 Hi everybody, it's Simon McSupcrow, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this Z-fold card which has the pop-up box feature in the centre. These cards have been made thousands of times, there's literally thousands of tutorials across YouTube. So this is my style, I've done lots of Z-fold cards before and I've done this style before as well. So this is just another one I thought I would share. This is 6x6 when folded flat and you can see there how fun it looks. I have gone over the top very kitsch with this one. It's using the brand new, well the new Dovecraft Christmas Tales. It's absolutely beautiful this collection and I thought I would use that with some of the candy cane pipe cleaners and I've mixed it's all from that collection. It's the Decker Parch and the papers and then the matching embellishments. On the back you have lots of room here to write your message. So I've just used one of the sentiments there for you at Christmas and then I've just done some faux stitching with a red pen around the outside there. I love this here, this is one of the Decker Parch toppers and I've just put some of the skinny tinsel around there. It's just really fun, it has a really nice profile when it's open. There's lots to look at, you have texture, you've got the tinsel, you've got the fluffiness of the candy cane, you have the lovely snowflakes there and then your kind of flat back pearls. You've got all this glitter on top. So there is a lot to look at and I've got a little sign on the side there as well. You've got little presents down there with the sparkle, I've done that snowflake there. There's lots going on, very, very easy to make and let me show you how to make it. Okay so that's the Decker Parch kit. So you get 24 sheets, 3 sheets of 8 designs. They've all got a glitter effect and they're die cut for easy assemble and they are acid free. You get absolute tons in here and you will see me use every one of these at some point throughout this Christmas period. These are the matching papers. I'm using the 6x6, I've got the 12x12 as well but the 6x6 was perfect for this 6x6 card and again full of beautiful images there, absolutely love it. So I pulled out some bits and pieces because I've gone ahead and done a lot of the sticking and stuff beforehand. Those are some of the things that I think I'm going to use. I was just kind of playing around before I started to fill. So for the main card base you want a piece that's 6x12 and then you'll also need a piece of 2x12 for the Z-fold piece, so this bit here. I guess in a way this is a double Z-fold because a Z-fold is just your card and then you add this bit and it becomes a double Z-fold. So is it a double Z-fold pop-up box card or a double Z-fold pop-up? I don't know, it's, yeah, we'll see. So anyway, you want to score along the 12 inch side of the 12x6. You want to score at 3 inches and then flip it over and score at 6 inches. Okay, flip it back again. Your middle 6 inch you want to fold completely over so you've got just a 6x6 card blank but then that 3 inch fold back this way so you've created a concertina fold and that will give you your Z-fold and because we just flip the cardstock over you won't have any cracking with your card. Okay, so that's your basic Z-fold. Then we've got this piece here so along the 12 inch side you want to score at 6 inches and then flip over and score at 9. And then flip it back again and you're going to fold that one completely under. So that was the 6 inch and then the 9 inch you want to fold back towards you. Just burnish that one so you have that. And what will happen is this is going to stick along here and then that back piece there is going to stick on that corner and you'll see how we get that effect. Now you can have this as wide as you want. I've done 2 but you could have 3, 4, 5 depending on what you want to decorate and how you want it to. You might have a different theme going on but I thought that was quite a nice size because I had the bunting coming down behind and by the time these pieces were in you saw the bunting so that's why I liked the 2 inches but if you want to go higher you can do. It's just that 12 inch length that needs to be the same if you're working within a 6 by 6 card. OK, so that's all the scoring and everything done for there. Then you need a few mats and layers. So I've got this one here which is going to go on the very back. OK, like so. And this white one is a piece of five and three quarters squared and then the pattern paper is five and a half squared. So I've already gone ahead and stuck that on top and I'll stick that on the back of that in a moment. And then I have these 2 panels here which are going to go on these ones here. OK, so one there and one there, like so. And then you imagine that one's going to be there. And you don't have to add this piece. You know, if you just want to do a nice Z-fold card then you can just do this one. I have lots of other Z-fold cards out there as well on my channel. So these pieces here are two and three quarters by five and three quarters which is the white mat. Then the pattern paper on top is two and a half by five and a half. Again, just my standard mats and layers sizes so that's those ones. They will all go in there. And then to decorate this one here I have this long piece that's going to go there and then I have these two smaller pieces which are going to go here. All that, again, those papers all match all from the same pad. So this one to go on here is one and three quarters, the white piece by five and three quarters and then the pattern paper is one and a half again by five and a half. So just one of each of that size and then you want two of each of these sizes so you want this is, again, one and three quarters by two and three quarters and then that piece there will be one and a half by two and a half two of each size. So first of all, you want to pop those to one side. Oh, I'll give you these measurements as well where I've got my scoreboard out. These are for the pop-up pieces inside. You don't have to have three if you just want to have two but can you see my three there? So I've got a Christmas tree on the back one and Santa on the closest one. Okay, you can also stick stuff on this very front piece here as well and on the very back as well. So there's lots of room inside but you don't have to have three but I have three pieces that are one by four and along the four inch side you want to score it half an inch and three and a half on all of those and then just fold over each one and that will then create our little tabs for us to stick all of our pop-up pieces too. Okay, now also you will want the same sizes of this for the very back but you'll see I've done it just slightly different. Actually, you only want the white so just the five and three quarter squared you'll want two pieces of white because one of them will go on the back. Okay, so first of all I'm going to stick down this one here and these two on here. Okay, and then I'm going to stick these on this one here. I'm going to have something that should look like this once you go to stick it together. Okay, what we want to do first of all is I'm just trying to think these this way because I've done it so we had... Okay, so we stick these pieces down first so you've got this piece here you want to work within this section. Okay, so flip it over and we're working within this one here. You want to get these pieces and just want to make sure I do it the right way. Yeah, you're going to grab some glue on one of these tabs just on one side a little bit more on that one actually and then you want to stick it so this is the long section I'm going to put it near the top just coming away from it a little bit and there's that score line I'm coming in about half an inch and then sticking it down first. Okay, so you can see there if you like it flat you want to keep it all kind of straight if I just bring that up so you can see where I've stuck it. So the flat side and the tab you want the tab facing left and the flat side facing this long piece. Okay, and then you're going to get the next one again stick it the same way to be honest if you have the tab facing that way it's not the end of the world but it's just when you look in it it just looks a little bit more finished then the next one you're going to stick down again leaving about a half inch gap kind of sit together and then the last one here and it might come up closer to the last score line when you leave that half inch okay just means you've got kind of an equal gap so if I bring that around if you imagine that one's going to be like that can you see when they open that one's not stuck yet but they're kind of equally spaced you just want to kind of work with that as you can by doing it this way it makes it much easier when you go to put it all together rather than putting this long piece on first and then adding these separately you'll see when I make my pop-up box cards I always stick these pieces like this and then it just comes together much much better and you know that you've got them all kind of lined up and everything so I'm just going to fold them back again there and just rework those little tabs so now if I turn it around this way you'll have these kind of equally spaced and that one will go like that that's what you want to achieve so if I just bring it up again just so you can kind of see you can kind of screenshot we'll pause the video again if I hold it out that way you might want to pause the video there instead so this is your long piece as long as you keep the long piece on the right hand side and the smaller one on the left you're working within that section there okay now if you want to draw a pencil mark on the underside here of where it kind of finishes here so you know that's where you need to add your glue I'm going to do it the other way round I can see roughly where my glue needs to go and I'm just going to add it onto this section here so either way it's entirely up to you then it's the long piece that you're sticking down on this bit so I'm just going to spread that out a little bit and then just stick that there and just hold that in place for a moment okay so now now that's stuck down then if you flip everything over like this and you want to add glue to the three tabs here okay and then if you kind of flip it back around again just keeping them like that alright and you want to bring them all round check I do this the right way sure I got it the right way yeah that is how you want it oh that's it fold all of the tabs backwards you want to do that so then you get that effect okay so you just kind of have to fold them back on themselves like that but that way you see how nice and neat that is and then all you've got to do is just open this bit up here and just cover that in glue again you can just kind of flatten everything down like that just that way you know you've got everything lined up you know the card's going to fold flat everything's all contained you shouldn't have anything hanging out over any of the sides nothing poking up here all of what we've done is all hidden behind this strip okay so again I'll just bring it up that's what you should have alright now we want to start decorating so I have lots of the matching accessories for this collection okay so I've got the bunting which I'm definitely going to use because I want to add that onto the back I'm not sure if I'm going to use those because I did think about maybe having a rosette in this part here they are the candy cane pipe cleaners but I do have some bits left over from the other one so I can get another two out of those but I'll just show you that's what you get absolutely tons but I'm going to be using these to make my wreath so they're all going to get used in that and then you've got the stickers and just so many bits and pieces but what I've done is I'm going to use the glitter around something and let me just pop that to one side this is one of the beautiful toppers you can make with the Decca Pudge Kit and this kind of style is just perfect for this kind of kitsch look because it's very retro and this was how a lot of cars were made and my mum has a lot of them my grandad gave a lot of this kind of style to my nan so I kind of thought that might look nice there but then it covers nearly all of that paper but I do kind of like it or but then if I do something there then you're not really going to see I mean I guess it could go down I don't know I may not end up using that one, I love it but I think it's going to be a bit too big so let's just focus on these bits for a minute so I have all just taken little parts of the Decca Pudge it's kind of deconstructed really so I think what I'm going to start doing is building up the Christmas trees so I'm going to have one at the very back then I'm going to have this next size then I'm going to have Father Christmas in the middle and then I'm going to have the smaller one there I'm also then going to probably have Father Christmas again here I have the lovely little kind of Bambi, deer, reindeer there which is similar to what I've done there but I do really like that kind of little scene there with the presents and the bunny so I may recreate a few similar looks but all you want to do is add a thin bit of glue and this one here is an example just to start sticking some down because I'm going to stick this down first and then add the bunting because that way you know how high to have it but this one here, so I've just put some glue on the very bottom there and then you just stick it onto the front so it's a little bit different because usually on the box cards I always stick everything behind them but on this one, if you stick it in front you actually get to appreciate the whole image so that one there and the front there that one's really good actually because it kind of covers almost the whole strip you see that might bring that a little bit more although you're going to see her again now her, the little bunny but I'm going to do it again right at the front so because then it's like I said it's that decoupage like deconstructed decoupage look and then that one is going to go there so you still see Father Christmas but there's like the two bunnies I don't know if I like that now I'm going to take that off in a minute the idea in my head seems different to actually how it looks maybe I'll put I think I'm going to put these there instead they look quite sweet so let's pop a little bit of glue and have these there instead yeah, they look better there we go so that's that and then let's pop maybe I have no, she needs to go there so I'm going to put Father Christmas on the back and then I'm going to add the bunting so I just used some foam tabs on each piece and then I just put some little pearls on the end there but I put them on the foam just because they look nice when they're a little bit lifted but he will go nicely there so yeah, I'm going to stick the bunting down play around with some kind of topper there I might look back through the decoupage kit but I do want to add the glitter or I might add the tinsel sorry, I might end up adding it along here anyway, I'm going to put it on high speed so you can see how this all comes together hard, so you would have seen me kind of deciding whether to use the smaller bunting or the larger, so I went for the larger I do like it, I've added the 3D snowflakes there for that one with the tinsel all around which I really like, added some more presents there the snowflake on the side the candy cane, just again for a bit of texture and then on the back I just stuck another one of those five and three quarters squared white card one of the little sentiments in the pack and then done that faux stitching just using the red pen so they are, they're just really fun they're really over the top like I said, they're very kitsch if you don't like that style then you're not going to like this at all but I do love it they're just really colourful and really fun and I think they look great when they're all in their 3D form they're such a fun look about them, I really like them so there you go, so you can decorate these of course however you want, they don't have to be Christmasy at all I will definitely be doing it again and I will do a best day card just so you can see how it looks with that style but for now we have these really fun colourful Christmas pop-up Z Fold box cards, double Z Fold box cards, I don't know, anyway thank you for watching today I hope you've enjoyed it, please give me a thumbs up if you have enjoyed today and consider subscribing to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching, bye!