 Hi everybody it's Sam from Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I have got this really fun impossible card to show you. Now I think this is just kind of starting to pop up because I saw this on the Trimcraft blog last week and I haven't seen it anywhere else so this is what I'm going to show you. Now the reason it's called an impossible card is because if you look at it closely it's made from one piece of card but there's this gap here and there's a gap here but then look at the big bit of card on the back and that's part of the same white card. So it plays with your eyes it's rather clever this one and I showed the playing piece of card to my husband and he kept saying no you must have stuck two pieces together and then when I showed him how you do it is very very easy. So this is the one I've done here that's the back there and it folds completely flat and it fits in the biggest envelope on the envelope scoreboard which I'll grab in a minute. The largest size that you can get I think it's eight and a half by six and a half that will fit inside so that's how it looks when you obviously pull out the envelope and then it will come up because it's folded from that side and then folded from this side so it naturally wants to go into that middle position that upright position. So yeah that's what we're going to make so let's crack on. So you only need this is I've done this with a five by seven piece of playing card but once you know how to do it you can change your sizes you can go smaller you can do six by six all kinds of sizes it's entirely up to you. So what you want to do first of all is grab just looking around for my ruler I seem to have misplaced that one so I will use this one. Okay so you've got a piece of five by seven card stock okay and what you want to do is along the bottom here you want to come in at one and a half inches so come in one and a half and just put a little pencil mark and again one and a half pencil marks you should be scoring at one and a half and sorry scoring just mark a pencil mark at one and a half and five and a half then rotate it all the way around so you've got the other long side facing you and on this side you want to mark at seven and along the seven inch side you want to mark it three and a half so just halfway okay so if I just bring this one up just put a pencil mark there at three and a half and then these two pencil marks are coming in from one and a half on each side then on the short side you want to mark at halfway so it's five inches in width you want to mark at two and a half and again at two and a half on the other side okay and then you're just going to join that up if you've got a t ruler I keep telling myself I need to get one then you can just do that you don't need to mark both ends they go and just join those up like so then what we're going to do is mark from where we've just done the one and a half inch one there you're just going to join it up to that middle pencil mark and again keeping all your lines nice and straight which is why if you've got a t ruler it'd be much easier but I'm eyeballing this and also using my grid mat just to make sure I'm getting it exact and this one you're just going like so as you can see now what I've done so that's that middle pencil mark which was the two and a half inch and then just bring up where you've done each of those markers just to the middle line on each side then the very center piece so from this school like this pencil mark I'm so used to working with school lines not pencil lines this pencil line to this pencil line you're just going to score in that middle line this will just help you when you go to fold it I think anyway okay and now what we want to do is grab some scissors I'm going to use lots of crafting today now I don't like those I'm going to use these ones that's fine and what you're going to do is just cut up so this middle line here I'm just going to cut all the way up to the middle like so then rotate it and again just cut up for both of those pencil marks just to the middle main pencil mark okay then while it's all still flat I'm just going to grab my rubber and just go over there and just rub out all of those pencil marks because it's easier to do this while it's all still nice and flat so now that is what you'll have now really really easy part is you're just going to bring so on this case I'm going to bring this side bring it all the way over like so and just fold it so it's nice and straight I need to cut down and cut right up to that pencil mark and just see there and bring it right over so that all your score lines so we just folded that one over and just burnished it this one you're going to fold back way and again burnish and now we've created that impossible guard so let me just show you again so that's the card flat that's where we just cut there and cut here we're basically just bringing this one and flipping it under so just pull it right the way around and then this piece would just be here like this but then you want to burnish that and then burnish that one as well and now you've got it so it really does it's a really good card it just plays with your your mind and to someone that you're giving that to when they look at it they'd be like how the hell have they done that because yeah like my husband said he thought it was two pieces stuck together but it's not so again one more time that's it all completely flat lined up you're just bringing this one under or you can bring that one under it really doesn't matter you can see there if I do it that way it does it the same as well for either one of these just bring it towards you like that just flip it around okay so now we've got the fun part of decorating it so just keep that to one side and then what I've done here is you are going to need two pieces so I've got these two pieces to kind of map the bottom first now these measure at three and a quarter by four and three quarters okay that's the plane and the pattern these pieces measure at three by four and a half okay now what you want to do is I've already put pencil marks on two of these in order to get them obviously you need that kind of it's like an L shape in whatever card it is that you're using so again just with my ruler here with one of the bigger pieces the bigger mat you basically want to do a pencil mark along the long side from the bottom coming up at two and a quarter okay so just put a little pencil mark there then along the top coming in from I'm doing the right hand side here you want to mark it two and one eighth of an inch a little pencil mark so you can see that and a pencil mark that's the two and one eighth and then this one here was the two and what did I say that one was two and a quarter okay and then you're just going to join them up so you want to draw down a pencil mark down to that one okay you can rub all this out just lightly and then across like that so you're just drawing a just like a larger L like so because now you can cut this piece right out like so and then with your other piece the same mat piece of paper or card just line it all up perfectly and then just you can either trace around it with pencil I'm just going to cut straight into it like so again making sure that they stay nice and straight nice so then that one there I just need to rub off that pencil mark and now I've got they will fit nicely in there to give you a nice white frame okay so that's that one and that one and then it was the same with the pattern which is going to go over the top so coming up from the bottom on the long side it is two inches and then coming along from the top here it was two and one eighth of an inch so again I've just joined up the two there and again you can then just cut in making sure it's all nice and straight because this is stripey paper as well I can see where I need to and then obviously because this is directional I've got one that's going that way and then one that's going to be this way so I'm going to turn it upside down and then again just cut down this one and then this one's straight down that white piece so I can just make sure I get it all nice and neat there we go so now these will need to sit over the top of those bigger ones so okay so I'm going to go and get these all stuck down so now one can go on there and one can go on there like so and you can see how that's all coming together also if you if it's gone so I've got the left one facing with the elf looking like an elf shape and this one's an upside down elf you have it that way and you've cut these out and you think oh no I've done them the wrong way all you've got to do is just flip it around like so okay so it will always work so don't worry if you do because I've done that before on the other one and I thought oh no I've cut them all wrong what we have to do is just flip it around so now I'm going to stick them onto the main piece there I'm just using my other side to take that is now already so I have with that one there I done this kind of square um scalloped nest frame that's that I dug up my sentiment from but I like it and I wasn't so keen so I think I'm going to stick with just a nice rectangle so this one here is from my nest of just normal rectangle um frame it's and it's four and a half by three and one eighth and then I done the next one down from that same nest which is um two and three quarters by um four and a quarter but I basically done it all around this sentiment and this one is from I did have it right here um this is a dovecraft just a nice big happy birthday sentiment so I really liked that one so I'm going to mount this I don't know on that side I didn't like it um not the right colour so I'm just going to pop some um foam um little squares on here just to lift it up um because I'm going to be sticking all of my little leaves and things um all kind of underneath and around it so I'm just going to stick it on this green piece and then that will sit on this here I'm going to have it completely flush with the bottom so you can see that it's completely flush there's the white background I've got it right down to the bottom there because I'm going to build up all around this and you can see on the back there looks nice and neat as well so I'm going to just put some double-sided tape across this whole white piece here now that's all nicely stuck down there you can see it all looks nice from the front as well and now I need to start decorating it so oh also I've got this strip here so you don't need it it was just something that they did do on theirs I guess it's for I mean if someone's pulling it out of the envelope there you've got this kind of plane space and it was nice because I was able to put this piece here on there the flower so that's why I'm using it again but I don't know whether to use some plane I'm just trying to think whether to use some plane I'm going to put a strip of this same kind of pinky color through the middle there and then I'm going to have this flower like so and then I've got two kern that I fussy cut and then I fussy cut all of these leaves as well here and some more flowers so I am going to stick all this all down this strip is a piece of three quarters of an inch by six I believe yeah okay and then I'm just going to put another thin strip through so I'm going to go and do all that up because that's relatively easy and I'll talk you through it all in a minute how cool does that look absolutely love this so I've done a little cluster of leaves and flowers there now I've done the die cut all of the flowers from this plate here that I've got I'll share all the links to that and then the leaves were just from the stamping up eclectic layers thinlets so I've done a cluster there I've done a flower there and then on the bottom there I've done the flower with the leaves coming along there and I think that looks really nice I was going to put some more embellishments on it but I think I'm just going to keep it blank this here all the papers that I've used are from the tropicana paper pack so it's actually the leftovers that I have from when I made my tall curved gift box last week so it's just another one of the two cans so actually that card would go really nice with that gift box so I might add this card onto that tutorial and vice versa just another thing that makes it quite a nice set and also another thing I've done as well is because the weight of this on here was starting to lean forward so I've die cut the same size in the green here I've die cut that in white and put it on the back and it's actually made it even more neater now and it's perfect there to write your sentiment so that's what I'm going to do with this one here because this one's really starting to lean so I'm going to just even it out and die cut this same in the pink square here put on the back and it just although you could write a message there I'm going to do it again just so it's got even more room and it's strong but that will all go now nice and flat in your envelope like so and then when they get it obviously it will pop up like so there you have it love it I really really enjoyed baking this one so I hope you like this one hope I've inspired you I'll share all the links to everything as normal in my blog but until then if you do enjoy it give me a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel to see more thanks for watching bye