Such a CUTE Springy Hexagonal Box Card! NO DIES NEEDED!!!

Hey everyone, it's Sam here, and today I'm going to show you how to make this cute little pop-up box card. This one folds down flat into 5 by 7 size, and then when you open it up, you can see it all pops up. You've got some elements on the acetate there. You've got that gorgeous little cart, and then all the sweet treats and the little bunting along the top. You don't need any dies to make this card, so let me show you how. So, this is my Made to Make Maker's Edition 3, and everything that I'm using is from this kit. As I'm filming these quite early on, it's actually January, I don't know by the time this does eventually go out onto my YouTube channel if there's any stock available, but if there is, it'll be linked below. But, if you're one of the subscribers, hello. I hope you enjoy today's video. So, this is a 5 by 7 card, so you want a piece of 5 by 7, and you're going to score and fold. Okay? This is 300 heavyweight cardstock. Then, for that the base part, this is a piece of 6 by 2 and 1/2. Along the 6-in side, you're going to score at 1/2 an inch, 1 and 1/2, 4 and 1/2, and 5 and 1/2. And you want to fold and burnish all these score lines. Then, I've got this piece here, which is going to be the support for the pop-ups. So, this is 5 by 1. Along the 5-in side, you need to score at 1/2 an inch, 1 inch, 4 inches, and 4 and 1/2. Fold and burnish. And then, this bit here is going to be for the top, and I'm going to cut a scallop kind of detail into this. So again, this is 6 by I'm going to It's a bit of scraps, that's why it's not straight, but 6 by 1 and 1/2, cuz you're going to cut into this. And you want to score the same, so at 1/2 an inch, 1 and 1/2, 4 and 1/2, and 5 and 1/2. That's the same scoring as this piece here. Again, fold and burnish. And then, you'll also need some acetate, which you'll have for your pop-up pieces, and then for the mats and layers. Also, I've got everything out. So, this was cut from a piece of cuz you want your pattern, cuz these are the stripes here all I know it's that way around, I think, cuz it's the stripe paper. Can you see? There you go. The pattern lines up. So, if you cut yourself piece of 4 and 1/4 by 6 and 3/4 and then cut it from left to right, first cutting a piece of 3/4, then cut a piece of 2 and 3/4, and then cut Well, the last piece will be 3/4. That's if you're using like a heavy directional, you know, pattern paper. If it's just plain or it's really busy, it's not going to matter. Then you don't need to worry about that. But if you're using one of the scenes from the kit, then you'll want to make sure you cut it in that order. So, first of all, I'm going to stick this down onto here, and then I'm going to use the pattern paper and stick it over the top to cover the tabs. You can, if you want, stick the tabs around like so, but you'll see it won't fold completely flat. So, you'd have to cut a little bit off of the sides, which you can do. So, if you would rather have the joints at the back, but I'm going to have them at the front. They're going to get covered anyway. Okay, so just run my glue down both those 1/2 in tabs. Keep those folded under and just stick this so it's flush with the bottom. This is going to be how it will all stand up. Okay, you can do a little test. Open it up and you've got your hexagon. You pull that right over, like so. So, it really comes out. Okay? Then I'm going to take my mats and layers and stick them all down. Okay, so that's all the mats and layers stuck down. And then with this one here, so that's that wonky piece. If you've got a die that will create like a scallop effect, then you can use that. But I'm going to actually do this freehand. So, I'm going to grab and just roughly mark it out with a pencil. In fact, what you can do as well So, if you get something, here we go, I'll use my little rubbing alcohol bottle. I might use that as my shape. You could also use a circle die. You could use a circle punch, punch it out on some cardstock and use that to trace around, or you can do it by hand. Now, I don't need to worry about the tabs. So, I'm actually going to just cut. So, I'll cut down left about half an inch width there. Cuz that's You don't need much for this to attach. Just kind of remove similar to what I've done there. And then I want my scallop bunting. I just want to mimic the Here it is, my cute little card. I want to mimic that design there. So, I'm going to start in the middle and put the circle right at the top. And just do a semicircle like that and then put them put it next to it. I'm going to cut a little bit higher than this. And then the last one can go off the side just to give me a rough shape really. Cuz I'm not too worried if it's not straight, but I think it looks pretty good. Just something like that. So, I'm going to cut that out. There we go. Very cute. This piece is also completely optional. You don't have to have anything at the top. You might want to put a big sentiment up here. But just fold and burnish like so. And now that's going to attach the same way that we attach this. It's now giving me Punch and Judy. You know, your little seaside theater. So, some of you might you know, get other ideas now on ways to decorate this. So, I'm just going to pop that one under there. In fact, going back to that Punch and Judy, if you've got the Daisy May Punch and Judy It was like a seaside themed stamp set she brought out. Then you could you could use that to create this style as well. But there you have it. How sweet is that? Absolutely love it. And then what I've done is from the die set, see I've created all of this. I've got a separate video showing you how to put your card together, which you would have seen first anyway. And then these bits I'm going to just use to decorate the back. And then we want to add this one in. So, fold again both those little tabs in. You only add any glue onto that part. And you want to line up these score lines with these score lines here. So, if I just And it's going to go behind here. So, in fact, you can just line it up. See, I'm just sliding it. You just slide it behind there. Like so. I'm just holding it. The tabs are folded under with the glue. And then just push that down. That's actually the easiest way to do that. And now, when you bring that one up, we've got our platform. And that's what you'll be able to attach, you know, your acetate to. And then, you can add all of your pop-ups. So, I've got all of these different bits here. I've got the bunting. The cart is going to be on the front. And I'm going to have it level with there, so I can still have little things on there and you'll see them. I thought that looked quite cute. And then, I think I'm going to take the trim from the paper, so this one here. I've got this one left with the sprinkles effect. And I think that's going to tie in quite nicely. So, I think I'm going to run that along the bottom. Yeah, once that's all stuck down, I'm going to probably pop that up on a bit of foam as well, so that's quite dimensional. And then, yeah, just add all these bits. I might add them on the front as well with that. So, yeah, see where we go with it. But the strips, you just want to make sure you've got like a construction weight. When you pop your little, you know, whatever it is on the acetate, just make sure it can hold itself upright and it doesn't topple over. And that way, you know it's going to stay upright in the card. So, there is the finished card. How adorable. So, I've got one, three pop-ups on the acetate, the two sweets and then the donut. I've then put the other sweet and ice cream on some foam on the very back. And then, these two ice creams I just actually stuck onto that piece. And then, I've added a few little bits onto the little cart there. And then, that trim along the bottom. And it all folds down flat, so that's how it goes in the envelope. And then, it easily, you know, pops up, so they know how to display it. And then, you've got your space on the back. So, I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial today. It's given you some more inspiration on ways to use the kit. If you're watching this later on on YouTube, because this goes out to the subscribers first, then I hope you've enjoyed this video as well. I will add it to the playlist of the other kind of hexagon pop-up cards that I've done because I have quite a few now in different sizes. So, you might like this style, but you want a different size card, check out that playlist. As always, thank you for watching. I will link to any of the products if they're available in the description box below, and I'll see you in the next one.