other card and I'm going to have enjoy your day and this is from my new stamp set this is the celebration stamp set so just taking the enjoy your day and then the happy birthday there so I'm just going to pop this one in the middle it all lined up there and just pick that one up and get that one stamped and then I'm just going to do the same with this circle that I've already punched using my scallop two inch circle punch this one is so I'm just going to again pop that one there and then I've just got a slightly bigger circle to pop that on top so it's about a two and a half diameter circle there so that's that ready so now I'm going to bring this one back in I'm going to stick that one down in the middle and then I've gone and cut all these different pieces pattern pieces from that paper pad so I'm going to have the polka dot on the inside now you'll want four of these pieces which are two and three-quarters by five and three-quarters they're going to go there and then this flower print is going to go on the front and then I've got these two pieces which are three and three quarters squared and you just want to cut on the diagonal right through the middle like so now you want to think about if the person is going to display it with this piece folded down with the gatefold you know the sides open what print is going to complement that and I'm going to go for the red on the inside so it's actually on the outer side of these so when it opens up like this it's on the outside but when it's closed this is what you're going to see so that's going to be over the top so that looks really nice together and then when you close it you want to make sure that it's going to work nicely with this print that you have here as well which I think it will do yeah so that's going to work fine there's all the red colors together just bring that down fat I need to trim a bit off of that I'll do that in a second but now you can see how my pattern is going to look on the front there as well so just think about that and then on the inside because you're only going to see these ones really briefly is going to be these hearts I might even have the black actually because I think that's going to work I think their hearts kind of clash a little bit there so I might just do those ones that are quite like that so what I would do is when you go to close it all you see it kind of like just catches a little bit just take a little bit off you might find it's some of the school lines still because I can actually still see a little bit of it there so I'm just going to take off of all of these four sides so the top and the bottom just a little sliver just to remove some of that bulk so that when you close it it doesn't buckle and that just closes loads better really nice so I'm going to get everything stuck down okay so that's all the mats and layers so you can see now how it's going to look so when it's closed it will be like that and then when it's open and that's closed that's the pattern you're going to have I think it looks really nice I love using the black card stock so I've just gone and popped some foam and attached the white piece there onto the black circle and then I'm just going to grab another foam square there and just pop it on the top part and you want to then attach that to this top triangle making sure it comes over to the other one equally I'm putting it on foam because I'm going to be adding a velcro dot to the other half so if you're using a magnet you basically just want to level it off so that you know it's not on a slope or anything it's just going to work better I think if you have it on some foam so I've just got one of my little velcro dots here these are I think they're 10 mil I'll link them again if I remember they are on my amazon store as well so you can find everything there but now just pop it on the other half and then when you go to close it it should meet on that side you can see now you've got your little pocket and you could pop something in there as well you could pop like a little gift card or another little small flat gift I don't know but now I'm going to just finish it off I've just stamped three of the little presents there using the stamp so I'm going to have a bit rid of that bit there so I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue on the back of each of these and just kind of have two like so and then this one a bit glue on each side that's going to kind of sit just slightly raised over those two and then I've just made this little bow and I'm going to pop that one just on the corner there just to add a little bit of sparkle and some more dimension okay so here is the finished card I love the sparkle from the ribbon there and then you just lift that up and it will reveal everything inside and then the idea is is that person who receives it will keep it displayed like so and if you did want to do more in here and have this as more of a feature you could pop a gift card in this section if you wanted to then I would say pop another piece of white card stock on the back and have that as the area to stamp and write your message but I think these have turned out really well I like that you can also put them in another envelope if you want but I will actually give these like this this is how you know I won't have to worry about adding another envelope to them so there you have it so like I said nice quick and easy tutorial just to kind of ease me back in I feel a bit rusty doing my tutorials but hopefully you've enjoyed today's as always I'll link everything in the description box below and I'll be back very soon with more fun tutorials thanks for watching bye