 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 really easy pop-up card. So this is the front I've just got some lovely little dragonflies here. I've done some ribbon crossover, I've got a little tag and then when you open up the card inside you have this. So I've got two floating dragonflies and then they've got this little one inch by one inch pop-up feature so when it's all on the right angle that's how it looks and then I've used a bright rose a die which I'll talk you through and show you in a moment. I've done some more flowers and bits there you can write on this here if you want or you can write on the back and I just think it looks really really cute. So let me show you how to make it. Okay so the papers I'm using are the Paper Addicts Tropical Bliss this is the 12x12 but they also do 6x6 and I think it's 10 centimetre by 10 centimetre it's a smaller one as well really nice and great value for money I think these four pound or six pound the smallest one's two pound I think so really good and again I'll share all the links to that as I always do. So I've already gone and picked the papers that I want and I've done the front of my card and I'll talk you through the measurements and everything for that in a moment and that's all the pieces that I've cut. So you're going to need a 6x6 card blank so I've just cut this lovely orange colour here so this was from a piece of 12x12 and I just cut it in half and then along the 12 inch side you want to score at six inches and fold in half or you can just have a pre-made one it doesn't have to be a coloured one like I have but I thought just I really like using the orange I think it always kind of just gets used just for like Halloween projects but actually if you mix it with the right things it works really nice you know throughout the year so then I've got this here which was actually another pre-made 6x6 card and I just cut it down but you will need a piece of card stock that's 11 and a half by five and three quarters and you're going to score at five and three quarters through the middle okay so just half way there fold it in half and what's going to happen is that will sit perfectly in here giving you a nice border okay so that's those two pieces and then for the actual pop-up piece you want a piece that's five by four and along the four inch side you're going to score at half an inch one and a half inches two and a half inches and three and a half inches okay so you should have three one inch pieces and then two half inch pieces either side or like panels then this is just for my grasp to be honest it's entirely up to you in terms of the height but the width you do want well I'm going to have two pieces that are five and three quarters long and then they're just six inches I just cut a piece of well it was just over six by six but you'll see when I do it but as long as you've got the width which is five and three quarters it's up to you with the height because it's just the grass and then I've got this piece which is five because that's going to go along this piece here again it's all going to make sense once we pop it all together and then for the front of the card I've got a piece of five and three quarters by five and three quarters that's the white then the pattern paper's five and a half by five and a half and then I've just wrapped some ribbon around and then I've done this little kind of cluster here I've done a little tag that says we're shooting the most beautiful day and I've put some little embellishments on there and then I've fussy cut some of those dragonflies and stuck them on top here as well and that one just think it's gorgeous and then on the back I've put a load of foam which is why it's curved because I've got all the foam when it wants to take the release paper off then that will flatten you can see where I just wrapped the ribbon around so that's my my topper all ready to go okay so first of all I'm going to use this really cool happy birthday die and this is from the Bright Rosa birthday words so you get these three here the happy birthday and wishes and then you also get these three but they're actually two dies there's two four six how many did they say yeah 12 yeah six no that should be more one oh no because there's two on this as well so you get two four six eight 10 12 that's right 12 dies they're really good so I'm going to be using them so that they're cut into the card if you use the frames then you'll cut it out and it'll be you know its own piece and you can put it wherever you want but they do go around like this so you get these three pieces that's the wishes there as well and then that's how these come so you'll see you've got the birthday and then you can have the frame cut out around it really cool dies these I love them already been using them quite a lot but like I said today I'm just going to use the happy birthday and I want to position it kind of down here because this pop-up piece if you fold and burnish all of those score lines I already done it because I wanted to check it worked it's going to sit there and it's going to come out by one inch okay so I want to have my happy birthday I reckon about that because I'm going to have a few bits of flowers and stuff kind of cascading down here into this area so all I'm going to do is line up my piece of paper with this grid here just so I can get this straight and I'm going to have it about halfway one two three four five it's just under six I know but I'm going to have it just a little bit down there and just grab some it's just yet the main thing is getting this straight because this is going to be really noticeable and then this one I'm going to butt right up underneath it okay and then again pop that on there now I'm going to run this through my machine now mine is perfectly lined up now mine just fits this and I'm going to cover turn this over actually get a fresh piece I need to replace it just with some copy paper just to protect now I'm not going to run the whole thing through I'm just going to run it over that and then back again okay so let's see and hope that this has turned out how I would I'm hoping it will just carefully remove that there oh yes it has the first time I've used these like this oh that's exactly what I was hoping so now when you get this lovely colour behind look how cool that looks oh I'm so pleased with how that's turned out there are so many like ways to use these dies I mean that's just one way you don't have to have them as close as I have obviously but yeah they're just great that you have the option to be able to keep it in the you know in the paper or the card or you can you know die cut it straight out but that's exactly what I was hoping so now I'm going to get this all stuck down so I'm going to start with the centre get that score line lined up and then the rest you can kind of wiggle around keep it folded and that way you know that it's all lined up this glue is good because as long as your fingers aren't dirty like I always say but you can rub off any excess so I'm just rub that little bit off there and there we go we have the inside already so that was just so quick and easy to do and now I've got this piece that we're going to stick in here so for this I'm going to use my red tape just because you it's kind of better if you do it in stages so you just want to add some tape to the half inch kind of tabs here so I'm just going to run a couple of strips on each one okay so I've just done that now I'm just thinking about it's going to be better if you do your grass next because you want to stick that down on the back yeah and then stick that because then the other grass in front so this is a piece of five and three quarters and I'm just going to use my these they're just falling down the back anyway so what you can do is if you kind of just roughly do this just create like a wave as if you're creating yeah like the waves on the the oh no heels actually there we go and then cut down like so it doesn't matter if I mean I'm not going right to the bottom because I need to obviously be able to stick this but it will give you grass and I use this a lot I've used this in many many videos so you don't want to go right to the end because that happens but that will cover up with my little pop-up and then the end ones and you'll have instant grass and pop that on the back look how quick is that and then yeah that's going to cover that piece which is good so now I did have two pieces because I think I'm going to stagger them so again I'm just going to roughly cut this and then cut down again okay now what you can also do is just stress this so I have done that before just grab I'll use these now all the time the brushes you can just pop it in some of your inks and just go and distress all the ends but I want to keep this card quite clean so my plan is now that I can stagger the two just to give it a little bit more of a background really like so there we go and then if you imagine we're going to have this smaller one which is going to be right at the front and I just think it's going to look really good so I'm going to stick this one down first I'm just going to grab I'm going to use this glue again just because it gives you really nice time to be able to wiggle stuff around and then it dries really really firm so it's great if you're using like a not very heavy cardstock so there's that one and then pop this one turned it around it doesn't matter it's all the same I'm going to try what I am going to do is just this is what it means see it allows me to just take that straight off and quickly trim that you don't want to have any of the grass overhanging the white but that well I don't anyway I mean it's it's up to you but um yeah I've got a little bit there as well so I'm just gonna trim that down there we go and then stick that okay how cool does that look so now we can stick this down now I am just thinking because this is going to be glued on there and I haven't put glue behind that so it may well be worth a while actually to lift up didn't think about that so I'm going to just pop my ruler behind all that grass and roughly an inch up really it doesn't matter if it's higher but I'm just going to add some glue just in there okay it's an easy way to sort that out and then just kind of let that dry a sec I don't want to push it down too much I don't want too much of that glue oozing over but this again is going to cover and once we build everything outside but I just want to make sure that's got a nice piece to kind of you know stick to and it's not just going to fall off so I'm just going to let that just do its thing for a moment while that's just drying if you fold in the two tabs like this okay and butt it right up keep it up in this kind of right angle position so I've just got that glue just behind there okay you want to keep it in this position here just for the minute and butt that up and you want to make sure you've got it in the center so you've got equal sides over hanging here take off the backing okay so again just going to bring that one in like so and then if you let it kind of tack up and then just bring the whole thing down like so okay so that's okay there for the minute and then take the backing off the other one I'm just thinking you need to stick the base down as well we can do that after and then with this one you just want to keep that folded over like so okay so just fold it over like that and then bring the whole thing down okay and it'll come up like that and then all you need to do is open it up and I'm just going to pop some glue just on the bottom here I didn't think about that one before but it's easily rectified if you keep it up or fold it flat actually it's easier because then you'll know it closed flat and just hold that down just so that all sticks okay and then when you open it up you will have your pop up okay and it's all nice and neat now it's all the fun decorating although this I already love so I'm going to do the next lot of I think no I think I might do the grass last because I want to have some of this on acetate I think I'm going to have some of them floating so I'm going to kind of rest it like grab yeah use that glue there and just rest it just so that you guys can see it a bit better there we go so I have like I said go on and cut all these pieces but I need to kind of work out how I'm going to have them okay because some of it I think I want kind of in between the different layers of grass you imagine let me just cut this grass because I need to kind of see what it's going to look like okay so that's going to go there it just goes in although I've got a little bit of white showing which that's okay I think maybe by the time I've got yeah let's see if I have like a flower coming over there so now when that is like that that's the way that's the profile you get so from that piece I want to have coming from here on acetate I'm going to have a couple of these dragonflies floating okay so they'll probably be like that it was really hard for me to try and get this so you can see so they're going to be like that so I'm going to have two on acetate stuck to this front piece like this then I will put the grass in front and then I can start maybe sticking a couple on the grass cutting some of these flowers down so there's smaller ones there and you know laying that all out a little bit better but I just wanted to kind of talk you through that so you can you know make sense of what I'm doing and now I'll put it all on high speed and you can watch me put it together oh and also before I do that whatever you put on here make sure that when you fold the card flat it stays within this card because obviously if you have something on acetate and it's quite high you might end up having your bits hanging out there so just when you go to measure it up pop your acetate in there and close the card up and make sure none of it overhangs all right okay so there's the card finished inside I really like this a lot love the way that they just kind of look like they are floating and then I've just added a few here now you can use this as your area to write to and from but I'm going to do something on the back instead just so that this kind of stays you know as it is as a nice displayed piece so it all folds nice and flat like I say just make sure you can see there those aren't poking out the sides and nothing's kind of overhanging here and then I've got this piece now to go on top of that so the um so it's a top folding card so I'm going to I have to pop it up like that so I can see where I'm going so now you can see the front and then isn't that pretty and it just it's got such a nice look to it I just yeah I love it so on the back what I would suggest is you have a piece of white which is five and three quarters by five no sorry yeah do you white that's five and three quarters by five and three quarters then you could do a pattern that's five and a half by five and a half and then white again which is five by five and that'll give you a really nice background and then you can just stamp something and write your message so I'll do that off camera and you'll see that in my blog but yeah that is the finished card so I absolutely adore this little pop-up card it's a really simplified version again I have got ones that are more difficult um but it is a card style that I do enjoy and I love creating that scene oh yeah I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye