 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Crowd, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This kick starts this year's creative card series 2019. So for those of you that have been with me for a while now will know that this basically just means that I'm now going to be making loads of cards. So the series is just really focusing on fun fold cards, unusual cards, pop-up cards, cards with a difference and that's kind of what I do a lot anyway but I also like to just kind of combine really fun cards within a kind of small window. So this is probably going to be, I'm thinking maybe within the week back to back but it might go over two weeks so anyway you just now know that every tutorial I bring out is going to be a card for possibly two weeks. So this is the third year now so I will link in the other 2018 and 2017 series because there's some really fun cards in there and lots of inspiration. So this first one is a pop-up box card so you would have seen these lots of these I've already made the envelope and everything but this this is a bigger size and this is a six by two so when it folds flat it will go in an eight by six and a half envelope which is on the envelope punch board okay so that's my envelope already there but how gorgeous is this and then on the back here you have your space to write your message but look at all that lovely color I just love how these fold completely flat which you can obviously post them easily but isn't that lovely so I have made box cards before but I haven't made one this big in terms of the length I've gone higher I've done some tiny little ones and I love this little planter style which I've done before and again look into that playlist there because you'll see others for more inspiration but it stands up perfectly it's got such a pretty profile and I love making these now the inspiration to do these has come from so this is the pop-up box kit and this is from Papercraft Essentials issue 176 so this is currently July 2019 issue okay and the inspiration on the front there using it is this pop-up box card and I thought hmm I really like it and let's see how I can adapt it and here's my version so the kit's brilliant I will link the magazine below and inside here you get so much stuff so let me just get all this out here I've got some bits that I've already obviously been using so I'll probably use them in the one that I'm going to do now you get all of these little foam squares little adhesive pads there and then inside here we go here's a template so if you want to have you know that tall box card that's on the front here's the template to make it you just draw through these draw around it and then cut it all out so that's handy to keep to one side but I've done this one myself so what you get in the kit is papers at the back which are all double sided beautiful designs you can see there and on the back you get popa dots or you got that one there as well with the little watering can so there's loads of papers but then the best bit is all these lovely pop outs so you get all these different flowers and sprigs and they're all on really thick about 300 gsm card and they're all different I think there's a few duplicates look at this one here with the plant pot yes you must get two of each because there's two of that one and then I've already used one of the big flower here in fact it was mainly that one no it wasn't yeah it was they used a lot of from that one you've got these here I've used that one in that then you get your sentiment toppers so use the birthday one so I might use this one here on your birthday for this next one that's ones that I've already started using look how much you get so much so it's well worth it and I think that magazine is only let me just have a quick look seven nine no six ninety nine so you can make a lot of cards with this okay so I'll leave that one there this is what you're going to need today so for the sentiment on the back I've used the happy birthday and that's from the occasions stamp set by dovecraft but you also have general which is this one here what was it the other way around I think that's the right way these are a bargain the two pound each on amazon so again I will link them below because I've already been using them loads so you're going to see them feature probably all the time this is how you make the card lots of strips of cardstock so it's a perfect one to use any scraps that you might have you don't have to cut into any of your main card for this one so you need let me just pop them to one side because there are inside pieces so the main strips for the front and back okay so everything is half an inch apart from those which I'll talk to you here in a minute so these are half an inch by six and you want eight pieces so it's going to be four on the front and four on the back and then these here again half an inch and you want eight of them and they're all two inches long okay so half an inch by two and you need eight of them half an inch by six and you need eight of them then these are seven by half an inch and you want two and these are going to be our kind of pieces in the middle to be able to stick all of our pop-ups onto and you just want to score along the seven inch side you want to score it half an inch and six and a half on both pieces fold and that will give you these little tabs and that's how we will attach it to our pop-up box then to create the four hinges on each corner you want four pieces that are one inch by three and a quarter I think it's just nice to have this like little bit where it kind of like overhangs so that's why I done the three and a quarter so again you want four of them and then along the one inch side you just want to score it half an inch and just fold all of those okay then this piece here for the back to write my message on my pattern paper is two and a half by four and a half and the white in the middle is two by four and I've just stamped that now so that's already so first of all you want to grab one of your hinges okay and leave those bits to one side and first of all we're going to be working with the longer pieces all right so you're going to use four of these first of all and all you want to do is dab some glue in kind of four places so just equally spaced I've got four blobs of glue there if you've got a glue that dries clear and not sticky or tacky that's what you want so it doesn't matter if you go over the edges because you're not going to see any of this alternatively you can put the glue on here if you want but I find it easier to put it on the hinge and then you want to stick them if you use your grid to keep everything lined up so I'm just going to follow this line here and I've come down by about about a quarter just under a quarter of an inch then the next one it's entirely up to you how you want to space these but just make sure that the key is to keep it all straight and then that one so it doesn't matter what the gap is doesn't matter if one's bigger than the other and then the bottom so again I'm leaving the same kind of gap as I have at the top and just stick them all down like so then I'm going to add glue now to the other side so flip it over and just add some glue to each of those grab another hinge flip it back over again and pop it all in making sure it's all lined up so I'm using this bottom line in this corner here for that hold that there and then I can make sure this is still lined up there and just push them all down keeping everything nice and straight that's the hardest part of doing this keeping it all straight and make sure it's butted up to the score line the fold there and kind of fold that over as well if you want just to add some more pressure okay so now we've already created the front or the back then you want to grab four of the smaller pieces okay pop it on its side and again just you can follow now where you've stuck the ones before as to where you need to put the glue so again see that I've just put three blobs and now you're going to do the same but with the shorter pieces this time all you've got to do now is line it up with this here or as close as you can again butting it up to the score line so I just kind of tack them all in place and then I can kind of wiggle them around a little bit so line it all up again like so okay you can fold that over there again when you fold them over can you see they run perfectly over the ones there maybe that one can be moved a bit but that's what you want to kind of aim for then flip it over I'm going to add the glue to the outer sides of these pieces okay then grab another hinge and this time pop it on there again keeping everything all lined up because you don't want to have a wonky pop-up card you know when you go to a restaurant and your table wobbles you've got to put some tissue under one of the legs that's what could happen with this if you don't get all these straight okay and then again I'm going to grab those other four small ones and just stick them all in again I'm lining it up okay and then flip that one over pop the last hinge on okay so that's where you need to be now so at the moment it kind of looks like a bit of a farmyard kind of gate or something next you want these pieces where you scored so these are our little kind of pieces that are going to hold all the pop-ups that are going to go inside so it doesn't at this point it doesn't matter if this is the front or the back because they look exactly the same but you want to open this out slightly okay you're going to add some glue onto one of the tabs here on any one actually before you do that what you might want to also do is just take a little wedge off of these so you're creating a tab because otherwise some of it may overhang and you don't want this to be seen you see they've just taken a little bit off just to kind of yeah just make it a little bit smaller and then so actually I'm going to have this as my front okay so these four pieces here will be the front once we put that on so you want to come down to the second one and you want to kind of line up the fold here this folded bit with this outer part of this hinge here so there's that piece there and I'm going to stick it on the second one but line it up with that hinge there okay just stick that in place for a second whilst that one's kind of drying keeping everything straight let's have it hang that way there we go I'm just going to take these little wedges off here for this one this end here is going to come to the end here so the fold should kind of roughly line up with the hinge here I'm just going to fold that over okay so you can see there you've got the two stuck together if I bring it up can you see so this fold is lined up with the outer part of this hinge here and then this one I've stuck so it's almost there but the hinge kind of lines up with this one okay it doesn't have to be exact but that's roughly where I've lined them up so if I bring this across you can see how they're going to sit okay then what you want to do is fold them down so now they are lying across that they're lying on top of each other add some glue to the tops of each of those tabs make sure you don't get glue on anywhere else you just want to get the glue on the two tabs okay like so and then this one as long as it's lined up with the panel that's underneath them both if you just fold that right down across it should all hide behind that one there and just put some pressure on that for a minute and already you know that your card is going to lie flat because that is the that is the way it's going to be so that's completely flat even by the time we put them on it will still lie nice and flat so now when I bring that over you've got your pieces inside to be able to stick everything to so it's a really easy way to do it and to make sure everything lines up so you might find now when you go to fold it that way flat it won't quite go because we stuck it in that formation so that is now the way that this will always fold flat so that could be the front now if I wanted to and that that's how it would be in the envelope okay so I'm going to turn it back over and then if you just lift up these pieces here and then again I'm just going to add blobs of glue in line with these because I know that's where these next pieces are going to go so I'm going to bring it out like this and keep everything nice and flat and just stick them up to the school line again using my grid here to make sure everything stays nice and straight and just lie those four down okay fold all of that in and then you can just add some glue onto the tops of those four fold that hinge kind of in and just kind of tack them all in place and if you fold it all flat and you can line them all up with the ones underneath and can you see everything should line up with each other so spend some time in it obviously you know I've done a lot of these now so I can do it pretty quickly but it isn't hard you know it's not hard to do and it shouldn't take too long as long as you just follow that way and there you have your little pop up now if you wanted to stick them up higher here you can I like to stick them one down a bit just so you don't really see it look looking through there you wouldn't know that they're in there okay but if you want to have them right up here but we can stick on here as well so they're in there they're stuck down on this second one here but I've also stuck pieces you know behind and in front here as well okay so that is the box that's it everything now is up to you how you want to decorate it but a little tip on how to make sure you want to keep it all within that envelope okay so I've just pulled all these pieces out now you don't have to have this kit to make this card you can use any you know die cuts you can use any other kind of pre die cuts that you might have anything you want stamped images it's entirely up to you so now what I would say is get the first one down and one of the largest ones down first at the highest height because from there you know that that you can't go any higher than that so everything else will kind of work its way around so I think I'm going to go for probably this one in the middle so I'm going to lie that down in the way you'll know because one way it won't really want to go this is the way that it wants to fold flat so when I lay this down here it will come slightly over eight inches which is fine okay each of these squares is an inch so one two three four five six so here is my highest point I don't want to go any higher than that otherwise it's not going to fit in my envelope and you also don't want to go over you know the eight and a bit there and this line here because again it won't fit in the envelope so I know that I can stick that one there so that's going to be my highest point so I'm going to bring in some acetate here I've got a strong acetate I think this was just left over from some packaging and I'm just cutting random strips they're about half an inch and then I'm just going to half that again so I've got about half an inch by about two and a half inches and I'm going to use my red tape for all of this because it sticks well to the acetate and obviously to the paper as well but I'm just going to run a little strip along the top of the acetate there this is the same way that I've done all of these kind of boxes I like to use the acetate because it looks like they're floating but if you don't have acetate just use you know white card it's fine because you're actually adding so much stuff that you can't actually really see if there was white kind of you know pieces like this rather than acetate so but some of the ones I've done you can they really look like the floating so I'm just going to lift this one back up and I'm just going to stick that behind it like so then I'm going to add no then I'm going to pop it in bearing in mind I know it's going to come down to this second section here so when I sit that in there that is going to fit perfectly so I'm just going to run some sticky tapes what you don't want to do is sticking out but you can easily cut it away even once you've stuck it down because you can pop your scissors in from the side here and you can cut it away or you can go in from the top it's up to you if I just bring this back down so it's all lined up you don't need to do this for the first one and maybe check it every now and then one two three so now I'm going to stick this bearing in mind you're working within this section in terms of your display because you can see everything is within that six inch section here this is just your side piece so you don't want to don't look at this whole piece and think halfway it's like here you want to just look within this six inch section here so I'm going to pop this in and I can see where the second one is because I want to make sure I stick it in between and I'm going to have it just there so now I want to bring it up that pops up and I've stuck it on the first one okay so that's my highest point so now if I add this yellow one I know I can stick it just there on the second one but I know that's as high as I need to go so again I'm going to cut another piece of my acetate in fact I've got a piece here and I know this is roughly the same kind of height so I'm going to again add some double-sided tape and popped it on the bottom one there and then I'm going to stick it on that back one like so so there's two in place now then I like to put some on the front even at this early stage because it starts to fill in kind of gaps and helps you then place other pieces so for example this one here I actually think I'm going to have crawling up the side there from the wall so that one's from the ground so that one's really easy to just stick straight down like so and then I'm going to have I think maybe this one here like so I'm going to have maybe that yellow one there actually and then I can add a little leaf behind it I love doing these I just love building up these little scenes and I'll cut a few other pieces in a minute so you see what I mean already now that's starting to feel like kind of this gap here okay so that's what you want to do so I'm going to now add I think this pink one here just to kind of balance out there and then I'll put another largest one there okay so that's those four so now when you fold it flat you can see where you've got space to be able to have things like flourishes like leaves so I could have you know a leaf coming out here but again you don't want it to go any further than this line here because it won't go in your envelope and I'm not going to stick them like that but I could have something like that and then when it opens up do you get what I'm trying to say so every now and then just lie it down flat and make sure you're all within that area because you don't want to do all that hard work and then find you well you can't make an envelope and you've got to buy like a big white one or something so I'm now just going to carry on decorating it with your message here this piece will just stick on the back there so all I've done was ran a bead of glue along the outside and then just rough ones there because you can kind of see where it sits and then just make sure you get in the center okay so I'm going to carry on decorating this I've also got my happy birthday I don't think I'm going to use that one I'm going to pick another one okay so there is my finished card I absolutely adore it I think it looks so cute I put this one here sending special birthday wishes and you can see there I've got a little butterfly in the back I've added these all these little extras yeah looks really cute so all falls flat you see nothing is overhanging I think my butterfly I may have to like I don't know I should be able to peel it off because it's on like a glossy paper but I might have to move him but for the minute okay so you want a piece of 11.5 by 11.5 this is the paper from the secret garden collection and for the six by eight and a half it's the the last one card size six by eight and a half that's what this will be so it's 11.5 by 11.5 paper size so it's saying your first score line needs to be four and seven eighths of an inch so I'm just lining that up with the four and seven eighths punching and scoring if you haven't used an envelope punch board I will link in a tutorial now where I use it and then that one there and then you just need to line up these lines now obviously this is the largest size so it goes doesn't go all the way I can't score all the way there so I'm just kind of eyeballing this but it works you can fold it first if you want I'm being lazy but you want to line up this here with this score line and then you know it's okay here we go and then just fold and burnish all of your score lines and I want to make sure I've got it up the right way because I've got it upside down on the other one but it's not the end of the world and then on your bottom you want to of the inside flaps you just want to add some tape so I've just got some double-sided thin tape here and I'm also what I've got it going to run two strips here you can buy the envelope glue where you run a thin amount along here and then if you sell your cards whoever you give it to or if they buy it from you they can then once it dries you can lick it and it will seal it so it gives it a professional finish but I'm quite happy to use the double-sided tape but the that glue is out there if you want to so then I'm going to just fold that up and then see how this works inside I'm going to have to just trim I didn't think about this one here that's me saying make sure you keep testing it I'm going to try and just take otherwise I'm just going to have to move it in a little bit I don't it's only catching ever so slightly because the envelopes although they say that size they're always again slightly bigger she do have a little bit of extra yeah that's fine I can get it in now I don't want to have to move it and I just make sure you don't catch it on anything as it goes in I'm just being a bit careful here oh no I think I'm okay yeah I can just get away with that so now I can fold that over yeah it fits in fine I'm happy with that I'm not going to play around I might shift that across just a little bit just in case I do end up someone ends up buying this one from me probably won't I'll probably end up actually giving these to someone it does come out all right but I think I might just shift it just across a little bit but no it's turned out really nice so that's that one and there's the other one two I think absolutely stunning pop-up cards love these so much so I hope you like the first card for this year's creative card series 2019 I have some really fun cards to share with you I can't wait for it and I can't wait to see your versions of them once you start making them as well so hope you've enjoyed today please give me a thumbs up check the description box below for all of links and things like that to the products that I've used and I'll be back again very soon with another card tutorial thanks for watching bye