 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to show you how to make this pop-up box card. I have made quite a few but I don't think I've done one this size and I've done one by keeping these pieces on but I don't again don't think I've done it this size. Look how cute! So I've got my favorite little llama which I've coloured. Again I'll show you all of that stuff in a moment but these are lovely. If you've never made box cards before I highly recommend that you do because they are really fun to do. They look great and they obviously fall flat so they're easy to post but they're perfect for all those kind of stamp sets that you have all those little kind of scenes because you can just create these fun little displays like this and I just yeah I adore this one. I've made a nice envelope for it as well and again I'll show you all of those papers but if I just bring up a bit closer you can see you've got the cake you've got this lovely bunting you've got balloons I've put some sprigs of just greenery just to kind of fill it out and like he's poking up from underneath it all these flowers here and little cactus and then llama wish you a happy birthday which is from the same stamp set. Very much fun and on the back you've got room there to write your message as well so yeah lots and lots of fun so let me show you how to make it. Okay so I used a variety of my Artaisa Easy Blend markers I have already done the one for today's card and I've stuck the hat and the little bow tie on him there as well. This is the stamp set it's the Sweet Dixie and it's the Party Animal. I've used this in a few cards now again I'll link all of those in and I'll share the links to this in the description box below and I'll list the colors that I use I have got that one there actually which was one of my because my that was it my jasmine yellow I've nearly run it out I've used that so much but it was the same as my touch light the cream so yeah you can see there they're pretty well the lids aren't particularly the same but the colors are but yeah I didn't need the blender so they're the colors I've used but I will list those if anybody's interested. For the flowers I used the bright rose flower border and it was these ones here and that was just to do these little ones here again I've already gone and done those you can see just how they look I love all the different layers to them so that's done I've fussy cut some cactus some cactuses whatever and then I've done what so basically in the paper pack you get a long kind of 12 inch length of this bunting but rather than fussy cut it all again I've got this that would have been either side like this that's how it was on the 12 by 12 strips so I've cut that centerpiece out but rather than waste these pieces I'm going to attach them just in the middle there and then I've got another one so that's what I'm using there that's all my green sprigs all done and then again you'll see I've got the cake and I done really simple color I literally just colored it in block color I didn't do any blending or nothing so really really simple easy coloring there and then for the greenery I just used this one here which was a creative or something dye set again I will find links for this one I'm using holographic card on that one I used gold you can just see the gold picking up and using this one which is the dovecraft and then this is the paper pack so it's the paper addicts viva forever I used it on the record card that I made but I'm using it on this one today really lovely bright happy vibrant colors so for the main card you will want a piece 11 and 3 quarters by 8 and a quarter so it's the a4 default length now if you do have a letter card which would be 11 inches you can still make this I tell you the the score line so that will be in my blog okay so you can make this card even if it is just the 11 inches but basically you want to score along the long side okay you're going to score it two and three quarters five and a half eight and a quarter and 11 and then along the short side you're going to score at four and a quarter okay so that's all the scoring done there and then for your mats and layers I've got some acetate there just for some of the kind of pop-up pieces but you will need for the inside which is these ones under here okay you'll want four pieces of pattern paper that are two and a half by four and then this piece here is two and a quarter by three and three quarters and that's to write your message on so if you want to stamp something on that as well and then for the pieces that go on the outer ones so these ones here the ones that flop over each side you'll need four pieces in my case it's this mirrored card which is two and a half by three and three quarters four pieces and then these are the four decorative pieces to go on top which are two and a quarter by three and a half okay I'll go through the pieces you need for the inside in a moment and also you've got your little top up there I love that card absolutely adore it so that's everything there yeah I just need to cut the strips for the inside and we'll score those in a moment okay so first of all we just want to fold and burnish all of our score lines okay so when you fold it in half you will have one piece shorter than the other the shorter piece is the flaps and these are the pieces we want to cut okay so if you've got the tab here on the left hand side it's the score lines all here that we're going to be cutting up so I'm just going to grab my scissors and you want to just very neatly cut right up each score line okay just to the first score line okay and then this one here you're going to cut all the way down again same as the others but that one you want to actually remove like so and then this tab you just want to take a little wedge off of each corner okay so now what's going to happen is this is going to come around like this and this one you just want to fold that way if you're worried your card's going to crack pop it back in your score board and just score on the opposite side but that's going to go inside like so and then they are all going to fold down so that will become where that kind of piece is there where we stuck it that would be the back of your box card okay and you can see how it will fold flat like this all right okay then we need these three pieces which will be our little tabs in here for us to stick all of these pieces on so you want three pieces that are three and three quarters by half an inch and along the long side the three and three quarters you want to score at half an inch okay and three and a quarter so you're just creating a half inch piece on each side so again half an inch and three and a quarter and the last one half by three and a quarter okay and then just fold all of the ends on those okay so open it up you'll have this tab on your right hand side this second section here if I fold them all down okay so you've got one two three and four the second one is where you want to start sticking first of all you want to add some glue onto the back so I'm just going to bring in a little bit of glue on here and you're going to stick this one about half an inch in from that score line and about a quarter of an inch down okay so just stick that like that grab the next one pop a little bit of glue and you want to stick it a little bit further down again but keeping it the same from the top so about a quarter of an inch you see this one here you see I've got a bit of a gap bring in my lamps you see there I've got the gap where the next one folds okay and then the last one I'm going to stick it again don't worry if they're not exactly straight it doesn't make any difference at all you're not really going to see any of it you see now I've stuck that last one so is that one that one and that one okay next what you want to do is you want to pop glue onto the other ends on all three you want to do all at the same time don't need a lot just a little bit okay and you're going to fold the card in half and don't worry if they slightly touch because once it goes flat they will all spread out and they will lie exactly where they need to the card will be nice and flat no so you know you're going to get it in your envelope just make sure that's all stuck down before you lift it up okay now when you bring it out bear in mind we haven't stuck that back bit down yet you will have that so then all you need to do is run some glue along that tab or double-sided tapes entirely up to you you should have that back bit open you're just bringing that last one over just make sure that you get it all lined up and fold the whole thing flat and that way you know that it is and then bring it all together again and that's what you have so you've got your three pieces to stick everything on and now it's ready to decorate so what I'm going to do first of all is stick all the mats and layers down so I'm going to get these ones here which are the ones to go underneath so if you just lift all of it up and the one where you've got the hinge or the hinge where you've just joined it together that's the back of mine so that's where I want that one to go it should sit nicely over there and then these will go here and those two on the other side so I'm just going to stick them down okay so that's that done now I'm going to fold these over and I'm just going to burnish all of those and what you might also want to do is if you feel that you've got anything see I've got a little bit there where it's kind of like just getting a little bit buckled but that's the score line so I'm going to just remove that completely so it's just again just tidying it up really I'm just taking a very very thin amount you can see how thin it is because it's just started to curl up but just so I can get right in there so it's nice and neat like so there we go so now they hang down because you fold it flat like that or some people do bring up the sides and fold it flat that way but I like to do it that way so now again that's the back I have all these pieces so I'm going to go and stick all my mirror down on all four sides and then all of those over the top okay so next I'm going to stick down everything that doesn't need acetate so I've got my lovely llama here so he's my focal point so I'm just going to pop a very very thin piece of glue there and I'm sticking him on this first one here so I just want enough of him poking up over the top make sure he's nice and centered okay like so then I have my flowers so I'm going to pop one of these the reason I've just changed glues because that one doesn't stay tacky and because this all folds flat on itself I don't want there to be anything tacky inside because it will just stick so that's why I've just swapped glues so that one so I put one flower there and then this one is going to go there I've got this message and that's just going to go on an angle right through the middle okay then I have just one of these little cactuses that I fussy cut so that one's going to go just about there I don't want it to take away cover him too much but I do want it to be there so it's quite cute there we go and then I've got all this kind of greenery here which I'm just going to build up around him so I just had three kind of going off to the left and three going off to the right so there we go and then I've got those two little ones here which I've stuck right on the very front piece so don't be afraid to stick stuff directly onto the card itself you don't have to add acetate at all I'm just doing it to create some height and I'll show you to make sure you're going to get it in your envelope but just do make sure you use a glue that dries completely dry you don't want to have anything like said tacky so I'm going to build these ones up behind him okay so that's what I've just done so I've just added the little green to the very front the flower there there and the happy birthday little cactus there and then I've just put all those sprigs around him okay now I want to create some height behind and you want to make sure that you're going to fit this in your envelope so that you don't want to go any higher so when we fold this flat now one way might go more than the other okay so just have a look I'm going to do it that way I'm using my grid here lay this down and it will be just under six or one two three four five six you have a little bit overhanging so I've just popped it in the center there okay I've got my score line running with say this was like the halfway the three inch mark then go up eight one two three four five six seven eight okay so there is the top of my card so whatever I add in now I can't go any higher than that so for example my balloons okay they're going to be I mean they're going to sit behind him we'll do it when it's in its 3d form but I'm just lying it down so say the balloons are there and the cake is like this and then this bunting here we'll go across like this okay but it's all got to stay within this eight inch by six inch area you don't want to go over because when it's flat it needs to be like that to fit straight into the envelope so I'm just going to attach this piece together okay that one's just drying so I'm going to just cut a couple strips of acetate though I tend to always do my acetate about half a half an inch in you know width so I just kind of eyeball it I'm going to cut two pieces one for the balloons one for the cake and then another two for each end of my bunting so I've got four strips okay it doesn't have to be clear either you can use cardstock just I tend to usually do that because I just like the look of it floating so I just want to arrange my balloons I'm going to do something like that so I'm just going to just roughly kind of stagger them on top of each other like so okay I'll do those ones to dry and then with this one here I can stick this down so my strips are quite long for the minute but I always end up cutting them back and I'm just going to add some tape to the top of my acetate okay I'm just going to stick that one behind there then I'm going to add some more tape on this one and then just stick it behind the three of those and this bunting I'm actually going to cut it down I'm just going to cut another piece off because if I lie this down flat one two three four five six and lay that down yeah it just now fits one two three four five six it sits within that area and then I'm going to just add because it's so lightweight I'm not worried that I need to obviously put loads of tape on it but I'm just going to attach a tiny little strip of tape because I'm sticking it to acetate if you're using just cardstock then you can just use you know wet glue stick really well but I'm going to just use this red tape okay and then my other two pieces here I can just stick it onto one you want them to go in at an angle so I'm going to just stick that one in fact no I'm not going to do that one yet until I've stuck it all in because it's gone over the top here I'm just going to trim that off on the same angle so again it's all nice and concealed and then this one's going to go on the very back I'm actually going to peel that off again and pop this in here you can see roughly how high you want it to be I'm just going to bring this one in just so I can keep it at the right angle it's a little bit fiddly but once you get it kind of set up so that's that just trim that one off okay so you can see what I've done there the way I've stuck it and then when I sit it in I can see where I need to cut my my acetate so I reckon about there there is a lot of kind of guesswork with this I've made loads and I do recommend that you look through the playlist so you can actually really get an idea I mean I'd say doing the bunting maybe something like this if you've never made one before I wouldn't do this straight away get to grips with them first and then do it so now I'm just going to add some of my tape to the bottom of this and usually I would say start with the highest point first and then work forward okay and that way you know everything will always fit into your envelope so there's nothing worse than doing it all making it too tall and then yeah you're having to buy like a huge envelope so now I'm just bring this in make sure just perfectly sit in there because I've had to join it in the middle it doesn't sit as well as the other one but now can you see how cute that then I've got my cake which is going to go and trim that right down so I know that's going to go on the second like one here because there's nothing on it yet so that one's going to go in like that and then again the balloons I can cut right down it's about three inches and that's going to go both behind like so so again I'm just going to add you can see when you feed them in you can see roughly I use my finger so I need to put my tape just there so again I can cut it off again so probably end up only actually using maybe two inches length of acetate and you want to keep them below this height but above this height so again everything starts to stagger down or as long as you can see it you want everything to be within you know eye line really there we go and make sure everything that's sticky is only sticky within that half inch tab section don't have anything sticky past that like just floating here because as soon as you fold that flat it's going to stick to it and it won't pop open so the back of all these just run your finger afterwards when you're finished and make sure you can't feel anything sticky because if you can then yeah it's just not going to work so look there it is how fun is that so now let me show you how to make your envelope okay so when this card is flat it measures six by eight so on here you've got six by eight card size tells you you need a piece of cardstock or card sorry sorry paper even that's 11 by 11 now this is cardstock but it still works and you want to do your first score line at four and seven eighths of an inch okay so again grab my stylus glue off me there so pop it in here four and seven eighths of an inch punch and score don't worry that it doesn't go right off to the edge rotate it right the way around to the opposite side four and seven eighths and then pop in this one here slide it along until you meet with that there in the score and then the final last one just move it along again until that lines up with this corner punch and score okay and then you just want to fold and burnish all your score lines okay and I'm just going to use some of my red tape again and if you've got directional then make sure it's up the right way so this is going to be the bottom so I'm going to run some tape along here and then just take the backing off and because again this card's got a bit of bulk I'm just going to fold it flat okay and lie it actually in the envelope so you'll see there it's got lots of room so if you you can go higher again because your envelopes always give you about a quarter of an inch more than the card size on both the width and the length sorry the width the length and the height so yeah you can go a bit high if you want but I always play safe then I bring in the sides and then bring up the bottom that way you're shaping your envelope around the card and it will obviously slide in and out really nicely okay and then on the top ones there I'm just going to use some more of my red tape if I can find the end just run a nice neat strip along both of those sides okay and I've got to do it I always do but if you then cut a piece of two by four white card and stick it in the middle on the front there then you've got somewhere to write who it's to because sometimes the pattern paper names can get lost in amongst it but there is your envelope so I've got that lovely envelope to match that one there and then I have my polka dot one to match that one there and they are just a joy to make I absolutely love this style card because like I said it's perfect for creating a scene and just adding lots of depth and things and again really special I've made ones with the birthday number in the middle I made a really lovely one for my friend's mum for her 70th and it was huge it was absolutely massive I think as pictures of that and again I'll share or I would have already shared the playlist for these pop-up box cards full of inspiration but yeah there you have it guys so I hope you've enjoyed this style again and this size and if you have as always please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye