 Hi everybody it's Sandra mixed up crowd thank you for watching today this week's hobby basic card is this box fold pop-up box fold card and this is using the crafty panda magical unicorns stamp set which I'll show you in a minute um I haven't used this one for a while although I have used it a lot it's a lovely lovely um stamp set but I was asked to do a card for my friend's daughter Eila and she's going to be five she's unicorn obsessed so I thought I would do this card and share it with you I'm so pleased with how it's turned out it's got lots of sparkle it's very girly and I'm sure she's going to love this very very straightforward to make lots of hints and tips along the way a little bit of watercolouring to show you um and just yeah just this fun fold pop-up card so on the back here you've got room to write your message I have done quite a few of these and they're all on my youtube channel if you're watching this on facebook and they're all different sizes and there's different ways to put them together you can you know this one I've cut the flap off the front kept it on the back some you can keep the back upright there are so many variations but the overall finish is like this and they just look so fun all fold flat like that you can keep them down or you can keep these up and then the whole thing this one will fit inside this is just a pre-made six by six card but it gives you room then for all your little bits that are overhanging you can see that it's nicely inside and you can still get away and post that one a little bit of bulk you might have to pay a little bit extra but nice and easy to post so let me show you how I made it okay so this is the stamp set by crafty panda and you can see I'm going to get the glare from my light there because I've got it in the plastic let's just take it out quickly you can see there what you get there you get that's better so you've got there we go that's the unicorn and the unicorn head there's the star the rainbow and then you've got these two lovely sentiments and some clouds there as well so it's a really handy one and like I said I've used this so many times it's just yeah it's one of those things never going to go out of fashion it's always going to be loved by somebody so I have already gone ahead and prepared all of my lovely stamped images here so I've done two of the unicorns and you can see all the glitter on the actual horn there and then I've done my rainbows and I've used my watercolor pencils now I will just add in now a quick little video just on high speed of me doing my watercoloring because I know a lot of you do like to see that but just how lovely do they all look so I'll let you see that now okay so everything you are going to need there is a lot in terms of the maths and layers and that's just because of the the finish that I wanted and I wanted to have all of the kind of colors that I have used with my watercoloring incorporated in the actual card base so I've got the pink the yellow the blue and the white so first of all for the main card base itself you need a piece of cardstock that is 11 by 5 okay so I've done it so that if you're using a4 or letter paper size you'll be able to make this and yeah so that's for that then I'm having two strips inside to attach all of my little watercolor images there so these measure four and a quarter by half an inch and you just want to score each one along the four and a quarter inch side you want to score it half an inch at three and three quarters okay so you should have a half inch tab on each one and then if you just burnish those around that's how they should look like so okay now it's entirely up to you how many you want to do but two is enough on this one because of the the depth that we've got with the card so that's those and the card base now for all of the mats and layers okay so this is for the flap that's going to fall down at the back and this is three by one and three quarters that's the white mat if you want to layer on top and just do the two then I would say just do the yellow size which I'll give you in a minute but I'm adding the blue as well because I want these tiny little kind of borders see them so the blue one is one and five eighths of an inch by two and seven eighths of an inch so it just drops down by one eighth of an inch and then the yellow one is one and a half by two and three quarters now you do only need one of all of those sizes because we're just having one flap on the back we're cutting off the one on the front then these ones here you're going to need these are them here and you need two of every size I give you so for the white square this is one and three quarters squared so you need two of the white again optional if you want the blue but that's one and five eighths of an inch squared and then the yellow is one and a half inches squared so you'll start to see when you cut it how the measurements all do you know match up but again two of all those sizes and then for this one here again the white one is one and three quarters by two and three quarters the blue one and five eighths by two and five eighths and the yellow one and a half by two and a half and again two of those then on the very back I'll just do this one here your so this is going to be the very back and front sizes but the back you just need the white mat because that's where you're going to be writing your message or stamp your sentiments so that is two and three quarters by three so you'll need two pieces of white one for the front and one for the back then these you just need one each because this is just going to go onto your front panel again all these measurements as I say are always over on my blog so once you watch the tutorial that you can then kind of see and decide what it is you want to do how you want yours to look but that's how the front panel will look so again if you want to do the blue it's two and five eighths by two and seven eighths and the yellow to go on top is two and a half by two and three quarters and sometimes I you know I look back and I've said it wrong so always look at the blog the blog is always correct because I do go back through and check everything and I usually measure my cards as I'm writing my blog okay so that's everything there so we are okay right so with your main card base now I did already go ahead and fold my I just wanted to check that it was all going to you know be the size I wanted so along the 11 inch side you want to score at two five and a quarter seven and a quarter and ten and a half okay then rotate your card stock round so it's the short length and flip it over and then you're going to score at two and as I always say the reason we do that by flipping over our card stock is it prevents cracking because we're going to be folding the card one way and then folding the flap down the other way okay so we've already scored our little tabs which are there you also need some acetate I'll just have that underneath this is just from sorry just make sure I didn't drop my scoreboard from packaging can you see there go there's the just there is the little hook where it would have hung in the shop I always say this and this is really really strong acetate so you know any good acetate will work but if it's really strong stuff that's good because it means that these lovely pieces here will really stay rigid and just kind of you know bounce about as opposed to maybe fall right over which a very thin acetate would do so um you know I haven't given the measurements as such to these I will be using half inch strips I tend to go for half inch strips but in terms of length it's entirely up to you because you'll see that when we come to put it all together okay so burnish all of your score lines so the ones that we've done along the long side just burnish how you normally would and then this other one the long one here is going to go that way okay you shouldn't have any cracking because of the way we've cut it so now we want to do some cutting so you've got your half inch tab I've got mine here on the right hand side and first of all I'm just going to cut just across that little score line and then remove this whole piece and I'm removing the score line because these are going to be the flaps that hang down so you want them to look really nice and then I'm going to take a little wedge off of both of those sides there okay so that's what we've got so we've got our tablet folds down which is the shorter piece you can see this is longer underneath so the tabs on my right turn the whole thing round so now the tabs on the left and the smaller side is facing you and you're going to cut down all of these like so so that one and that one again if you've got any bits of your score line showing you know go ahead and remove them I'm going to take a little slither off of that one there you don't want to take any wedges off of these you do want to keep them you know in their kind of square or rectangle form but I'm pretty happy that one there is take a little bit off as well okay so with that tab what will happen is it's going to come around and it's going to stick together like so now in previous tutorials when I've done this usually where you would join something you would have that become your back but with these box cards what I find is if you have that join at the front you then when you look inside the box you don't see any joints to the person you're giving it to they won't see where it was joined because this is actually going to be hidden at the front so it's entirely up to you there is no right or wrong if you want to have it at the back you can see there if we have it at the back to be honest someone that's you know if you're making this it's going to be half them to really see that you're going to have so much going on inside so it's just other little things if you're a perfectionist like I tend to be sometimes they're little things that I do but so I'm going to keep mine at the front so I'm going to cut this whole piece off if you're going to have your join at the back then you want to cut that one off so again entirely up to you so I'm going to go ahead and cut this whole one off and again this is completely optional but there are quite a few variations that you can you know make with these pop-up box cards and I've made quite a few now and I think I've got about six different tutorials so I will link those in on my YouTube you'll be able to see all of those so again just taking off any bulkiness I get from score lines there like so so here's my tab on the right hand side got that square and then I've got these three hanging down so now I'm going to decorate and put all my mats and layers on so this is actually the front so remember the one without nothing is the front so that's going to have my three of these ones on top like so the plain one is going to be at the back so this is going to fold down but it's also going to be where your message will be some people like to keep that up and I've made those versions as well so I just want to try and show as many different versions as possible that one is going to go there and then this other one that I gave the measurements for is going to go there so there are sides so I'm going to go and get those all stuck down first of all okay so you can see now I've stuck all my panels down so again now when we bring that round you can see once I've got that obviously stuck down nicely but we've got those three panels there and then the back for our message and then we're all going to fall down like so so next bring these down and then you want to stick your last bits so these ones here are going to go like so that one's going to go there and these ones are going to go there so I'm going to stick all them down okay so I've stuck all them down so I'm just going to carefully just burnish that top scroll line there and there you can see how nice does that all start to look again once you bring that round and that sticks that's how it's going to look and that's the back okay so now before we stick that down open this up like so okay what we're going to do is grab one of these pop a little bit of glue you don't really want the glue to go over the edges you don't want any to cut you just literally want the kind of minimal amount because this is a fold black card and if there's anything sticky inside here when you go to fold it and close it it may obviously stick to another part so you're not working on this piece so I flipped it over there's the that side you flip it over so you tabs on the left leave this one you're working on that side and you're going to bring this in to be honest it's entirely up to you where you want to stick it but you want to keep it nice and straight now if I bring this up you can see there's the school line and the side here and there's the school line at the top I've come in about three eighths of an inch and I've come down about three eighths of an inch and you can see there where I've stuck it okay and then the next one again just going to pop some glue try not to just a very small amount and you want to just bring it along again keeping it lined up with that one giving it about another three eighths of an inch gap when I lie them down you can see they all line up with each other and again when I go that way so if I just bring it up again you can see where I've stuck that next one so there's a gap there about three eighths of an inch I've got about three eighths of an inch there you just want to kind of keep it you know as equal as you can then what you're going to do is pop some glue on the other ends of both of these that one and this one don't worry they won't touch each other because obviously they're staggered so they are at different lengths but just get your glue on both of those lie them down flat with the glue facing up make sure they're nice and straight and then this one you're going to fold right over okay so you've got that side now stick into the other ones and you've got that side where you stuck the other ends stick it down and as you lift it up you have your pieces inside perfect okay now we need to stick this one and I've just realized you want to make sure you can obviously get that in but it's okay because you don't really need it that thick so just cut it I'm cutting this in half so it's now a quarter inch tap like so and pop some glue so there's always a way around it don't ever panic with you know you can cover it up with a diamond tier or a bow cut a bit off there's always a way and then you can just pop this one inside and just stick that one down but it's much much easier to stick them the insides like that if you lie it flat you'll make sure you get a nice join there because obviously this is the front for me my join and if you look in there you're not going to obviously see that join but it doesn't touch that one there I probably could have gone in a bit more actually to be fair but once you see how you do this it's you know there's lots and lots of ways but that now is how that looks now it's just the fun part of starting to decorate it all so I'm going to have the blue one on the very front here overlapping slightly so that when I close it it will close that side so it still fits in the envelope but that one's going to go on the front along with one of the shooting stars probably going to be well I've got an idea because I've also got the name Isla who this is for so by the time this goes out she would have already had a fifth birthday but I've already decorated a very very shiny number five there and I've also done some die cuts so I've got Isla there as well make sure I've got it the right way there we go okay and I'm going to have that here now all the rest of these are going to be what kind of pop out of this card so with that sheet of acetate which is here I am just going to freehand just cut roughly some half inch or three eighths of an inch strips you're not going to see hardly any of these I'm just going to cut myself three which is fine and then I'm going to cut one of them kind of in half so I've got here half an inch ish or three eighths of an inch by this one is three inches okay I'm going to grab this yellow unicorn and I'm going to use the red tape whenever you're using acetate red tapes are really good and I'm just going to pop a tiny bit on the very top there you see I've just put the red tape there and then take the backing off and stick that onto the back of the unicorn like so so now you see what I mean look how rigid that is it's just not going to it's got enough of a bounce which is what you want but it's not going to topple over so now that one is going to go on this back strip here do you know I'll probably find I'm only actually going to use the one strip well I will put a few there but you again when you see these I've made so many the strips inside you can put loads on one strip but I'm going to have that now and it's going to kind of go off slightly on an angle bear in mind when you close this down what I always say fold it flat as if it was in the envelope and lie it down and you want to make sure because this is going to fit in a six by six envelope so this is one inch two inch three inches four five six so I can go a little bit higher but I don't want to go any further than this six by six if you imagine this is it up here this whole square you don't want to go outside of that otherwise I won't go in the envelope but I can keep that there and know that that's going to be just fine and then when I do my rainbow I'm going to have the rainbow one probably like so and then I'm going to have this face here probably going to have the number five kind of there so it's just in front of the rainbow this is going to be down here with one of the shooting stars there's going to be another shooting star maybe here and another face down here that's kind of how I'm going to have all of this oh and I've got another rainbow so maybe I can pop another rainbow behind there as well so it doesn't look great when it's flat but you imagine once these are all up so I'm going to go and put acetate on the back of all of these at festival okay so now they are all on acetate I did end up cutting some more strips because then I can cut them down once I put them on but if I just bring them up there you can see how fun they all look and how much they sparkle so much shine okay so those two are going on the front so I'll keep them to one side because I'll do that last so with this one here like I said it's going to go in the back one here and I want to make sure once you've done your back ones you don't need to kind of keep lying it down making sure it's in the right place because all the rest you know will be slightly shorter so but that is going to be just fine like so so let's bring that up and pop some kind of can remember where it needs to be just about there pop some double sided tape now you want to make sure that your tape doesn't go past half an inch you don't want it to be any longer than the width of that strip otherwise again it will you know mean that you've got something sticky on the inside and that means the card might obviously stick to another part so you don't want that so I'm just going to stick that one on an angle there just make sure bring that one back down one two three five six perfect and you can always move them you can take them back off again it's not the end of the round but that's that one nicely in place then I've got the rainbow so I can trim that down a bit because I know it doesn't need to be that long but I want that one kind of like so and I can just line it up with the other unicorn so now I don't really need to move that one too much so I'm going to pop that down at the end like so and you need little bits you don't need a lot of tape such a light piece that you're popping on there but again like so you can see they're just about even that's that one and then I'm going to start playing around that you just want to fill in the gaps so keep looking at it straight on and you know I've got obviously big gaps there I can go in a little bit there and so on until you get to the you know the front you can even stick stuff right on this front piece here but because I've got that one quite close if you what I would probably have done actually is put that one right up to that one there just so you've got more space here but again when you see me do it it doesn't really matter so I'm going to carry on and position some more of these okay so there are stuck them all down how sweet is that everything on the back it all looks nice and neat what I've decided to do is with the shooting stars is I'm going to actually pop them on each of these side pieces because they fit in there perfectly just like so so I'm going to pop the other one here I've just put them on a little bit of foam adhesive again just to give it a bit of dimension like so and then we're going to have this one on the front and that this is what finishes it off for me now is this kind of front decoration so I'm just going to cut a few strips thinner just so these can go on the legs of the unicorn and the tail everything's all a bit thin there so I'm just going to flip this over and add some foam on the back okay so you can see there because some of this is going to the rest of the kind of mane is going to overhang slightly just hold that up make sure it's right at the bottom just hold that flat like so and then I'm just going to pop that up that way stick her name coming down like so I think that looks so so sweet so I'm going to get that stuck down some glue now I did die cut these I just this was just um some words from my my own stash of dies but I've die cut them twice was it three times and then stick them on top of each other just to give it some dimension and then I just used some shimmer my shimmer brush just over the top there just to give it lots and lots of sparkle because that's what you have when you've got unicorns and there you go how adorable is that card look at all the shine everything is sparkling it's got a nice little wobble to it it all folds flat you can pop the two at the back up and then keep that one down and it will fit inside your six by six card I've just realized my five is probably too high so I'm going to have to bring that down or I may just make myself a slightly bigger envelope because I do like that that comes up a bit higher than everything else but yeah I just I just love the shine to this and yeah I just think it's super cute I want to be given this card and on the back as I said before you've got plenty of room there for your message but it stands up beautifully and yeah I hope she loves this so I hope you've enjoyed it today's box card pop-up box card tutorial like I said I've shared that playlist so you can just click on that and it'll bring down all the other versions that I've made as well every single one is a different size so whenever I try and do another of the same style card I try and change the sizes or something but yeah I love this so now it's all ready to go to the birthday gal so that is it for me today I hope you've enjoyed today if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye