 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is another project for this year's Valentine's series and this is a Everlasting or Infinity card, that's what they're known as. I have made one of these before, made one a couple of years ago and I just thought I'd like to make it again. It's a really fun card, it's a very very easy card and I thought Infinity and Everlasting was quite a nice named card for Valentine's. So I've made this one here, this is one, this is going to be for my Nan and it doesn't matter that I say that because she won't see the tutorials, she doesn't watch these unless one of us is with her so I know that nobody will show her. So you're all seeing this before she does. You know that she's my biggest fan and I love making cards for her so that's why on the front here it says the best and then all you do is you fold it this way and it brings, it opens up this section so I've got here You're the Bomb and I've done all this, I love using the mirrored cardstock kind of my thing at the moment, then you fold it like so it naturally wants to go this way as well so don't worry don't think oh gosh I won't remember that it just falls that way. Then you've got this one here and this is going to have photos on it and then you go that way and this is going to have a photo here and it says Happy Valentine's Day and then they fold down that way and it takes you back to the beginning and the nice thing about these is they also can stand up so they do make really fun cards, they're great for kids birthdays, well anybody they're just a nice interactive card but I really enjoy making these and they're like I said they're super quick and really fun to decorate and customize and all that fun stuff. So once again just a bit quicker so that way you can see that one already wants to start to fall that way that way and then that way. Now I have made an eight by eight this is a six by six and it fits perfectly in a six by six pre-made envelope which I've got below there the eight by eight one if you do want to make a bigger one I will share that up here and I've also got another six by six version in that tutorial and you can just take a look at those if you did decide but also if you just want a bit more inspiration on other ways to decorate them because those ones are birthday themed ones as opposed to these ones which are a bit more obviously with the hearts and yeah valentines. So that's what we're going to make and pop that one up there to one side. I've got all the bits and pieces here and my envelope all ready for that one. The papers I'm using so all through this week I am using these so these are the free downloadable papers from the craft blog so www.thecraftblog which is the trim craft website and they always give you free downloads and I did share these ones and these are obviously what they are so if you haven't you know seen any of the other tutorials yet these are all free downloadables which I printed on smooth 300 gsm cardstock white. Okay so that's what I made for the card I just showed you but for this one I've got the forever free because there are some really nice parts in this and I've made it you know still a valentine's card but just in a slightly different style so that's the ones I used there. So I'm just going to go through what you need grab my board here so for the main card itself it's a very very unusual way of putting it together but you actually need four pieces of six by three now if you want to make the eight by eight size one then you would need four pieces of eight by four okay but like so for all the extras and stuff do head over to those tutorials if you want to see so four pieces now I'm using white I used pink cardstock for that other card but for this one I'm using white as my base so like I said three by six now what you want to do is you want to do your scoring and then you want to do it all again on the other side so I've already gone and scored all of these on one side I'm now going to score them on the other so every single one along the long side you want to score at one and a half inches that's going to use my other that one I find too sharp I'm going to use so this one sorry see I score it one and a half and then four and a half okay and then you would flip it over and score again but I've already done that so I'm just doing it again because these are actually going to be folding in both directions so that they're on they're on they are more like a hinge so you want to do that on every one so again I've got this one here so at put it that way one and a half and four and a half okay and just do that on both sides on all of your pieces okay so then you just need to burnish them and you're going to burnish them in both directions so you want to fold in half and then in half again not in half you're just folding fold that way and then that way okay because now they can comfortably move and you shouldn't have any cracking because you scored them on both this again is 300 gsm smooth cardstock which is from paper mill direct so again I'll share the links to that but it's a really strong really nice cardstock so I'm just getting them all burnished up the card itself with most cards really are very quick to put together it's then all of your decoration your matting and layering that tends to take a lot longer okay so those now are all ready to use and we will put them together in a moment now for all your mats and layers and use this to measure you're going to need one two three four five six seven eight pieces now if you want to do it like me I've got mirrored cardstock is my largest mat here so I've got eight pieces that are two and three quarters squared and that's what I've used as the gold then on top of that I've just dropped down by a quarter of an inch so that's a two and a half by two and a half square and you'd need eight of them okay so eight that are two and three quarters squared and eight that are two and a half squared if you want to go again which I did on that other card so you'll see here I've got this other one again so I've got the silver then the white and then a pattern but I've done this one slightly different that pattern one there is two and a quarter squared okay so two and three quarters two and a half and two and a quarter again all these measurements have been over on my blog so that's everything for those ones then you will need eight of these ones here so again the gold is one and a quarter by two and three quarters and then the one on top is one by two and a half yeah and you'd need eight of them now I've just decorated my I've done four of them with that gold strip through the middle it's about it's about three eighths of an inch just over a quarter by the two and a half length again it will be on my blog but I've done four like that that one there and then the other four I've just decorated with some gold hearts on it once I put it all together and you see how it will all come together obviously then that will help you decorate you can decorate last I know how I'm putting mine together which is why I've already done that and I wanted to keep the tutorial short and that's why I've also gone and stuck you know a lot of it together and I've got all my double sided tape ready as well so I just stack them all up and then I drop them all okay then the last one is these eight smaller squares and you will need the larger one is one and a quarter inch squared and then the smaller one on top is one inch squared and I used my one inch square punch to do those ones so that was super quick and again eight of those so that's everything you need got to remember the patterns and the layout I had but I think I can still remember that's all of that there so that's everything you need now we need to just stick this one together so what is going to happen is you're going to have two like so going this direction and then two that will go that direction okay so two that way and these two are going to go that way so what we want to do is I'm going to pop those two up there like so and these two like that you are going to it might help you you don't want to score this you just want to use a pencil so let me just grab okay so with these two top pieces here so this this is one and a half inches okay you're going to come down one and a half and just put a faint little mark there just put a very faint little pencil mark and again on this one that one and a half okay so you can just see those two pencil marks and then again you want to do the same so you're basically just marking the middle because it's three inches in total so just one and a half and one and a half you'll be doing this in pencil so you can rub it out you may see it okay then what you want to do is add some tape within that one and a half area so I'm just adding two strips and ripping it along the way because I haven't got my little tool at hand there we go so you can see there you don't need to add a lot at all if I just bring that up you can see I've just added tape just above that green little marker I've put there and there just on the side bits you don't want to go anywhere in here just on these side pieces then on this one you're going to do it on the bottom too so on this one we've gone and done it towards the top this time we're going to go towards the bottom so this time we're staying below that marker that we've just you know marked that one and that one okay so you should have these two at the top and these two at the bottom then I'm just going to grab my pokey tool take all of your backing off okay so taking all the backing off I'm going to grab this one first kind of just pop that one to one side so you've got the one with the top I'm going to go to the top right hand side and you want to match the top right of this piece up to the top right of that one and just make sure they're nice and straight at the top and get it completely lined up as close as you can like so and just stick that down okay so all that will be stuck is just that corner just that little one and a half by one and a half square so that's that one and then I'm going to grab this one here and you want to stick this one towards the top left but what you want to do is you want to sit it next to this you don't want it going over the top of this piece you just want to almost join it back together as if you hadn't cut it keeping it nice and laid nice and lined up at the top and then go down don't worry if you have little bits like I've got a very not even a millimeter it's not even it's just not even a measurement but there's a very tiny bit there that really really doesn't matter it would be okay so that's those two flip it over so you can now see that one okay so that's the one we just stuck it on to then with this piece I've got my sticky bits here at the bottom flip it over so they're both at the bottom and then stick it down okay so again actually go hit that one okay you can see there you want it to sit nicely next to that and then as best as you can line it all up okay like so so now it doesn't matter which way whether you start that way but you want your doors opening as if it's a gatefold like so so then you will open it and now you have to just re-burnish some of your score lines so that's that one and then it will want to fold that way so again and as long as you kind of made sure they lied next to each other and didn't go over you shouldn't have any catching okay so I can see there none of my you know card is is rubbing against each other if it is then you just need to go along with your you know scissors and just gently just kind of take a little bit off or put it put it through your trimmer and take a very small slither off but I'm happy that that is running that's you know moving freely and the more you start to move it you can see how quickly now that's starting to come together okay and also try it both ways so when you bring it around see now you've got it that's kind of your the gatefold I guess where you start no hang on I've got to go one more that way there you go so your your start should have the two panels there on that side and then also on that side so you can start with this side and go around and you might find it catches a little bit or that one might actually flow better so if I just bring that back to its original so there's where I started no there's where I started flip it over and then I've got this one if I go from this side see that one I think feels better so I'm now going to have that as my beginning so do do play around with it because it does make a difference to whether you start from that side or that side see because they're the same so I already had love for you which is going to go on like so then I've got my exo exo which is going in a separate part along the top pieces was the hearts so I've got one two three four and look how instantly it transforms card it just comes together as soon as you decorate it now I've already put my double-sided tape on all of this so I'm going to get this all stuck down okay so that's the front all stuck okay then open it up and that becomes your next page so in this one here all you want to stick down is I'm going to have my message so I've got love you two pieces so I'm going to put two blah blah love you two pieces and then obviously my name and I've got that one to go in the top then you've got four squares here and I had these ones so one two three four don't worry about these bits for the minute so I'm going to go and get those ones now stuck down okay so that's now those ones what I would say is when you go to decorate is first of all just decorate all of your mats so in my case that would be the gold pieces do all that first and once you start to get that together then you can decide how you want to decorate it further now fold it that way and then we can decorate in here so this is where I've got my XO XO and I am hoping I'm going to cover those blue pencil marks otherwise I'll have to use my magic eraser and then I've got these ones this will flatten itself out once it's been used more they're going on those ones so now I'm going to get them stuck down okay so that's now that one and then open it up and you have got this one left so it's basically the front but obviously the other way so now I'm going to pop my birds in the middle which are going to have photos popped on and then that's that way and then you'll be left with these four and they are going to stick in there now if you want to put any embellishments you can but don't go too bulky and if you're going to add flowers everything has to stay within its section so if you're going to add any flowers make sure they don't overhang past any of the score lines and that goes for any of the the pages when they fold out because it will get caught up obviously during the folding so again I'm going to go and get these all stuck down so that is the card I've done so now when you fold that last one over you're back to the beginning again so now it's so much easier to to maneuver to actually work it just falls perfectly so play around with it when you put it together at the very beginning check folding it in both ways like I showed you and if one it folds better than start with that I really love that page I think that's going to be nice once I've wrote my little message in there I'm going to put a photo there and you can see the XO so you want to kind of think about that as well when you have it open on each page is how it's going to look before the next one gets folded because obviously they can see the XO there so that's nice if you're going to write anything you want it to kind of be you know in a vertical format as opposed to horizontal because if you were to have a word and they could only see the maybe first few letters so just bear that in mind because I didn't if you look back at my old video I'd done that so that you would open each page and kind of move it which still works really nice and you know I did like that card still so there are a few different ways of doing it and then again obviously then that one gets revealed really really nice and I just again I'm just so in love with using this foiled you know the mirrored cardstock at the moment and then that one's going to have photos on it these are brilliant my dad really liked this because it was obviously you know a a real fun card to use so I think these are great for guys and especially if they've got a hobby you can have you know different parts of their hobby on every page that gets opened but yeah the more you do it it's just it is it's great everlasting or infinity card so yeah I think they are fab so that's that one get all of this out the way like I said there is a lot of matting and layering to them that's you know I'd say the timely part and then there's that one there which I adore as well and just show you that one again you're the bomb got photos going in there and another one there you can see so that's using the silver of the dovecraft mirrored cardstock and that's using the gold but they just look so good and the the great thing is is that they can be displayed I love cards that can stand up so whenever there is some kind of thumb fold or mechanical card it's got to stand for me so yeah there you have them I think they're great so if you haven't seen them before I hope you like these hope you do give them a go as always please go and share them over on the mixed up crafters facebook page so I've got mixed up craft group um sorry my mixed up craft page and then there's the mixed up crafters group and there's a as nearly a thousand wonderful crafters on there now who are sharing so many amazing variations of what I share and it's just a great group so do go over there and check it out but otherwise you can send them privately to me on my facebook page which I always love to see as well but until then I will back again tomorrow with another tutorial thanks for watching I'll see you soon bye