 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be doing a card for a guy today so I don't do a lot of them so I thought I would and this is one that's in the shape of a shirt there are so many of these on Pinterest and I saw a photo and I thought yeah I'm going to give one a go and they're really really fun so this is my take on it it just opens up and you've got your inside there and then these bits here they fold in which is nice as well because it looks nice when they open the card like that and then they just kind of pop out anyway so I think whoever you give it to will be you know quite intrigued and will be moving it around and looking at it and stuff so yeah I've put the little pocket on some foam adhesive I've used these um little pearl buttons there and I've actually stitched little crosses with some brown thread again just to make it look a little bit authentic and then I've done the happy birthday band at the bottom there this is the paper pack I've used it's the world at heart first edition this is an old pack and I got this off of every crafts a pound and I think it was five three or five pound it wasn't much at all but this is the 12 by 12 and it's 48 yeah 48 sheets it's a bumper pack so it's brilliant it's one of those handy ones because it's not just I wouldn't say I mean obviously it's great for your mail cards but these wood grain backgrounds are lovely for shabby sheet projects you know you can fussy cut these lovely big bunnies for like Easter projects and there's a lovely wood grain here look at that that is really I love that that's such a nice pattern so yeah if you can still get hold of that one or even not there's places um you know sellers on Amazon and stuff that will still have this one so definitely worth trying to grab one if you can so I'll just use the polka dot and it's a double sided you do want a double sided paper works best for this style card because when we fold this over here it creates the collar there and you get the reverse side and then I've just cut these bits here and obviously flipped the pocket there again with the trim at the bottom so yeah it's a really really fun card I'm very very easy so I'm going to pop that one there all we need is a few bits here so I have gone ahead and done all the little bits I'm just going to be showing you how to get the shape because the decoration and stuff is very easy um for you to do so to mat the inside so just this part here you need a piece that's four and a quarter by five and five eighths of an inch okay stick that down later my card base is a five by seven card base so this is just cut from a piece of 10 by seven and then along the 10 inch side I've scored at five inches okay fold it in half and you've got your card base this is just the 216 paper mania 216 gsm paper mania cardstock that I use it's a it is lightweight for a base but I always say once you add your mats and layers it soon you know becomes a solider solider a more rigid card and then for the top one so this is the actual shirt so this is the piece you want to look at and think okay what kind of shirt pattern do I want I've gone for a bit of a 60s kind of you know um old gentleman I guess kind of stuff I'm not sure it's just that yeah it's it's a fun looking one it's quite quirky I think um but you can do anything football shirts there's there's so many ideas out there so do have a little look because it's yeah it's endless by six and three quarters yeah six and three quarters okay then to make the sleeves you will need two pieces that are one and a half squared and then you'll also need to cut some one and a half strips by a quarter I think it's about a quarter let me just have a bit there yeah so one and a half by a quarter and you'll need two and you just want to stick them just along the very edge excuse my thumb now I've been doing some inking my fingers are very stained but you can see there what you want to create okay so do that on two pieces and then for the pocket this is a piece of one and a quarter by one and I've just rounded off the edges along the one and a quarter inch side this is your one inch here and then again you want a piece that's one and a quarter in width and that's literally about one eighth of an inch just a little bit of patterned paper just running through there okay all these measurements will be on my blog as always and then I've got three buttons there this piece here's the strip along the bottom the outer one so the bigger one is one inch by four and three quarters and the one on top is three quarters of an inch so I'm just dropping it yeah three quarters of an inch by the same width so four and three quarters okay and I've stamped my happy birthday on that one okay so I don't need the scoreboard I just had that there for yeah to be going through all this okay so first of all with your actual patterned piece here what you want to do is grab a ruler and a pencil and we are going to put a marker at one and a half let me just check that was the correct measurement so I made this the other day yeah one and a half okay so along the very top you want to come in one and a half and put a little just put a little pencil mark one and a half inches in from the top there from the left and um sorry from the right and then here from the left so literally just a little pencil mark so I've got one here that's one and a half inches there and then one and a half inches to there okay then along the side here you want to come down an inch again just put a little pencil mark you'll be able to rub these out or you'll probably even cut them away once we do the next bit and then again come down one inch like so so again you can just see my pencil mark there that's one inch down from the corner and again there one inch down okay and then you want to come in one inch from that line so I'm just going to pop my ruler sorry my inches are on the bottom here so that's why the ruler's above the top but I'm just lining up that marker and that marker and then you want to come in one inch so just there and again come in one inch so that will be there okay and again I'll just bring that up so this now coming run put your ruler so it joins up that one to that one and then you can just mark at one inch there and then here I'm coming in at one inch and I've just put a little marker because what we're going to do now is we're going to cut from there to there and there to there and then we're going to fold this here and that will give us this piece so where we're cutting that's that one inch down there and we're going to cut in that's exactly the same here so let me show you first okay so very neatly just cut in like so okay and again on this side I'm just cutting just below that pencil mark again like that okay and then next if you grab your ruler and line it up from that pencil mark and that one so you're on that angle and just lift up your card stock and just kind of your bone folder just push it against the ruler just so you get a nice crease there and again on this side like so just lift that up and again just get a really nice crease like so and then you can just bring it right over before you actually burnish it fully you want to just make sure they just join so I just bring that in there you see they just join and that's fine that's exactly how you want it and then you can just burnish it if you're a little bit off just move them around until you're happy where they are but now how quickly can you see we've got the collar for our shirt okay next you want to sit that on top of here okay and the easiest way now to do this is the gap you've got here is one eighth of an inch okay you just want to kind of do a little marker one eighth of an inch there you want to come up and do another little one there you're kind of just giving it a border you want the same border so if I bring it up here so I put a little pencil mark about one eighth of an inch there up from here and then one there so it's about one eighth of an inch up from that corner and then one here so again it's about one eighth of an inch and then we're just going to cut that section out and all we want to do is just create a little border the same as this border here it's easier to do that than to do all your measurements if you want to just do the same measurements again so you're going to do um one and a half coming in there one inch coming down there and one inch going in there so it'd be the same pencil marks but I just find by just doing that it's just a little bit quicker and a bit of a cheat way really so again I'm just going to do a little pencil mark there one there and one there okay so now I'm just going to get that cut out again just really pinch it together if you are cutting through two bits of cardstock and again just cut those two first make sure you're happy and it's all lined up and then do the other ones okay so I've just cut that out and now when I sit that back over I've got a perfect border like so okay you can see there and I've just remembered actually the back one we don't need I'm just going to rub out a little bit of pencil mark there and there but this back one can actually be straight I forgot so I'm just going to grab my cutting knife and you just want to cut that away oh it's fine but that's what you want you just want a flat piece along the back and then that one will go nicely in there okay so now we need to burnish this because I haven't so now before we stick this down we need to add our little sleeves here okay so I've already stuck those pieces down remember that I said before now what you want to do is pop your sleeve behind here and you're going to line so pop it on it in a diamond angle like so that's the top the bottom so this is where you want your strip you're going to pop it behind here and you're going to line up this top point here with the point of the shirt like so now it's up to you if you want to put that point for the bottom down as well so you've got it like that so it's quite tucked in but I actually liked it see I've got a bit coming out here so still keeping that joint that point at the very top but I bring it out a little bit like so I preferred that look and then what I've done is just draw a pencil right the way down there and then that's all where we need to add our glue so again I'm going to do it on this side here so it's about about three eighths of an inch that I've got there so again I'm going to line this one up like so and again just draw a pencil mark and then I'm just going to add a thin amount of glue there you don't want to go crazy get that one done while I'm here and do this one first so just line up the top I'm going to go over my pencil line slightly just so I don't have to worry about rubbing it out like so and then this one and just flip it over and just make sure it's all nicely stuck down okay and then again with these side bits here you just pop your ruler down and just lift them up just like we did before just like that and it'll just give you a nice crease rather than just folding them over when you've put the card all together if you do it this way it just again just keeps it looking nice and sharp so okay you can see how quickly that's come together so now you want to stick it down onto here so I'm going to use just some of my wet glue you don't want to stick the sleeves only you literally just sticking the square shape don't go over onto these bits here because it won't stick to anything apart from your desk and then just make sure you get it all nice and even your borders just line it all up a little bit of wiggle room there there we go and again just make sure it's all stuck down okay so now all we need to do is the decoration so I've got my happy birthday and I've already popped my backing on here so I'm just going to get this one stuck down again you may choose to do something different you might have a little kind of badge effect that's got happy birthday on it but I quite like this way because you can have you know quite a long sentiment and it will sit perfectly from side to side it will cover there we go and then I've got my hot glue and first of all I'm just going to pop a little bit just to glue the collar down like so and I'm going to pop a little bit of hot glue on top pop my first button down pop another one just a very small bead of glue do these a little closer together than last time like a polo shirt that's what it is isn't it it's a little polo shirt not a shirt shirt there we go I just bring that up just so you can see how cute does that look really really nice and then I just need to add my where did I put my little pocket like so I put it on some foam adhesive just because it I think adds a little bit of fun dimension and then bring it down so it's kind of the line there is in line with the bottom button again it's entirely up to you and there you have it and then see I can just fold that over there quite easily and then let's just stick my backing and get that one nicely stuck down and there you have it two really fun cards for guys and I think they're great and I mean this is just this particular style but this works for any top so you can do a nice blouse for a lady there's I mean the like I said the the ideas are endless there's so many great ones out there so but this is my take and I think they look really really fun so there you have it so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorials and I still do something for the guys I think they get a little bit forgotten sometimes so I'm going to like I said I am going to be doing a lot more and try and do a few each month because I think that would be good and I know I certainly need some in my stash anyway so yeah hope you've enjoyed it if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye