 Hi everybody it's Sam here, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to show you how to make a pop-up card and this is the one that I made during a Facebook live a while ago now, but I'm finally getting around to filming it and putting the video up. This one here has Jerry the giraffe on the front on a belly band and then you open it up and I recreated the giraffe hotel. It's a place that I'd love to visit one day and feed the giraffes over so I thought I would do that with this fun tunnel diorama style card but of course if you don't want to do that kind of style then when I was doing the live it was suggested to do a pond and I thought oh well I have pond themed stamps and I have a pond dye so let's give it a go. So I have a belly band and then you open it up and you have your pop-up pond and we've got our fisherman there with his fishing rod trying to catch some goldfish in this case but you get the idea and you've got a little otter there, I've stamped and coloured the background, you've got acetate so it reflects as if it was the water and then this one is for Father's Day. I've got the dragonfly embossing folder on the front and then there's space on the back there for you to be able to write your message and then it's all held together with the belly band or you can make a box envelope or you could even pop it into one of my bouncy envelopes and I'll share those playlists throughout this video so they're really fun to make I'm going to show you how to make this one today so let's get started. Okay so first of all we'll do all the scoring so for the main card this will fold down to a six by six so you'll want a piece that's 11 by six and you're going to score along the 11 inch side at six and 10 and a half okay then for the top of the pop-up inside you will need a piece of six and a half by six and along that six and a half side you want to score at half an inch and five inches then I've got these two which are going to be the pieces that were inside so there's the giraffe one just those two just gives you the depth you don't have to have two you might just find you want one these are five and a half by six and along the five and a half side you want to score at half an inch and five just do that on both of the pieces and then I've just got this piece to just cover the very bottom just so it's the same color that pond kind of color that's why I've chose this one this is four and three eighths by six so it's the width of the card but it's slightly shorter than the area it needs just so it sits in there nicely I've also got this extra piece which is a color that I think will work quite nice for the stone it's actually a it's kind of like an oyster color but I'm going to pop a very light color like an ink just a very light gray once I've embossed it just to pick up some of that detail this is five and three quarters by four and a quarter I've also got a strip here I may reduce the width but the length of it is a four so it's 11 and three quarters but 11 would be fine so that's all the scoring so before I burnish anything I want to I want to cut the aperture so for me it's going to be this pond now because I'm going to be sticking this on top so the piece I'm sticking this on to is that piece of white which is your top if you pop up okay so you've got your half inch score line and then the other one there which I think was four and a half if I remember anyway that piece this is going to sit perfectly within that section there and this is the bit that I want to cut this pond effect from so I'm going to just lay this over the because it's a it's an emboss it's a cutting emboss embossing folder so it will cut the pond shape and then it will emboss that stone work around I'm just making sure I've got an equal amount kind of overhanging the top and the bottom so I'm going to go and get that one die cut okay so now when I take this out it's removed this section which I could use and die cut some other bits from this is the paper discovery pebble pond as well link everything I'm using if it's still available now that's going to sit over like that but I obviously want this to be cut out of as well but rather than cutting through both them and having this embossed effect on here as well I'm just going to lay this on here and with a pencil I'm just going to mark the kind of widest points are just there and then I'm just going to with my scissors you can pop this in in trim if you want just going to stab it in the middle there and I'm just going to go out to kind of each corner making sure I give myself enough space to be able to attach it but I'm just going to take out this area here and it's just as soon as I just go around all the pencil marks there but I've still got a frame you're not going to see any of this but now I can pop that over the top and you can see we will be able to look down in the pond and we're going to have all these fish and things in that that I've dug up so I'm just going to put a little bit of ink on this just to bring out a little bit more of that design I'm going to use the distress oxide hickory smoke I think I'm going to come in with a darker again vintage photo always seems to come to the rescue but I don't want to take away the gray I just want to just kind of lift lift it's just slightly so it's just catching on the edges which is what I want bring it up there you can see it's just kind of just lifted the pebbles a little bit more so that will do okay now we're just some of my thin tape here I'm just going to pop it around the side I'm going to lay that into this space here like so okay next we can grab this main piece here and you are going to have your half inch tab on the right hand side and you're going to attach this piece onto there so I'm just going to grab my grab glue here and I'm just going to run my glue all along the tab there I'm just going to sit that like so now before we attach this side you want to add these pieces here and that base piece I'm going to stick the base piece in straight away because that's just going to cover like I said it's the whole six inch width but it's that's it's just slightly shorter just so that it will sit within that space I'm just going to pop some glue on the back of here this is the Kalal glue this just adds a bit more strength to the base of the card I'm just going to place that one down there now with these ones I want to create apertures so you can still look down through but I am going to be placing lots of decorative pieces on this so I've just pulled out my oval dies and I'm going to grab as large as I can get so probably the largest one here actually as long as it fits within there yeah it does but what it means is I'll have these ledges so these sections here where I'll be able to attach things onto so for example the fish I want to be suspended on acetate I'll be able to attach the acetate onto here so the fish will be swimming within this area all you're actually going to see in terms of the color really is this base color here so as you're looking down into the pond you're going to see all these different levels so I'm going to just die cut these two pieces here and this it measures it's let's call it five inches by four so if you've got something similar so I'm just going to run those both through okay so I'm just going to carefully fold those score lines okay so now each of these will go inside like I said you're not really going to see them but they're going to be ledges for you to be able to attach things onto now even I'm now thinking if I need to have two that one will be along the bottom and then no I think I am going to stick with two so I'm going to pop my glue just along here and then you just want to line this one up with this fold here where this blue piece is right up with that fold again they're the same width as the card so it's easy for you to you know line that up but it's just above the score line there and just practice laying everything flat like so okay so that's that one in and then with this one here and I'm going to sit this one just above that piece okay so just butter it right up again make sure the whole thing can fold flat and just burnish both of your sides there okay now all you have to do is lie it down flat and you can add your glue along both of these half inch pieces try to make sure the glue doesn't you know go over the area just that tab that you've given okay and then if you just fold this piece over that is how the card will fold flat so I can see that it will and it's going to fit in my envelope but now when you open the card make sure that glue is dry and I've just fold it over that way and just burnish it but now when I open it you'll see you've got your two sections there now all that's left to do is pop your glue along this piece and just fold that one over and fold it flat again you can go back that way and the whole card you'll see that it's nice and flat it's got obviously bolt hooks there's a lot of card in there but it's flat now when you open up the card you're going to have your pond now I'd already gone ahead and cut lots of bits and pieces now I think I'm going to add acetate just underneath the very top one and then everything else is just going to be suspended off of those kind of little ledges but I've already colored and stamped lots of pieces here so the scene that I've created here is using this creative stamping issue 86 and it was called by the water I've used the big stamp at the top here which I've stamped and then the birds you can see them here I've just done a few flying and this is going to go here so it's almost like an extension of that scene and this piece measures five and three quarters by four and a quarter okay so that's going there this is for my belly band we'll talk through that later now my happy father's day I'm thinking I'm going to get that same teal color and pop it on here as a man I'm going to have it actually on this front piece here I think that's going to look really quite nice so that's going to go there now I've stamped and colored my fisherman and I plan to have him here but I'm going to somehow I'm going to get a little bit of you know thread and attach it onto there and have it attached to the top of the acetate with the I did cut it it'll be somewhere if not I've probably dropped it on the floor but the end of his fishing rod I don't know what it's called I'm not a fisherman we're not into fishing but anyway that's going to be bobbing in the water I've got the little otter here which I'm going to have stuck there I've got all these flowers so I'm going to have a couple of them here I've got some more trees just to create again more of a foreground so I'm probably going to have in fact I think I remember I planned to have the tree and then him so the tree would be kind of there and we'll play around with that I've got my lily pads so I'm going to have one of them on the top of the acetate and then these fish are going to be suspended on some acetate just like that I've got other bits here which I've die cut and these have come from so the fish are from the paper discovery beyond the sea I like the fish because they're the flatfish as if you're you know birds I've you these are all the other kind of you know vines and stuff you've also got this one here where I've taken the lilies from and that's the other paper discovery beyond the pond I think it's called you've got the lovely kingfisher and the other birds there and then I've just taken this one here and I think I used it I ended up using I'm not sure if I did but I want to just bring in this one here and that I will explain it's this little piece here that I've also stamped in color and you see that's a real bit of string there or thread but that's another card that I created using this stamp set and this is the side stepper card and it was lots of fun to make and I've got glossy accents on the water there so I will link that one up here now in case anybody's interested the sentiment you've got all kinds of ones here gone fishing and you've got the sentiments of seeing that stamp set if you've got it okay so I am going to get all this stuck down start positioning everything I'll give you the measurements for the acetate when I get to that bit and yeah I'll be pretty much finished so you can see everything is suspended and I've just stuck it all underneath each of these so when you look at it from this side you don't see anything but I really like that I think it looks cool I've just cut a piece of acetate that is going to be bigger than my aperture so I can just stick it behind there and then I've got an area to be able to put one lily there because it's the kind of card where people will be looking like this going oh my gosh look there's a fish down there and so I don't want I want it to be a little bit covered because I think that just adds to people kind of exploring the card then I'm going to have I think a lily kind of coming over onto here with the flower on there and I might have another flower kind of up here as well so depending on the aperture depends on the size of your acetate but to attach it I'm just going to pop a strip of tape on all four sides slide that underneath and then stick that all down again each time just fold the card flat that's now all in place you can see you get the reflection which is good so I'm going to finish with all of this and get that sentiment on the side here as well somebody who is a very keen fisherman I know my friend who will want to have this card for Father's Day so I know it's going to be enjoyed I love how I've just made sure the string was just a little bit short so it just slightly bows the fishing rod there which looks like he's caught something and I just think it's you can see that it's just kind of stretching it out not enough to break it at all and it closes obviously really nicely you know and then it will open up and it stands you know well enough so I'm not worried there but I've also just continued the theme down on the side here these are some extras that I had left over so rather than put them away and then forget about them I thought I'd just put them on the front there so all there's left to do is the belly band and what I would recommend is I'm going to pop a mat layer on the back here and that'll be where my friend can write her message but for the belly band I'm going to just have this one here so I have the larger oval is or the green one is four and one eighth by three and a quarter and then the pattern on top is three and three quarters by just under three about two and seven eighths and again I've just stamped that same scene and then the relax on there so I'm going to grab the belly band I'll probably put a mat layer of green maybe on here or blue maybe yeah maybe I'll do the same teal in fact I might emboss it and pop that on the top so I just do a piece of five and three quarters squared but I'm just going to finish with the belly band here so you just want to wrap your cardstock around like so I like to do loose that you know you're going to be able to slide it off easily because there's nothing worse than you know someone's struggling to remove the belly band but I think that's going to be okay and then I'm just going to pop some glue on both sides there and then just pop my topper over like so just give that a minute to dry and I'm going to cut my card to go on top there okay so you see the belly band down I've just burnished the sides so once the glue's dry you can slide it off and just tidy up a bit with the embossing I decided to use my dragonfly embossing folder you always have a dragonfly flying around a pond so I thought that worked really well and now you can see that that just slides on nicely there and just keeps it all together and then again let's just take it off just so you can see it one more time and pop it up and you have that wonderful card for Father's Day or as a birthday card and again it doesn't have to be fishing this was just an idea that was brought up in the during the live and I just went with it I thought it was a wonderful idea and I think it's come together really really well but if you don't want to do that kind of style then you can go for the vertical kind of look take my band off there we go which is this one here with the giraffe hotel which is still really fun and I love that one and I'm going to keep that one on display so there you have it two fun pop-up kind of tunnel cards diorama cards I think they've come together really nicely and I hope you like them too so I can't wait to see your styles if you do decide to make these kind of cards feel free to share them over on the mix.crafters facebook group it's a really nice group of people there and just lots of fun so feel free to join and if you've again enjoyed today's tutorial please hit the subscribe button and hit the notification bell and that way you'll be notified every time I upload a new video thanks for watching and I'll be back very soon bye