Pop up card - Pedestal Lord Ganesha Card

Quilled Flowers and Ribbon Flower

This is another celebration card celebrating the festival of Lord Ganesha.Living in Bangalore this time of the year, there are beautiful idols of Lord Ganesha everywhere on the streets and the Ganesha festival is celebrated with such fervor and festivities.

Here is a closeup of the quilled daisy flower and hand looped leaf [ though I have the comb or onion holder as it is called I dislike using it and prefer to loop by hand]

Quilled Flower and Leaf

These ribbon rose is super easy to make and involves no sewing. I wanted a big flower so stuck the ribbon rose onto a base of scallop circles. The leaf is also a ribbon- foil creation. Here is the link to the simple ribbon rose and ribbon leaf tutorial

Ribbon Rose

Though I wanted to keep the focus on the ribbon rose , I couldnt resist drawing some golden glitter glue swirls at the borders to add to the festive mood of a celebration card.

Quilled Flowers and Ribbon Flower

The inside of the card is a Pedestal Pop up card with a Punch craft Lord Ganesha designed by my 5 year old daughter.

Pop up card Lord Ganesha

I bought the pear punch recently on impulse thinking I would use it make flower petals .Imagine my surprise when my daughter made this wonderful punch-craft depiction of Lord Ganesha using the pear punch and a scallop punch.

Pop up card Lord Ganesha

Our Punchcraft Ganesha is pretty straightforward to assemble but if anyone wants help I can post a step by step for our Punch Craft Ganesha.Added some quilled tear drop shapes, pearls and sequins at the border .

Pop up card Lord Ganesha

Sharing a tutorial on making a Pedestal Pop up card which is a simple and versatile pop up mechanism to pop up a special image.

Its easy to work freehand too but here is a template I made to guide you in case you want to make this type  of pop up quickly.The yellow star is the pedestal .

Pop up Card Template

The first rectangular strip will be the base of your pedestal. The blue and red shaded portions are your glue tabs.Your strip will have 3 mountain folds as shown

Pop up card Tutorial

While sticking a pop up strip first stick the tab going at your center fold, then fold your strip, apply glue to the other glue tab ,close your card and your pop up strip is ready.

Pop up card Tutorial

Stick your 2nd pop up strip as shown [ blue tab goes on to vertical surface and red tab to horizontal surface]

Pop up card Tutorial

Now your pedestal Pop up card mechanism is ready and you can stick your image.

Pop up card Tutorial

I went a step further and popped up our Punch craft Lord Ganesha again using a similar strip as the 2nd pop up strip.

Pop up card Lord Ganesha

So here is the side view showing the pop up card layers

Pop up card Tutorial

Here is the closeup of  a punch craft flower and metallic leaf

Punch Craft Flower

If you don't want to design tabs here is a Kirigami Pop up card template I designed for this Pop up card -Bold lines -cut,small dotted lines-valley fold,long dot line-mountain fold.

Pop up Card Template

We made this simple pop up card Lord Ganesha Card for my daughters teacher

Pop up card Pedestal Card

Its embellished by my daughter and she was so proud to take it to school!

Pop up card Pedestal Card

You can adapt the pop up cake card tutorial to make this card or use this Kirigami pop up card template I designed to make this simpler version of the Pop up Pedestal Card.

Pop up Card Template

Have fun-- I hope I am not overwhelming you with pop up cards--they are just so much fun to make and so only I am sharing some of the tips and tricks I learn while I make them. Do tell me how you like our cards.
Do pop up cards seem too difficult? Well here are links to nearly 30 Card Making Tutorials of different types