 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 a flip-flap card or a flip-flop card. So this was actually a requested video and I done this during my Facebook live so I've done this one here and I also showed you how you can make just I guess the standard flip-flap or flip-flop. So this is what the card does, it's a really really fun style but I made this double one during the Facebook live. So I had a little look on YouTube and I actually saw a tutorial by the Frugal Crafter but I wanted to make a six by six size so these measurements I've come up with myself and I think they work really well but I'm also going to do a five by seven. I'm actually going to do that in a separate video so look out for that one but for now here's the six by six okay so that's just your single one and this is using all the new circus stamps and papers from Craft Consulting which I'll show you in a moment and then on the back you've got room there to be able to you know stamp and write your message. So the idea is is that they're displayed like so they've got a really nice profile but I thought they worked well as a double so I've made this one here so the idea is is it's the beginning or the the entrance to the circus and then when you open it up look at that isn't it lovely and that again has a great profile because it will stand like this it's one of those mantle pleasers that showstopper style card and it just I love how everything stands there together and then on the back here you've got the space I've done in the center there with the the muscle man to have as your area to be able to you know write your message and I have made an envelope as well using the envelope punch board and it's the very very last measurement it's actually not even listed but it's the last one that you can do on there and I'll show you how to do that as well so let me show you how to make them okay this is the paper pad I'm using today it's the six by six the circus one by Craft Consulting but I have cut into it because it has on the page here all these cut out pieces but that's how it looks in the 12 by 12 as well beautiful paper pad and I will share these stamp sets in a moment when we get to them so right now I've already done one half and I've done a lot of my mats and layers because it's just a lot of sticking and you don't really need to watch me do that but this is what you want to achieve is you know two of these or just the one if you like that single style that I showed you so these here you'll want either one or two pieces that are 10 by six okay now along the 10 inch side you want to it's probably best to do this with a pencil mark a pencil mark at three and I'm just going to grab my e-square ruler here and I'm just going to line it up here along with by the three inch there and just draw a straight line because you're going to use that as a guide don't go down too heavy just so it's enough for you to be able to see but just got a faint pencil line there at three inches then I also want to do a little you can do a pencil mark because you can rub this out do a pencil mark at four and a pencil mark at six and again you know do them along the bottom these are just little guides it's just going to make things a bit easier for you so four and six so as long as you can see them like I said you're going to rub this out then you want a square die that's around four by four this is just about four and one eighth of an inch but four by four would be perfect if you go any larger then you'll have to change your mats and layer sizes and again if you go any smaller then you'd have to change them as well but what's going to happen we can actually get rid of the scoreboard so I'm just going to get some washi tape here and we're going to just partially cut the left and the right hand sides of this here so I'm going to lay this down and you want to line up this with the three inches so basically for me because this is a four by four it's going to sit within the center of this whole piece okay and that's what you want to you know have so whatever size you're using it needs to sit you know in the in the middle here so I'm just lining it up along that three inch one and make sure you've got equal kind of top and bottom here as well so now we've got that in place we're going to partially die cut so what that means is whatever is between the two die plates will cut so we just want to make sure that we just have a cut from let me bring this in a bit further all that we're going to cut is from that say this is the six inch little pencil mark here around like so we don't want to cut anything in between the four and the six so then we will flip this in a minute and I'll run it through again running the plates just over this section here so if I do this one first so it kind of makes more sense so you want to pull out your base plate so that this can slide under and I'm lining up the end of this plate with the pencil mark so make sure everything's nice and straight but I can see my pencil mark there that's the six inch one and just at the top there the key is to keep everything straight if you don't quite join up to that mark you can just use your cutting knife afterwards so I'm just gonna if it shifts just make sure you spend a minute just getting that all lined up like so and just let the machine take that through shoot my plate out there okay so now I can just pull that back through and we're not going to take this away because you don't want to lift it yet but you can see now it's just cut there's my pencil mark and it's just cut up to there and just make it out there so now we're going to pop in this end and just do exactly the same so I'm just going to pull the plate out a little bit underneath there keep everything nice and straight and then pop this one now if you don't have a die that's this size let me just do this one and I'll just show you what you can do so what you can do is you can cut a square that's four by four and just lay it down just as you know I have with this die draw around it and then just cut this side and this side so before we do anything else we need to just add a couple of score lines I'm just going to grab my scoreboard pop this in here and you just want to line up your four inch one and it should join the end of that cut okay this one here and then I've got my six inch here so I'm just bring it down and it just joins if it doesn't quite meet then just you know use your knife just to cut it a little bit further and if it goes over don't worry too much it should still be okay but now we've got that all ready I am just now going to rub out all of those pencil lines so you'll have your three inch one here and I can see mine runs perfectly down the side of that okay and then you want to fold these so that they're mounted in folds and then the next one's to the valley and then when the whole thing folds flat just burnish any of those lines but it should now you can see fit into that six by six square okay so that is the card ready so now you have your flip flap so I've done that twice because what I'm going to do now is just flip this one around and I'm going to stick it we'll stick this one over there like so and just line them up with each other okay so I'm going to add glue to the bottom of this one here and then just sit this one behind now your mats and layers will be exactly the same for the single so don't worry you know when I give you those in a moment if you are just doing that single one they will be the same mats and layers but now I can fold that over and fold that over and we've got our card like so just again make sure everything is lined up nice and straight so you can always test it by opening it up there and you can see how it all works it looks really really cool so now the mats and layers like I said it doesn't matter whether you've done the single or the double so what I've gone and done is I've cut mats and layers and I've already stuck some of them on top of each other so if you've got the single one you're just going to have this piece here so you'll just want two of the sizes that I'm going to give you but for me I'm popping this one in the middle here this one here and this one here okay now like I said if your square was slightly bigger or smaller you may need to change these measurements ever so slightly but you're going to want I'm also doing another three on the back and I didn't do that on the live but I'm going to have these two underneath here and here and then this one underneath in you know here to stamp and write my message so for me I'm going to want six pieces of two and three-quarter by six by five and three-quarter and that's the gold mat layer and then for the pattern paper it's two and a half by five and a half and again I want six pieces but if you're just doing the single then you'll want four or three again depending on what you want to cover but I'm going to stick those all down there then what I've gone ahead and done is these pieces here so I've got two because I'm going to pop them on the back side so basically the largest square that original square I've gone ahead and die cut four times in gold the plain gold ones are just going to go behind so it's exactly the same size and they're just going to go and stick behind these here because when you close the card you see this so when the person first opens the card it's that backside that they see but because this is to be displayed open you know you want all the main stuff usually on the inside is what you don't tend to see but in this case you want what's on the inside to be you know the where the most decoration is and stuff because that's what we're going to be showing off so again four of those and then I've gone down with my nest of square dies and I've just done two in white and two in red so the sizes of those I mean if you've done four by four then you'll want it to be three and three quarters squared and then three and a half squared so yeah it's just over that one's just sorry just under three and three quarters and that one's just over or just under three and a quarter so whatever your nest of squares drops down you know that's what you want to do but you can see there they're going to sit right into those spaces like so and then I've got all of these little bits here so again depending on what size you've done you'll have to just cut yours accordingly but these are going to go in this bit here so you'll want two if you're doing the single four if you're doing the double so it's one and three quarters by three quarters for the gold and then it's one and a half by half for the pattern so one's going to go there there there and there and then you'll want four or eight pieces of these ones here which are going to fit into all of these spaces and these are three quarters of an inch by one and then half an inch by three quarters and you can see all of those little areas where they're going to go so I'm going to get this all stuck down and once we've done that we can then finish the card with all of the lovely stamped images and final decoration okay so all my mats and layers are done so that's how it looks now when you open it up it does really look like you're kind of entering the circus and there's the center stage and then on the back I have the room there for my message and you can see all the papers and everything all looks really nice from the back as well so I'm going to follow the way I've decorated this once I really like it so the show and then the tickets there those were fussy cut from the 12 by 12 pad so I've just done those three there and then I've cut all of my stamped images there so the ones I've used you get three in the collection you get the fortune teller she's the one I used on that this one here the single card so that's that one so that's all used in the fortune teller and then for this one I've used both of these so you get the circus and the greatest show and they work perfectly together so that's the ones that I've stamped and coloured and you know use the the way that they've got them coloured on the the actual stamps here for inspiration so if you ever get stuck and unsure you know what to use they've kind of done it for you there so you can see inside I'm going to do follow all of these bits because I just think they look really nice and then I've got the little stars which are here which are the embellishments which I just used to fill some of the gaps there as well now I did say I was going to emboss these in the live and I totally forgot again I just thought they'd look quite nice with having a bit of an embossed I'm wondering whether to emboss them again and then just stick them over the top so you might see that in a minute because I'm going to pop it on high speed and get this all finished so I've got my show sign there I'm going to put some white nuvo drops on all the lights and I'll put some glossy accents over the show but you'll see that in the photos put the tickets there and then you open it up and you have all that wonderful detail and I've used the little star embellishments I embossed the background paper there was stars as well just to give it a little bit more dimension really really like this one and then all folds down and then on the back I've put the the strong man the muscle man there and you've got a little bit of space to write a message but I like how you can see them as well from the back so that's the card done but like I just want to show you how to make your envelopes this is the envelope here so the card measures nine by six you see that it fits perfectly and I'm just using the envelope punch board and I mean I don't know why they've not put it on there because the markings there so you've got five inches there but they only go up to four and seven eighths oh just come off there just down here four and seven eighths is the last score line I don't know why they couldn't have just popped in you know to make a nine by six size envelope you need a piece of 12 by 12 they go up to 11 and a half there and you're just going to score at five it's dead easy so if you've got this you can make the perfect size envelope for it so I'll just show you so this is a piece of 12 by 12 paper and I'm just lining it up with the five inches punch and score and then I'm going to flip it don't worry that you can't score all the way down flip it so I'm now working on the opposite there's this is where I've just done the last the first notch so I'm just working on the opposite here again line it up at five punch and score just as far as you can and then you just on the sides now where we've not done nothing so we'll work on this one pop it in and you're just going to now focus on this corner and just pull it along until it lines up the bottom here lines up with this score line I'm just making sure there we go like so punch and now when I score that score line will join perfectly with the corner here and then again I'm going to go to that other end sure just have one left now that you haven't punched on bring this along again until it lines up there punch and score and that is the perfect envelope for a nine by six card so I know it's large and there's not obviously many times that you make cards this large but whenever I do these show stoppers I think they're nearly all a nine by six size when they're flat so and I have showed this before but just fold and burnish the score lines bring up the bottom one there I'm just going to round off the corner there as well pop that one in like so and then I'm just going to use my tape runner and just you can see how much you need to cover so out of there I'll put two strips in and again and if it's um quite dimensional your card I mean you might put rosettes and other bits and pieces on it grab a new one then what you can do is pop the card in first if there's a lot of dimension and then seal it but this one it's a nice size envelope that it will fit so I'm just going to pop that down stick those down like so and then you can see now that that will still fit in there perfectly pop some tape on the top there burnish that top one like so and there you have a really nice envelope for a beautiful card so that's the tutorial for today finished I think they are fantastic so I hope that you've enjoyed this tutorial today I'll bring in this one as well so whether you're doing the double flip flap or the single flip flap I think they all look wonderful so if you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing if you haven't so you get to see more fun card ideas and I'll now be back very soon with another video bye