 Hey 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 these really fun and very sweet looking TP cards. I've seen these around for a long time and I saw a tutorial from Sarri Heneman, I think it is, I will link her one below, hers was from 10 years ago, so yeah they've been around a long time. Really really fun to make, they fold flat to just have a little velcro fussing on the back there, it all folds flat and this size that I've made will fit into a five by seven envelope and then I've got this one here which is a, this will fit into a six by four envelope. Obviously if you've got things overhanging, actually I'll explain to you, if you do it on that side then it would overflow into that section there but again if you had that for me, if I had that rosette more on this side here then you can see how it would fit into your four by six. So you just have to play around with your design and stuff but they're really fun, you've got room to write your message on the back. So I have done a Christmas version, you are seeing a Christmas card here right now, I did say during the Facebook live when I actually made these that I would be doing some Christmas cards so I just want to get a bit organised and make sure I'm not rushing in December to make cards. This is the first one, I can't believe I've made it but there you have it and then I've got this one here, this is using paper posies and this is the size I think I will do more often, I like this larger size and again you've got your room there to just stamp your message and again it will all fold flat and that one there was using the Dovecraft Secret Garden. Okay really nice, so very very easy to do, we'll get straight into it. So I used the stamp set for that one there, it isn't available anymore because I got it in sale just after Christmas but it was by Simplymade Crafts, you might be able to find someone selling it maybe on eBay, you never know it might pop up but that's the one I use there. So for today's I'm using the Dovecraft Make-A-Wish collection so I have gone ahead and pulled out a few little embellishments, I've made my rosette already because I have got rosettes on all three of them actually and I've just made them with the matching pattern papers and this is from a strip of 1 inch by 12 inch because I use the larger paper there but I've also got rosettes, I think I've got a playlist, I'll link it up here if you've never made one before but they're very easy. I've got my sentiment there, I've got some puffy stickers I might add those in as well and that was the 5x7 envelope just so you can see there as well how it will fit in that's just a shot brought 5x7 but if you want to I mean there is dimension on mine so I will probably make maybe some box envelopes for them and again I'll link them up throughout this video in case you want to make one. So what you need is three pieces of any size square that you want really and people have already been sharing them on the mixed up crafters Facebook group and they're playing around and trying new sizes and you could probably do a really dinky one I mentioned that during the live but I'm going to show you the larger one and that's using three pieces of five by five this one here was four by four three pieces of four by four and I will put the measurements for that one in my blog because I'm sure there are you know people watching that would like to do a smaller version I know different parts of the world you know the postal rules are different and smaller cards that you know preferred so but for today we're doing five by five so you want three pieces of five by five and then you're going to score pop it on the diagonal and you're going to score from point to point so I'm using my six inch score line there as my marker and you just want to score right through the middle and do that on all of the pieces okay so that's all the scoring done next we're going to fold and burnish you just want to make sure that you get a really nice kind of fold there you want to make sure it meets from point to point because that you know these become the feet and the top of the card so you know none of this is hidden so I'm just going to again just kind of start it off myself and then just burn a ship okay like so then what you want to do is you want to have one of them open in the diamond orientation and then these two you're going to stick down in the square orientation over the top do you see these stay in their square like so and that bottom one will stay as a diamond what I find easiest to do is stick this behind here I'm going to add the glue and then I like to wrap it around when this under this piece here is you know like the glue is drying and I just think you get a really nice kind of finish when you wrap that around so I'm going to pop it like so and I'm just going to draw you can just hold your finger there really if you want but I'm just going to put a little pencil mark there now I want to add glue all in that section there and I'm using the callow because I always do but you know it just it's great for your cards because it keeps them all nice and strong so I'm just going to pop my glue all in this section here now also I should mention if you want to add your mats and layers now then I would add them all on these sides here and I'm going to give you the measurements for them in a moment but you might want to put them one before you put it together but I actually prefer the decoration once it's together so it's entirely up to you but you may want to so there I'm just sticking that down and I'm just going to wrap that around and you'll see you get a really nice point there and this will all become the inside and this is all what you're going to so you can imagine if you'd already put your mats and layers down here you already have this piece covered but on these ones here I've done these pieces with a separate little triangle mat and I prefer that but you may want to decorate it and you may also do this in patterned cardstock you know a lot of the paper pads you know you know like 200 plus you could easily make it from the pattern paper and then I'm going to do the same on this side so I'm just going to lay that one like so and I'm just going to pop a little pencil mark just there and again I know I can add my glue within this section now also you may want to do mats and layers on the inside and you know have that as an area for you to have your message because the card obviously will arrive flat like so and there's no reason why you can't do anything on the inside here as well but I'm going to keep my message on the outside so again that's that one just fold it over so you've just got that nice point and also that way you know everything is going to lie flat as well and now that one is going to go over there and you instantly get that teepee look and I think it's really really cool okay so for the mats and layers so I've only done mats on those ones and I did that in the live but I want to show you mats and layers in the video because you can then decide what you want to do so I'm going to do a mat layer in the holographic and then I'm going to do the pattern layer using this lovely kind of like a bit of a polka dot I guess so this one here let me just grab my trimmer so this one here is four and five eighths of an inch squared okay and then you want to pop it in your trimmer or whatever it is you're using point to point on the blade and just cut okay so I'm going to have one in this section here like so you get that nice border and then I'll have another one around that side and then the other one is going to be in white so I only need one of those squares but if you want to do all three then you'll need to have you know another piece but you'll have one half left over but if you're going to make a batch of these then you know keep all those then I've got this piece which is again that same oh no I went smaller oh so I do need another piece hold on I am going to have one extra so I will have one extra but like I said I'll keep that because I know I'll definitely be making some more of these because I love them then this is going to be my side where I'm going to stamp my message so I've got a piece of white card here and this is the same as this pattern paper here and this is four and a quarter squared and again I'm just going to pop it in here like so I'll keep that one for that for another card but that will now sit over the top of there and that's going to be the panel for me to write my message but again I've got I don't need two of them I think I've done it the wrong way around I needed two holographic you know and not two pattern but it's fine so I'm going to this one here is the same so it's four and a quarter okay squared try maybe you don't yeah you don't really want something that's got too much of a directional pattern on it because obviously things like this here you see the stripe goes that way and then it goes that way I didn't mind with that because I think it works but if you've got anything with writing and things that might look a bit odd so just yeah maybe think about that but now I've got two pieces there because I've only got we're only working with three sides so I've got that side for my sentiment and then these two sides will have pattern paper so that's that one and then I've got these here so I will need in fact I'm going to give you the measurements for them in a minute because I think I might that might be the mat layer side so we'll work on that in a second so what I'm going to do first of all now you may also want to cut I said there's three sides because there's three kind of exposed sides but there are four with this one here you may want to cover that if you want to give it some strength and stuff I might well I've got it here actually I guess I could yeah maybe I'll pop that one in and that one just for the sake of it really so you can cover all four sides if you've got leftovers like me and maybe you are just making one card so I'm going to stick all of those sides down but I'll talk you through also which one to maybe have as your front if you want to make sure it will fit into a five by seven envelope because it's something I've only really just noticed whilst I was folding them flat for this video and I think if you actually stick to you know a particular side then you'll always be able to fit it into an envelope so I'm just going to stick all these down and then explain that so it makes a bit more sense okay so now deciding on what you want to be the front and the sides and stuff so for this one here I have stuck all of my front detail on the you know the left hand square here in this bottom kind of corner but now when I fold that flat this overhangs which means I'm going to have to make a bigger envelope but on this one here I have done the front section on the bottom left of that right hand square and I think that's the better way to do it because when you fold it flat this overhang from the rosette fills you know sits within this section so apart from that little bit of the flag there that will still go into an envelope but that will fit in my five by seven envelope and I didn't actually take any notice of that beforehand so I'm going to make sure that whenever I decorate these I always do it within this triangle here and that way I think you will be able to always kind of fit it in a you know a normal envelope it's just something to look at because it's I didn't really take like I said any notice beforehand but I am going to work within this one here so I'm going to have pattern piece there and then pattern piece there and then I'm going to have the white pieces there and there like so okay so I'm going to get them stuck down okay so I've stuck all of that down now I've got a piece of one and three quarters squared in the holographic and again I'm just going to cut that from point to point okay and one's going to go in there and one's going to go in that side and then I've got this piece here which is one and three eighths of an inch squared and again I'm just going to cut that like so and they're going to go over the top all right so I'm going to get them stuck down as well okay so that's that all stuck down so bearing in mind I want this one to be the front I'm going to bring around it doesn't matter whether you want to have that one over the top or that one over the top okay so I'm going to do that one over the top actually if it's going to be here because then you get that nice kind of you know the cardstock just continues around rather than having that you know at the front so I am going to put that one over this one here I've got my velcro dots these are the 16 mil so I'm going to pop it behind so we're working on that one on the front it's behind that one there okay and then bring it right over here and just stick that one down and then you can just open it up and the Kalal glue has just made these all so like strong now it's wonderful really do like making these okay so now I'm going to decorate so I am going to open it up again just so you can see but I've got here this really nice rosette some of these are fussy cut and what I've done is I fussy cut well I've actually roughly cut first of all the image from the paper pad then I've stuck it with this here which I find is really good and it's the taser easy stick onto my 300 gsm cardstock and then when it's dry I cut around it and you actually end up with a really nice it's almost like an ephemera you know it's a nice embellishment to work with rather than just a you know I guess a flimsy piece of paper so that's what I've done on all of these so they all match and that I can just build up you know a little scene these are actually the wooden embellishments that you can buy with the collection so it's the birthday presents there and then the ice cream sundae and then I've also like I said I've got the puppy stickers here you know I've got some little ice creams and stars which I may well add in and then I'm probably going to pull in the happy birthday there or I may use like the party time or something but I'm going to pop it all on high speed now I'm going to use my hot glue gun because I like to use that when I'm building up something like this because they're all kind of lots of elements are stuck on top of each other and then I'll be back when it's all finished there is the finished card I love it I've got the paper cake there and then I've got the rosette I've got the balloons that I fussy cut the hats the sundae the wooden one the wooden gifts and then I put a puffy sticker star and then that's that topper from the pack that I showed you and then like I said you've got all that space to be able to write your message you could maybe put a gift card in here somehow maybe if you've done a slightly larger size you know there's a lot of scope to to do more with it I think they're wonderful cards as you can see I ignored the advice that I gave about trying to maybe stick with your overhang on this side so I will just make I've got the 12 by 12 paper pad so I will end up making a custom envelope so I'll need to make it a little bit bigger yeah so is it you know just play around with it it's entirely up to you but I'll just show you again that's that one and then you've got the Secret Garden Collection lovely and I've also used some of the this is the Nouveau Glow Drops or Glow Drops yeah Glow Drops you can see they're really really nice just a little bit more texture you know dimension I love all of this and again I've used them in there they're the actual crystal drops and then that's the wooden and little embellishment there and then again the Christmas card I think it's just adorable and I've used on this one this is the Self-Adhesive Glitter Card by Dovecraft again I'll link everything if I can in the description box below but I think they're wonderful really quick to make I just love that you can really kind of go to town with all the embellishments and just make them these really fun cards so I hope you've enjoyed it if you would like to you know be involved with the Facebook live craft alongside I do I do them three days a week and if you head over to mixed up crafters and no it's actually it's mixed up craft I'll share the link below you don't have to craft along you might just want to sit and watch or just maybe chat with other people it's a title tube it's a really really nice group and lots of people do enjoy the craft along so yeah until next time thank you for watching please give me a thumbs up and I'll see you again soon bye