Dinosaur Pop Up Card Tutorial

Dinosaur Card

My 5 year old daughter loves dinosaurs and we made this simple dinosaur card from foam and felt.Here is the inside of the dinosaur card with a Pop up Trex.

Dinosaur Pop Up card 

I cut the foam Brachiosaurus outline free hand from foam. Dinosaurs are easy to draw as there is no limit to your imagination!We cut out some yellow felt shapes to use as the dinosaur spots.

Dinosaur Card

Here is my daughter sticking the yellow felt spots using fabric glue.It takes so much longer to stick felt if you use normal white glue.Little one had fun planning the positioning of the spots!

Dinosaur Card

The grass is again free hand cut from a strip of green felt. Here you can see my little helper sticking the felt grass. I couldn't allow her imagination to run free for this card as I had to follow a sketch for the ICRC 10 challenge!

Dinosaur Card

We stuck the scrap bits of green felt as grass blades below the continuous felt strip. The pink roses are spiral paper roses. 

Dinosaur Pop Up card Tutorial

When you craft with a 5 year old little girl-- everything ends up pink and girly so here is our pretty purple- pink girly dinosaur wearing a flower on her head and lipstick on her lips!!

Dinosaur Pop Up card Tutorial

The silver butterfly is our touch of recycling- punched out from a takeaway aluminium foil box![Yes my recycling spree has not ended!]

Dinosaur Pop Up card Tutorial

Here is the Aluminium take away box from which I punched out the lovely butterfly.This Aluminium Butterfly is so much more sturdier than a paper butterfly and its wings stay up so easily.And don't worry my punch is fine![ In fact I read somewhere that if your punch becomes blunt you can sharpen it by punching through foil]

Punched Recycled Butterfly

How to make the Pop up Card

My regular readers know how much I love pop up cards- well I try to add a fun element to most of my cards and I am especially pleased with the way I made this one as it involves a bit of recycling again 

The scenic background of the dinosaur pop up is not a patterned paper or something I printed but one side of an advertisement for a medicine! 

• Chose a picture larger than one side of your folded card as its easier if it crosses over the mid line[ If not you can still use some other tricks to make it pop!- See my older tutorials to make pop up cards  : Recycled Pop Up card tutorial and Make any picture into a pop up card Tutorial]
• Score the card in 2 places [ You can create multiple scores and folds -here I am illustrating one of the simplest pop up card making techniques!]

Dinosaur Pop Up card Tutorial

Fold your card valley, mountain and valley as shown here.Experiment before you make your final folds.

Dinosaur Pop Up card Tutorial

Stick the broad part of the picture on one side of the base card.Then  fold it and apply glue on the small part.Fold over the base card so that your pop up will find its own place.Allow enough time for the glue to dry and  your pop up scene is ready!

Dinosaur Pop Up card Tutorial

We stuck a Trex [ from sparkle box] on the popping out ledge.

Dinosaur Pop Up card 

When recycling pictures in card making your picture is often not the ideal size-- our picture covered only part of one side of the base card - so I cut more greenery from a calendar and from some moonstone paper and did a paper collage scene!

Dinosaur Card and Homemade Dinosaur Toys

The picture shows our pop up dinosaur card and 2 home made dinosaur toys- shall share more about them in the next post! 

I hope you enjoyed this simple pop up card.Do leave me your comments-- that is what keeps the energy flowing!
Edited this card won at ArtsyCrafty