 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got what I'm calling a pop-up diamond fold card. Now this has happened by complete fluke because my intention was to make a diamond fold card, so you can see one side of it here and then that would have been on the same side. Now I dropped the card and it kind of just you know creased and just didn't look very nice so I cut it off and this kind of appeared. So basically it would be flat in your envelope like so, so it would fit in a 6 by 6 envelope that's the back and then when that person opens it, it would just naturally pop up and it's just a really cool. You can see it's a really simple fold and once I start doing it you'll understand the diamond fold that I was originally going for but by just cutting off that end piece it's given me this completely different look and if I hold it up that's how it would look to the recipient and I just think it's really really fun. You can't go too heavy with the decoration with this because obviously the heavier it gets the more it's going to fold down but it will always want to pop up because you've got so much bulk here and the way the fold is done. A tip is you need a good strong card. Now the card that I use which I swear by and use in most of my tutorials is this one here and this is 216 gsm and this is the Papermania Assorted colossal colors solid card stock. You get 75 sheets of all different colors and it's just it's brilliant. It matches so well with all your other maybe branded paper patch your pattern paper and I do I share this one a lot in my blog. So yeah, you need a strong good card because you don't want something that's thin so like 160 gsm because if you start layering it up it's going to create weight on that weaker card stock anyway, and it's just going to flatten it. So make sure you've got a good strong card stock and it will just happily sit there. It will wobble around but it will find that center point so it won't go crooked. I've just decorated it with this really really fun stamp which is part of a new collection that I've just purchased which I will grab here and it's by a company called Woodwear and it's the Clear Magic Singles and this one says nothing says happy birthday like a piece of folded card and I just thought it just works so good with this. So again, once I let go of that it really has got a spring to it and then on the back you've got plenty of room there to write your message. Yeah, really fun. So I've just put a single little diamond to there on the bottom part again if I put it up there it would just create a little bit more weight. Everything is on foam adhesive. We've just got three layers there and then I've also embossed some card stock down the bottom there just to give it something a little bit more to look at and also some texture as well. So pop that to one side. So I've showed you that one there. You also get some of these lovely other sayings. It's called It's the Little Things. I'll share all the links in my blogs in my blog even but you've got oh my god you are another year older. You're not getting older. You're increasing in value. Are you celebrating 29 again? Yeah, they're just they're really really fun little pun stamp sets there. So that's the card stock and the stamp I've shown you. So let me just grab that one there. What I'm using today. Just pop that one there. So I've got my foam adhesive. I'm using these squares here. I'll go through the measurements. These are just my stitched square dyes there. You'll need one piece of card stock that's six by twelve. Okay, so this is from that same paper pack that I just showed you or card pack, sorry. And I'll go through the scoring for that in a minute. The embossing folder I've used is this one here, which I got from the works. I want to say it's a Santoro one, but I could be wrong. I need to start labelling my embossing folders. But if anyone can remember the exact one, it's really nice and that's what I've used to emboss this little piece here. You can see that. It's got really nice texture. I've got my rulers there. I've got that to one side. This is the paper pack I've used again. The Fiesta Fever. You're going to see me using this a fair amount of times now because I absolutely adore it. And I am using or have used this one here. So I'm using the same one on the next card just so I don't have any waste. And it's a really nice textured. You can see there, the shine you get on it. It's got glitter through it. It's lovely. Okay, so that's the one I'm using there. Okay, so let's get into the video. So as I mentioned, you need a piece of cardstock that is six by 12. Where did I just put my use that one? So what you want to do is along the 12 inch side, you want to first of all bring that down a bit there. There we go. You're going to score at three, but then you want to flip it over and score at six. By doing that, it's going to eliminate cracking because we're actually folding one way on one side and then we're folding the other way on the other side. Okay, so just make sure you flip it over and then that will stop you getting any cracking. So that's all you need to do with that piece. Then you're going to need to decorate. So the piece I'm using for this main decoration here on the front. This is a piece of four by four. Then these two stitched frame that squares. So out of my nest of frameworks, I'm using the one that is, I mean, if it's three by three, that's fine. This is coming in at three and one eighth by three and one eighth. Then I've got the next size down, which has got my message on. I've already stamped that one. That one is two and seven eighths by sorry, two and five eighths squared. So again, they're the whatever the next one is going down within your nest will fit nicely. You can see how that's going to sit there. Then I've died cut this one for the back, but realize I've actually died cut the wrong size. You want to die cut another one in the orange or even bigger in white card stock to then stick on the back there. OK, I've actually done the wrong one, but it's fine. It doesn't matter. Then you want a piece of white card stock that's two and a half inches squared. And that's going to create these triangles here, these white ones. Again, you might want to have a different color. And then the piece that I've embossed is two and one eighth squared. And I'm going to cut those two in half. And again, that's then going to go on top here. OK. So that's all you need. And it's really it is pretty quick. This card, you can certainly just make the shell. You know, you could kind of, you know, do a ton of these in an afternoon and then just go along and stick all your your decoration on. So we've done all the scoring. We don't need the scoreboard anymore. And let's just put all those pieces over there. So now what you need is your ruler. I've got my T-squared ruler as well. I was flipping between both. It doesn't matter if you don't have a T-squared ruler and then my pencil. Again, I am losing everything again. Always do. Right. So this is how we scored it. First one at three, then we flipped it over and we had the next one at six. The one that you scored at three, furnished down. So you've created a valley mountain fold, and that's the correct way to fold that one. And then this one, you're going to fold back. So you've created that. So what we have now is an M-fold card or a Z-fold card. OK, so that's what we've got there. So now we should have these two score lines. So you've got the one sticking up and the one down. Now what we want to do is we need to do a little few, few markings with our ruler. So starting from this central six inch scoreline that we've done, you want to come up along the side, just put a pencil mark at three and then turn it so you're at the end. Do another pencil mark at three and then flip it again or rotate it even and do another one at three. OK, and then along this six inch one, mark the halfway mark again, so three. So you should have three, three, three and three all within that six by six square. So on this side here, nothing should be in pencil on the left hand side, just all on the right. Then what you want to do is do some scoring. So we're going to score, first of all, we are going to score from this three inch scoreline here, OK, to that middle three inch marker. So like so. And then you're going to do another one from that middle three inch mark down to that three inch scoreline. The first scoreline we done. So again, that was the orientation. We done three inches. You should have a scoreline going from the top to the middle of that six inch scoreline. And then the bottom of that three inch scoreline again up to the center of that six inch scoreline. OK, see what we've got there. Then what you're going to do is again from that center one, you're then going to go out to that pencil mark that you done on one side here, like so. So you can you can actually go right the way across, but I'll do it this way. And like so. OK, so now I've just gone again from that center point on that six inch scoreline, you should have four scorelines coming out to the three inch pencil mark you done within that six by six section and then just the top and the bottom of that three inch scoreline. OK, you can just make out there that what I'll do is I'll put a template on my blog, OK, just so that you can see. But it's pretty self-explanatory. You should be able to pick that one up pretty well. Like I said, you can just score right across from the top of that three inch scoreline right over to the pencil mark that you would have done within this six by six section. And again, on the top of that one all the way down to the bottom of that one should have a nice big cross. Then what you want to do is from the pencil mark there to the pencil mark that you've done on the outer side, you just want to draw a light pencil line as we're going to use that as a cut line. I'm actually going to cut straight along that one. Like so. OK, so now you can see we've got this diamond shape in here. Half of it is scored and half of it is in pencil. That's what you should have just within that six inch main square. And on this side, you can just see that you should just have these score lines just going to that three inch scoreline. And that piece there should just be plain. OK, so now what we need to do is do some burnishing of our lines. So because of the way we scored them, you should just be able to fold them down again. You want to make sure it's a good quality card stock because you've got a lot of pressure within that centre point, but it will work. So I'm just folding all of my score lines down. OK, so I've created this effect. Now, you can imagine if I had this again doubled up on this side, that is your double diamond fold card. And I've done a smaller one, but I wanted to do a bigger one. But that's where it went wrong. And then obviously I had this. So now what you want to do is. Fold. Hold on a minute, no, maybe I did do the folds differently. You fold back in on yourself. It doesn't actually matter too much because once you've folded your score lines one way, it shouldn't crack anyway. Like so. Yeah. OK, so that's what you want to have. So I folded them down. OK, from where we were from where we scored them and then fold that across like so. Then what you want to do is cut the let me grab my scissors. You're going to cut down the pencil mark. You can rub out anything. I'm cutting my pencil mark right away just so I don't have to worry about rubbing it out. Totally remove that. Nice and neat. Keep them if you want. You might want to use them. And then that is now what you should have. And if that pops up, you can see what we're going to do now is pop glue on this half here. So that sticks down and there's the card. Easy peasy. So can you see now where they were the crossed score lines that we done? That's our three inch score line. That's our six inch score line crossed ones and they were our pencil score lines, which we now just cut down. OK, so that kind of makes it a bit easier. OK, so next if you want to, you could put mats. If you don't want to make triangle mats, you could do, you know, matting layer now while it's like this before you stick this piece on top. So once you stick that down, that's where I then get those triangle areas to stick the DSP and the kind of embossed piece that I've done here. I personally like it with the triangles, but there's no reason why you can't just do one big rectangle matting layer. So now I'm just adding some wet glue. You can use double sided tape if you want, but the wet glue will harden and just, you know, give a bit more strength to the base of your card. And then just pop that over and use my bone folder and just go along and just make sure all my score lines are nice and that glue is all spread out. So then whilst you've got it here, you would stick your piece on the back here, but I need to die cut a bigger one. But you can stand and if you want to stamp, obviously something else on there as well and write your message before you stick it down. But you can still fill this out. It's quite easy to fill out even when it's all been made. OK, so now there is the card. I've got a little bit of Tombow that's come out there. I'm going to use my eraser on that in a minute because that will stay tacky, but that's fine. There we go. So I'm just getting something heavy, just a stick on there for a minute while I stick down my pieces on the side. So these are the two, the two and one eighth squared and the two and a half. I believe that one was, yeah, two and a half and two and one eighth. So those two pieces, basically all you want to do, I'm just going to freehand cut this, but you want to cut it on an angle and go from point to point like so. So you get your two triangles, OK? And again, with this piece here, so I'm just going to go from point to point. There we go. Tidy up some of those edges. OK, and then all you're going to do is pop one on top of the other like so, all right? So get those two stuck down. So you want one that's facing that orientation and that's going to stick in this side here like so. And then this one like that. OK, so get those all stuck down. OK, so that's that now, all nice and stuck down. Then what I'm going to do is get this all layered up before I stick it down. So I'm just using my little foam rectangle stickers here. You don't have to put it on foam, but I just thought it just brings something more to it. So I have kept it, I guess, quite simple in terms of the decoration. I think it's really all about the fold and the sentiment for me is what it's all about. So yeah, obviously, just my tip is don't go too heavy because it will, you know, just start to kind of dip and not pop up as high as you would like. OK, so I'm going to stick that one nice and even. Get it in the center there like so. And then again, I'm going to pop some off of the foam on the back. And again, get that one all nicely lined up. I think I'll have more like that bit there. So I'm going to have that one a little bit more on show. So again, just make sure you get your point-to-points all nice and lined up. And there we go. Then I've got some, let's just have a little look in here. I wanted like a gold or an orange piece. And that gold would want to be nice. Actually, I should use this one here. And I always like to pop a little bit of glue extra on mine just so that they definitely stay in place. And just to give it a little bit of bling, it needed something. You can stamp more things on this as well. You could pop a few die cuts kind of nestled. You could have some leaves or some flowers. But again, just don't go too heavy with it. Right, and then this whole piece now can just stick. I'm going to use wet glue. So I've got a bit of wiggle room for it. So lined up and then what you can do is just go around and just check that it all lines up nicely and give it a bit of a lift. There you go. Just, it kind of does just do what it wants to do. It just stays in that position. And that's the card. Let me just bring that up. And you can see there, just me holding it, not touching it at all. Like I said, it will wobble like that, but it will find where it naturally wants to stand. And it's got a really nice, kind of, what's the word I'm looking for? Profile. Now you have it. Too really, really fun. Just need to do the back of that one. Pop-up diamond fold cards and I absolutely love them. So I hope you've enjoyed this one. It was a complete fluke that I made it. But sometimes they make the best cards, I think. So I can't wait to give these out. I think they're going to look really, really fun. And yeah, I hope you've enjoyed it. Please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel to see more. Thanks for watching. Bye.