 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mix Up Crowd thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really pretty birthday card so I've used the Bright Rosa flower edge or flower border die I'll show you in a moment it's beautiful this is how big it is I've shared it before I think it was a couple of weeks ago now so basically you slide off the belly band and then this comes out and it's a really cool card so it stands up like this you can have it even kind of closer together I guess like that so it's got more of an M shape or you can have it quite far out so if you want to put more things on the panels but that's how it looks love this flower and these papers as well I'll talk you through all of them but the nice thing is is that when you pull it flat it folds up like a gatefold card and then on the back you've got room to write your message so you can see that's how it looks from the back so it's great if you want to put photos because you've obviously got all those panels but it's just such a nice kind of twist on the gatefold card I was inspired by one that Kathy who used to be part of the trim craft team she shared one and it was in the paper crafters Central's magazine so that one inspired me to make this one and I thought I would use this time the paper addicts because she used the secret garden so I'm using paper addicts forever and always is such a pretty paper pack I use this on my Ferris wheel that I shared a couple of weeks ago and yeah really really like this one so again I'll share all the links and this is the bright rise bright Rosa flower band sorry flower band die so that's the flower itself I'll be showing you all this in a moment when I actually come to cut it so I've done one I need to do two and I need to do the middle for that one as well so that's the dye that I'll be using okay so I've got all my mats and layers so first of all some really simple scoring I've got my sentiment ready there as well so you want to score so I've already done this so you're going to score at two and a half so sorry you need a piece of 10 by 7 inch cardstock and along the 10 inch side you're going to score it two and a half and at seven and a half and then flip it over and score it four and a half and five and a half and then leave it up in that position there okay talk through the mats and layers separately in a minute and then with this one so the two the four and a half and five and a half here you want to fold them both down so you've got mountain folds okay and then the other outer score lines you're going to fold so you've got valley folds because of the way that we score by flipping that cardstock you shouldn't have any cracking and then if you just show all of those you will now have that kind of pop-up gatefold look okay so now we need to do all the mats and layers and decorate and that's it is it is really really simple I've added the belly band and everything as an extra you don't have to do that if you don't want to so you are going to need and that depends the amount that you need depends on whether you want to do mats and layers on all of them you may just want to do pattern paper and just mat it and that's it but I've done mats and layers so for my mats I've got the gold dovecraft mirrored card and this is going to go here here and then on the backs as well okay now you want to have you may want to have the backs here white for your message I'm going to keep my messages on the middle ones on the inside there these pieces here so you'll want you know two or four it's entirely up to you but they're two and a quarter by five by no six and three quarters okay so I've got those four then I've got pattern paper to go on top of those so I've got four pieces again but you may want to and again you may want to do plain it doesn't have to be patterned it's entirely up to you but these are two by six and a half so I'm dropping down by one by a quarter of an inch increment each time okay so again two or four of those and then for the smaller inside pieces I'm only doing two of each because I'm going to keep these white so I can just write straight onto them and I might stamp on that on a later date but these ones here for the mats are one and a quarter by six and three quarters and then one and a half by six and a half okay and they're going to stick on top now because I'm also sticking on to mirrored cardstock I use red tape so I've already gone and prepared my red tape on the backs to all the ones I'm sticking onto mirrored cardstock then for the center strip for the front one I've got a mat and a layer so this is one inch so I've just dropped down so this is three quarters of an inch in width by six and three quarters and then this one's half an inch by six and a half okay and again that's going to go in the middle and then if you want to do the same again which I probably will actually because I don't know on the other one I've just forgot to cut two so you'll probably want two of each of those sizes I've given you this will all be listed in my blog so what I'm going to go ahead and do is get all of these mats and layers stuck down and then I'll go through and die cut that flower and yeah finish the card okay so there's all my mats and layers I think it looks really nice with that mirrored cardstock as a frame also remember whatever ones you put on the back actually become the front of your gatefold so that's how the card's going to be when it's opened and obviously it's going to have the belly bands you can see how everything kind of ties in together there so now I'm going to show you that flower so I haven't finished it all yet but this is what we're going to work on so I think I'm going to have that one for the middle so there's my little I already went ahead and just stamped on some black cardstock and just use some white embossing powder so that one's yeah all ready to go okay so there's quite a few different ways that you can use this die but I'm going to use it the normal I guess way so I have got the large one and then these and I've already got some gold here that I'm going to cut the first one with first of all so what we're going to do because when this cuts obviously it's called the flower band so it gives you this band here so but I don't want that you can have it as a solid piece and it's got little cut lines so I'm going to get that one I'm just probably going to have to trim that down a little bit because this does fit through a normal die machine you don't need a big A4 one but you do need to make sure your card stock doesn't go any wider than six inches well if you're using the big shot which I've got okay so that's how it looks when you first die cut it and then all you need to do is just carry on the curve of the flower and just take off these pieces here obviously if you want to keep it as a band then you will keep those on and I did use it that way when I done my pop-up card again a couple of weeks back I'll link that one in actually so then you can just see other ways to use it like so so now I've got that solid piece next I want to die cut in white and you'll get this smaller solid one okay so I'm going to die cut that first of all in white and then I'm going to die cut it again but with this inside and it will give you this beautiful detail here okay so I'm just going to pop it on high speed so you can see me to get all that done okay so just done the two flowers that one's moved and I've just done the green pieces for the middle and that was using this one here which I did say when I done my what did I get video it will also work really well as a snowflake so it's yeah we'll definitely get used again through my Christmas and winter tutorials so now I want to do the smaller flower which is this one here and it works the kind of same way so you've got this one which will cut out this thin frame and then that one will cut out the solid so I want to have this in gold this thin frame so I'm just going to trim that one down and then I want this one in white and then I'm going to do these in green and another color as well so I'm just going to get them cut okay and you can see there look how lovely that is so now when you sit that over the top you get a really pretty flower like so you can offset it as well you don't have to have them right over the top but now when that goes in the center start to get this really lovely topper look great on a present as well so I'm going to cut that again for the other flower and also cut those like smaller snowflakes as well okay so they are my flowers they look really really nice they do look even more special I think with the mirrored card there's just something about it I use it so much in my tutorials so I think I'm going to have yeah I think I'm going to have this one in the middle so you want to make sure that you have it because if you have it like that it goes over these score lines here so I have to have it like that so with the point running with this middle piece here so I'm just going to grab some of my glue and just put a strip down through the middle and stick that one down there you can have it higher up if you want I have it right in the middle so and then my little happy birthday and I'm going to just grab some foam and pop a few pieces on the back there of course you can decorate all these I do actually have some flowers that I might add in so I'm going to sit that right across the center and then I've got these here which are part of the collection but I'm not sure if I want them or not so we'll save that till later but now make sure you got a bit of wiggle room with this glue but then once it dries it dries it's so stiff it's brilliant but now you've got that pop out bit I love it I think it's so good so now I'm going to fold that down and then I've got a piece here which is one inch by 12 it was some scrap for your belly button it doesn't have to be 12 inches at all so it can be five six seven eight inches something like that as long as it comes around to about here because this will stick over it and glue everything together so I just line my card up so it's straight and then just wrap this around don't have to score it or anything just loosely wrap it you don't want to do it really tight otherwise it won't come on and off like so I'm going to put my finger there and then I know I need to add glue just in this section here and bring that over and just hold that there for a second and just slide it off now and then you can really stick it down and burnish it and then again with this one I'm going to have it that way like so so you can see how much you know your cardstock could just come around to like there because this would glue to it because it's that long so I'm going to add some glue right through the middle there and then with this one here I'm actually going to add a really nice gem in the middle I think they need something okay it just gives it a little bit of sparkle in the centers there and again that one there and now you should be able to slide it back on one's still drying a little bit but it should be no it's still drying I'm just gonna hold that there for a second cure now so I can just slide my belly band back on I haven't put my mats on the back still yeah I'll do that off camera and you'll see all that in the photos but how stunning is that that gorgeous that's such a special card really really like this and then I slide it off and then out pops another beautiful flower love it I think it's so so nice and like I said there's so many ways to decorate this you've got all those free panels there but I actually like that they're quite plain I don't think I am going to add anything to them because that middle I think having a simple background really kind of sets off that flower and then yeah I just need to decorate those panels there on the back I think it's gorgeous and I like that it all folds down into a five by seven so you could get this in an envelope but I would recommend you use one of my box envelopes and I'll link that up there for you because yeah I think with the dimension of the flower and everything else it'd be a shame to squash it so yeah they are the two cars let me just get that one out again so you can see it so that's without the mirror cardstock still look gorgeous really really pretty and might add some of my spectrum noir sparkle pen or Winkastella on some parts of it just to give a little bit of sparkle but no I'm really pleased with how these have turned out so I hope you like it I hope you give it a go if you've enjoyed today please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye