 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 tricorn fold card. Now that's what I'm calling it and that's partly because my dad when I showed him, he said it reminded him of a tricorn hat and for those of you that watch pole dark it's the hat that he wears and actually when I saw it I thought yeah it kind of does resemble that and that's what he thought when he looked at it because I was really really struggling to work out what I was going to call this card because as you can see it's very unusual and that's what I like to try and make it's very unusual kind of out there cards so I get this isn't going to be everybody's cup of tea but I think most of you that follow me you do like this kind of thing so hopefully you'll enjoy it. So basically it's really really straightforward it looks really complicated but I promise it's really really easy and I think you'll be quite surprised when I show you how it comes together but you've got loads of room on the back if you want to obviously you know write your you can stamp some nice things write your messages and basically it just folds down on one side so either that way or that way and fits in a four by six envelope so really nice size it's quite dinky now also you can have it that way and it actually looks really nice if I just bring it up like so that is the profile you have and if I just grab this little sentiment if you imagine that's facing that way look how cute that looks and this is the way I'm going to decorate it for the tutorial now so this is this way which I really really like but it's got a perfect look about it it stands you know perfectly on the landscape as well so yeah you've kind of got two cards in one and I'm really really pleased with how it's turned out these are always by accident people ask me a lot where I get my ideas and inspiration from but I guess maybe I should have been an engineer in my first career but that wasn't the case but I've obviously yeah got something in me to be able to come up with these random designs so yeah this is what we're going to make so I'm going to pop that one over there to one side I've got these really lovely gemstones that I'm going to be using for the inside of the flowers I'm going to show you how to make the larger flower just how I kind of create them because again quite a few people have said or they'd really like to see how I make these things so so yeah I will be showing that so that's the card the paper pack I'm using forever free and that's the eight by eight paper pack by fest edition and again it's kind of really going down now I've used a lot in this pack so that's that and then there are just little bits that we may use I'm not sure that's all done I've already done the rosette and I will link up here when we get to that where you can find my tutorial on how to make rosettes and I was really pleased actually I made this one with the holographic dovecraft cardstock and it's come out really really well I was a bit unsure whether there'd be a lot of cracking with it but it didn't crack at all so I'm really pleased with how that's come out and you know I really love this holographic card at the minute so this is what we need so for the main card base there's something on that luckily it's all going to get covered this is a piece that is eight by six and what you want to do is along the eight inch side you're going to score at two and six then flip it over and score at four okay but just doing the reverse scoring there it will prevent any cracking and then I'm going to go through these other score lines which you can just make out there I'm going to go through those in a moment then for those four back panels here to write your message and do some more stamping these are one and three quarters by five and a half so you'll need four pieces in the white and then if you want to do white on the front as well then you'd need six pieces of that size because it's the same size mat here it's just we cut into it a bit but on this in this case I'm doing this now in this holographic cardstock so you'll need two pieces of this size which is again that one and three quarters by five and a half so just what I showed you and then to layer on top this piece is one and a half by four and seven eighths of an inch and that's going to go on top this is one of the sides here just again look out look at the rainbow colors that that all picks up there I love it love love love and that's it so that's the scoring get rid of the scoreboard so back to this piece here so you just scored at two and six and then we reversed and scored at four flip it back up so it's facing the way up that it was when you scored at two and six okay and then with a ruler and I'm going to grab my little stylus here at the two and six score line that's where we're now going to be working on so first of all the two inch one I'm going to pop it now this way along this two inch score line with your ruler you want to come down two inches and just put a little marker or a pencil marker if you want I'm just putting a little notch there with my stylus okay and then from the bottom again along that same score line come up two inches and again put a little wedge little marker there okay then you're going to pop it back this way and from this top left you're going to score down to that marker then from this middle four inch score line you're going to score from the top down to the middle and then from the bottom up and then from that one up I'm going to score it all and I will have a little template let me just draw because I just thought I do usually do a little template don't I so let me just draw grab my black here so there's our two inch score line there's our four and there's our six you just put little notches here here here and here at two inches okay now we're going to score from that to there to there to there there and then that side okay so there's your three score lines your two your four and your six and then we just come down on this one here two inches and then we've come up here we just put these little wedges and now i'm going to be scoring these score lines here and that's what you will end up with so okay so if i just bring that up you can see when it catches the light there's my two inch my four inch and my six inch and then on those on the two and on the six remember this is two inches that we've come down you can put pencil mark there if you want but i've just put a little marker with my stylus and i've just scored out with my metal ruler and that's creating this here all right so that's what you need to have now we need to do some burnishing so what's going to happen is these two pieces here so basically this middle one you want to fold in half all right because we've scored it that will fold the right way the two outer ones we're going to fold out like this and that one and what's going to happen is is these two middle bits once we've done another bit are going to fold together like that okay so then what you need to do is these you're going to fold down so you're going to do create mountain folds on that one that one that one and whenever you're working with points like this it's just always about just making sure they all line up so if you find that you're a little bit out go back in and re-score okay because otherwise your mats and layers might not fit properly and but you want that to go perfectly to the end there see if it's a little bit off here or here you do need to kind of go back and do it again so sometimes i say you know practice on maybe some scrap paper first if you're new to card making or this is maybe a bit more of an advanced style that you've not done before just have a go first kind of play around and then you won't waste or you know ruin any card stock so that's the fold there so you can see what we've created now when i fold those two bits together that is the card obviously we need to do now all the decoration and that's what kind of brings it together but you can see the back there so we're going to glue all of this bit and all of this bit okay so that's now where i'm going to add all my glue okay so just fold the whole thing over and then just go in there with your bone folder i'm just going to make sure that glue is spread out and you get a really nice seal okay so now you can see how that's all come together and it should just stand up perfectly what i would say now is just work it both ways so fold it that way and then bring this piece under around that way okay because that will basically just you know is up to you which side you want to fold when you put it into the envelope but that's all that's really doing just kind of working that hinge because we've scored all in the correct directions you shouldn't have any any cracking find my words there okay so we now need to create this shape with these two pieces here so first of all for your larger one here let me just remember i think it was one and three quarters you have to come down yeah one and three quarters so on your bigger piece pop your ruler on the side and just with my pencil i'm just going to mark at one and three quarters on the side there and again then from the bottom come up one and three quarters like so and then you can use scissors or you can use a trimmer but you're going to cut now from where the markers are so there's my marker right across to here and then there you're going to cut right across to there so just show you the scissors here there's that one there so now that one should sit over the top it's exactly the same size and they're going to go like so now so we've got some wings you can see where these are going to sit right over the top like so and you should have the same border you see how nice that looks then with this one here again forgot what i came down at so this one is one and a half it looks like yeah one and a half so again pop it on its side now also if you've got a pattern with that one there you want to do you want to cut this one side you want to do it on the right hand side like here and then this on your other piece you want to do on the left so that one now i've already done this cutting was all on the left hand side of this piece of paper so this one i've got to do it on the right which is this side here because obviously they're all opposite if it was just plain white it wouldn't matter you can just cut them anyway and then just flip them over but because these are obviously patterns and this has got this print just on this side you have to make sure that you do one on one on the left and one on the right so this was one and a half so i'm just going to put a little pencil mark there and then one and a half there and again that's on the right hand side the one on the right one one on the left and again i'm just going to cut across and keep these triangles okay because you i'll show you what we can do with them and what i do with just this layer just the matte layer but you can also use your patterned ones as well so just keep them to one side and then again i'm going to stick this one down okay so now i've got these two pieces and they can be stuck on those panels like so then with these ones this is what i mean with the white so all of these were the size of the mirrored cardstock here so the larger size so all you can do is we want to come down one and three quarters okay on the larger ones you come down one and three quarters so one and three quarters and then one and three quarters just cut the one because again this is just white so you could flip this over like so then grab another one pop it over the top and just with your scissors it doesn't matter if it's a little bit you know what i mean they're not gonna as long as it's straight so always keep with the original one don't use the one that you just cut after because that could be slightly different whereas if you keep with the original one these they're all going to be pretty much the same but it's much quicker so if you're using plain colored pieces of any of these shapes then you can do this it's only if you've got patterned so now these you just have to piece in on the back so one's going to go there that one's going to go there this one on that bit and then that one on there okay so go and get all that stuck down okay so that's what we've now got starting to look really really good just make sure your pattern's the right way up okay so next you want to add your decoration so i mean if you're going to write on this you can just obviously turn it over and write on any side while it's flat now once you start decorating it it might become quite heavy but already look how cool that's going to look when that's in the middle so i've got my hot glue on here just because it's quite a big embellishment like i said to make the rosette i will put a little link up now so you can just see how to make them this one here i'll measure it in a second for you so you know so just lie the card down flat whenever you're decorating it obviously make sure your glue doesn't go off into the fold which mine hasn't which is fine so this rosette here is a strip of one one and a quarter width so it's one and a quarter by um a four or letter card letter paper length so 11 or 11 and three quarters by what did i just say that was again one and a quarter yeah from the center okay so that's what you'll need to get that size then i've just died cut this little decorative circle and that roughly is two and three eighths of an inch you want something that's kind of going to go over where they meet i just think that looks nice but it's intelligent you might want to put something straight you might not want to use a circle um to make the flower while that's just there so you see already now because that's this one's obviously going to be that way but you can see how that's going to let the profile it gives so like i said both of these styles will be you'll see them on my blog so i've just died cut these three here in matching colors and then you just want something where you've got a large like ball bearing end you can get plastic ones of these as well this is just by paperbox.co.uk um whatever pattern you want facing up flip the flower over and this holographic cardstock does work for this because again i wondered how it would take with all the pressure but it did work and you just want to basically roll your stylus your ball bearing around so it's breaking down all of the fibers but don't worry if it's creasing that actually will add to the effect because if you imagine a real flower they have all those like little creases in them and stuff so it does bring this kind of very flat die cut to life so once you've done that and then do the middle and it will start to lift up and already you can see how that's come then flip it over and just push in the middle and now it's lifted and all raised up and just look at how just it's gone from that holographic cardstock was flat and you can see all that kind of color but now because it's lifted and it's got so many creases on it look at that amazing effect it's created and i just think that looks absolutely stunning so again flip that one over and just go around if i just bring that up you can see all the creases but it's just formed see them all and that's what you want to do um and it's just a really easy this is just a soft piece of there was a load of earrings on this um you can get proper pin pads i do have a pink one um somewhere i think it's fallen down the back of my desk to be honest um but this you just want something that's soft enough it wouldn't really work on my mat here even though it's a self-healing mat it still wouldn't really work again flip it over so now if i layer that on top of that from the flat die cut flower to this gorgeous 3d really dimensional flower so again i'm going to do this one like so okay and then i've got my wet glue there i just prefer the wet glue with flowers because you can you only want a little dot in the middle and it's quite handy so i now need to decide what order i want this because this flower i've already done exactly the same way and that's going to go up there and i think this bigger flower is going to go down towards the bottom and i don't know if that's a bit too much on top just want to kind of stagger them yeah that's way too much so i'm going to do the same sequence so the plain pink and pop a little bit of glue in the middle stick this one down normally so completely offset there okay again just put that on my hand you can just see how great that looks and then i'm going to pop a little bit of glue in this one oh that one's just moved let's do that again like so and then this one you just want to be able to see that coming through there we go perfect and then i'm going to use one of these gorgeous little faceted gemstones and what size that was the size i used before backings don't always lift up though it really does frustrate me and as always i always like to put a little blob of glue just to make sure that that does stay in place and just pop it back down on your padded mat and just really push whatever it is you've used in the middle and it just kind of work all your little petals there but look at that from a flat die cut piece get this gorgeous look at all the dimension there little flowers and that is just using the same all the papers from there so just how you can have you know identical matching embellishments from the cardstock you use that's how i do it so now you can have it that way so you see it falls back slightly onto that piece so you can have it that way you can have it that way and you can have it that way i love it okay so i'm going to keep it like that because you can actually then see what i'm doing now i'm not going to put a actual happy birthday or whatever on this because i don't know who i'm going to end up giving it to because i've got room you can see here i could pop that special friend in the middle and then have the flowers and stuff coming around so i'm going to leave the inside plain you might see that i've changed it up when i come to take the photos but at the minute i'm going to leave it plain so i'm thinking the large really big one and then the small there so now i'm wondering whether this is just too big you're probably now looking at the screen going yeah it's way too big so you actually when it's like that and that little one there or does that not look balanced let's have a little look there we go i think that's what i'm going to go for i haven't stuck it down i've just wedged everything because these are all um you know different levels um but i i like that i think that looks really good so that's what i'm going to go for so i'm just going to quickly stick all that down okay so that's all done and i can still have it that way if i want see it still looks really pretty that way up or that way up or that way up so i'm leaving that plain because right now you know until i know maybe who i'm going to give it to but now these bits here these little triangles so the holographic ones now i should have where's my other two gone should have four of all of them in here now these should all perfectly fit it's entirely up to you see i've got them just on the two back so they've got two whites that i haven't done them on these if you want to do on then you can but you don't really see them even if it's that way so two there and two there so i've got my four just move them around because they're plain it doesn't matter which direction but push them further down to the score line and that way you'll get that same border that you get with everything else there's that one and then that one there so if i just imagine that they're stuck see how cool that looks so i'm going to go and get them all stuck down there you go look at that shine it's just i love it i absolutely love this i can't i can't stop using this mirrored card i mean i love that but that just looks really flat as pretty as it is whereas that i just think imagine with a big number someone's special birthday in the middle of that i think that's going to look absolutely fantastic i think that's what i'm going to do i'm going to just keep that now until somebody maybe asks me for a special you know 50th 40th 30 you know 21st whatever i just think that's going to look really really lovely and i just bring it up so you can really see all that detail and just see look at the texture you get on the flowers in fact what i'm also going to add is some of my this is my spectrum noir if i bring it up you should be able to see so it goes on and it darkens the card but when it dries it will dry back to its normal color i don't know how well this is picking it up can you see the sparkle there you go look at that sparkle let's just pop this will all be in my blog but i now prefer this i've already said i think in one of my tutorials to the winkestella because this is clear whereas the winkestellers clear is gold and it actually does color your cardstock and there's been a few projects when i've used it and i thought actually i didn't want it to do that and it did but now this one i'm going to go and do everything else but just look at the sparkle that's now created on that flower so i'm going to carry on and do the others and you'll see all that in the videos but there you have it guys my tricorn fold cards really unusual but i think either that way that way or that way i think they are really really cool cards i think they've got the mixed up craft mark on them i hope you enjoy them and i can't wait to see your versions and you'll kind of take on this over on mixed up craft is facebook page if 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