 Hey everybody it's Sam at mix.graph thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this really elegant spinning pop-out card so I've done the or pop-out box card I've done these before with a strip of acetate through the middle and this centerpiece then pops out but I wanted to change it up a bit and I've also changed the size so I will share the pop-up ones there because those ones are six by six so if you'd rather make six by six just substitute the acetate strip that's in those tutorials for this piece that I'm going to show you today but for those of you that have made that and you want to try something different and a different size this one is five by seven so when it folds flat it will fit down into a five by seven envelope but the nice thing about this is is you can wind it up or you can just leave it doesn't matter I've got it on a very thin piece of elastic here but just wrap it around like so it's up to you how far you go then you would lie it flat and pop it in the envelope and then when the person takes it out and it pops into its shape it will spin around and it's really nice because it's got that elastic it's got a little bit of a bounce so it does just spin really nicely and then I've popped this on one of my hinges that I like to make whenever I make these boxes so that you can have your sentiment still right in the middle but it will also pop out with the card when that stands and it's really nice my mat's a little bit wonky there we go it does stand straight and then on the back you've got room to write your message I've just got have a fun festive time this Christmas so let me show you how to make it okay so I've got all the bits and pieces here all the sentiments I've used from the crafters companion it's the it's christmas time warm wishes and merry christmas sentiment stamp sets I brought these a while back as a bundle but I think they're still available I know quite a few of you've got them now because I've been sharing them a lot but um I'll try and find the links as normal then I'm using the scissics plain circle dies and I'll talk through the sizes of those in a moment I've already done a few bits there so the papers I used for that one before was the winter rose not got too much left of this one actually I've it's funny because I didn't think I was going to use it as much as all of them but I've actually ended up using it more than the rest so that's um a really lovely pad and then this one here is the believe in magic which is just so cute and I've pulled out this lovely one today which has got the reindeer there with the bow and everything on so again everything will be linked below let's just get straight into scoring the actual pop-up or the box the card piece whatever you want to call it so this is a piece of 10 and a half by seven along the 10 and a half inch side you want to score it two and a half five seven and a half and ten so you will have four panels that are two and a half inches wide and then this half an inch panel on the end okay and then you'll need this tiny piece here which is for your sentiments if you do want to have the sentiment like that you might choose to put acetate through this and in that case you'll see some of them I had the sentiment on the acetate so do check out that playlist because if anything it'll just give you more ideas and inspiration on maybe how to put this together but this is a piece of four by half an inch and along the four inch side you want to score it one inch one and a half two and a half and three okay so that's all scoring you need to do okay so before we do anything really we want to start deciding on what circle sizes you want now you don't have to do circle you might want to do an oval you may do a square you may do a rectangle so play around use what you've got and if you don't have anything like this then you might have to cut something on your trimmer or even on your cutting your digital cutting machines okay and you can also use like a little cup and saucer something like that to draw around okay so you just need to cut that freehand or I know a lot of you also have this which is the x-cut circle cutter really handy tool I always recommend that one okay so I'm using for the actual center circle so I'm keep I've kept these two together purely because of the like frame that I've done here so you'll see there I've got this gold frame around there to get that you will use the larger of whatever circle size it is that you use for this the middle so to cut the actual main window the aperture I've used this size circle here and this one measures it is a three and three quarter diameter and then the next size up which is the largest one in that particular set you then pop them together with a bit of washi tape and make sure you get a nice even frame like I've got there and then die cut it and I've used this holographic card stock and it's giving me the ring so that ring when we go to put everything together because I'm going to cut this one in a minute but that ring will sit perfectly around it to give you a nice frame completely optional but it is a nice little touch so with this style I've got my circle more towards the top there's no reason why you can't have it in the middle again it's all down to however you think you're going to decorate yours but I am going to have mine about there because these particular dies it's really nice and I wish in a way more dies would do it but the cutting line is that in a circle so you'll see there that the blade but it's not you know but I guess it is a bluntish blade but it's right on that in a circle and it's it's really good because a lot of dies they have that cutting line like in the middle so sometimes it's hard to line out whereas this is it's just so easy okay so what I've got here is a piece of pattern paper which is four and three quarters by six and three quarters yeah just double check yeah that's my standard mat size for whenever I make a five by seven card and that is going to stick across these two so you know ignore the fold there for the minute that's going to be there to help you fold this piece once we stuck everything down now there's two ways you can do this you can either stick this down and then die cut through both pieces okay and that's really easy to do but because of the cuts being within that inner diameter there that is the cut circle I find well that's just the way I've done it but I found that die cutting them separately was just easier because I don't know I just done it that way so if you are worried that you're not going to line this piece up then I would recommend sticking this down now then pop your circle over and die cut it but make sure if you're using a liquid glue that it's dry I'm going to do mine separately so I've got this one here and I'm just going to pop a little bit of washi tape and then I'm going to draw around it on the other one so I'm just going to lay this down where I want it so again about there that looks about centre so you're working within those two panels on the left hand side so I'm just going to run this through my die machine oh and also you will need a larger die machine if you're making the five by seven because it's a it's got a seven inch width whereas your kind of standard die machines have a six inch width so you will need an a4 die machine for this size but that's why I said if you go to the six by six that'll fit through a smaller die machine okay so that one's now cut nicely like so and then what I'm going to do to take that off is I'm going to flip it over actually no I'm not I'm going to sit this on top of here make sure you've got a nice equal frame okay I'm going to just lightly tuck it in place flip it over and then with a pencil I'm going to just draw around it so now I can remove that and then I can grab that die and I can just line it up because that cut line is the inner diameter of this one is very easy although I've got a real crazy pattern here but there that's all lined up so now I'm just going to get that one die cut so there's two ways to do it you know this is the way if you want to you know draw around it and do them separately or if you'd rather just stick them both down and die cut it in one go you might have to add a few shims metal shim things like that to make sure you get a good cut then you can do okay and now take that one off there that's from the other piece there we go now I will have this piece here and because I lined it all up and drew it drew around it it sits perfectly over that circle giving me that nice frame okay so I'm now going to stick this one down I'm going to use the Palau glue and then once it's dry or as it's drying that's when you kind of want to fold that score line because you don't want that to be really stiff when we go to put it together so I'm just going to cover this in glue you can use double sided tape if you'd rather I'm just going to lay that on there for a minute and just give that a second to grab itself okay and then I'm just going to very carefully just fold like so and you don't need to fold it all the way back because the card's only ever going to be like that it's not really going to come out any further so I'm just going to kind of get it nice and sharp but then I'm going to just kind of hold it out like that you see so it's got enough for it to fold flat but also enough for it to pop out then while that's still kind of drying I've got my back pieces so I've got my each drink and bean merry which is going to go in there and these measure two and a quarter by six and three quarters and then I've got another one of the pattern paper because it's going to be on the back the same size and that's going to go next to it there so I'm just going to stick those two down okay so that's all stuck down then flip it over you can always you can fold those lines now actually as well those score lines I've got a very thick cardstock here it's just an odd one feels like the little cardstock it's very similar to the color of one of them but it isn't this is a this was a piece of A4 and we'll do that last one there as well okay so you can see now that that is going to join at the front there and we've got our back already and the front coming together but then I've got this piece here which is just from the same pad it's the reverse of this fox one I like the fox one but it doesn't screen Christmas to me so I've got this kind of snowy background but against that one I think it looks nice and because I've got that snowflake I wanted a background that it's going to really stand out against so again the same size as the other two that you done here so I'm just going to stick them down okay so that's how mine's going to look so now I've got these snowflakes here so you want something that's going to be a mirror image you want it to be equal sides symmetrical that kind of stuff because when you stick them obviously back to back you want them to join up as if they're one piece that's if you want to do like I have you may just have a nice sentiment that spins around and it's you know it isn't high up to you but to get this effect you do some want something that's going to be you know equal so I have got this here is strong no strong and strong and stretch stretchy I was wondering what it said then but it's just your just elastic thread and I was trying to see if there's a size for this one I think it's the same as the other one I've got and that was from the range but it doesn't have to be stretchy at all it can just be normal thread or some twine or something that you've got but you just want to cut some off that's going to obviously cover the circle you know the aperture that we've got and then I'm going to I'm going to actually going to use the Cosmic Shimmer because this is a real sticky very very sticky kind of PVA glue or acrylic is this one yeah acrylic glue so I'm just going to although now it seems like it's blocked okay so I'm just going to cover this just a thin amount on one side okay I'm just going to lay that one down and then with my piece of elastic here I'm just going to run it through the centre so it's just sat along that that hexagon there and then I'm going to stick this one over the top I let that set for a minute and I've just got these really lovely faceted embellishments just to cover the inside there look at the shine on that absolutely adore this card I've brought so much of it and then I'm just going to put a little tiny little blob of some hot glue there just so that these definitely don't move and just sit that one on the other side okay so now that's ready to twist and when it goes so fast it just looks look at the way that catches the light such a pretty pretty piece okay so then what we want to do is attach it inside here so you're working within that score line now what I did find was quite handy was just to cut just a thin couple of strips of just like some not like a copy paper something a little bit stronger than that but just yeah just a strong paper just to kind of pop over the top of it once we stick it down so because I'm using the elastic I'm going to kind of stick the top one down first and not bother stretching it out and then I'll pull it down so I'll come up a little bit higher there and I'm going to use a mix what I'm going to do actually festivals I'm going to put a very thin blob of hot glue and this is what I've done in the other ones actually so I'm just going to sit there obviously you don't want to melt this elastic so I'm going to keep that there and then I'm just going to pop because I don't want there to be too much bulk and the hot glue can be quite bulky when it dries hard so then I'm going to pop a little bit of this glue either side be a little bit messy unless I cover most of it with this but you don't see any of this I'm just going to squash the hot glue and then that bit of paper and it just all adds some strength really to that piece because there'd be a little bit little bit of tension because I'm pulling the elastic but I'll just clear away that glue okay and then I'm just going to snip off anything overhanging there and now I can just pull this down until it sits in the middle so about there and I'm just going to hold my finger there and just repeat the same thing again so I'm just going to pop a little bit of hot glue okay and then trim the bottom of that off now that will still be able to fold but when we bring it all together we've got a really nice spinny spinny piece love it absolutely love this got a little bit of glue there let's just get rid of that because it's bugging me I always get asked whenever I use this it's an array it's a glue eraser rubber glue eraser but it's a glue eraser and it is brilliant so I just pick off all these bits when it gets a bit dirty but they last well last forever really okay so now we want to stick this together so I'm just going to bring in my cull out I want to stick this one so it's flat okay so just fold that piece under and lie the whole card flat okay while that's there drying I'm going to bring in my ring and I'm going to again pop some glue all the way around just a thin layer and then just sit that one it's easy to line up just focus on the inner circle it just frames that snowflake perfectly again kind of leave that there flat for the minute and while that's all drying you've got this piece here so what you want to do is you will have four score lines I've got glue all on my fingers so you've got one two three four the two inner ones you want to make mountain folds and the outer ones you want to become valley so that it folds like that okay you're then going to add glue to this top piece and stick your message down your message can be anything you want as long as it fits when flat within the bottom of your card so within this section so the one I've got here you'll see when it's flat fits nicely there so I'm going to turn this over and just stick this piece so the two flat sides are facing up because that's what we're going to use to attach it to our card try and get it in the center because it will just help when you stick it all together okay so that's what you should have and now what you want to do is add glue to these two pieces okay and then you just want to these two to fold in so that you've got the two pieces together like that so the glued pieces almost look joined and you want to get the middle of that to kind of run through the middle of this piece here so I'm just going to roughly stick it there for a minute and if you let it lift up you'll be able to see and you want it to sit over the fold so look if I bring mine up you've got time to move it across so I just need to shift mine across just a little bit but there we go and you can wiggle it a bit make sure your sentiment's straight doesn't matter underneath is that's a little bit wonky as long as the sentiment's straight but now it will pop out with the you know whatever you've got spinning and I just think it's really nice I like things in the center and when you make these kind of cards it's hard to have something like that some people just run a thin piece of glue on that middle piece and stick it down you can do that if you want but I quite like the way that this moves kind of with the card so just check that circle stuck nicely there you have it and then again just test it kind of spin it around you'd like it flat that's how the person will see in the card which I think looks really nice and then when they pop it out it spins around isn't it gorgeous love these okay so there are my two spinning pop out box cards I think they've got you know such a nice profile they're one of my favorite style cards to do I love box cards in general but these ones I think look lovely so if you're new to this style do go check out that playlist up here because like I said the pop out style with the acetate is a really nice effect and yeah it's been well received that card I've had lots of people ask me to make that one as well for you know when my friends and stuff want me to make cards so yeah now maybe they'll want me to make these as well but there you have it so thank you for watching I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up if you have and consider subscribing if you haven't so you get to see more thanks for watching bye