 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 a double diamond fold card so here it is in the envelopes it's a six by six envelope fits in nicely and then when I take it out this is the card so double diamond fold card now lots of people make them this way around so you're probably maybe more familiar with that style but there are also some floating around like this I have made this style before but I haven't shared it and I was recently inspired again with somebody I can't remember who it was but they shared it on the trim craft blog website so I always do encourage go over and have a look at their websites it's full of inspiration and yeah I really really love this style so there it is all fold very flat you can see there and then like I said just open it up and then it just stands nicely kind of keep it in that you want that kind of I guess about an inch whatever it is there make sure you have that at the back obviously to make it stand but that's the profile that's how it looks when it stood up on the mantle sideboard and so on and then I finish the top here with a rosette and this let's fiesta is part of the pack that I'm going to show you in a moment but I just love these colors you can see there the paper that I've used it's got a glitter on it so it's got a real shine shimmer to it and yeah there's lots going on to this it's really decorated very simple I've literally just used the folds in the card really and just made them kind of pop and then just put that simple rosette on the front on the back you've got a nice area here to write your message and I've just stamped it with happy birthday and yeah folds like I said nice and flat back into your six by six envelope if you want to make the envelope I'll share the links to how to make envelopes but for this particular one for six by six using the envelope punch board you just follow the six by six here and you need a piece of paper that is nine and a half by nine and a half with your first punched and score line at four and three quarters but like I said revert to the little bit that pop up here and that'll tell you how to do that okay so onto the card let me bring over everything so let's make sure I'm all in there we go so where's that little bit of sunshine coming from see it there got something popping through on my window and there we go got rid of it right so I've already done my rosette again I'll share a little pop up to how to make rosettes very easy to do but I've just done all that off camera that's all my bits there that I'll go through so the card stock again it's the paper mania the capsule assorted colossal colors 75 12 by 12 all right I'll share all those links so this is the paper pack I love this fiesta fever been using it a lot lately and I have used this time the sheets here that you get with all these kind of ephemera toppers die cuts all that kind of stuff whatever they're called but I've just cut out the this one here and that's what I've used with a die cut for the let's fiesta and then the paper I've used is this one here now it actually says gratias on it which will see thank you so it's perfect for a thank you card but I just covered on the card that I made here it actually said gratias right underneath where I put the rosette but nowhere else now on the card so I was able to use it for other things as well so if you do have this paper pack just you know think of other ways that you can use it just I just covered it up so it worked for other themed cards and not just thank you and then the one that I'm using today is leftover from this one here which I used for the big bow clutch bag and that's with the kind of like trim on the other side there okay but again all links for that will be shared okay so to make the card you need one piece of 12 by six card stock I'm using this lovely green today from that pack basically you just want to score at three which is that way I've done it at three four and a half seven and a half and nine okay and then we'll do some extra bits in a minute then you're going to need for the inside and for the front mat you need for the back a white piece and write your message on so that's two and three quarters by five and three quarters and then you want that same size again in pattern paper for the front of your card which again obviously two and three quarters by five and three quarters so one patterned and one with the plain white there then you'll need two pieces of two and five eighths of an inch by five and a half and this is going to be to make the diamond layers I keep this out rather than keep putting it away I can revert to it these ones here these mats sorry okay so I'm going to show you how to get that shape it's very easy to do so two pieces of that size pop that one there and then you need four pieces of one and one eighth of an inch by two and three eighths of an inch and I've used white again and that's going to be to get these triangles here and again I will show you how to do that so let's get that out the way get rid of the scoreboard okay so with this piece here grab a ruler and basically what you want to do is a long so you've got your three inch score line and your four and a half on this side between the edge here and your three and a half sorry your three you just want to put a marker at one and a half and again on the bottom here so just one and a half and this end here so the very last score line that you scored this one here okay again just mark one and a half on your ruler top and bottom and then rotate it on this last score line here that you've got you want to mark halfway so three just with a pencil and then on the very end here the pencil and then down this very end here three inches and then that last score line there three inches okay basically all you're doing is the the first kind of larger rectangle here and the larger rectangle at this end you're just marking the halfway point on all four sides of it here and here okay then what you want to do is on the outer side so this outer side and this outer side we're going to do pencil marks and this is going to be our cut lines you just want to join that marker to the side marker and again that one make sure you're getting pretty lined up because you are going to be cutting them and it's going to create your nice diamond shape so you're going to be cutting this shape here that's that one and then again this end here like that okay so you can just see what I've done pencil mark there and there now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to pencil my lines just so that you can see what I'm doing so you don't need to do this or you can if it will help make it easier for you I'm going to pencil them in because I can rub these out afterwards I think I've got a blunt pencil but I think it will just help when I explain the next part okay so hopefully now although it just looks more shiny but there's pencil marks there you can really see the lines anyway so what we're going to do now is that's this kind of three inch little marker that you've done here with your pencil halfway down your two outer score lines you want to I'm going to draw it first but you're going to score from that line to the middle panel so this is the middle panel that's where we've done that three inch halfway mark on the four points of this last one you want to score from there up to here okay and then we're going to score from there down to there but I'm going to do it all in pencil and I'm going to score it off camera just because I think the pencil is going to show you so that where I'm doing pencil is where you're going to score then you're also going to go from that middle point to there and then the middle point to there okay so remember this is cut you're going to cut this line here and here so kind of ignore that but this big cross here and big cross there you're going to score so you can actually go right across can't you don't have to go from the middle you can just go score right the way through so you're going from that top right hand side of this middle panel all the way down to this point here so you're forming this diamond shape and then again from that one across to that one all right make sure you always keep your middle panel with nothing going on and I think if you kind of keep that in your mind then you know that you're going to be getting this and this side right so again here there's that middle point a three inch one so then I'm going to go from the top of this one right across all the way down remember you're going to score it but you can see now I've gone from the top there again of that middle panel and gone right the way across down to here and then again this one right the way across and again all the way down so now we've got a cross and a diamond and that's what you want to have so if I hold that there there we go you can see you want to have your one two three four lines and then you will have this diamond shape which if you've done it all in pencil first like I've just shown you now then fine but if not you will have this side of it will be scored this side we're going to be cutting and then you want to have this big cross here and here okay so hopefully I've explained that so what we do first before we burnish it is we will cut the edges so really really neatly you just want to go along don't know if there's any pencil shown because you can just rub it out but just go and very neatly cut from the corner like so again okay so that is now the shape that you want you've got diamonds on your left and right big cross and then these four score lines here and again that centerpiece has always got nothing in it you can see the score lines okay so again hopefully this is all making sense so now I'm going to go ahead and just score I'm going to rub the pencil out first because if you score over pencil sometimes it's harder to rub it out but you can still do it but I'm going to go and just get those score lines finished because obviously I didn't do them okay so now I have scored everything so what you want to do first of all is on your middle piece you're going to just burnish your main score lines there on the left and the right so you've created mountain folds okay so that's what we want to have festival folded down okay then what we're going to do is again form another mountain fold with those ones and on that side there like so and then all the other folds are going to be valley folds okay so you want to just go right across the diagonal there across those two and then again across that one okay and already you can see it just straight away falls into its shape okay so you get your folds right it's very very easy so again they were mountains so now these are valleys fold them up that way and that way and there again straight away it just falls into place like so okay so it just happens like magic it just does it for you so flip it over and grab your bone folder and just kind of help work in those score lines just pop your bone folder underneath and it will just along your main straight ones there and those ones there and it will just help keep that all together you want it to have enough pop that it kind of still lifts when you know it comes out of the envelope and there it is it's down to up it's already now to decorate okay let's pop that to one side so what I'm going to do first of all is get these pieces stuck down so I've got that one there so that's my front mat that's going to go on the front and I've got my one with my message it's going to go on the back so I'm going to go and stick them both down when you go to stick it down just open up the card and then you can lie it down and get it nice and straight and it just makes it easier to decorate like so okay so that's all stuck down and there's the back done as well so next we're going to do these larger diamonds over on each side there so that's when I told you you needed a piece that was five and five eighths and two and five eighths of an inch by five and a half okay so what you want to do is flip it over and you just want to find the halfway mark on all four sides so along the five and a half you want to mark at two and three quarters okay so just put a pencil mark along the long side there and up here again two and three quarters okay it's your halfway and then along the short sides it's kind of a funny one because it's an odd number to start with so it's two and five eighths so the halfway is one and it's in between one and a quarter and one and three eighths so just put a little pencil mark between those two markers so if we break it down you're actually score and putting a marker at one two three four five sixteenths of an inch but just find that halfway mark okay it's not going to make too much of a difference if it's slightly off overall because you can kind of move this a little bit so then you'll have your four points and then you just want to join them up do this all on the back because it doesn't matter you don't have to worry about rubbing out any pencil and just create that diamond shape so I'm just scoring each side and marking each side and then just joining them together to give me my diamond shape okay so the halfway for short sides put a little pencil mark and then halfway along sides and just join those pencil marks up and then when you've done that you just want to cut it out okay so now you've got your two diamond shapes they will be stuck down there now where you've cut off your pieces these bits here will fit in here but what you will need to do is line it up with a nice border so I'm just pulling the point away from the center here and then you want to cut off the flat edge so now if I cut off about I'd say that's about a quarter of an inch trim off you will now have that to fit in these pieces here so if you want to have the same pattern covered on all of your pieces and save on card then that is what you can do so now you will see that that sits in there you've got a nice green border and then the next one you could have you've got to work it out because obviously they all change so that one would go down over here this one would go down here and this one would go up here and then the next ones you cut you would have to cut the right way okay because otherwise you'd have to reverse but it does save you a little bit of card if you want to do it that way however I'm doing mine in white because I just liked I thought the white really kind of showed the shape of this card the pattern tends to get lost and you kind of lose the design keep it blocked white and you really do show it off so that's when I said that you needed these four pieces here which were one and one eighth of an inch by two and three eighths of an inch and with those four pieces if you want to do a pencil mark you can let me just show you you will go from it doesn't matter which side but go from the for this in this instance I'm going to go bottom left to the top right and just do a pencil mark like so okay and then just cut it in half and then to use the white as well then you can just flip it over because you will need to flip some of them over so you get them in the other orientation to fit in those shapes so by cutting that now I have all the other ones so I've cut those other three pieces that I had because you needed four so now I've got all these pieces and they will fit perfectly just like I showed you with the other ones in every single one of these one two three four five six seven eight triangles some of them you have to flip over until you get them in the right way so those ones are going to be up there and then that one there there and there and those there okay so that is what you have so now I'm going to go and get them all stuck down I'm going to use my wet glue so I've got a bit of wiggle room and I will be back okay so that is now all stuck down you can see how lovely it looks so that green frame that white just really makes it pop and really just shows that lovely design now you can also decorate here I haven't I like to just show the green and what you would do is cut another piece of card or paper this size do the diamond exactly the same and then just cut the diamond in half from top to bottom and then put one side there and one side there they'd be exactly the same okay but that's now what I've got so when I fold that all in to put it back into its kind of form so it knows where to go look you can really see that shape and I think it looks fab so now all that's left to do is finish it off with the rosette which I'm popping in the middle there I've used the same navy I had it scrap and I do try to use it all up especially when I'm working with the same kind of paper packs that way I know everything's matching so it is the same as that one I'm just going to add some hot glue just in the center there we'll see you can decorate this however you want but I do love a rosette I think they kind of just finish it you don't have to do much at all when you add a rosette it's kind of done quick ways quick ways to decorate and there you have it one very lovely double diamond fold card so there you have it it's found that one up and they do has a lovely profile like I said that's how it looks when it's stood up so there's my two so I hope you like this one pretty quick pretty straightforward just a few little angles you've got to get right there but hopefully I explained it well I'd love to see them please keep sharing over on the mixed up crafters Facebook group it has evolved very quickly and you are all so lovely to each other over there so please come and join in it's been lovely and we'll continue to do so until next time if you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye