 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this card shape to show you which I'm calling a floating pop card. So if I just move those to one side you can see there there's a strip of acetate but it means that whatever you have on the front looks like it's floating and it's like that but the whole thing just folds completely flat and it will fit in a six by this card works best on a equal squared format you know so I mean a five by seven things like that you can you can do it but because it's popping out like that it needs to have equal sides really and yeah so a square a square will work best but play around you may find other ways that you like it but I've had this for ages this was one of the very first cards I made with the nature's grace collection which came out way back at the beginning of the year and I'd forgot about them so I'd done that one and then this one and I remember posting just a little picture of this guy here which I used my watercolors again months and months and months ago so I am they were in envelopes and I totally forgot about them but this one is brilliant it's such a fun card for the guys we've got that sea theme and this was using the free stamp set from a creative stamping magazine when that came out so that I tell me as well how long I've had it so and then there's one there with happy birthday so it's a simple version so I've got three versions here because they're all different so this one's just playing cardstock on the outside and then just your pattern paper on the inside so that's the most basic easiest way all of it's easy to make to be fair this one here is using plain paper but I've framed it on the front as well so and then just the pattern paper again in the back and then I've got a little piece of hard weather dried flowers again that was all the nature's grace even the puffy stickers the die is a hobby based birdcage die and then this one here is using pattern paper as your base and not plain and then I've put some plain over the back there which is that blue now for your message you will pop it on the back like I've done here this panel so you could stamp again happy birthday there and then write your message but that's what we're going to make so I've got a congratulations I've got a male birthday card and I've got a normal birthday card today I'm going to make a Christmas card so let me just grab my stuff okay so I wanted the right kind of collection to make this card and it's the jolly holidays by first edition which I adore blah blah blah so again you don't have to do what I've done but I fussy cut one of the pages and that's all those pieces there but I'll show you all that as we get to it but this is the paper pack jolly holidays and it is a bumper pack so okay you'll need a piece of 12 by 12 but it doesn't end up being a six by six it will fit in a six by six envelope but this actually becomes a five and what was it five and three quarters by five and three quarters okay so that's what you need here so this is a piece of 12 by five and three quarters and what you want to do make sure I've got it on my right side there we go you are going to score that one yeah you're going to score at two and seven eighths of an inch five and three quarters eight and five eighths of an inch and eleven and a half okay and that's all along that long side that's all you need to do for this card pop that to one side so to decorate now it depends on how you want to do it if you want to just do this style with plain on the front all your need is your mats and layers for the back or just a mat if you just want to have the one mat so that's just the big piece there then you'll need a piece that is two and five eighths of an inch by five and a half and you'd need two pieces and they will just go as you can see there in each of those panels if you want to layer on top of that which is what I'm doing here today then you'll need a piece of two and three eighths of an inch by five and a quarter so sorry two pieces and they will go on top like so okay and they're going to go on the backs so one like so and the other one will be next to it like that now you can have one whole piece if you want which is what is in there this blue piece but it becomes quite bulky I mean if it's a if it's a thin pattern paper then you probably be fine but if it's any kind of cardstock or thicker paper I wouldn't recommend it because what it will do is it will stop this becoming it wanting to stay in more of a square or you know diamond shape it will kind of drag it out a little bit have a play around see what you've got but I would say I think that it's best to do it as two separate pieces like I've got there and you can see the purple card through the middle okay so that's those and then for the front again depends you may be doing patterned you know as your pattern cardstock this is a piece of five and a half by five and a half and then I'm going to be layering on top of that with five and a quarter by five and a quarter now I'm showing you this one because this one covers all of the the ways to do it then so you know I've spoken about that one and if you want to just use pattern paper and then just use the you know plain paper on the back there but this one I want to show you how to do this front because it's a really nice effect okay so that's all the scoring so we can get rid of that we'll talk you through the acetate and all those bits and pieces in a minute okay so we've got these bits first of all and we've got our layer to go on top now I've got two of my circle dies here now you want one bigger one and one smaller one now the big one is what you want to start with first and that's actually going to go on the smallest piece of card or paper so it's going to go on the piece that I'm layering on top okay lie that down so you get it as centered as possible now the size I've got here is from the cut line it's four inches okay I wouldn't go any bigger than that because you're gonna you know not give yourself too much here otherwise so with some washi tape and I'm just going to hold that in place so again just make sure it's about I'd say five eighths of an inch you've got gap and you're going to get this one die cut first of all okay so I've just run that through my machine and you can use that obviously that circle something else and then let's put that to one side so that piece now just show you is going to go on top like this so now we want to cut a smaller circle here now the easiest way to do it to make sure that you get it perfectly centered is line this up so that you've got a nice border and then grab a pencil and very lightly just draw around that circle to be honest you're going to cut this way anyway you're not really going to see it then with your smaller circle you can pop that in and make sure it's all nice and even and you've got that equal frame all the way around it okay so again stick that down and I'm just going to run that through my machine and again just take all of that off there and do that later and now we can just rub out that pencil mark like I said you're not really going to see the pencil mark anyway because now when this goes back over the top you can see you get a lovely perfect circle in the middle and I just think it really does make that something a bit more than that this still looks nice and it's perfect if you're just starting off you may not have you know more dies and things like that you may have to use something to draw around like a saucer or something to make that circle but if you have you nest of dies and I really like this way of doing it okay so next that's going to go and be stuck down on here and we need to cut this out as well so okay so now with your card stock with the tab on your right hand side okay we're going to be working within this square here so imagine that's your halfway fold okay we're going to be working within the first two panels here okay now what we need to create is the circle that's the same size as this white piece here okay so this is my mat layer so the largest of the sorry the smallest of the two circles and you're going to pop that on your card within those two so there's that halfway okay so it's just in the front piece here and then you want to draw again a circle going very lightly like so again this will all get rubbed out and then with your circle die you just want to sit that on the top there okay so once you've got it where you need it to be again I'm going to grab my washi tape and then what I would recommend is when you go to die cut this you just want to go through this front piece here but just put a piece of copy paper over the top just to protect in case your plate might leave any kind of markings on the front of your card and then I'm also going to put my plate just up to the die so that all it will cut is just the die and it won't go anywhere else onto the card like so and then just reverse it back again and we haven't burnished our score lines yet so that you know we don't weaken them so let's just pop that to one side okay so again we've got the tab on the right hand side that's now been die cut so next what's going to happen is we can burnish our score lines so basically that's going to stick to the front like so so you won't see it so when you look inside your back is nice and plain it hasn't got that joint because it's on the front but that's how it's going to look so what we need to do is the white one is going to stick perfectly over the green okay so yes you'll just line that up and it should have a nice even frame and then that one is going to go over the top like so but before we stick it down we need to add some acetate inside so I've got a sheet here and you want your acetate be the length I would say of just slightly shorter of your this top piece here so I'm going to do mine at four and three quarters okay so four and three quarters by I think it was three quarters of an inch it's entirely up to you actually depending on what you might want to put on it you might have something larger but I've got mine at three quarters of an inch okay so what we will then do it's going to stick behind this one and then stick on that so it's all hidden and concealed and then this one will go on top again as well when sticking down your acetate I would use wet and I would use red sorry I was looking at my wet glue as I was picking up my red tape I would use red tape it just seems to work it sticks the best so what you want to do because you probably can't really see my acetate in the minute so if I just pop a this is the quarter inch yeah quarter inch um tape and I'm just going to pop a piece on the very ends like so okay you don't want to score this or anything you want it to be just nice and this is crafters companion acetate so it's nice and wobbly and just get it as centered as possible okay so and make sure it lies perfectly flat I'm just going to go over making sure I get rid of all those air bubbles I'll just bring it up so you can see what I've done there okay then we can start popping all of these down so next I want to stick this one over like so so I'm going to use some of my wet glue because I want to make sure I get a nice seal right around the circle so I'm just very carefully just putting a light amount I don't want to have too much I just want it to kind of tack there in place like so and then the rest okay plus this gives you wiggle room so focus on the circle you've got to get it lined up with that and the rest will just all fall into place and then again that piece now is going to stick on top like that okay so that's now all stuck down I've got my acetate there then what I would do is if you're using wet glue just start to because why it's still a little bit wet just start to reinforce the score line there because whilst that glue is kind of still setting it and kind of stay in that place but you can see now you just want it to like so okay make sure you've got a nice point and that should be curved because that's what your kind of floaty bit's going to wobble on all right pop that to one side then you've got your mats and layers here so you just want to stick your layers on top okay and then open it up and they're going to go on the two inside ones here so again we're tabs on the right that comes over like so so they're going inside here so one that side and one that side okay and then we can stick down the side here and actually put the card together I'm going to use my red tape for this one I'm just going to run a strip closest to the folded score line there and then you can either just lie it down I'm going to bring it up and I'm going to do it this way just so I can make sure it's all nicely lined up and start from the top just kind of tack it down and then do the bottom and then the rest then you can just squeeze down so there we have so that's the the more complex way of doing it with all the layers but look how lovely it looks it's a solid card and it's just got such a nice shape to it and it's great because it obviously all folds flat and that person who receives it will know to kind of lift it up and it will just kind of naturally fall into place anyway so now the fun of decorating it so I've got all these lovely little pieces that I've fussy cut and I just want to create like a nice little kind of cluster that's going to sit on the front so I don't know whether to do I'm going to maybe have some of these crackers together in the corner here obviously whatever you put on you need to make sure it doesn't go over the six or the five and three quarter kind of square there because you won't get it in the envelope otherwise or whether to have these stockings where's my other one can have like three stockings kind of floating on the front there and then I've got the jolly holidays that I can have kind of across here so I'm going to have a little play around and then yeah I'll be back okay so what I'm going to do what I've already started doing that is you see I've just put three crackers I could do no it doesn't it's fine three crackers together then I've put a strip of white to glue them okay so that that white card stock is just holding them in place because then I'm going to have that with love at Christmas over the top so I'm going to pop I don't need that much foam actually I just need one in the middle just to lift it up a little bit and that is then going to go across the three of them and then again you'll need to use your red tape to stick it to that acetate strip so I'm going to pop just some there you don't want to go any um you don't want that to be any longer than the width of your acetate okay because otherwise when it lies flat it would stick onto the back of your card so just make sure you just put a little bit in there you don't need a lot and you don't want to go right across that way because you don't want it to stick to everything you just want it to tack onto the very kind of the the the kind of uh what's the word I'm looking for the furthest point the the arched bit that bit there that's where you want to stick it so let me just show you so then I'm going to lie down flat and make sure I've got it as nice and centered as possible and I can see it's not stuck to the back which is good and then and now can you see look look how it pops out it just looks so fun it really does I mean that's how people see it it's got such a lovely look about it I love this card so yeah so just play around because you don't want it to be more on one side than the other and it needs to kind of sit quite evenly which it does then with the other ones here I'm going to pop some foam on the back of this one and I'm going to have the December the 25th at the top there that's why it's good to fussy cut things from paper packs like I said if you're working on a budget and you can only just buy a paper pack and I'm not just saying this because I'm on their design team because I use the papers way before I join the design team but their packs are really good because they have pages where you can cut things out so this is all come from one paper pack you don't need to them think about buying ribbons and sequins and all that lot which is lovely but again you can make this card and many many cards and not have to spend too much money then I'm going to use the hope and joy one and again pop one bit of foam on there and that one's going to go actually might hang on a minute before I stick it because I think I want to add in yeah I want to add this one here yeah I'm not going to use that one let me just peel that back off because I can reuse that again for another project and I keep all these in a little clear piece of like a clear pocket and I keep it with my paper pack so I know that I've got it every time I go to that paper pack I've got something to match it okay so that's how it's looking on the front what I then want to do is I'm going to add some of these I'm going to do what I've done there because I really like that I've got three and three but I'm going to do them at the bottom and then I'm just going to stick on the back on one of the sides here these two strips which are exactly the same sizes as the ones inside there this time I've done a pattern piece on the back which is the same as the front and then just the white piece to write my message you can put it all over it if you want but I'm not going to and I've got a little sticker with my name and everything on so that will go on that side anyway so there you have it how fun is that look at it it's like it moves I think it's great it's such a fun card and these papers are just so fun anyway and it all folds flat and it will fit like a seven to six by six envelope so that is that one just recap you've got this one here which is really really pretty that's using the nature's grace and it's good for a wedding as well I've got congratulations anniversaries weddings engagements things like that that one there again it's really really fun and lie them all down and I just love the way that that guy looks and then that's that simple happy birthday one so there you go lots of inspiration hopefully if you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe so you get to see more tutorials thanks for watching