 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixup Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really pretty six by six bridge fold card. So I've done the five by seven and I will share that one up here but I thought I would do the six by six really to show off these beautiful little poppy flowers and this is with the latest simply cards and paper craft magazine and I'll show you that one in a moment and it's the Altenew layered stamps and they're gorgeous. Now the reason I rushed this video is because I've already had some people message to say that they have got this magazine and that they struggle with layering the stamps sometimes. So hopefully this video will also give you a few tips and help you to maybe use these stamps better. There's many ways to use them and I try and talk through that through the video but the whole thing folds flat like this and it will fit into a six by six envelope and then on the back you've got plenty of room there to write your message. You can decorate these panels on the back as well if you want to. I've had a little acetate butterfly which matches nicely and the sentiment is from the same stamp set as well so yeah let me show you how to make it. Okay so this is my creative mess here because I've already been stamping and coloring and I've got all of these ones ready here. I'm going to go through the sizes of the card in a moment. I just want to focus on the stamp and getting one more of the poppies done first. So this is how it comes. This is the layered poppy like I said you do get the stencil and depending on where you shop you sometimes get an extra freebie as well. I know some of the supermarkets do throw in some extras so I've already pulled all my stamps off. I just wanted you to see it here but the sentiments are beautiful. I mean I love that you have the happy and the sorry separate and then you have all these little subtitles to fit in with it so it's going to work for so many different you know occasions and things so like I said I've already pulled all the stamps out. Now with layering stamps there are to be honest there's quite a few ways that you can use them. Now generally people find them quite I guess hard at times to line up but there are little kind of things that you can do to help so there are I kind of like look at the stamp and look at like something that really stands out like there might be like a slight jagged edge or a slightly longer section and I keep that as my focal point and that's the kind of point that I look at every time I go to layer them down. So I'm going to show you because I don't want to keep this video too long I like to keep them you know as short as I can get them ready so I'm going to show you the way that they are meant to be used but then I'm going to show you the way that I've done it to make these okay so there's two ways that you can choose. Okay so I've just got some cardstock here I'm only going to stamp one we'll actually know I do two like I said the one that the one the way I've done it and the way that they ask you to do or they tell you to do them. So you have all of these pieces and if I grab this stamp here on the back it does tell you that first of all you stamp your most blocked image okay so the one with the most solid stamp so where is it honestly it's still attached here this one here it's that big black one and then you have one with slight detail and then you add all these bits as well and then you have the finer detail so just the outline. So I always say that the larger the stamp in terms of its surface is the first ones and then you just kind of work your way down and your last stamp that you stamp down will have sometimes hardly anything on it might just have a little line or a couple of little dots it's just that final detail. So first of all they want you to stamp this one here so I'm going to position mine down the bottom so I want to get my one that I'm going to do in a minute up here somewhere. Now what you need to do is look through your dies that you have and you want kind of like a blend so you for example for a poppy you want a dark red a medium red and then a lighter red you may want to do some oranges you may want to do something completely different. Now I am going to do maybe slightly different colors just because I really want you to be able to see it in the video. So this first one here I'm going to stamp in the lighter color so for this one here I'm just using this stamping powder pink and this is just because I want to make sure you guys can see it okay so this is a light color and I'm just stamping that background there. Then you want to grab the next one which you'll see here is this kind of funny detail there in the middle I mean they don't look like much when you're stamping you know when you see them but they do obviously come to life so it's this one here you see it's just all a bit random. If you look here you'll see there's a tiny little piece here darker red that's right on that bottom piece there now that's the piece that I'm going to use is my kind of pointer as long as I get that lined up in fact maybe all of that kind of red that sits along the bottom of that you know the actual poppy that's what I'm going to use is my kind of reference point so I'm going to focus on that and then everything else will just kind of fall into place. So here's the stamp and you can see that kind of bit here that's that bobbly bit and that needs to sit in this kind of bit here now the good thing about these is they're clear so I can just I'm going to bring my head over okay and you can just spend some time moving that around I'm just going to pick that one up and then I'm going to bring in this darker pink okay so this is rose red again just so you can see it for the video and then just stamp that down okay so next it's now I'm not going to worry about the stems and then I'm going to do this black outline here so which is this one all right so it's the biggest stamp now this one here because it's the outline and mine is going to just come off a little bit so I'm going to have to move it up I'm going to concentrate on getting that kind of in place and then everything else will kind of you know line itself up now one thing I would say about these kind of stamps layered stamps is they are to create a different kind of style so a lot of people will do like a water brush maybe just do like a blob of orange in water color and then stamp over the top and it doesn't matter that it's all come out of you know it's not within the lines that's the style so don't I don't know don't feel kind of disheartened if you don't get it lined up but saying that the way that I do it after is I is a way I prefer as how I kind of use layered stamps if you've seen me in my other tutorials whenever I've used layered stamps I never actually use them for the way that they're intended so again you may prefer it is a bit easier I think maybe it's a cheap way so I've got that I think pretty much where it should go so let's sit this one down because you can also do these back to front you and that's how I do it in the next one is you lay this the detailed one down first because you might find that that actually you can see it better so I'm just going to then put this one this is in black so there you go so you can see I've got I'm not kind of lined up there but also you can go in with your pens which is what I'm going to do on that next one but that is how the flowers kind of is meant to come together in terms of its layer so I know that doesn't go but it is purely so you guys can see it and understand the stamps I'm going to do it properly with the next um tutorial but again if I just bring in so this is the green stem now that's to go over because I've already stamped in black it's quite strong the black obviously it's black but now if I stamp that over just bring in this green this is when things start to kind of come together all right so you can see now how this all works so your solid most solid stamps that's the solid one there that's the solid one that I just stamped there your first ones that go down and then this is another stem one here and if I just bring this in you can see so you see there's the solid and then there's the detail of that same piece so don't because it's all there don't feel you have to use it but it does work quite well I mean to be honest that isn't actually that bad if you were to have lots of them maybe coming out of a vase it would look really effective so have a play around but don't feel disheartened if it doesn't quite line up because if you bring in any kind of color so let's bring this pen in here you can just go I know this pen doesn't go but again it's just another example and just kind of fill in any bits you don't like I mean if you've got all your stamping up colors and all the stamping blends and stuff then everything matches you can just go in with the corresponding marker with the with the ink and you know blend it all together but so that is how they I guess the order that they should go but now I'm going to show you how I do it and how I prefer to do it so I'm going to pop this back down here so I'm going to bring in the fine outline first so this one here okay you can just see it probably better if I put it on the white that's how it looks all right that's the one I'm going to stamp first and that's all I stamp for this one then I stamp these so I don't even use the background one so I'm going to pop that one down there now because I'm using markers alcohol markers I'm using my memento just so I don't get any of that ink running on any bleed so just stamp that down okay so that's that one there and then I'm going to bring in the thinner so this is the frame of this one here okay that's what that one is there and again I'm just going to kind of roughly doesn't really matter too much where that one goes we'll do it there so I'm going to cut this out and they're really easy to cut out as well I didn't struggle with them there's not too much detail so again just come in with that one okay and then and if you want a real contemporary clean look you can just keep it like this it's you know have a real like monochrome just have a nice sentiment there's there's so many ways to use them you they don't have to be used in the three stages that they show you and now I just want to bring in that detail of the leaf which is this one here okay and that one again you can have it really up high I'm going to have it a little bit different with this one might bring out quite high actually just because the others are I want them to all look a little bit different so just make sure the end there touches roughly that stem but again I'll take that off you can touch this up with pens and markers and watercolor and yeah there's lots of ways to I guess save it if you're not happy with it especially being able to coloring and join up any kind of lines and stuff so again just gonna ink that one up okay so I'm not touching that I'm going to color all that in myself but I am going to use the solids for the leaves and this kind of bud so it's these two here which is this one here and this one here so again I'm just gonna this is what I mean about stamping sometimes it's good to stamp the detail first because I can really see that black line underneath you can see it through the stamp so it's a much easier way to see where you are so although the rule is that you're meant to stick um stamp this one down last the most detailed one I actually think it can help you more if you stamp it down first so do you play it don't be scared by them because they're they're brilliant I love the concept of these kind of stamps but it's just kind of finding the the way the best way to use them for yourself really so those two are in place and then I'm going to do these in this green along with the stems as well so I'm just going to stamp those and then this one I'm doing the same green so I know the buds there but I'm going to blend it with some darker green alcohol markers in a minute so can you see how nicely it comes it really does start to bring it all to life and then the last one is just that plain stem that goes right through in the middle so you just want to focus on the top and then it's kind of roughly running over the black as well as along the sides again don't worry it's like I always say it's what craftsman's about make things up do things your own way don't well because someone's wrote it down or that's what it says in the instructions I was always a rule break breaker you can probably tell anyways so right I have cleaned oh that one's just flicked right off but luckily missed my clothes right so that's everything stamped so I'm going to take that away okay so you can see the ones I've done here and they are slightly different tones I do like if I'm doing like a birthday card I do prefer to do maybe like more orange kind of poppies I love the orange poppies as a neighbor actually who has a beautiful kind of just yeah loads of them all over her garden and the red ones to me are the remembrance kind of color which is beautiful but I do like to do the orange ones so I have a mix of markers alcohol markers here these are the cheapy touch light ones but I've also got my artesans ones it's not until you use different kind of yeah qualities that you notice a real difference because these are quite yeah they just feel quite cheap but the color is lovely still so I'm using this orange here and I'm just going to color the whole thing in this block orange color you'll see there where the the black kind of doesn't completely kind of join because it's not a complete framed stamped image just kind of go where you think or look at the inspiration look at the magazine there's that one then I'm going to come in with a real darker orange so I'm going to use I'm going to use this one here tomato red actually I'm going to come in right all around here don't worry that there's a real difference in the colors there because it will blend beautifully okay so that's that one so I'm now going to get that quickly fussy cut out and then we can just put the card together because that's the easy part okay so for the actual card you want a piece of cardstock that is eight by six because like I said at the very beginning this is a slightly different size to the one I've done before along the sorry yeah eight by six along the eight inch side you want to score at one inch two inches six inches and seven inches and if you flip it over and score again at the two and six marker okay or you don't have to score at two and six this way and just score it that way on the back because you're going to fold them differently then you'll want a piece of acetate completely optional you don't need it at all but I just thought it does give it quite a nice look and this is five and three quarters by six I've already gone and put red tape along the six inch side okay just make sure you stick it on the right one because that is going to it's basically the height of the card and then once we go to stick it it will all make sense and then you want whatever you your kind of bridge pieces you want that to be six inches by whatever height you want now this is going to be grass so I've done this so it's two inches high but I'm going to cut into that in a moment now for your mats and layers you're going to need two pieces that are three quarters of an inch by five and three quarters or you may want to do seven eighths of an inch by five and seven eighths of an inch and then drop down by one inch by one eighth of an inch so then do a layer on top of that which could then be three quarters of an inch by five and three quarters I'm creating the grass and sky scene with my blending brushes and inks and I'm just going to have mine so that they are seven eighths of an inch by five and seven eighths so it's pretty much covering these two outer panels and then the inside piece mine's going to be three and seven eighths of an inch by five and seven eighths of an inch okay but again you might want to drop yours down differently depending so before I stick that down that's the bit I'm going to do next so if you don't want to watch me blend just fast forward but I know quite a lot of you did ask me how I done it when I made my shutter card so I created that really nice green going into the sky background okay so to create that background I've used the Tim Holtz distress oxides in the mermaid lagoon and the mode lawn and then I've used my favorite makeup brushes for blending so these are clean but they're just stained now so this is just some scrap you just want to make sure that it's enough to cover those sizes that I gave you earlier and then so I'm going to start with the green first and work my way kind of I kind of work up and then work down and then kind of let the middle do its thing with a little bit of help anyway so you just want to grab your makeup brush I'll link these all below I know so many of you have brought these already they are brilliant I'm just making sure I've got a nice amount on there and then just as you would with your normal blending brushes sponges you just kind of come up and in circular motions cover your cardstock now you want a smooth cardstock this is smooth-ish but it works fine and then whenever I'm doing like a grass I come up slightly more on each side okay then what I I mean you're not really going to see the bottom of this because this grass piece is going over there so with that in mind I'm going to bring mine up a little bit more but this is the good thing about these brushes is before with the blending sponges if you came into the center like this more than likely you would get a circle mark and it's really hard to lift it whereas look at this you just all the work these brushes just do it all for you it's brilliant so that's my bottom it looks quite limey yellowy which looks still looks really good I like it it's almost like the sun's coming kind of coming down on it so that's that one I might come back in with that one in a minute so I'll just leave that one there and then I've got my blue mermaid lagoon again ink that up and what I would also say is whenever you're doing a surface like this like a large area don't touch it with your fingers because the distress oxides do take a little bit longer to dry is get some scrap card and pop it over the top and then you're doing exactly the same thing coming in from the top if you want to bring in slightly darker blues at the top here as well to just create more kind of depth you can but I'm keeping this really kind of just the two colors really fresh and then bring it in but I want it to be lighter in this center area because that's going to be what's right behind the poppies yeah I'm happy with that it's looking a little bit blotchy when I look through the camera but actually in person it looks great so I'm happy with that and hopefully it will pick up better in the photos okay so I've trimmed my pieces down to the sizes that I said earlier and now they will go this one in the middle and these on the outside I'm going to probably cut two more here actually just thinking about it because I think yeah it's going to look nice and now I'm going to cut the grass and then these will all look I think it's going to look really quite sweet so I'm going to cut those ones in a second quickly show you the grass and then again so many of you will just skip all of this because yeah it gets a bit repetitive but as I always say there's always someone new watching these are just vegetable scissors usually found in the kitchen sections I'm just going to cut down I am going to put a sentiment over this like so I think mine are balloon I've got another pair that I should have used I've got a blue pair and a green pair I've picked up the green to be fair though it does kind of add a little bit to it so it's not that bad and then the last one like so okay but then also what I'm going to do is grab these scissors here and just start to shape them a little bit so that's kind of done the work there for you but if you then kind of go in and just come over each side just slightly differently you see you'll get like more of a grass is it a shard no what's it called blade that's the word shard shard of glass anyway but yes I'm just going to go along and just kind of shape that a little bit more okay so first of all you want to stick down if you've done these sides now as well you want to stick down the middle and those two okay and I know a little bit short so I'm going to bring mine up higher what size did I what measurement did I just give you there I've done my more five and three quarters when it should have been five and seven eighths which is what I told you to do so just make sure you do the five and seven eighths because otherwise it'll be too short but you're not going to see it because the grass is covering it all anyway so I'm going to stick those three first then we're going to stick our acetate and then stick those two the grass and everything else okay so there's those stuck down and then you just want to fold the two middle score lines in and then that outer one out and again that one in and that one out so there you'll have your bridge fold I quite like that they're inside there as well then with this piece here so I've stuck the tape along the two longer sides and it's going to be slightly shorter because it was five and three quarters so the idea is is take off the backing on one side first now if you want to stamp or put anything on the back here do that obviously before this goes down but you want to stick it just slightly in from the edge okay so it's exactly six inches tall so make sure you line up your top and your bottom make sure that's all nicely stuck down so you can see there I haven't gone right to the edge and then take the backing off of the other side and bring this one so it's folded that side is folded onto this and then we're going to stick that down because that will now become our six by six sides and that's how it's going to fit in the envelope start from this side and kind of roll it and then as you get here make sure you top and your bottom's all lined up and then stick it down okay and it should stay within that section which it has if it does come off at all then you can just trim it but now we've got that window and this is a great style again for any underwater themes you want to do I've done many of those but anything that acetate I think is really good now these pieces are going to go and stick over that again because I'm slightly short make sure yours is longer you may want to do it the full six inches actually for those front pieces but because this grass is going to cover everything I'm not worried because that's going to hide all of that okay so again depending on how well whatever you have your bridge is going to well that's the thing you don't need the bridges the acetate that is what we're going to stick things onto so the grass for me is obviously good because it's covering up the fact that they don't come down long enough but I would say do them six inches if you're not doing grass over the top obviously if you're doing it like me then it doesn't matter so I'm just going to add some double-sided red tape again always like to use the red tape whenever I'm working with acetate okay so that's that stuck down and now when you fold it flat yeah that's how it will fit and you can put it anyway but that will now be six by six so I'm going to pop it into its upright position and now start lying down all of these beautiful poppies so I'm going to have I'm going to cut some of the stems because I want some of it shorter and then I'm going to lay the grass down over the top each time so okay it's going to be like that and then I've got these little buds I might cut another one maybe have that up a bit higher but that's how it's going to be and then my sentiment's going to be along the bottom so I'm going to carefully lift this off and then I'm going to add foam pads to mine these are really sticking they stick well to the acetate as well you're not going to see it I mean unless someone looks behind it but I'm not worried about that but I just think it'd be nice just to lift them off the you know the actual acetate slightly so I'm not going to stick the stem itself because the grass is going to hold that all into place so I'm just going to have that roughly there so yeah I'm going to do that and get them all stuck down okay so there's all my poppies stuck down I love it I think it looks it's such a pretty happy card just I again I repeat myself all the time but I love coloring I just think it brings a whole different look to card making so now I'm going to choose a sentiment it's going to have happy birthday so I'm going to stamp one of those in a moment I'm also going to bring in I think I can find a couple of little butterflies or bees or something just to have here maybe thinking about it now could it maybe stamped a bee here and here so that's always another idea as well but I'm going to have a little look around and yeah get that all finished okay and there's the finished card so I've just used the happy birthday from the same stamp set and I've just popped one of my little acetate butterflies there which is actually got the orange the green and the blue so it matches really nicely with this card on the back you've got all that space there to decorate you just need to cut your mats and layers the same size as that piece so I'd say four and three quarters by sorry three three and three quarters by five and three quarters and then that will go on the back I'll do that and you'll see again all the photos in my blog but yeah really really like this this is the six by six bridge fold card using those beautiful poppy layered stamps from the magazine so I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial I hope it's helped there's been I hope a lot of tips in there for you so if you've enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye