 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really cute rocker card. So I've got the sports theme going on here and then it just rocks. I've probably pushed it a bit too far there but you get the idea, really really fun to make. I have made a few rocker cards now and I've got a playlist I'll share that up here for you but I'll just bring it up a bit closer so you can see. So this is a football theme, I'll show you the paper pack I've used in a minute. I don't do a lot of cards for guys so I thought I would do this one here in a male theme and then it's got Let's Celebrate and Champion on the back and I've got this piece in the middle here to stop it spreading out too much because if you do go quite heavy on top this will end up just kind of going like that. It would just go flat whereas if you add that little piece there it does make a difference and obviously you've got plenty of room on the back there. It fits nicely into a six by six envelope and I've just decorated the front of just a plain six by six envelope here with some of the same matching pattern paper and yeah I just think it's really really fun so let me show you how I'll make this one. Okay so I've got some red card here this is just the Liddle A3 card that I shared in one of my What Did I Get? It's beautiful card and I know a few of you have already got some so I've just used the red from that. I'm using my Circle Cutter but to make this you can use any plates, saucers you know anything circular dies things like that but I'm going to be using that today and I will link everything that I use as always. This is what I've used for the sentiment on the back that let's celebrate was this one here and again I know loads of you are buying this oh sorry it's got all that glare. This is the Dovecraft General stamp set you can see it there really really good one and I think it's it's four pound well two no it's two pound isn't it I think two pound two pound three pound something like that it's cheap anyway so that's why lots of you have been buying it. Then I have used my Scissor Circle dies again I'll tell you the measurements of those in a moment and then I've got my envelope and the measurements for that which I'll talk you through so it's yeah it's it's really straightforward to make you can make this any size you want but I did think I'll keep it to six by six I think the other ones I've done are larger I think that was more of an eight by eight kind of size. So what you want to do is first of all is set your dial on this to six inches okay so it's about in centimeters it should be around 15 yeah it's just over 15 centimeters just take the back off there and you just want to cut yourself a circle in your main card color okay so you see there my red is that main circle there so I'm just going to hover this over first because I want to make sure I get it as close to the edge okay so there I have that one and that's my six inch one then I'm going to drop this down to five and three quarters no five and a half no yeah five and three quarters okay so again whatever you've got you just want to try and drop it down so if you've got you know this is a side play and then you've got a saucer and then you've got something else like a die then that's fine so five and three quarters and I'm going to cut that in some white card so again just hovering it around here so all right and then you want to drop it down again to five and a half and cut your pattern paper now I'd already cut mine so I have this here so this is and you're just going to use half because it's just going to cover this piece here but if you drop it down and I'll show you how to cut that one in a second so that's everything there then the circles that I've used for I guess the topper this all this piece here at the top this is the largest circle from those Cizix ones again any circle dies you can use a compass as well and cut it out freehand so this is three and three eighths of an inch diameter then this one is three sorry hang on yeah three and three eighths and then this one is three so I got myself confused then three inches and then I just got this one off of clip up three images so I just blew it up so it's two and a half and they're just all going to sit probably on some foam adhesive this time I don't think I did on the other ones but I'm probably going to raise these up a little like that I just thought it looked really fun and yeah keep that football theme going so next we want to do a little bit of scoring for the main one so I'm just popping this in my scoreboard here and you just want to score right through the middle at three inches okay and then just fold that in half like so so there is our main rocker then with this piece here so that's white piece that we've cut we want to cut this one in half so this is five and three quarters so we want to cut this to two and seven eight so just slightly under three and just cut that one in half because what we're going to do is when you sit this over the top you'll see it won't line up properly and we want to basically if you bring it up you'll see you get a nice border so bring it back in again and you want to take about a quarter of an inch off so you want to line up this arch side make sure this is running nice and parallel okay and then this arch side you want it to sit at two and three quarters and then if you pop it back over now we'll get that really nice red frame all the way around so again this one here make sure this is nice and straight and just sit that at two and three quarters and that one's going to go on the back for you to write your message perfect okay and then this one is your five and a half diameter it was wasn't it I'm getting myself confused yeah five and a half you want to pop this one in and you want this arch side to line up at two and a half okay and then trim it and then you're just taking off that excess and that will then allow you to stick it over the white one so again you get that nice same border okay so that's those that's that all done so now it's just the fun part of sticking it all together and then we put the hinge piece in at the end so first of all you just want to stick down your white pieces on both sides okay and then it kind of looks like that Pokemon I don't know anything about Pokemon but I know that kind of just the colors or something and then isn't there like a black in there as well anyway it's reminding me of that and then this one decide which you want to be your front and back and you're going to just stick that one down now if you do want to have anything you know you might want your topper for example see isn't that looking more like something to do a Pokemon I don't know but if you have that inside you might want to then put your mat over the top and it's kind of looking like a boat now so yeah just kind of think about those things before you stick these down if you do want to add maybe some acetate because some of my other ones if you look at that playlist that might give you a bit more inspiration with decoration have a look at them because I've used acetate I've also cut pieces out of it so yeah there's so many different variations but I thought I would revisit it because I was doing this kind of football theme and I wanted something round so there is that one it's really cool papers oh actually I didn't show you the pack this one paper addicts game on it's really really good you get all these really nice pieces to fussy cuts I've got the tickets I've got the little trophies there the goal the word champion I've done the little footballs but I did again go through this in a bit more detail on my what's in the box video but you can see there you've got a cricket you've got baseball you've got the swimmers you've got tennis archery golf formula one bicycles I was gonna say biking then um what else that's it and then all the rest are kind of like oh yeah then you've got all the different balls there yeah it's really nice I like this one okay so when you go to adjutopper you want to take into account that you want this to fit in your six by six envelope so I'm using my grid here each of these squares is three is one inch so one two three inches which is correct and then one two three inches so I can go up to this crossed over area here so when I sit that down I know I've still got room there because there's that area there my grid just helps me line everything up so I'm going to stick that with just about half an inch of it actually sticking onto the card and then I can build this up and also you can you know as long as you stay within this section here you can have all these bits hanging out like I've done here so look if I sit that over the top as long as you stay within that square area even down here you could have stuff but then it wouldn't rock but you you get what I'm saying as long as you stay within that six by six area it will fit in your envelope so I'm going to stick a little bit of this red down first of all okay and then when you've stuck that down to make sure it's in the middle if you stick if you stand it up it shouldn't you know if it's if you've gone slightly more to the left then you'll find your rocker will start to you know you know slope towards the left hand side and the you know vice versa if you've got it you know off a bit so mine is is sitting pretty spot on so I'm happy with that because that's the one thing I would say is again I'll touch it in a minute when you start building this up you want to do one bit on one side then on another then on another and on another so you keep it balanced there's nothing worse than making your rocker and then it just stays on one side and doesn't really rock so I'm going to stick my next circle down there and then I've got my football which I'm going to pop on some foam adhesive okay like so already it looks really fun you could just add a sentiment now and leave it at that but of course I've got to add lots of decoration because that's what I like to do so like I said I've gone and cut all these and what I did do because it's double-sided paper is I stuck all of these pieces that I fussy cut onto plain white cardstock using the taser easy stick I really like this one because once it's once it's set it dries rock hard and really stiff so it makes them like little infameras so you've got some really nice pieces now so sometimes you know if I'm a bit bored or if I don't really know what I want to make I'll cut and fussy cut lots of things out stick them down and then cut them out again with the white so it also gives them that white frame that white frame is the card that I stuck onto so it just gives them a little bit more makes them a lot more solid and a bit more easier to use so yeah I'll link this but it is handy you can buy a pack of three and they last for ages so another handy one to have so I've got my sentiment this was just a happy birthday from a free magazine from one of the creative stamping magazines a long time ago but I'm just going to start building this all up so just remember what I said so for example I'm going to stick this one down here so then I'm next I'm going to stick actually I want it that way because I know it's going to work that one and then that one and then I've got the small one which I've already put some foam on the back of and that's going to go like that each time check it and rock it just to make sure it works and then this one here will go like that and then I've got the goal and goal there and then that one in the middle and then the champions for the back and I've got these tiny probably can't even see them but these are the little footballs and I've popped some foam adhesive on of that on three two of them I've cut three all together and I'm going to stick them down as well okay so I've stuck everything down and you've probably noticed me cutting some more of this piece here the goal because mine is doing exactly what I said you don't want yours to do so mine is tipping off slightly to the left hand side and I don't know why because I've stuck everything the same way but hey ho something's gone on so what I'm going to do is add the in piece in the middle see if it's still doing it and then I'm going to have to find something to maybe go here just to yeah get that back on track so it's nice and straight so for this piece in the middle what did I use I can't remember what I cut so it was a piece that was three yeah three quarters by three okay and all you want to do is score at half an inch at one and a half and at two and a half okay so you should have three score lines there we go okay and you just want to fold the middle one you want to fold up and then the two outer ones like so so you should have that shape you should have a valley mountain and valley okay then you're going to add glue to the side of these two pieces here I'm just going to add some glue open it up and stick it right down as far as you can in the center I'm going to use my grid here so in the center and then push that piece up and bring that down so the whole thing's concealed just hold it there for a second and also don't stamp it once you've stuck it down like I did because you want to stamp your sentiment before you stick this white piece down just in case you did obviously make a mistake I mean the worst case is you just have to stick something over that white again but yeah do that before but now you should have that so it means it will only open up the two inches okay it won't go any further so let's try again make sure my mat's okay ah that's better it sorted it right out so again pop that on and then it you know may well help you out a little bit as well actually my mat is a bit it's got a slight little bubble there probably because I use heat on this but if I push down on the mat it completely levels out even more if I take my finger off you see it just moves over so slightly push my finger around down so that's what's doing it because I thought I can't understand why it's not working so anyway that's the card done really like so very quick very straightforward this here is a six by six envelope saying that they are slightly larger so six and one eighth by six and one eighth I cut that to six by six you see it sits over the top there so this is just the reverse of the goalie or the football player I don't know what position he is I have no interest in football whatsoever but many do so I know this card well I've actually been asked to do a few so I know it's going to be used so just stick that there and then this little piece here is just so you can see obviously who you're sending it to and that's three by one and a half I'll just stick that down okay so there you have it two really quick rocker cards I think these look great like so even though I've got no interest in football whatsoever I think they look fantastic I really like these and now I know that it's my mat that's creating it to slightly you know tilt to one side although now it seems to be fine again but yeah I just think they look really really fun so I hope you like them I hope you give it a go check out that playlist like I said there is a lot more inspiration there as well and different styles more feminine ones and bigger ones as well but this is the six by six size it's super cute so I hope you've enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel 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