 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 double pop-out Z-fold card. So it's the pop-out Z-fold that I've made which is this half here. So a lot of you will recognise that card, I've basically just doubled it up and I really love how this one looks. So this is a special card for a 40th wed anniversary, it's actually for my parents. Now this one isn't finished yet, I'm still working on it. I was waiting for the these kind of the Nuvo drops here to dry because this is going to be mistletoe berries and then I've got mistletoe that's going in here. So well you can tell they got married in the month of December. So and yeah there's a few, I'm not going to go into all the details of it, it's got the robin on there for a reason and yeah it's just I know she's going to love this or they are going to love it. And then the back you've got lots of room for your message which again I'll show you in a moment but it all folds nice and flat, kind of clicks in, you know you can put one side under the other it's entirely up to you but it all folds flat and fits into a matching envelope which I'll show you how to make as well. So let's get into the tutorial. So there again is what we're going to achieve so I've done one half and I'm going to do the other one with you. So those of you that have made the Z, the pop out Z-fold card, you know you just want to do two of those and basically stick them together. So I've got all the pieces here I'm using as you can see my favourite paper Christmas pad. This and the Dovecraft Christmas towels are my two favourites or maybe magical stories as well. Hey I've got three. Anyway so it is that's for the envelope so I'm going to keep that, put that one there. So it's the cosy Christmas, absolutely love this one, so nice. I brought two packs that was the other pack that I brought at the craft show so this one's nearly gone but then I've got that one as well. So and then the one that I showed you is using this one here, the paper boutique, the essence of Christmas. It's a beautiful one, it's really nice and yeah that's what I used. Okay so you're going to need two pieces of 10 by 7 inch cardstock and you want to score along the 10 inch side you're going to score at 2.5 and 5 and then you want to draw a pencil line at 7.5 so I've already done mine there so pencil line all the way through at 7.5 okay. Then rotate it onto the 7 inch side and you want to come in at 2.25 you want to hover your stylus over the first section and then start scoring in the second past that score line down to the pencil line. So you're basically scoring within the two centre kind of panels so if I just bring that up here so there's if I pop it this way there's your 2.5 and there's your 5 score line and then there's the 7.5 pencil line. Rotate it that way and you're going to just hover your stylus at 2.25 until you get to the first score line and then score down past that second score line and down to the pencil line. And then you want to do your next score line in the centre there at 4.75 okay and you can use a ruler if you want because I just kind of eyeballed that but if you're a bit worried that you won't get it exact put your ruler down so it's nice and straight and then just kind of run it along there and then it will fall into the track you can take it away then okay and we're going to end up cutting down these two here so it's just like we do for the other one so do that twice okay then we want to do a little bit of cutting so I'm just going to grab my knife there and with a metal ruler you just want to cut down that score line okay so I'm just going to line that up there make sure it's nice and straight and then just cut like so and then again on this one here okay and then just pop all that away and then you want to rub out your pencil line so make sure you only do it lightly so you don't see that okay and then you're going to score maybe no because I always try not to score on top of a pencil mark because sometimes it can then embed it and it's a bit harder to rub out so do rub it out but then you just want to join the two kind of cut lines you see there there's your two cut lines you want to score in between those there so I'm just going to bring my ruler in just line that up what I'll do is use my grid as well so I can make sure I'm still at seven and a half which is there and then use the thin end I can just see my cut lines there so I'm just going to join those up there we go yeah perfect and then what you want to do so you're going to fold out that first score line bring this up and as you bring it up these ones will then fall back okay so you're pulling this piece out so that's a mountain these will be valleys and then this piece in the middle will be about a mountain yeah a mountain and fold it right across and it should all lie flat and that is your pop out z fold card so if you're new to the channel and you haven't seen this style this is really nice on its own and I put a lovely big flower in the center of mind so like I said do check out that one there but what you're going to do now because you would have done this twice is you're going to have two like that you're just going to turn one around and it's going to stick over the top of that one and there you have that shape I love it I think it's really really cool okay so what you want to do though before you decide which one you want to stick over the top it really doesn't matter whatever one goes over the top so the one underneath you want to take just a little bit off of here it will just help when the whole thing folds you know when you go to put it in your envelope so I'm just going to take pop it back in my trimmer and I'm taking about one eighth of an inch off just slither okay see there and then with the piece that you've just taken that piece you know that slither from I'm going to stick down so I'm just going to add my glue okay and then pop it underneath now you still want to make sure that the edge of this one lines lies up can't get my words out that the edge of this one lines up with this one underneath so don't push it right in it just will you've just taken away a bulk there and like I said it will make a difference and just stick that one down so make sure you know it does line up with that score line nicely and then you can kind of practice folding them in so like I said it doesn't matter which side but whatever one you do just go over all of your score lines just burnishing everything there just making sure that it gets used to kind of where it needs to be like so and now we've got that effect okay now the fun part is to decorate so I have lots of mats and layers here and I've gone and stuck loads of it all down on the silver so I've got my background mat is the silver mirrored cardstock I absolutely love using mirrored cardstock especially on these kind of display style cards so I'm going to tell you the measurements and I've got lots of different patterns and stuff because I need to kind of play around with where you know what's going where but I'm going to do these ones first because I know where these are going so I've got one for the middle I've got one for the outside here and then I've got one that's going to go here so each of these sections are two and a half wide so the the silver mat here is two and a quarter by six and three quarters and then the one the pattern paper on top is two by six and a half so it's just my standard mats just dropping down by that quarter inch increment and that is going to sit in there perfectly and you'll get that nice border so that size you actually want five of each but then you want to look at your pattern papers because I've got three the same on the front I've got one different for the back and then I've got a plain one for the back for me to write my message so these ones are going to go underneath each of these ones on the other side and I'll stick all those down in a minute then I have these pieces here so actually you know let me do the slightly smaller ones because then I can remember where I'm placing all these because I have done different patterns so I've got one there one there one there and one there because these squares are not quite squares they're more of a rectangle whereas these are and these are exact squares they're two and a half by two and a half and then I've got four of these which are going to go on the side bits of each of these ones here so there's four there so in total of this size you want eight that are just grab my reader so I make sure I get it right that are two and a quarter by two that's the silver then the pattern is two by one and three quarters and you want eight again all this is always listed in my blog so don't worry about writing it all down now but then those ones are going to go on the side pieces there and then I've got these ones to go either side of here which have got that so again this is a two and a half by two and a half square so these are the silver a two and a quarter squared and then the pattern is two inches squared they're going to go on each side then you'd want that same size again for the front but I've done mine slightly differently because I think all I'm going to do is lay down a mirrored cardstock and then I've gone and fussy cut all of these presents and I'm going to do like a little cluster on each one and then I'm going to have this kind of tag in the centre there so it's sending you sending love at Christmas so if you want these same sizes for the back you can but all I'm doing for the back is just these ones but if you want to do the back then you just need to do these same sizes so that's where we are for the minute so I'm going to go and get all this stuck down okay so this is how it looks I love it I love all the different sides I think it looks really really cool and then the back you can see that I've just got those two like I said you can put more on there I'm into mines really not that it's a waste but I guess it could look quite cool but we'll see it's up to you I'm going to leave that one for you because no one is going to ever really see that they're going to you know look once for the message and then it's always going to be displayed just make sure that glue's stuck down still you know it's then going to just always be displayed that way so I don't know anyway then I'm going to like I said add my little sentiment there and then I've got them the Christmas wishes to go inside but then all of these I'm just going to kind of build up on some foam so I'm going to put each one on a little bit of foam adhesive I've got the actual main parcel there I want a little bit of the silver to kind of like just kind of poke out through and overlap some of it and the nice thing is is that you can have things overhanging on this piece obviously not too much over this bit because it needs to fit in your envelope because obviously that all folds down and it will run you know along the sides there so yeah don't go too mad but you can certainly come in this area here but I want to do something like that on each side I think so I don't know I look at it I don't know whether to just put more pattern paper there and then do something just with some presents maybe I just do a few presents and pattern paper maybe that's nicer and keep that down there do right now again I'm just talking to myself imagining you're here now and I can hear you saying no Sam do what you originally done I think I'm going to put some pattern paper and then just have something like that pop that one in behind there yeah I think that's what I'm going to do I think I prefer that and then pop a couple of little ones down there and have that one maybe a two together or maybe I have them here try to see what it looks like in the screen so that looks a bit lost there but I think if I pop it up there it looks a little bit more yeah I'm going to go for that I think that's what I'm going to do so I'm going to put this on high speed I'm going to just cut another pattern paper what do I put it directly on this now I'm going to cut a similar paper from the pad stick that down so it'll be another one of these mats that are this size so it will be two by two and then I'm going to stick these views in some foam okay and there's the finished card I really like it I'm pleased now that I've done that more I guess planar background so I think the presents really stand out I've got a little grouping there and there and then I also went and added one there as well I think I've got some I think there might be a bit of grease from my fingers because I've put hand cream on I probably will cover them because I've got some spare here some might as well use them and um I'll fill up with some more pattern paper so I've got lots of scraps so just yeah double your your quantities that I gave you there but I think it's really really nice and like I said it does all fold down nicely so when they pull it out I think it looks yeah love it okay so now the envelopes so you want a piece of I've got this one here this is 11 and three quarters by 11 and three quarters now because this is a large card so it's seven by seven and a half when you've got your envelope punch board what you want to do is you actually end up going off the the scale so it goes up to five but you actually want to punch at five and three quarters so there's already a quarter here so the up to the very edge there is actually five and a quarter so what I done is I just laid this end of this punch board one and a half section so I've just got half an inch here and then I just laid my make sure it's all straight laid my cardstocks this is 11 and a half by 11 and a half where's my little doodah and then just pull this out so it lines up with the you know the edge there you know then that that's overhanging by um three quarters so that's your five and three quarters punch and then bring it down score don't worry if you're you know worried that you might be a little bit awful bit more it's you've got a quarter of an inch allowance around the actual size of the card so it you know you're going to be okay so you can't score all the way down on this one I've got one of the old boards just flip the whole thing around so that's now at the opposite end and again I'm just going to drag that out to there punch and score like so and then I can get rid of that now because all you need to do is just focus on this piece and you want this corner to line up with the line I can just about see mine I know it's there punch and score and that will join up just there which is what you want and again just rotate bring that one along there are envelope calculators online as well so if you just put in that it's a seven by seven and a half it will show you how to do them that way as well so don't worry if you don't have the punch board you can still make the envelope but now I've got that there and although my score lines haven't quite you know joined it's fine you know you've got enough there to be able to fold so bring all that in and then with any of my kind of bulky larger cards what I always like to do is actually lay it in here see so now I can you see there's a quarter of an inch on all four sides before it actually folds so you've got plenty of room but yeah so now all I need to do is just fold in each side around the card because I've got that overhanging there but because we've got that quarter of an inch I can just butt it up this end a little bit and it will fit in and then that one just bring them over like that and then I'm going to run some double-sided tape down that one take the backing off of one side and then that will kind of tack it in place so already it's kind of it's got like a dome shape to it so it's a bit bouncy but that means it's not going to squash card so I do like making them this way and then just bring up that one there and that will stick perfectly and then I just need to add some double-sided tape along here and there and then I can peel that off once I've wrote in it and then stick that down and there's your envelope I think it looks lovely so I'll just pull that one out there so now that's all matching it looks really nice together it is my add-on and I think they look great I'm really pleased with these I've definitely been making some more so I'll probably do a birthday one in the new year and play around with the sizings a little bit because I know a lot of you like to you know do a lot of the same car but then you know again have different sizes and different options so I will definitely be revisiting this one again so I hope you've enjoyed it I hope it's inspired you can't wait as always to see your versions that you share over on our Facebook group mixed up crafters so if you haven't joined go do it it's amazing and yeah thanks for watching and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye