 Hey everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this reverse easel card or reverse fold easel card. So if I bring it to the side so I'm trying to keep it in its shape. See how it looks like that. So basically this is a Z-fold, an M-fold and it can be a normal easel card but all you do is you just change the way you flip it so you reverse it basically. Hence reverse and you just keep it in the same little kind of stopper that you would do. So again let me bring it up so you can see all the lovely detail there and then underneath I've got a little message. This one says to a lovely friend on your special day, wishing you happiness in every way and then on the back there I can write my little message as well or you could write it under there as well. It's entirely up to you but I just like that hit a little note there and yeah absolutely adore this. So the inspiration for this one came from Facebook and it was the creative stamping page and their editor I believe had posted this up and she didn't know what to call it. She said oh should I call it a diamond reverse easel. So I'll show you the way that she's done. She's just basically just moved a square and put it into a diamond shape but you can put any shape you want. The initial fold is the reverse fold so I think a reverse easel card seems like the most appropriate name to call it. I really loved this one. This is using the current I don't know what that set's called. I don't actually have it but I'll share the links to the magazine and everything just so you can check it out. But it's really really cute so that's what inspired me. So I'm going to bring in all of the stuff for this one. So I'm using stamping up products today because I did get these a while back and it's the tropical chic chic tropical sheep. Anybody know any tropical sheep? Tropical chic stamp set and I've used this quite a lot. I do really like it. So I've got the stamp set, I've got the matching dies which I've already pre-cut and done everything but they are really nice because you get the outer die cut and then you get the inner detail. So for example that one there you can see I've cut out but you can also cut the whole thing out. So if you've got a stamped image there you cut the frame of it out or you can have just the inside. So that's really nice and then that's the paper pack as well. I just got the six by six and I don't know if it comes in any other sizes but they're really nice. So I got those and I'll send you, I'll put all the links to who I recommend you to buy through if you did want to and then if you are stamping up and you've got the products, the colours I used was powder pink and gumball green. They matched really well. I think that is the actual colour to match. The gumball green is a bit older I believe I'm not sure but it's still matched really well. So hey hey right. So instead of a square this time I'm going to go for a circle. So I had a circle on the bottom but I'm going to do a circle on the top as well. I quite like the look of that. Okay so for your main card base you just need a piece of 12 by 6 okay and what you want to do is along the 12 inch side you want to score it 6 inches then flip it over and score it 9 inches okay because what we're going to do now is flip it back over again fold your normal 6 inch fold in half. I've already rounded off my corners there let's just make sure I've burnished that but then this one you're going to fold back so by flipping it over and doing the right score line you won't get any cracking okay. So now we have a z fold card we have an m fold if you have it that way this one you know it's a really common fold but what we're going to do is we're going to keep it in that orientation and that becomes the reverse easel because if this was a normal easel card we'd fold that down. I don't want to do it because my card shouldn't crack actually I'll do a few. That's a normal easel card that way so all we're doing is just flipping it that way making a z fold okay so that's what you need to do there then you need to cut a piece of card stock mine is five and three quarters by five and three quarters and that's going to stick down there and go like so then I plan to have that down there stamp another nice message and have my stoppers and then I didn't pick a card out yet because I wanted to see how it all looked but then I'm going to have that so mine's going to be that kind of look I need to get a nice piece of paper behind the here so this would be whatever you have on this piece will be five and three quarters by two and three quarters okay so I'm going to go and get that piece cut and then what I've also got here is just a load of die cuts to create these kind of little clusters so I've got one up there I've put Winkistella already on it I've got a little bit there and then I've got my main stopper which is on some foam um adhesive which I'll show you in a minute and I've just done a little bit there just to continue that theme so I'm just going to prep my card and get these bits all ready okay so I've got everything stuck down that's stuck down and I've gone for this quite plain it still matches because I plan on doing quite a lot of foliage quite a big cluster should I say so when you go to fold your topper or stick your topper down fold it all down flat and whether it's a square a diamond um you know circle like I've got you just want to make sure you line it up as if it's um in the center of the card okay so what I'm going to do is flip this over make sure I've got it because I've already put my sentiment on it's better if you don't at this point just so it makes it a bit easier for you to that looks straight just to flip it over just so I know roughly put a pencil mark where I want to put my glue so wherever all above there is where I want to glue down so it's just about just about half as long as you've got enough on there to kind of just get it in place anyway and this tombo glue is really strong now I can just come and line that back up plus I've got a scarlet edge circle as well I think it used to be one that way actually there you go I've got a bit of wiggle room that's better just mean so when it's flat it looks nice when they open it it's lucky I turned it over before it was going to stick because I've got some tombo hanging over there if you've used tombo you know obviously it gets very very tacky let it dry once it's dry use one of the these ones here these are the Xyron adhesive rubbers so once that dries although it's still be tacky this will take it off straight away and it will leave it all dry and nice and it won't damage your project so that's that now all down and then I just want to start making my little kind of stoppers and clusters so I'm going to do the stopper first so I'm going to bring it up and kind of just see where you want to put it so these kind of leaves I want kind of sitting within the circle for me so they're going to be like that so that's where they're going to go okay so I can just turn that over for a minute and then I've just got some of my little circles here let's do that one first and then I'm going to be putting more things over these I've got all these bits here I've got these little flowers that I want to decorate but I just want to show you the kind of basic bit I can line that one back up because I know that's straight and then pop that one there so you just need your main stopper needs to have the foam it needs to be elevated in order to stop and hold your easel in place again doesn't really matter which one's on top over as long as they're straight so now I still need to have something else in the middle but that stops that now okay so then I'm going to have a pink flower up there I'm going to build all of this and then what I'm going to do is light it down flat and I'm going to be using some more of these up here and you can like rip bits off so they really fit in so now that sits in better you want to keep it all within that square um again take that one off pop that in like so I have one down here but remember when you have the one down there you're going to see it so you might want to lift it up a little bit but that's all you want to do and then grab some more leaves kind of sit them in but I really want to build it up I do want to have quite a lot going on because I do really like the look and the effect this gives so I'm going to play around with this now and I'll show you what I've done that's the top there so I've really filled it right the way around the top of the circle and then there's the stopper so I've just got a little cluster there and then it sits in there perfectly and it looks so lovely so I'm just now going to go over everything with my winkestella if anybody hears this a lot doesn't know what it is this is the clear 999 and it basically just you just brush it over and it um just leaves a lovely shimmer lovely glitter on your whatever it is that you want to kind of highlight and it's just lovely for when it catches the light I've gone through loads of these I could even tell you how many of these I've had but if I just um try and get it to catch the light I think it's picking it up all these flowers there and it just and you can layer and layer so even you know once it's dry you can go over it again and just make it more intense and they do tons of different colors loads of different you know different glitters and stuff in the collection so again I'll share links to all of that so there you go I might put some more on I don't know it dries pretty much instantly then this here this nuvo is a perfect match for this kind of collection for that um what one was it here powder pink color but then I'm just going to do a couple of I always like to do like different three different sizes a little cluster together and it will find its own way so don't like play around with them literally just do that and move on don't um don't do uh like start going back into them and stuff because they will naturally you know form a little dot I do and then I'll probably do something no I don't think it needs anything on the bottom again these initially the outer layer dries very quick with the nuvo but then you've got to allow it obviously to dry throughout so they do advise I think 24 hours however within like maybe yeah 24 hours but after even a couple they're pretty dry depends how thick you do them my tent always go pretty crazy with mine as you can see so there you go back in there I think it's gorgeous and I love that it all folds down into a six by six size so I've just got to add my piece on there which is the same size as this so you just need a white piece that is five and three quarters by two and three quarters just stick that on the back but it's just a really quick tutorial it's dead easy to make I just wanted to really inspire you with the decoration more than anything um but I love it so thank you creative stamping magazine see I love our British magazines we get so much inspiration from them and I just think it looks brilliant so that is my tape on it so I hope you like it the reverse easel card bring that one in as well and I just love these papers so there you have it so if you've enjoyed today's please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye