 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 pretty card which when opened reveals this gorgeous concertina fold. Now I was actually requested to do this, I was sent a picture by a lady called Linda so I had a little look on Pinterest and lots of them just make it with just this centerpiece and keep it like that but like with my other my book fold card I like to add it to this base here and I also wanted it to be 5 by 7 so I have changed this to these are my own measurements and I've altered it slightly to work for me so this all folds into a 5 by 7 card base and it will fit nicely into your envelope. If I just bring it up there you can see all the panels with all the fun unicorns, birthday cake, shooting stars, rainbows it's really really pretty. Okay so to make this card I'm going to be using the new chasing rainbows paper pack by first edition it's gorgeous if you haven't seen my what's in the box video which I shared a few days ago then I will link that one up here and you'll be able to see all of the papers in this pack and what I received from my latest trim craft design team box over on that video so that's the paper pack and that's the 8 by 8 for the lovely happy birthday there which is heat embossed you can just see there that's using these gorgeous really nice sentiments they're actually called big birthday words and it's the woodware collection I'll share the links to these but I've used all three now so you can see they've all got stained there but they're really lovely and they're just one of those kind of timeless stamps they're going to keep you know forever so that's those then for the back here which is where you will write your message unless you do want to you know find somewhere here to do it then you can do I've used the crafty panda and this is the magical unicorn stamp set and I used to have a magical day one there then I am also using the mermaid and unicorn this is the mirrored card pack again this was in my unboxing video and I've used this gorgeous color here and they're just I mean they are stunning so and this is everything okay so I've done a template so I think that's always handy and you do always say that you enjoy it and find it much easier to follow when I have a template like so this is going to be a 5 by 7 card base so I've already cut this piece here so this is a piece of 10 by 7 and along the 10 inch side you want to score at 5 inches okay fold it in half and there's my card base I've got this really nice kind of bubble gum pink that I'm going to be using for the actual concertina piece inside I've got a white piece of cardstock here which is 10 and a half by six and three quarters and that is this piece here okay so that is what I'm going to be showing you and doing all this scoring then the piece that slots inside so this is this piece here I used leftover from this 12 by 12 piece of cardstock which this was so I've got matching again it doesn't matter if it isn't but that's how I've got you know everything to kind of match up I've just used the same card from that piece so this is 5 by 7 okay I'll do all the scoring for those in a minute then to mat and layer the very front of the card so this one here now I've only got one here but on this one I'm doing two and also I won't be showing you all of this decoration because this one may well be personalized so I just wanted to keep it plain for the minute until I knew what I'm doing this top piece here is four and three quarters by six and three quarters and then this piece is going to layer on top and this is four and a half by six and a half if I just bring it up there you can see that really nice star print and how gorgeous that cardstock looks so that's those ones so I've done all of them then to decorate that concertina part all inside you need two pieces that are one and a half by six and a half so I've got these pattern pieces and they're going to go on the two outer ones here then for all of these eight squares you will need eight pieces that are one and a half by one and a half okay I've got that nice pink so you can see how everything's going to work together and then these here for these four panels on the inside and these again are one and a half by four and a half okay so again I wanted to make all those measurements really easy to cut down so for that internal piece this bit here that sits in the middle this is that seven by five piece along the seven inch side you want to score at one and three quarters then flip it over don't rotate just flip it and then score at three and a half then flip it back again and score at five and a quarter that way now the first one you're going to make a mountain the middle a valley and then the last one a mountain and by just flipping the you know the cardstock and scoring it will now prevent any cracking and that's what you want so you've got an M shape okay two mountains and a valley so that piece is now already let's just pop that to one side then we've got this piece here and we've got our template so along the 10 and a half inch side and we're going to score make sure we get it right right you're going to score at one and three quarters and flip it over score at three and a half flip it over and score at five and a quarter flip it over and score at seven and flip it over and score at eight and three quarters okay then flip it rotate it onto the six and three quarters of an inch side and we're going to do these two score lines here so this one and this one but you want to miss this section and not go past this section here so the easiest way to do that is with a ruler and you want to line your ruler up at one and three quarters so we're then going to create all of these will be one and three quarters squared and the same if that line did continue that would be one and three quarters squared so with your ruler line it up just at one and three quarters but you want to make sure your stylus is in the one and three quarter marker okay and then make sure your ruler matches up all the way down to the bottom here as well so I'm just going to just line that up a little bit better there there we go so now what I'm going to do is just hover along this first section and when you get to this first score line which is this score line here that's when you want to start scoring and your stylus should just naturally fall into the track okay and go all the way down until you get down to here okay I'll just bring that one up you should just be able to work out there we go I've already done that one you can just see my score line just down here okay keeping it in that same position you then want to come across and at five inches you want to do the same thing so line your ruler up hover it over that first section and from that first score line you want to score all the way down to the last score line okay so you're just scoring in between the first and the last score line now you can see now if I turn that around this way we're going to be cutting this whole section away okay we will do these little kind of these are more pencil lines which we will eventually cut but we'll do them I think it's a bit easier to do once we've cut away this middle section so if I just remove my scoreboard and then with this here just so you can kind of see how I'm working on here I mean ideally you'd save this piece in the inside but I'm just going to scribble over it just so you can see where I'm working so all I've done is scribbled this section here on my cardstock again you can just make out all of my score lines there so next again with your ruler make sure you've got a self-healing mat or some you know good surface to cut against and with my cutting knife make sure you use a metal ruler or if you've got the Tim Holtz ruler here this has got the metal on the side and I'm just going to line my ruler up with this this score line here so that inner one that we've just done that is between that score line and that one line your ruler up against that and you want to cut away the score line so I'm going to cut more to this side here so I'm removing all of that black line rather than to the left say here and then you would see it so just bring your ruler up just a little bit so you're actually removing that section like so make sure everything is nice and lined up and then you want to just try and do it in one continual movements okay now you can see and then flip it around and do the same on the other side okay so now you can see I've got those two and then you just want to join it up so now I'm going to cut down here to here and here to here okay so now I've just taken that piece out you do need to really spend time on it you want to make sure that you try and get them point to point you don't kind of cut over more on one side and the other from the other okay so like I said if you haven't done one I've just done there then you can keep that although I could probably use the other side for something so now what you want to do while it's all still flat and before you burnish your score lines is we need to do these lines here and these are these cut lines just on there for us to be able to kind of wedge this piece in the middle now each of these are three quarters of an inch long and they are halfway along each square which is seven eighths of an inch so again with your ruler pop it start it in the center in the sorry start it in this like rectangle here so I can see that that score line is at one and three quarters okay so that is my one and three quarters square like I said half an inch and seven eighths of an inch is halfway so I'm just putting a little pencil mark just there now I'm going to keep this in place my ruler and I'm just going to do seven eighths of an inch again so that will be one two three four five six seven so at two and five eighths you want to do another little marker one two three four five six seven then at four and three eighths do another marker and it's six and one eighths and that's it there I just bring that up you can just see all my little pencil marks one there one there one there rotate it all the way around and do exactly the same again and those same measurements that I just said okay once you've got all your markers in place you then want to pop it in this orientation okay and then you need to draw a pencil line that's three quarters of an inch so like so I'm just going to keep my ruler in place there and just go down three quarters of an inch and you're going to cut this and you actually cut the pencil away in the end but can you see now these pencil lines they're three quarters of an inch long on there and one there and just do that on all of those little markings okay so that's now what you should have see all my pencil marks there and there and now we can cut up them okay so I'm just going to use my snips and it's easier that's why I thought get this piece removed first and then do this it just is much easier and just try and very neatly again in one cut just cut all the way up there now you will cut this again when the cardstock's on it but I found that it was a bit easier to just start off like this and then when we cut little wedges away we'll do that when we've stuck our other piece of cardstock on top it all makes sense in a moment so now I've just cut little slits in all of them again I'm not going to burn a shoot yet I'm going to leave that to the very end because it's much easier to work on when it's flat and you can add all of your decoration on which is what we're now going to do next so with all these pieces you've got these ones that are going to go on here the ends all my little squares are going to go over the top like I said don't worry that we've cut because we're going to be flipping it over to cut again but I just found it much easier to do it this way now these eight I'm going to make sure I've got my geometric shape all the way up that's going to go like that and then these four are going to go on this one here like that okay so I'm going to go and get that all stuck down okay so now that's my panel all decorated I'll do those in a moment now flip it over and go back in and cut exactly where you did before so you're just kind of tracing that cut really okay and then you just want to take a very very small wedge off of one side and I mean small it is literally a slither and you need to do this when you've got both pieces on because obviously it needs to come off both pieces but if you see there it's the tiniest amount it's so small because you've got to imagine you're going to have quite thick cardstock wedged between there but now if I lie that down can you see you can just see the kind of little gap that I've made so I'm just taking it off of the the right hand side one and you want to go right up to the top so obviously that's where the card's going to go right up into so yeah I guess it's a little bit fiddly you can use your knife for this if you want but I just find I've got way more control when I use my snips and a lot of this will still be covered so don't worry if you have made me done one a bit bigger than the other I mean you look at that now you wouldn't know you you can't even see you know the joins really so it's yeah it's quite forgiving still so don't you know don't worry too much if you are a little bit out we've like you said one's a bit bigger than the other and also by doing that it will allow your card to fold much better but can you just see now there's little kind of tiny wedges all the way along okay so you're going to fold so you've got a valley then mountain then valley then mountain and you're going to end with a valley okay and again by doing those score lines the way we did it will prevent any cracking but now you can see we've got this cool shape next we're going to be using this piece I'm just going to stick these down okay so I've stuck them down I've just realized they're actually too short I don't know where I got the measurement from so I could have sworn I'd done it against this one so this length is four and a half what did I do four and a half so maybe I must have cut that down four and three quarters okay this pink piece I need to do a little bit of doctoring okay so this pink piece actually needs to be four and three quarters which I can just do without ruining anything because I thought they didn't match so I'll just put a little caption when I give the measurements for this pink piece but it should be four and three quarters not five but that's okay I've saved it so yeah all of those measurements were fine you just need to bring that down to four and three quarters instead of five and then you've already folded that because I told you I'm going to just stick these two on the front of my card okay that's all stuck down and also what I just realized it wasn't three quarters of an inch it was seven eighths of an inch you just need to just go up just a little bit more again you're not really going to see see it like that so don't worry too much then with this piece so you have your M shape and I've got everything folded in everything stuck down there and then just pop them in so that you've got your valley you've got your mountain fold and then you want your valley to be underneath it so again keeping it in that M shape I slide that in now you can see where the two mountains are you've got the two valleys directly below so again if I just then pull this one up kind of like bend it out a little bit don't worry it shouldn't you know rip or anything because you've got your layers and everything on and then bring that one down kind of slide them about a little bit until you get them into place and then if you try to fold it together it will obviously not quite go so you just need to move them until you've got them kind of all halfway and they will slowly start to go like so I bring that all up and that's how a lot of people kept the card just like that but I like it stuck inside but look how cool that looks so once it's in it's in it will not go anywhere that is stuck now and you need it to be nice and straight which it is cool isn't it really really like it see what I mean you're not you don't really see all your cuts the little slits that you've you've kind of created there because this is in over the top so now open up your card base and I'm going to use my wet glue and you're just going to put glue on the two outer sides so okay do one at a time so what you want to do is hold it up you want to make sure that your border here is the same here and here which mine is just stick that down make sure it's nice and secure wet glue is good if you're going to use double sided make sure you cover every part of it because obviously this is quite a lot going on with it so you don't want it to start lifting in like the corners that's why I found the wet glue works best come around this side lift up this one and do the same and again kind of lift that up without this sticking down yet so you just brought that up and it will give you that time to kind of hover over the top and then you can really see that you're getting it bang on you get that same frame and it should stand up at a perfect right angle and this also creates another cool way to have it and that's landscape and I'll show you and that's that way can you see how that looks and it will stand up that way as well so there are yeah two ways that you can have this card that way or you can have it landscape and that's it guys it's a really lovely concertina fold card I think it looks fantastic that way landscape and it closes up perfectly when you squeeze it down on the back here you just need to cut a white piece of card stock that's yeah four and three quarters by six and three quarters and just stick that on the back there I would stamp and write your message and everything maybe before you stick it down but it's yeah it's perfect and it's a really lovely card what a nice surprise when somebody opens it to see that so there you have it two really nice unusual cards so that's that one there and then that's that one there and I think they look fantastic just bring that one up a bit closer so you can really see again how it's decorated and obviously if it was that way as well with all that pattern on the side there it looks really cool and yeah I think they look fantastic so I hope you've enjoyed this card if you have please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching