 Hi 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 really fun pop-up card using the Bright Rosa Flower Band die. So when you open it up you have this really nice flower that pops up and you've got little matching ones here as well and then on the back you have all this area here to write your message. Now this is using papers from the paper boutique and this is the Moonlight Song and I really liked this one. It's got a little bit of a darkness to it and I thought it would be really good for birthdays in October as a kind of a touch on a Halloween card but not quite so I know October is a fair way off yet but I just thought I'd get it now because these things aren't usually there when we want them but I just love it's got that beautiful black owl there and it says birthday wishes for a special friend and on the back there obviously I've got a happy birthday so this will be given to a friend and yeah I just love how this pops out. So this one's using the flower band which is this one here and I did show these in more detail on my what did I get video which I will link up here because you can see the whole of the collection of the Bright Rosa collection because there's so many amazing dies but today we are going to be using this one here the butterfly band. So they are bands so the intention really is to have them wrap around cards or on the front of cards or as a belly band and things like that but I'm going to show you how you can use them as a pop-up feature so you can get a lot more for your dies so let me show you. Okay so this is the butterfly band so there is the main die these are beautiful huge dies so I'm going to show you we're going to cut that one and then we're going to cut all the detail out here and then with the other butterfly die set that also comes you can buy these in a bundle and I'll show you that one in a minute but I'm going to die cut a lot of butterflies to decorate all inside the card as well and you've also got all those bits I'm going to talk you through everything first of all I want to get this one die cut so I'm using the papers I'm going to use today are this one here so it's the paper addicts once upon a dream and it is has a huge butterfly theme running through it so I thought this is going to be perfect to have is like my background papers so I pulled out this lovely kind of lemon yellow cardstock which is the Dovecraft premium cardstock so because it's Dovecraft and the paper addicts is by Trimcraft both these are by Trimcraft I think they're papers a lot of them coordinate really well with your paper packs I don't think that's always intentional but I do find that that does happen a lot so I pick this one up here and you just want to cut obviously I don't want to well I can't I don't have a 12 by 12 machine I don't even know if there is a 12 by 12 machine but I'm just going to trim this here and this is going to be for a six by six card okay because that's what these fit in I've tried it in five by seven doesn't quite work it will work perfectly in an eight by eight as well so if you're in the UK we do like large cars and I know lots of people that make eight by eight so this will work perfectly for that so I'm just going to bring in my big shot here and just get this one cut so when this one pops out it will have these pieces already cut and those are kind of guidelines if you did want to have this as a solid piece and use it as a topper on something it's very easy to just trim there and there and you'll have it as a separate piece but we want to keep these pieces on there and because we need to make this pop out of our card as such we need to just create a few score lines so I'm just going to line it up make sure both you know it's nice and kind of even so I'm pushing that right up there making sure this is flush across the side there now you will find that the butterfly wing lines up with the three quarters of an inch kind of score line so I want to go one in from that so I'm actually going to score it five eighths of an inch okay and then I'm going to score at a quarter of an inch okay so then I'm just going to flip it over and do the same so I'm going to score a quarter of an inch and five eighths of an inch then I want to do a score line right through the center of the body now so just so happens that the three and a half marker is pretty much bang on halfway so I'm going to go for it so I'm just going to score there okay so that's all the scoring done so that's kind of prepared now and then the other bits we add to it you can kind of just fold as the card folds in half so that's that piece now I want to start kind of adding all the other layers to the butterfly so I'm now going to bring in the papers here because there's some nice kind of quite solid purple colors which is what I want to use so I think I'm going to go for this heart and that's what I'm going to cut the next part of the butterfly out with so yeah I'm going to pull out this one here it's got the ballerina slippers on the other side I probably wouldn't really use those so what you want to do now is you're going to die cut both of these at the same time because this one here if I pop it over this one is the same just slightly smaller okay so it'll give you a nice yellow border so you can cut that separately then you can cut it again with this piece in there and it will give you um all that detail because if you cut that on its own it doesn't have a border kind of frame so it would just cut that into your card stock whereas that one there will cut it out so let me show you so okay so there it is there's a solid piece then I'm going to cut it again using some more of this yellow but this time I'm also going to cut it with this in the middle and it's just about layering it really there are so many different ways to do this there are different configurations so you know feel free to do it any way you want but I'm just trying to show you as many kind of variations as possible so I'm just bringing in some purple tape here everything seems to match let my purple tape with my purple papers so I'm going to sit them together and you will see they perfectly fit and then just tack that all down there and again run this through my machine okay if we take this away and this is the one that is just stunning and by the way these cut beautifully I don't have to add a shim or anything that's just one pass through my dye machine and you can see there most of it all comes out you just have to help a couple of the others through like so I'll take those little ones out in a moment but look at that detail so now I can sit that over this purple so I get that purple colour poking through and then I can also sit it on this one here and you start to get this really gorgeous butterfly coming to life isn't that stunning I absolutely love this so much okay so I'm just going to remove these and then we can start sticking it all together okay so it's up to you how you want to stick it I like to keep a lot of it free so I'm just going to kind of just work the middle bit there we're going to be folding this all again in a minute anyway but I'm just going to stick the body I'm not going to stick the wings at all and that goes for all the pieces so I'm just going to stick that one right in the middle now we have got a body section which will go over all of this so this piece afterwards will go over there and I'm going to break that up with the purple again and then I'm going to just stick the whole body down over that it's very easy to line up okay so now I'm going to die cut I'm bringing my smaller machine now I'm going to die cut that body in this same purple oh it just fits I didn't really judge that very well today I just went for it but usually the die is slightly smaller anyway so that should should be just okay should have checked that but I think oh yeah look at that just in there now because you're going to be folding this you do want to make sure that you stick it I would actually add the glue onto this part of the body rather than this bit because obviously not all of this is actually attached but I'm going to stick it right over there and I'd say before you bend this make sure it's really really nice and secure and dry you don't want to fold it when the glue still works it will actually stretch your cardstock and then when it goes back into its normal form like flat it will have like a bubble in the middle so if you leave it to one side don't rush it and just kind of come back to that then that's what you want to do also with these folded score lines you want to fold both of them in like that okay so you'll have this small little kind of quarter of an inch there on the back that's what we're going to use to attach it to the card and then again there and there and that's how it will be in in a minute when it's all dry we're going to fold right through the middle there so the whole thing pops up okay so I've got a six by six card base here and these ones are they are six by six I only say that because there are some out there that aren't these are the Duffcraft ones so I'll link them in my blog and below but that's what I'm using for the card and then I'm just going to choose some papers now for my mats and layers okay so I've cut these two here which are five and three quarters by five and three quarters and these are for inside you'll also want the same size to mat on the front and then you might want five and a half by five and a half as another layer to go on top of that so just drop down in quarter inch increments which is what I tend to do but I'm going to stick both of those now in there and I think that butterfly looks really nice with that background and we're going to have more butterflies all over this so it should come together really nicely so I'm just going to use my kalau and get that all stuck down okay next we want to score through the middle of this butterfly so again I'm just popping it in my scoreboard lining it up here until you kind of get a score line lined up with the center of this body here so I think about there you might not be able to get all the way through but if you just kind of roughly follow like so and it would just give you something to kind of you know look at and follow there we go you're not going to get a crisp fold that's not the intention it is just to get a fold there because obviously that is going to be lying inside the card like that okay so this is the butterfly's border so you can get this this die set and a border I'm sorry a edge one as a bundle if you wanted to or you can buy these two together or you can buy more separately but this one the reason I love this so much and many of you thought the same these are my sample pieces but you get tons and tons of butterflies and they're so quick and easy so these are my sample butterflies but I intend to kind of have them all around like that how cute will they look really really pretty so inside here you get this edge which you can have along the card and then you get all of these so I'll pop that all to one side again look at that video that I've linked up because you'll be able to see the unboxing unboxing but the what did I get a bit better so there's the die look at that isn't it gorgeous but this here so you run that through and it will cut all of those so four butterflies and then this is your detail for them so I'm going to put this all on high speed now and get all of these butterflies kind of prepared okay so you would have seen me stick all that down and then you're probably wondering why is that been taken off because when I went to close it I realized that I've done this all correct but when I said fold it like that so just fold over those edges you don't you want to fold over the whole thing you still only want to glue those pieces but you need to fold the whole thing over I'd forgot that's how I done it with the other one so fold that all over so all the score lines you just got that on the front and you'll have both of these sections on the back and then with that one so still just doing the same one but fortunately I was able to save it and some of the glue was still setting because I thought there's no way I'm going to get that off but I did so again same way make sure you bow it and line up that middle body and then that whole piece needs to go under I did kind of think when I was looking at it I thought I think that's going to pop out the sides and it did and I thought oh no hoping that that card stock isn't going to be too weak it shouldn't be it should be okay I've got some glue there I just want to okay I'm just going to let that dry a second okay so that's all dried so you should be able to lift up the side pieces now because remember all you stuck was just that quarter piece so these pieces need to come up like so and now the whole thing closes up I was like I can wipe the sweat away now but it does work really nicely and once I mean you do have to make sure you poke those in only because they're going to catch on these other butterflies like that but once it's closed up it's ready to give to someone and then when they open it you've got this cool and it kind of looks like it's moving I really like it it's lovely love this a lot so that's the inside now I'm going to have a little look around and see what bits and sentiments and stuff that I've got to decorate it with and then like I said on the back you I'm this is because I just want the middle to be all about this beautiful pop-up I'm going to be writing my message on the back but of course you could have you know you don't have to put the butterflies here or whatever it is you're using you can have you know a nice panel here to write your your message you do not have to do it the way I've done it but that's just the way I wanted to but again if you want a panel on the back here like I did with this one I've pretty much covered the whole space I haven't left a border and this was five and seven eighths by five and seven eighths so I just got a very very thin white border there so I'm going to have a little play around and see what I can pull out to decorate the front I'm going to use the smaller butterfly in that same set as the pop-up one here that I've used so I'm going to get that one die cut and have something nice on the front and also get the back all ready okay so that's the card all finished I'll quickly talk through what I've done so the mats and layers here the purple one is five and three quarters by five and three quarters and then this one on top is five and a half by five and a half and these papers here from the once upon a dream they actually match really nicely with parts of the secret garden dovecraft collection so you'll see here the happy birthday this is the sentiment toppers they worked really well with this collection just bringing up a bit close there you can see and I just used some gel glue just underneath there just to keep it all in place and then look how perfectly matched the paper flowers are so again they work really well so I've just put the one yellow one there then I've used another butterfly which was from this one so it's the smaller one so we've got the main one inside and then the smaller one I popped on the outside here and then on the back I've just left it pretty plain but again same mats and layer sizes as the front and then inside here you will see a lovely butterfly and all of these pieces here or the sentiment sorry on the back is that one there which I always use and that's the big birthday words but that's all the butterflies there which are on that next one which is the border and I've got the four there and I just I love it I think it just looks so nice I might pop a little sentiment or something there I'm not sure yet those kind of things I sometimes leave until you know I actually come to give it to that person but what a lovely thing to open up and look at isn't that lovely and then like I said you've got loads of room on the back there so yeah that's that one and then just a recap on the one earlier so different in terms of the decoration but you know I always like to I just make all my cards are always so different but this one here is I just love that doily in the background and then look isn't that gorgeous and that is using the flower band so everything I feature will be listed below I'm really making sure now that everything I use I list because there's always seems to be something I miss so hopefully it will all be there if not just leave a comment because I will read it at some point but yeah I hope you like these pop-up cards check out all the links give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye