 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I have a brand new card fold to share with you all, I'm super excited, I think it looks awesome. So this has evolved from the dies that I've just recently released, but I have also shared a tutorial a couple of years ago now on my channel, so if you don't have the dies and you still want to make this card, you can, okay, so I will link that up here and it will also be at the end of the video as well. But for those of you that have the dies and lots of you will have these beautiful new border dies that I have as well and they just work brilliantly with this collection. So these two here I've already shown on the Hachanda launch on TV and also on the Craft Stash Live. So this is the shape that you can create, if you look inside there. Now this looks difficult but I promise you it's very very easy, so don't be put off at all because you'll be very surprised just how quickly this comes together. But it's certainly going to make people look and wonder and be in amazement when they see this. Now you can have them flat like so, you just need to make a bigger envelope, this one here you could if you wanted to you can fold it that way and then that's seven by six. So you do have to custom you know those envelopes, they're not just going to fit in a standard one but you know it's such an unusual style, I don't think that's a problem. And then so that's just using the normal kind of straight edges and I've used the vertical stamps which I'll show you in a moment and then this one I've used those wonderful birthday present edge dies and on the back you've got room to write your message and I've just continued the patterns there as well, it just looks so good. Again it's got that real big presence about it, that show stopper look and I just think it looks fantastic. So let's get straight into the tutorial and I will show you how to make them. Okay so these are the stamp sets, so they've got that vertical kind of emphasis but you can use them you know in lots of other ways as well but I'm going to use today this one it's your birthday yay, so I'm going to put those two together but you can put woop woop and then you've got let's party, happy birthday is a lovely one. So those are the stamps, using the five by seven landscape okay and this one here which is the five by seven landscape excellent edges and I'm using the dragonfly and it's going to look really nice, I've already done one half of it already but that's how they look there so you get one two three four five dragonflies so you can cut them all in one pass and then we've got the edge there so I'm going to cut one of those again in a minute but you could also use these five by seven ones as well so you've got the star, the balloons and the flowers there as well, so I've already got my card stock ready, I've got all these mats and layers and I've cut all of this as well which I'll talk you through in a moment, so with this piece here you want to die cut the larger main card shape there so I'm just going to pop a little bit of tape down just pop it on that side there and I'm just going to run that through my machine okay so that's all cut away nice and get rid of that and just take this one carefully off there okay so now you have this piece with all the score lines and the cut lines are all done for us okay so you want to put this together just like I've shown already anybody that's not seen it you've got score lines here then it misses one score line it misses one that's all got a score line misses one score line miss one and finish with a score line so all the ones with the score line bring towards you just lift them up just want to start getting those score lines into place and then opposite so where that's got a score line there the opposite end as you can see there's no score line so now you want to work with all the ones that have the score lines and they will all be opposite to the ones you've just done and push them down again you're just starting to shape the card and you'll repeat this on the other end so it's exactly the same but now you can start to see all of these pieces want to go down and these all want to come up and there's a score line that runs right the way down through the middle so what I find so I just put my fingers through here pop it down and bring it up towards you and just fold it on those score lines like so and see them there and then if you just kind of slide it up bring the whole thing over like so and then I like to burnish those score lines flip it over do them on this side as well and now we've got one side of our card so I'm just going to repeat that on this side okay so now we have that card shape so that is what the die is intended to make if you have it that is your you know the standard shape that it will do but then you can start adding the edges here so there's one that's that landscape section here so once you build up the mats and layers which are all in the set another version here is using the balloons oh that's the five by seven sorry so that's the other version that you have there let me just bring in this is the one that I wanted to it's another one there with the presence and then you've got the dragonflies and it's the dragonflies that I'm going to be doing today I've got loads here I've got the mischew there with the flowers and then that you've got the dragonfly one there which is just stunning so that is the card that you can create with this die set but I want to show you now how you can create that really cool card that I showed at the beginning so if you open it up onto your scoreboard lay it down flat and you want to score halfway so in this case it's at five inches right down through the middle now you also just want to score so you join you know these ones here so it's at three and three quarters make sure it's right in the corner there but three and three quarters it will just join those up and six and a quarter it's just going to help you fold everything else like so and do it here as well so one and a quarter and then this end one here which is eight and three quarters okay so it just joins all of that together because we're going to be folding it like a concertina now also you want to do all of this twice you need two of them okay so I've got my second one ready this is what we're going to aim for here all right so I'm going to remove the score board okay and what we want to do is fold it in half like so so I'm just going to burnish that okay and then you're going to fold like that so just find it out so you can see there we just squash up the other we can pop all these out again in a minute just fold it in half like that and then they're going to come down like so so I just need to pop that one out make sure you've got the same on the opposite side because you want to stick these together so they need to join and there we go you can see now we've got that shape so if I just open it up there's that middle score line we're going to stick them together and then so in this case we're going to add let me put the glue down and it will make a bit more sense and you're just repeating this on the on the second one that you do but I'm just going to pop my glue all down this one side here and then just on those there and just make sure that the opposite side you have the right ones popped out so they're going to line up and then when you close it up those will stick together along with that put your fingers in there you can kind of squeeze those together just give that a minute to stick okay so that's now all secure so I'm just going to let that kind of harden up so next I want to cut my borders so I've got my dragonfly here so I'm going to pop it down on I just popped it on my white cardstock so I'm actually having you know a contrast there so you don't have to have you know it the same color as your base color you can see there how it looks I just really like that effect so I'm going to lay this one down here and run that one through my machine okay so that's cut one out there so it doesn't matter which way you have this okay so if I bring this one in it's going to make a bit more sense because basically this one is going to attach over here like this okay so you can start to see now how it's going to come together so this one here I can have it that way like so now the next one that I cut I don't want to just cut it again like this because I need to flip it so I'm going to cut it with the die facing up so I get a nice smooth piece I don't get any of the impressions from my base plate I'm going to pop that on there and I'm going to pop a piece of copy paper over the top so again I don't get any you know markings I mean that side of the plate is quite clean anyway and then I'm going to run that through my machine okay now you only need to do this on the edge dies that are not symmetrical so for example the flower one there you could just die cut all four and then just flip them over because they're exactly the same they're mirror image but the dragon flies you can see you know the top one flies down in that direction and this one flies across in that direction so we just need to change it slightly now I can take that away take the copy paper off of the top bring this one in and then I can flip it over probably made that really confusing but basically it just means that we've been able to kind of have a nice finish on the backs you can see there it's just really nice now if you have got any raised edges all you need to do is just go over with your bone folder and it completely flattens it out and once you layer up your dragon flies on there you would never know anyway but it just gives you a really clean piece of cardstock like so so now those two will sandwich together like so it's just gonna be nice and neat okay so next I can stick them down so I'm gonna stick the back one first okay like so so now we've just got that really nice edge next we want to sit them together now I've already put some mats and layers all on this side so but you won't have them there so you can basically stick this one over the top or that one over the top I'm gonna put this one over the top because obviously I've already put those layers on there so I'm just gonna add my glue onto this one here sit that one over the top just hold that in place for a second and then I'm just gonna run my glue on this one again it's up to you which one you want to do and pop that one over the top okay so while that's just kind of drying I'm gonna stick the rest of my mats and layers down and all of the dragon flies so in that die set you get this really handy die here which will cut the mat layers for all of these you can see there I've put them on this is going to be my front so I put them on all of them see they're even in those ones that I think looks really cool these ones I've cut myself and then the big one that I'm gonna have there with the sentiment I've cut myself as well but I've just run that through with the white so I've got all the pieces there and I've gone and cut my dragon flies as well and they're gonna sit perfectly in those spaces so I find it easier to just put the whole thing flat I'm gonna use my quick grab glue and I like to just put a line of glue like this I never got a chance to do this on the TV because obviously it's a bit time-consuming for TV because you've got a short amount of time to get as much in but in my tutorials I can put it on high speed so I just put the glue all like that and then with the strips I can just very quickly go along and lay them all down I just find it a bit quicker that way and if you use a liquid glue you've got that time to be able to just wiggle them around and get them into place you don't have to cover everyone like I have but I do think it looks quite effective and because that dye cuts so many in one go it does make it quite quick to do so I'm just going to stick the rest of these down okay and then I can just make sure I pop out the right ones the other ones will be stuck down anyway so it should be quite easy to pop those out then I have my layers for these side pieces here so I've got two on the front and I've got two on the back and these measure one by two and three quarters and you'll want four of those and then I've got these pieces which will go here because this one is going to go through the middle you can see by adding those maths and lez it really does bring out all that shape of the card so these ones here you'll want four pieces which are that same width of one inch and they are one and seven eighths four of those and then two of this piece here which is two and three quarters by three and a half I'm going to stick one on the back but I'm going to leave the other one so I want to stamp my sentiment okay so I've stuck everything down so that's the back all done I've also stuck the dragonfly so I'm just going to finish the front so you can see how to do them so it's it's really easy what I like to do is just put a little bit of glue in the center of the body just there and then if you lay down one half of the wings in over this side here so you get a nice border and then push down on the center of the body that way you know you've got it perfectly lined up so again I can lift them all up in a minute now I want to stamp my sentiment so I've got that other piece and I'm using this color lagoon by the spectrum noir the quick dry it works perfectly with this color here which I think is the tonic studio teal color so I've got the yay stamp here so I'm going to yeah I'm going to have it at the bottom again I think there we go so that's all stamped nicely and then I can just it's a quick dry ink as well so I can stick this straight onto the card okay so that is all done you can just lift these up you put little embellishments on them you also in the set you get a larger dragonfly so you could die cut that and have it you know kind of dotted around I'm going to leave it as it is I can add to it you know when I decide to use this one but now you can just see look at all that awesome dimension and shape and just so cool and then there's the back already if you to be able to write your message nobody's going to have a card like this I really love how this one's come together so I'll bring back in again these ones here so there is this one using the whoop whoop from the set here so although they are you know in that portrait orientation I just stamped them separately you know next to each other to give you that effect there and for this one you know I would just mat maybe something down here and you could write just you know I'd write this way instead on the back of these cards that's that one and then bring this one back in again love it with the holographic card stock I think it looks so cool you can see where I've done the mats and layers there actually just need to pop those back out there there we go you've got plenty of room to write your message and I'll bring back in again love these edges and I've got some really cool 3d projects to do using these edge dies as well so you don't just have to use them on cards so look out for that tutorial so it's going to be coming soon and I think you're going to really like that but I think they're great they're so much fun they're so different and like I said during the launch these are perfect for muscular makes as well and for all ages you know depending on what edge dies you use you can use them for everybody I think so thank you for watching I hope you've enjoyed this very unusual card shape and I look forward to seeing your versions of them over on our group if you haven't joined mixed up crafters I will link it below along with all the product that I've used today so thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon bye