 Hi everybody it's Sam from Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make this I'm not sure what to call it I'm thinking locking gatefold card or a lock and pop gatefold or just lock and pop I'm not sure basically this is how it looks when you take out the envelope or box envelope and then the side pieces are locked behind the front topper and then when it opens it opens up like this so I have similar to this but the ones I've done before when they fold flat they join in the middle here can you see when you lay it down you have this one inch section and that's because I wanted it to sit behind the topper. It's just really unusual really like it's something a little bit different very easy and lots of fun to make as well I've used my edge dice here which I'll show you through the tutorial and then once again you just open it up like so and it displays like this. Really fun bring it up a bit closely you can see all that shine from the silver mirrored card love the papers so much sparkle and shine on this in fact I might spray it with some shimmer spray as well but anyway there you have it let me show you how I made it. I've already gone ahead as always and cut everything that I need and I've also stuck some of the mats down but I'll go through all that in a moment so the 5 by 7 version you want a piece of 10 by 7 cardstock and along the 10 inch side you're going to score it half an inch two and a half four and a half five and a half seven and a half and nine and a half I'll just repeat that again so at half an inch two and a half inches four and a half five and a half seven and a half and nine and a half now because some of the folds will go in different directions if you just flip it over and just go over those again you just kind of squash in those fibers just to make it a bit easier when we go to burnish them all okay so that's all the scoring that you need okay so I've just started folding it basically that's what you want to achieve so you'll have that half inch score line here and then you'll have that second score line you fold that one in and then just fold that one back so you have that shape and then that score line you just fold it away from you the idea is is that see when the card opens that's how it's going to lock with your topper so in my case I'm going to be popping this on top and then when they open it it will have that shape so if I just lay it down like that it's kind of an M shape so you have these little wings either side then you've got your M shape with this flat one inch piece in the middle okay so once you've done all of that it's up to you whether you want to add the edges or not so you don't have to you can just keep these like this and then I just added a strip of a quarter inch by six and three quarters if you're doing the seven if you just want to have something in there already decorated that one so here's the other side and this is from the the five by seven excellent edges the landscape one now the reason it says landscape is because these were the ones that weren't with the landscape tower fold but you could use these with any of the tower fold sizes and they're great on their own as I'm showing you now you don't need to use them with the tower fold but if you do have any edge dies then they work really well with this style because basically this is like a little tap now for us to be able to stick them to but you get these two and you get the presence as well and just see them there and then there's these two have sold out this is the other five by seven and then that's the six by six okay so I've gone ahead and cut two of the frame so you'll get the outer frame piece which is there and then I've gone ahead and cut you can pass them three once because you get the six that will fit within the six outlines there and I've just used you know some of the same papers there to cut the flowers so I've got my six flowers here and I've put a little embellishment in the middle of them and then this strip here is just half an inch by six and three quarters and that's just to fill that white space really again you don't have to but I'm just going to stick the rest of the flowers on this one and then I'm just going to add some glue along there and you're going to attach this piece to the end and it will fit perfectly because it's the same height okay so that's all attached you can see now when that folds in it's all going to fit within that five by seven size okay so I've got all these mats and layers for here so I'm going to have the floral one on the outer sides and then I've got those two in there and then I've got this strip that's going to go through the middle so you'll want the same amount for the back as well but you'll want one of them to be white or plain so you can write your message but those these all measure the silver is one and three quarters by six and three quarters and the pattern paper is one and a half by six and a half double-sided sticky tape to attach this to this to the mirror to cardstock because the surface it's easier to because it's got a smooth surface it's easier to use double-sided tape I'm just going to use my glue now and then this one here is three quarters of an inch by six and three quarters and that's just going to go like I said through the middle so I'm going to get all those stuck down and the ones on the back as well that's all of my mats and layers stuck down on the front and then again on the back there now I've got a feeling I might give the wrong measurements I'm gonna do a voiceover and edit that back in so you wouldn't have noticed but the silver is one and three quarters by six and three quarters so your mat layer and then your pattern is one and a half by six and a half these ones I think I said correctly three quarters of an inch by six and three quarters and those ones are half an inch by six and three quarters so now when that folds down you might find there's you know a little bit of kind of bulk there with the mats and layers so what I've done with my topper and this one I've used some of you might have this this is quite an old die set from I'm gonna say tonic studios I'm pretty sure what I tend to do when I get lots of like odd kind of things whether they've been free in magazines or been given to me I've just put here hearts and love dies and I'm pretty sure this is a tonic studio one so I die cut it in white and then I paper pieced it with silver just to match everything else and then the flowers are from my border die there and then the butterfly and the leaves I've pulled from this set here so just use that butterfly and this one I just kind of pulled bits off just to kind of nestle in the leaves there and I've put some vellum behind the butterfly as well just to create a nice little topper then on the back I put two layers of foam just so this is going to be lifted and it's going to be able to lock that all in now I'm also thinking I might put a strip of this pattern paper through the middle there so wondering if there's a bit too much silver like a bit more pattern might do the floral pattern actually just have a bit of that so I'm going to take that away and I'm just going to focus on laying this down in the middle like so so now you can see that will pop out when it's displayed I think it looks beautiful so that's how the card will then stand like so and then it will be like that when they take it out of the envelope or the box envelope if you prefer the box envelopes I'll link my tutorial up here but how wonderful does that look really really pleased with this I think they look so pretty so after looking at it a bit more I decided to add those strips in there so these are a quarter of an inch by six and a half I just think it just completes the card and there's not so much silver on show I like this silver panel through the middle it looks really good and then easy to open and it displays really nicely and like I said you got all that space on the back as well so I hope you've enjoyed this locking gatefold or lock and pop I don't know I need to think about it but as always I will share the links to the product that I've used below and I will also link up here any other card tutorials that are similar to this and gatefold styles and stuff just to give you a bit more inspiration and as always thank you for watching please subscribe if you haven't done so and hit that notification bell as well because then you'll be notified when I upload a new video each time thanks for watching bye