 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. So when I done my creative card series I done a triple circle easel card and loads of you loved it, you've lots of you have made it, you've been sharing it but I also had a lot of people asking if I could make one in a square size so that's what I've done. So what I've made is I think it's the same size envelope I'd have to double check but I've made the envelope with the envelope punch board using the same papers I'll show you all those in a moment so it comes out. Now you can decorate this piece here if you want to but when you start to put it together so this one goes up exactly the same way as the circle one, this one goes like so and then this one like that. So you don't actually end up seeing anything here but I know some of you have put things there and you totally can. So if I just bring it up you can see the profile, oh it's hard to do so obviously I don't want to fall, there we go. How lovely does that look? I absolutely adore these papers, it's from the Making Memories which is the new first edition paper pad but it's so lovely I really do enjoy making these so I love this sentiment again I'll show you all those flies, nothing says happy birthday like a piece of folded card so yeah I just kind of like I guess joking with this one so I know who's going to get this one from me anyway so yeah I really really like it and then you can write your message on the back or you can have it in the traditional way with an easel card and that's it you know either on this flat piece or on here but I just thought I'd rather keep that almost like a piece of art you know like a nice display in itself and just have my message in the back here you could obviously have it on all of that as well but then you just each piece sits on top of the other like so and then fits into that nice envelope okay so that's what we're going to make okay so that funny little sentiment is this one here which you've seen a lot it's called the little things and it's the woodware clear magic set nothing says happy birthday like a piece of folded card and I think today yeah I'm using that one are you celebrating 29 again they're kind of my favorites you can see the two I keep going to I've used that one and I've used that one but I haven't used those two yet yeah love that one so I've already done that I've prepared a lot of all of it because again you don't need to watch me do this that's all my leaves I'll talk you through the mats and layers I've done my flowers I'll show you what I used for those when we get to it and again the butterfly love the butterfly that's using the pink rose a one but I love it because it's got that body which I think it's just a nice little detail okay so for the envelope you want a piece of 11 and a half by 11 and a half it's the six by eight and a half envelope size and it's the last measurement on the envelope punch board so again I will quickly show that at the end so this is the paper pad there we go making memories also a lot of you ask me what I do with my scraps whenever I have paper pads for the time that I'm working through them I have a little folder like this where all my scraps go to and I sit that with my paper pad so if well you know when I'm working on it I have both of these out and I find myself going to this more than breaking into fresh paper and then at the end of the day everything can go in there all the loose bits and it just keeps everything nice and tidy as well and you know if I do just want to do a scrap project I can just pull this out and everything is in there so it's everything for that paper pack and then you know if I get bored with it or it starts to really kind of thin down yeah everything just goes in here and then decide what to do with it afterwards so but it's handy it's just my way of storing and keeping things organized but yeah making memories beautiful pack okay so I've got a six by six card blank which will measure 12 by six and you want to score along the 12 inch side at six inches at six inches and then you also want to score at three inches and fold and burnish okay so you'll have your two score lines three and six you want another piece at six by six and that is what we're going to stick over that front piece to form that first large easel okay so that's that one the mats and layers for that are five and three quarters by five and three quarters you want two pieces I'm using this silver mirrored card from dovecraft and then I've got two pieces of pattern paper which are five and a half by five and a half so again I've just dropped down in quarter inch increments which I do most of the time okay then for the next card size this is four and a half by four and a half so this is a piece of nine by four and a half along the nine inch side you want to score two and a quarter and four and a half fold and burnish both of those and again you will have that easel you then want another piece of four and a half by four and a half cardstock and that is going to stick on the front like so so that's our second one the mats and layers for that exactly the same way so these both in silver are four and a quarter squared and then the pattern to go over the top of those are four by four squared okay and then the final small easel at the front this one is a three and a half by three and a half so this is a piece of cardstock that's seven by three and a half and along the seven inch side you want to score at one and three quarters and three and a half again fold both of those and then you want another piece that is three and a half by three and a half and that is going to stick on the front to form our smallest easel and then finally the mats and layers for those are silver is three and a quarter by three and a quarter I've got two pieces and then the pattern is three by three again two pieces for my message on the back this piece here is five and three quarters by two and three quarters and then this on top is five and roughly yeah five and a half by two and a half and I've just stamped my message there and then this one here the silver is two and a half by two and a half and then that's just one of my nested square stitched frames which is going to be roughly two and a quarter squared okay and then again we'll talk through all the decoration when I get to it right so first of all get all the actual cards so that's my large my small and my medium okay so you should have the card the folded card and then the kind of loose top of piece all right I'm going to grab my glue start with this one just because I grabbed it so the middle one I'm just going to cover the front half the folded front half which I will show you more detail so you can see where we fold it in half and then we've got that fold so it's the easel that front piece that's the bit that you're covering in glue and then if you put the whole thing flat with your fold at the top okay put this over the top and then you can make sure that you get everything nice and squared off so everything sits where it should but you can have lots of pressure on it and make sure that you get that stuck down and then when you fold it up only half of it will stick and you get that nice easel okay so that's that one so you just want to do the same as that so again there's my fold along the top and my easel fold here I'm going to run glue on there and stick that one over and again there's that one folded down with the fold at the top glue on the bottom half and stick that one over okay so there all stuck down so next you want to add your mats and layers so the largest silver ones okay and then the medium silver ones and then the smallest silver ones obviously yours don't have to be silver but they will go one will go on top like that and one will go on the bottom here so every single one is going to have a really nice little silver frame around it and you know I love using mirrored cardstock so again exactly the same way because we drop down a quarter of an inch on each one you'll get that same nice even border throughout so I'm going to go and stick those all down okay so that's those now next you want to get your all your biggest mats and layers your medium mats and layers and your smallest and you've guessed it you do exactly the same again so I'm going to have the same as I did with the other one so that's going to go on the back like that and then this one is going to go on the bottom okay and then you just want to think about you know your colors kind of matching so you know sit it kind of there because it will hold itself up once you start to wedge them in place and then I think I've gone for the same as before because I like the way that the butterfly sits against the polka dot there and then that one's going on the bottom okay so I've got my kind of busier prints and color on the bottom pieces and then this is the last one so that would hold that one in place and I've got all those saying that now I finish with the flower so the idea was that I've got that nice pink here and also at the back with this kind of whiter one in the middle so again it just kind of balanced things and then I've got that one on the bottom like so so I'm going to stick them all down again because I'm using mirrored card I do prefer to use double sided tape so I'm going to use my red here I've got so many rolls of the very very thin because it doesn't get used it's not the most common so before I order anymore I'm just going to go through and use this up so it does take me a little bit longer although I'm not going to cover the whole surface I'm just going to really just do the edges here but I'm going to go and stick them all down and fold it so just go along and just burnish all those score lines because I didn't do them when I was telling you all the sizes okay so they're now all stuck down so next you want to now stick these all together now the way I done it what was my final measurement I think it was eight and a half because obviously it was for the eight and a half envelope one two three four five six seven eight and then I gave room for anything you have overhanging so yeah the the actual length is eight but that means it will fit nicely into the eight and a half envelope and if you do like I said decorate like I have I've gone over there in there it will still fit in that same one so with that in mind if you bring up the first one and I'm just going to pop the glue actually I need to burnish I haven't burnished anything and it's bouncy everywhere let me grab my so now pop the glue there yeah now it stays perfectly right line it up with your grid doesn't matter what your grid is whether it's centimeters or anything you're just really using the lines you just want to keep everything nice and straight so mine's now running nice and straight with this line here at the back although you can't see it that well next I'm going to add this one and then I'm going to add this one now I think I each kind of piece here coming away was one inch just over one inch maybe so what we got one one two three four five six seven eight so yeah it was one inch so I can see my card here because it's six by six it's just lining up here so this one I want to be just coming down here and then this one just there so can you see on the side here I've got this even so this is one inch this is one inch it doesn't have to be one inch but as long as they're even so if you want to do three quarters of an inch you might want to do two inches and make an even bigger envelope or you might have a smaller square to start off here you might be using five and a half and five and a half it's entirely up to you but just make sure you keep these kind of equal distance I think it just balances everything out nicely so yeah I'm going to keep my grid in place and then I'm just going to cover most you know more than half of this you just want enough to keep it kind of obviously in place so just like so and then I'm going to bring this back up again just fold that over for a moment that would have been better like so and then I know you want to get it in the middle as close as you can so you've got equal overhang your border here and then I just need to go up a little bit more like so I think I'm happy with that before it all sets there we go and then I'm going to bring this one up and again stick my glue over most of it and again line it up with this line here come over that side a bit stick that down so it doesn't matter what measurement you do but just make sure you get these equal and the you know the the amount this comes out is the same as the amount that that one there as well okay so now they will automatically hold each other up and then once we put our little stopper on this front one and if I bring it up because this has got the silver how lovely it looks when it catches the light so it all looks wonky there because I'm trying to hold it all together so that's it that's easy now it's the decorating which is even easier so it's not a difficult card to do every one of those is going to sit over the top and again if you're one of these people that just likes to make a lot of you know blank cards ready to decorate later then there you go it's ready you can make the envelope pop it to one side I always like to prep mine in the envelope clear sleeves and then you can come back to it and decorate it you know later so what I might also do is stick down my message panel at the back before I put the decoration on so this one is going to go nicely in there again it's entirely up to you might want to put it inside like I mentioned at the beginning so again just going to stick that one down and then for decoration I use the flower border single flowers so rather than the actual whole border piece I've got something pretty coming up with this one soon but these ones here and look at the flower that they create you get all these levels to it so you can see then I use the larger one of this on a couple of cards that I've shared over on my creative card series earlier on but aren't they cute I love this little white piece here just there it's really really sweet so I've done the larger two of the mediums and then one of the two of the small sorry to go all over it and then the butterfly is this one here which is from the butterfly band set and it is this one here and there's the body and I think that's what really makes it for me it's what brings it together I've used some of the crafters companion pearl cardstock and I've put vellum on the back there as well it's not lovely so yeah that's what I've used there so I'm going to decorate it the same way I've got my glue gun on ready to go I've put some foam adhesive on the back of my piece there so that one is going to go on the very front there and then this is my stopper so I fussy cut two of the hearts from the paper pad stuck them together and pop some foam adhesive and that is going to go there because it's raised it will then stop that smaller one from slipping and hold that all into place as well so yeah I'm going to as usual pop this on high speed so you can sit back enjoy and I'll be back when it's all finished okay so there is my card finished again I should be able to bring it up a bit better now for you to see oh there we go so I really love it I think it looks so cute so now it's just down to your envelope so fold that all down so I'd already cut this down to eleven and a half by eleven and a half I think I might use the star actually this time yeah because that's just like before so we'll use the star side so as I said it's the six by eight and a half so it's the very last card size so eleven and a half by eleven and a half which we already have your first score line at four and seven eighths so I feel like I've made this envelope size quite a lot lately but it is really handy so four and seven eighths I'm just lining up here punch and score rotate it all the way around to the opposite side again four and seven eighths and then just bring this down until that line lines up with the top of this kind of little corner here punch and score all the way around to that one yeah bring it along and punch and score and then fold and burnish all of your score lines and then because there's a bulky card I like to sit them in there and you can see what I mean you've got a nice amount of room because it's bulky it's better to have it a little bit bigger it just means you won't squash anything and all these bits here can sit here quite freely without getting damaged bring them over and then we're going to stick it it just makes it much easier for your card to fit in so you're just going to run a strip of double-sided tape along the two bottom sides of these side pieces bring them over and then bring up the bottom and allow it to curve and kind of you know shape itself to that card that's in there and that way like I showed before now when you take it out you should have a bit of a bubble and it just means that it's just going to fit in there much nicer also you should always anything with detail you should always put the card in upside down and that way it will always go in nice and smooth and it won't catch on anything and then because this has got a pinky reddish background I'm going to stick with this tape because usually I swapped to my other double-sided white tape but I'm just going to run two thin strips along here now that's all ready to post so again take that one out just burnish that top envelope one out burnish or decide as well because that won't affect anything else but yeah I need to put the white bit on there as well I always like to do that when it's patterned otherwise you can't really see who you're just writing it for so that's five by two and a half and I'll do that after I've finished the tutorial okay so there are my two I think rather pretty square triple easel cards and I love them you can easily down size this if you don't like to send bigger cards I would say start off with that one maybe five by five even you can even do four and a half you can you could start it the size of this one so you have that one that one and then you could do that was three and a half so then I do a little one and a half by one and a half so you know it's entirely up to you how you want to do this I am you know I like bigger cards so I tend to always go go big or go home but that's my preference but it's very easy to adapt so I hope you like it for those of you that asked I hope you enjoy this one and yeah I've got more shapes to do so watch this space because I'm sure I'll do a few more of this kind of style but with some more obscure shapes let's say so anyway until next time enjoy your day hope you like the tutorial thumbs up if you did and I'll see you again soon thanks for watching bye