 Hi 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 cute center pop-out card. So this is the front. It's a 6x6 card base and then when you open it up you have this pop-out piece which is acetate so it gives the illusion that Mr Snowman there is flying through the air above the treetops and they just love how these ones come together. I've done all the background so it's this nice snowy scene and then again all of those that it's like flying over the woods. You've got a nice little sentiment area here so happy Christmas. If you wanted to you could continue the scene there as well and have that on the back which is what I do a lot of the time but I thought this time I'm going to put it inside just so it's something a bit different. Just realized I need to trim that a little bit there because it's just catching ever so slightly but once you see how you put it together it's very easy for you to adapt and then the front I've just used my Posca pen on some faux stitching and again created that scene so that it kind of gives you a bit of an idea of what to expect when you open it up so it's very easy to make so let me show you how. Okay so the stamps I'm using are the Snowman. Now I actually purchased these from the Creative Crafts show they were £3 for three it was an absolute bargain they're the official brand by Raymond Briggs and you know how much I love the Father Christmas so when I saw the Snowman I had to buy it so I will try and find links to sellers but I can't promise anything I'm afraid there but this would work really well for a flying Father Christmas the Father Christmas stamp set that recently launched that I shared a few cards that I made there's Santa and his sleigh that kind of thing would be great but also it doesn't have to be a Christmas card you know you could have flowers on there all kinds of different things. For the Christmas tree or the tree tops I used the large one here which is part of the elegant room builder set by Paper Discovery I just cut with using my scraps and you can see like some I just cut literally just the top bit so however big my scrap was that's what I cut I've just got all different shades of green here ready to stick so they're all ready then I've stamped and coloured my images I've already done the top piece here okay I'll give you the measurements for the mats and layers but in terms of putting it all down you don't need to see me do that it's the inside parts the most important but there's one of the images I used my Arteza coloured pencils because I wanted to have that grainy effect because that's part that's what it looks like in the movie so it's yeah I think they've turned out really well and then I've also done the owl and the hair and then I've also done the fox there and stamped this piece as well again I'll give you all of the measurements so first of all and I've got the Posca pen there as well so you want a six by six card blank I've cut this from a piece of navy card stock so you want a piece that's 12 by six and then score along the 12 inch side at six inches and then fold and burnish to give you your card blank okay then you want a piece of acetate that is six by 12 and the acetate I'm using is the crafters companion it's this one here and it's 12 inches by nine so it's a really good size so and it's perfect for using with your Gemini foil press as well but that's the acetate I've used today so what you want to do first of all is make sure I get my score lines correct so let's grab my stylus so you want to score at three and nine okay make sure you push down hard so you can really embed those score lines and then flip it over and score at six okay and then leave it in that leave it that way don't turn it back over again right that's all the scoring done okay so still with that piece of acetate that middle six inch score line you want to fold so it's a mountain okay just make sure everything stays all lined up I always like to fold acetate with my fingers first and then maybe burnish but you can usually you can do enough of it with your fingers you don't need to bring in because sometimes you might um scratch it and then the outer score lines you want to create valley folds so now you should have this concertina piece there we go all right so that center six inch score line is going to be a mountain and then the other two of alleys so in fact why we've got that so then fold it up like that the two outer sides you want to apply double sided tape so I'm just going to run some of my bread tape here and find the end and just run it along well just a few strips really it's just to stick it inside the card I'd focus on the two long outer sides and then you can just put another strip through the center there okay so again I'll just bring it up so you can see that's just a bit of blue fluff that should go in a minute but there's that middle six inch line there's the valley it's on the backside okay because that's what we're sticking into the card so again there it is all squashed up so then this side here and once you see me put it together it will make more sense as well it is hard to see the acetate until you start sticking it against stuff okay so now that's what you'll have so pop that to one side okay what we want to do now is we want to if you're doing a similar scene to me is I want to create my snow scene in the background so this is going to stick here and here okay so if I bring that up it's going to stick like that so all within this kind of six inch section because this is three inches three inches I want to cover with snow but it doesn't matter if you go over so basically just I mean kind of start about here really and I never think about it I just go for it and then you can kind of fill in any gaps that you might see give the pen a good shake I've already been using mine before I started filming so I know it's okay but always give it a really good shake and right now I'm just doing kind of little you know snow flurries and then I'm going to draw in some larger ones and it's those hand drawn larger ones I think give it quite an all authentic look so don't you know like I said I'm not thinking about it if you really start positioning them that's when you kind of yeah don't okay so now I've done it like this next I'm just going to draw it might still be a little bit wet it does dry pretty quick but I'm going to just do some larger and some a bit smaller and again I'm not really thinking about it some a bit bigger than others do a nice big one there if you kind of cluster together you just want to make some a bit more kind of intense I guess ones that stand out a bit better like so you see by adding those bigger ones it gives it more of an authentic look so again let's do a big one there do one there and my circles aren't even perfect like I said you don't don't think about it and the ones at the bottom are going to get covered anyway but there you go I'm happy with that so I went and done the same as well on a piece here so this piece here is three by six and I've just done exactly the same again I must have smudged that one up there so I'm just going to do another one kind of next to it there go it doesn't matter okay so yeah a piece of three by six in fact you want two pieces of three by six but one I've done with the snow and one is going to be on the other side here so now we want to bring in the acetate now if you've got anything else you want to kind of stick behind here then do so now we are going to be sticking the trees but I find it easier to do that when the acetate's down because you're only going in underneath here and it's really easy to do so first of all I'm just going to take the backing off of one side so I'm just taking it off of the left hand side okay and then you want to line up this edge of the acetate with the edge here and because it's exactly the same size it will sit perfectly within that section and then push it down and when it goes dark then you know that you're getting the air bubbles out and that tape is sticking to your cardstock like so now I've got one side stuck down so then I'm going to take the backing off of this one and then I'm going to go across the other side and again just make sure that you get it all lined up okay now you have your pop-up piece and it all folds flat I might have to rework the acetate a little bit but it will all go back into its place like so and it will stand up nicely on that right angle so it's got a real nice yeah it stands well okay then I'm going to stick this piece over here and it will sit perfectly and that piece I'm going to stick over there now again because I'm sticking on to acetate I find the red tape works best so I'm just going to pop that on the backs of both of these pieces and just butt it right up to the fold of the acetate and stick that one down and again this one right into the fold and now that acetate piece is completely concealed I just think it looks really nice against the cardstock acetate and then cardstock it's just got quite nice I just think it's got a nice look about it so next we want to start adding the treetops so I'm going to stick them down last because then you can kind of see where you want to position them and we stick that on the front in a minute so I've probably done about 16 14 16 something like that so I've got a large one here I am going to try and just follow what I've already done there so I've got that large one and if you can see I've cut some of it off and it's always best to stick it full and then cut from the backside okay so I'll do that in a minute but I'm going to have that one there and then I've just got all kind of taller ones inside there so let me show you inside first and then then the rest of it I'll just put on high speed because it's you know it's pretty straightforward once you've seen a couple so I'm going to go for that colour quite high up and I'm going to line this one up actually with the bottom of the card so I'm not going to trim anything off that one actually tell a lie I'm going to trim that little bit off there so so like that and then I've got the same there so let's just trim that bit off and I'm going to stick that one on the other side so all I've done is just not putting much tape on at all I'm just running a strip through the middle and that's it you know it's just a very lightweight piece you don't need to go mad with it if you want to lose use liquid glue so you've got a bit of wiggle room you can do but you just then want to pop it up inside making sure it stays within that three inch kind of space that it has I'm just lining up the bottom if you're worried that you won't line it up with the bottom then come down a bit and then trim it but now I've got that one there then I'm going to come to this side and do the same just line that one up like that and then I've got these kind of smaller pieces which I'm going to sit that one there so for this one I will use a bit of liquid glue actually because it's just so small so just a little bit on the back then you can just kind of slide it around and come in a little bit just so it doesn't catch when that folds there we go and then let's go for this darker one here I'm going to come in a bit closer to the middle with this one so I'm not really kind of like planning it I'm just kind of because again if these kind of things if you think about it too much then I don't know it doesn't look as authentic whereas if you just do it and don't think about it then it looks a bit better there you go okay so that's those and then you just want to do the same on the outside so let me just stick the big one down so I don't want to put glue over everything just really this side yeah I'm going to go there because I'm going to trim off quite a bit yeah that's fine just come in a bit more there okay I'm just going to let that dry now with the pieces that you stick on the acetate you do need to add red tape to the back off so again I don't want these long kind of strips just one like that there we go so like that one there I will just put some red tape through the center again but it will just stick much better than a liquid glue so yeah just do the same on the acetate as you did with the inside like so okay so I'm just going to pop it on high speed and get these done okay so that's inside there sorry the light's catching on it but you can just about see it then with this one on the front you just want to go in from you know underneath and cut because then you can line up your scissors with the edge of the card much easier then you would by going you know that way because you can't see it and again just going to come in this way actually okay so now you can see how that looks when it's all cut off I don't know I like it when it's just kind of coming off the side there then you want to stick everything down so I put some double sided tape on the back of this piece so he's the main one so I'm going to have him he just fits in this three inch section and then I've got the little owl he's going to be a bit lower I think so and then the little rabbit or the hair okay so whilst that's drying I'm then going to stick this piece down so this is the this one here is a piece of five and a half square the white and then this is five by five squared okay so I've got a much thicker border on each one there okay so just bring it up so there's the front and then you open it up and you've got that really cool scene I love it I really really do I think if you saw my unboxing no sorry if you saw my what did I get video you would have seen my excitement when I got these stamps I couldn't wait to start using them so I'm really pleased with the card that I've created and if you're a fan of the snowman or you know someone that is and you have this stamp set then yeah I think you're going to be uh it's going to be really appreciated but I do need to just sort that bit out I think I've just stuck it try not to go too close there I mean it's fine it's obviously just lifted slightly so I just need to put a bit of red tape underneath that corner but um yeah there you have it so thank you for watching my tutorial today I hope it's inspired you oh I haven't done my stitching so you just get your pen and literally just go along little dash lines done so thank you for watching hope it's inspired you please give me a thumbs up if it has and consider subscribing to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye