 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 tunnel fold card. Now my inspiration has actually come from this tunnel card from the 1950s. So one of my what did I get videos a couple of weeks ago I shared a lot of vintage cards that I'd purchased and one of them was this one but I put it to one side and I didn't share the inside because I wanted to keep it as a surprise. So my inspiration has come from this card and basically when you open it up it reveals this. So you have these different levels so it's as if you're kind of like I guess looking through a tunnel that's how you know that's where I guess the modern name for it has come from. I'm not sure what they would have called it back then but anyway. So really straightforward to do today's card's going to be five by seven and this is the one that I've done. So the front is plain because I haven't really finished that kind of bit there just it's just going to say happy birthday but this is how it will look. There's not going to be much going on because all the fun is inside but when you open it up this is what I've done. So mine's slightly different I've gone for this underwater theme. I've added acetate to both levels so there's acetate on this one and on the one on the front and it's just I love it it's really good. I love this die set anyway. You've got lots of room here to write your message alternatively you can write your message on the back it all folds completely flat fitting into a five by seven envelope and then basically it stays open like this so all of your hard work is you know constantly on show. The mirrored card stock the holographic card stock is just all brilliant I think it works really really well and it's very similar in terms of the theme and everything to the shadow floating shadow box card I think it was I shared so I know a lot of you have this die set so I will link up the card there as well. If anybody's new you've not seen that one do check it out because it's a really fun card but I just love how this works I love how it stands up and it will fold flat so let me show you how to make it. Okay so first of all we need to prepare our card so you need one piece that is 10 and a quarter by seven okay so if you do want to make this smaller then just reduce your seven inch side to whatever height you want it. So along the 10 and a quarter inch side you want to score at five inches then at nine inches and then at 10 inches okay fold all of those I'd already gone ahead and done this obviously check everything was going to be okay and that is how we're going to have it so you want this side up and this is going to be our little tab which we're going to attach our next piece to and this piece once it all folds down you'll see there it becomes the they're both the same width okay so that is our kind of main I guess outer case then this is the piece that goes inside and this piece here I don't think it matters which way no okay so this is a piece of eight and three quarters by seven so again reduce the seven inch down if you do want to shrink it and you're going to score at four inches four and a half inches and eight and a half inches you should have a small little quarter of an inch tab there and again fold all of those score lines like so okay okay next before we stick this down you want to create your windows now I am going to use this die cut here and I'm going to have it slightly further up towards the top than the bottom because I'm going to although saying that I'm now thinking that I'm going to add in this one here again which says you're amazing which could look quite nice there so actually I'm going to have mine more towards the bottom so just change that you want to make sure as well that you've got it with the quarter inch tab on the left hand side here okay because this is that first one that we looked down now I'm sticking my tape here on the inside card although this is low tack purple tape if anything was to rip it would rip on this piece here that I don't want to keep okay so now I'm going to run that through my die machine now obviously this is seven inches in width so if you if any of you've got the smaller die machines then obviously you're not going to be able to run it through but what I would say is because this is metal is lie it down you can either draw around it with a pencil and then cut it with your cutting knife or you can go straight in and use this as a ruler and cut it with your cutting knife that way okay so there's all you can use scissors do a cross and then cut it out that way so this you know everybody can still do this but yeah if you haven't got the wider die machines then you will have to cut it okay so just cut that one out obviously keep these these are always nice to use on other cards because they're perfect obviously cut rectangles there so now again if I bring this back so we're going to fold that one over also when you cut it you want to make sure that you leave space for this little tab here because that's going to stick over here like that you don't want that tab showing you know in the window that you've created okay so already now I'm really pleased with where I have this one next we need to create that again on this piece so you're going to be cutting now on this side I mean you can obviously cut that side it doesn't matter you're going to be cutting on this side here so because I can't obviously lie that down and have it completely straight I'm going to bring up the side so this is nice and straight here and then with my pencil I'm just going to do a line down here very lightly it's all going to get covered anyway and mostly it's going to get cut out and I think that's about it and I'm going to do one a little pencil mark there and that is just a guide now for me to lie this one down okay so I can see that is the inside so it's going to be about there that looks about right so again just going to use the same purple tape okay so keep them they're always handy put them to one side okay so now we have this piece all prepared just score those again burnish those score lines if you're cutting it probably best to burnish fully after anyway so again now make sure I've got this all going the right way yeah was that way so that is going to stick on here that one is going to stick there and already now you can see we've got this tunnel appearing okay so now I'm ready to add my acetate so you want your acetate to be obviously wider wide enough to cover whatever the square or rectangle you know whatever your window size is but no larger than four inches because this is the width of this section here so these are four inches wide so this is three and three quarters by six and that will cover my frame so I'm just going to pop some red tape on the outer sides okay so now this piece again you want it to stick so you've got your tab on the right hand side that's folded up towards you and I'm going to stick my acetate um on the back side I'm just thinking because obviously this is going to be the side that's hidden so I'm going to stick it on this backside here just make sure it's all covered gone more to the one side than the other but as long as it's all within that section it will be fine make sure all your air bubbles are out okay let's fold that all round there we go perfect so that is going to stick inside there and you can't see any of the glue or anything because it's hidden on the back piece there which obviously will be completely concealed but now when that catches the light I think it's going to look really good so before we stick this in you want to decide what you're going to have on your very back so I've cut this piece here which is from this paper pack here which was the one that I shared recently it's called fresh feelings three pound from the works it's a really nice nautical theme so I've just selected oh where is it this one here I thought it was really nice with the waves and everything so that's my background piece so I'm going to stick that one down okay and this one measures just slightly short of four inches so it's it's about three and seven eighths okay and then again it's just shy of seven inches tall so I wanted it to cover the whole section so you can see there when I bring up my side it's there's no frame it completely covers that section but if you do want to have a bit of a frame then by all means bring that in but now once you start building this together how cool is this going to look so there is my C right in the background there so now you have to decide whether you want to have anything here so you know you're going to be adding that over the top so you need to kind of think about what's going to be in your real kind of background area now I have started cutting some bits and pieces out so I've gone ahead and cut all of these not really knowing what's going to go where but I think I'm going to have one of my fish right at the very back now I've cut this actually on some thumb foam so it's already got dimension but I think I might have like one of these right at the very back so what I would say is at this point before you stick it down you do have to start kind of planning out your scene because the last thing you want to do is stick that down and then when you get to something at the very front you hate where you've positioned something for example right at the back and you can't obviously take it all apart but I think I'm going to have just one fish on the very very back and then these bits here I want to be kind of floating more so I've got this look how cute the little gnar wall is and I've put him on some white foam adhesive so again he's raised but I think I want him kind of like this okay so you can kind of see so he's already now floating and then I'm going to be probably I'm going to have this shell down here and then my mermaid is going to come here now I haven't cut her yet but I already can tell I think he's going to have to go higher I'm probably going to move that fish up a little bit more yeah so already now that's starting to as long as I've got that rough one there where I want it because the mermaid's going to go here and then I'm going to have my sign up there which should all be fine and then these bits are going to go on this one which is you know we can do as and when and I've also got a lovely little seahorse here which I might have maybe just kind of popping up there behind the shell actually on the very front so I'm going to stick down this little fish here okay so I'm happy with that so next we are going to start sticking everything into place so what you need to do is with a pencil you need to mark one inch from coming out from this score line here you want to just put a pencil mark at one inch so I'm going to mark one inch out which is there and then I'm going to draw just a faint well enough for you to see it but you just want to do don't push too down too much because you will rub this out that is a guideline now for where we're going to stick this side piece that side piece needs to stick right up to that pencil line so it becomes the same height as this one inch side here okay and that will give you an equal half an inch here and then a half an inch there okay so what you want to do first of all is we're going to stick it and attach it to this piece so with some red tape I'm going to run this all the way up that tab and it's a quarter inch tab so this quarter inch tape works really well again make sure all your air bubbles are out and then I'm going to add more red tape to that inside piece so you want to make sure that you're sticking it you've got your quarter inch tab underneath sticking up the one with no tab is here on the right hand side and then the left hand side of that half inch is where you want to add your sticky tape or you can use wet glue as well again if you're worried that you're not going to maybe stick this straight or something then use wet glue because again it will give you that wiggle room but I'm hoping that I'm going to do this okay and I can go straight in with the red tape okay so first of all just take your backing off of this side okay and then open this one out and you're going to stick it down I think I'm going to bring mine up so I can see it better that way so I'm going to just concentrate on one end first and again it's all the right measurements so it should marry up nicely turn that one over just go over that so now it becomes this really long piece so that way at the minute you've got everything now here on the right hand side and then you fold that under like this okay so what we need to do before we stick that one we're going to add tape and we need to get this one stuck in place now this one here is going to stick within your half inch section so what you're going to do is you want to fold this piece right over so that the tape here that you've stuck down is facing up and basically that will sit with that folded piece over here this quarter inch tab when it's folded over it will sit exactly halfway between that other one inch section so and that will mean that you've got the the card is you know not only lined up but it's going to lie flat when you pop it in the envelope so taking the backing off I'm going to fold all of that over first so I can see this piece and then start from the top make sure that tab is folded under and just lie that all down like so okay and now when you bring it up you have a perfect little kind of section there window when you go to stick this side over and we're going to line it out with that pencil line you can see our card is all coming together and it should fingers crossed it's going to look really good so now I'm going to take the backing off of this and all you need to do actually I just thought you don't need to have yes you do because we're going to do no you don't need a pencil mark there because if you just fold over so you've got that hide folded over you can lie it all down but again the pencil is good there's nothing there's nothing wrong with having that there and it completely gets hidden now anyway so no one will ever know it's there and it's helped us like so and now we've got a really cool tunnel fold love love love this I think it's so fun and when it closes it's your nice five by seven card size how cool is that so next it's all down to decorating this is where I'm going to have my message so I will be cutting some mats and layers for that and I'm going to stamp a fun image I think I'm going to decorate the side here I'm going to die cut bits and pieces for this I need to do all my mats and layers for the front and you can also have somewhere on the back if you'd rather write your message there and continue your theme and decoration and stuff there as well so I'm going to crack on and get all that ready okay so I have changed things up a bit so I started to do this one and just something wasn't working for me and I think it is because I I went and stuck this down and then this was in mirrored cardstock and then these were obviously not and they were quite matte and a bit not dull but I guess well dull in terms of you know against the the shininess of the silver so something just wasn't feeling right and then I thought well maybe I shouldn't have done it green anyway I stopped that one I'm going to keep it I will figure something out but then I redone it again in white and also what I've done is I've added acetate to the top piece as well so we got up to this part and I left this without the acetate I've added acetate to this one so there is now two levels to it and I actually think I prefer it so if you know again a lot of you just watch my tutorials all the way through before you go to stick down the final side which is obviously this one in yeah yeah it's this one here you want to stick acetate on that one okay so just act in the same way as I showed you before so there's nothing difficult there but I I like the way it moves and I just like that there's two layers so that's all that I've changed the color and added that piece of acetate and I will I'll do something with this I'm not quite sure yet but it will not definitely not get wasted okay so I've gone ahead and cut all these pieces the pop-out pop-up no is it the floating shadow box card that I done that was so popular loads of you liked it and I've kind of reverted back to that in terms of the colors and the palette that I used and I just adore the dovecraft mirrored cardstock so this is some of this is the mermaids and unicorns was it mermaids and unicorns this is like the pinks and stuff here and then I've also used the holographic but I'll share all those links and they are on my amazon store from so I've already gone and stuck down these bits I've done the fish goldfish on the very back and then these three are on the inner acetate now on the top and I'm going to add a few more bits underneath so I've got my seaweed here and I'm going to have I really like her with the shell that's how I don't know on that other card that I done but I do like that kind of arrangement there this is going up here which just pops so well with that white behind it and then I'm going to have him on this side but I'm going to also then have a piece of green seaweed here just to kind of fill all of that bottom area like so and then these pieces are going to stick inside and just poke down there but underneath the acetate once I bring this up closer and you see it all it will obviously look much better but I'm going to stick these together stick all of that down and then we can finish with our mats and layers for the front and the inside though okay so that's everything stuck down and you can really now see all the different layers to that card I think it looks great I love all the shine that comes off of this it really does look like almost like a fish tank kind of effect it's really neat everything about it and just really love okay so next you just want to finish off your mats and your layers so the very front I have got these two here because obviously when this now goes flat this is five by seven so I've just done my normal mats and layers so this is a piece of four and three quarters by six and three quarters and then this piece to go on top is four and a half by six and a half so those are going to go over the top I've kept the same paper just to you know keep it all matching okay so that's the front it's going to stay very very simple it's probably just going to have this happy birthday die on top and this is the one I picked up recently from the works and again I'll share all these links because whenever I've done something like a pop-up style it's got a lot of work inside keep the front really plain because when this is displayed it will be displayed open like this everybody's going to see this nobody's really going to see that so that's what I kind of do anyway because it seems a shame to spend so long on the front and then no one really see it and then this is to go inside here and this is where I'm going to write my message this piece is this area is four by seven so I think this was three and yeah three and three quarters by it should be six and three quarters so that piece is going to go there again I'm keeping that same paper throughout just to tie everything together this piece is a lot smaller because I wanted to have a thicker frame so this piece here is three by five and three quarters that is going to go there so you see I've got a thicker frame I just thought that looked quite nice and then I've just die cut another little seahorse in the mirrored kind of teal color there and I just thought he'd be quite nice I might have him up there actually so he's not right against the mermaid when it closes so I'm going to stick all that down okay so that's that bit down there and just I love it I really really love this again it's this die set it's just I know quite a lot of you have purchased this and you've been emailing me saying how much you've been enjoying it so I think to do another Cartier tour just to give you more inspiration again on how to use this is just a really fun die set to use and I don't think I actually showed you it is this one here it's the first edition this is the under the sea and yeah love everything about it and then for the seaweed I love this one I just think it works really well and this is from the I think this is woodland yeah woodland again both first edition all over on my Amazon storefront and I'll share all the links in my blog as well there you have it guys a really lovely very straightforward 5x7 card from the front but when they open it up just look at all that wonderfulness inside and I just thought I did say I was going to cover that which I definitely want to do so I'm going to quickly add that strip okay there we go that even transforms it even more love it love it love it love it and yeah it's up to you whether you want to have your message there you may want to continue your theme and like I said right on the back there but I just love how it all folds flat and then pops up so there is my modern update of this very vintage style here and yeah I'm really pleased with it I think they've turned out really nice so I hope you've enjoyed today's 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