 Hey 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 these slimline cards, concertina cards, trifold cards, it's entirely up to you what you want to call them. Slimline cards seem to be all the rage at the moment, lots of people are using them in their card tutorials and on Pinterest and on blogs and things like that so I thought I would do this style but in a slimline version. So the envelopes I've got here are your pre-brought DL size and these will fit an 8x4 card inside of them. So I've done these two here which are from one sheet of 12x12 so for anybody that wants to get two cards out of one sheet then you can do this size. This size I'm going to write in my blog but I actually did it during the Facebook live and I'll link that below as well but the measurements for all of that will go in the blog. Today I'm going to show you how to make this size which is using your A4 paper or your letter size paper. So how these work is you just open them up and they will be displayed like so. So you then get to really see those three panels and I've used all these gorgeous flowers and embellishments and papers from the latest Papercraft Society kit and then on the back you've got space there to write your message. So this one just says on the front wonderful friend thanks for everything and then these ones here I've got happy birthday all these toppers are in the kit as well happy birthday sending wishes your way and then this one here is warmest wishes on your birthday and again you can see how they open up I've got some of them I've used my embossing folder on the middle one here that one there I've done pattern paper on all three panels you can put panels here as well it's entirely up to you and then all of the embellishments and detail I've used Nuvo drops the buttons come in the kit I've used glossy accents on the berries there there you can just see it hitting the light which looks really nice there's lots of texture so a really nice one very tactile and I've used the the bow there which I actually didn't use during the live and then it wasn't till I was tidying up I realized I had the ribbon in the kit so you those of you that watch the live you'll also see that I've added the ribbon there as well so very very easy to do so let me show you how to make them okay so those of you that have got the kit this is the card making magic when I was doing the live this was still available so this is a subscription kit so you subscribe to it every month it's a different designer every month but then after they've all gone out they do have open stock so as I made this tutorial there was still open stock available so hopefully for anybody that did want to get it you'll still be able to but they do sell out pretty quickly you do get this in a big box and then inside you have your three pockets and you get there's ink cubes that come with this one as well and you've got topper pieces you've got dies you've got stamps there's just so much and I also made the shadow box card so anybody new to the channel I'll link it up here it's a beautiful project lots people have been doing that one and that was using the supplies from this kit so I've gone ahead and coloured and cut all of the flowers for this one which are there now I'm down to the last kind of larger pieces of the pattern paper because you can see I've used a lot across those three cards so I managed to get this piece here and then I've used some gold card from my own stash but you do get a beautiful linen rose gold and gold card stock in the kit as well so you have got that there to use and this is the card stock colour that comes in there as well and then the cream is my own so for this one here you'll want a piece of 10 and a half by eight along the long side so along that 10 and a half you're going to score at three and a half and at seven okay nice and simple just those two score lines then what you want to do along the bottom right hand corner here you want to come up three and a half inches so whatever the width is of these you know three panels so they're three and a half each that's how high up you'd come so on the 12 by 12 each of the panels are four inches so you come up four but again that will all be wrote down in the blog a little pencil mark then what we're going to do is we're going to cut from that pencil mark all the way up to this top left hand corner okay so now we've got that card shape and then you're just going to fold that score line so it's a valley and then this one so it gets so mountain and then we've got our concertina trifold card so I'm just going to rub out that pencil mark okay so now we want to do our matts and layers so I've got all of these pieces here so for all the mat layers so I've got the gold pieces here so I'm going to have one here one here and one here if you want to do these ones then you can do you'll also want one for the back but we'll do the measurements for that in a moment so this is my mat layer for this back one and this is a piece all of the widths are the same so all the mat layer widths are three and a quarter then the length of this one is seven and five eighths then you'll want six and one eighth and then four and five eighths okay and then what we want to do is on this one first of all so this is going to go in the back here so we need to cut this top right hand corner away so what you want to do is come down the side here by one and three eighths I'm just going to put a little mark with my pencil because it's the gold cardstock and then I'm going to cut from that marker up to there so I'm just going to leave that one in there for a minute because I can do these all at the same time then the next one is going to mat this one here so this time I want to come down this side again one and three eighths of an inch so I'm just laying my ruler down and then again one and three eighths trim that in a second and then this one is going to go here but again I want to come down again now on this right hand side so that one and three eighths so that you come down the same on all of those pieces like so so now I'm just going to put them all through my trimmer okay so now I've got my mat layers there for the back one you want to cut the same size as this gold one here but you want to then come down on the left hand side so on that one you came down on the right hand side but because it's now on this side you need to come down on the left hand side same that one and three eighths and then you can stick that one on there so I'll do that in a moment and then I've got my mat layers now so I've got this pattern paper that's going to go on the front one the embossed piece is going to go in the middle one and then I've actually gone for the cream again on the back one because you can see when you decorate it you know it does get really full and you cover a lot so I think these will look quite nice against the planar pieces so for this one here the width is the same on all three so this time it's three inches this one is three by seven and three eighths then you've got three by five and seven eighths and then three by four and three eighths and then again you want to come down one and three eighths on this one here it'll be on the right hand side so again I'm just going to grab my pencil so and then this one I want to come down on the left hand side and I've already embossed it and this is the embossing fold it's just one from my first collection and it's the confetti one and it I just slowly like that one so one and three eighths okay so again I'm going to go and get them all cut and stuck down okay so there are all my mats and layers stuck down and the back's already there as well next I'm going to finish it off with the decoration so I've got my hot glue gun ready and I'll just show you so I've used the stamps here I'm just going to put it on the back there you can see so I've used all of these flowers here and all of these leaves and I think I've done yeah I've done some of them as well this is beautiful this is the stamp that's on the shadow box really really is lovely it's a real favourite stamp at the moment lots of people are kind of talking about this within the craft stash kind of facebook page and stuff on how much they love it all the different designers from the magazines have been using it as well and then there's the die so you have the die to cut that large one you've got the die to cut the flowers that I've done you've got the berries here and I'm going to be doing a tutorial with this very large wreath die in a you know in a few weeks as well so that will come up onto the channel and then I've got a few bits left over but you've also got doilies in here toppers which I've used quite a lot of within these cards and then that's the linen card stop that I spoke about I keep all my scraps all together as well you've got that gorgeous rose gold there and then you've got this one but I'm going to be using the rose gold and some more of the purple card for the wreath that I was just showing you then so that's going to be my next I tried to do three tutorials using each kit so um and I'm a little bit behind with the Olga one because I've only just received it and that's actually box nine so I'm going to be going kind of backwards a little bit but um you'll see them coming anyway so you've got your buttons here I've got all these pieces I've got my sentiment and I've also got my bow and then for the nouveau drops I've used this one here which is called mustard gold really really nice you can just see it there just think it worked really well with this collection and then for anybody that is not familiar with glossy accents this is what I use here and it will give you that lovely shine on the berries there or wherever you decide to put it and then for the colors that I've used to stamp everything so these inks here I've used the harmony quick dry I've used the orange the bordeaux and then for the green I've done the frosty jade so they've all been stamped that's been stamped in the frosty jade but then when I've used my color pencils to color it in it gives you that no line coloring effect so if you don't want the harsh black lines when you stamp then if you try and stamp something within the colors that you're going to color it in then it you know you just get a much softer effect so that's that and then also the colors that I used with my pencils here these are our taser pencils I use the olive green the pumpkin and the passion fruit red so I know lots who've got them those colors the real earthy tones go lovely with this collection so I'm going to go and follow this one here get this all stuck down get my sentiment in place finish it off with the nuvo drops and then I'll show you the card at the end you want this to always be put down on your card because this needs time to dry so I've done the nuvo drops already and I'm just kind of I kind of move it around a lot of people ask about how they get a nice clear finish you know I kind of squeeze it out and then I'm just move around what I've just laid down really sometimes it might come out quite cloudy that's just because it's thicker but it will just dry clear people do use this as a adhesive I don't I just purely use it to add some nice effects to my cards when they're finished so it's great for underwater cards you know you can use it to make like little bubbles or just little kind of ripples in the water I use this a lot so it's a great kind of medium to have in your stash but now if I bring that up you can see I don't want to move it too much because those nuvo drops are still drying but you can see the shine now on the berries from that glossy accents and then nice big blobs of nuvo drops there on the buttons and in the centres of those orange flowers as well finish it off with my sentiment and the bow you would have seen all the mats and layers I've stuck the back on as well but I don't want to flip it over but that's the finished card I think it's absolutely gorgeous it's one of those ones when it's pulled out you really get to then appreciate all the lovely flowers and all the decoration that's on there and then it just all folds nice and flat and will fit into those envelopes so just bring over these ones again so that's the two 12 by 12 so if you do want to get two out of your 12 by 12 then check out my blog for all the measurements and then they're the slightly smaller ones using your a4 or your letter size paper so hopefully there's something you know for everybody because they're the most common sizes that people will have in their stash so I will share all the links below like I said hopefully there is still open stock of the kit available if anybody is interested in it but you can make these cards using any lovely flowers and papers and that that you already have so thanks for watching and as always I'll be back again very soon with another tutorial bye hi everybody if you're still watching you have found the hidden giveaway within this tutorial I haven't done one of these for a while but the lovely Susan from mixed up crafters our group she reached out to me she actually received two of the recent papercraft society kits this is kit 11 this is the one by Christina Griffin the one that you've just seen me use in the video and she said would I like to use it as a giveaway so what I thought I'd do is I'd do it as part of a youtube one now a couple of little rules that you have to follow you have to be over 18 you have to be subscribed to my channel and you have to be a UK resident and the reason we've kept this for the UK only is because the post is all increased in the UK and for sending stuff outside of our borders is just so expensive and Susan will be posting you know paying for this one herself and you can see you know it's a it's a decent size and you get lots of stuff in here if you want to see the unboxing I'll just link it up here so you can just get an idea of what's in there but all you need to do to stand a chance to you know win this is just comment below papercraft society literally just put papercraft society I will then go through all of the comments take away all the ones that want you know for this giveaway and I'll select a winner with the random generator app and I will announce it and you've got 24 hours for when this goes up so it will be at 12 p.m. BST on the 26th which is Wednesday so tomorrow and then I'll announce the winner and Susan will get this posted out to you so good luck and yeah see you soon