 Hi 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 lovely drop-down gatefold card. I've finished it with a belly band, you could just pop it into a six by six envelope if you would prefer. It's using some of the supplies from this month's hobby base kit, so it's the May Kit and we received this lovely rose dye, these papers and some of the gems. So basically you just take off the belly band or the wrap and then you've got your normal gatefold so it opens and then as you lift it up this piece drops down and that is the card and you can see it's really special for somebody special. Yeah I think it's really nice, I've got it so that the sentiments here where you would write your message and stuff you could put that on the back if you wanted to and have more decoration here but I've just if I bring up a bit closer there I've got the rose on each side, I just adore that rose it's just so lovely and you can see there some of the faceted gems that I've used and this paper is the V&A paper pack so when we received some of it in the kit I actually had lots of it already as well so it worked out really well for me and yeah I just put the happy birthday sentiments so this is a special card and I love it and then basically that folds up it all does that's how it would be displayed okay and then it just folds back up and then you fold in your sides and pop it back in its belly band and it is very easy to make and it's just down to getting all your mats and your layers sorted out and a little bit of die cutting so let's crack on and make it. Okay so first of all I'm going to go through all the card stock and we'll do the decoration after we're going to all put together first so the main card you need a piece of 12 by 12 and I was I was scoring it and then I started cutting it and I thought oh my god I'm not even recording so I've just went into a bit there but it's fine I can still talk you through so this is the main card base which is 12 by 12 and you want to score I go on the right side so you just want to score at three, nine and then rotate it and score at six okay so you will have that shape there then you will need again you know watch the tutorial first because you may decide you don't want to have this many mats and layers but basically I've got two pieces here which are going to be my mats which are five and three quarters squared two pieces two pieces of these layered pieces which are five and a half by five and a half and then again I've got these mats here which are two and three quarters by five and three quarters and then the layers for on top of them are two and a half by five and a half so two of two of all those sizes that I've just given you okay so um let's get rid of the score board and bring this back in and we can burnish all of our score lines so I've already cut that one so I just need to carefully like so so now I can carry on so what you want to do with your scissors is um it doesn't matter which side because they're both the same but I'm just starting down here so you want to cut up to the middle score line and then we're going to remove that piece now you need to be really neat because this is going to be your base and this is the side of that gatefold so I am removing all of the score lines and just take some time making sure you get it nice and straight like so and then you want to do the same on this side here so again I'm just removing the score line okay so that's the shape you should have keep these pieces because we're going to be probably using them when we decorate so now when you turn it over that's the gate fold well that will come up like like so and then that will fold over like so okay or it'll be that way with that it's entirely up to you really but I think you want to have it like that that's why I said it depends on how you want to decorate it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to shear off a little bit more from these sides because when it goes in and that see that side's fine oh that side seems okay now well maybe you just have to work it a bit it's fine now when I first put it in it seemed like it was catching but just go in and just burnish it all just so it sits in there nicely like so okay so then we open it up that will fall down and there is our card so now we want to start to decorate so this is when all these mats and layers come into place so these two largest mats one is going to go here and they've got a nice 1 1⁄8 of an inch border this one is going to go down the bottom like so then the biggest layers are going to go on top and again that one there and then the smaller mat and layers you got two mats for the front and then the two layers okay so that is all of the mats and layers put down so now if you imagine that's how it would be received you want to just make sure that it all you know lies flat just burnish it again but then when you open it and that drops down it does stay up perfectly now because it's weighted here it will not fall back at all it will even I mean that I could put it there like it does just stay so it's really nice so just to decorate it so I've gone ahead and prepared all the bits and pieces so I've got this bit is going to go on the base I mean you could have yours up there if you want but I like that there so that people will see that so people just coming into the room and that's what you're always look at and that's going to be all the decoration and here will be where I'll write my message alternatively you could have more design there and you could have this piece on the back and write your message there so it's entirely up to you but I'm going to have that piece there I've got this from my belly band I've printed off this one someone special and that's going to go up there and then that's from my belly band that's from my belly band then I've gone and with the die that came in the kit this month is the rose die which I think and I've said this before it looks just like the rose from the Beauty and the Beast movie it's so pretty I love it so I've um die cut this in gold and I'm going to have one on that side and one on that side and then I've gone ahead and die cut just loads of the leaves and I want to kind of I'm going to cut them up more but I want to have them kind of coming around out of this a bit as well so I'm not going to do too many just a few I'm going to like I said trim them down but I'm going to go and get those three four bits stuck down and then we can start on the belly band okay so you can see there what I've done and just it is really really special this card I love it it's come together so nicely obviously now when that stands up so that is the profile that someone would see um so now the belly band um so fold it all up again I've got a bit of bulk on mine now but it does still work but do all your decoration before you do the belly band and then I've got a piece of let me tell you what this is um so it's just the default A4 length so this is 11 and five eighths um 11 would just about go round it won't it won't meet up neither does the um A4 12 would be ideal I guess if you want it to join but it doesn't need to and it's by one and a half basically you just want to sit this um if you've got a grid amount underneath like I have I'm just lining it up there and you just want to have an even amount on each side and then just fold it over and you see mine doesn't even join but I've then got this circle which I've prepared which when I stick it it will attach to both the sides there okay so what I'm going to do is keep it in place and put a splodge of glue on each side and then just sit that over the top um if yours is if you're using 11 inch it's obviously going to be a little bit shorter but a square um die will be nice because it matches the square of this I just like the circle because I've then die cut just the head of the rose and put some foam on the back and that's going to go in the middle and that's all I'm going to keep on it I have got more of the little bits here I guess yeah I might put some of them in as well we'll see so I'm just going to let that sit okay and then if you just slide it off and then you can just burnish them better and then decorate it up so I'm just going to remove my backing you obviously you can put anything you want on here whether you want to do another sentiment it's entirely up to you like so and then do I want to add this just have a little play around and see if they work yeah I actually think I quite like that I haven't stuck them there yet so I'm going to put it on and just see what it looks like but they're just kind of wedged underneath it for the minute so now you can slide it back in it should fit yeah I quite like that there we go I'll stick it in a minute but that's the nice thing about just kind of playing around with things you don't have to kind of commit straight away you can put them in I think it just kind of lifts that plain cream band that I've got so there is that card so that is my drop-down gatefold card and I just think it's really nice I love it and I love the different kind of colours I think it is yeah a really special card for someone special so there you go so I hope you've enjoyed this one using some of the supplies from my May hobby base kits as always you can find all the links if you'd like to subscribe to receive the kits in the video description below otherwise I'll be back again next Wednesday with another hobby base inspired project so please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed it and subscribe 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