 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really sweet bridge fold card. So I've made a pillar fold in the past, I made that last year sometime and these were so there was pillars on each side here so the the sides went all the way around. Whereas this one here just with the way that I folded the card and by adding this piece here people call it a bridge fold. So this is a five by seven and it folds flat there so that now is five by seven or you can fold it that way and again you'll have five by seven. Really really cute and I just thought I'd bring up closer here so you can see this really fun llama and I will share with you the die set in a moment and it's just really really fun the papers here as well I'll share all of that but really simple really effective stands up perfectly and yeah just think another fun fold card. Okay so you're going to need I've got here the chasing rainbows at papers so I've used the floral design which is the reverse of this one so you've got the unicorns on one side and then you've got that beautiful floral prints that's what I've used and then for the background you probably can't really make it out but can you yeah you can just see the shine so it's this one here which is the really nice holographic sheets that you get at the very bit front of both the paper packs this is a six by six it's on the 12 by 12 as well but I've also done it on here so there is a mat and then the layer you can probably see it a bit better on the back there you can see there it's really really lovely and that's one of the dies as well llama love foot to share that one so you've got plenty of room to write your message on the back so I have yeah so I've used that paper pack again all of this will be shared in my blog but you can see there you get the three glitter designs two iridescent designs sorry which is what that one is I've used I've used most of them but there's still that one that's absolutely stunning anyway I will share as I said and then I've already gone ahead and cut out a lot of it then the die set is this one here and like I said it's so much fun so this is the new first edition dies or rebranded so a lot of them they've had the packaging changed updated this is just called llama so it's really fun I've already linked these in on my amazon store front and I'll share any other links as well so yeah I think it's a good one to have in your stash I've really enjoyed playing with this um you've got the avocado watermelon a little kind of bunting flags you've got a singular um bunting there so that's just the one piece so you would do more and more and then you can join them together a little cactus and then a llama love so that's the one I've used that and then for the stamp I had this one here which is the sweet Dixie party animal and it's the llamas so the sentiments on this work perfectly with the dies so it's been quite nice to kind of mix and match these ones so I used that one there a llama wish you a happy birthday and that's what I've stamped at the bottom there so yeah really has come together quite nicely this one so let's just pop that there and then these are all the bits which I'm going to talk you through as we go first of all so this is a piece of seven by seven okay and you want to score at one and six then flip the card don't rotate it just flip it and score at two and five as always just by flipping the card stock it allows us to fold the card in the different directions which will then prevent cracking okay so that's all of that you need to do you don't need your scoreboard anymore so I've removed that so I scored at one and six and then flipped it over and then I scored at two and five then flip it back so you want it when you originally scored the one and the six okay and then what you can do is fold those two out because we've scored them in the right way like so all right and then the other ones you're going to fold in like so again I grabbed my bone folder just burnish those score lines and then you will have that shape okay so that's the one and the six score line and that's the two and the five like so so it will stand on its own there then to put the bridge part on it you will need a piece I'm going to bring in my small scoreboard just to give you the measurements so this small piece here is five by one and that is going to go across here now you don't want to stick it down yet because we've got our mats and layers to put on but it's entirely up to you where you want to put this you might want to put multiples so you might want to have one there another one in the middle one at the top you might just want to have one right at the top there and you can have something hanging down there's really you know quite a few fun ways to do this but whatever you do make sure you keep it straight okay so that's that and that piece and then it's all down to our mats and layers so this is for the back and I've already stuck the top piece on and you'll see there it will sit perfectly in that three by seven section on the back there so the top mat is two and seven eighths of an inch by this one would have been just one increment down so six and seven eighths of an inch okay and then the layer on top is two and three quarters and then it's by six and three quarters okay again all these measurements will be in my blog but that's going to go on the back and then for the front again I've got the same size so this piece here again is six and seven eighths of an inch by two and seven eighths of an inch I've then gone for this pretty mat sorry layer to go on top which again is two and three quarters by six and three quarters okay and then for all these side pieces so all of my mats are going to go in these pieces here all right so like so and these measure seven eighths of an inch because this is one inch wide so it's just gone down slightly so seven eighths of an inch again by yeah six and seven eighths of an inch okay and then the layers to go on top and you'll need four of each and these are three quarters of an inch by six and three quarters okay so you can see that how all the measurements work um so they all fit perfectly together and then this is my layer to go on top of that little bridge piece here it's the same width I'm keeping it the same width I'm not doing a little border on the edges there you can see it goes right off the edge so it's the same width so it's five inches and this one is just by seven eighths of an inch okay so that's all the mats and layers I will stick them all down in a moment I just wanted to talk you through a little bit with the dies so this is what the llama looks like when you die cut it aren't they adorable really really love them so they are just spare ones the one I've actually done is I die cut it here and I've stuck it onto some white cardstock because I wanted to just make it a little bit stronger so you can see here it's a really strong little die cut just on its own like this it was just a little bit flimsy although I have just die cut that on the paper that came from the paper pack so if you die cut it obviously on a thick cardstock you can then use your inks and you can you know do like a blended look and colour it in and stuff so there's lots of fun ways but I want to do a little bit of paper piecing so I've just stuck it onto this white piece here and then I've gone and die cut it again that's my little bun tin bits which I'm going to be adding I've already done my look how cute they are my watermelon my avocado and my cactus so so cute I really like those so I've already gone and done them and the way I've done them is the same way that I'm going to be showing you this one here so I've die cut it in the yellow stuck it down and then I went and die cut it again in this colour and then you can see here these are the bits that would have been so you can see where that piece was like in that little kind of saddle and then these are the bits that were in between the legs so I'm keeping those and I'm going to paper piece and pop them back in to these bits okay and that's how you can kind of just create and kind of bring it to life a little bit more now the face I am keeping white and I did try it with colours and I just thought it looked a bit I didn't look right for me so you can see there I've kept it white just so you can really see that it's the face and see the detail so once I've obviously done that I'm just going to bring in a little bit of my wet glue here and just put a little bit in there in all these gaps like so this is a clear drying glue you don't want anything that's tacky because if you do get anything that kind of you know oozes out the sides it will be fine and then you just literally pop it back in again so it's just like a jigsaw puzzle so there and then that's the taller one that one goes in there and you can just see by adding you could do these all different colours um you don't have to do it all the same like I've done and it will work with any die that you have any detailed dies anyway and that one if you really wanted to you could do all these little bits here as well but I thought I'm just going to keep this like that so already now you can see how he's come together a little bit more I just think it just shows up all the detail bit more on his legs and brings the saddle you know kind of separates it from his body now and and stuff I think it looks great so I've already stamped my sentiment I've die cut four of the bunting there and that's what I'm going to create to go across there and I thought this style card worked well with this die because of the bunting I wanted something that you know this would hang from so I thought that looked really good so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to fussy cut this now you can fussy cut it with a white border if you want or you can leave it um or you can cut really close which I've done there and that's what I'm probably going to do the same just so it really does show the full die cut so um yeah I'm going to quickly speed this piece up okay so now there's my llama really nice solid little piece and you can use that obviously as a topper for a card just like that pop it on some foam and you could use it that way and it would look nice you could put a couple of like you could put a cocktail stick or something underneath it and you could put it on a cake right let's now do all the mats and layers so I'm going to go stick down all these pieces that I showed you earlier okay so that's my card now with all the mats and layers on and I've got the back there I'll make sure I've got it on the right way because I've already popped that on there so now I'm going to add the bridge part so I'm just going to cover this with my lovely iridescent card there so like I said this is the exact same length it would just give you a border on the top and bottom which I thought looked quite nice like so again if I just share it there you see it's just got this beautiful lovely four mermaid tail and things like that all unicorns which obviously brown yeah chasing rainbows it does it has the unicorns in it so now what you want to do is you want to decide where you want it now because I've got my little llama here I want it to obviously attach to that enough but I want the legs to kind of hang down you can see how cute that's going to look against that card there so I am going to have it about one inch up from the bottom but again it's entirely up to you because I've got that bunting that's going to be coming down from the other side there and this is one inch wide so I know I just need to pop some of my run a tape here just covering one inch there on each side and then do one side first and you want to make sure you get this flat side completely flush with the outer side there otherwise the card won't fold flat and then you want to bring this up until the this outer side edge is flush with this outer side keeping it all nice and straight and that means your card will stand up straight and fold flat so then just practice kind of folding it over each side so that you know it's going to sit there and there you have your bridge fold okay so I know I've got my bunting there which is going to kind of keep that up together as well see there so have a play around see what works for you then we're going to stick him here so I need to just pop a little bit of tape I'm just going to pop some here it's my little embellishment I need and a little bit on the tops of his four legs make sure you can't see any of that let's just get rid of that bit there we go and then like so he's going to sit just there cute love it then I've got my little sentiment here and I've popped this on some foam adhesive because I'm going to kind of sit the bits here so the cactus the avocado and the watermelon is going to sit it behind it so kind of got it overlapping onto the llama there love it and then I'm just going to pop some little bits of tape let's do it a little bit differently this time so I'm going to have that one there I'm going to have the avocado over to this side and then I'm going to have the cactus in the middle just have it kind of popping out like so there we go how lovely is that look and then with this what I've done is I trimmed off the outer little bits there which are obviously acting as the string but I actually join them right up so I'm just going to do that on all of those okay and then I'm going to use a little bit of wet glue for this just because it's so detailed I'm just putting a little dab of glue and then the whole thing I kind of like spread right out so I want to stick it as close to it as I can without it really kind of you know changing the look of the bunting without those little bits on that I just cut off so like so and then that last one and four of these fit perfectly across the five inch width of the card okay so that's now dry and you'll see what I do is I line up the top ones completely flush with the top that one and that one bring them right up to the outer edge like so and then as this kind of moves around once it's stuck down it will kind of go where you want it so I'm going to pop a little bit of glue on that one and I'll be finishing it off with those little embellishments that I have here just on the top again this glue dries completely clear and it's not tacky and then you can kind of move this around and have it once it stands up it dangles down you can see there I like how it moves as well I think it looks really cool and then these ones here I'm going to use a little bit of my silicone glue because I've got these little plastic embellishments I just don't want them coming off so I'm going to pop that one just at the top and these are from the like little kits and stuff I just from years ago I mean they're just those they're almost like it's from like more the kids crafts but I thought they work really well with this so I use the pinky ones on that one there I thought they complemented the iridescent card there and just the flower color in the actual papers and then these ones here again work really well they go well with the alarma and again I think the iridescent just brings out any color doesn't it but there you have it so you've got really cute bunting and such a pretty card love these really enjoyed using the the dies I did share all of the dies that I received over on my Facebook group and on Instagram so you're going to see them featuring quite a bit this week because I just wanted to kind of sit down and really use them you know in the whole set so yeah you see that they stand up lovely and there's the two cards both folding completely flat easy to post and pop in a five by seven envelope so hope you've enjoyed it hope you like this bridgefold card from me today and I'll see you again soon for another tutorial thanks for watching