 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 card which I'm calling a double tower fold card. So it's got these two tower-like pieces on the side here that's what it reminds me of and it folds um stands up freely freestanding and it folds completely flat fitting in a five by seven envelope. So I'm really really pleased with this one and I just love the effect and I think it's just really really fun. So this is a birthday card let's celebrate. This is using the transfer from my hobby base kit and these are well this was a sheet of paper from one of my past kits and I've been meaning to use it and it's just worked perfectly with this one here. So if you are interested in joining the hobby base club all those links are always shared in the description below and over on my blog as well but yeah this is today's card and I think it's super fun and also on the back you've got a piece here for you to be able to write your sentiments so lots of room there as well so let's crack on and make it. So I've got everything here you're going to need these are the the foils that I've been using I'll talk about those again in a minute so I've got all these mats and layers so your main card piece so as I said before it will fit into a five by seven envelope so it's a good size and I like that size. So this piece of card measures nine by seven and you want to score along the nine inch side you want to score it one two three and then six seven and eight okay so you'll have three three inch columns along coming in from each side and then you've got this larger area in the middle which is the front of the card then for your mats so the main mats in the middle here so it's up to you if you want to do the silver as well as the then your layer on top of that you may just want to do this as your patterned paper as one mat and this is two and three quarters by six and three quarters then the layered piece on top of that is six and I've got six and it's kind of in between six and a half and six and five eight so let me just see where that one's coming in there again that's in between as well so you need it to be because it should be coming down what do I say that was two and a quarter so that should be two and a half yeah so you you want it to be two and a half by six and a half and then these smaller pieces here so you want one of each of those sides then you need two that are again six and three quarters this time the three quarters of an inch and you need two pieces of those for each side and then the piece to layer on top of that you want to be six and a half by half an inch okay and then I've already done this one but when it's stuck on top it gives you that nice little border there then I've got these I've just used my own stashing cut out the silver in a large circle and a smaller one and then this is one of those transfers from the foils here and that's the one that I'm going to be using but if you want to use the same similar kind of circles most of the nesting circles will come in around the same you should have one that's around three and a half in diameter and then this one here is three okay so that is everything we've done the scoring so remove the scoreboard okay so if we do a bit of burnishing first so you'll have one two three and one two three the second one in okay you want to fold under so then that one under and then that one underneath fold out okay so that's what you will have and now when that's all folded in that gives you your five inch by seven so that is the full folded size of the card and then we're going to be cutting up to this score line here so fold those pieces over lie it down flat and then working along one of the sides here um grab a pencil and you just want to very lightly so make sure your ruler is lined up and it should perfectly sit at seven inches at the end there you want to do a pencil marker every half an inch so just lightly just mark every half inch all the way to the end okay and then do exactly the same on the other side okay so if I just bring that up you can see there all those little notches notches little marks I've done then with your ruler you want to just do a line up to the first score line on each side but it's just easier this way you can get both of them done at the same time so if I do the next one there I'm using use my grid under here as well because this is in half inch increments so it's easy for me to line up so you don't want to go across the middle because you will be rubbing out these um pencil lines afterwards these are just for us to cut along okay so that's what you should have on both the sides leaving that middle okay and then you've got this folded underneath with the two pieces so then with your scissors um and grab these ones you're going to need to cut up every single one of these lines perfectly if you get your scissors in place so that literally one cut will meet that score line you'll get a much cleaner finish than having to cut a few times I just want a one one kind of cut each time okay that's what you will have and then rotate it and just repeat the same again okay so now you will have all these pieces all cut out then what you want to do is open it up so now your cuts should go across you've got the first column free and then it will go into the the second and the third leave in this middle bit so then what you want is it's entirely up to you how you want to start but I've started with the bottom ones going in so do one side first so push the bottom one down and then just kind of keep it kind of bent like that in that position and just push down each every other one don't worry if another one goes up like that you just have to bring it back up again but just you want to push each one in and start getting it to form that shape a little bit fiddly but once you've got them in that position they will stay so okay and then just fold it back over just with your bone folder just go along and make sure each one's nice and straight and then that score line there is all nicely burnished and now you will see you get that really cool effect so again on this side I'm starting off with the bottom one and then every other and just do the same again okay like so now just check that you've got no pencil marks showing I actually can't see any of my pencil marks so I'm going to leave maybe I've got a couple there so I can just go over just taking off a few there so just run your rubber over anything that you may be able to see but most of mine I think they've been cut away okay so now we've got the guard and I just think this is a fabulous so now we just need to decorate it so I'm going to pop down my mats first so these are these silver ones they've already just popped my backing on all of these pieces this first layer like so and then this one on top that looks so good just catching that silver on the sides and then just pull out one of these edges here do this one I've already prepared if you stick it on this first and then all down as one piece it's a bit easier to manage because it's quite thick okay so that's all of that done and then I forgot to mention on the back this is this piece here is two and a half by six and a half so it's the same measurement as the silver mat on the front here and this is just for your sentiment on the back so you just want to sit that in the room there to write your message on the back of it so that is all of that piece done so now just down to decorating our sentiment so as I've used if you haven't seen already I've been using these which came with the May kit and I found the little lollipop stick which I had said before that I had lost but basically if I get this one out so these are all the other ones still I've got so you get lots of lovely transfers there I've got the let's celebrate and it just fits in my circle here so you just want to take off the backing behind it and it's slightly sticky enough for it to just adhere to whatever it is that you're sticking it on to just get that positioned and then with the lollipop stick you just want to carefully you don't want to make like dents in your card I'm keeping it quite flat so and I'm just rubbing it over the whole area and basically you just want to transfer the image onto your paper and then it will leave a sticky transfer so I'm happy that that's gone across and I can see that that is transferred you can just make it out there then I'm going to grab we get we've got the gold foils which I have used loads of sorry they roll this one here but because I've got the silver card I'm going to use silver sheet so I just want to find and there's one there just pop it over and make sure it's right up in the corner here so and then just carefully again and you will see it kind of pick up that silver foil straight away and you should pick it up yep in the video the the sentiment there let's celebrate and it will just naturally completely lift off like so and just get a bit there it's not taken now you will see the let's celebrate so now I can get that stuck onto my card okay so just attached a couple of foam squares there I'd already prepped those ones so they're in the right direction and then I'm just going to sit that nicely center there and then just remove these ones like so I'm keeping it quite simple in terms of the decoration because there's it's all about this great effect with the card so I'm just going to make sure one two three four five six seven one two three three and a half so I want it to sit roughly there and there you have it I just think that is a real wow card it looks so fun you look at it straight on like that it just looks brilliant and then I just love that it all folds up completely flat this will sit in a normal like I said five by seven envelope with a normal normal stamp so it's fantastic yay there you go so I hope you've enjoyed it if you want to and find out more about joining the hobby-based club you've got until the 20th of May to subscribe for June's Box and all the information I'll share in the description below but there you have it so if you did like today please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye