 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 this really fun card that I've come up with and it's using the new Circus Collection by Craft Consortium. So I've got this belly band so you just slide that off. And the idea is that this is the curtains to the circus, so you open the curtains and then you enter the circus. And I've made this, it's a display style card that I've done these kind of styles before. This is a different one again. I've done just all the cuts a bit differently and I've added the curtain kind of pieces here at the front completely optional. But I just love all the decorations so I've stamped all the images and coloured them using my coloured pencils. I've used a little star embellishments, I've made some rosettes. This is the washi ticket trim, the washi ticket pattern here. I've fussy cut the little tickets there. These here are from the paper pad. I've made some of the bunting and then done all the mats and layers and even that sign there with the show all lit up and I've used some Nuvo drops on the lights and glossy accents and you can see that on the ball and on all the different kind of elements inside there. You can see when they hit the light all the sparkle from the glossy accents. It's really fun. It stands up. It's a showstopper. You know it's got such a nice profile and these cards are great you know with any theme and you can have it as a wedding anniversary. You know a big 21st birthday with the big 21 in the center. There's loads of ways to decorate it and then on the back I've kept it quite you know plain I guess but you've got the space there to to write your message and it's got the greatest showman and it's got the ring master there as well on the back and you could obviously you know mat and layer all of those as well if you wanted to but I'm super pleased with this. I love the belly band there and obviously that can be displayed with it and it just stands up really nicely. It's easy to do. Okay I've done the template so don't be kind of you know worried that you won't be able to achieve this. So let me show you how to make this really really fun card. Like I said I'm very very pleased with how this has come together and I would also suggest that if you wanted to pop it in an envelope you can pop it in the five by seven box envelopes and I'll link that one up here and it will fit perfectly into that. This is the collection here. The only thing I haven't used in today's are the metal embellishments here of the Circus 10 and the wooden embellishments because they're going on something else I'll be doing but that's the washi tape. I was actually I thought of all of the things here the washi tape would be the least thing that I would use and it's actually I've really enjoyed using the ticket one there so I definitely use that a lot. They're the little embellishments the stars really nice and then oh I haven't used that stamp set yet either that's the that one is called the fortune teller so I will no doubt use that though but I've used this one here and this one here love the images they're so cool and then I've used from the six by six pad I've actually fussy cut the Circus sign that is on the front page you can fussy cut all of these elements here so I have done that one there and then for the stripes and everything I've used the large 12 by 12 pad beautiful such lovely lovely images so I've gone ahead and done loads of it because it's actually it's just like one card and just doubled up really which is why I've called it a double you know I call them a double display because you can if you wanted to just have this on its own it's a really nice fun fold just that one half and then it would all fold down and you could extend this bit so it's five inches okay but we're going to put another piece on top so this is what we're going to do you're going to do two of these and I've already gone and stuck all the mats and layers on this one and you can see just how fun that trim is and that's just that tape just stuck onto that piece of cream card stock so I've done all my images again you can see them all here again really nice easy to color I've done all of the glossy accents oh no I haven't on that one actually I've just done the Nuvo drop so I'll add the glossy accents later again and those pieces there and then I've got the greatest showman sign I've just done some bunting I just cut these we're using a triangle punch so just got five of them there just pop them on a little bit of twine that's for the belly band along with that one again that ticket just looks really nice just to cover the belly band with and then I've done my rosettes these rosettes are one inch by 12 scored at every quarter of an inch and I'll link a rosette tutorial there just so you can see if you want to make them and I've just covered the centers with one of the tickets there okay so I'll go through all the mats and layers in a moment and again everything would be listed on my blog so I've already gone ahead and scored everything I need to do on here but what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk you through my template and I'm going to draw in black and in red where you score and cut on this piece here but you're going to need two pieces make sure I'm in the frame there right two pieces of 11 by 7 okay and what you want to do first of all it is handy now to have a ruler and I like the t-square ruler because you can line it up along the bottom here and you get your you know a dead straight line so what you want to do first of all is you want to score at one inch but only down to two inches and I've come done a bit far here but it's a template so just ignore I'm going to say that that's down to two inches okay you then want to miss all of this until you get to five inches and then continue scoring again and the easiest way to do that is by you know getting a ruler like this something that you can lay down along here line it up with the one inch here and then you can just score one all the way down to the two inches because I'm just using the guide here on the side so you just scoring down to two then I'll just take my stylus off and then start scoring again at five down to the bottom okay you then want to do the same at two inches so again I'll just lay my ruler down there at two inches score down to two inches here miss all of the middle and then start scoring again from five inches down okay then you want to come along and do the same at four and a half inches so four and a half down to two miss the middle and then at five down to the bottom and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to do a black marker line on those ones that I've just done with you right now you should have those score lines at one two and four and a half just down to two inches and then continuing down again so this is all empty we're going to join this in a minute and we're going to do that now it's probably easiest so then you can just pop it in here and from the you don't even need to worry about your two inches there you just want to join from there down ignore if you can see a score line there that was I was doing my template it was wrong you're just scoring to join those lines all up so again if I just bring in my black here you can see what I've done you're actually going to cut this in a minute but I'm going to just do it as a score line for the minute just so that we know where we are and again you're going to do that here so you're scoring just to join up the bottoms of those pop it back in again and then you want to do a score line now just in between these ones at three and a half so again if you want to bring your ruler in there three and a half miss this bit you're just scoring within that bit there that's how you want your score lines to look then you want to score at seven all the way down so again I'm just going to draw that one in there so you're scoring at seven all the way down and you also want to score at six and eight just down to one inch so it's one inch down you're just scoring down one inch so at six just down to one inch you then want to miss all of this and you want to start scoring at six inches just down to the bottom but if you want you could flip the cardstock and just score at six down to one inch so whatever you find easiest and you also want to do again that eight so eight inches just score down to one miss all of the middle and then start scoring again at six inches down to seven like so and then you're going to pop it this way again and you're going to join those up so just like you joined these ones up so again if you want to use your ruler line it up with the six inches here and it should hit the bottoms of these score lines and just join them up with just again these are all score lines you'll do remember but these are going to turn into cut lines in a minute but I'm going to just do it all in black just so it's easy for you to follow but hopefully with me doing that template it's a bit easier than me just doing all those score lines so I'm going to cut these in a minute off camera but for the time being hopefully that you know makes sense for you now we can do some cut lines so I'm going to cut mine onto that piece but I'm going to draw in red actually I'll do it in pink because it's what's at hand but you're basically now going to cut down this one here I'm just going to do a pink line just underneath that black but you know where you're cutting and far do above as well just so you know so that's going to become a cut line that's going to become a cut line this one and this one so those you're going to cut from there to there there to there and that's what you will have so I will put this on my blog I'll take a photo of this and I'll just highlight that the pink cut lines and so on but you want to do that twice we need two of these okay so I've just gone and cut mine so you'll see I've got two slits there and then I've got two here so you want to start off now ignore that I've got a score line going right through here and you might see a few places where I've got score lines where you haven't because I've done this one I wouldn't say wrong it doesn't matter if you do score all the way through but I think it just will look better if you don't so I'm just going to rub out the backs and once I have my Maxon layers you don't notice it anyway but basically what you want to do is the first score lines here you're going to they're going to be mounting folds like this okay and let that kind of arch like it is these ones then we're going to become valley folds okay this then is going to become a mountain folks it's where it's kind of wanting to go anyway okay so you'll see now how that starts to come up this will then naturally become a valley fold just here you should now be able to fold all of that flat and just come in with your bone folder and just burnish those score lines and I'll just show you again what you've got there okay this then is going to become a mountain okay and then this one is going to become a valley like so these are going to become mountains and the one inside is going to become a valley again it will all fold flat like so now don't worry that I've got these score lines here you won't have that so you won't have the score lines here and that's what you want but that's now when you fold all that flat it should be four inches by seven which mine is once we add the other one on that will give you the extra inch and that will make it five by seven but you need to do that with your other piece what's going to then happen so here's my other piece is this is you're just going to flip one round and it's going to stick on that piece there okay so I'm going to get that one stuck down well actually yeah you might want to do you matter to be honest you can spread the whole thing out and lie it flat so it won't really matter you know that it will make it easy to decorate even you know if you don't stick it down now but I'm going to just so I can kind of explain everything so I'm just going to run my glue all on the back here you want to stick that over so it sits right up to the score lines fold that over make sure you get a nice you want that to go right into these score lines here so you know it just looks like one big piece and that's going to fold flat like so you can see there one two three four five okay like so and then the whole thing will open out so now you want to do your maths and layers so I've already done this one but I'll tell you all these you know the ones that you're going to need one and two of this one you just need one and it's going to go right in the middle there and this one is this measures two and three-quarters by six and three-quarters that one is going to go right in the middle okay then you're going to need eight of these squares here so I've got my four and there to go on here and here but you want them on here as well so you'll want eight and those are three-quarters of an inch squared okay you'll then want two pieces like of this size and they're going to go here and here and these ones measure two and a quarter by two and three-quarters and I'm going to lay that flat so that one's going to go there okay I've got this one here which I'm going to have on this end so you'll want two and these are three-quarters of an inch by six and three-quarters okay so that one is going to go right at the end you'll then want two of these this one is one and a quarter by six and three-quarters that one's going to go there you'll then want four pieces of this size which is two and a quarter by one and three quarters and that's going to go there and there you will then want four pieces which are going to go here and here these are again are three-quarters by four and three-quarters one's going to go there and there you'll then want four pieces that are three-quarters by one and three-quarters and these are going to go here here there and there and then you'll want two pieces that are three quarters by two and three-quarters and there to go here and here okay like I said all of those will be listed on my blog I'm now going to go and get them all stuck down on that second half it's ready to decorate so I have got my rosettes and I'm going to pretty much follow what I've done on this one here so I'll open it up in a minute and use that as my kind of guide I've got the bunting there which is just going to fit nicely of course they'll probably just trim off a few bits of the frayed twine there but I've just got all of these lovely stamped images and yeah I'm just going to have some fun with them I could have the greatest showman actually on that one instead rather than circus and maybe just cut the smaller one and have that inside again I've got my sign there and I've got all the little extras I think that's everything and then I will show you the belly band and the curtains last because it might not be you know what everybody wants to do so I'm going to pop it on high speed now and get this one all stuck down. Decorated I love it I think it looks so good slightly different colors so I've gone I've matched the stripes in the pattern paper with the cardstock for this one whereas that one's obviously I've got the real bright red for the curtains and the red for the matte layers and then it's on that orange kind of color for the back so that is the card finish if you just want to keep it like that I need to burnish the base score lines a bit better because it's quite bouncy but that will all fold flat now and fit inside one of my five by seven box envelopes if you just want to keep it like that then you know that's it you're done but if you do want to add that kind of curtain effect and the belly band so what I've got here is two pieces of five by seven and I'm just going to score at three quarters of an inch on both pieces like so and then on one of them I'm going to just cut the curtain now what I did do on this one is you'll see I actually added another piece of cardstock you see there's two and on the back you can just about probably make out the join there because I didn't like that it could you could still see a lot of this but obviously with that belly band over I don't mind that there's a little bit there but I think with this one I want to try and just kind of cover that a little bit more so I can kind of see there you know if I wrap that one around kind of where I need to come in from so I'm going to just come quite far out and kind of up like so and then cut now if you want to draw this with a pencil rather than eyeball like I just did there then you can do but something like that and then what I'm going to do is with this one here is just flip them and just draw around it so I'm just going to make sure that lines up perfectly and just with my pencil just draw around it and then I can just cut away that pencil like so and now that one faces the other way so I'm just fold and burnish the score lines and what I'm going to do is add glue on the inside on this one here I added a score line but I don't think you need it so I'm going to stick this one behind here fold it over and just push it right into that card now when that comes over it's just going to cover more and I might do a little bit of inking I might put some drape kind of markings or something on there as well and you know you can do a lot more with it but it was just kind of give a little bit of like a the tent entrance kind of look to it so you'll see all that in the pictures close up but if I just show you how to get that initial kind of shape you know lots of you then can add your own little touches to it so again you're just clipping that behind those ones there if you've got anything overhanging trim it away you don't want it to you know affect it standing up like so but now that covers a lot more because now the belly band will go over that bit there it just means now you open up the curtains make sure the glue's dry before you do that but I do think it also adds to the effect when the card's displayed having this this here as well I really really like it so now for the belly band so I'll just let that kind of dry for a second so the belly band this was a piece of just scrap so it's 12 inches it doesn't have to be that long and then I've just put that trim of the washi tape along there and it is one and I think it was just over ones at one and a quarter yeah it was just under one and a quarter like I said it was a bit of scrap and when I do the belly bands I don't score them I just wrap them oh I've also done the back I've got to mention that just put a bit of white there which was about two and a half by six and a half and that's just gone on the back there with the rig master I've got some pencil I must have something pink or something on there the my mat there because I need to put a little bit of a mark on the back I can get rid of that in a minute but basically you're just going to wrap the belly band around so you've got equal kind of you know amounts on coming around to the front there and then you want to overlap them but you don't want it to be so tight that you can't pull it off so I'm using my hot glue you don't have to use hot glue at all but I'm just going to put a little bit of hot glue there and then just kind of let that kind of loosely just sit over there like I said you don't want it so tight that you can't actually just slide the belly band off there's nothing worse than the person that has it is really struggling you know to get into the card so you know that's you know that's nice it's enough to hold it because it's quite a bouncy card anyway and like I said it will fit perfectly still into my box envelopes and then this one here is just a couple of ovals that I've cut from my nest of oval dyes so I've got three and three quarters by it's about three for the cream one and then that's just the next one down which is about three and three eighths by two and five eighths and again I'm just going to grab my hot glue because it's still on and just put a bead right through the center and then I know that that's going to stick down like so and then I'll fussy cut probably one of this image again or something similar I might even put a happy birthday on there I mean I haven't got happy birthday or anything on there because these are ready really for you know someone might ask for a card for a five-year-old or something and then I can add the number five and put the birthday on later so there's there's plenty of decoration already on them but they're ready now to have other bits added to them you could easily put some bits in here some numbers and so on but that's that's the card done it's you know like I said it's not too difficult to do there's a lot of lots of mats and layers to cut out and it's the decoration that's the fun part but it's surprisingly easy once you've cut that you know you're just doubling it up really and you know you may just want to keep one half and have a smaller size card like I showed at the beginning but I love them I think they're so much fun and I just adore that collection and I've got so many more fun cards to make with that so I also need to add some of the embellishments into that one but you'll see all the close-ups of the pictures in my blog but hopefully you've enjoyed today's video I've thoroughly enjoyed making this card if you have enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching