 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft and thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is project number two for my creative card series 2018 and it's also a hobby-based kit tutorial so I've used just the flowers for this one because I basically started off doing this and then I thought actually I could combine this with my hobby-based kit so the one I'm going to be showing you is using products from the kit. Basically this is a double stair stepper card so you open it up and it stands like so and if I bring it to the side you can see there you've got the stair kind of fold on that side and again on this side so it's a double stair stepper card. I've made stepper cards in the past and I'll share those links but this one I just thought was just really really nice and then you just open up like a normal card and inside you can write your message and it fits in a 5 by 7 envelope so very very convenient and yeah absolutely love this one. So this one here I was using this is the Let's Celebrate first edition papers on the back here but like I said these are the little dinky dies that we received in the kit these fasted gems we received in previous kits. The bumblebee is in the kit and then the sentiments my own with the butterfly. So you are going to need let me just bring in so this is this month's I say this month's we're in July now the July kit has just gone out literally people are receiving it now you've got until the 21st of this month to get the August kit and this is the June kit that I'm using so this is the Be Happy themed kit so these are the papers that I've used here which I've cut down. I've also cut down some silver because I'm not sure how I want to put this one together but basically I use the embossing folder that we received and if I just bring in something where have I got oh yeah if I just use this green there we go you can see this is the 6 by 6 embossing folder we've got with all the bees on it and when you cut and emboss it if I bring in these here it's really really lovely look at the effect that's with the green so again I might cut this down and use this I'm not sure yet but it's just I love it really really nice you know some embossing folders you do and you just think not so sure but I just they've come out really really well so I thought I'd try it on the Miri card and again you just get a really nice effect so really really like the embossing folder that we received so yeah so I've cut a few bits and pieces but basically and then the bumblebees so I've die cut again three of each because I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them and then there the flowers that we got so that's the dinky dyes but again I just think when you use the Miri card you really get all the impressions that come out with them so you see you really get to see the detail I use these in last week's card now I distress that one you didn't see all of this detail as much but there you can really pick it up so yeah again really like it on those on the Miri card these are silver of the busted gems that we got this is again from another kit so you know I am combining kits here but it's just to show you you know how much you get and they get used you know obviously time and time again so for the main car base you need a piece of 7 by 10 and then for mats so this is the main mat on the front this is two and three quarters by three and seven eighths of an inch and then you need two that are two inches by one and three quarters and two that are one and three quarters by one and a half okay so I do them both no that one doesn't seem like the right measurement hold on a second well maybe it is why do I feel like I've got the wrong measurement I think it's that way isn't it now I did do them right I'm just ignore me and then you need this strip which goes along the bottom which is six and three quarters by three quarters of an inch then my little sentiment that I'm putting on top is this one here which is let's say I mean it's cut from a die set so it's two and a quarter squared and then the white one on top is I think anything up today again two by two okay now we did get stamps and I use these in last week's card they're the stamps that we received so it's part of that be happy set by Dovecraft which matches the papers but I do I did want to do these as birthday cards and they don't worry be happy I've used in last week's and I've used these here and so on so check that one out I'll share the links to that if you want to see okay so let's get into it so first of all keep your scoreboard out but you just want to do a bit of a mark with a pencil first we just grab my pencil so with the 10 inch side facing you okay you just want to pop a little pencil mark at one inch and one inch from there and then coming in here so it'd be nine inches and on your ruler it will be nine inches okay actually we don't need to worry about that one ignore that one it's just the one end you need to do it so I'm just gonna get this out the way for the minute but my really crappy template here that you can see where I've folded and I'm wrong and folded again finally got it how I wanted it so what you want to do now is just lightly just do a pencil mark just joining that up okay and then what we want to do is grab your scoreboard again and you are going to with your stylus you want to score but only to now I need to do another pencil mark so you need to do a pencil mark that comes in at your two inches from each side so from two inch marker just pop your ruler in there and just draw a pencil mark just slightly and then again at five inches just slightly like so okay you can just kind of just make out my two pencil marks as long as you can see them that's all that matters then pop your piece of 10 by 7 and you want the 10 inch side okay I'll just bring it so we're all in there okay and then what you're gonna do is you're going to do a score line first of all at the one inch and sorry at one and a half inches so one and a half inches but just to that pencil line okay and then if it's easier to use your ruler I'm just gonna eyeball this and then I can just pick up and do the next score line there now if you want pop your ruler in and you can do like so then miss the middle section and carry on scoring so basically all you're doing is just scoring so that's that one and a half just that pencil mark miss the middle and then carry on again so the next score line that you're gonna do is three and a quarter so again just down to the pencil I'll bring in my ruler and then miss the set the middle section and carry on scoring okay so again you can see now what we've got then the next score line is four and three eighths of an inch so one two three four and three eighths and then again miss that middle section carry on then the next one is the five and a half I'm sorry is the five inch score line because it's half of the 10 inch length here and this one you're doing in the middle only so again with your ruler and just kind of hover it down so just so you're in there and then you'll feel the groove a little kind of track your stylist wants to sit in and that one's at five inches okay then the next one is going to be six and five eighths of an inch so again with my ruler six and five eighths and that's the last one that we're doing okay so that's all the scoring done now what we want to do is some cutting so you'll need your trimmer for this I'm just gonna bring mine in here and what you want to do is with that pencil mark that you drew right across you want that facing you pop this in your trimmer okay and line up your trimmer your kind of track here with the pencil mark that you've drawn down here okay so that will be at two inches okay so it'd be two inches in from the right hand side okay you can just see two inches there alright okay and then you want to drop your blade down now I've slightly gone over my scoring but that won't matter because you won't see it but you want to pop your blade at nine inches so along the side of this Fiskars trimmer that I've got I've got one inch you know increments running all the way down the side here so at nine inches is where I want to pop my blade down because ten inches is the width of the card but remember we drew that pencil mark one inch in and that's where you want to start cutting and then you're going to cut all the way down to let me just check what it was on here so that pencil mark so you want it then cut up to that last score line here this score line okay and then you'll have nothing so that was that five inch half way then there was that score line that last one that you done on the two outside pieces that's where you want to cut up to so if I pop it on the side here so I'm starting at nine inches which is at the bottom here of my trimmer and then I'm going to go all the way along to there and that should be on here coming down it is three and one two three and three eighths of an inch from the top okay but that wherever that score line is that's what you want to cut to okay then you want to turn your card around and do the same so this time pop it in and again make sure it's all lined up and I'm going to start my blade this time at one inch okay from the top so again that's where that pencil mark came down so just make sure it's lined up and then you're going to cut all the way down to that last score line on the right hand side which now in this case is going to be on your side of your trimmer here it will be six and five eighths of an inch okay so now if I take that out remove that this is what you should have okay then the easiest way now is to fold it always just first of all just rub out those pencil marks because you don't need any of that anymore it was just our guide and I just remember there was one more score line I didn't think I had to add it in but you do but that's fine we can just quickly bring in our scoreboard and it is that one right at the very bottom because we're going to be scoring down first so you just want to score it one inch just to that cut line okay and then again miss the middle section and again do your one inch just to your cut line okay just that one right at the bottom there okay then you want to do some folding so this middle five inch one you want to fold up okay just do that one first to help all the rest come together then the very bottom one you want to fold down so you want to do a mountain fold then the next one is going to be a valley fold so you're going to fold that one up then the next one mountain and then valley and then the last one is going to be a mountain fold and then when that all folds flat it will give you your 5x7 card so I'm just going to grab my bone folder and then just go along and just burnish all of those score lines all into place like so and now when you stand it up that is your double stair stepper card so it's much easier to show when it's not decorated you can really see now how cool that looks and yeah I think it's brilliant so now it's just time to decorate so this is where I wasn't sure how and what I wanted to use so I've cut these pieces here so I didn't know whether to put these bits on and then have my large piece in the middle like so and then I've got my butterflies or do I just have the silver butterflies and then carry on doing this so I'm going to have a play around now but your smaller squares will fit behind here in these smaller sections like so your bigger squares will go behind and you can see there how you get that nice little frame with the green there all the way around and then that strip will go right along the very bottom like so again giving you all those nice borders and then I've got my sentiment that's going to go in the middle like so and already now you can see just how that's transforming and then obviously I'll give you the measurements for the inside piece as well but I'm going to play around now get all your mats stuck down like I've done there and then I'm going to see what I decide to do just a quick one as well when you are sticking them all down fold it flat and then stick each one into its section it's much much easier okay so that's all my mats laid down and you can just see it really does bring it together you get to see the frame and the real shape of that card and again I just think it looks rather spectacular I think it's a great fun fold card so now like I said I'm going to decide what I might do is cut just little bits of the bumblebee down I do want to add this in somewhere I think what I'm going to do is that green this green embossed piece here I'm going to frame I actually might remove this and cut it just so I have some of that there I know you're not really going to see it but I mean you can see there just how great it is but I just I don't know I don't know what to do with it I might might actually do it on the back mind you that's the wrong orientation I'd have to redo it again or do something with it in the middle maybe that would be good leave it with me I will show you what I end up doing with it okay so there is everything stuck down so I've done the flowers just bring in the other one so I've done it exactly the same terms of positioning so just like that layout I've just with my heat gun just popped a little bow at the top there as well and I've laid up all the butterflies so the silver is underneath so again it does really give it a lots of dimension which you can see now the embossing bit I'm going to pop inside so I'm just going to open up the card that little obviously you won't open out like this the person who gets it won't open out like that I'm just going to open up and then I've got this piece that's going to go here so I can write my message and you could stamp something there if you want and then these two embossed pieces I'm going to put either side now although they're not really being picked up that well in the video but I just think it's just a nice little touch I really like it it just continues that kind of bee theme into the inside of the card as well now if you didn't want to do that setup then just the plain piece of card which I put in here this piece here measures six and five eighths of an inch by three and one eighth or three should be fine but I'm just going to go ahead and quickly stick these pieces down okay so that's all that's stuck down you can really see now how that picks up and I just thought I didn't give you the measurements for these pieces so you need two pieces that measure one and seven eighths of an inch by three and one eighth and then the middle piece here is four and three quarters by two and three quarters okay and then again just fold it all down once it's all in place we'll obviously stay like that now but like I said that fits in your five by seven envelope if you don't have that size you can make it on your envelope punch board and yeah I think it looks really cool just bring it up again see I finished with the gems those flowers over in the kit and I just think that is a really cool guard so just bring both of them in there keeping down flat just so you can see what they look like and again this will all be in my blog once sorry once like I said you've got until the 21st of this month to get August box they're always a surprise we never know what's going to be coming in them and like I said we've just started receiving our July boxes and they are really good so if you want to find out more about all those all the links will be in the description box below and I'll share at the end of this video more unboxing videos just so you can get a feel about the kind of things that we receive but also I hope you've enjoyed this double step double stair stepper guard as project number two of my creative card series so that's it for today I hope you enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching