 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. So as I promised yesterday I have a really fun tutorial to show you how to make this tent fold card using acetate. I just thought it was going to work perfectly for this lovely stamp and die set which is part of the new Father Christmas collection so I did share these ones yesterday and this was the one that I made so if any of you missed that tutorial I will link that up here. It's beautiful. It's a really nice little pop-up box card using one of the stamp and die sets and then I'm actually going to be using the same stamp and die set to make this one but I just thought it's such a different style. I've shared similar before but I haven't added this piece here which is it kind of acts like a stopper because the acetates aren't always as strong as the original card stock that would have been in place so yeah I just think it's quite a nice way to put it together but I thought it would work perfectly with this stamp and die set because it does really look like Santa is flying above the houses there. Again these were the other two that I showed yesterday. I won't show you how to make these they're pretty you know self-explanatory. This is using the embossing folder that comes in the lovely collection along again with that stamp set there and then this one here is an easel card. I've made many of these on the channel but I've used that lovely Santa and you can see there I've done some decoupage and this is actually an embossing folder on the back so it's all textured and yeah I've just coloured that using my watercolor pencils so this one today was using watercolor pencils so I'm going to pop all that to one side. The one I seem to be using a lot of is this one here I just love the chimney rooftop and everything I just think it's really really lovely so yeah all of that will be linked below as normal then I am using some acetate here this is crafters companion so this is a piece of six by six acetate so the whole card will fold down to a six by six card okay and that just pops up straight away and it will stand okay to make the actual card itself I have a piece here which is nine and a half by six okay and then you want to score along the nine and a half side you want to score it one inch seven inches then flip it over and score eight inches and then flip it back over again and score at nine inches just by flipping it over that will just help us fold it because it's like a concertina fold and it just means you won't get any cracking okay so that's all the scoring you need there's not much so the first score line this one inch one you want to fold and I'm just going to burnish that one okay then this will now be so this is going to become the front okay this is this piece here so that's the front so this is the back which is going to fold up and it will do because we've scored it the right way the next score line will come down creating a mountain and then that last one will come up creating a valley you should have that on the bottom okay so that on the top that on the bottom this is what we're going to stick our acetate to and then eventually we're going to stick the houses over the top now just realize I need to do a couple more there so I'll do all that in a moment so basically then this piece of acetate will go underneath this one and over the top of this one it should sit perfectly if we get anything overhanging we can always trim it off so before we do that I've got this piece here which again is six by six and that will sit perfectly within there but you might want to trim a little bit off because now we've folded these pieces over this kind of score line on the top and bottom actually kind of stops that sitting nice and flush so I am going to just take it's kind of like that sixteenth of an inch is that tiny little bit you just want to take a slither off the bottom you can see there what I've just taken off and that now should just help this piece sit within now a little bit more actually you'll feel it because you'll feel the tension so it probably ends up being about one eighth of an inch actually now you want to be able to fold that up and fold that down see where that's causing an arch that means it's still too big so now there we go that's better you see there where it all folds flat that's what you want okay so do check that before doing anything else so I'm now going to get that stuck down okay so that's that done then I'm going to stick the moon down before we put the acetate on because this is obviously all underneath the acetate so we're going to do let's have that checkered on that yeah it was below it let's have that one there there we go okay and then what you want to do is we're going to run some tape along the bottom of this one here so I'm just going to use my half inch this is my scotch tape so it's nice and strong so I'm just running that along the bottom and then on the inside of this one I'm just going to run a couple of strips okay and then I've got my acetate make sure it's all nice and clean this is brand new so it should be fine I'm going to stick it in and you want to push it up to the score line okay well kind of where this coloured pattern paper is whatever you've done and bring this over make sure it's lined up perfectly either side here which mine is and bring that over okay so now that's attached then take the backing off of this bottom piece here so you're only sticking it to that short little tab there make sure nothing's stuck to this inside piece you could have you might have flowers kind of covering the bottom of this and some lovely you know flowers floating on the front there's so many different things you can use for this now you do want to keep this completely flat so you might find I just bring in this just to keep that push down kind of roll your hand along with the acetate and you just want to make sure that it all sticks down at the same time the whole thing needs to be completely flat and this is when you'll see if you've got any overhang and it's best to do the top work your way down because now can you see I've got some acetate overhanging just flip the card over and I can just go in here now with my scissors and just cut really neatly and we're going to be covering this my little houses are going to go along this I just want to keep everything nice and neat there we go and then when you fold that out it will stand up perfectly and you've got this really fun tent fold style card but that's now ready for you to just decorate with whatever it is you want but again I'm working with the Father Christmas I think he's so much fun I love how he's floating across there and then I'm just going to stick the houses so I'm going to go and just draw another one of them and I'm also going to go and actually I can quickly do this bit while we're here before we go so this was a piece of one by six and this is just going to go perfectly over the top of that I just wanted it for me to just completely look like it's all part of this same background but you might not even need to do that you might want to put your sentiment directly onto this here I am kind of thinking about doing it slightly different and maybe die cutting the ho ho ho in this and sticking it directly onto that in blue rather than the silver but I do love the silver so now I'm kind of debating what to do we'll see I'm going to go and get all that ready and then I shall be back okay so I've done that one again I went and re-stamped it I've done it three times because there's two houses on this stamp it was easy to do it again then to actually try and attach two extra to that so yeah I really like it it's really nice easy to color and easy to join up but if you're slightly off you can just kind of get a thin black pen like I said before so now I want to cut this down so it's six inches wide so you can see here the way I've done it I went half down two of the houses there's four whole houses there and then just the little halves each side but depending on what you're using like I said you might have flowers kind of coming up here and you might have like the leaves and things like that it's you know there's lots of ways to decorate this so I'm just going to pop this in this way first so one two three four so kind of if I just go down half do that one first I'm going to fussy cut all along the top but do just want to make sure I get this all straight so now six inches perfect and then it's entirely up to you how tall you have it you want it to be more than the half inch that you have that you want it to cover it that one there you can see is a little bit shorter than this one so I think I mean I went right underneath the window for this one but I think I'm going to just go up a little bit higher just purely because I've colored down a bit further so you can see there yeah I think that still look really good so now I'm going to go and just carefully just fussy cut along the rooftops there okay so I've got my Santa ready and I've popped some foam on the back of him trimmed all that down and fussy cut the top and I popped some double sided tape on the back of that one and then I've gone ahead and die cut the ho ho ho and I just popped some of my double sided sticky sheet on the back of the silver mirrored cardstock put your die on top run it through and then when you take this off mine always stays inside the die that's fine but basically all the backing on this has all come away most of it I just need to knock out the centers of the O's there there we go and I should yeah all the backing has come off of all of that and then what I'm going to try and do actually is just lay this down and I could probably stick some of them well if not all of them because it's a sticker now already I lay that on there push it down quite firm but I should be able to stick it down through the die like so but if I lift this off I can see when it hasn't gone out so let's just push that down a bit more now see the H see all the H's have and some of the exclamation which I didn't even touch I'm just going to lift that one off carefully pop that there because I need to put the zero the O's down first so the H's are perfect for some reason these don't want to come out as well so I'm going to have to that's one way to use it like that let me grab my tweezers and I'm just going to pop this in next to each one oh I know why the backing's still on these how funny is that I thought it would come off they're not sticky on the back so they would have come through but the backing was still on there so I'll just take the backing off the other ones in a second so I'm going to pop that one there that doesn't it look great really really like that so definitely use a double-sided tape as I mentioned yesterday with the holographic because it's just much much easier so now I'm going to pop this one down first because then it's easier to place Santa on his reindeer okay so I'm going to make sure I get this right on the bottom again if you do have anything overhanging I've got a little bit there I'm just going to go in always go in from behind and it's easier to see and follow against the the side there we go that looked really cool and then just take the backing off of this and then I'm going to have it like that again I want him on an angle so it looks like he's just taken off from one of the rooftops there you have it I think it is just such a lovely card you've got all that room on the back as again I said mentioned yesterday you could stamp the image again on the back here and you've got you know two and from you've got other stamps that come with the set here so I may well stamp jingle all the way on the back and you've got the footprints there actually I think those footprints would look really nice just maybe stamped along the bottom here so again you'll see that in the photos because I probably do that because I can still stamp on the back of that it's quite easy all I might do is do a mat and a layer and then I can use those instead but yeah really really like it so there's the other one so that was a little bit darker with the blending there with the the navy in the background and that one's a little bit lighter but they still I think look really really nice okay so there are my cards I absolutely love them I just adore the Father Christmas I think it's so much fun I thoroughly enjoyed playing around with this and I will definitely be making some more again just bring that one up there just so you can see the detail all that decoupage layered look there and there is texture to this you can't see it so much in the in the video but it is really nice in person and again there with that one with that lovely embossing folder on the back there and the jingle all the way and this one if you did miss it like I said I will link it up here and go and check that one out but yeah I love the tent style I think it's a really really fun card so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial I hope you enjoyed yesterday's if you saw that one as well and yeah please give me a thumbs up if you did and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye