 Hey everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This marks my one year birthday, so Mixed Up Craft is one year old. I look back on my old tutorials, my very first tutorials, and I think I've evolved considerably within the first year, so yeah it's been brilliant, I've really enjoyed it. And today I thought I would do a Happy Birthday card. Now the inspiration for this card has come from my mum and this card that she'd done for me a few years ago and it's thanks to my mum that I'm doing this. She encouraged me to do the YouTube channel, she showed me many techniques and I have her to thank. So yeah, although I've always been creative and done many crafts, it's my mum that's really kind of pushed me and encouraged me to do the paper crafting more and show you guys. So thank you mum, love you loads. And this is the card she made me and this is the diamond fold card. It's a really really fun one, so it comes all flat like this and then as you open it up it's like this and it stands up as well. Really nice, really easy to do, just some clever scoring. So let's crack on and make this one. So today you're going to need, I'll grab all my pieces here, make sure I'm all in there, there we go. So I'm using the Paradise Crush papers from First Edition, Adore These, they're getting well used, absolutely love it. I've just got some embellishments here because I'm not sure what I'm going to put on yet. I pre-dicut all my bits and pieces which again I'll go through you shortly and all these sizes I will show you in a minute. So first of all your main card piece here is 12 by 4 inches. So what you want to do is scoring along the 4 inch side really straight forward you're going to score at 2, 4, 8 and 10. Ok so that's just along the long side there, then get rid of your scoreboard and you want to grab a pencil and a ruler and basically you will have a two inch rectangle, another two inch rectangle, a big square in the middle and then two other rectangles here. The big square in the middle you want to mark the half way point on all four sides, so in this case it's two inches, so just a little pencil mark there at two inches and then one down the side, one along the top and one along that side there, so I've got two little pencil marks ok. Then what you want to do, starting from the left hand side here so you've got that first rectangle, that two inch rectangle here, so ignore that one. Then the top of the next one, so just the top of the score line here, that two inch score line, pop your ruler down and you want to make sure that your ruler goes across that pencil mark here of that diamond shape in this middle square down to the bottom of the diamond shape which is the other side. So let me just do a pencil mark and then I can rub this out just to show you, I've just bring that up there, so you can see I've just done a pencil mark all the way across, so from the top here down to the bottom middle of that one and again you then go across the other way, so now from the top of that square, that rectangle you're going to go all the way down, actually I don't think that other pencil mark showed up very well did it, there we go that's better. Can you see what I've done there, there we go, so you've got that first rectangle that's completely a plane and then I've got a pencil mark that goes all the way down across and then this one here that goes all the way across, okay and I'm going to do that again on the other two and the other sides there, so that's that one and again, so that's what you should have, so you've got these two big crosses and we're now going to score over those crosses, I just wanted to draw it in pencil there so you can see what you should have, so you've got two rectangles either side with nothing and then you should have two big crosses that join forming this, you know you've got your big square there and you've got that diamond in the middle, so now you just want to score all of those score lines so you can hold your ruler down right the way across from point to point and just score there and then again, okay so those now are all scores, I'm just going to grab my rubber and just remove those pencil marks, so now we just need to burnish all of those score lines so what you want to do is where you've got all these kind of little, well first of all actually fold this one up the outside ones, fold that one up first and the other outside one, fold that one up like so, okay and then just go and pinch along all those kind of triangle score lines there, I'm pushing them all down okay and then with this one here, this score line here, so that one I folded up then you've got this one here, if you just push it in on itself so they're kind of starting to join here at the back, as you do that you'll be able to just do the rest there, just pinch that down so you can see what I've just done there, okay and that's going to form that first side there, that edge, okay so again here just pinch all of these sides down and then again with the two side bits there just bring them in on themselves and you will get that nice join and then you will have this shape so really straightforward it's just like a pencil mark so make sure you get them lined up a little bit off there but with my decoration you're not going to notice that so I'm not too worried, so now talking about the decoration, all these bits and pieces here that I've got so I've pre-cut for my side pieces here, so these two pieces measure one and three eighths of an inch by three and three quarters okay so two pieces of those are going to go on the outside pieces here and then if I open it all up again you then need three pieces of two and a half inch squared okay one of these pieces you're going to cut in half so you can draw a pencil mark across just do it here across the middle like okay I'm just going to cut that one out you can use your trimmer I'm just doing mine by freehand now these two pieces are going to go in these ones here okay so one at that end and one at that end that's those pieces and then you need with that other piece you're cutting it into fours so on the back you would just the other two pieces you will have this two and a half so three pieces of two and a half inch squared one you're just cutting in half and then the other two you're cutting into fours so you just want to do a cross on the back like so and then again just cut that out like so I already done the other one there so you should have eight little triangles and then these will all go in these smaller little ones here okay you'll have little bits of that yellow border showing around so that's all of the pieces to dress it and then for the top I just die cut two of these squares that I've got and you want it to cover more of the surface area than the actual base itself so you'll see there that's why I wasn't worried that if my folding is a little bit off underneath you're not going to see any of it and this just completely makes it nice and neat so that will go on top that's then going to go on top again and then I can dress it with my little embellishments and stuff so I'm going to go ahead now and get all those pieces stuck down okay so that's all now stuck down and it's made it really really nice and strong as well because I used my tacky glue as always so that's really reinforced it so now it all folds nice and compact together and then obviously when it opens up it will stand up like that there you go straight so now I just need to decorate you can obviously do even more but I'm just going to decorate the middle bit here now what I've done is I've just picked out some pink and I've got pink card and I've just kind of overlapped that yellow sentiment on top of a strip of pink just to give it a little bit of dimension I'm going to put that probably on some foam I've done the same with the butterfly so I've die cut the butterfly in pink and in yellow so I'm going to try and do some kind of little clusters and then I've also just gone and made these flowers up and I've put a little embellishments in the middle of those and these are going to kind of scatter around as well so I'm going to stick all that down and show you the final result okay so there you have it I think I might put some Wink of Stella over it as well but I need to find it so I don't know where I put it just to give it some more sparkle but I changed the inside of the flowers there just to this like corally red just to pull out the the ready tones in the flowers there and yeah I'm really pleased with it so that is my version of this diamond fold card I've also done an envelope so this this card ends up measuring five by five so obviously does depend on the size of this top square because you can see it comes over the top the edges here so that's what you would measure to decide on your envelope size so you do from the the longest points it's coming in at four and three-quarters and the closest one on the envelope punch board is would be five so it's just five by five card which is eight by one eighth of an inch squared paper and then just score it and I just put another little embellishment there just to tie all together so there you have it that's my card so thank you mum for the inspiration thank you everybody for my first year on YouTube it's been an absolute joy and here's to the next year thanks for watching bye