 Hi everybody it's Sam from Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. So I've got this really nice showstopper card for you. So this is a 6x6 version of the 5x7 version interlock card that I shared about a year ago. Maybe yeah no I think it was last year I will link it here anyway so if you do prefer 5x7 styles then check that one out because it's a really nice card that's been very very popular. But I wanted to do a 6x6 version and then the way this one ended up working out in my head I ended up making it a double version of that. So if you did want to make the 5x7 bigger then just follow this tutorial because you'll be able to see how to do that but it's turned out lovely. So this is how it is, it's just under actually it's about five and three quarters because those measurements worked best to get the most out of your card stock. And so this is how it looks it will fit into one of my box envelopes but you could also make a bouncy envelope if you may be giving it by hand that might be another option for you but you open it up and as you open it the whole thing opens up like this. Now yeah it's a larger card it's also a decoration I think if you just wanted to have this if I turn it this way that's how it looks so you might want to have this as a decorative piece for your own mantle and I think that would look really really nice. I have already seen somebody share on the mixed up crafters group because I made this during a Facebook live so a lot of the ladies there and men have been making this already and sharing their styles. Someone's put birthday, it's about the word birthday in the squares. Other people were saying about putting photos in there you could have this actually in a scrapbook that could be stuck to one of the pages and then they can pull out you know this page and have all these photos which I think would look really nice. Please don't be put off by this it's very very easy to make it's not it looks a lot more you know harder than it actually is but it's very very fun and I've thoroughly enjoyed doing this and it was really nice to colour and finish the decorations I didn't get around to doing all of that during the live because I just wanted to really focus on the construction. On the back there you have lots of room to be able to write your message and again it's one of those great ones for if you've got a work colleague who's leaving there's lots of people to sign you've got all the back there as well if you wanted to. So let me show you how to make it. Okay so for the stamping I've used the stamp set that comes in the latest issue of creative stamping in this issue 88 and it's this one here since the floral Christmas I have my own set this is another set that came so I actually done some of the inspiration in the magazine so you have this section here which is John next door stamps and then all of this here is floral Christmas so I've really used a lot of these stamps I've used the odd little flower but I've used the Ponsetti as there you can see and here and decorate the front it's a really pretty set it's A4 it's always good value for money and you get a lovely magazine and this one here was one of the cards that I done for the magazine which made it onto the front cover which I was super pleased about but you can just see this just an idea of some of the lovely cards you can create with that stamp set but I'll link all of that below for the main apertures I'm using the Daisy major stressed squares I don't believe these are available anymore that's my stamps so I just shrink mine down to fit into these little A5 pockets and then they fit within my little tubs that I have all my stamps in and for the embossing I've used the X-cut tartan knit again if I can find it I will link it so I've done lots of bits and pieces I've even stuck some of the mats and layers down just to speed up the video and just really show you how to construct it all so for the main card you're going to need two pieces that are 12 by five and three quarters and you're going to score along the long side at five and three quarters and eleven and a half and you're going to do that on two pieces okay so there's my two there we'll fold and burnish in a minute so you know you're doing it in the right direction then you'll want one piece that is six and a quarter by five and three quarters because we need to put stick this all together and along that six and a quarter side you just want to score it five and three quarters so you're just creating a half inch tab there and this piece here is just five and three quarters by five and three quarters okay so then for the mats and layers so to go inside I've got these here and I'm doing silver instead of white this time so I try that so these are five and a half for the silver by five and a half and then five and a quarter by five and a quarter for the embossed and you can see that tartan embossing folder looks really nice I've got three because this one's going to go on the front these two going on the inside and then for the back I've just got the white one which is where I'm going to stamp and that one is actually now you want it to be that but yeah do five and a half you can have five and a quarter if you want this up to you if you want to mat and layer it but I'm going to do I'll put another layer on that actually but yeah so you just want the same as those really four of each if you're going to do the back with the mats and layers and then for the actual concertina kind of interlock piece you'll want two pieces that are three and a quarter by ten and a quarter and you want to score along the long side at three and a quarter six and a half and nine and three quarters so that's the two pieces there and then you just want one piece that is again three and a quarter by six and a half and you're going to score along the long side of three and a quarter okay then for your mats and layers to decorate that interlock piece you'll want eight pieces of three by three and I've done the silver and then you'll want eight pieces of two and three-quarter by two and three-quarter and then I've just fussy cut a few bits here which is what I'm using to decorate the front because I didn't want to go too mad with the front because you don't see it when it's open although saying that if someone maybe doesn't have a huge amount of room or once you start getting more cards through the Christmas period they can still just kind of display it like so and so you do want there to still be some kind of nice feature on the front so I've kept it simple but still quite pretty and I've just prepared all of those ready so let me show you how to now construct the card okay so you want these two pieces here so these are the largest pieces where you would have scored at five and three-quarters and eleven and a half these ones here we want to cut the aperture out now I've used this one so you can have any aperture size that you want I've gone for three quarters of an inch squared with this one so any of your nest dies really you could do circular and you just need to make sure that the piece that interlocks through the apertures is going to be able to fit quite nicely and and kind of comfortably sit there but you could do rectangles in the five by seven version I do use rectangles that size fits better but for this one this is the size I've got and then with the Daisy May ones you get the next size up is this distressed kind of wonky one which is how I created the frame so I need to cut my frame so I show you that in a moment so what I'm doing because this is 216 GSM this is the Tonic Studios cardstock so I'm just going to fold and burnish that score line there and that one just folds in half and you'll have this half inch piece just over the top there so I'm going to sit this over the top and I'm going to grab some of my wash tape and I'm going to die cut through both of those layers at the same time so you may depend on your die cutter machine and the die it may just maybe mark the one underneath but then you can open up and then lay the die back down on that one and then die cut it again but at least then you know that it's exactly where you want it to be so I think I've got that about right but what I did do then is just go around and measure and I was coming in at 7 eighths of an inch on all four sides so I'm going to run that through my machine okay so I've got those two so when you open this one up it's going to attach to this hinge on this one here so I'm just going to fold this one towards me so that one will stick in like so and then on this end one here you're going to fold this one up you're going to have your five and three-quarter by five and three-quarter piece okay like so you want that fold this join to be on the back one because then you're just going to cover that with the way you kind of write your message on the front one here so that will be like so and then the front one when you fold this piece this is that five and three-quarters by six and a half piece so again just burnish that that one's going to stick in there so when we close the card up that join is hidden underneath so it looks like a nice clean front okay so we start sticking this together so start with this one first and I'm going to use my calow glue because it will start to strengthen the card so obviously we've cut a lot away we need to start kind of building some of that strength back in so when we have the frame that will bring in a lot of support again for the card as well so I'm just going to spread out that glue and then pop that one like so and if you kind of close the card as you fold them that way you know it's going to fold nice and flat as well as open up and you want that to just be see that I've got a really nice join a little bit of glue that's come out but that's okay and then you know that piece there is on the back you're not going to see that all right and then so right now you have that piece so then you'll have this hinge here to connect this next piece so again just going to open that one up and again just sit that one in there and let it get right down into the score line you want it to look like you know it's one big piece apart from obviously the joins being on the back but on the front you don't want that person that be looking at it kind of thinking wow it's just one long piece so again you can see I've gone right up into the corner it's hard to see now that that was ever two separate pieces so again just fold it all down so it's like a concertina and just kind of burnish you know that into position again and then fold that one so now we have this long piece so all we're left with now is this last tab and that five and three quarter piece which is going to stick on there and like I said you're going to have that there but we're going to cover that with the writing but again it's on the back so it's not going to be seen all the time so again just stick that one down and just fold it over like you did the other ones again you just want to make sure that it's right up into the crease there now you have your card okay apart from adding now that the interlock but there's the kind of framework okay and it should all fold down into that five and three-quarter size okay so I now want to create some frames because you want to kind of get that stuck down before we we need to because you won't be able to once you've added the next sections all of this part you won't be able to attach the frames so with the original square that I used I've then got this frame and this one I think was it's a hard one to kind of measure because you've it's all a bit uneven but it's roughly coming in at like four and three quarters yeah so have a look at what you've got but I basically going to sit that like so and then you want to attach it with some tape with a nice kind of even frame again mine's a little bit harder to do but you can get a rough idea it's going to be something like something like that I'm just going to pop some tape there and I'm now going to run that through using I think I'm going to do silver I'm going to use the silver here and if you can see here it's all this stitch detail it's actually come up quite nicely so I'm now going to die cut enough to cover this to frame this one this one this one and this one so four frames so I'm going to get them all die cut okay so there's my frames can you see all that detail look fantastic so next I'm going to now stick these on to the four apertures here so I'm going to again use my calau because this will start to strengthen it so I'm just going to lay it flat for a minute and I'm going to now stick them all down so they frame those squares okay so now I have my frames I think they look really nice in the silver so I'm going to pop that to one side and next we can work on this piece here so it's going to work in the same kind of way but what you want to have so you've got your two here and you should have three squares that are three and a quarter squared and then you'll have a half inch piece on the end here so what's going to happen is you want to do a valley and then a mountain and then that will be a valley okay then with this one you want to do a mountain valley mountain okay because that is going to stick into that one this one here is going to attach to the front it's going to be this one here so it's going to be that front piece here alright so you do want to fold them just slightly differently so that one will be valley mountain valley this one will be mountain valley mountain so I'm going to pop my glue in this one here and just again just attach it exactly the same way that you did with the main frame I'm just going to fold that over and then with this one at the end so have it like so this one you just want to create a valley fold and you're now going to add glue to the side of this because it's a mountain and I attach that one and then this one will stick at the other end so you want to make sure you just got two flat pieces with a valley folds there's a valley fold at that end there's a valley fold at this end here okay now I'm going to decorate this before I stick it in there because I think it's easier to do so that's when I'm going to now stick these pieces down I have done them the same as this one so I'm just going to open this one up here so you can see what we've got so let's just move it down a little bit that way there we go you can see everything now so I'm going to have my Mary and bright my mistletoe a pensettia then the piece on earth and then the just for you and that one finishes with the wishing you that one then is the pensettia and then that's one I've got facing that way and that one's facing that way so I'm going to stick those all down now okay so that's that now I'm going to just concertina fold it all together so you've got like a little book just squash it all down it should you can see that my nicely all lays over each other so you know everything's all lined up so then we can now attach it to this piece so what we want to do is you're going to basically first of all actually before we do that you want to stick these mats and layers down so that one needs to go there and this one is going to go at that end so I'm going to just quickly stick those down so now make sure this is the right way up so I'm going to pop my glue on this side here and then you want to sit this one in the middle of this here now if you close up some of these and you can use that as your guide so make sure it's in the center of that frame okay and then that should also be the center of there because of the way that you know you would have measured and lined it up so I'm just going to make sure that's straight there I'm happy with how that sits there and then you want to add glue to this side and then you're just going to close your card I'm going to give it a few minutes just to kind of grip but I will still have a little bit of time to move it around so once I open it I can double check you know in case I do need to just move it slightly reposition it just a little bit there but it's it's still going to work and close nicely like it does so now you can open it up and you have your card isn't that lovely I think it looks so nice with the silver this time really really like it I've also got my Posca pen I should have maybe done that before I put this in because I've put some stitch detail you see here I've got some faux stitching I'm probably going to do that and I just use the paint pen here this is the white Posca pen and I'll do that but now I'm just going to close that back up again finish the front so I've got this one pop that one on there and then I've got these pieces here so I've got my glue gun on let's pop that one and then I'm just going to feed in these bits and pieces there we go just a really simple design I'm actually going to bring in some of my sparkle pen I'm probably going to put some glitter on this actually and I'm going to use the Nuvo drops on the berries so you'll see that in the photos because that will take a little bit longer to dry but I think I'm going to put some glitter throughout the card actually I think that look really nice and then on the back I've just got this one here so again if you want to add mats and layers to it you can but so much going on on the card I'm just going to keep this one like so and then I'll stamp my message later and that will just strengthen that card as well okay so there is the finished card so let me open up this one so you can see it with the the green and the red just pop it so you can see it and then this one here nice with that silver border and then again look at that I think they look fantastic I'm so pleased with these there's such big cards they really are great showstoppers so yeah I'm going to put some glitters I think on the on the petals there just so this really does shine and like I said I think it's a lovely mantle piece as well as a decoration not just a card so yeah that is my double interlock concertina card and I hope you enjoy it I'll add it to the showstopper playlist so if you're new to the channel check out that playlist because there are lots of other big showstopper cards they're great for those special birthdays big anniversaries and Christmas and things like that so yeah check them out you might enjoy them I'll also link the 5x7 version here along with maybe another concertina style card or something that 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