 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. So I'm going to be showing you how to make this really fun box card using my tower fold dies. Now I will also share tutorials on how to make this fold without the dies but for those of you that have them this is another really fun and creative way to make some really special cards. So as you can see I've got an underwater theme here and by pulling the sides in and out like I'm doing so it gives the illusion of those creatures moving and they're just stuck there with a little bit of acetate. In the back you've got the crab with the holographic shell and then on the front here you've got the treasure chest which looks really really good and then the whole thing will fold flat like so. I'm fitting to a 5x7 envelope or you can use one of my box envelopes and I'll link that along the way and then on the back you have lots of room to be able to stamp and write your message as well but I think it looks great. When it's opened up it's just got such a nice look and it's a really special card so let me show you how to make it. Okay so this is the die set that I'm using since it's the 5x7 from the terrific tower die set but you can also use the 6x6 and I've done a craft world exclusive video using the 6x6 with a similar style so I'll link that one up here and it'll also be linked in the description box so you know you might have the 6x6 size and also I have the landscapes. This is 5x7 but you have this panel here so it'd be a good one to cut an aperture out of that one you can see the landscape panels as opposed to the 5x7 where you've got the portrait panels like I said I'm using this one today because I wanted to have you know this tall kind of area where all the fish would be swimming so I've already gone ahead and cut everything and like I said at the beginning you can make this without using the dies I have the tutorials I have the tower fold playlist I have a look there but I have used the die here so this is it it's really really easy to use and it's just nice and quick so what you want to do is die cut two bases so I've done one here in the white so it's just simple pass it through your machine and you will have this one cut then you want to cut another one but this time you want to cut the middle out at the same time so you can see there that sits perfectly over the top then you've also got a mat and layer in the set you want to use the smaller mat layer so if you're making this yourself you'll just need to find something that you've got that will fit within this space but you can see there that fits perfectly so when I was laying this one down I just used some of my washi tape make sure that you've got an even border at the top and the bottom and also the left and the right so that when you you know it's all cut through if you can cut it all at the same time you can see there we've got this even top and bottom and we're going to reinforce that slightly when we add the acetate behind so then I've cut my mats and layers so I'll just explain these ones so this one here is the largest mat so it's this one here and that's going to go on the inside which is going to be on this one here and it's just going to stick in the center there okay once I start putting this all together it's going to make sense but you want one for the inside these ones I've done four so I've got two for the outer sides and also on the back side just so it looked nice now you you get your mat and layer for the side pieces you can see there's the mat and then the layer is slightly smaller I've just used the largest I've just used the mat layer so whether you're using the 5x7 the 6x6 or the 7 or the 5x7 landscape they will all have those mats and layers so you can decide but I've done four of them and then I've cut this panel using the same paper and this one here will cover all of these panels so if you want to cover every one then you'll need to run that through four times and it will give you 28 pieces okay I've also then cut a mat and a layer using those two here for the back so that's where I'm going to stamp and write my message and then I've cut a piece of acetate which is going to fit behind your aperture so whatever size you're doing you want to cut your acetate so it's going to cover now I've already put red tape very thin layer of red tape you can see now that's going to cover to look like the fish tank the fish bowl you know whatever you want to do here so before I stick all those pieces down let me show you how to pop this out so I'm going to do it on the plain one here it will be the same on this one but for those of you that maybe haven't seen this card style what you will have is when it die cuts you'll have score lines along every other so there's no score line here but there's a score line here then it misses one there's another one misses one there's another one okay so with every one where there's a score line here facing you you want to lift that one up towards you then miss one and bring that one up you see I'm kind of putting my finger there I'm using my finger underneath to pop it up now as you pop those ones up it will all come into play these ones behind here are going to go down so you can see although it hasn't got a score line here it has one here but then this one doesn't have a score line there because this is going to be your piece that will be seen from the front so you don't want there to be a score line there so it just looks neater basically so that one can then go down again go down and as you work your way along it will start to come into this shape here now there's also score lines through the middle here you just want to start working in those score lines as well so I like to just feed my finger through and it kind of you know these ones come this way and those ones go underneath like so and then I just kind of bring it down and fold it towards me and it will start to find those score lines here and just go along and just pinch those ones because you can get right in there now and then just bring that over and then I can just burnish all of these sides here and then I flip it over and just do the ones in there as well I am using a thick cardstock this is 300 gsm but it still works and then you just want to repeat the same on this side so again I've got the score line facing me there so I'm bringing that one up and down up down up down it doesn't matter which way you do it I mean you do want to kind of follow the score lines because we put them there so that then you don't get the score lines here however if you did do it the other way it's not the end of the world but do make sure that they're the same on each side so again just go pop my fingers in push that down just find the score lines there okay so now you have your tower fold and that is what this die creates it's this shape here you then have these edge dies that will coordinate so this one here coordinates with the 5x7 landscape but you could use it on this 5x7 if you wanted for this one you have the balloons the stars and the flowers so basically this border then can attach onto the sides and I've got all of that on my release video which I'll link up here if you wanted to see that in more detail and then that's the one for the 6x6 and it's got this beautiful bow it's really popular and you've got the butterflies there and the hearts it's just a really pretty set so you do have coordinating edges if you want to do but for today's one I'm going to use it without the edges and I'm just going to use the mats and the layers so now I'm just going to do the same as what I've just done there on this one okay so I just started to do on this one but I think because this is obviously at the moment it's quite weak I think it's going to be better to attach this piece first and then do the folding so I'm going to remove the backing okay and then very carefully just sit that down so I'm going to bring it right up to the top there so now that's just made that very strong again so I would advise if you've cut a large aperture out of it like I have then add that and then do the folds okay so I'll put those both together so what will happen when we do go to stick them together is you're going to stick one over the top make sure again they match up like so and now we can see through this whole section so once you've got them that way you could stick this one in because this is going to go on the back but I think I'm going to do a little bit of inking and stuff with that yet so I'm going to leave that there but you can see how that's going to work and already it's starting to give us a really great effect but I am going to stick all the mats and layers down on the front so I'm going to start building that up with my stamped images so I'm going to stick one of these either side like so and like I said all of these on these pieces here now you can just flatten this back down and what I like to do is just with some glue a little line of glue like so do like a bunch at a time and then it's really quick to just stick them down this is because I'm covering every one I just want to do it like so that's if you want to cover every one if you want to do every other then you can some people just like to do the fronts and not even do the sides so it's entirely up to you but I'm going to go and stick all of this down okay so I've stuck everything down and I've also added this very thin frame and you can do that with the mat and the layer dies so I just pop them together like so if I flip it over pop a bit of washi tape just to keep them so that you have a perfect frame and run it through your die machine in your chosen color and it will give you that very thin frame but I just think it works quite nice so I've just done it in the same blue that I've got for the back for my mat and layer and then I have all of my elements here so I've used a mix of really of all my kind of underwater themed stamps and dies so I've used for the sentiment I've got birthday fishes which is that one there and that's from the paper discovery underwater world then I've used for the I always love this one the little treasure chest and I've got all the glitter on the top there and that is from the hunky dory for the love of stamps under the sea I will link if I can find these some of them are older but some places do still stock them and for the the kind of treasure look I use this cosmic shimmer and it's the blush haze and it's gorgeous look at that it's just got so much shine and then for the fish and the starfish and the crab I've used this one which is paper discovery underwater world so they kind of work together this is paper discovery and I used this one I've used the for the shell I was that one there and I've just died cut that in holographic cards that catches the light nicely and then for all of like these pieces of seaweed and stuff I've used this one here so I've used these ones which was the paper discovery beyond the sea yeah it was for those but also I use this one for these bits I have them still in my dye machine and that creates all of these bits of seaweed as well but like I said I try and link as much as I can and then I've created the seabed here just using a piece of scrap card stock I've just kind of inked the edges there to darken them up and then I've used the this is the gravel paper discovery and bottom folder but I thought it kind of looked like sand and stones and things like that on the bottom so on this piece here which is going to be the inside I want to start building my scene so I cut this using the same dye but just obviously just at the end of it so I'm going to stick that one down the bottom there and then I can start creating my scene so you know got bits of the seaweed here I think I'm going to have this one like so and then maybe have the crab so he kind of like covers the ends of the seaweed there I'll pop him on some foam as well like so and then I think I'll have some more seaweed coming in from the top so I'm going to stick these down onto this piece first and then I'm probably going to have some decorated on the actual front on the outside of the card I know the whole point is like everything's meant to be inside the tank but it's quite nice especially in a card form to have things it just makes it a little bit more tactile and maybe we'll have this one here just so they're kind of creeping into the the scene there something like that and then if you start to like lay things down so if I just put this then you can kind of lay it all in there just to kind of get an idea now the fish are going to be attached with acetate so that they move so you want to kind of place where you want them now the acetate needs to sit it's going to be the same width of this and we'll cut that before we stick the two together but you do want to do this decoration first but if you place them so if I'm going to have my seahorse here my acetate is going to come out from this one so he will float and then I think the fish would sit nicely on that one so he can be up there and they actually have the room to move within the card so I'm going to have a piece of acetate there and a piece of acetate there so I really like that scene there and then I think I'm also going to bring in the shell just behind him then when you stick this on the top you want to make sure that the same bottom is the same as the back one there because they do have a slightly different top to the bottom so just make sure you'll know anyway because it will all sit perfectly but you can see now what we've got and then I'm thinking about having a little cluster on the front here take the end off of that one because I like to get everything placed because then I know if I need to cut anymore so I'm going to do this on this side because I've got everything in there on the left so I'm going to have this on the right and then we've got a few more bits and pieces so again I'll build them up and then I think I'm going to have the treasure like so with maybe the sea um the starfish just next to it so I kind I like that placement and then my sentiment I'm going to stick using some foam on the very top there so you can see everything going on um and I think it looks really good so I think before once I've stuck this down before I put that on top I'm going to use the glossy accents to just um add in some bubbles which I like to do when I do any of these kind of cards so I'm going to start sticking it all down I'll come back when we do this and then we can add the top and the acetate okay so everything is now stuck down apart from my fish here so you can see that if I just bring it up I also put this on some foam so I could tuck bits of the seaweed in behind it just creates some shadow and then again if I just bring out the front there that little cluster I think it looks really cool so I've cut a strip of acetate obviously your acetate is going to vary depending on um you know what you've got attached to it so whatever the width is though you need to the width though you do need to make sure it's obviously going to fit within the sections here so I need to remember which one I said yeah so I can see there that that's going to fit perfectly so I'm just kind of hovering it just kind of sit it on top of that section there and then you should be able to rest whatever it is that you're going to have floating so you can see that's rest and now when we move the side of the card it's going to move now you want to make sure that when you fold it flat it's still going to sit within that section if you go too long obviously it's going to hit this when that comes down and it's just going to hit this side and it won't fold flat but that actually is a perfect so I'm just going to it's a perfect length so I'm just going to snip that off there and I can grab some of my red tape and I'm just going to pop it on too so again I can see yeah it's going to sit there so I'm going to pop my tape on that area there but hopefully by showing you how to do it you can easily then adapt this you know for your card and then I'm going to do it on the other side as well always use a red tape when you use acetate because it will stick really well so I'm just going to take the backing off of one side and then again it was that one there and then just stick that within there so I've then got my backing on the top side here to peel off in a minute then for that bit there I'm just going to pop just a small strip of the red tape just on the end and that will be plenty for you to attach your element there okay so I'm just going to grab that other piece and I'm going to do the same with the fish now this fish is a bit longer so again I need to make sure that whatever he's attached to when he folds flat yeah he's going to sit within that section so again trim that off and I'm just going to do the same again so now I'm just going to attach the seahorse and the fish okay so now again before you stick everything together just place it over the top just so you can you know make sure you're happy I might move my sentiment which I still can just because he's kind of just in the view there of that fish but look how cool that looks I think it looks wonderful so please with it yeah I think I'm going to have my sentiment I don't know need to play around maybe I might have it like here or something on an angle okay so I'm going to take the backing off of there and then you want to add your glue I'm using the clouds this is just going to strengthen this so much and just pop the glue across all of this area obviously don't need to worry about that because I've already got the double sided tape see the glue coming out there there we go this glue gives me a little bit of time as well so because you need to do both sides at the same time some of your you know your white glues might dry quite quick start from the bottom because you want to make sure it's going to stand up straight and obviously once it attaches to that little bit of red tape that's in there that's going to obviously stop you being able to wiggle it around so I'm just going to make sure that's okay and then I can just really push down on those bits there and if you actually fold the card flat you'll be able to really push in on the red tape on those two there you can still wiggle a little bit around the top and the bottom there just make sure all of these bits that you just pinch together just to make sure that glue secure I'm just going to keep it flat just whilst I push down on all of those okay so I finished the card so I've ended up cutting the sentiment into two so I just like that little arrangement there and then I've also added this starfish which is from the same stamp set just to kind of balance out everything it needed something on this side and I quite liked having this outside and I popped on a little bit of foam but now you can see how cool does that look I absolutely love this thing it looks brilliant I haven't put the glossy accents because when I was doing it I realised that they are actually obviously quite far away from the back there so I've just left them out but if you wanted to and I will share my kind of undersea playlist and you'll see I use that a lot if you did want to use it and then on the back I've added my mountain layer there as well so that's ready for me to write my message and then the whole thing will just fold flat and that will fit into a 5x7 envelope or you might find one of my box envelopes will be better because there is a bit of dimension and there is a bit of bounce to these cards as well when you double them up and I'll link the envelope boxes there so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial for those of you that have the dies I hope it's given you more inspiration on other ways to use them and I can't wait to see your versions and what I'll also do is I'll link up some other cards that are similar kind of underwater themes that you might enjoy and if you haven't subscribed I'd really appreciate it if you did enjoy today's tutorial just click on my face there and hit the notification bell and then you'll be notified when I next upload a video so thanks for watching and I'll be back again very soon bye