 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 Joy Fold card. So it's basically this and this. So this piece folds in and that piece folds over the top. Now I saw this on a channel called For the Joy of Paper. It was eight years old so it's a pretty old tutorial but basically she just said that it's called a Joy Fold because you have this piece in here that folds over this piece here. Now she doesn't have hers as a Z Fold which I've done. She just has it like that so if you just imagine that's one piece and then that piece goes like so and like so. So it's entirely up to you how you want to put this together but I want to show you both versions because I think that does look really nice as well. Now if you want to make my way then it's a piece of 12 by 6 so obviously you would be cutting into 12 by 12 card stock otherwise if you want to do the shorter way then it's a piece of 9 by 6. So yeah because you're just doing from there so that's the 9 inches and that's the 6. But I'll talk you all through that in a minute but I just thought it was a really nice fun fold. It all folds flat into a 6 by 6 envelope. This is using the beautiful Dovecraft Sweet Moments papers and Decoupage which I've done on the top there so you can see it's all erased. Really really fun, really cute card and I've put some Nouveau drops on there as well. So let's get into the video. Okay so this is the collection which you've seen me use a few times now. There is a stamp set as well which I've used inside. I just used the Happy Birthday there. They're the stickers which I still haven't used a couple but I haven't used as many as I thought. This is the 8 by 8 paper pack. Really really nice. Lots of cupcakes and just sweet treats and flowers and gingham and just all that kind of stuff. So I've used most of the pattern papers now. There's some cupcakes left there and another there's the roses that's what I'm using today. So that's that one and then the Decoupage. Dovecraft do a really lovely Decoupage range. I've used these for a long time and I've got the Sweet Moments. I've got Beach Life. I've got the Christmas ones. I've had ones before that as well and they're just really nice perfect toppers and you've seen me make gift tags with these as well which I will link in up here because again there's so many different things that you can actually use with the Decoupage kits. But I've gone ahead and already done my topper so this is my one that I'm going to be doing for today's card. You can see there how lovely that one is. This is the matching, no it's not the matching bows actually. These bows are from the sprayed flowers by Decoupage but I thought it matched really really well so I've used that one. Okay so for your card base, first of all if you want to make the Z Fold version like I have then you need a piece of 12 by 6. If you just want the shorter version because you don't have 12 by 12 cards then you need a piece of 9 by 6. Okay no matter what size you've got in the moment along the long side you want that you want it in this orientation so if you've got the 9 yours would be up to here and then this is the 12 inch. Okay if you've got the 9 you just want to score at 6 inches and that's it okay. If you've got what I've got here now um 6 by 12 then you want to score a 6, flip it over and score a 9. We flip it over because you're going to be folding in opposite directions so now I can fold, do my normal card fold so if you've got either size you'll just do that normal fold and you will just now have this 3 inch piece here okay. Now anybody that's doing my one you'll fold that back on itself and by flipping that score line you won't get any cracking and now you've just got a normal Z Fold card okay so that's how you do that I'm just going to burnish those lines a bit more. Like so and then for the other piece that will then go in like this smaller card okay so this would be the same size no matter what you what card size you had before this is a piece of nine and a half by four and a quarter and along the nine and a half inch side you want to score it four and three quarters and then just fold and burnish that one there and this is just a mini mini little card size. Obviously you can shrink this card down to whatever size you want but basically now that will sit inside here in the middle and then that will go over the top like so just bring that up you can see there okay it kind of looks like a bit like a gatefold card at the minute or a Z Fold card okay so that's that then for all the mats and layers so for your top part so this is going to go on the top of this card that's stuck inside this is the front of your card so you can see there mine's going to sit perfectly on that one so you need two pieces because this piece is then going to go inside where you'll stamp and write your message so the white you want two pieces of four and a half by four okay then I've just put another layer on top here this gingham green gingham here if you want to do that depends on what your topper is but that is a piece of three and three quarters by four and a quarter okay so that's all the measurements for that and then for all your mats and layers so this is the big mat to go on the very back inside there that what white piece is five and three quarters squared then the pattern piece on top is five and a half squared okay so one piece and then you want two pieces of these which are going to go here and here but it depends you may want to keep it plain like I showed you on this one here if you're just doing one half or even a z fold you want to keep it plain that does look nice like so so it's entirely up to you when you come to your mats and layers just play around and see what you want to do but these are two and three quarters by five and three quarters for the white and then the patterned on top again is two and a half by five and a half it should be yeah two pieces okay so that's everything there that's all the scoring does just pull that away okay and then it's just the matter of sticking everything down so first of all you want to stick your large mats and layers onto the back this isn't directional paper because they're all just facing odd ways so I'm going to stick that one down there first like so and then these ones here now so you want to make sure you've got your fold in that position this one's going to go like so and then this one is going to go in here so they're both inside you might want to do the other sides as well it's in again entirely up to you so again I'm just going to get those stuck down okay so they're all stuck down so now you can see what you've got there it's actually a really strong card as well because if you think about it you've got three layers on all of your sides there so if you are again using maybe a weaker card stock to start with this would still work well because you'll be obviously adding strength to it with all of those mats and layers so now you want to add in this next card so this is going to stick this back piece here is what you want to stick into the centre of this card here so I'm going to stick that down first of all okay so just make sure you get that all nice and even and lined up when I have equal sides on the top bottom and the left and the right there like so and then it will open up remember it's got to open up the opposite way like so okay so now that will be like that and when it folds over this one again it should have a nice equal border that it does on that one and you know you've got it all lined up then you just want to stick down your inside so I haven't stamped mine yet because this one just says tea time on it the other one did have birthday I believe this one would work for you know just maybe just a nice little letter card you know just put a little message in or a little thank you card so I'm going to leave the inside free now until I decide you know what I end up using it for again just sit that inside and you'll have a nice equal border and then I'm going to fold it all in and then with my topper that's already finished so again just stick that down making sure you've got a nice even border and there you have it a really really pretty card I love this fold and it's it I mean it's a very simple fold it's a very common fold it's just adding that other card in the opposite direction for some reason it becomes a joy fold card so there you have it so if I just bring that up now so you can see but again if you've just got that one piece then yours will look like that and again obviously if you've got the paper on it or not it's up to you but I think they look really nice they can go and it stands up nice as well there you go so you know the side profile looks really good there as well so yeah there you have it so I'll bring in the other one this one's still a little bit wet because I've put the Nevo drops on it oh with love so no that could have been for you know any kind of card actually but I did put the happy birthday in that one but they have it two very pretty pretty quick cards so I hope you've enjoyed today's card making tutorial if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more 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