 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this really lovely pop-up card to show with you. I've been playing around with just some really simple pop-up mechanisms and I've come up with this and I think it looks lovely. So on the front I've got this very simple and it's white and red throughout so I've gone really kind of bold, quite striking with this card. So you see there I've just laid up lots of hearts. I've kind of been doing this a lot through this series so I'm kind of going through a bit of a, it's kind of the thing I like to do at the minute but I think it looks lovely, a little bit of glitter there and I've got some sequins and glossy accents and lots of dimension. There's lots of foam pads with that one there and then when you open it up you have these two pop-up pieces inside. So basically the whole thing is lifted on both sides because usually with a lot of pop-ups you just have something maybe on the base so it would be like this and it would all open up from here but I quite liked the thought of having you know on both sides here and you can see again it's one of these ones when you put it in person you can see there just how much is going on. It's really really good I love it. I love just again just sticking with those two simple colours I think it looks really really you know great I think it just really pops. So and then on the back you've got room there to write your message. Now if you wanted to you could have a box there or depending on how you lay everything out you know you can easily you know write your message on the inside as well but I do like that it can be displayed like this and they can just see just a really nice feature there in the middle and of course although this is Valentine's themed you could easily have you know anything like this this could be filled with balloons or presents for like a birthday you might have some really nice bride and groom stamps that you might want to have here for a wedding card get well soon you might want to have lots of flowers kind of popping out of it so there's lots of ways to you know change this for you know certainly a different theme so nice and straightforward not too difficult to do so let's crack on okay so the stamps I've used there's lots of kind of older ones here because again obviously Valentine's just once a year so I don't tend to have a lot of Valentine's stamps but I've got crafty impressions forever yours where I've used the forever yours on the the front which you'll see in a minute this one here last time I shared this I the person wrote down where it was from but I forgot to add it onto my little label here so if anybody's got this one please let me know it's a really nice one you have the definition of love which is what I've used in both of the cards then you've got forever and always together is a beautiful place to be and I've done this on a really nice project that I done a while ago and I've yeah it's just love it I love the font and then this one here I use the envelope which you can see on the front and I used it inside as well just stamped it no coloring I just colored the heart in the middle but that was from an old hobby base this was by crafty panda and it's called sweet Valentine's again things like this you might still find on ebay you know lots of people on the facebook craft kind of selling sites people sell these kind of things you may pick them up then I have used now I didn't use that I was going to use it I'll show you what it does actually because it's really nice but I did I'm going to probably put this on another project but they're scrabble pieces and I done the word love so al o v e you can see there so you've got your square and then you've got all your different letters of the alphabet there with the numbers of the totals in a game of scrabble so yeah I did do them they were going to go on the back but then I thought no it doesn't look right so you might see them feature but if you did like that one it's an old first edition one and it is called alphabet tile dies okay and then back to what I have used is this one here so it's the heart band I haven't actually used this one I don't think at all I've used the flower band the butterfly band but I've not used the heart band so I haven't used the band section but I've used all of the geometric hearts and I just thought it looked really nice keeping that theme and the shape of them throughout you can see I've got them there all kind of cascading and yeah really pleased with that one so I've gone ahead and got all the pieces I need so that's for the back panel that's the main card that's our pop-out piece and I've done the front okay so I've used Nuvo drops and I've just gone for pinks with this one here and everything is layered up on foam pads okay so just to give that a dimension even these I mean if you are posting it I know you know different parts of the world they're quite funny with the bulky cards but anyway if you do you know then you may not want to put it on as much foam as I have but I have gone ahead and done that and I'll give the dimensions later and then there's all of my decoration which I will show you how to do in a moment so just a little bit of scoring and cutting so I'm using a five by seven pre-made card base you know card blank so if you don't have that you want a piece of card that's 10 by 7 and along the 10 inch side just score it five right down through the middle and that will create your card blank okay for the pop-up piece in the middle this is a piece of nine and a half by six and a half now if you want to you could do it so it's nine and three quarters by six and three quarters but I've done it so I have quite a large white border because I then rather than doing another matte layer I have just done some faux stitching with a red pen fine line of pen okay so if you want to fill that gap because you might think that's too much of a white gap then do what I've done otherwise increase this piece or do a separate matte behind here it's entirely up to you okay so first of all we just need to so with this one you want to score first through the middle which is at four and three quarters okay so right down there through the center and then I will get rid of the scoreboard and if you've got a t-square ruler that will come in quite handy now otherwise you'll just have to mark with a pencil at the top and the bottom but if you've got a t-square ruler then you can just you know go straight down first of all with a normal ruler just along the top here coming out from this middle score line festival with your ruler I'm just lining mine up along the top here just put a pencil mark at half an inch and at two and a quarter and then do the same on the other side so here's the score line again so you will just mark you probably want to turn your ruler upside down actually and again do half an inch and two and a quarter make sure mine's lined up there and then with your t-square ruler you can then go from that marker because you know it's nice and straight and just draw a pencil line all the way down if you don't have a t-square ruler I would highly recommend that you mark those same marks at the bottom along here so again half an inch two and a quarter half an inch two and a quarter and then join them up because even if you think you're straight you may just be let just slightly off like that or something and then before you know all your lines are wrong so you should have these four pencil lines try and do it quite lightly so you can rub them out alternatively you could flip it over but then in a minute this next bit well you'll see anyway but okay and then along the middle score line you want to come down one and a quarter and one and three quarters so you've got a half inch section you're just marking a little pencil mark and then at four and a quarter and four and three quarters again so you've got a little half inch section there this one ends up coming up at one and three quarters whereas we came down from the top at one and a quarter the reason I've done them slightly different is because of the size of the hearts I've used okay so this was quite a big heart so I came down actually that's at the bottom yeah that was right yeah I'm just thinking then why I've done that but it was yeah because that came up higher that was it to be honest it probably wouldn't have mattered this was this actually started off this piece underneath started off being my template and just like a prototype but I was really pleased with how it came together so I didn't have to track any of it but anyway that's the measurement side done once you see what I'm doing you could do them both the same if you wanted to i.e this one comes up and this one comes down the same next you want to come again I'm going to use my t-square ruler because it keeps everything straight so I'm just going to line it up there and you want to draw a pencil line from this one across to there and this one across to there okay so there's where we've done the two markers that are half an inch apart but you're starting them from that pencil line which is one which is half an inch from the left across this one and to this side this one you're going to do at the opposite which is why we need all four score lines so this time again I'm just lining up my ruler and this time we're going to draw a pencil from here across just to that one and then I'm just going to come up and do the same I'll take a photo of this and I'll pop it on my blog but that's what you want so it's just the same but just you know each one's flipped so you got your middle score line and then you've got half an inch on one side and then all on the other and again that middle score line half an inch on one side and then everything else on the other okay so that's just all you need to do in terms of your pencil marks then we want to do a little bit of scoring and a little bit of cutting okay so it's up to you whether you score or cut first but you want to now cut down all of these lines here okay so starting from that end nice and straight push it into your metal ruler make sure you've got a surface underneath that can handle a cutting knife so I've got myself healing mat and then again I'm going to come to this one here so you'll see now I've cut through this one and this one okay then you just want to add some score lines to these little half inch sections in between where you just cut so you're just scoring just in between the two cut lines you're just joining them up really I've just realized you've got another score line and I totally forgot it and I forgot it when I was doing my prototype it's fine we can still add it in right away because actually it's just going to become a score line but what you want to also do is add another so you want to do a half an inch here and half an inch here so between these pencil lines I've come in half an inch and a four okay and then again you just want to draw a pencil line from the top all the way down well you don't have to do but I'm doing the pencil lines to teach you really on you know what I'm doing but certainly when you're doing this yourself you could just do this as a score line because all you're going to end up doing is just scoring in a second like so so now all you're going to do is just score within this piece that we've cut where that pencil line goes over it so again the template I'll have it all color coded so where's your score lines and cut lines and so on just so you can see okay so that's going to come up like that and that one's going to come up like that you see how they pop out now this bit's going to bend a bit here it's just easy if you just score right through because what I found is that where I cut this down if you just cut yourself thin strips so just cut a half inch strip by where's my ruler gone half inch by two and a quarter and then just do half and half and then you can just reinforce it okay but that's what you will have so there it is flat bring it up so that that folds up and that folds up like this