 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I've got this really fun concertina box card to show you today mine's an Easter theme because I'm doing my Easter series this year but you can easily change this up to be suitable for a birthday wedding Christmas Halloween anything so it's really lovely this one is let me just go through the size because I can't remember so this is four and a half by four and a half squared I did do one a couple of years ago and actually one of my lovely crafting friends shared a version of my one that she done over on mixed up craft is and it reminded me of this box style and I thought I'm going to you know revisit that one again but this time I've done it slightly bigger so I do like to if I'm going to revisit a card I like to change it again so it just gives you even more inspiration and ideas so this one's slightly bigger you've got room on the back there to write your message and then when you open it up this piece comes out and it spows Easter and if I just bring up everything there you can see this is using the Welcome Spring by Hell's Cup of Ditch magazine and I fussy cut all of these cupcakes with a little kind of Easter mini eggs on top I've die cut all the letters with the glitter paper and foam so there's some dimension there and look at that one in the end how cute is that you can make this as long as you want once you see how it's put together so if you do want to have Christmas or Halloween spout out you can really kind of yeah just add as much as you want to it the box size does allow you to fit more in so you could easily extend the inside and still have this same size box that I give you you've got nice little tabs there to be able to open and close it it fits really well and I think that makes such a pretty nice box card it can just be displayed like that as well so someone maybe doesn't have a lot of room or they like to keep the things afterwards and look after them this just is perfect for that so I will link up the one that I did make before as well just so if you do want to you know make a slightly smaller one I think it was only about three and three quarters or something it's not too different but again it is slightly different so let me show you how to make it okay so this is everything you're going to need this is the magazine I'm using the welcome spring by hell's a couple ditch really lovely and you'll see it feature a few more times as you know or I've probably heard I do love all the illustrations so yeah that's what we're going to be using so I've already gone ahead and done all of the the bits inside and I'll talk you through that in a second because that is the stuff that takes the time all of this is really quick and easy it was the decoration for me that took a little bit longer so for your lid and base you want two pieces that are seven and a half by seven and a half and then what we're going to do is cut a tiny little piece off of two sides of of the base now if you're happy with the 16th inch of a measurement that's a mouthful to get out then you actually want one piece at seven and a half by seven and a half and one piece that is seven and seven sixteenths by seven and seven sixteenths but what I'm also going to do is just show you a quick way to just take off a little slither from like I said two sides so for the minute don't worry just have two pieces of seven and a half by seven and a half then you want one piece that's four by eight and you want to score along the eight inch side of four inches okay so just score right down in the middle what I would say as well score on both sides because we're going to be concertina folding these everyone's probably going to have them different ways so if you just score on both sides there at four it's just a bit easier and then you want three pieces that are eight and a half by four and you want to score every one at four and eight along the long side again flip it over and just score at four and eight it will just loosen those score lines so four and eight just do that on those three pieces okay and why we've got the scoreboard out on one of these pieces of seven and a half by seven and a half you want to score at one and a half on all four sides so one and a half one and a half one and a half and one and a half and it's the other one this one here that we're going to trim slightly in a minute or this will be the seven and seven sixteenths of an inch squared okay so some of you that can do that measurement you know you feel happy cutting it and stuff then fine then you'll need one two three four five six seven eight nine and then one more to write your sentiment on the back so 10 pieces of this size but i've got nine in the pink and then one will be in white and these are three and three quarters of an inch squared now if you want to add any layers to them so i've got this green layer here this is drop down by quarter of an inch so this is three and a half by three and a half squared but you might want to add more of those layers on these ones as well because you might be obviously decorating them differently to me so if you do want to add that layer then that's three and a half by three and a half but what i've done just bringing up a bit closer is i've embossed all of these pink squares and then i've just fussy cut and layered up all of these put them on foam adhesive i've cut my letters and also cut them again in foam adhesive just to give it all some dimension and i'm probably going to add some sequence to all of this as well once it's all put together and then i can decide how else i want to decorate it so yeah nine pieces in color and then one in white to go on the back to write your message and then you want eight to 14 pieces that are one and a quarter by four and a quarter the reason why i say eight to 14 you'll need eight pieces to decorate the sides of your lid and your base because even though it's the base it will still be exposed when you pull it all out but you may also want to mat the three layers inside the lid and the base so that will give you another six okay so that's all the scoring done for the minute and then if you grab your trimmer and then with the piece that you haven't scored so we've done that one piece that was seven and a half by seven and a half and scored at one and a half on all four sides you'll then have that plain piece you may have already trimmed yours down to seven and seven sixteenths of an inch but if i pop this in my trimmer now depending on what trimmer or guillotine you have sorry this is a guillotine you'll see there mine is spot on and bring it in here it's bang on seven and a half see there now there you'll see a smaller little line just there that is the seven and seven seven the seven and seven sixteenths of an inch so all of these you've got seven and then you've got seven and a quarter seven and a half where this is seven and three quarters and then eight in between that again you've got slightly smaller lines that's your one eighth of an inch and then you know quarter three eighths half five eighths three quarters and then seven eighths then in between that again you have those smaller lines okay and they are the they will be all together if you count every line there will be sixteen and that's the sixteenths of an inch okay so that's where we are with that so all i want to do with this piece here is just bring it down to that small little marker just below the seven and a half marker so it's not the seven and three eighths it's the one between seven and three eighths and seven and a half okay but also you can just take a slither off so you can also you know guesstimate it so which i do with a lot of my things but you can see there what i've just cut away so it's not one eighth of an inch it's just smaller and i'm just going to bring that around again line it up and then trim that okay now not everybody's trimmers or guillotines might have those extra measurements because some don't you might have to use a rudder and mark it but um you can see now i've got two perfect pieces that i've cut away there and that is one sixteenth of an inch width okay right so now that piece is done you can bring your scoreboard back in and just score again at one and a half on all four sides and just by taking off that tiny little piece that we've done it will allow the lid to fit nicely over the top of the base so i've just scored at one and a half now on each of those now to not get these confused in the middle here i'm just going to put a b for base and t for top okay just so you don't get the confused because i mean it wouldn't be the end of the world if they were the opposite side and i think on the one i done last year i did actually end up constructing it together and the the base was on the top so it isn't the end of the world but obviously you do preferences you want the the top one there so that's all the scoring done and that's i mean it's not that wasn't hard i was just trying to explain to you really that extra measurement because a lot of people do message me about those sixteenths of an inch or taking off that little bit so right now we want to fold and burnish our score lines so i'm just going to do that on both pieces okay and also do that on these pieces here okay so it doesn't really matter which way because you will be folding it in lots of you know different directions so just burnish them all and then go back and burnish them in the opposite directions okay now also on your tab piece that you've got at the end here you just want to take little wedges off of this here now we just want to do some cutting so i'm just starting with my base here no particular reason just the one i've got and you just want to cut up these score lines to the first score lines very neatly because obviously your base and lid like i said will all be on display so you want to make sure it's nice and neat so i'm just cutting up to the first score line there okay and then just take some very small wedges off you don't want to take too much and this is the bit that you may decide you want to cover are these tabs because you will see them inside so i'm not going to take too much off just enough close nicely but so that's what you will have there and flip the whole thing around and do that again okay so that's that one there and you want to repeat that again on your lid okay okay so you'll have two pieces like so next we just need to pop them together so very straightforward those of you that have made lids a lot will just be able to whiz through this bit but you basically just want to add some glue to the top of your tab there bring this down and then bring your side around so you create that really nice right angle make sure it's perfectly lined up you're not pulling it in too much or not enough you need to line up that score line you know here so that's that one and then go around to the next one bring that one down and bring this up and around that's why i like to use the wet glue because it does allow you to move things around until everything kind of fits in nicely like so and then do the same on this end okay so there is my tops that's my lid and then you just want to do exactly the same again on your base okay and now you should be able to pop your lid very neatly over your base and you'll have a real nice closure now because they're exactly the same depth so one and a half if you push it right down it just make it fiddly to get it out so if you've got a punch if you don't have a punch you can just cut a little triangle just cut a little notch out something that will allow you to be able to lift this up so all i'm going to do is bring my punch in and just cut in the middle a small little semi circle like so so i'm just getting a little finger pull what's it called what's this called when you do this there's a name for it and i can't think what it is but again you don't have to be too exact but roughly so now if i pop that on completely like so it can go right down to the bottom but it now means that i can pop my thumb and my finger in those little areas there and pull it off easily and that's when we were going to pull out our concertina so that's that piece all done next we want to put together the concertina part itself so what's going to happen is so we've got our lid so the piece that we just cut this out will be on the left and one of these pieces this is when you can just flip them over you want it to be mountain and then valley with the tab okay for this first piece and it's going to stick in here but you can see it's obviously much smaller than the lid you want it to be because we've got a lot of stuff going into this area so the the key here is making sure that you stick this in the center slightly out it won't hurt too much if it's slightly but it does need to be in the middle if i bring this up can you see i've got an even border between the white here and all down here and that's the same along here and when i fold that there as well so you need this piece to sit as centered in the lid as possible now i'm just thinking i might add some nice pattern paper because this is my image that's going to stick on this piece that's going to go in the lid so it's going to have that there but i think there's quite a lot of white there so to allow everything to kind of look nice and really pop so this is four and a half by four and a half so i'm going to do four and three eighths by four and three eighths so four and three eighths by four and three eighths and i'm going to do two pieces so i've got one at the other end as well although i've just cut that wrong so i'll have to cut it again i cut it the wrong way my cardstocks are four and three eighths by four and three eighths i might use a bit of this on the lid as well actually so we shall see right so i've got two pieces of four and three eighths there as well so now what i think i'll do first is stick this inside like so and then this piece can go in and you can it's a lot easier to get that matched up with a frame like so and then that can go on and the yellow in the flowers complements really nicely okay so if you want to do that cut those two pieces first of all i'm going to use wet glue for this because it allows us to wiggle things around a little bit before it actually sets so just help us a little bit there but this piece here pretty much just will fit in perfectly and then just make sure that's all nicely stuck down okay and then now you want to see how you're going to pull the lid out so we're going to pull it out yeah so you want these pieces here you want it in this orientation so you want them on the sides here you don't want them on the top and the bottom you want them on the sides so make sure you've got your box this way and then you're going to stick this one down in there now i'm just thinking what i might do is actually start to stick these on first before i stick it in there because it's easier so i'm going to again use my wet glue stick that one down because it's much easier for me to get that nice border that's that one and then i've got E for Easter so again in fact what i do is we continue and stick all this concertina down because that was what i was going to suggest at the beginning wasn't it so now grab another piece of this and you're going to stick that right over that tab so the other tab is on this end okay so you're just making a really long concertina fold so i'm going to add some wet glue on there make sure you stick that one down perfectly over there and then you will have another one with the tab you're sticking that over there again so again just add a little bit of glue pop that to one side like so and then the last one is going to stick over there and it will be plain there'll be no tab because that is the piece that's going to stick into your base so you're just going to again add some glue so there's just lots of parts to this it's it is a straightforward project but i'm just also trying to make sure that i you know show you the way to assemble it the easiest so now i just want to make sure i get these all right so ea s t b r so i'm just going to go and stick them all down okay and i've also just stuck down my last one there as well so how it should fold because we scored on both sides this should be quite floppy this one you're going to start with a if i do it this way so you want your first one like this so you've got a mountain valley mountain valley mountain valley mountain valley so you should have one two four mountains and one two three valleys okay like so and then the whole thing will fold and you can see it's quite thick because i've got lots of foam adhesive so that's why i wanted to make sure there's lots of room so i also might want to add some bows but now that will sit and pull right out and it's going to look it's going to look really really cool i love this okay so again making sure these pieces here are on the left and the right i'm going to add some glue all onto the back of this okay and then very carefully and you can wiggle this around a little bit until you're happy but it's stuck down so it looks about right yeah i'm happy with that like so okay and then the back of this one is going to stick in here but i want to stick this yellow piece in first glue on the back of that one pull it all out so you've got a bit of you know it's easier for you to fit in and again just move that around until you're happy that's nice and straight okay and then the whole thing should perfectly close up like so okay so that is your card so now because i'm going to pop this on there with my other bits and pieces when you come to pull it out you have this really cool how lovely is that so some more decoration let's do the sides and the top okay so we're going to stick these now onto the sides with the one where you've already cut that out thinking about it you probably should have done that after so i'm going to stick that over there still and then i'll just cut the punch out again underneath but you want to stick it on all four sides of the lid and all four sides of the base okay so you can see now my side's done so i'm just going to grab my punch again and just come in here just come a little bit higher you need to do the same on this side okay so now this should all work really nicely so there's your box and then as you pull it out look at that and then it can be displayed obviously much further apart but look how cool that looks i absolutely love it now i'm going to decorate the top so making sure it's obviously the right way up i've got a piece of four and three eighths of an inch by four and three eighths although that looks like it is wonky why is that wonky there let's have a little look four and three eighths so you didn't do that bit properly so that is going to stick on there and then over the top i have this piece that is going to sit in the center like so and i have a really nice bit of sparkle so i'm going to stick those two down okay so that's now all stuck down so that's my box and you should have your little kind of finger tabs on the left and the right and then when you open it up it will all open up like so so now i'm going to just decorate the inside of these so that's the optional piece that's where you needed one two three and then one two three so obviously you don't see the ones on this side and then you just need to decorate the back so i'm going to go ahead and get all that done okay so i've stuck everything down and i've actually not done this side so you will only need four so i've done one there there and then there and there but now you can see it all folds up perfectly and on the back i've done a glitter mat there and then i've done a layer of white over the top ready for me to write a little message i could have stamped something there if i want but there's so much going on here and i probably will end up writing quite a bit which i tend to do so but that's it finished so there it is open it up and it comes out and you have this really lovely card you could also use the back and write other things on there as well if you wanted to but how lovely that's how it looks when it's displayed so perfect for the top of the fireplace a long shelf or anywhere really and yeah thoroughly pleased with this one so i hope you like this slightly larger version and give it a go i've done mine for easter but like with most of my projects this works for so many occasions so i think it'd be great for birthdays obviously but even as a wedding card i mean you can see now how easy it is to add on these pieces so if you want to do christmas you want to have halloween you know congratulations it's so easy to extend this and make it any length that you want so give it a go let me know what you think and uh yeah i hope you've enjoyed it if you did please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to 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