 Hey everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I'm going to show you how to make this I think I'm going to call it a triple panel card or a tri-fold card something like that I made this during Mondays at Facebook live it was a really nice live it was the first one of 2021 this is how the card looks on the front and then you open it up and you have this so it's actually I when I was putting it together I thought to myself I think this is just one half of one of the showstopper cards that I've done so if I find it I'll link it up here and I'll link the showstopper style cards as well because I think you could just double this so add another panel and have it so you pull it out both sides I think it'd look great now those of you that watched the live I left these panels because I was just I thought you know what sometimes it's good to step away and come back to it later and I'm glad I did because I'm really pleased now with how it looks I like the real crisp white bold letters against that teal color and I framed all of the circles which was something I spoke about during the live and I've also popped some stars slightly smaller on the acetate there's actually acetate behind this so I could stick there we go you can see it when it catches the light it's just a really fun card and then you have all this space on the back to be able to write your message so I'm going to just mat and layer here and I'll stamp something on a later date when I know who I'm going to give it to and I've got some glossy accents on that lovely image there with the macaroons and that's what I've continued throughout so I'm going to show you how to make this card okay so for the main card base you want a piece of 10 and a half by seven and along the 10 and a half side you want to score it half an inch and five and a half and then this is the piece that goes in the middle so that kind of pops out and this is 10 by seven and along the 10 inch side you want to score it two and a half five and seven and a half and then I have this piece which is five by seven which is going to go on to the very front of the card and then I have this piece here but I need to cut some pink but that's going to be on the front of the card and that is four and a half by six and a half and then you also want your mat layer which would be four and three quarters by six and three quarters I just need to cut some more of this pink so that that will match against it but like I said I'll do all that later on so that's all the scoring that you need okay so first of all this one here I'm just going to fold it in half and then this one I'm just going to fold back so you've got a little tab and that is the one that you're going to stick this on to um you can do it now if you want I'm going to do it later on but you just add glue onto that tab and stick that piece on there like so because you have that long tri-fold triple panel what I want to do is first of all is work on this piece here now I am going to just fold and burnish just so I can really see where I'm working so you just want to create an M fold so a mountain valley and a mountain but I am going to kind of then flatten it again just so I can it just helps me see those panels a bit better when I've just folded them now the middle two panels here is where I want to start die cutting and this is what took the time for me but I'm going to die cut all of this and I'm also going to create these edges here now the edges are using my 5x7 excellent edge in the portrait but the landscape ones would fit as well so if you've got those um that's the ones with the dragonflies and what else is on that one anyway I'll link it because you might like that one as well so I'm going to use the stars again because I really like the stars and I've already prepared a ton of those now these will cut the whole piece out because these are meant to go on the edges of the tower fold dies which is what these are part of an addition to but I want to show you how you can just partially die cut these to create this lovely effect so I'm just going to lay one down on the end here and with some tape you just want to just kind of clip it over the edges but just slide it up so the stars just kind of line up with the edge there and I'm just going to put a bit of tape on there now I'm going to use my larger die machine because it's seven inches wide but I do also have these different designs but in six inches so if you'd still like to create this effect then look at the six by six ones because then you're going to use them through a standard machine basically when you do a partial die cut anything that's between your cutting plates will cut so all I want to do is just cut the stars I don't want to cut this line here so I'm just going to pop this plate all the way through this side I'm just going to sit it just over there now I'm not worried about these outer ones because they're not actually on the card they're hanging over the edge but now if I just push this into the machine so it catches and just pass that through I'll just bring that back again and then if I just carefully take that away you'll see you get that really cool edge on your cardstock so I'm just going to repeat that again on this end okay so you can see now I've got that really cool effect and that's going to sit inside the card but I also now want to create this here so I've got my circle dies and I'm going to pretty much copy this same arrangement and I'm going to die cut all these stars now the stars are just from the same die set and you can see you get quite a few here but I'm just going to pop the circles down like so like I said trying to roughly get it in the same pattern as that and I'm just going to pass this through and then I'll be back once I've cut everything out so that's everything now die cut in the center and I've just burnished those score lines again next I want to add my acetate that's completely optional you might just want to keep it as it is you don't even have to cut anything in here and of course you can use any edge dies and any other things that you have in your stash but with this here I'm going to flip it over and I've got two sheets these are just under two and a half by seven so it's just about it's about one eighth of an inch under just so it it just sits perfectly within that section so what I use during the live is my thin the thinnest one I have actually and it's this one here and I think it's it's either two or three mil red tape and I'm going to go around on here rather than the acetate because I want to make sure that it doesn't go over any of the stars because I don't want any tape that's sticky you know obviously be invisible so I think I'm going to be okay with this on the one I've done in the live I had a couple of them where it was you know going to slightly go into the stars but this one seems to be okay so you can see what I'm doing now I'm just coming in slightly I'm not going right up to the the outer edge or to the school line there just coming in a little bit because that will sit with the acetate size and if for some reason I do have anything that's a little bit sticky just go over it with your anti-static powder with your little embossing buddies anything you use when you use your embossing powders and that will remove the stickiness so I'll check that afterwards but I'm just going to carry on and finish this one and then I've just taken the backing off the red tape and I'm just very carefully laying the acetate over the top like so and just run my finger over and I can't actually feel any tape anything sticky at all I have gone down a bit further with the acetate I can just see you won't be able to see it I can see a little bit just popping out the side there but now just make sure when you fold it the acetate's not catching anywhere but you can see now I've got that window effect so it'll allow me to be able to stick those little images that I've done now we can start attaching this to the card so I'm just going to run my glue I'm going to use the Kalao just because I'm covering this fiddly you know area with the stars it just doesn't dry so quick as a you know a white glue like the gloss cosmic shimmer that I use this just gives me that little extra time and it will add a lot of strength so I'm going to work on this side first of all and I'm just going to bring it up so the stars are just touching that score line just slightly undone you can see it sits perfectly because the the edge dies are seven inches high and that's what we cut the card to and then I'm going to fold that one flat and do the same on this side and then I'm going to keep it like that and I'm just going to close this one over and that way you know it's going to fold flat and then you have that it looks really cool now that without this tab is a really nice effect and I've done this style card before I've done it as the star fold card and I actually made five more and I stuck them all back to back so the whole thing would open I can hear some of the acetate I'm going to have to trim that can you hear it I didn't see that so but I can just trim that because that would bug me yeah I'll remove that anyway that's all done and then whilst that's still drying I'm going to use I'm going to use the quick grab glue for this one actually I'm just going to add the glue all down here and then I'm just going again sit it over there and just line up this piece with the whole card because it's exactly the same size okay so now you have the card shape and you're here there's no more maybe a little bit but anyway I can get away with that I've just trimmed it off so next we just need to add all the final decorations so this is the front of the card so I have this one but I'm also going to cut a piece of like I said before four and three quarters by six and three quarters in the pink and that will go on top I've then cut this oval and I've stamped this lovely Daisy May image with the macarons which match this paper which I actually got off a lady off eBay she was selling loads of loose 12x12 papers that I purchased and I'm also going to stamp the hope you have a sweet day sentiment which I've already got on this one here and that's from the creative stamping truly scrumptious stamp set the oval dies of the tonic studio oval dies and then the image there is this one from the Daisy May afternoon tea again all of this will be linked on my blog and then I'm also going to lay down the happy be day again using my chunky alphabet set and I've already gone ahead and cut all of that I've also cut all of the frames using the circles I'll put the sizes of the circles and everything on my blog but you'll see those frames are going to sit over that and then I've got the same for that side I've got the happy be day already cut and I've also gone ahead if I bring it all over here I've cut all of the stars and I've stamped more of the little macaroons which are also in that stamp set just here in the colors that match here and those are going to be stuck on the acetate windows so I'm now going to spend probably take me about 10 minutes to get all this stuck down I might add some more little stars in the centers of these ones like I did on that one there you can see them like the orange one there and I also added glitter my sparkle pen you see all that glitter on the stars so I might do that I'm going to do the glossy accents now because lots of people always ask me about this and how I get such a smooth finish and there's there's really no kind of trick to it I guess the one thing I do is once I lay the the nozzle down I don't lift it up until I'm finished so you want to make sure that you've got no air bubbles in it so always do a little test so I'll just take my pin out and just squeeze that out see there's there's a bit of a block in there see the only thing I do find this does block up you've got to kind of get past that there we go and just see it's just loads of it's just come out there now but now that's ready to go and I know there's no air in it and I only want to cover what would be the glass so now I'm laying it down I'm not really squeezing too much I'm actually moving around more of the the medium rather than squeezing more out as well so if you do get quite thick with it just yeah move it around rather than squeeze more out and it will always go on cloudy but it will dry clear so the thicker you do it the longer it will take to dry it is a glue I mean it's a you know a lot of people do use this as an adhesive more people especially myself use it more for glossy accents it's great for underwater theme cars adding it onto the fish it's nice to add onto eyes if you've got any stamped images little characters just gives them a nice little gloss yeah don't worry that it goes on cloudy and I like to make sure that there's no bubbles so you know there I can't see any there but I'm just really making sure that I've covered everything so it's a completely covered surface there's there's no little joins anywhere and then lift it off so I bring that up now you see I've got a really nice shine on that and then once I mean it's pretty clear anyway so I've not gone too thick with it but once that dries it will look more like that see it's a little bit mottled there we go it's a really lovely effect you can see that this one is clearer slightly it's just got a little bit of a cloudiness to it there but um yeah I don't want to tamper with that one too much now because it's a little bit bouncy I am just going to lift up this side keep it level while it's drying like there we go that will do and I'll just show you this one one more time for the back here just do oh look what I've just done luckily I'm going to be covering that um just do the same mats and layers sizes for the front that I mentioned and pop that on the back I'll just get rid of that glue because that's all going to get covered but they have it two triple panel cards or trifle cards I'm not entirely sure but I'm really pleased with how these ones are turned out so and also one other thing look closely but can you tell me the two mistakes on this card that's all I'm going to say if you watch the live don't cheat because you will already know but there are two mistakes once you see them you know but we'll leave it there so anyway thank you for watching and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye