 Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I'm going to be showing you how to make this really lovely bridge fold card. I've just made this during my Facebook life so I thought I would get straight on to making the second one for YouTube and I just adore it. I'm not sure if I can park this one so that's why I'm going to make one exactly the same so I can give that one away and I think I'm just going to keep this one on display this Christmas and maybe give it to somebody next year. If you're unfamiliar with a bridge fold card this is how they look they're very easy. This is actually an acetate bridge fold so it has that sheet of acetate right across the front so it gives the illusion of whatever you put on it is kind of floating or flying in my case because I've got the snowman and I've got that lovely Christmas at the bottom there or Merry Christmas which I've heat embossed and that's cut from glitter card and then you've got those lovely little critters there. The whole thing folds flat this is slightly bigger size this is six by eight however this playlist up here will take you to the smaller size bridge fold cards that I've got so try those out I've got a five by seven six by six and yeah you can still take this kind of effect and put it onto that smaller size lots of space on the back to write your message so let's make it. Okay so I've used bits and pieces here I've used the bright rose a snowflake border set this some fortune isn't available anymore but any snowflakes and again you might not be doing my kind of scene anyway then for the Christmas I've used my chunky alphabet die set and then for the Merry I've just pulled this one out here which is from a hobby art and then these are the stamps so I've used a bit from everything so I've used the the main image the hair and the owl again these ones I brought back in November last year at a craft fair or craft show so I'll see if I can find any links and then I've used the fox here but look at all these other ones you've got really really nice for the glitter here this is self-adhesive glitter so it's the Dovecraft A5 adhesive glitter card and again I'll link that it's lovely we've got all these different packs here so I've just pulled the silver and then for that gorgeous background which everybody loves it's my paper pad here which is the from the perfect pop-ups but you've got all these lovely scenes I've already used all of that one up I've used my red up I've used most of my candy cane I've got these ones left and I'm nearly down now to the last few of this one so here it is I've already cut it all I've already colored all these if you want to see me color these I done all that during the Facebook live and I'll link that below in the description box okay so to make this larger six by eight size that's for the envelope as well I'll show you that at the end so you want a piece here that's ten by six okay so ten inches long six inches wide and all you want to do is score along the ten inch side you're going to score it one inch two inch and then eight and nine okay that's all you need to do it's all the scoring for the whole card this then is the strip that I've got Christmas stuck on and this is eight by one and a half the width you need it to be eight if that's the size card you've made however the height of this can be whatever you want okay and then the pattern paper here what I've done is I've cut this this is the whole width of the eight inches an eight by eight paper pad but I've taken the whole eight inches width and all I've done is just taken a little bit off of the the scene at the top because the sentiment's covering this I didn't want to lose any of the trees so these pieces are going to cover this two sides and these these are one by six and then this piece to go in the middle is five and seven eighths of an inch I've brought it in slightly because it will buckle when the card folds otherwise so just bring in a little bit across the width five and seven eighths but the height is the full six inches of the card okay so that's all of your pieces okay so first of all you just want to fold and burnish these score lines so if you what you might want to do actually again because I don't want anybody having any card cracking I just quickly show you here if you've scored at one okay you scored at one and then two if you flip it over and score the two again only the two okay and also the eight just on that back side and what that will do is it will help because what you're you're actually going to fold these slightly differently so that you've got the one and the two the two inch you want to create a valley fold and then that one inch is going to be a mountain okay so you can see we folded one this way and one that way but because we've just scored on the back of the two inch one you shouldn't get any cracking so again on this side the two inch one or the eight is going to be a valley and then that nine inch one will become a mountain so that is now the the card shape that you'll have and what will happen is it will fold flat like that and that gives you your eight by six card size okay so next I'm going to stick this piece down so you'll see there because we've come in at five and seven eighths it you know it doesn't kind of catch on the sides so just worth taking that little bit off just for a nicer finish so I'm going to use the Kalau glue here so it gives it lots of strength and then I'm just going to pop that one down inside there then I've got a piece of acetate and this is six by eight and this acetate is going to sit along the whole front of the card when it's in that 3d form okay now the easiest way to stick the acetate down is by using red tape or a double sided it will be fine but I've got the red tape here because this is one inch wide these sections and this is a half inch red tape I only need to do two strips on each side and that will cover that whole section and whenever you're using the red tape just go over it make sure you push all the air bubbles out it will go much darker in color and that means it's completely stuck to your cardstock like so what I'm going to do is take one end off the festival so I'm just going to do make sure it's the right way up so I'm going to do the left hand side festival okay and then grab your acetate and just line it up like so it's just stuck down and then if you fold this one over you're then going to stick the acetate down over the top of this side here so again I'm just gonna you don't have to add the acetate as well that you know it's completely optional just because I'm sticking things onto the front now if you kind of roll the acetate keeping this all flat and then lay that down that way you know it's going to fit in your envelope and then if you do have any acetate overhanging I've got a tiny bit turn the card over and just cut that overhang away now you can start to see there you go get better view of the the acetate okay so now I want to cover the acetate with these strips here okay again just gonna lie down lay it down flat line this up at the bottom and then just follow that up so again start from the bottom and that way if you've got any overhang on the top you can just trim it away but I'm happy with that okay then I'm going to decorate now this strip here so I've got all of my letters and I'm just going to evenly space those out and these are self-adhesive but because I'm sticking it onto the card stock I will add some glue but it when I'm sticking these snowflakes actually onto the acetate then I'll just use the the adhesive on here because that will stick quite well but just with the card I just worry that it might lift over time so I like to lay everything down first of all make sure I'm spelling it correctly so kind of get them roughly you know evenly spaced just so that that way when you go to stick it all down you know that they're all in place and you're not going to start sticking and then stick them too close together and find out then you've got a quite a big gap at the end but I'm pretty happy with that I think that's good so now I'm just going to take the backing off of these it's pretty easy to do there we go and I'm going to use the cullow glue because it gives me a nice amount of wiggle time so I can always move them a little bit if I need to and just stick that one down there and keeping that same gap I'm just going to work my way along okay so I'm really happy with that that looks great so now I'm just going to stick that down I'm going to use some foam this is my Arteza very long roll it's very good very sticky take the backing off and this will now kind of strengthen the whole card and still be able to fold flat so fold it down this end flat and that way you'll be able to line up the corner there I'm running this right along the corner and then just stick it down so again keeping that side folded whatever side you open so that side's open that side's folded then when it goes over that side's folded this side's open by doing it that way you can make sure that it all lines up and then again if you've got anything overhanging I've got a little bit on that side I'm just going to always cut from the back and that way you get a really nice finish there we go isn't that cool so now I'm just going to arrange all of these pieces so I've already put foam on the back like I said if you do want to see me color them then you can check out the Facebook live which will be linked below but I've got the little Mary there which I've already heat embossed so we'll pop that down I think I put it yeah just above the eye slightly off to the left there we go and then I'm going to stick the snowflakes down first of all so then I know the area I've got to play with beautiful snowflakes absolutely stunning so this one's going to come off slightly at the top there again turn it over at the back and just snip off it's only that one yeah like so and then I had this one it's going to go just here and then I've got the smaller one it's going to go just down here and then the main image which is a snowman and I've been informed that he's called James from the story so he's going to go just there and I love the way it creates the shadow behind can you see there I love that I think it just yeah simple things and then I'm just going to take the backing off of the owl now the owl I actually popped inside so again you're just creating that scene that background and the foreground pop it on your pokey tool in that way you can kind of pop it in here and you can just move it around position it how you want but I'm going to have him kind of just push that down and then these lovely two here so I've got the hair and the fox are just going to sit as if they're sitting on the top of the word Christmas there so just and the foams the same height as the foam that I've used to stick this down so everything is all lined up that just balances everything out and completes the card isn't it gorgeous I'm very pleased with this one okay so let's do the envelope I already have my envelope for that one there okay so you need a piece of 11 by 11 for this size and it's on here and it's your six by eight you can see just the second one from the bottom so a piece of 11 by 11 it's telling me my first score line is at four and seven eighths of an inch and pop it in and I'm going to line this up with the four and seven eighths of an inch marker punch and score okay I've got the older board it doesn't have the extender arm but you don't need to worry about that get it down as far as you can I then like to do exactly the same on the opposite side and I find by doing it this way I always get perfect results again so you'll see now we've got these notches and these partial score lines then you're going to work on the other two sides so pop this one in ignore all of this now all you want to focus on is this notch lining up the corner with this score line there's a score line here so I'm bringing it up so it lines up this bit here perfectly with the score line punch and score you'll see when you score you meet the corner perfectly there and then I'm going to repeat on this one again ignore all of the top corner there lining it up this here punch and score a little bit of waste there she can just get rid of but now you have this piece and just pop your stylus back in there next if you just burnish the four sides and then I'm going to use my red tape because I've got it at hand I'm just going to run some tape along each of the sides and make sure it's all stuck down well and then I'm going to make one of my bouncy envelopes so all that means is that you put the card inside the envelope first before you stick it down so you'll see now when you pop it on its side it will fit perfectly within the center there of the envelope next bring in the sides and you will bring them over any bulk that's in the card because obviously there's a little bit of dimension to this but by bringing it over you're creating a bit of a bounce to the envelope so I'm just going to take the backing off and then I'm just going to bring up the bottom and then stick it down okay now if I take this card out see it's got a bounce so now you know that that's going to fit rather than you making it without putting the card in first that would be quite flat so that you know it would be just a very flat envelope and you would probably find you'd struggle what I also say is whenever you've got any kind of decoration is always then put it in the envelope so it's facing away from you and that way nothing's going to catch on all of these pieces you'll see now just goes into there perfectly and then I'll just finish off with a little bit of tape on the top and now that's all ready for me to seal once I've you know wrote inside the card so again I just pull that one out there you have got two beautiful cards with matching envelopes and like I said one of them I'm keeping for myself for a while and I will sort out something nice to pop on the back there I will probably die cut some more of the snowflakes pop a couple of them on the back there and like I said yeah I'm going to display one and give and send one to a friend so thank you for watching I will link as much of the product as I can in the description box below and I'll be back very soon with another tutorial see you