and then the whole thing will fold flat when you pop them through like I said because it's got the other fold it may want to just kind of do its own thing but once we get it into place and we stick these little room enforcements on otherwise you don't want to score this to start with do the pencil lines where I said and then when you score through the center you want to miss this piece so just score miss this piece score miss this piece and score that way you won't get that fold there but again I was just trying to maybe like little cheat ways lazy ways to just make the cards and then you can just stick this on I mean it's always good to reinforce something where you can and if you are going to put quite a few things on here like I have then I have I have then just sticking that over the top again using the trusty collow glue it will become you well you know those of you that use it it just becomes so strong so yeah it's up to you you can do it and score that middle score line last or you can do this before but I'm going to stick that on there and then I'm going to rub out all the pencil lines again if you don't want to rub out all the pencil lines you could flip this over push them out this way um you'll just have one well if you could do it that way yeah you're you're going to have them on opposite sides but it would still work so again it's up to you you know play around with it but um those pencil lines would be easy to rub out okay so that's my card all ready so now you want to start sticking everything down so I like to stick this piece into my card blank and then start building everything up because I just find I can just see you know how everything's going to look a bit better so you see now when I stick that in there's quite a big white border so you might want to do a bigger mat underneath so I'm going to do one side at a time and um just pop my glue all on the back and all around the pop out pieces and then I'm going to hover it over until I get that fold meeting the fold of the card and then you can just kind of keep it at a right angle because that's how the card will stay open and push and butt that right up so those score lines sit really nicely together and then you can just fold it flat and then add your glue one two the other side and then push up the other side you can fold it all flat in a minute but I always find it good to keep it whenever you're working with a pop-up card keep your right you know it at a right angle like so because the card is obviously going to be closed because that's how you're going to deliver it but when the person opens it they're only ever going to open it like this they never you never get cards and well I guess if they're flat cards they've got nothing on them but someone isn't going to get that I mean they can but it starts to stay in that shape I can't if I pull that really flat it will start to tear whereas it naturally will stay in that shape so it folds nice and flat but it will only really open maybe three quarters of the way so and that's what you kind of want all right so again just make sure that that score line runs so you don't get a gap you would if you've got a gap there then you need to push it in you know a bit more like so okay so once you're happy with that got a little bit of glue there let's just come out just wipe that away then we can start adding everything so like I said you can put anything you want but a few little tips I just want to go through with you whatever you're adding in is your pop-out piece because you've got that half inch piece when you go to close it whatever's on these will move out half an inch so you'll see as I close this this edge of this heart starts to come and it just overlaps the red but it doesn't come out the side of the card so whatever you put on there maybe just um get get a piece of like washi tape something that's got a real low tack and just tack it in place and go and close your card and check that when you close it none of your pop in pop out pieces are popping out the sides because you're going to struggle getting it in your envelope and I just don't think it looks as good you want to make sure everything's enclosed inside and that's the same for that side as well both pieces will move by whatever height you've got your pop out piece so mine's only got a half inch height to it so I don't have to worry too too much so I want to follow that same pattern so I've got this one here which is going to stick on this one now I don't go right up to that one because if you look here I've layered up another one which actually covers that tiny little piece of the pop up piece so although that one will be stuck like that I will then bring in this one here which will go like that okay and again that will be stuck on foam as well so it's going to have a lot of dimension so all I want to do first of all is just add some glue just kind of there really and then I'm going to have that one like so so I've got it there but then when it goes to close as it slides I can just push it in a bit because that glue I've got a bit of wiggle space and then just push that down but I can see there just move it a little bit there we go so you've got lots of you know usually liquid glues so it gives you that wiggle room you might not be happy with it when you place it down you've got time to take it off again but now when I open that in fact I can see a little bit of it there so I am going to just go like so push it that way that's better there I'm happy with that and then with this one here it's got some foam so I want to have it just right up in the corner there and then that one is going to make sure the foam dot is completely covered on that section because you don't want any of your adhesive interfere you know don't want it overhanging otherwise it's going to interfere with the closure if you can feel anything sticky put your fingers under here and just rub them underneath you can feel anything sticky I always get my anti-static powder rub my you know fingers with it and just or a paintbrush and just go in there brush it over and it will get rid of any of that kind of stickiness but now I've got that one already starting to pop looks really cool then I've got another one I'm just going to cut a little bit I've already got a little bit there from another one so that one can go just on the edge of that one and then that one's going to stick like so and this will stay lifted once that clouds dry because it's you know there is a bit of weight there but it does once that's all dry and again just keep closing it every time you can see there I love it love this pink that's that pink that I brought from that shop in Tabistock last week I think it was so then that one there is going to stick on this one so again I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue on the edge and then this one I want to have like so then I'm going to add a foam little pad there and have that one want it to cover most of that piece like so again just pop your finger underneath make sure none of that glue is oozing out but now you can see again how it looks then I have one of these little envelopes love these I've got one just there and then I've got another one so I've already put the pads on this because I knew where I was going to have them and that one's going to go just under that one like so so that's everything on the pop-up piece then I've got my little love um quote um no the meaning sorry of love and then this one is going to go about there again make sure everything's nice and straight I've got a bit of my faux stitching and then I've got these hearts so I'm going to pop one right down here and I've got that to go over the top I did have another one cut out but I seem to have misplaced that one and then I've got this one which is going to go down here I've got a smaller one which is going to go at the top so you might have lots of different hearts throughout lots of different collections because I know I have but I just thought well I haven't used this one and I love all of those styles but you you know this one isn't from the collection there's tiny little one here um I don't want to put that one did I have that on the front no I must have had it in here um well I can have that one just with a little bit of glue I think I've dropped one on the floor actually because I definitely remember cutting two that one I'm just going to have there okay so you can see what I've done there I'm just going to close it up and then I've got my front cover so the larger mat is four and three quarters by six and three quarters then the white one is four and a half by six and a half and then the pink one is four and a quarter by six and a quarter and that's the same for them I just don't have that final one on top so I'm just going to add some glue onto this one and stick it on the front and I'm going to stick that other one down on the back okay so I'm just grabbing a fine liner um I want something that's going to be quite a close match that pink's a little bit dark these are the Arteza fine liners oh that that one's not bad that one maybe that one might be a bit better I think that one actually you do get quite a lot yeah I think that one's going to be better let's just try that one there and I think that's a bit too light I'm going to go for this one here I'm just going to go around and um just quickly do some faux stitching okay so that's the stitching done I've just stuck that on that side because it came off and I thought actually no I'll stick it on that side I think it needs a little bit more purely because on this one I had these red heart sequin embellishments but I don't have them in pink so I think what I'm going to probably do is add some Nuvo drops the same ones that I've got on the front here which I love which was the I use these two actually I use the um sherbet shimmer and party pink so one of them's got a bit of a glitter to them and then that one's just your mat so I think I might have a few of those just kind of running through a cross from corner up to that corner there similar to like that I think will look nice but I need to you know make sure um I give that time to dry but no I'm going to do it now because I might as well I won't do it I'm going to just stick with one color for the minute but I'll just put this on high speed in fact I can't I'm going to have to do one half and then another but you can see what I'm doing because I can only really do this one side because it will it can't stand up um obviously um straight because the Nuvo drops will just dip otherwise and uh or drip should I say pop a couple in there but you can see there just just want to keep them kind of hugging the hearts because then that I'll try and get some more in there in a minute but I do think it does add just that little bit more to it just give something in the background there but I love it I absolutely adore these I think they're so sweet and I think they will work perfectly for many many occasions so I'm not going to close that up now you can just see I stuck the back down there so I'm going to just pop that to one side and show you again this one and I think I'm going to add some more Nuvo drops because I really do like that and I've used for this one I used the um clear uh crystal one sorry what were they called um white blizzard I think it is yeah white blizzard so I'll probably add a few more of those but you'll see that in the photos because I'm going to do that all now and then that I drive before I take the pictures but yeah there you have it so I'm going to finish the tutorial there two really beautiful very pretty Valentine's cards and um I love them so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial like I said I'll share all the links to what I've used the measurements and everything will be in my blog and I'll take a photo I'll do a template as well and I'll put a photo in the blog as well all right so thank you for watching hope you've enjoyed today and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye