 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 fun tunnel fold card and this is using one of my favorite, the Hunky Dory for the lover stamps and this is under the sea, I believe it is, I'll link it anyway but yeah it's such a gorgeous card so you can see all the layers there and all the different sized ovals to make it look like you're looking down through a tunnel and that's where the name comes from. All folds nice and flat and it stands up really nicely because it's got quite a nice platform it's one inch deep so yeah it's got plenty of support there and then on the back you've got plenty of room to write your message. I've also done a matching envelope which you can see it fits in perfectly and it's just one of those really special cards I these are my favorite kind of cards to do I love coloring and cutting out the little animals and kind of making little scenes so yeah I hope you enjoy it and let me show you how to make it. Okay so to make this you are going to need or something similar I've got the Hunky Dory for the lover stamps under the sea I've used this a lot and I love it it's one of my favorite kind of underwater themed cards stamps that I've got so I'll link all of this as always below then I'm using the bright rosa fern border die again you're going to see me use this a lot because I said when I first got it that this I think will work really well for seaweed and when you'll see it in a minute die cut it's perfect so yeah absolutely love that one so that's what I've used there and then the card stock today this is again I did share this in one of the what did I get videos this was some card stock that was sent to me kindly by the paper box limited so I'm using their matte card so it's 240 gsm it's really really nice so I've cut all my sizes again I'll link all this below this is the swatch that they sent me which is a really nice reference so if I do want to order the card again I can see the colors that I've used so again that will all be listed in my blog then I'm using my tonic oval nested dies again these are just one of those dies that I always recommend you get if you're looking for a nice oval set because you get the straight edge and the scallop so every other is a straight and then scallop so I'm using all of the straight ones which I've taken off there I've got the scallop one still inside but again there are still a few places whether they're still there because I've always linked them but I think there was an e-base seller that still had some but you have to have a little look but I will link as much as I can so I've already gone ahead because again you've seen me color these before and I will link up here all of the other cards that I've made using this stamp set but I've gone ahead here and just colored I've used my artesa easy blend markers and I've just yeah just had some fun with it and I've done the little treasure chest and then all of the little critters there the only one I haven't done is the shark so I've just left him out because they're they're quite they're two quite big stamps so I've gone for the whale there and I think they look really cute and then this is all of my seaweed so when you imagine this is all kind of nestled up it's going to look great I'm really looking forward to it so that is everything kind of prepared so you'll need to go away and you know decide what it is you're going to use because it doesn't have to be an under the water theme it could be anything you want okay so for the main case it's a bit of a random size it's going to be six and a half high and then it's going to be five and a half when flat in the envelope so that is because I wanted to use one whole piece of cardstock I didn't want to have kind of glue two bits together so once you see how I'm doing this then you can you know easily adapt this so you want one piece that's 11 and three quarters so it's the uk default a4 length again once you see what I do you can adapt this if you've got 11 inches or even for 12 inches then that's by six and a half in height okay so along the longest side you want to score it one inch five and a half six and a half and 11 okay I may end up trimming that down to 11 and a quarter possibly so it's just a quarter of an inch tab so we may end up snipping that away I mean it's it's going to stick underneath this one inch one so it is shorter it's about five eighths of an inch that should be fine but we may take a little bit of bulk off then you want to choose the kind of colors you're going to have for your tunnel so I've got these kind of four different tones here which I think I'm starting with the lightest at the front and then I'm going to end up with the darkest at the back so these all measure five by six and a half so it's the height of the card throughout but on every piece you want to score at a quarter of an inch and then at four and three quarters so you're just going to have a quarter of an inch tab on each side because that's what we're going to use to stick the cut these pieces inside our card okay so just do that on all four pieces okay so that's all the scoring done so now what you want to do is you're going to start off so have them in the kind of order that you want them and obviously we've got the very front one here so the the back one I may not actually end up cutting a hole from and I might this might get changed we might just end up having that matted on the very back which will actually end up being the inside here actually if I just fold fold and burnish this piece because then it starts to make sense of how this is all going to come together okay so you need your one inch piece on the left hand side and that's smaller tab on the right and you're going to wrap it around and that's going to stick inside okay like so then throughout this one inch piece here the width we're going to stick these pieces but thinking about it now we're going to use the largest oval on the very front of the card here okay so I'm going to die cut that one there it does only give me a very thin kind of side here but that's fine it's going to be it's going to work totally okay that one then my lighter color is going to have the next one down then the next one that one and then that one is the smaller one and that's going to peek into this darker colors it's like you're really getting into the kind of the the bottom of the ocean that's the kind of look that I'm going for so what I'm going to do first of all is I'm going to die cut this one here and then what we do is we use this as a guide to make sure we get all our other ovals all lined up so first of all you want to make sure that you get this centered now I'm going to keep mine in the center but if you want you can have it slightly lower down you may want to do a little you know sentiment up here you may want to go higher up and have your little sentiment at the bottom I'm going to keep mine in the middle because I don't actually really know what I'm going to put on this year I don't know if it's going to be a birthday card I don't know sometimes I don't know that until the very end and it depends how the card ends up looking okay so because this is six and a half wide I need to use my bigger die cutting machine if you don't have a bigger A4 one then you can just shrink the card down so that it is six rather than six and a half tall because that's going to go through this way so this is this is really old this is the grand caliber spellbinders but it does the job so I'm just going to run this one through I actually got dust on it where it's not been used and I always put some white down just to cover whenever I'm using white I would also say don't burnish it I only burnished it for the video so you could kind of understand how the card goes together but I would score it because you need to know obviously where you're going to put your dies but don't burnish it until we've done the first one so now you could go ahead and burnish this because all it does is just kind of squashes your score lines so now you'll see you're always going to have this piece on the left hand side the join we've got the start of our tunnel okay now I can fit all the rest through my normal size die machine so I'm just going to pop all that away okay so grab the next one here and you're going to lie this down and what you want to do is line up the score line so you've got your one inch tab and then that score line so the two score lines that are either side of your shape whether it's a circle or an oval you're going to line them up with the two score lines that you've got on here okay so I'm just going to hold this up so I can see it in the light like so just make sure you've got it nice and flush okay then with this oval you want to sit it so it's in the middle like so okay then you can take that one away and then again use that same tape pop that down on there and get that die cut okay so carefully take that off and now you can just carefully fold and burnish those quarter inch tabs on each side and now once we stick all this down that one is going to stick away just ever so slightly you'll see there you'll get your first kind of tunnel feature so then you're going to do exactly the same again with the next size down so keep all these they're obviously really handy for toppers for bags so now we've got our mats and layer already so you can now with the next color layer it all up so keep all of them so always good and then again with this one I'm just going to open that back up again you can just lay this now perfectly over the top because they're the same size like so and just make sure you're using the correct sizes so again I'm just going to line that one up and get that run through and I'm going to do exactly the same with that one there okay but I'll just speed this bit up okay so now you want to start layering them on top I'm just going to kind of sit them over like that for the minute and you can kind of see oh I think that one I've gone slightly off what I'm going to do if you're slightly off like hang on let's line that up so can you see this one here's the green it's got slightly thicker here I don't know why I thought I got that bang on but when you kind of start covering it you imagine we're going to have oh seaweed and stuff you're not going to end up seeing that at all and they're going to be separated like that so there's going to be more of a gap in them so yeah that one there I don't think I'm going to cut I think I'm going to have that just at the very back and have like maybe that yellow fish swimming right through the middle so you can really kind of see it pop so again we'll play around with that when we get to it okay so now we need to start attaching it and what we're going to do is we're going to attach everything to this back okay so now we need to start attaching these and everything is going to be attached to the middle one inch piece here okay so we're not going to touch the open ends we're just going to focus on this middle bit for the moment now I would say at this point if you don't want to have a block color like I am at the back now's the time to add your kind of maybe decorative paper or whatever it is you might want to have something stamped you might want your sentiment on the back of this so think about that because I'd say it's now that you want to do that because we're going to start attaching these bits here so I'm going to stick this one just a little bit away about a quarter of an inch away from that score line here so there's the first score line just this one we're going to stick this about a quarter of an inch away from that and then the next one we will butt it right up to that light blue one at the front and then the last one we will butt right up to that one I'm going to use my red tape you can use your liquid glue if you would rather have that wiggle room so you know it's entirely up to you what you want to use at this point so just on we're working on the right hand side so the right hand side of whatever it is you're using here and I'm just going to run some tape down the right hand side of all of those pieces so just prep it all now in fact run the tape on both sides because you're going to have to do that anyway and it will be easier to do it while it's all flat rather than some of it stuck down so yeah go ahead and get your tape if you're using tape on all of them okay so remember you're starting with your largest circle and you're going to take off the right hand side and you want to stick it about a quarter of an inch down if you want to go slightly higher that's fine but as long as you've got it a certain distance away from that score line just so it creates you know that kind of depth that we're looking for so I'm just going to make sure it's lined right up with the top I've come up a little bit higher I haven't gone right into the one quarter of an inch because I'd rather have everything fit then be kind of squashed in okay once you've got that stuck down go in with your bone folder there okay and just keep it folded over to the right hand side here then get your next size down so you you know you want to end up with the smallest size being the last one and now this one you're going to butt the folded side here right up to the edge of this lighter blue okay so just get it as close as possible and make sure you get it nice and flush with the top so you do need to maybe you know for some of you the the wet glue would be better because it will give you that that wiggle space and if you've come off a tall yeah see I've slightly come down a little bit there because I didn't I don't want to get my head in the camera sometimes but with that I can just trim it so that's not a problem and then this last one here and I look at this way actually and then I can make sure there we go that's better that's what I should have done before okay so now when I bring them all over they will all be slightly lifted look at that how cool does that look it's such an awesome effect I love this really psychedelic that plays with your eyes so now I'm going to just trim those two quarter of an inch pieces off so it's entirely up to you in fact I'm going to trim it so that it is the four and a half but then I would say actually I'm going to make this four and three eighths of an inch because it might it might just kind of catch on the sides when we go to fold it flat so rather it be slightly away because you're not going to see this because it's going to obviously you're going to be covered and that looks slightly taller no it's not no it is flush so I'm going to get this one stuck down on the very back okay so that's all stuck down now what you want to do is turn it over and you want to fold them all down and just burnish over that I might do one at a time actually just to fold them back into that way okay and then make sure I might have to trim a little bit I'd say at this point you want to make sure and see I've got it kind of hanging off there I'm going to flip this over because you're not going to see any of this it's all going to be locked inside so I'm just going to see that one's fine flip this one over and just check if you've gone off a bit and turn it upside down and then you'll be able to cut and get a perfect cut without actually you know cutting your card stock you know your card base and then that one because that one I dropped it down a little bit and I can see there where I've gone off so now is your time to be able to again just tidy up any little bits so I just want to show you that even I you know I don't always get things lined up so but there is always ways to it's just checking it really before you've gone too far to be able to like doctor it you know mend it a little bit so and then that last one so the last one's fine so now you when you turn it up you don't upside down you don't want to be able to see any of the color all right but that's all won't make any difference because that's going to go right over this top so you can't see none of it so you would never know so fold it all down like that and then you want to take off I'm going to use my pokey tool take off all the backing at this point when we go to stick the next bit down that you hold everything down really really flat because that way you know it's going to fit in your envelope so you need this to all be really really flat okay and then you're going to fold this little hinge okay nothing to do with that side you're going to fold that over and let it catch even if it catches a little bit on that top one that's fine so now I didn't trim it I'm glad I didn't trim it now okay and then I'm going to use a little bit of wet glue don't want to use no I'm going to use red tape I'm going to cover the rest of this white now in red tape it's up to you you might want to use wet glue you know you know keep it that way again keep everything really really flat and you just want to fold this right over and kind of roll it along and then make sure everything's lined up and stick that down again make sure it's all stuck so now if you just carefully bring everything across and kind of square it off look how cool that all looks that one's bowed a little bit there we go you can see inside how cool is that now I'm going to decorate mine with it like this you can decorate each layer as you go as well if you want to so again whatever works easiest for you but now I have got because a lot most of my decoration is going to be within the light blue and the next kind of that medium blue color and these kind of little critters some of them I might have to cut I might have to cut his tail right off or I might have him right at the bottom here I'm not sure I'm going to kind of play around with the placement and then these I might rip off the bottoms a little bit and kind of have a few of them some I'm going to have right on the outside here kind of like this okay and let's have this kind of lighter green there as well and you want bits kind of going into the tunnel but you don't want to take away from that detail as well but these little bits like this look the little like starfish you can actually be like nestled in amongst like the seaweed there are just I just love this stamp set it's so nice because there's so many little creatures and then like this little one he can be stuck just a little bit of glue on the tail and just stick it just on that kind of third oval there but the pufferfish I think he was the one I'm going to have right kind of in the back there so you can really see him and then maybe I kind of work forward I don't think I want I don't want to cut him so I think I'm going to have my whale I know it seems weird it's almost like he's outside of the water but he's not he's just you know it's just an underwater themed card but I think once I've got more seaweed around him down here I might kind of have a little bit of him kind of again nestled amongst it but he's quite a feature so I think I'm going to have my kind of sentiment something kind of there I'm going to push them all down a little bit as well because I want to make sure they are something like that I've got the treasure chest here which I want to have right at the bottom as well so yeah I'm going to put this all on high speed now and kind of start playing around and yeah bring in this card to life okay so it's been a couple of days now and I finished the card um I just have the other things that I needed to do but you can see everything now I've put it all together I finished it off with this lovely little sentiment on the top wishing you a day of happiness and what I also went and done is I cut a piece of acetate which was four and a quarter by six and a quarter and I just slipped it in behind the white piece and I think it just gives it a really cool look it just looks like now you're kind of looking through you know a fish tank and yeah I just think it ties it all together really nicely on the back I have this kind of mat and layer here so this piece the blue piece here is four and a quarter by six and a quarter and then the white piece is four by six and I've just stamped happy birthday I'm going to stamp and color another little kind of critter and pop them there as well just to tie all together and um yeah I just really really love it it all folds nice and flat I will show you how to make the envelope in a minute because I've already done that and then I'm kind of dotting bits of videos together but it should all flow nicely anyway and um yeah I'm just super pleased with how this has turned out one thing I did notice when I've done this is and this isn't a you know there's no right or wrong to this it doesn't matter if you do it but when you fold it flat so mine's going to fold flat going off to the left hand side anything you've got overhanging so I've got the whale overhanging here it's a little tail we'll go within that section so it won't interfere with your envelope but obviously all this here is overhanging which is actually creating a wider card so what I've decided to do and I think would be better because I actually like that you can have because you really if you want it to fit in a smaller envelope then you don't want it to overhang on one side but I like that it balances out by having this overhanging here and the tail there so if you follow on the envelope punch board if you do the card size which is six by six and a half so you'll need a piece of 10 by 10 paper it will make a nice envelope for this so that's what I'm going to follow because if you don't take into account the overhang there the card actually measures five and a half by six and a half but I've done it so that it's six you can see there that just comes up there so six by six and a half okay so it's up to you depending on what you you know a lot of you will change the sizes completely but I'm just going to quickly make the envelope so like I said I'm doing the six by six and a half so I need a piece of 10 by 10 and my scoreline is four and three quarters and now when that goes flat it will go in this way and carefully you always have a little bit extra room as well so although it says it is six by six and a half it will be slightly larger and you can see there that will close over the top and I've got a lovely envelope so I hope you've enjoyed this tunnel card as much as I have it's not too hard to make it's just lots of processes to it as long as you get them in the right order the decoration is yeah just a joy to do so I hope it's inspired you and I hope you like it give me a thumbs up if you did and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye