 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got a Halloween project so I'm going to be showing you a card and this one has evolved from the Pull Up Accordion or Lantern card that I've done but this time it's a spider. So this has been on my mind for a while because when I done the original Pull Up Card, which I'll share a little link up here for those of you that haven't seen it, a lady commented, I'm not sure if it was on YouTube, on my Facebook, on the pages I shared it on, on my blog, I can't remember. But she said oh this would look good with eight sides for Halloween and I thought that's a brilliant idea. So I have, this is my version, this is what I've done. So here is my spider, I've gave him a little funny face with gogly eyes and then basically you pull it up and it gives you this and I absolutely love it and they look so fun hanging and they kind of bounce like you see it doing that when you see it from the side. Inside I've got this spider's web die and the word boo which you can see there and yeah I just think it's so much fun, it's so easy you've got to make your templates first which I'm going to talk through with you but how fun is that and for the kids or even adults like myself but especially for the kids they're just going to love that so and also it would be good as an octopus so you could have a sea theme but especially if you've got any kids with their birthdays that fall on Halloween what a fun birthday card that is. So yeah it's brilliant it fits in a six by six envelope so this one I have made to fit in a normal six by six envelope the other one came in at six and a quarter squared because I used that just it just was the way that that one kind of fell but you can see that it fits nicely it's got a little bit of bulk but you just have to pay a little bit extra in the postage for that one but yeah that's what we're going to make so super fun and I hope you like it so let's crack on so like I said first of all you need templates because we are working with a hexagon um no octagon hexagon why have I forgot how many it's eight sides anyway I forgot I'll put something up there because I know I'll have people messaging me so you need three templates now I like to do my templates on one one mill chip board or cereal box card and these are handy I keep them in a file and then I just you know I can go back to them whenever I need to make that card so this is what we need to make so that's these shapes here okay so they're the three I've done them on paper just to show you just for the the video there just so it helps but really really easy to do so first of all you want a piece of card so you want to cut six by six okay and that's going to be for our base um octagon or polygon as well I think so anyway octagon um shape and then so layer on top of that you need a piece of five and a half by five and a half and then to layer again on top so that is optional you might not want to but that's five by five because you'll see there I've got my orange my black and then the white okay so there's the three but these are just handy templates to have anyway because they you know you may want to make card shapes out of them as well so I've already got two kind of preps there but once you know how to do and how to get the shape it's very very easy so just on my six by six piece here using my ruler you want to mark it halfway so I'm just putting a pencil mark at three inches you want to do that on all four sides so rather than move my ruler I'm just going to rotate my card on all four sides there just marking at three inches okay and then you just want to join up those together so like so and again like so then you want to do a line from corner to corner so you're going right the way through and again another one from point to point like so repeat that on the other ones okay so you'll have three like this all with these shapes one two three four five six seven eight okay then all you need to do is with your ruler again starting with the six inch one you just want to half the number so half of six is three so you want to set your compass to three inches okay pop your metal point in the middle it will just come up to the edge which is right because this is a six by six square so you can actually use that as your guide as well because I want to make sure it's right there and then you just want to draw a circle and it will just go off on the kind of side pieces which is fine and just rejoin again there again I have got another compass but as long as you get it all joined up oh and she rolls off a bit there there we go so you just want to create a circle okay then you want to get your ruler and you're going to then join your points so this is a very end point on the side you want to start from there and where the circle where the circle goes over this part that's your other points you're going to draw a pencil mark from that point to here then here to here here to here so all the circle is doing is giving us this point where the circle crosses over all of these lines that becomes the point so I'll just give you a few here that I can do first just so you know and this is how you get your octagon shape so you can see what I'm doing there I'm just drawing a straight line do make sure you get this exact because this is going to be then what you cut and will become your template which you'll then trace around for all of your you know cards that you're going to make so you just want to make sure you're line it nicely and you do exactly the same for each one so on the next I'll just do this before I start jumping into the next one there you go so now you can see I have my octagon shape so all I need to do now is just go along very neatly and just cut all of those edges so that I'm just left with the flat sides and you will have eight sides giving you your shape like so that is the hardest part of making this card is getting these templates ready so that's that one so now with this one here which is a five and a half by five and a half inch squared you can just pop your compass metal piece in the middle there and line it up to the flat side don't use this line here use any of these um straight lines and that is your your gauge your width that you need or use your ruler and you're just going to set it at two and three quarters okay so two and three quarters you need it set up for the five and a half and again you're just going to draw around and then for this one which was five by five you set your ruler to five and a half so it's always half of whatever the width of your square is and if you're unsure you can just pop it in the middle like so and whatever it comes to on the outer side is what you need to draw as your size your circle so again just going to go around that one like so okay so I've got my other circle so it's quite light you can just make it out there though so and then again just grab your pencil and join all of those points up okay so there's that one so I've got my shape and then just with my smaller one here okay and I'm just going to get those cut out again so there are my three octagons already so now what you need is three pieces of your card so whatever colors you're choosing obviously I've got Halloween here so I'm going for the orange black and white so the orange one is going to be for my largest octagon the black is going to be for my medium and then the white is going to be for my small and literally all I'm going to do is trace it now also for the back side of this card is where you will write your message so underneath so I've got another piece of white which is the same size as the blacks of five by five so I'm also going to cut that with this as well so I've got somewhere to write my message but the easiest way to do this is it looks like it's smaller but actually you're doing it by the points by the longest part here so when you sit it that way you can see it's six by six slightly just under but it doesn't matter because obviously I've cut into this but obviously if you put it flat and get two of your sides up it saves you cutting two sides it's just giving you helping you a little bit so all I need to do is trace there and then here here which is what and this is why I like using the chipboard because it's got a slight obviously depth to it it's easy to trace around so there already is one of my octagon shapes on my orange card okay so that's that one and then again with this one I'm just going to butt it right up so that this side and this side and it's just a good way to just kind of cheat a little bit and let the two straight sides of the card already be done for you so it's that one and then this one here and then I'll do my one for the underside as well okay so that's everything done that's my templates now finished with so again I'll just pop them in a little plastic wallet and I'll just pop on there the hexagon pull-up card or spider card and they're there just for if I need any other projects as well so keep them to hand because they are probably going to get used again so now you just want to go around and just neatly cut all of these out what I would say is use the other side um obviously depending on what it is but saves you rubbing out the pencil if there is anything showing I will use the other side of this white so I'll be sticking this side down so I don't need to worry about rubbing out anything okay so that's that one done there okay so now you can just pop them on top and you'll see you get a nice border that one's then going to go on top of there with my boo and my spider's webs on it if you change some of them to other sides that's a little bit skew if on that one so it works better there you can see if you just move them around you find a better place and I could do with just trimming that one a little bit different a little bit different a little bit straighter it's a little bit crooked actually let me do that one now you find I'll probably won't put it back in that exact orientation and then it won't fit oh there you go see okay so just have a little play around if you need to right so now we need to do our spider's legs and um the face and that kind of stuff so I'm just going to bring in everything I've got here so this is my little sentiment I've only got maybe two I think two or three stamp sets that are um halloween theme because it's not something I do loads of I'll share all my other playlists for other halloween projects that I've done um but yeah it's not something I kind of run to okay so I've die cut three spider's webs this is from this one here this die I think it was a I want to say an x cut one but I could be wrong I'm not entirely sure but I will have a look so I've got three of them I've got a pack of googly googly eyes googly eyes googly eyes um and then all these bits of pieces but I will talk through all the circle die cuts in a minute first of all we're going to make the legs so you need a piece of 11 and a half by six cardstock and basically along the um 11 and a half inch side you want to score at one and a half inches three inches four and a half six seven and a half nine and ten and a half so every one and a half inch okay then flip it onto the six inch side and you're going to score at three quarters of every three quarters of an inch so three quarters of an inch one and a half two and a quarter three three and three quarters four and a half and five and a quarter okay so that is all of your score lines that you need to do now we need to get that cut so I'm just going to get rid of the score books we don't need that anymore and what you're going to do now is with your trimmer if you don't have a trimmer you can just cut up the lines so let me just show you in case you don't so you just want to cut up along the longest side or you're cutting up from the short side but you're going up along that longest side really neatly because each of these is your legs so there'll be eight altogether so like so okay so you want to have now eight of them so I'm just going to go and cut the rest of these out with my trimmer now what you will find is you will have one two three four five six seven pieces that are one and a half and then you'll have one piece that is just slightly smaller that's going to be the piece that we're going to fold underneath so that's going to be hidden so you want to start with that end okay so you're going to fold that one down and then up down up down up down so you can have a concertina so your first one and a half inch one will be on the top finishing with your shorter one here so that is the shapes that you want each of your legs to be so you want to have one two three four mountain folds and then the rest will be valley okay then just line it all up once you've lined it all up then pinch the edges just to really embed those score lines okay so again working with the shorter edge first so here's my shortest end here okay fold down then up down up down up down again line it all up and pinch the edges and there you go I've got another one this is that short piece there you can see it's shorter and I'm just going to sit that one on top so just go ahead and do all of those again down up down okay let me just check so I think even if you do it from the other end you'll still get the same pattern you go down up down up down up down yeah you will so it doesn't matter which way actually that you do that as long as you go whatever the outside one is that you start with you fold it down then up down up down up down okay so those are the ones done okay so I've got my eight legs all ready to go there I've got my shortest pieces all on top of each other just to keep them all ready for the next part so I have my white piece the smallest white piece is what I want to decorate I have got some versifying and I've got the word boot so I'm just going to ink that up and pop it right in the middle like so and then I have these spiders webs here and I'm going to use some of my do here I'm just going to the easiest way that I use that I use that I stick down any inch could die is by putting glue on my hand you've got so many different tools on the market to you know to do it and you can also die cut them on double sided backing but that can be costly inexpensive easy way to do is just dab your die cut over the glue and it is as simple as that and then I'm just going to have three of them they all come off because I cut them down I'm going to have one there again such a delicate little die you don't need much anyway now another one down here the last one you just kind of move it around until you've got everything on and then as I always say the fun part then is so letting the glue dry and picking it off so I used to always do that in school so there we go and then when you're cutting anything like this that overhangs always flip it over and then cut it so I mean probably let it dry a little bit more than I have but I am just going to go straight in that way you get a really close cut so it looks really finished like so now I've got that really fun base which is going to sit on there okay so why that's just gluing next I've got the top piece that I'm using as his face so let's just bring this in so this piece here now okay so any circle dies will work but you want to have something that I guess is around try and find the center point here yeah it's about three three and a quarter diameter and then I've got this circle one here to go on top which is two and seven eighths diameter okay so that is literally just going to stick on top like so okay so just pop some glue on that I've just got a very very small little border there then I'm going to bring in my googly eyes I did have some really large ones which I was looking for but I can't find them anywhere you watch I'll probably end up finding them after I've done this but anyway I've got the next ones which is still fine and then I've just die cut two little orange circles the smallest from my nest of circle dies again this is all optional this is just how I put the face together you could you know you might already have something else some different dies that will create faces and things like that but you can also print a spider's face or something off the internet as well so just sticking those two down and then to make the mouth I have die cut this white piece here um this is again from a nest of circle dies it's one and a quarter diameter die cut it and then just bring in my die machine put them to one side with the same circle that you've die cut if you just lift lift there's where I die cut it if you then bring it up so you're creating like a quarter moon not quite a half moon you can see this this the kind of shape there I've got so it's entirely up to you that the white the thicker than the bigger the smile that makes sense and then I'm just gonna run that through and you will then have this shape so it's a good way to get a moon as well see and then if I grab my gosh why am I struggling to pick anything up my word okay then I've got just a black marker at the right end and I don't want to draw I'm gonna use just the back side of my template there then just draw lines to create kind of like teeth I mean this is proper amateur kind of crafting here but it was the the easiest way that I found to make a spider's face there we go so that is his mouth and then I just got a little piece of pink and just freehand cut a tongue and the reason I added the tongue is I thought it just made him look like a friendly spider you know you don't want to be to be scaring the younger kids so I thought it was a nice way to yeah to make him look like he's he's a friendly spider he's not going to hurt anybody so then I'm just adding a little bit of glue onto that pop it about there and then just place my eyes we're going to be putting a hole through the center of this as well so wherever you put the eyes his face will really change so if you have them far apart if you have them really close together he looks quite geeky so you know again play around I'm doing in the same as before but yeah you can really kind of give him character depending on where you place everything and just pop a little bit of glue there and I'm going to have this coming off to the side there you can see his fun little face then you want to do a hole right in the center as center as you can get it okay there we go and then I've got some ribbon so the ribbon it's entirely up to you how long you want it to be so roughly judging what I've done before this is a piece of it's a 14 inch piece of ribbon so just pop a bit more of that off and then you want another die cut so I just die cut that same size that I've done the mouth um no I didn't I've done the size bigger so this is a piece of yeah one and about one and a half one and five eighths of an inch diameter and that's going to go underneath to conceal our ribbon okay so you want it to look nice and neat from the inside so just push using the thinnest end of my stylus there push one piece through and then get the other piece and just feed that one through as well like so okay and then what you want to do is pull it back down so you have the real short bits and you're going to fold them over like so like that so I'm going to splodge some glue underneath stick the ribbon down like so and then pop a bit more glue there grab the disc and then just kind of conceal everything underneath that okay so that's that piece and then you can see there it's all nice and neat so next we can start putting it together so um uh yeah I'm going to put that on first as well so this is the piece on the back so this is the what you're going to see this is the facing up this is this orange piece on the back side of that I want to stick this piece which is the white piece for the message so I'm just going to okay so that's now all ready to write my message if you want to stamp happy Halloween happy birthday whatever this will be turn it back over then we're going to stick these two together so again like so okay so we've got that now with that piece and this piece and that is all going to go on like that next we want to grab our legs and this piece so leave your orange piece to one side turn this one over and with one of your legs the shortest piece okay so remember we've got it in this orientation okay underneath the shortest piece you want to add some glue so I'm just splodging some glue there and then you're going to stick it underneath this black piece on one of the flat sides halfway okay and pinch it you can kind of see what I'm doing there and you just want to get it and it's halfway along each of these side ones like so so grab my next one again that's my next leg the underside of that smallest end and go to the next edge because you've got eight edges and eight legs and again pop it it's central in the middle to that as possible and then the next one and you'll start to create all your legs and this is when he starts to come alive a bit and really start moving around so but if you've followed the process that I've shown you it should all be relatively easy and straightforward so again always the underside of that shortest piece okay so they are now all stuck down a little bit of glue on that one okay so you can see now you got all these pieces so what you want to do is now each one actually no before we do that keep it as it is you then want to add glue over everything that you just stuck down so we're now going to attach this onto our orange piece and there's only a few more steps left and then the card is finished so it does quickly come together once you get the legs on kind of bunch them I'm just kind of loosely holding it like so get this one flip it over holding all your legs together and then you just want to line it all up trying to get a nice even border on all of your sides open up all the legs just make sure that's all nicely stuck down obviously at this point if you're doing something in the middle you can obviously write in there or you know you can do whatever you want okay and then this next bit you want to kind of just grab eight things that can kind of weigh down your eight legs so a few bits there plus your fingers because basically we're going to now stick this last piece you want to have the edge the inside edge kind of on show you just want something that's going to hold them all down because otherwise it's hard to do if you imagine you've only got five fingers and you need the other hand free it's hard to hold them all down so I found this the easiest way to do it like so so and then that one I use my rubber and then the last one I use my finger okay like so you want to make sure all these inside edges are free because that one that is where you're going to pop just a little bit of glue so I'm just doing a little area there just on the edge which is why you want that diameter circle that I mentioned this white one because now once we put it over the top make sure you get it once you stuck it down I'm going to quickly pull everything away just so I can make sure it is nice and centered just make sure they're all stuck down and there you have your card I love it I love love love I love these so much so now what you want to do is start working it a little bit so once he's kind of knows his home the legs will go back into place very easily that other one that I've been using now just exact as soon as I lift it up it just falls straight back down into its place so you just need to kind of manipulate it a little bit what you can also do let me just grab my bone folder and just go and kind of go underneath each one and just burnish them all because obviously all you've done is pinch them with your fingers so just kind of just going under each one there and that'll just really help embed those score lines and keep him always folding back into that position there you have it so there are my two pull-up spider cards and I absolutely love them they are so fun and I think these will make wonderful decorations just hanging but also they make really really lovely cards as well so yeah absolutely adore them so there you have it I hope you like this Halloween spider card that I've done I absolutely think he's fabulous so I'd love to see your versions please share them over on the the Facebook group mixed up crafters as I've mentioned before it is it's a really lovely group there now and I love kind of just hovering over in the background just seeing what's going on but you're making some awesome awesome projects I love seeing them so thank you guys hope you like it as always please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see some more and I'm sure I'll share a couple more Halloween themed projects over the next coming weeks so yeah see you then bye