 Hi everybody it's Sam at Make Stopped Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make these showstopper cards which I made in a recent Facebook live. So this is the one I've done during the live, I'll show you this one here, so you just slide off your belly band and then you open it up and you have this really fun card. It looks, well it's a showstopper, that's what I call these kind of double cards. We were trying to think of names and one of them was the hexadecagon, which basically hexadecagon is a 16 sided object and that was because there are 16 squares, it's a very long one and I don't think everyone can pronounce it so I'm just going to call this the double accordion card because that was another popular one because you have that accordion style. So this is what I'm going to call this one, the double accordion card or double display accordion card, something like that. You would have seen what's in the title anyway but it looks really nice and then on the back you've got room to be able to write your message. So this one here is slightly smaller, this was my sample and when I ended up folding it down it came to 5x6 which is a bit of an odd size, it's still a beautiful card but then I've done this one during the live which is actually your 6x6, so again you just slide off your belly band and you have this one and this one I've used the holographic card which I just adore, again you can kind of see the way it kind of all squashes down just like an accordion and I think it looks fantastic and again stands up really nicely they need a lot of space for this one so it can certainly take centre place and on the back there you see you've got all that space and you could put more squares on here people were saying how we were all kind of saying it reminds us of game shows like all the panels where they bring down the numbers and stuff like that but also you could put photos you could put you know all kinds of things in those squares so that's what we're going to make today so let me show you how. Okay so for the verses I used the card making magic verses and I was saying in the live she's just launched a load more and I'm actually going to stock up on some of them because they're brilliant so that's those it will be linked below the embossing folder which I've used on the front there is my zigzag one from my made to surprise range and it's the 6x6 and then today's colours I'm going for the craft card and these lovely ones here all of this paper is from a Carter Bell Botanical Garden it's an old collection I'll link it below up from scraps I've just got the top sheet and that's it there so yeah Carter Bell Botanical Garden all right so I've done one half already and I've stuck all of those pieces down you don't need to watch me do it twice so straight in you want two pieces of cardstock that measure 11 by 6 along the 11 inch side you want to score at 2 4 and 6 okay then rotate it so you would you'll have now this kind of you know blank area that needs to be at the bottom so rotate it again you're going to score it 2 and 4 down to 7 inches if first of all you want to just score down to the 6 inch score line then you can but I'm actually just going to eyeball and go all the way down to the 7 inch here okay if you want to bring your ruler sit that down there and just score down to your 7 inches on the ruler you can and again at 4 inches down to the 7 okay then rotate it back into the 11 inch side and you're then going to score I bring in my template here this will actually help you a lot so I've already got this I'll take a photo and put on my blog you can see here where I've scored at the 2 and 4 ignore that I put 4 and 2 I'll change that but you would have scored all the way down there you can see I've scored down to 7 okay and then at the 4 scored down to 7 now we put it back in here you want to score at 1 inch just between this middle square here okay and then you're also going to join up the ends of those two score lines which will be at your 7 inch marker so here I'm hovering my stylus over that first square and then I'm starting to score at 1 inch again if you want to bring a ruler in and sit your ruler like so that's pretty much a 1 inch ruler but anyway you see I'm just sitting at the 1 inch there hover over that first square and then start scoring just within that one and then here I'm just joining up the ends of those score lines so I know this is a cream hard stop but you can see now my score lines there we go okay that one there doesn't look like it's coming up to you let's do that again there we go you can really see it well okay so you want to do that twice and then I've just got my mat and my cutting knife you can use your trimmer if you want to and then you're going to cut from that 1 inch score line in the middle here down to the 7 you can see I've got my red lines which are my cut lines just cutting that piece there okay you can see again that way there's your 2 4 and 6 and then your 2 and 4 and you're going to just cut from that one there all the way down to that one and again along the bottom sit this one down here okay and again you'll do that on the other piece now with this all towards you so I've got that larger section at the back bring up this one so you create a valley fold like so and then that next score line you want to become a mountain again you can see here no that's obviously all folded but you're bringing it up like that then these two here are going to become valley folds the middle one is then going to become a valley fold as well you can kind of see for people like that how that kind of wants to stay but that's now going to become a valley this middle one so these two need to become mountains just pinching it for the minute then this one it wants to go to a mountain next which means these two at the end need to become valleys along with that last one so all your last ones are valleys all the next ones are mountains then a valley you know they just need to work along so they will constantly in a fold and then you can fold it all down and just really burnish all those score lines well so you have that effect I'll hold it up like that okay so repeat that so you have the two and then I'll bring this one in now she can kind of see what I've done so what's going to happen you'll have two yours will be playing you're then going to flip one of them and we're going to stick it over the top you can see there where we get our card before we do that I'm going to well actually no do that now because it doesn't matter that I've already stuck my mats and layers down so I'm actually going to stick this one over this one here so all you want to do is add your glue on the back of this piece here don't go into here just literally just pretend you you know it's just that rectangle piece and then you're going to butt it right up to that score line all down just line it up so the tops all line up and just make sure that that folds over nicely you don't want to buckle anything there rub away any glue you can see that's going to fold nice and flat along with that side and that's our six by six size okay so I'm going to open it back up and now we can start adding our mats and layers so I've already done half of what you need so I will give you the full amounts and I've also done some in different patterns you'll see this middle section is a slightly different pattern to the top ones but in total with the squares you want 16 that are one and three-quarters squared and then 16 pattern papers that are one and a half squared but you might want to change your patterns okay and you'll see they're going to go across all these squares here and then mine ago on the other side here as well so I've got those two okay and then they're the other ones which are already within those 16 and then these pieces here you'll want ten five on each side and those are mats are three-quarters of an inch by one and three-quarters and then it'll be half an inch by one and a half and again I've got the same pattern for the top there then I've got those three there and then I've got the other one there okay and then I have this is all going to stick on the front along with those extras then I've got this here so I've already gone ahead and decorated all of this so you see I've stamped my verse there and then I just fussy cut these pieces from the paper pads put another little one at the bottom there that's going to stick in the middle now you want two of these sizes one for the front and the back this is three and three-quarters by five and three-quarters and then that cream piece on top is three and a half by five and a half two of each so I'm going to have that in the middle there and then I've done that one already which is going to stick on the back and I'll be able to write something and then I've just got this piece ready for the belly band and the decoration on the front okay so that's everything stuck down so next I've got these pieces here which are three by six two pieces and these are going to be like your doors so I'm going to have one on here on the very front sure that piece goes in so it's going to go like so and then this one is going to stick on this side here like so so all of these you'll see there's this little piece overhanging here that's the door and then on this one here I then backed it with more of the holographic cardstock there as well and I just think it's a nice way to kind of close everything out I mean if you don't want to have it you don't have to but I do think it's nice it just kind of finishes it off so what you want to do is just add your glue just onto this kind of a obscure shape I'm not worried that because craft cards usually has a lighter and then like a door or raw side that's your raw side and then that's like your shine kind of your your pressed side but I'm going to be backing it with the nice sized side again like so you might have a pattern paper that complements like a double-sided one that will complement both sides so whatever works for you do the same on the other side okay so see now that's all stuck down next I've cut these two cream pieces which are going to map the front but I'm going to use my bottom folder on them first they're two and three quarters by five and three quarters so I'm going to pop them in here and just run that through my machine okay so just stuck them on this they're just drying so while that's happening I've got these strips here if you want to cut your strip exactly to the length you know to cover this then you can but I've gone a little bit bigger this is what I've done in the live cover it all let it stick and then trim around it and you get a much nicer finish so I'm just going to cover this with the glue I'm using the Coal glue throughout and comes a very nice strong card so now I'm just going to stick that piece over there so I'm going to butt it right up just gives you a really nice very neat finish let that dry do the same at this end okay back to this one while it's pretty much dry and then I can just go in use my longer scissors here and if you go in from underneath you can get your scissors right up along the side there and you just get a perfect finish but I'm just going to do the same on this one okay so that just finishes off the inside really nicely you can put a strip there I put an extra one over that one there so that's just a white piece then I put that coral color over the top and then with this one you can see I just left it with the holographic it's entirely up to you put some washi tape down the sides there you may want to do a decorative border in it or something you know there's lots of ways to change it but now that all folds up so then I've got my belly band so this is a piece of one and a quarter by a four length they use 12 I think on the other one because that's what I had available but you can even do 11 that's what you've got you just meet me you will need to join up which I'm going to have to do anyway with the flower just wrap it around don't do it so tight that it won't slide off that's just nicely sitting around there and then I'm going to join them together with that flower okay so that's that done I think it's stuck it's just a little nod to the patterns and everything that's inside but now that should just sit if it's upside down the flower or not I don't think it really matters that just slide over like so you need to make sure it doesn't catch there we go I just think it finishes it off really nicely you could still pop this in an envelope as well if you wanted to or one of my box envelopes I'll link that up here now actually because I think a box one will be better because there is a little bit of dimension to it so just take that one off pick it up there you have a wonderful card it looks so so pretty so that's the craft card one then we've got the holographic one keep my belly bands together and then we've got the original one which is a little bit smaller but still looks really really pretty I'm still happy with it so yeah there you have my double accordion display cards or show stopper cards thoroughly enjoyed making these really really nice it's really good fun during the live as well chatting to everybody and already you've been sharing your versions on the group which you know I love to see if you haven't joined mixed up grafters on Facebook head on over and join you can share anything that you've made following my tutorials and it's just a really nice happy space on Facebook so thank you for joining as always I'll share as many of the links as I can I've used in today's tutorial and we'll be back very soon with another one thanks for watching bye