 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 pop-up card I've got two versions here so this is the first one this is the original one that I've done so it's very plain on the front I'm not going to decorate the front because when you open it up you reveal this little pop-up book so it's kind of like a book or a card within a card I really love how this has come together I think it looks really sweet this is using again those lovely this is the dress my dress my draft dress my craft it's hydrangea lawn and it was again the ones that were sent by Kimmy and that was the stamp set that matched really well as well which I colored and then I've got that lovely Christina Griffith sentiment and then I've used the bright Rosa happy birthday there which I just thought it just all worked really nicely together and then on the back here you can write your message or you can write them here you can also add vellum pages or thin you know a lightweight paper like a copy paper weight and you could add pages and hole punched and put some ribbon through there and have a little book so it could work really nicely for maybe a Christmas card like the night before Christmas or just something with some photos in you don't want it too bulky because it does need to all fall flat okay so that's one option and this is the I'm going to be showing you both and then this is the one where it's a pop-up birthday present and I think it looks brilliant so it's the same card but reversed so this is the same one but just that way around and with the top on it which I'm going to show you but then if you turn it that way you can see where you've got that section okay it's very straightforward to make so let's get straight into it so for this one I'm using the paper boutique this is the moonlight song it's absolutely beautiful it's got a really different kind of palette of colors something I've said before that I don't really have so I thought I'd use that for today's card now also the toppers that you get if you buy the kit version these squares will fit perfectly in the pop-up section so here there's one here you see how they fit nicely in there so I know a lot of you do have some of the paper boutique papers so yeah it would be a nice one for that okay so I'm working on a six by six card base so I've got a piece of six by 12 because I want to make my card base because I wanted this blue color so along the 12 inch side you just want to score it six okay and then just fold and burnish okay then I've got two pieces of decorative paper you'll want some for the front as well so you may want three pieces it's five and three-quarters squared if you want to then drop down again then go down by quarter of an inch increments so five and a half squared but these two are going to go inside here okay thanks so then for your pop-up piece you want a piece of four and a half by seven along the four and a half inch side you want to score it four and along the seven inch side you want to score it three and a half okay then if you're doing the lid so if you want to do the birthday present style you'll need a piece of four and a half squared and along just two sides you want to score it half an inch so half an inch that way and then if you just rotate and do half an inch that way okay that's all we need to do so get rid of the scoreboard that's everything done there and then if you just fold and burnish these pieces okay so first of all with the pop-up piece you'll have your center score line and then your bottom ones here just cut up that center score line to the first score lines so just there and then just take a wedge off of both sides so you formed a triangle okay and then if you just fold them out like that when the card folds flat it's going to go down like so okay then if you're doing the top piece okay you want to cut right across so there hang on if we do this bit first so just remove that bottom square okay and just take again a wedge off of all of the sides of the tabs just to keep everything nice and neat okay then you want to cut from this point to this point here now if you want to draw a pencil line with your ruler then you can or was going to eyeball it but I will do it with a pencil line there we go and then just cut straight across there that wasn't completely straight because it didn't go point to point but these scissors are nice and long so there we go just rub that out in a moment then you need to do another score line which yeah I guess I could have done it before but it doesn't matter but if you just pop it in your scoreboard anywhere it doesn't matter where as long as this tops flush with the top here and then just find a track that meets with the point here and once you've found it just score okay so then you'll have that center bit there if you flip it over and go over it again so I'm just going to line it up with the six inches now I can just go over it and flip it back you're going to fold it inwards so that's going to become a valley and these two will become mountains you've got kind of a bit of an arrow it's like some wings okay right let's start assembling it because it's pretty straightforward so I would suggest you decorate this piece well actually if you're doing separate pieces so these were these mats here I just dropped down so what did this measurement come out at so this is four by three and a half so I would have done three and three quarters by three and a quarter okay and then you can stamp and do that and then stick them down so you can do that when it's all put together if you would rather than do that now before we go to the next step if you're going to do the birthday present we want to stick this on now okay for some reason I've given the wrong measurement I don't know why I've done that so we need to actually cut that down by a quarter of an inch so this needed to be this piece needed to be four by four not four and a half by four and a half so if you've followed me along I will put a little thing in at the beginning though so you shouldn't have I'm just going to along that score line I'm just going to mark at four easily corrected and along this one here from I have no idea what I did there but it will be the correct measurement will be at the beginning but it should be a piece of four by four and on two sides you score a half an inch and just follow exactly the same process I did before because this is three and a half so I don't know why I came up with that other measurement but now you'll see that will sit inside okay now we want to stick this down now so we get our box in that perfect right angle so you see when it all folds flat that's going to fold in on itself so I'm just going to bring in a little bit glue here and then just very carefully stick those two in like so don't worry if you're not doing this top one I'll still show you how to get I mean it doesn't matter if you don't have a perfect right angle but as long as you stick it when I stick this piece in then it'll be fine I'm just going to go in inside there and just make sure you get that nice and right to the point like so and then just practice folding it all nice and flat okay I'm just going to burnish just so it gets used to being in that shape okay so that will then fold in okay so next we can stick this down okay so because this is going to be the box it's going to go towards the back here now already I can see where it needs to open it just needs to be on the right angle so you can't pull that out anymore so what I do is I'll give you the measurements in case you don't have this top piece on here so you want to stick it three inches around three inches from here that's where you want to kind of if you put a pencil mark there so for the sake of the video let me just do one just there okay so I know that that's where I want to have that positioned now I know where I need to stick mine because that's all that it's allowing me to pull it out by I can't go any further so when I go to fold this all flat pretending that stuff the whole thing disappears which is what you want you don't want anything poking out the sides here so if you don't have this piece on as I mentioned then what you want to do is have your pieces because you'll be able to pull this right out as much as you want because you won't have this restricting you you want to have it so it's about got three and a half inches from here and here okay just check that's about right yeah three and a half on each side will be perfect so three and a half on each side and three up there all right so now it's up to you whether you know I'm going to do it because I think it'd be better to stick that afterwards so I'm just going to grab some of my liquid glue and just pop it on the bottom here again just hovering that in place there the rest of it will just kind of do its own thing because that's how it's already positioned okay so there's your box and now when that all folds flat make sure that goes inwards again just check that it's all hidden next you want to stick your pattern paper down so is mine got a direction kind of I don't think you'd really notice so you want to stick this obviously here now you can if you want because I had done it on some other ones is I sat this down so I had an equal frame and then I just kind of folded this piece right up to there because this is a paper it doesn't crack like that okay and then I can just cut but I also didn't cut it right away I kind of cut up to and left you know however much is there so again I could put a pencil mark there and just cut all the way out there so the whole thing loops around so I'll do that on this one to show you one way and then I'll show you what I think might be an easier way now when you cut this you want to actually remove that fold because although this is thin cardstock it is still a width there is a you know like a even if it's a 16th of an inch it will still you know create the cardstock maybe not lying flat so I am just going to remove just a little sliver you can see there just what I've removed and it's mainly that fold line okay so now I've created this which will now slide over and give me a really nice finish okay but for the sake of that tiny little piece here you can just cut it off completely so again kind of directional but not I am going to sit it in here and what you want to do is come down three inches because this was three inches there wasn't it yeah so if you were to come up on whatever side it is there I know so just put a pencil mark there and then measure whatever yours finally finished at coming in here so it's bang on three and a half so I've got that one there and then I'm going to come in so come up three on this one I'm going to come in this way at three and a half and then if you just connect those two pencil marks with your ruler and cut it and then stick two separate pieces in but because I've done that one that way I want to keep mine the same so again I'm just going to sit mine in here and I don't actually find this to be quite easy like I said as long as you're using the paper not a thick card I think this one works fine because it's patterned you don't see that it's folded right off to the end there so again I'm just going to mark a pencil mark there and just cut up okay so that's the only bit that I guess I can't really give an exact measurement on because if you're doing the bookstore you may have pulled yours out even if it's just like a quarter of it a one eighth of an inch more it is going to be different so I've showed you the ways that I think it's easy to cover this so you can see now inside how that's all going to be nicely concealed so I'm going to now I'm probably going to put my collow no I will put it on here now this collows great because it will make my card very strong so I'm just going to carefully go around all of this and get both of these stuck down okay so now you can see we've got that really nice pop-up piece all right now what I done to create the present look is just cut four four half inch strips with two of them being half inch by four and then two being half inch by three and a half okay and then the longer ones so the four inch ones will go up here and then the three and a half will go that way okay and then I'm going to have a big boat I need to do some little ones there as well but I'll show you that in a moment okay and then for the top one you just want to cut another half inch piece and then just these are about two and a half and you want to stick them so that it joins with this kind of all the way around that's just poking over the top a little bit now when you stick it you need to obviously cut it at an angle because it needs to be able to fold it needs to not obstruct that that fold there so if I just hold that in place you can just carefully just draw with a pencil like so I'll just show you what I've done then you'll see you're not going to see this bit because it is going to be covered with your bow but you do need to just tidy it off see there just so that now that can all fold flat all right so I'm just going to stick that down and do the same on that side okay so now you can see we've got that present coming together it looks really nice I think once I've got a real nice dark navy bow and a gift tag hanging down and then I'm going to get my happy birthday done as well and I'm also going to do the mat in there for the front and for the back and then I'll come back and talk you all through that okay so I finished the inside I love it I think it's come together really nicely I've done this little tag here and the it says with love and that's just from the paper pack they have these little sentiments on the side and then I've just added the happy birthday there which is the bright rosa set here it's the birthday words again I'll link that one below I've used it so much it just comes in so handy in fact I've used it on all three of these cards so yeah that's the birthday present and then it all falls flat I still need to do the front but I have done the back with again one of the papers because you can just write straight onto that so this was five and three quarters squared so you just need to do that again for the front or however you want you may want to go really ground with it also with the bow you want to stick it just onto one side so I've used my hot glue and I just put a little bead of glue on the right hand side there and just stuck that side because if you stick it across both it won't fold flat okay so just keep your glue to one side but yeah there you have it and then there's that book style if you do want to go down that route and do that way instead I love them both equally I think they both look really really lovely and then there's the other birthday box I think they're so fun so I hope you've enjoyed it I hope I've you know been able to explain it the best I can it's just this bit here cutting around here but I think if you fold it and just cut it I think it's a bit easier so yeah let me know what you think 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