 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 really I think very sweet concertina panel card so that's what I'm calling this. Every time I do a concertina card they're always well received and many of you share them regularly over on the Mixed Up Crafts Facebook page and one that is always shared a lot is the Easter concertina card I done last year or maybe even the year before which was all squares and it just popped out of a box or folded out of a box. So this is kind of a vault from there but I'm using the egg die by card making magic which I'll show you in a moment but you don't need the die, you know you can use any shapes you want but I think it makes such a lovely display piece or a card so you could have this you know it could read happy birthday, it could have the person's name. It's just really really nice and it fits there inside my 5x7 envelope box card link so you know you can really go to town with it. I wasn't sure if all the dimension I added was going to work when we go to fold it all up because you can see there the dimension you get but it fits, you just saw me take it out of the box, it fits really nicely in there so that alone makes a nice gift and obviously you can decorate all that. I haven't because I'm keeping this one for myself and it's going to be displayed on the mantle along with all my other Easter decorations around it but if you imagine this is how you see it trying to, it will be like that. It looks lovely, I really really do like this one, I love the colours that I've chosen. If I just bring it up just so you can see a little bit closer we've got the holographic cardstock for that kind of bead trim around the very outer side and then I've got glitter on my little daisies, I've used these Decoupage little rabbit images which I found from a few years ago and then I've used the holographic card again for the letters and just created a little scene on each of those panels and I think it looks really really sweet. So lots of inspiration hopefully your take from this one and as I always say you know I've done it for Easter but it doesn't have to be this would make a lovely Christmas card as well or anything you want really, any shape, any colours, it's entirely up to you so let me show you how to make it. Okay so I've gone ahead and die cut everything and I'm going to show you how to put together the last pieces because you know once you've done one you you know you know how to do all the rest. So this is what I've already done so I've got Easter E A S T E R so I've already stuck this one down because this is going to stick on top of this one so what I've done the front and the back you don't have to but it does give it a bit more stability and it also conceals the hinge there so if you see now when I flip mine over from some sticky glue marks there but you can see there's no you can't see the tabs okay they're all concealed inside but you know it's up to you if you're going to have it as a display piece then you might not think you you know there's no point really so but if you do want to it does add that stability so I've got that one to go there but before I stick that one down because I've got my last one to go down here off this just at the end here I need to add another hinge and that's why I thought I would show you it so if you've got this die set here which is the card making magic extravagant egg die set you're going to need first of all the largest one and you want to die cut well I've die cut 12 because I've got six on the front and then six on the back and then I've die cut six of all the others because you only need these for the front so this is that lovely beading trim which I really like and I've done it in the holographic card just around the edge there and I think it looks beautiful then I have die cut these two together to give me the white trellis and then I've just die cut this one six times to give me the pink to stick the white trellis onto okay so that's how I've got that look but as I mentioned at the beginning doesn't matter what you use for this whether it's square rectangle flowers anything you want all that's you know you need to know and just for me to really give you some hints and tips is how to put it all together with the hinges you can make it as long as you want you could just have a couple and if you again like I mentioned the one I made last year I'll link that one here if I haven't already linked it you know that was coming out of a box so yeah but this one does fit in that 5x7 which I shared I have got one of well I've got this one here because it's going to go on the going going to go on the back but I'll just show you how to put it together so I've got this one here then I've got this one which I've already put the trellis detail and everything on to I've used the clow glue throughout just so again it's nice and strong trigger that right around the edges and then I'm going to stick that one right in the center and then with the trim now some holographic hard stocks the clow glue can strip but this is that thick one that I've recently purchased from her chander it was that deal from Pinkfrog and it doesn't so I have very carefully just gone around with the fine tip nozzle here and just put some callow because if it oozes out the sides it just you can just rub it off but obviously if you've got some of the other mirror card stocks if any of this callow touches the front it will strip it because it's a solvent glue so I would suggest to use you know a white glue you know PVA kind of style so just bear that in mind that's if you're using holographic hard stock because you know not everybody will but I've just popped that around there because it's the egg shape I just know that that's the this is the thicker bottom and it will just very easily fall into place and just tuck it down there just so it can grab and I'll just give that a few minutes and I just went over it all with my finger and just kind of rubbed over it and just rubbed away any of the excess glue and that's one of the beauties of this callow it just doesn't ruin your project you know some of your um your liquid glues they if you rub over them they smudge and you get you know might get them get a bit dirty this one just rub straight off so I'm just going to do that quickly now I've got my hinges so really the amount depends on how long you're having yours so for me to have the word Easter I've got one two three four five okay so this is a piece of two by two and I'm just scoring at one inch just down through the middle there and then just fold and burnish it and just do it both ways if you want to score on both sides as well in case you're worried your card stock might crack then you know it is best to do that so you know ignore that I've already done all of that you'll do this the same however you do it on the first one you want to make sure you do it the same on every single one okay so what I done here so pretend this was festival the first one I done you want to stick it within kind of the center of the shape that you're using and make sure you keep it straight now it's easy if you're working on a square because you can use the lines of that you can measure down from the top and I guess I could measure down from this but because I'm working on that curve it's hard to line everything up so I'm using the grid on my mat here to keep when I stick this down to keep it completely straight so I'm going to just keep it lined up with that line there where the fold is and then once you're happy that that's all straight that piece your next one you will line up with that and we're going to fold this over and again just make sure everything kind of stays in place so just you want to just make sure that you kind of stick to that same kind of process with all of them now again because I'm working on that curve I'm just going to lay this down and just run my glues it kind of roughly follows the shape there of the the egg and then just going to add glue to the rest of that flip it over and stick this one down so I know that I need to keep it lined up with this line here which runs along here so I know that that hinges all you know where it should be and I'm basically just having about I don't know just under a quarter of an inch overhanging kind of coming out there you just want to make sure that it can you know concertina fold so it's got enough to be able to fold over on itself so that's that one there so then I'm going to add glue to this one and stick it over the top so it just conceals like I said earlier the hinges it's a very very simple card to do concertina cards always seem to do very well I think for that reason they look really effective they're actually very easy to do and then this one here you just need to line up now I haven't cut the bottom off to make a you know that flat base because I'd already done them one on the back but again I'll show you because I haven't done it at all on this one what to do and then how to make sure it stays consistent with all of the others so I'm just showing you just a few little tips just to make sure you get a nice result when you do yours so now we've got that one so that one will fold that way that way so you see when you fold it so when that's that glue was still kind of tacky fold that one over and make sure they all sit nicely because you've got that you know time to move it you've got the wiggle room with the glue right so next we've got the last one to do so with this one here and just again going to add the glue just kind of in a bit of an arch shape but again because I'm using this one I can rub out anything that oozes over the edges and then this one here so again if I just keep that all lined up the top of this oval runs with this line here so all I need to do now is lay this one down and make sure that sits the same and then this is when you can fold this one over onto this one again whatever shape you're using and just move it so it sits perfectly over the top so it's another good way to make sure they all stay the same because if you've got one slightly higher than the other your concertina is going to kind of be rocking all over the place and you don't want that so that's that one then I've just realized I've stuck that one over the top and that one needs to go underneath so I'm going to flip it around because I'm working with this shape it doesn't matter whether it's you know it's not like a you might have a flower die or something that's all different got different leaves and it's not a mirror image whereas this one it doesn't matter so again you can just sit this one down fold that over make sure I don't go any glue inside but that's okay because you want to have that underneath you want the hinge on the top so that this piece then goes over there and seals it all up I'd already stuck this down earlier so I had to peel it off so that's why it's already got a ton of glue on it but then again with this one I'm just sitting it over the top like so and you just would continue that so you may have another hinge here coming off and so on until you're on the last one get that little bit off there again fold that over I can see everything lines up and the whole thing it's a really nice piece you know it's a lovely card for like I said display card for you know whoever's going to receive it and also on the back you might want to put one of them with a white panel and stamp something on there just so you've got a place to be able to write your message if you want to do that so now you just want to decide which way you're going to have your concertinas but that's how I'm going to have mine and it does it looks really good but now I need to just these are rocking you see these end ones probably not so much because all the rest of flat so we'll pretend that this was the first one I done this one it doesn't really matter how you do it because it's the first one so I'm just going to use my metal ruler and my cutting knife this one will be okay the ends come off but you might want to do this before you decorate basically for do it this way so it's a better angle for me and make sure your ruler runs along so make sure this is all straight hinge it's easy again if you're working with a square or something and then I'm making sure that my ruler runs parallel with one of these lines so I can keep everything straight and I'm just coming up here about not even one-eighth of an inch it's just a smidge and then I'm just going to cut like that so I haven't ruined any of the design and then you can then fold that one over onto the next one and you can just get your scissors and just cut and then fold that one over onto that one scissors and cut okay this one I actually only need to take off but I'm going to do it this way because I don't want to ruin any of that trim so I'm just going to this one because I've just done this differently for the video but that one's going to be fine because all the rest are okay as long as there's something that's flat I want it that way so I want I want the E the first letter for you to see and the last one for you to see like facing you okay so I've already gone and cut the word Easter E-A-S-T-E-R oh I really spelled it wrong TR-E there we go so these are using the stamping up letters I was actually given these as a gift so these ones can be pretty pricey and I don't know if they're actually still available there are lots of other companies that make nice large letters also if you've got a digital cutting machine you can use that but also another nice thing to use is this one here and it's the We Are Memory Keepers mini alphabet punch board and I have I'm sure I've got a video where I showed you how to use this because I think I used it when I made some thank you cards and it's just really really handy and it gives you a very similar size if not might be slightly bigger but it's got a nice style about it in fact if I've got the book here yeah here we go this is the style of the letters you and yeah the letters and you can also put little flag tails on the ends you can make them you know look in a slightly different shape like you see the K there's got little flag tails you see the A and the F so if you you know and this is you know good value for money so you can pick it up at a good price and you can just do all sorts you can make there's a larger one so like I said this is the mini but it will give you a similar size for this and it's the mini that I find I use within card making the normal size one is big letters perfect for bunting and things like that so I'll share links to it and stuff have a look at some other youtubers maybe and I'll link the video if I find it of the one that I used but I'm gonna have these along here but I feel it might need a little bit more feel that that's just a little bit plain for me so and the R is just off camera there because obviously I can't fit bring that one along that there we get you can just see so that's what I'm gonna have there but I'm gonna have a little look around now now that I've got it all together it's a lot easier for me to start thinking about design I think I want to have something behind it look at my Easter stuff I don't want anything too bulky because obviously I do want it to fold up and to fit into a box although this is going to be more of a display card rather than me sending it to somebody I think I'm just gonna keep this one so I'm gonna have a little look at what I've got and then I'll be back okay so I've gone and die cut a ton of these daisies now this is from this plate here I've had it for a long time a good few years now and I can't remember where I got it from may well have even been given to me because I was given a few plates from a friend so it may well have been that so but any kind of daisy die or flower died you know doesn't have to be a daisy but I just saw daisies I know their classes are weed but I've always loved them and they're very pretty so I just die cut the plate and you get well you can if you want to keep them all individual then you've got a lot there in one go but you just layer them up so I die cut this four times so I like to use like the same size you know so you've got two of them to make that size for example that's just two of that one and then this one here is two of this one here and so on so you just glue them together just shape them a little bit and then what I've used is the Nuvo drops and this is such a lovely oh it's English mustard really nice yellow and I just put a really nice blob in the center because they're self-leveling they will just form a really nice embellishment in the center there of the flowers so that's what I've done make sure you leave them to dry do not you know I just left them to one side and carried on doing other things and then I've come back to this later on today so you know make sure they're completely dry the smaller ones will you know dry pretty quickly because they're just small little dots but that's what I've done there then I've got a die cut a ton of leaves is this one here it's an old stamping up one but is anybody else like that there's just sometimes there's just this one leaf that you always go to and it's I just always grab this one so I've got loads of other ones but I just think it looks quite nice behind you know the daisy can't quite see there we go okay so that's what I've done there so I've also got these now I've had these for a couple of years and they are decapage little bunnies I've cut that one off the back there because I was playing around with some arrangement it was up higher like there but I need it to come down so I'm going to just pop it behind him there but you can see just it's all different layers just stuck on top of each other so I'd already done these they were the you know I've done these a couple of years ago and then never got around to using them so there is a lot of dimension you can see there but because I'm going to be using this more as a display I won't be sending this to someone you know I'm not too worried that it's not going to maybe fold up you know as well as it maybe should so just bear that in mind you don't want to add too much bulk if you do want it to fit in that box however this will probably still squash in there anyway so what I'm going to do is spell out Easter so there we go and then the Rs down the end there and then I've thought this one you can just see there but I'm going to have down there and then I'm going to have not the biggest one I think it was like the one of the smaller ones like this so I just want to create a little scene and then where I've just got the letter I'm going to have like the large one and then like a small one at the top and that's when I'll bring in the leaves as well and kind of build that around so just want to create quite a nice you know little cluster and just lots of detail on each one and then so every other then I have a different one of these bunnies so I'm going to have that one there and then again have maybe that one there and have some leaves coming down and then the T so I want another big one and because I've got the large one down there I'm going to have the larger one up here so I'm just trying to like balance everything out and then do a smaller one down here again we'll add all the leaves in and then do the same with the E and the R which is just going off screen there but I'm going to put this on high speed now get this all stuck down probably going to bring in my Wincastella pen I think then that probably is enough because I think once the leaves have all been put on there I think it's going to really fill that space so yeah I'll be back in a minute okay so here is my finished concertina display card I think the little each panel I'll call them a panel I think they look really really cute so there's that one and then we've got that A yes E and finish in there with the R and I've also gone over all of the flowers with my sparkle pen so you can see the daisy there I don't know how well it's actually picking them up trying to hit the light a bit better but it is there you'll probably see it in the photos so mine again it does all fold up oh no I want to do what is up to you might want to do it that way so it kind of then opens up I guess like a book but I've had it I've been doing it like that because that's no that's not how I want it to be so I guess it's up to you it doesn't make any difference but you'll see there you know I think that is still going to fit in the box perfectly let me just check this is my 5x7 envelope box and let's just make sure I don't catch anything you have to be careful yeah I think if you're putting it in the box it's going to be better to do so the front is folded down first like so I've got things hanging over the side but it doesn't matter you know it's what we want because you decorated it no it fits perfectly so there you go even with all that dimension it still fits perfectly into that envelope box and I will link that if it hasn't already been linked at the beginning and that's all ready to decorate I won't be doing that because this is going to be I'm keeping this one for myself and it will be displayed on the mantle along with other Easter you know decorations and things like that so yeah I'm super pleased with this I think it makes a beautiful card you know have some of these name on it could say happy anniversary happy birthday depending on how big you want to do it and I'll link in all the other concertina cards because you know you can take elements from this one and pop it into those as well so yeah I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial and I'll be back very soon with another one thanks for watching bye