 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft and thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this what is now, well I'm now calling it an M-fold card, but it started off with good intentions to be a Z-fold card, but now it's this. So you can see the M, the lopsided M shape there. So basically it stands up like this, I really like it, but it was a complete accident. Excuse the very orange yellowy fingers, that's from the i-zinc that I've been using to do these flowers which I'm going to show you during the tutorial. So basically if you imagine just the orange card, that is what I started making and I've put my mat on here and I just wasn't feeling it at all and I thought I'd just use that pretty much six by six piece of patterned paper. So I got out the card from the kit, so this is all using a lot of supplies from the hobby base dune kit and we got sent these scalloped-edged six by six card bases and I was playing around, I put it on top of that and this has evolved. So it's a complete accident but I think a good accident, I really like it. So yeah it's an M, it's an M fold card. So yeah and again it stands up like so, so that is the profile that you get, really nice and then it all folds flat and fits perfectly into the six by six envelope which also came in the kit. So you get three card bases, I actually got two of these ones so I got an extra one and I did say I'd do them a bonus card so these are the two cards that I'm doing. But yeah it's really nice, so the products I've used from the kit are the Bumble Bee die, I've used the Dinky dies, we've got this flower, the embellishments are from last month's kit I believe and then the paper there, one of the sheets of the Be Happy by Dovecraft collection that we got in the kit as well. So the bow, the sentiment and the orange card is my own but I am really really pleased with how this one's come out, so complete accident but I've managed to turn it around and not waste anything. So I'm going to pop that one to one side, what you're going to need is just bring in all my stuff so I've pre-done a lot of it just again to keep the video nice and quick. So this is the other six by six card base that we got and the envelope so I'll keep them to one side. I've got all these leaves here, again sorry these are from my own stash but you could easily just die cut just some you know green card and any leaves that you've got and you'll get just the same effect so I've just got a load of those. These are the flowers that I've already done, I've played around again because I haven't used, this is what we received in the kit as well, we've got this iZinc and it's a French company, Aladine, I briefly had a look and they do lots and lots of different colours and different blends, I know they've got like an acrylic blend, this one here, I'm not too sure exactly what this one is but it's just a very strong, it's just the same as your re-inkers, it's that kind of thing so like I said I'm not no whiz with that kind of thing so do look it up a bit more but I'm going to show you what I've done so you can see the flowers on this one here are not as vibrant in colour. Now what I've done with this one is I just played around and I cut this from a piece of card that I basically just covered in this, sprayed it, added water and just blended it around with my blending tool so and then I just die cut loads of those flowers and I mean it looks nice and you know everything matches so I was still pleased with that. This time I die cut them all first just on white card so that is how they come out and you can see the detail on them so really cute but obviously quite boring when they're just flat like that so I have now completely brought them to life and you can see they're all raised up, got extremely coloured fingers, me and my husband went out for dinner as well and I had this colour finger it was quite embarrassing anyway so I'm going to show you just how to get more out of them and yeah I think they look really quite cool so I've already done four of them but you will need to die cut five so that's my fifth one ready. We got this dinky die as well which was the butterfly and sorry the bumblebee and that I've already die cut in just some gold miri card so I'll be using that one pop that one to the one side that's the dinky die that's the flower one so that's what it looks like. I'll share any links as well share all the links as always if you want to subscribe to the kit at the moment you've got now till the 21st of what we in July so you got until the 21st of July to subscribe for August's box okay and I'll share the links just directly below this and you can find out more about that that's the embellishments and then all of our mats and card bases so that's my sentiment I've already die cut that's a dovecraft sentiment brilliant I use this a lot happy birthday again I'll show as many links as I can right so you will need your I'd say this is the main car base because this is what I kind of stopped this is what I started off with at the beginning so this is a piece of 12 by five and three eighths of an inch I ended up cutting mine down because it was 12 by six so yeah sorry 12 by five and three eighths of an inch along the 12 inch side you want to score at five and three quarters and eight and seven eighths of an inch okay and then you want to fold up first on the half well say halfway it's not quite but that one in the middle and then down on that other one okay and then just make sure you go and burnish those score lines so all nice okay so there is a z-fold guard okay so um yeah I just wasn't feeling it so that's yeah just shows you can see that's how my mind works anyway things just evolve from something else um then you are going to need this piece here is to go inside your card I just sort of tied it together so that's what I'm going to write my message on you could mat another white on top of that but I can write on that card um so that piece there is five and a quarter square okay then to mat on your front so this is your front mat this is five by five then I've got this one which is this piece here on this bit this is five by two or three quarters and then I decided to layer up another piece on top of this one just I found I had a quite a little white space there which is why I've added the bow so I might not add the bow with this one because I'm now going to have this pattern paper so we'll see um so that piece there did I just say so it's four and three quarters by two and a half um and this was paper as well that was in the kit so like I said we got six sheets of the dovecraft be happy collection which you can buy separately so again all those links I will share so I've done all the scoring get rid of that so assembling it is actually all very very quick the longest part for me was to do the flowers so I'm going to grab my actual card base and then with that piece that we've just scored basically you want to position your card so it is landscape okay and then this is going to stick on top now I've done it so my measurement is that the top goes flush with the very top of the card so that you get this nice frame at the bottom so you can see all of that scalloped detail so that when the cards closed you see you can see it all the way around so if you don't have a scalloped edged card then you by all means can do this measurement you could have hang on if I turn this upside down so pretend this is your flat base of your normal flat edged base and card base you could have that flush with the bottom like so and not have that gap the only reason I've got that gap is because of that detailed edge that I've got but you can still have that flush with the bottom and then you'd have your frame around the sides the top and the other side okay so make sure it's in that position and then I'm just going to grab some of my wet glue and just stick this one down okay so focus like I said on the top you will get a nice just make sure you get your sides nice and even like so and then again just with your bone folder just go over and make sure that glues spread out and re-burnish that card a little bit more there as well okay so there we already have now the M fold okay so it stands up perfectly and it all folds completely flat and you can see now you get that nice border all the way around so then you just want to go ahead now and add your layers so this one here is going to go inside so okay and then this one or these two are going to go on the front so my white one first they should all line up with the layer on the back here so you've got the same border and then that one is going to go on top just think it ties it all in a little bit more like so so I'm going to go ahead and stick all those bits down okay so then open it up and if you're doing this piece you just want to stick that inside so again just going to stick that one down okay once it's all in place just go ahead and just burnish all those kind of lines again and then open it up and there is a cool shape I think it's really really good okay so now it's just up to you just time to decorate so I'm going to add my sentiment first because I like to build up all my flowers and things like that so this one here I have basically just already gone and stuck some foam adhesive on the back there so it's going to sit halfway on this piece here so half of it's going to hang off the top here so let me just take all this backing off and then you just want to carefully position it in fact I just do it that way because I've got the scallop detail here I can make sure I've got the same amount on each side and just coming in there I haven't pushed it down yet so I've still got a chance yeah I just want to move that over a little bit there we go let's stick that down done then I have my little bee so I know where that's going so that can be stuck straight down so again just popping just a tiny amount don't need much at all just pop that one there and then start building up all of these so I think before I stick the rest of them down I'm just going to show you how I got this all the different shades there so I'm just going to bring in my mat here which is already covered so I didn't want to obviously get any more mess where I didn't need it so I'm going to move everything out of the way because one thing I have noticed is if you spray this stuff it goes everywhere even if you spray it from a very very close so basically just a couple of pumps will come out I think it's because I've got a funny angle there we go already I can see specks here so it literally it's lethal so yeah move everything out of the way and just I've got this wipe with me just to make sure I can clear up anything very quickly okay so that's what we have let me get my dry cloth as well right so all I done was get my blending tool and just literally just suck up all of that pigment we've got way too much for this one flower but never mind okay and then just like you would blend anything else start on your mat I'm just going to rub some of it off there and just go around the sides and you want it to kind of dry as you're going around just in time for when it meets up again it will start to blend over but the color starts to change I do have way too much on this let me just get rid of some of this that's better so yeah don't go in as much as I had because I've done loads of flowers before so this is just for this one but where it's drying it's kind of going in a bit lighter now okay so that's that one you can see other kind of changes and then I was just drying them in between so I'm just going to quickly just dry this one off okay and then get a bit more of the and then I just dipped each corner of the flower right in and let it absorb a bit onto each end by the time you've gone around you start to get a really really dark color on the edges and then I just use my little brush you can see like so and brush away from you so brush out you just want to keep that real rich deep color just on the very very edges and they are really not they stay quite blendable for a while they're quite it's quite a movable pigment so I'm certainly going to look into it more because I do like the the finish that you get just get rid of that excess on the back and then just go ahead and heat set this again okay so I've just got myself cleaned up and just to show you there we go so you just see all the different shades you get from that one color so it is really good so I know by buying more of the set you're going to give yourself you know loads and loads of different shades so yeah do you recommend them think it's really really good and then all I done is I always have to bring my flowers to life as I say so I've just got my little foam mat here just one of these little tools and just roll the barbarian and just over to the edges of each of the little petals and it just gives it a lot more dimension now it's just lifted it off and yeah just comes to life so that's that one and then grab one of the embellishments from one of the past kits pop it in the middle obviously you don't have to do that it's optional but I do like I do like a bit of bling and now is the fun part so again you doesn't matter if you don't have what I've just shown you you can still create this card with just normal colored card and your flowers and your your away so now we just need to start putting this together so play around always kind of put them in place first I think some of these are a bit wet still on the bottom see where it's just created more maybe I'd be careful so just start laying them around I mean I know where I want mine to go because I want it to be the same as before so one in that corner one up there and then all the leaves will kind of nestle in around so some of them I put on foam here on these foam squares as well so I'm going to do I'm going to do it all but I'm going to speed this bit up just so you can watch me actually do it bit by bit rather than me actually talking through okay guys so there's the finished card so one thing when you start putting all these bits on is make sure you don't go over the outer card base with all of your decorations otherwise it won't fit in your envelope but now you can see there where that comes out again when it's flat in the card it looks really nice really presentable as the first kind of impression when they pull the card out and then they see that it does this as well I mean you could certainly do more on the back here you could put your more messages and sentiments there as well I'm just sticking with it all inside but you can see there it stands up beautifully so there's one and two two very different looks with the flowers if I put them up together there you can see but both equally nice and obviously with or without the bow now that I've got that paper there I just think this one I'm going to leave without the bow and I'm going to keep the bow on that one there so again more alternatives for you to obviously choose but I really like them so my accident has um yeah it's turned out well so I'm really pleased so I hope you like them too hope you give them a go and like I said before if you're interested in joining the hobby based club all of that information will be shared below and you can also find old unboxing videos and other 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