 Hey everybody it's Sam with Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these really fun cards. Now I actually saw something similar in a very fancy card shop and I couldn't take any photos because it was right by the till and the person there was let's just say not someone that would really like you to do that. They just kept stirring so I just thought maybe I'll just have to keep that in my memory so what I've done is I've taken parts of that and created this card and I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. So I'm calling it a double concertina maybe lock card or I don't know you'll see what I mean in a minute. So this is the front so you can see they're both at the same then I've just used elements of the papers which I'll show you in a moment. That's the side it is bulky so this one will fit perfectly in my five by seven box envelope which I'll link up here but you can also shrink this down and I'll talk you through that in more detail in a moment but basically you just open it up and you have this and I think it's genius I absolutely love it. Now the one I saw in the shop had another window here so all of this was open and this bit was like stuck to this part here and I just thought I don't I didn't think I needed to add that bit in I think this looks like wow is that show stopper card I would say. So I have concealed the part here there's like a tab which is behind this pattern paper but I'm going to show you simplified ways to make this because you can if you're not someone that's confident with cutting into paper or maybe getting your line straight you can stick the tab straight onto this piece here. You'll see there how it kind of locks through this window so I've made two of them and I'm going to do the third one because I've kind of been just perfecting it as I do each style so there's this one here again still five by seven and then you open it up look at that one absolutely gorgeous just love them so on the back you can write your message and then yeah and it's got such a nice profile I mean you can see birds eye view there how it looks but look at it front on I mean that's how it stands I think it's absolutely beautiful love the papers I've gone back to some old school papers so some of you might be thinking I recognize those they are from a while ago so again I'll share all that again you can see that style there so they are straightforward to make and I'm going to show you some simplified ways and I'll show you ways to alter the size as well but yeah let's get into the tutorial okay so I've gone back to three old first edition paper pads so these are all from last year I think it is or maybe ones from the year before anyway I'm sure lots of them are still available as well and I'll share links if I can find them for you but I've used Botanical Beauty on one of those ones and Wonderlust both really lovely paper pads which I'm sure many of you have and then today I've gone back to Fiesta Fever because there was some really lovely bright colors and that's why I've gone for this clash of like the kind of coral orange and the purple I think it looks really good together as I said they will all be linked as usual for the sentiments because lots of you always ask me about the sentiments that I use beautiful big one I use this a lot and I've shared you know this one a lot it's just such a handy one and it's the card making magic by Christina Griffith so you've got your happy best day there lovely big one and then his side I've used that one there to a lovely friend on your special day which is this one down here and then the happy birthday is from the new landmark occasions collection again by card making magic and it's the 72 piece months die set and within that you get the happy birthday so that's what I've used for those ones okay so I'm going to get straight into the card base we'll go through all the mats and layers and bits and pieces like that as we get to it because like I said it's not hard to do but there is a lot to it so you want two pieces of cardstock that um sorry you want one piece that's 10 by 7 okay and you want to score along the 10 inch side of 5 inches so this is really just a card blank but because I the next one needs to be slightly bigger I had to use my 300 gsm cardstock and then you just fold it in half just so you've literally got a 5 by 7 card blank all right so that's a straightforward one this one is the same but you've got an extra half an inch on it so this one is 10 and a half by 7 and along that 10 and a half side you want to score at 5 and 10 and again just fold and burnish those score lines okay we'll probably do it that way actually so you might want to score that score line on both sides because you're going to flip it back and then basically that is going to stick behind that front one so we've got that concertina fold okay so that's all that is right now it's just you know again very straightforward and then we will talk through I'll give you the measurements for the the inside piece so this one here is a piece of 11 and three quarters by four inches now this is the piece that you can alter so if you've got 12 inches you can use that I'm going to give you the measurements and if you I think you could even do this with 11 so if you've got your letter paper size I'm sure you can do this so it just means the card won't pull out as much it would just be well it's only going to be three quarters of an inch difference to what I'm using but what you can do so whatever length you've got they all need to be that four inches in width but whatever length you've got you want to score at half an inch and two inches flip and do half an inch and two inches and then find the middle point of whatever length it is that you've got okay so for me here with the 11 and three quarters I'm scoring at five and seven eighths if you've got 11 you'll score at five and a half and if you've got 12 you'll score at six okay so hopefully that's kind of solved any questions sometimes people ask me those questions like could I use this length paper or so and so yes I believe you can I know you can do 12 because that's what I used on one of the other cards and I know that you can also use 11 and three quarters the 11 I'm not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure it will be okay with this one you want to fold the outer and then the next one so they're both mountain that middle one needs to be a valley she might want to again flip that over and score through the middle so you've got your fold in the right direction but now you can see how that's going to look then on top also all these measurements will be in my blog okay so don't worry you know about writing it all down now but while I'm going through it I'll give you these ones so for the little panels on the side here these are one and a quarter by three and three quarters so you want two so that's my purple ones and then the red layers on top are three and a half by one okay again two of them and then for these panels here you want two pieces in the purple which are three and five eighths by three and three quarters and then the white is three and three eighths by three and a half okay again you can see there I've used this glitter card stock by paper mill direct for my happy birthday and I've just cut out elements from that paper pad to make that so get that all decorated and done now and then you want to add some just thinking which way we're going to stick that in it will be that side you want to run some double sided tape along those panels but I'll do that in a moment okay I've also gone ahead and done my front cover so there's this one I've just done some faux stitching using my posca pen mats and layers again those mats and layers I'll write in my blog I'm not going to show you them now but you'll see all the photos and you can just create something similar if you want to oh for these mats and layers you will want so let's just make sure it gets right so you're going to want one two three four you want five pieces minor purple right so five pieces that are four and three quarters by six and three quarters okay one will be for the front one will be for the back and then four of them will be for the middle to cover those four panels of that concertina fold okay so I know a lot of you like to go away now and kind of pull all your papers out you'll see one of them and then that's the back with this one and then that's the front with that one okay those will be stuck on at the very end so I'm just sorting all my piles out now so it's all in the correct order and then for the rest of the decoration inside you'll want four pieces that are four and a half by six and a half but I've changed my pattern so I've got the plain red on the inside which is where we're going to have that window and then I've got that beautiful pattern on the outside here and that's where you can if you want we're going to cut a slit there or you can just stick your double-sided tape on the other side and stick it directly on to the double-sided onto the pattern paper all it means is you're going to see that tab but you know you've got that on many other cards that I've made so it's not a bad thing but if you do want to disguise it I will show you how we will do that so that's all your sizes for your maths and let's go away get your you know pause the video if you'd like to craft with me and get those papers done and we're going to work with now two of the middle ones okay um everything I'm going to do now just get rid of that scoreboard you will be doing twice okay everything I'm doing now you'll do twice so just pretend it's kind of together I guess in a way just so you can kind of see how things are going to look okay so what you need now is some rectangle dies so I'm using the card making magic again seems to all be card making magic but it's worked really well for this card and it's the rectangle dies these are the stitched ones or double stitched the ones I'm using from that if you've got it is one two three the fourth fifth and sixth smallest okay so you'll want three dies three rectangle dies and you would you want a window that's going to be in length longer than the four inches of that piece that we're going to have feeding through okay so this one here it's not too much bigger I think mine's only yeah four and one eighth so there's not much in it at all let me just check yes definitely four yeah so just sits through there but again if I show you you can see it's just sliding through there see there so as long as it fits through so whatever die your smallest of those three needs to be bigger than four inches and then the other ones just work up which are just going to create frames that again is optional and I said this is another way to have it simplified so if you are say you're not having a mat and a layer so I'm going to be cutting through this purple and one of these red pieces you to simplify it will just have a patterned mat and not have this piece and you might just do one frame once it all comes together then you'll see it will make a lot more sense what we want to do first of all is I'm going to cut through the the layer okay so because this is my I'm having these two on this one so if you're just having the purple then you would just cut through the purple but you do want to lay it down don't worry too much about the white one but just certainly lay out on this purple piece with a nice even border and then I'm going to bring this one over grab my what you call it here tape and just make sure you got it in the middle actually I'm quite happy about just looking in the monitor there that looks spot on and I'm going to stick that down and I'm going to die that I'm going to run that through my die cutting machine and also I should have mentioned at the beginning you will need in a minute when we go to die cut actually into this cardstock we are going to be running it through in this orientation so obviously the width this is seven so you'll need a larger die cutting machine however don't worry if you don't because if you just shrink this down to six inches which is the width of a normal you know physics or big shot then it will run through this way but it won't affect the rest of the design because if you see the size of that die let's just come off because it's not going to stick to that even if I bring that down a bit six inches here this same size die would still work and all of that bit that goes through it everything you'll just have to change all your mats and layers obviously but that's a way if you don't have a larger die machine don't worry just shrink it down so these pieces are six by ten and six by ten and a half okay so again I'm just going to sit this on here and I'm going to die cut this one I'm also going to do that next one for this piece because like I said you do want to do everything twice I'm just going to line that up again and stick that down a bit more so I'm just going to do that one the next still using that same die grab your red piece sit it on the purple so it's got a nice even border and pop this one back in it will like kind of click into place you'll feel it pop the washi tape on and run it through the die machine because that means it ensures that you've got it banging in the center but it will also then only have that one piece of cardstock to cut through so again you want to do that on both pieces there okay so now we've got these two pieces that will sit perfectly over the top once we finish it with our framework it just looks really nice and finished and they're going to go over there so now the last one is you don't need the red just the purple and you're working on the inside so this one is going to connect over this half inch tab which way you've got to make sure we've got our concertina like so okay so we're working on these two inner ones but you don't need the red just the purple sit it on there and again with that same die make sure the purple's got a nice even border sit that in the middle then run it through your die machine and this is when you're going to have to put it through that way okay and I'm not going to run it all the way through either just run it through that piece and then take it out okay so that's now everything's stuck down and I've just gone ahead and cut my frame so I've used the smallest rectangle that I used to do all those windows and then the next one up and I've cut it out in purple so it's given me that frame and then I've removed the smallest one and used that medium one with the next size up again again just pop them together with a bit of washi tape so you get a nice even frame and then cut it out in white and you want two of them that's completely optional there is nothing wrong with keeping your windows like that okay so don't feel that you need to do that it's just a little extra that I know some of you will want to do also another thing that might be handy to do is one you've done is do this one first and then with the opening sit it over the top of this one and draw around it so you know that they're the same because obviously you want again this piece to thread through you don't want one to be too high than the other or something okay so with these ones here all I'm going to do is just pop the purple inside of the white flip them over actually pop them in there together and then I'm just using some red tape because I'm sticking it onto that textured surface and then I'm just going to cover it and that keeps it all together and then just pop it around the frame and it's just that like I said extra little bit of detail completely optional so I'm just going to get that done okay so that's all done next we want to stick these pieces together so I'm just going to run my Kalal glue down here on this tab if you want to use double sided tape if you want something that's nice and strong this is obviously the main part of the card holding it all together you just want to lie it down so that you get the obviously top and bottom lined up but you want the fold to be visible you don't want to go over that fold okay now I've also just gone ahead and stuck my mats down on the two outer ones there all right next what you want to do is cover them with your pattern paper if you don't want to cut into this if you just want to stick this directly onto it like I showed you stick them down as well if you do want to cut into them what you want to do next is just pretend to stick this down so you've got a nice even border and with this piece make sure it's all up the right way I'm on an angle because I want to make sure you can see it and I can do this you want to fold over the tab and that side piece all right both over there this side here you want to line up with the purple piece okay but also you want to make sure like so you also want to make sure that this sits nicely through this so you just want a little bit of a gap at the bottom and the top there so it's in the middle of that window as well and it's also lined up with the purple then you want to lift it up still and you want to hold down try not to move it that piece all right so my score line is still lined up with the purple piece and then with a pencil just put a pencil mark where that score line is for the tab so I'm just putting a pencil mark there and one at the bottom and it's between those pencil marks that you're going to cut to make that opening for this to then feed through so it's a little bit fiddly but it's a nice way to conceal it if you don't want it to be seen so then I'm just going to use and grab my other so I'm just going to check I can see yeah that was there and there and just join those two together but then you also want to slide your ruler just a little bit to the left or the right it's just a tiny bit and then cut again and then remove that piece probably cut into mine again because that was like you see it's just tiny tiny bits you just want to make a little bit of an opening so it can hold the the width of my cardstock so see I am using that like 300 gsm I'm just going to that's a bit better and then you can test it grab that piece and you want to feed it through and you want it to fold over because we're going to stick it to the back there and you don't want there to be any kind of like it like catch or pucker a bit which mine is so that's an indication I need to cut a little bit more away so just do that as a little test really and then I'm going to go this side kind of like when we make the slider cards and things like that but now that should sit in there nicely fold over and that will all lie flat as well okay so that's to do that one and then you want to do the same on this end but keep that pattern piece down there now and in the right orientation and then that one is going to be like that yeah that's right and just do the same and now it's just the fun part of putting it together so you want to put some tape you would have probably already done it on the inside then grab your one of the sides whatever one you're working with take the backing off feed it through make sure it's all lined up there and just fold that over like so and then grab your glue and you want to cover this whole piece and make sure everything's the right way up and stick that one down now that's all concealed but if you haven't then what you want to do is stick that down there and actually I should probably give you the measurement of where to stick it so from the pattern paper I've come in one and three eighths okay and then stick that piece down then you want to feed that through trying very carefully not to uh well we have to fold them a bit there actually and then kind of bring the middle up so that'll give you that kind of freedom to move it around feed that through take the backing off again line that all up fold it over then this one just feed into place it should all line up you just need to keep checking it really but now you've seen how I do it you know you might do things a little bit different or find something that works better for you but just kind of you know let that all set and then you want to make sure that that middle fold there sits between this triangle piece and it will all fold flat it's very satisfying when it all comes together but there's no reason why it wouldn't even if that one is stuck slightly more forward than that one's slightly further back it will all still close up because it's a concertina so it's it's very satisfying and then you just need to finish off your decoration so I've got this panel here for the front I'm just going to get the last of this glue out and colours and because I've used the kalal glue throughout it's just a really solid card it's a beautiful piece great one again I know some of you make your cards for colleagues in work so lots of people sign them this is a good card because you've got all that room on the back you've got all you know people can sign in there they can sign on here or you can have them sign all around here you know there's loads of space but I'm just double double check that all stuck down there look at that I love the colours in this one as well and that's it's it's a great card for that to use lots of different colours you know you've got the nice sparkle plain panels there and then it just shows off that piece and it's a great one for any special occasions you know a big number whether it's an anniversary you know 21st birthday things like that it's a great one because it just stands up like so and if yours is short if you're using 11 inches all I think it's going to happen is you can't pull it out too far yours would be probably more like that so I mean that's with the um 11 and 3 quarters you can see I can pull that out you want to keep everything obviously even so that's in the middle there and they come out like so so that's got a nice profile people can read everything if you're using 12 you'll see it comes out further like so all right so play around with it there are my three concertina lock cards I'll just go back through the other ones as well so there's that one beautiful that foiling detail and then that one and really love it but do this decoration last just so it doesn't get caught up and then today's love the purple and the orange is really fun again all with the same sentiments but very you know different designs um and I love it so I hope you've enjoyed the tutorial I hope you found it easy to follow um like I said all the links for this detail on the front will be in my blog along with all the other measurements as well let me know what you think please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching bye