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| Pop Up Christmas Card |
This year my 6 year old has 10 teachers and I am making special cards for each of them! I had lots of fun [
and a bit of hair pulling moments !!] designing this pop up Christmas card.
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| Pop Up Christmas Card |
This card has a variety of pop up mechanism[
V folds, Box designs and Spring pop up mechanisms]I designed the pop up house with my Scorpal using ideas from Birmingham's book "pop up".[This pop up house is a slightly complicated design so sharing the link to my simpler
Pop up house card tutorial]
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| Pop Up Christmas Card |
The Xmas trees behind and in front of the house are simple V fold pop up mechanisms.The reindeer sleigh and snowman also pop up by a V fold pop up mechanisms.
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| Pop Up Christmas Card |
The V fold is described as an easy pop up but its not my favorite as it often gives me
hair pulling sessions !! I often make mistakes in its angulation [and my pop up doesnt pop nicely] or height and placement [and my pop up juts out of the card]
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| Pop Up Christmas Card Tutorial |
For pop up enthusiasts who face similar issues :Experiment with the position and angulation of the folded pop up element on the card before any gluing.
Once happy...ie folded element is well within the closed card...
glue the tab of one half and
then apply glue on the other tab and fold the card over...this way you have a smarter V fold Pop up card!
Now lets put aside the difficult pop up mechanisms for a fun and easy pop up card tutorialThe star,bunnies,xmas robin and Xmas tree near the robin all pop up by a
Spring pop up mechanism |
| Pop Up Christmas Card Tutorial |
The spring pop up mechanism is super easy to make.
Take a strip of
sturdy thick card stock .Score and fold or simply
accordion fold a strip of card .My score lines are at
1/2 inch intervals- width of paper strip = less than the width of your pop up element
- length of paper strip = depends of how much spring you want to give your pop up.
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| Pop Up Card Tutorial |
Attach the folded spring as shown to your pop up element.
Gluing position of the spring on the pop up element is important.I wanted just a
gentle up ward pop for my star so glued the spring
near the center of the star.
This is how the star springs up in the pop up Christmas card!
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| Pop Up Christmas Card |
On the Robin I added
more accordion folds and attached it
towards the base of the Christmas robin so as to make it stand more upright on the pop up card.
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| Pop Up Christmas Card |
The Xmas tree near the robin also is popping up by the spring pop up mechanism
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| Pop Up Christmas Card |
Since the V fold pop ups were so taxing I generously used the spring pop up mechanisms to make up my scenic Pop up Christmas card.
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| Pop Up Christmas Card |
I know many people are daunted by the prospect of making pop up cards but I am sure you would have loved this spring pop up!Do tell me what you think!
Supplies : Graphics : Navneet Publishers Punches used on Pop up house : Martha Stewart.Paper of house roof top [Itsy Bitsy] Dies : Sizzix star [Itsy Bitsy] Blue Stamp pad used to distress edges of star and V fold for snowy scene[Itsy BItsy] Stickers: Santa and Snowman [ unknown company][Sahakaranagar,Bangalore Fancy Store],Sentiment and corner flourish[Shilpi] [Devi & Co Ebrahim Street]Edited:This project came Tops 3 at
ICRC 24 and earned me a Guest DT post.Yippee!
This project also came
top 3 at Winter Wonderland Christmas tree
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