 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 a double and a triple swing card. So I made a swing card about a month ago and I'll link that one up here because it's a really popular video and lots of you have been making that one. But during my last Facebook live craft along I, the intention was to make the triple and then during the live I die cut the wrong size, actually a larger size square and I was like oh no it wasn't meant to do that and then I thought hold on a minute let's make it a double and everybody in chat was saying don't waste it, make it a double, make it a double and it's actually turned out really well and I love this one. Whenever I use the Secret Garden Collection by Dovecraft I always go over the top and you'll see all that I've even used this tiny little kind of um trowel or spade well there's your spade isn't it anyway you know what I mean so you've got your little trowel and fork there we go little you know embellishments the bunting this is one from the collection and I've used some of the Nuvo drops there as well and I've just heat embossed the happiness is enjoying your retirement which I think works really well with this collection and then inside you have lots of room there I've left this blank because it's a retirement card lots of people tend you tend to write a little bit more I think with a retirement card so I've left that plane inside there for whoever you know does use this one and then this was the triple so this was this was my you know kind of intended card that I wanted to make and it's using the really cool for the love of stamps hammy birthday um stamp set and then inside there I've stamped and finished it all off so during the live I didn't finish them but I'd done the world of everything you know it was all in it was done in that sense but it wasn't fully decorated so some of you that watched the live will know that I've changed this because this was green this was stamped in black I just wasn't really feeling it so I've gone for this which is all still from the collection and then I just thought I'd show you quite a I guess this is quite young more for children and with the stamped images so you get that kind of effect I love the bunting in there that's all die cut and then this one here is using the collection so a lot of it's done for you so just fussy cut and these pieces I actually fussy cut then stuck them to some thicker cardstock and then cut them out again so it actually gives you a really nice thick kind of embellishment to work with but both of them I love so today I'm going to show you both again but I'm going to use the paper posies by dovecraft and also because this is five by seven you need to obviously die cut these apertures now the width of your card is seven so a lot of people that have a standard size die machine you wouldn't be able to fit this through but what I've done you'll see here is it's connected on the back and I've done that just to show you that you can do this using a smaller die machine and then if you have your large a4 die machines you'll see here this is just a solid five by seven card because that one you just put through your larger die machine okay so I'll do that again today just so that you know everybody can really make this card and yeah let's get into the tutorial okay because I'm going to be doing two cards today I'm going to try and keep the video quite short so I've already done you know quite a few bits and pieces already and I will speed up lots of the decoration but this is the paper posies loads of you have this it's a beautiful collection it has so many like matching embellishments and deco pads and things like that so that's what I've used and then here you can see I've just got a variety of some of the matching accessories that go with it I'm not entirely sure you know what ones I'm going to use yet but I thought I'd just bring them all out I've also taken out all of the extras from the deco patch pack I fussy cut these because I think I'm going to use them on the triple and I've also got the wood embellishments which are beautiful because I may use them on the double so what you will need depending on what size die machine you have okay so if you've got a small standard six inch wide die machine okay then you will need one piece of five and a half by seven card and along the five and a half inch side you want to score a half an inch okay that's the front of the card then you'll just want a piece of five by seven and once we've die cut that front piece we will then just stick this onto there like so you can stick it inside or outside because I've done that one outside I'll probably stick this one inside and then I can decide which one I prefer when I go to make it again then for the inside piece because we attach this at the end this is a piece of 10 by seven and along the 10 inch side you want to score it two and a half five and seven and a half but you could also use this this could have already been a five by seven card blank and if that's the case make sure it's bang on five by seven and again just pop it in you'll just need to score at two and a half or seven and seven and a half okay so that's if you're making it as a deconstructed one if you've got a larger A4 die cutting machine just to make it a bit easier all you'll need is two five by seven card blanks so there they are you know as you buy them in the shop this one I've just put my mats and layers on which I'll talk you through in a moment and then this is that inside piece so again along the 10 inch side you just want to score at two and a half and seven and a half because it will already have that five inch score line if it doesn't and you're cutting it yourself then you need to add that in as well as always all these measurements will be in my blog but hopefully you know I've just like I said done all those bits and pieces just to keep it you know the videos short as I can the mats and layers are my standard one so if it's five by seven I always do four and three quarters by six and three quarters and then on this one you'll see I've done the four and three quarters by six and three quarters with the coral color and then I've done four and a half by six and a half with the pattern paper now one quick thing I need to say that I did say in the video if you're doing mats and layers on this you want to use paper don't use a cardstock because you're going to be die cutting through obviously more layers of card so for example the paper posies there's 150 gsm you want around that or even lower if possible now if you've got one of like the germini machines you've got your metal shim that will cut through anything that cuts through thick acetates you'll probably be okay but do bear that in mind so this is paper on both of these even that coral as well and I've gone and cut that for the insides but I'll do that again with you you know explain those sizes and stuff in a moment this one here I want to be let me just check so this one is going to be my triple it's up to you whether you want to do a triple or a double so for the triple one I want to cut these three circles one two three and you'll see there you can use circles squares rectangles it's entirely up to you and if you haven't already joined the mixed up crafters facebook group head over there because already so many ladies and guys are sharing their versions from watching the facebook live so you know that's using the squares like I said I'm doing circles today but there's people that have used rectangles and I think someone was talking about using stars as well so you'll get heaps more inspiration over on that group so you want to you know it's up to you you could start from the center first and then work up and along the bottom I'm just going to start from the top now you want to I said in the live it's probably quite handy if you just pop a little pencil mark halfway okay along the top here so I'm just going to pop lots of stuff on my desk at the moment got about eight different tutorials going on right now so they go two and a half and along the bottom here two and a half very faintly because you want to be able to rub that out and then the circle size that I'm using here is bang on two inches okay so so I'm going to pop this one here and I'm going to start it so the cut line is going to be about a quarter of an inch inches down from that pencil mark okay and you want to make sure it's in the middle now I've got this kind of grid you know checked paper here and this one here this blue line here coming down is kind of in the center so I'm using that as my guide now I pop a little bit of washi tape in the middle we do kind of you can reuse them but you can always cut them again but put your washi tape in there and get it die cut then come down and do the bottom one and come up the same from whatever you came down there so about a quarter of an inch when you've die cut those two die cut the center and you'll see me do all that but I will speed it up so that's for the triple then for the double you want to make sure you open it up because you're going to run this through your larger die machine but for this one here I'm using this larger circle here because I want to put a sentiment in the middle and we all really like the look that that gave because again that was you know completely by accident so this is two and three eighths of an inch square um it's not squared it's just a two and three eighth of an inch diameter but I'm going to have this one here so I'm probably coming down about half an inch again mark your halfway point I'm going to do half an inch there and then I'll come up half an inch and you will have a nice gap here where we can pop in you know I'm not sure what sentiment I'm going to have there yet but you kind of get the idea so I'm going to run those through now the die machine and then I'll be back and the rest of it's pretty straightforward and quick to do okay so I've got my two circles for the double and then I have the three there for the triple now keep all of these pieces because you will use them again you might end up cutting them a little bit smaller but I'll explain that in a moment so next we want to add the inside pieces but for the deconstructed one so if you've done this one here you want to stick it to this one so it's up to you whether you want to add glue to the inside and stick it so it's on the outside like so or you might decide like I'm going to do to put your glue on this outside piece and then stick this one on the inside because you're going to have that kind of um concertina fold over this so you're not really going to see it so we'll try and see what it's like and then Lisa and I've done both ways and I can decide you know which one I prefer later on when I go to make it again so I'm just going to add the cloud all down here also you may have seen me when I was using the dye machine that I use a sheet of copy paper in between that will stop you getting any markings that may come off your plates onto your pattern paper so it's a good way just to kind of protect the card so I'm just going to stick that over there so we've formed back off you know five by seven card blank like so so I'll leave that one to just dry for a minute so you'll have two pieces like this where you've scored it two and a half maybe at five and also then at seven and a half what's going to happen is you want to have a mountain mountain valley fold so you want to have that shape okay and I'm just going to burnish that keep looking for my I'll use this one misplacing my other bone folder so a mountain mountain and then that valley fold and what will happen is it's going to stick like that and stick like that you see and you'll see there that you want that to run pretty much central through your circles don't worry if it's a little bit off but it's bang on you can see my pencil line there I'm just maybe two millimeters off but I'm fine with that you can see there it's pretty much bang on through the middle now we obviously don't want to see any of this bit here because it needs to be stuck against this piece so it pops out so you want this all hidden now you can draw around this with a pencil and then you could die cut just that bit you don't want to die cut anything on here but the easiest way to do it is to along this score line here measure whatever the gap is here so for me it's just under half an inch so I'm going to do three eighths of an inch at this end here on that score line and then I'm going to do three eighths of an inch on that one there and then I'll do three eighths here and again just use this and three eighths which will be there then I can join up those lines so and then when you sit this on here so I can see that the pencil line is going to you know we're going to cut all this away basically but this is what's going to attach behind here this three eighths of an inch strip and also here I'm just going to bring my pencil down put a little marker there and there so you want to roughly you know your circle might be slightly different to mine although I said it was what is two whatever inches it was um but I've just made a gap there which is one and one eighth one and a quarter just about so I'm just going to eyeball that one with my pencil because I don't know the exact measurements but you just want to get it straight once I cut this out you'll know exactly what it is because some of you might be thinking I'm a little clue what you're doing right now Sam basically now I'm going to remove so let's cut down this one here I'm going to remove the two large squares so just cutting up to that first score line like so again and you won't end up seeing this it's all going to be hidden inside the card so you know don't worry if your lines are a little bit wobbly you can hide it all so I'm just going to fold that one out the way and then I can just remove this whole piece like so and then I'm going to fold that one back and remove this second piece should have used my longer scissors they're probably buried underneath all the other projects I have going on right now but now you'll see I let it that way you will have this E see there we've got the letter E all right then I can now move this one up so I'm going to grab my glue I'm going to add glue to the outsides of those three sections like so and then you can lie it down in the card like that so these hit this score line and just bring this over like so and just move them around if you need to it's why it's good to use the liquid glue but that way as well you know everything will fold flat and just push it in a bit there if you need to like so so now we have this half where which is what we want because we'll be attaching the circles to that so that they then pop out like this when the card opens so I'm just going to flip it over and I can just go in there so like I said you don't see any of this because unless you look in from like the top of something but we're now going to stick that one onto this side here so just add your glue so and then again you can fold it all flat if you want I'm just going to kind of lay it there first and then bring that all over like so okay and then we've got that effect so you can see it's all stuck inside there so that's our mountain mountain and valley fold okay so I'm going to let that one just dry then we've got this other piece for inside this one here so again I want to have my mountain my mountain and then my valley fold now this one here because we've got the triple you're going to have your pieces much thinner so again you can sit it down here lay it over the top here and if you want to you can just put the pencil because again everyone's measurement might be slightly different if you use a different size circle but I'm just marking so I've just laid that over there along the you know so it's hitting halfway so the the widest part of the circle I'm just putting a little pencil mark you know within this little bit here because I'm going to cut down these to make those little strips so whatever your strips are they need to be hidden you want them to be concealed so again I'm going to kind of eyeball this I'm going to grab my along the scissors here but if you haven't done this before I would recommend you know getting your ruler and actually lining these up you can see now I'm just going to cut down so for the triple it's a lot more you know it's kind of clinging on but it does work um I'm using the Kalau throughout and I mentioned that again during the life it's a very very strong glue it doesn't warp and it's it's like a little bit of cement you know so it really does strengthen and firm up your cards so you'll see now exactly the same as what I done before but they're just thinner and we've got four of them four of these strips do make sure you get right up to that score line okay because if they start to fold up with you then it's because you haven't gone kind of up to the um yeah the score line there I'm going to fold those all out the way the little ones because that's what we're keeping strangely enough we want to actually get rid of the largest pieces so I'm just going to cut those away okay so now we have these very thin pieces and again we're going to do the same so I'm going to add my glue onto these now you know some of you might be thinking well that's just not enough but it is there's no pressure on these um you know it's a card so it's not like anyone's going to be swinging off them or anything like that um it will be enough to hold it in place so again I'm sitting it down they all hit that middle score line so I can fold the card right over and you'll see that they all hide within those four gaps here in between each of the circles so again just kind of spend a minute making sure that's all hidden turn it over so again you can just go in there make sure they are stuck down and then I can have my glue now to this half and then again just kind of tack it over onto that side and then fold the whole thing flat if you've got anything hanging out the side you can just trim that away okay so now we have our triple and our double next I'm going to go on to this one now now if you want to you can reuse those pieces exactly the same size stick them on there and you know go for it but what I would say is that this was my um my prototype and this is using the exact same sizes and it just catches you can imagine that's in the envelope you've given it to that person they go to opening you see that it's it's just catching and you'd have to push them all through and that's not really very nice to the person that receives it so what I recommend is that you trim these down ever so slightly so for me I've got my circle dies here and for that larger one I have I think this is the next size that would work let me just check yeah so I could put this one on top of here and it will cut away all of the stitch detail but it would just be enough to allow it not to catch now I also think these are going to look nicer in this color here so I'm actually going to die cut two in this color die cut them so they're smaller stick them on top because I do like that kind of contrast circle in the middle so I'm going to get those prepared in the moment in a moment and then I'm going to do the same for these three here so I've got them there that's the original size sorry that was the original size but I've got one that's slightly smaller and again I'm going to die cut it all in this color here and I'm going to make them all slightly smaller so you have a very small white ring around all of these and the ones there so I'm going to get that all prepared and then I'll be back okay so I've got all my pieces there so now when I pop this one on here and stick half of it can you see we've just got that ring around there and I just think it just gives you a bit of a just a better finish and it just allows the card to flow better and open and close nicely so you won't you know definitely won't have any catching now you do want to stick only half of this so I'm just going to kind of lay my finger across where that roughly is like so and then make sure that's straight pop it on there you just want to make sure you've got the same ring width all the way around that one's just sticking there and you're going to do exactly the same with the triple one okay and there's the triple so now it's the fun part of decorating so I will speed this up but just to give you a rough idea of what I'm doing I did go ahead and cut these three from one of the pattern papers and I just think it's going to look so nice because it matches the papers perfectly and I'm going to have those three right in the middle so I'm not actually going to have a sentiment on the front of this one it may just be a nice little note card just something to just send to someone I might just stamp inside just because so I just think that looks really nice as it is I might put some bunting I am partial to a little bit of bunting but again I'll probably add that along the way but I'm definitely sticking with those three this one here's a little bit different because I've got more room now you don't want anything to catch they're probably not going to work they can clip underneath but I don't think it looks as nice so I won't use the wooden ones might maybe put one inside but I do have more of the paper kind of flowers here so you could have them overhanging on this side because that's not going to interfere with the mechanism can you see when it opens and closes so that one could maybe work along the bottom there but I'm still not a hundred percent sure with it so I'm going to have a little play around I've also got some hearts here maybe have a heart there um I might stamp something I do quite like that happy birthday but I think it needs to be framed with this same kind of um coral color I'm going to have a play around now and I'll be back when they're all done okay so I'm going to stop now I really like this one with the happy birthday through the middle and then I've just got it playing inside because I do get a lot of people asking me if I can do maybe a 60th birthday card or uh get well one and sometimes when I keep them playing like I could peel that off if I need to because the foam does peel away and I can rub it off and stuff so I'm going to kind of stop here leave it as it is I'm just going to just notice the pencil mark there and I forgot to remove so just get rid of that there we go so I'm quite happy with that one I'm going to keep it as it is for now and the same with this one it is plain what you can also do and I might see if I can you'll see in the pictures I might cut a ring so I can do a of that a coral ring around each of these circles here has to be very thin but I think I'll be able to do it if I mix some of my circle dies together I think the blue just needs a little bit of that coral on it as well so I will have a little look and then inside here I've just put lots of love I just think that's a nice card to send to someone just because and yeah really pleased with it so you know there's loads of scope there to decorate I'll just bring back in again these two because you can see you know just how different they look again the triple with the squares and that's all decorated inside and then the double there which is a retirement card you can see how over the top you can decorate them and then again inside there so yeah you've got your double with your square and your circle and your triple with the square and the circle so hopefully you've got lots of inspiration all the measurements and everything will be in my blog and all of the items that I've used today as much as I can find will be shared in the description box below the video thank you for watching and I'll be back very soon with another video bye