 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 these really cool gatefold diamond fold cards. They're called, well the lady who I saw it off is called Debbie Henderson and she called it the diamond fold card but I've named other cards diamond fold cards and this is double and it's also a gatefold so I may just put gatefold diamond or diamond gatefold I don't know. Anyway this is the version that I first saw like I said over on Debbie Henderson's channel and I will link her version below. Now her version is smaller I think this was four and let me just check here not the best ruler it's just the one at hand so this is four and a quarter by one two three four and a half which is just a little bit of an odd size for me I tend to do six by six or five by seven so I've decided to change Debbie's measurements and I just yeah I've just played around with it a little bit so the initial idea is this is the one I put together which is Debbie's one and she has a flap piece that comes down which creates like an envelope in itself which she tucks in here which again is a nice different way of doing it but I wanted to have this bit more centralized and I wanted to go a little bit bigger and I'm turning this piece here into a pocket so like I said I'll leave Debbie's link below go and have a look there for more inspiration but these are my ones here so I've done a six by six version this one and I've then also done this five by seven version so same concept so you've got these two here so when it stands up it will be like this it's got a really nice profile you can have them closer together you can have them kind of further out like so it's entirely up to the person they've got this nice piece here which just in this case reads happy birthday and that's all embossed and then here on this sheet is where you would write your message so that piece is kind of hidden so if you want to write something you maybe you know don't want everybody reading it then you know this could be just maybe a little note to say card or something so I just think it's quite nice and it's double sided so you could obviously you know if you're going to write an essay you've got plenty of room and there's also a lady I forget her name I'm really sorry but she does a lot of my cards and she adds extra pages or she may go even more larger in size because she does a lot of them for people her colleagues and work to write in for someone's you know birthday or if they're leaving etc and she came into mind with this one because I thought this could be a good one for you because you've got double sides there to get everybody to sign and you could also add you know a couple of these panels in there there's there's easily room to be able to put a few more so again if you do make cards for your work colleagues so you need lots of people to sign them then this one would work well so that's the six by six version which I love and then I also love five by seven cards so it's actually five by six but once you incorporate your little pulley here then that takes that up to seven and then again this comes out and this has got a gold embossed happy birthday I share everything that I've used and again it stands up and it's got a really nice profile and again you pull out your tab and you've got that kind of panel there that sits nicely in the pocket so I just thought it was seemed a shame to really kind of glue that down but then if you're not bothered about having this and you just want to have this section here then you know go for it but sometimes I've got a thing about when you write to or whatever if you've got any kind of writing I've got a thing about being able to see it when the cards closed and I figured you know if you write that in here you would see it before they've even got to it so that's another reason why I've done these little pockets so that's kind of all hidden so that's literally what they see so I'm going to show you how to make the five by seven today but the way I put this together is exactly the same way as putting together the six by six all the measurements for the six by six i.e your mats and layers and stuff like that will all be in my blog so pop that to one side okay so that is the stamp that I've used so I used the large happy birthday on the five by seven and this one here on the six by six and I'm using I think that same one there because I've already done that but yeah you can see it's just such a lovely font it's beautiful and this is the woodware and these are called big birthday words again I've got them over on my amazon storefront I think they're on there um otherwise they'll be in my blog post anyway so all the papers I'm using today are from the gardenia beautiful one here now you do want to have a double sided for this one you don't have to but I think it works better because for example here this lovely gingham is the other side of this print here that one you won't see it actually but it was more bugs but they kind of clashed so I just added this red panel which I'll show you but you can see there how you get the reverse that's the reverse of this paper so yeah have a look see what you've got now I'll go through all the mats and layers as we get to them I'm just going to get straight into the tutorial so we don't need the scoreboard for a moment so you want a piece of 12 by 12 I've got this lovely butterfly and on the other side is this stripe now the pattern that you want to see the most i.e here you want to now flip it over so it's facing away from you okay now you also want a pattern that's going to work in any direction so you can see here the butterflies work anyway this particular kind of woodland kind of thing worked in any direction along with those ones there and again with the little lady birds that I've got on this one so just bear that in mind but yeah so whatever print you want to be your main one turn it over turn your cardstock into a diamond orientation and fold over now you want to be working with a paper more than more so than a card stock so this is a thick paper because you're doubling it up it's going to start to become more of a card stock so you do get that strength and once you've added all your mats and layers as well so okay so you want to pop it in that orientation then with your scoreboard bring that back in like I said this is for the five by five and five by seven one that I'm doing you want to pop your card in so it's right this corner here is right up into the left hand corner there and then you're going to score at three and a half and at six okay then flip it over so now you've got the other corner and again score at three and a half and at six then pop it in like this again so this corner is right up in that corner there and you want to score at six inches so pop your stylus in keep it in the track all the way down and then when it joins the cardstock just score there until you've got a nice line okay so that's all of the scoring done okay then you just want to start burnishing your score lines so fold them across and with your foam folder just start to spread out the paper when it's in that folded you know in that fold because you don't want any buckling basically when we go to fold it all together then with these so these are those six inch score lines that I've just folded in then you'll have those three and a half inch ones you want to kind of reverse those ones so fold them back out in the opposite direction um but you can fold them in that way as well it it doesn't actually really matter at this point but I would say do it out in that direction and as you do I'm just lying that down and you're almost like you're pushing the air out like so and again with that one I'm going to fold it out that way and I'm just kind of folding everything off to that side there okay you can start to see what we're going to do because these bits now here so you've got this corner fold that piece over open that up and as you open it push the sides here down and just push right down here you see so you get a really nice point just there fold that down and make sure this point this point here lines up with this point here and you should have a perfect diamond shape okay and with you want everything to be lying completely flat so just every time you do a new fold score and burnish make sure you've got no kind of buckling or anything because that's that one and just pop it in that direction as well just score and then bring that one over open that up and again make sure you get a really nice point and that point lines up there you should have two perfect kind of squares or diamonds depending on which way you're looking at them and then fold it back out that way and fold it over okay you can see now now one should go over the other one perfectly now this is the bit where Debbie Debbie Henderson yeah I don't want to forget her name she kept this one in but hers was obviously shorter and this came down and would pop inside there so it acts as an envelope all in one have a look at it you might like that one but like I said I thought this would look nice as a pocket so what you want to do now is open it up and you just want to cut along that score line so I'm removing the score line that you might see so just to get rid of all of that and just remove that completely what we'll be doing then is sticking these two side pieces and then that will leave this as a pocket ready for us to put those kind of panels in so open all of this up everything you've just burnished and open the whole thing out and you'll see this is going to be our pocket these two big ones here it's these here these next ones where we're going to add our glue they're the only ones you want to stick together all of this here from these lines out is those kind of little squares those diamond shapes that we have on the ends so ignore the big big middle section it's the the bits either side that you're going to be gluing so I'm just using some of my wet glue you want to put double sided tape here you can I'm just going to run just a thin amount you don't need tons you don't want glue oozing out everywhere and because if you are going to use a wet glue make sure it's not a heavily water-based glue so cosmic shimmer glue arc glitter glue tombo glue they're all good glues because they have a very very low water content and that means you won't get any warping and your card will stay nice and straight so there we go so now I'm going to fold that over and again the key part is use your bone folder not only to obviously spread out the glue but to make sure you've got no air bubbles and you keep the whole piece flat so I'm just following that all the way down to the end there and again on this side and this is really the little tip so that you get this staying as a nice pocket so now if we fold that over see it's starting to lift a little bit there just get your bone folder and while that glue is still moving around you've got time to kind of sort it out a little bit okay and then you can go and reinforce these back into place again and this one here like so so now you should have your card and a pocket okay don't know if you've got a little bit of bowing you're kind of going to get that because you're just folding one piece over on itself pop that to one side then you need two pieces that are three by three now I've just rounded off the three corners here and kept this one at a point because that is going to stick over the top and it's going to stick right down to that point there and cover like so first of all you want to pop some glue inside the two back pieces there and stick that down okay and again with this one here okay and then you want to add glue onto the front half I think I might as well give up on that one start this one there we go again just a thin amount you don't need a lot and pop that one over the top and again that's why I like using the wet glue because you do have that little time to just wiggle everything around until you've got it perfectly lined up like so and then this one here always add the glue onto this and not onto that because this this way you know that this is the whole area that needs to be stuck down and it doesn't matter if you don't round off the corners it's entirely up to you so if you don't have that don't worry it's just me adding extras but now that contrast looks really nice and you want to make sure that they line up and sit perfectly over the top of each other which they do one might go over better than the other they're both the same to be honest but I think that looks really nice and you may want to have something on the front of this that says you know something nice I don't know for you and then obviously they open it up there could be something else on there you could have a Valentine's one I love and then you inside but I don't know if this is going to go up before Valentine's Day or not so maybe not that one but anyway you know what I mean so that's those two done then I have got this piece here which is going to go in the middle and I've already like I said used silver embossing powder on that one now the outer mat is four and a quarter by five and a quarter and the smaller inner mat is three and three quarters by far and three quarters so I'm going to get that one stuck down now okay so that's that one done so now when you close it you can't see any of the writing which again they're just me being a bit picky but they're little things that I do do so now I've got these three mats and layers again it's entirely up to you you may just want to do one but I'm going to have those three and then I've gone ahead and die cut these two silver circles which are from my two inch punch now first of all I'm going to attach these onto this which is the main mat and this piece here is four and three quarters by six so I'm going to stick this right let me just throw that one away because I keep picking up the wrong one so I'm going to add some glue onto the back of this one and I'm just going to stick it halfway and then halfway in the middle of the cardstock like so then pop some more on this piece and stick that over the top so they line up so you may just want to keep that and you just pull that out that's entirely you know fine that's not a problem then I've got this layer to go on top which is four and a quarter by five and a half and then I've got this one here which is what I will then write my message on and this is three and three quarters by five and you just want to stick that one on the top okay so now that one will fit perfectly inside and it will just poke out the top there how nice is that and then to finish off the very front here I've kept it quite simple but again you can do you know tons and tons of ways to decorate this I've just cut some little daisies and then I'm going to stick that one there and I've already put some lovely little embellishments in the middle and again with that one there stick that in the middle you can put little leaves behind it if you want but I think that that looks really pretty and when that stands out like I said we can have them quite close together because that's how they look I think that looks quite cool or you can have them like so a little bit further out just yeah those ways that is the profile that's how it will look when it is up on the mantle or the side table whatever it is but then they will fold over and it does fold pretty flat I mean you've got the bulk obviously from the embellishments there but that will fit in an envelope if not then you'd have to make a little envelope box for it but there you have it so quite a quick card tutorial so there's the two five by seven sizes and that is the six by six like I said if you do want the six by six version it's you put it together exactly the same way as I just showed you there but I will just give you the measurements for that one but it starts off with the same 12 by 12 piece of paper or cardstock put my spin on it anyway which is what I do tend to do if I get inspiration from someone else I like to put my twist on it I hope you like my twist give it a go and if you do please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye