Pop Up Card Banner Card Tutorial

Pop Up Banner Card

Pop Up Birthday Card

This is a simple pop up  card to make.It is ideal to pop up the sentiment in your greeting card. You don't need templates and that is the fun part of this technique I am going to show you as you can tailor it to suit the card you are making.

1.Cut a piece of card to form the base of your Banner.

Shape:It can be any shape square,rectangle,trapezium.

Width: Wide enough to hold your Banner  + can be as wide as your card

Height:The height of the folded base + the pole piece of the banner + Banner height should be such that the whole mechanism fits in your folded card.Go ahead and experiment a little here.

2.Fold the base in half

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3.Make a slit in the folded top part of the base piece wide enough to let the pole piece slide freely.
4.This is how the cut out top looks like

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5.Fold up 0.5 to 1cm of both ends of the base piece

6.Cut the pole piece width to easily fit through the slot in the top of the base piece.Its length should be long enough to pop out of the folded base piece but not too long as to go out of the folded card.

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 7.Fold in the 2 ends of the pole piece
8.Place the whole mechanism on the card and check the mechanism to see the sliding movement and also if it fits well in the folded card

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9.Glue the folded ends of the pole piece at the central crease line of the Card

10.This is how the pole piece will pop up on opening the card flat

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11.Insert the Base through the pole piece

12.Apply glue to one of the folded ends of the base piece

13.Glue it in place to one side of the card in such a way as to form a tent

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14.Apply glue to the other end and fold the whole pop up mechanism flat with glue surface up

15.Fold the Card closed, press and hold for some time to let the glue dry

16. The opened up card will show the pop up

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17. Make a Banner with the sentiment and stick it on the Pole piece of your Banner

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Your Banner Pop up Card is ready!