 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 concertina pop-up card. It's kind of evolved from the unusual concertina step card. So once you see it you'll kind of get it, but it's a six by six. That's the front with just the happy birthdays. The bright rows are happy birthday die. I've kept it quite simple because once you open it up inside you have this pop-up piece. Okay and it has this section in here which will, it basically keeps this, gives it this shape to be able to stay. So you just kind of put it into its place, there we go, and it will stay in that kind of right angle style. If you didn't have that piece underneath you can do it without it, but if you try for yourself and have a look you'll see what I mean. This bit just kind of flops around, it doesn't really hold in place, but it's got a really nice profile. I love all the different steps and I love all the little squares here. So it really does show off the papers, the coloured card, the mirrored card, everything I think just works really well. It's got a bow in the middle there which actually holds all this together and then you can write your message on the back and obviously you've got that on the front. So for this one I use the the paper tree. So this is Lakeside Bloom's beautiful pad, really is lovely and I also use, this is the Essentials paper pad, this is the patterned paper pad. So you get 40 sheets of that one and 48 of that one, everything will be linked below. It's very straightforward to make, you can also have it that way. So just like the other concertina card which I'll link up here and I'll probably link it further through the video as well, but you can have it you know that way. So they open it and see it that way and you could you know even these happy birthday sentiments do work this way. So I've used them on the panel cards before but if you've got other ones that read vertical or something then that would work. But I think it looks yeah, I think it looks really sweet. So let me show you how to make it. So for today's I'm using this one which I've used already, it's a lovely paper pad. This is the paper boutiques, they're both by the same company and this is the ocean breeze. It's the paper kit and the the embellishment pad as well okay and it's the embellishment pad that I've used to get all of these little squares here because one of the papers basically has one of these where you have four and then down here was a strip with all of these different pieces in. So I just cut that strip and then cut all the little images out. But they're beautiful, these cutout pieces, you can see what you get there and I've also used one of the sentiments as well. But again this will all be linked below. The kit's really good because you get the really nice thick cardboard popouts there as well so that's that one and that's the bright rosa birthday words okay which is probably the most used I set in terms of the words that I'm using at the moment it's just yeah all in everything. So right we'll go through all that as we get to it, let's just get straight into the card. So you want a six by six card blank. I've cut this one down myself so this is a piece of 12 by six okay and along the 12 inch side you just want to score as six inches and that'll give you your base. Then you want a piece of 12 by six again and this is going to be the middle kind of concertina part. So along the 12 inch side you want to score at two, four, six, eight and ten okay. Now these next score lines are purely decorative you do not need to do them but I quite like having the little squares okay. So to do those you just pop it on the six inch side and you score at two, pass the first score line and down to the second and then score at four, pass the first score line and again down to the second and then just rotate and do exactly again two and four. So basically you will have six squares on each side okay and then these two plane panels in the middle but those are completely optional because like I said it's just more of a decorative piece. Then what you want to do is you want to fold so you've got a valley, then a mountain, then a valley, mountain and the ending with a valley so you should have that shape. These two pieces here are going to stick inside here okay like so and then this piece is going to go in behind. So this one here is eight by six and along the eight inch side you just want to score at two, four and six okay and again you want to do a valley, a mountain and a valley. If you want to flip your card over and score again before you fold just so you don't get any cracking you can do but that piece is going to go inside this is going to see when it all sticks in but that's going to be in there and it will all square off and be nice and neat. Okay so pop that to one side and we will just focus on decorating this piece first so I'm going to get rid of my scoreboard okay so I'm going to be using the happy birthday dies again and they are going to go down these two panels here. All of my squares so you'll want two four six eight ten twelve squares. The blue one I've got here is one and three quarters squared and then the pattern the little image here is one and a half squared and that will fit perfectly in each of these squares so I'm going to stick them all down just kind of making sure I've got different images kind of away from each other they do double up which again I don't mind but I'm just going to get these all kind of placed and then yeah stick them all down. Okay so they're all stuck down now it looks really nice and next I'm going to die cut this so I'm using the happy birthday and actually I don't need the outer frame it's only the inner frame so you just want the detail just the words so I'm going to have make sure I get them the right way up so happy and it's going to run right off the edge but it won't cut this it's only going to cut the actual detail it won't cut this whole piece out okay so it doesn't have an outer cutting line that's the word I'm always trying to look for I don't want it do I want it that way down okay so that's those cut out now these pieces are again one and three quarters because it's the size of the width of the blue ones on here and then the length is five and three quarters okay but now when that goes over there I don't need to do any kind of like you know matting or anything because when it's against the color underneath it really pops I really like these so I'm going to stick them down okay so that's that now all done then before I stick all this inside I'm going to stick this piece on the back which is where I'm going to write my message so this here is the blue piece is five and three quarters squared and then the pattern piece is five and a half squared so that's going to go on the back then on the front I have the same matting layer so five and three quarters squared and five and a half squared it's going to go on the front I need to make sure that I get this so it's top folding so that's going to be that way and that's going to be that way and then I have cut one of the lovely images from the pad so this one comes in at four by four and then this on over the top and then the mat is four and a quarter by four and a quarter that's going to go kind of up there this is one of the little sentiments that you can cut out so I just put dear his friend and then inside it will say happy birthday again I've just popped some a mat behind it there and some foam this has all got foam on it and that one is going to come down here like that and then this bow I'm just going to pop up the top there okay so I'm going to get all of that stuck down first okay so there's the front done and the back so what you want to do is I'm going to add two holes along this center fold all right so I'm going to come in came down two inches on this once have a little look no it's further two and a half actually so I'm going to grab my pencil and I'm just going to come down on that score line and just put a little pencil mark there two and a half and again from this side two and a half okay now I'm using my circle screw punch here if you don't have one of these then I know there are other hole punch kind of devices that allow you to hole punch within an area that isn't restricted by a standard hole punch but if you only have a standard hole punch you can get away with that let me just see yeah I mean it just means your kind of bow is going to be quite long otherwise I would say use a pokey tool and poke the hole through and by the time you add the ribbon through probably won't you won't be able to see it anyway so um yeah you should still be able to do this okay so then you're just going to punch the hole and you want to make sure that you go over the line to try and get the circle the punch so it's you know it's over this side and this side so it's right in the middle of that score line then grab this piece here then you want to line it up if you line it up so that the fold they all sit in together all right like so then you know that that's score line I can see the score line through the holes there and then I'm just going to pop that straight over now if you want to use a pencil and draw a pencil first and then do it separately you can but I can see there that that one's done okay that's fine then you're going to flip it and it will be that way so you want this one to have two mountains and a valley it's going to be valley to that valley all right valley to valley that's what you want looks a bit like a batman kind of or a bat wing or something but it's going to be valley to valley then grab some ribbon so I've just got a thinner blue ribbon here and you're going to pop it through the back of this piece okay and then you're going to go through this piece okay pull that nice and tight obviously without ripping and then tie it in a nice bow you want the thinnest ribbon you can get really I think the ribbon I used on the other one was organza so this is a little bit thicker but it will be okay you can afford to have a little bit of bulk okay and now we're ready to stick it in so what will happen is those two pieces will stick like that on one side and then those two pieces will stick like that and you want to make sure that this becomes a two by two square all right and it will all square off and line up perfectly because of this folded piece here so I'm going to open mine up and what you want to do is we're going to add glue to this side first and then we'll do that side so I'm just going to turn this over so you you do want to do the glue on well on this side to start off with you could do one at a time but on the lat on the other side you need to do them both at the same time just well actually saying that I guess you could line one up if you see what I'm doing then you might be able to see if you can do it so let's see you could do yeah I guess you could stick that top one down first because you could then lift all this back and then stick the second one down so yeah that one will work fine so I'm just going to line them up you see what I'm doing so stick make sure that sticks down perfectly and lines because they're both 12 by six pieces so you want to make sure that they butt right up to the very edge here okay you shouldn't really be able to see that it's two pieces and then that one you want it to sit right with that one there okay and then just practice folding it all like that okay so you can see how neat and it will have quite a spring to it okay just make sure it is all secure now this side yeah so what you can do is just add the glue to the blue one first of all because I'm using liquid glue it does give me that wiggle room which again is is good so like that keep it all squashed down and then just close the card okay and then this one you can open up here and add your glue don't leave too long between because if you do need to adjust the blue one that I just stuck down you want to be able to so I could still wiggle that now if I need to now yeah that blue one is perfect so there's a few ways to do it you can do them all at the same time or you can do them separately as I've just kind of done if you just squash the whole thing down again make sure that glue is stuck okay so I finished it all and then I decided that I didn't like it that way and that I prefer it this way so I ripped off all of the squares and then stuck them all down again luckily I've got away with it so yeah you can be done and I just restuck it down again with the collow and that glue dries so stiff that yeah you wouldn't know honestly there is just literally no way of knowing that I ripped those off and yeah stuck them the other way so I do like I said I do like it that way I think maybe it is because of the sentiments actually thinking about it they do look really nice when you read them I guess the correct way so yeah so that's that version I think it's so sweet and then bringing this one again here and then that one opens up so they do they do sit there you do just have to kind of just play with them just to kind of get them to go where you need them to I mean yeah you may need to rest them against something but they will go in the end that one's starting to go back I think because this one here I think because this isn't craft card this is slightly this is about 280 gsm craft cards 300 gsm I think that is just giving it that extra strength to hold in that right angle this one will go this one will stay but you do just kind of have to see there we go but it may start to go back again but most of the time cards go on a mantle or on a shelf or something so they will have something to lean against if need be but it doesn't really matter either way because it can go that way as well because obviously that's the front of the card so I love it I really do I think it's such a nice style it will work I would probably say go for a 300 gsm see look that's staying now let's watch it no let's not it's staying so it does work but I love them so I hope you've enjoyed them too I hope it's inspired you everything will be linked below and all the measurements over on my blog and yeah thank you for watching please give me a thumbs up and subscribe so you get to see more thanks for watching bye