 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this freestanding flower pot card. So I'll show you the inspiration in a moment but you just pull out the top here so you've got all of that space to stamp and write your message. You could also use the back as well as it's a good one maybe for you know colleagues in work. You've got lots of people that you want to you know maybe leave a nice message then you've got room there and there's no reason why you couldn't maybe put multiple you know of these sections in the inside here because you can see you've got one inch there and then that just slides back in. You can have it either in the back section of the concertina or in the front so I've been sitting mine in the front there and I think it works really well obviously I'm just lying it down so you can see it here and then I pop the little planter sign in the well I've attached it to the front section there. These are all using a kit which I'm just going to show you in a moment and I finished it off with some of the yellow glitter drops it looks really nice and a butterfly as well. I actually made this during Facebook live so I didn't get round to finishing like the real detailed pieces so those of you that watched the live you can now see how this card you know looks finished. It all folds flat and I'm going to make an envelope today but I'm looking at a six by eight size in this card so it is what I would call a show stopper size and you can see there it stands up. This is a flat part of my mat this is all a bit bumpy so I will have popped it just slightly to the top of my screen there but it's really fun to make so let me show you how. Okay so this is the kit that I've used and it's volume one of the new Altenew kit so this is the box that it comes in and then you have your magazine you have your dies your stencils and then you have this beautiful layered flower. We were talking about which kind of flower it is and we're kind of thinking it's maybe a poppy it could also be a hibiscus but it's just a bloom so modern blooms so it can be anything you want really but inside here there's a really nice card if I show you this one here and it was made by Debbie Simpson so she's done all these ones here I've done one like that before that's kind of similar to a spinning one that I've done I've done a handbag one before and then I saw this one so this is a gift card holder but I quite like the thought of having it as a card and then I thought how about having it freestanding so mine's considerably different the size and everything I kind of winged it during the live we were all laughing because I was trying to work out the sizes but I'm really pleased with how this one is turned out and you could easily put a gift card on there it's a nice size actually I didn't even measure that on the live but a gift card usually about two to something it's about two and a quarter something like that yeah it would fit in that section so um yeah you could easily do that but um yeah so this is my take on it and I I like a card that stands up so um I think that works really well and it would also be great for if someone's in hospital because it looks like a nice bouquet on the side table there so that's where the inspiration come I will share links to where I can find this but you know this is probably it's sold out on from craftstash where I brought it but I know it's still available in some of the the actual shops I think more mags had sold out as well but again I will share any links and just check those out below so for today's one I'm using this X cut wicker embossing folder um and it creates this really nice effect and I've just inked it up very just quite subtly in a gray color and I'll be doing that on the other one during this video for my sentiments I've used have a blooming marvellous birthday this is from my made a surprise funky flowers and then the happy birthday because it's the same font is again my made a surprise and that's the amazing animals so I know a few of you do have that and it's just a nice sentiment that worked really well so I've already popped it on one of these craft sticks here and then I've already gone ahead and stamped all of these lovely flowers here in orange tones so I've used the set of three here from spectrum noir and it's the quick dry it's the orange that's the order you have them so the orange Chinese red and then the bordeaux so that's what I've used for this color and then during the facebook live which I will link below sorry that's the yellow that I used for the stain and detail in the middle just the two there and then during the live I used these three here and that's your purple tones really nice and they're great inks to use because they dry you know very quickly it's perfect for layering which is how they kind of market these ones as being perfect for layering and they've actually got that similar kind of layering flower on the front there and that's what I used when I stamped the leaves but I've decided not to use them this is the leaves I don't know I was just playing around I thought actually I prefer them just die cut in the green so that's what I've got there but it's up to you if you do have the kit how you want to use that but those are the inks that I've used as well so everything is prepped it's going to be pretty quick to put together I just wanted to kind of you know spend a bit of time just talking you through those pieces so to make this deconstructed plant pot you will want two pieces of four and a quarter by five and you can mark with a pencil or I'm just going to use this because I'm a bit lazy but you just want to mark in along the four and a quarter side only on one of the sides but you've got to do it on both pieces three quarters of an inch in so I'm just putting a tiny little mark at three quarters of an inch there and then three quarters of the way in here so it'll be three and a half putting a little marker there just so that you can see it there's a little indent and do that on the other piece which you can imagine this is my other piece it'd be like that we're now going to cut from those little dents up to the top here so we're going to cut from there up to here so if you want to draw a pencil line from there to there and there to there we'll cut that piece and then we will emboss it then you'll want a piece this is the bit that pulls out that you could put the gift card on if you want this is three by five and I've just rounded off the corners there using my corner punch then I've got these two pieces which are going to be like the rim of the plant pot and they just stick on like so and these are four and a quarter by one and a half and again just along one of the sides I've just rounded off the corners there and then for the concertina fold you want two pieces that are two by four and a half and on both pieces along the two inch side you want to score it half an inch one inch and one and a half and we're going to concertina fold it like this so that's my other piece so you start with a mountain fold a valley fold and then finish with a mountain fold and again do that on both pieces so with this piece here like I said you can do a pencil line if you want but I'm just now going to cut from there all the way up to that one you can also lie that piece over this one and I'm going to flip it over so I find it more comfortable to put that way and there we go okay and then I'm going to grab this embossing folder I can use any embossing folders in the chat people were saying you know polka dot one would be nice something with stripes so you know have a little look at what you've got I'm going to lay that down so the bottom is lined up with the bottom of the embossing folder and I'm just going to run that through my machine okay so I'll take that one out and you can see that really lovely design you don't have to ink this up if you don't want to but I just wanted to bring a little bit of depth to that you know just to the pattern really just so it kind of lifts a bit so I've just got my mat here and I've used the weathered wood distressed oxide color so I'm just going to pop a little bit of ink onto this I'm then going to rub it on my mat and then go in and you're just kind of kissing the sides of the cardstock there darker on the edges and then kind of bring in a bit of that color into the center okay and then I'm just going to I haven't re-inked it I've used the same ink that I laid down to start with and just just run it over there like so and I inked those up beforehand if you want to ink that piece you can and I did say in the live you know maybe it would have been good to just add a little bit of the color onto these bits so I'm just it's kind of catching nicely onto those folded pieces okay so now we've got all the pieces that we need to make up our plant pot so I've got my glue here so I'm just going to run my glue down one side it doesn't matter which one or on what piece so just only one cover it with glue and then you're going to stick it behind one of your pieces come down a little bit from the top just so it doesn't poke out and then you want to bring it in so that you don't see it okay so I've just come in just a little bit I've got a tiny little lip just there just that when that is folded you don't see any of the side pieces so it really does look like that pop is standing on its own so let that one stick there and I'm going to grab this other piece and again stick this on the other side it doesn't matter if these aren't the same height it's when we lay this down that this has to be the exact you know height with the other piece so we'll lay them down flat so we know that it all kind of you know marries up perfectly I'm actually just going to grab my bone folder and just burnish those I didn't do that during the live but I think it might help just a little bit like so okay so now we've got the sides and now all we need to do is add glue to both of these I'll actually before I stick this one down because I almost done this during the live if you want to add some ribbon it's all right this Kalau glue takes a few minutes to set if you want to have a piece of ribbon so what I might do is I'm just going to add some foam tape onto the back here because I just thought this looked nice with some foam just to give it it just lifted it and created that shadow so this piece here and you'll do this on the other one as well will line up perfectly you want to run it along the top of the pot like so and you just get that nice little kind of you know shade shadow created there so it just gives it a bit of dimension but now I've got my ribbon here if you see on this one the ribbon that she wraps around underneath here so you need to do that now so just decide where about you want to put it and then I'm just going to use my tape here just pop a little bit on that side make sure there's nothing sticky that's the thing I'm going to come down a little bit there just rub that away it's come down a little bit further there we go stick that one there again I can just rub away anything that may be sticky and then I can wrap that right the way across I can actually line it up with the pattern because that's a nice straight pattern like so and then I'll just pop a little bit of tape on this side and pop that one over there there we go I'm happy with that and then I've done my bows separately and I'm going to stick that with some hot glue afterwards okay so now this is probably just maybe dried a little bit so I'm just going to go back over this one and then with this one just pop it on here and lay the whole thing flat and just move it around until it lines up perfectly with the one underneath okay so I'm just going to hold that there in place for a moment I'm going to flip it over while that's drying and I'm going to stick this one down okay I'm happy with that so now it's all down to the decoration I'm just putting it together so first of all I lay down my three flowers on the front here so I'm going to have one there one there and one like so I mean you could have them kind of like that as well but I'm going to keep it like the other one because I kind of like that and I want you to be able to see a little bit of the you know the bottom of the like the the rim the lip of the plant pot so we'll do something like that and then these two are done afterwards because you can just kind of slot this in once they're in place and they will go on top and when you pop that inside they will just you want to be able to well in my case I like to be able to see the yellow stamens on them so you have them kind of just poking out the top there so I'm going to get these stuck down then I will stick those down and then I'm just going to feed in these leaves stick my bow down this here I trimmed or snapped I'm just snapped that off there and then you just pop a little bit of hot glue on there and I just stuck it in there again I do that last because then I can make sure it sits in amongst the leaves and everything and then I'll just choose what butterfly I'm going to have on at the very end okay so I finished the card so I'm just doing the envelope so I've already done one and I've popped it in and I've popped this card inside you can see that I actually decided to go eight and a half by six which is the I think it's yeah it's the last one on the envelope punch board but it just allowed me to not have to because I thought I'm going to have to just undo that and kind of re-stick it but it fits in there really nicely alternatively you know you could make a box for this if you would rather if you're going to post it I would suggest that you put it inside you know a protective hadded envelope or something just so that doesn't obviously get crushed but to do this one it's a piece of 11 and a half by 11 and a half paper so pop it in here and I'm going to line it up with four and seven eighths of an inch which is what it's telling me to do on the grid so I'm going to punch and score I always then like to flip to the opposite side pop it in again at four and seven eighths and then score don't worry if you can't score all the way down and now pop it on any one of the sides that you haven't punched yet and just move it along until this little corner here lines up so basically the bottom part here lines up with the score line that's on your envelope punch board so like so punch and then score so you know that all joins up and then now I want to go to this opposite side so pop it in slide it along again until this lines up and now you have your four kind of corners that are already to fold into the envelope shape so fold and burnish all of the score lines so and then I like to do them as a bouncy envelope so that means I'm going to lay this inside you'll see there it fits in perfectly okay yeah maybe a little bit there might poke out but we're okay I'm going to then bring in the sides around the card and then I'm just going to run some tape or some double-sided you know sticky tape is up to you so what I'm actually going to do is take that out and just make sure I get that right into the corners there and then bring in the sides and then bring this over and stick it down and that way you know it will fit around the dimension of your envelope I can just rub that away with my finger now all I need to do is put some double-sided tape on there when I go to seal it and I've got my envelope already to send my card and it's nice because the pattern almost sits in the center there as well and I can just put a sticky label on the front there or something so yeah there are your envelopes so let me take the cards out again okay and that's the end of today's tutorial so I will link as much as I can in the description box below and I'll be back again very soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye