 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 this a pop-up box card. I've made lots of these before so I'll share that playlist up here for you and you should have lots of inspiration because they're all different sizes and styles and stuff but yeah I really enjoyed this one and I'll share with you everything that I've used because that's what's inspired me to create this style. It folds completely flat fitting in an envelope, I'm going to have to do a custom envelope for this because I think it's six wide so the idea is that you do six by six high but I went a bit high with my happy birthday and all the other bits there so I'm coming in at about seven seven and a half in height but that's fine I can use the envelope punch board to like I said do that custom envelope but it's really lovely pops up here and stands up. Now these just look lovely as decorative pieces as well so if you want to make something nice for your craft room if you like to have seasonal projects that you display then this is a perfect one for spring and all that kind of lovely stuff so yes this is what we're going to make so pop that one side so you really actually don't need any kind of large cardstocks so it's really good for using scraps. All of the images I have stamped which moves me on nicely to the stamps and what I've used so this is this beautiful company so it's the Hackney and Co it's Craft Consortium and this is the Herbarian premium collection. I think there are four other themed papers with matching stamps and embellishments and all that kind of stuff within this kind of collection I think. I will share all the links I got this from Craft Stash they have all the collection there and the other one I want to get is the Riverbank and I can't remember the name of the other one but it's beautiful so check them out because I really think there's something for everybody there. I'm not going to go through all the papers you can just see I think is there an overview this is what I love about this paper pack as well is obviously you can use all of that there that's you know completely usable you've got all these pieces here on your back page that you can cut out and here you've got all these fun lovely images as well that you can cut out and you've got all the different herbs there which I think is perfect for anybody that you know who enjoys gardening or cooking so and they're just you can just get a rough idea there they're beautiful but like I said not going to go through all of that and then I also purchased the two stamp sets to match so this is the one that I've used and just to give you an idea of how these stamp so that was this one here and then I stamped the word sage which is from this set here I haven't really used this one I'm going to do something else with all these lovely kind of leaves and things and then let me show you you've got the look at that isn't that gorgeous lovely little watering can there's the smaller basil there oops sorry I've got the glare you can see it there I like this it says drink me because you've got your teacup here and then you've got your scissors and everything and that's the larger herb one there as well so I went ahead and stamped cut them out and I've already kind of started with those these here I'm not using today purely because they're obviously quite small and I just think the proportions didn't quite work so if I was to put the little kind of um trowel and scissors there it just would have looked a little bit lost against the larger ones so they will be getting used in other projects but they are metal embellishments and they are absolutely beautiful so that's those there so decide on your theme and what you're going to do like I said if you're you know haven't done this style card before have a little look at that playlist that I've shared because I've done Christmas styles I've done you know flower ones I've done magical like kind of winter cool ones so there's lots there so that's everything that I'm going to be using on mine today now I'm not going to have this as like a happy birthday or get well or anything like that I'm going to leave it blank because I don't actually know what I'm going to do with this one this one I've already got it lined up for something so or someone so um yeah but this one is just going to stay plain for the time being so it's all deconstructed and the idea is it's kind of like a little kind of box or crate or kind of like your table in your shed that's the kind of idea I've got with this so I've gone along and I've cut all of my craft card down into all these different sizes sized pieces and I went ahead and I've distressed it all with the Tim Holtz Distress ink this is the Frade Burlap I love this one when you're using a craft card because it gives a really subtle kind of dirty look that real worn distressed just I love it I think it looks really good so if I bring it up now you can see and it blends so well and it also kind of seeps into the the cards as well so the initial kind of darkness does fade and it goes a bit lighter okay so that's what I've gone ahead and done with everything apart from the two inner kind of panels that you attach everything to I've left those plain so for the corners you are going to need four pieces that are one by four okay and along the one inch side you want to score it half an inch okay fold burnish so you'll have four pieces like this all your corners ready and then go ahead and distress them always better to distress it when you folded and burnished it because then you really get to appreciate all that kind of ink that you're you're adding to it okay so you want four pieces of that size then for your front and back panel so if anybody watched my Easter crate that I done then this is very similar in the way that we're going to put it together it was my Easter basket that I've done with the carrots in it so this is three quarters of an inch by four and you want one two three four five six seven eight pieces again I have to stress them you wouldn't think they are but they have got kind of a kind of just a faint dirty look to them so and then these are your two side pieces so these are two by three quarters of an inch so again you want eight so one two three five six seven eight and then for your panels inside to hang you'll attach everything to these are five by half an inch and along the five inch side you want to score at half an inch and four and a half and then you're going to fold those over okay you have two pieces of this and then I've just attached them red tape you can use wet glue if you want to or you know double sided tape but I've just gone ahead in preparation for the video and put double sided tape on all of that you will also notice that I've gone and put double sided tape on the very ends of every single piece including all those small pieces as well okay so go ahead get all that prepared stamp everything that you want to use you can see how I've kind of you know started filling everything up I've stuck things here as well because the idea is that these are kind of hanging on like the wooden bench and then I've got that little piece down there as well so see what you've got and start to create your theme and then we'll start putting it together okay so it's really straightforward and entirely up to you you know what order or way that you decide to do this I like to do it kind of starting with the back first or the front because you can flip it and you may prefer that you want to start working on the side so so I'm going to take the backing off of one of these long front pieces okay now you're adding your your tape to the front of it so this is actually going to be on show you're not adding it to the back side this is the front side then I'm going to flip it over and you're going to stick it down so this one I'm butting right up to the very top here and up to the folded score line so if I just stick that one down because you can see now what I've done stuck that in like so and then I'm not going to do that side I'm going to continue now this is where if you've got a grid it's quite handy I'm just using these lines here I'm just going to just make sure they're lined up against the line doesn't matter what one as long as you can see it it would just help you get it all lined up so I can see that's lined up now I'm leaving a quarter of an inch gap so I know that this is this is these are half inch cut the squares that I've got on my mat so I can see here that it's halfway between this square because it's three quarters of an inch now I'm going to leave a quarter of an inch gap between everything so I'm going to come up here and I'm just going to pop it in and line it up with that next line okay that is quarter of an inch gap there now it's entirely up to you what gap you want to leave you may only want to add three of these panels and have bigger gaps you may want to add five so again once you see how easy this is to put together it's very easy for you to adapt for yourself and very easy to make very big as well if you want to have a really huge one and like I said there's a decorative piece in your craft room then it would look really cool and then the last one again make sure you give it a quarter of an inch gap there will actually be that piece that sticks up here that will become the bottom so it's like the little feet and I've really distressed the ends there to almost look like there's like mud and you know when it's rain and all that kind of gets quite grubby on the bottom so I've kind of done that there just to make it a little bit more authentic so now if I turn that around you can see there's the little foot that's appeared okay so next I'm going to go on to this side here so I'm going to grab four of these smaller ones and I'm going to do the same thing so I'm going to take off the backing now you don't really need to worry about having a mat now because you're going to just line them up with this one so I'm coming in here and this one you just want to make sure it's right at the very top like so but all of the next ones you're just going to line up you know make sure it sits next to the one and it's next to so again just pop it in there like so just keep working it all folding it all in making sure it stays nice and you know you've got that right angle there and everything's really neat in fact that one just dropped a little bit let's just pull that up there we go just do that now for the other ones okay so now I've got that corner there next I'm going to add on this corner here so then I'm just going to start with the top one and make sure that one gets in there flip it over just so you can see and then I'll grab my bone folder there as well just go over making sure everything is all lined up so already now you can see we've got our corner and this is when it's good obviously I'll put weight to it's all together but you can see when you go over you get real really pick up the color and really kind of mess it up a bit so there you go you can see how different that is now looks great so you just want to continue that so I'm going to do all of this side again you don't want to do the back yet okay so you want to do this next side because I'm going to show you how to add these in really in a really simple way it's much easier to do it when it's kind of not quite put together rather than doing all of your four sides and then trying to kind of get your hand in there to connect those pieces so I'm going to grab this one here and attach it and then add the small ones there okay so that's where you want to be at this point so we've just got the back piece left to do but before we add them it's best to add these pieces so I've already popped the double-sided tape on again you're going to do one side at a time so it's entirely up to you where you want to put these so if you look inside here you can see I've got one about half an inch three eighths of an inch from the front and then I've got about three eighths of an inch gap and then the other one and then I've got the gap at the back so they're probably not equally kind of laid out but um and I've also got some at the bottom there where I done it that way first and then realized I'd done it upside down but if anything it gives it a little bit of strength but so what I would say is I'm going to come in and I'm sticking it on the very top one you may want to go further down you might want to stick it further down here but so there's your side pieces I'm going to come in here and I'm going to line up this folded piece with this piece here so I just do this one here so you can see that I've just used this piece here the edge of it and kind of lined this up with that piece okay so this is going to be the front of mine so now you can see once that gets attached to the other side it's about half an inch from the front so the next one take off your backing again okay so with this one I'll probably go back a little bit further so I'm going to then go where the folded piece is here the edge of it I'm going to do halfway now between this whole piece here so you know this really isn't like exact guys you can put it wherever you want as long as you get both of them in there so now you can see probably got them a bit more even now than the first one I did you see now once they attach to this side now the easiest way to get it to attach so that you know that everything is going to line up properly it's light it down completely flat fold these pieces over again I'm just going to take off all of my backing there okay keep the sticky sides the tabs folded down and just bring this side right over the top like so because already now you know it's going to fold flat because it already is and now when you bring it up you've got them perfectly where you need them it's so easy and then just go back along the other side and just make sure everything folds flat you might find one side folds flatter than the other better then stick with that side and keep that to the way it folds flat because this folds flat really nicely that way it's okay that way but it's much much better that way okay so now we just need to finish the last pieces so grab those four again always do one side first I just personally I find it easier so I'm just going to pop this one in now and line it up there and just go and do all of that side and then I've just taken the backing now off of those ones fold the whole thing flat and you can just fold that last one over and everything should line up like so done so I'm just going to now distress some of these corners a little bit more and get some more on the feet there and in terms of writing your message of you know to and from just do something on the back here you can just add a little panel here I'm probably going to have something so it looks like a little you know like hanging sign or something so yeah it's easy to do just stick some squares on the back there and you can write to and from okay so now it's down to decorating so I've already gone ahead cut all of these pieces so I'm going to have four pieces that actually are floating and then all these bits here I'm kind of going to just stick around them and stuff so I actually fussy cut these images from the paper pack itself but for this one I think I'm just going to stick with the leaves because if I keep fussy cutting them I'm not going to have them for more projects so I really love these you know obviously all the different herb plants so I want to keep them for other projects so this time I'm going to use them but I've also got these which I picked up very inexpensive I showed them in one of my what did I get um tutorial videos and uh yes I've just added some of them in here because I thought they worked really really nicely so I've got just one there I think I'm sure I've got another one somewhere else so there might be two together anyway so the acetate is about half an inch wide and in terms of length they're all varying really but this is five inches so you get them all so they're on five inches and then you can obviously change them um in terms of how to decorate and what to do first it's entirely up to you you can stick all this down and do that first if you want I'm going to do that last so I can see how everything looks first of all so I'm going to stick with the same kind of layout so I'm going to have the larger kind of jars at the back there and then this herb one and then the smaller ones there so if you are wanting to make sure that you get this to fit into a six by six envelope what you need to do is lie it down flat so mine's going to be that way and this is coming in at six inches wide a little bit over but your envelope gives is six and one eighth but that fit in my six by six envelope still and then these are four inches high so where's my six here so I if you're going to get it in six by six you've only actually got that area to play around with and if you imagine trying to squeeze all of this in at that height it just wouldn't look right so I would say you know go up to eight and get it in a six by eight envelope which which you can buy pre-made anyway so yeah it's entirely up to you but look at my other ones up here because I've got lots of different sizes all right so I'm going to start off at the front the smallest one here and I've just realized actually that isn't even on acetate so I'm going to take that piece off because some of them just stick directly onto this piece here so I'm going to grab a little bit of my wet glue here because I'm sticking card to card I'm going to pop this one right in there so I'm just sticking it onto that front one there just so you can see it poking out there and then this basil one is going to go next to it there so that's now kind of my starting point and I'm going to work from that so I'm going to pop that just there and now everything else that I use I can make sure that I the idea is is that you can see everything so now I'm just trimming some of that acetate because this is going to go there so you want to be able to see the mint so that's probably too high so I'm actually going to cut a little bit more off so you don't end up really even using that much acetate but because I'm sticking acetate onto that craft card I'm going to use my red tape so I'm just going to show you this bit and then I'll kind of speed up the rest of the video so I always keep it kind of tilted towards me and then it's quite easy to kind of work out where you want everything to be so now I'm happy with those and then the next one I'm going to have this green one here so already I know I don't need all that and that's going to go on the next kind of tab back there so you get the idea you want to make sure that they're all kind of evenly spaced okay so there is my finished card still obviously got my sentiment to go on there because I don't know whether it's going to be a birthday card or not but you would have also just seen me add in this little cute little sign I just had the idea because I thought oh some toothpicks it'd be nice to make some little yeah plant signs so I just stamped herbs and rosemary I'm going to just stress that one up and stick it with the other one I need to put my hot glue on really and get it all properly stuck down but I thought I'm going to have that one behind there I did try it on there but I think because I've already got the sentiment there and the happy birthday I think that's just a bit too much whereas this one's still quite plain so yeah I think that looks quite nice it kind of wedges in there for the minute but yeah it's just another nice idea and it's got that garden theme to it so they have it so I'm going to probably I like the idea of adding a pack of seeds behind the back here and then I'll maybe put them in a little pocket or something and that's where I can write who it's to and a little message and everything but I really like them hopefully they've inspired you do check out that playlist as I mentioned before because there's other sizes on that so the smaller sizes as well if you do decide to make them please come and share them over on mixed up crafters facebook group it's a lovely group as I always say and more and more people are joining as always I'll share all of the product links in my blog so you'll be able to go and check out this collection and the other ones that I said as well because they are gorgeous but until then I'll be back again on Friday with another tutorial thanks for watching bye