 Hey everybody it's Sam here, thank you for watching today, so I'm going to be showing you how to make this slim line, it's a screen fold card but I'm calling it a double-sided screen fold card, so I actually made this during a Facebook live and you open it up and you have this screen and I've got this acetate in the middle and then I've got butterflies on both sides because they are a symmetrical butterfly so they work perfectly on both sides and I just think it's come together so nicely. I haven't put anything on the front I actually quite like it as it is I think it's just a really nice decorative card as well so something maybe someone would keep for a while actually you know have it out it was almost like an ornament so I'll probably just keep a nice message on the back and and keep it you know leave it at that. I will be making a slim line box for my channel I'm going to make it as a separate tutorial to fit this in however you can always make your own envelopes and I've got that tutorial up here you can make any size you want so let me show you how to make this card. Okay so I've gone ahead and got everything ready I've got my strips there for the trim around the top and the papers I'm going to be using are from this old first edition pad it's the gardenia and it's the butterflies here still available so I'll see if I can find some links and share those below so you want a piece of eight by eight and a quarter cardstock and this piece along the eight you're just going to score it four now the the height of mine's eight and a quarter because that's the width of the A4 cardstock if you're using letter paper size so yours would be eight and a half then yours is just going to be slightly taller so you can use it you don't need to trim anything off if you don't want to it just means you're going to have a taller card because the slimline cards that do vary around the world there's about three different sizes for a slimline card so along that eight just score it four and then you'll want this piece here which is eight and a quarter by eight and a quarter but yours might be eight and a half by eight and a half you're still no matter what size your score at four and eight so the only difference will be is you're going to either have a quarter of an inch tab like I have or a half inch tab okay so it's those two pieces there now the frame I'm using is from my favorite rectangle die set and it's the card making magic and it's these ones here so I've taken this size is it's three and one eighth by five and three eighths and then the frame that I will go around it is the next size up in those dies you could go the next size up again if you want a thicker frame but I'm at some layers I've done because of the size of this frame so it's three it's just over three and a half by five and about seven eighths of an inch so have a look at the frame sizes you're doing and then really decide on your mats and your layers so for me the mats I'm using are three and three quarters by five and seven eighths and then I've got the pattern paper is three and a half by five and five eighths so I've got three in the pattern two for the front one for the back and then just plain paper for the back and that's where I'm going to write my message so that's all the mats and layers ready and then I also went ahead and I cut all of my frames using that small smaller size and then the larger size and I'll you know show you we're going to use the smaller one to cut the aperture but you just sit your dies together I always put a little bit of washi tape to get a nice even border just kind of tack them together and run it through your die machine for me four times I want two frames on the front and two on the back the other thing that I've changed with this one from the Facebook live is I I added two extra panels to the back but thinking about it I don't think you need to so what I've gone ahead and done is with that larger frame size so whatever your largest frame is your largest die you want to cut some acetate or vellum lots of people have been making this card with vellum after the Facebook live they've been sharing it on mixed up crafters the Facebook group and they're beautiful so you can use vellum as well if you don't have acetate but I've cut that you might have to add a shim but it will cut and that's quite a thin acetate this is all going to come and you know make sense once we start putting it together but that's all the scoring in the sizes now you may want to have a window so you see my two are in the middle two sections you may want to put one in every single panel so it's entirely up to you what's going to happen is this quarter inch tab is going to stick these two together like this okay now you can stick it together now if you want but I'm going to be running this through the die machine so you might might be easy if you do them in two parts if you're going to be die cutting then you're going to need a bigger die cutting machine so obviously the width of this is much larger than your standard however you can cut them with a cutting knife or with a trimmer your aperture if you do especially if you're doing a square or rectangle size so I've got my smallest of the two rectangles because remember that largest one was just so that I could make the frame that's going to go around and you can see where I've added the frame there so it just kind of hides all of the the trim of the acetate so what I'm going to do is first of all is cut this one now I've got this trim here so I want that to sit like it did before and I'm going to be attaching this slightly differently as well so I'm going to have this about here you want to make sure that you've got an even border either side there and then you just want to tack that in place like so and then what I'm going to do so that I can make sure this goes in the same place I'm going to sit it over this one but up to that score line so don't go right up to the top of the card just go up to the score line and then I'm going to just tack that in place there as well I'm going to run that through my die machine now depended on the power of your die machine this die might cut through both of your layers if it doesn't it will leave enough impression for you to be able to cut around with scissors or to lay this die back over and then run it through again so I'm going to go and get this all cut out so those of now all cut out so I'm just folding very carefully over the score line here now the only thing that's going to be different from the Facebook live and if you don't want to see this tab then I would suggest following the Facebook live version but I just think it's much easier doing it this way so what's going to happen is we're going to attach this so actually I need that one to fold that way I think I'm just going to run my red tape along the side of this one so just open it up I'm just going to run my tape on that one just make sure you line them up correctly so you got your top on your bottom so I'm just going to sit that over the top and now that can fold in half and that all folds up and the whole card should fold into that slim line size now the difference with this one and some of you that watch the live is you will very faintly be able to see the join on the back but what I done on the live was I made two extra panels you can probably see the cardstock here so you can actually see a join there anyway I think this is much easier I think a lot of you are going to prefer this way anyway so this is what I've gone for for the YouTube if you do want to check out the Facebook live then I'll link it below so that's all of that done so now I just need to add my acetate so what I've done I thought it would be easier to add the frame to the acetate first and then attach this to the card so I'm going to take all of the red tape off I'm just going to focus on a corner let me do it on here so I can actually see it and you can see it as well you can always trim off any acetate if it's hanging over the edge so I'm just going to lay that all down like so and then I'm just going to run some of my red tape down here and then I'm just going to open this all up and then I'm just going to line it up and pop it over the top and now we've got one of our frames so I'm just going to repeat that on this side okay so I've stuck the front ones down so I'm just now sticking the frame on the back it just finishes it off and tidies it all up and just gives you a really nice effect next I want to make the feet or the base of the screen now you can use any shape you want here again there's been some really lovely really decorative or Nate style ones done but what I did find was easier was to do two at a time if you can if you can't punch through at least it will give you you know show you where the the impression is again it kind of emboss it I want to make sure I've got enough room for my trim to go along there as well and just kind of make sure it's in the middle the idea is is that when it folds flat they all kind of line up so I'm just folding it down where I've just cut those two I've just put a pencil mark so it just gives me a rough guide of how high that one needs to be and again I just want to make sure that I've got it as centered as I can and that punch is just an old one from hobby craft but now when it falls flat you can see I've got them all lined up now I'm going to stick down my patterned paper which is going to line up with my frame so again whatever your frame was is kind of the size that you want your mats and your layers to be so they're going to go there and those two on the back okay so that's now everything's stuck down to the back there already then I'm going to do the trim so what I did in the Facebook live is I took forever to decide what trim I was going to use and then I stuck it all down as a whole piece which looks nice but it does kind of limit you can't pull this apart too much which in this case it's actually fine if you want it to stay in that shape but because it wraps all the way around it does kind of not quite go right into the corner there and if you were to pull this out too far it would start to kind of buckle there to eliminate that and again I think to make it easier how I've done this is I just sell it next to each other and just kept die cutting it to get such a long trim but with this one I think I'm literally going to snip because now I can see exactly where I need to go with it I think it's going to work fine so what I'm actually going to do is just kind of bend that over and I can see exactly where I need to snip that like so and then I'm just going to run a very thin bead of glue you can put some glue onto a media mat or onto the back of your hand and just dab the die over or you could die cut this onto some double-sided sticky sheets but now I'm just going to lay that down and it fits in there perfectly and that way I just think it will you won't have so much bulk when folding it because then I'll start that just kind of well we'll butt it right up but it just means it can fold a bit easier on that join and then what I think I might do actually I'm always trying new ways so hopefully you'll be able to pick up whatever one's best for you but I'm just going to run that glue along there actually anything to make it easier for myself I know roughly where it needs to go there we go that will all dry clear anyway and then I can just snip it that way actually that feels a lot easier to do it that way so again very thin bead of glue again just let that so it will look like it's all one piece because of the way that I'm kind of making sure but it's right up to it and then that little bit of the edge I'm just going to cut away so but now you get that really nice trim and the card just folds it's just the movement in it now it's just much better but if you want to do the one piece like I showed you there you can so I'm going to carry on and stick the rest of those down but also I'm just going to show you one lot of the butterflies because I'll carry on and get those stuck down as well so I'm going to have I think the same orientation so I did like that so the biggest at the bottom these are from an old bright Rosa set which is no longer available unfortunately but I'm going to stick I've already put vellum on the back and I've put some double-sided tape on there as well but I'm going to sit that one just there if you're using acetate I definitely recommend using double-sided tape rather than a glue that one there and then I've got the smaller one is going to go at the top like so and then I will mirror that on the back just flip this one over and just show you actually so you can see the whole process so that one will now go right over the top like so and again that one there and then the smallest one like so and then you can see now they're exactly the same on both sides and just looks really nice so I'm just going to spend a minute like I said finishing that all off okay so that is the finished card really I'm pleased with it definitely prefer the trim this way just gives the card a lot more freedom to move and I just love the back just think it looks really really pretty and there is the other one as well as you can see already just how much that one moves around I mean it slides you know so it works so much better it's easier to fold up whereas this one here is very rigid but still beautiful and when it is like this it looks absolutely stunning so I'm still going to be using it I still love it but I'm adjusting it's good for you to see both of the ways to put it together there so I will link as much of the product that I've used today in the description box below I'll also link the Facebook live video so you can check that one out you can see the difference because this one just slides around everywhere but it does stand up lovely I'll keep them that way yeah so I hope you've enjoyed this screen folder tutorial from me today look out for the gift box it'll be coming very soon like I said that's going to be a separate tutorial check out these tutorials coming up now I'll share the other screen card that I made quite a while ago now if you just want to see a different style and if you haven't subscribed please hit the subscribe button also click the notification bell and that way you'll be notified every time I upload a new tutorial thanks for watching bye