Our June card making activity was focused on pop up cards. While trying to figure out what projects would work well in a group setting, I made a variety of pop up cards, most of which just took too long to do more than one card in one night. These are the three cards that we ended up making:
These first two are the fronts of a baby card and a beach card. The baby card is a Silhouette Design Store cutting file. The beach card front was made using a Sizzix embossing folder and matching dies.
Below you can see the inside of each card. The crib is the pop up mechanism for the baby card. Again, I can take zero credit for it, since I just bought the file, cut it, and glued it together. I got lucky on finding the perfect paper in my stash that worked well for both the front and the inside. It was a Colorbok Heidi Grace Designs paper called bgirl buggy. I also had the boy version and let them choose which color since they only had time to make one.
For the beach card, I stamped the water and sand layers, die cut the shell twice and pieced parts so that it looked more authentic, shaded with inks and daubers, then added a hint of glitter with clear Wink of Stella, especially on the die cut pearl inside. I used a simple box pop up mechanism made with a strip of paper instead of cutting slits and scoring the folds in the card base.
I had a few bee stamp sets, so when I found the BoBunny Bee-utiful You Collection in a pad at Tuesday Morning, I snapped it up. I love most of the papers, and they were perfect for this card. The bee stamp and honeycomb embossing border used on the card front were included with a Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine awhile back.
I used more papers from the Bee-utiful You pad for the inside, but the stamps used were from a different bee themed stamp set. This may have been everyone's favorite card to make that night.
For this one, I used the same simple paper strip box mechanism as the beach card.
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