House Pop up card Tutorial and Template

Pop up Card - House

As promised here is the tutorial to the House pop up card.

House pop up card

When I first started making pop up cards I used templates from the net ,now I find  it is so much more fun and rewarding when I design one myself!
For my friends who want to make a quick House Pop up card here is my template.

House Pop up Card Template

Just score on the dotted lines and mountain fold.
For those of you who may be crazy like me and want to "understand the mechanism "and go about it the difficult way, sharing instructions to help you design your own customized House pop up card.
How to design your own House Pop up card

Make the Base of your House

Take a rectangular strip of card.Don't use very thick card stock as your House pop up should be easy to crease and fold.

For people who like measurements- I started off with a card measuring 3.5 x 9.5 inches.

Score your 3.5 x 9.5 inch card lengthwise 0.5 inch.This will help for the tab of your house base.

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Score at 0.5,2.5,5 and 7 inches. This will give you a 0.5 inch width tab ,  two 2 inch wide sides and two 2.5 inch wide sides for your house. You can play with your measurements however you fancy.

So you have your strip in now divided into tab[ 0.5 inch width], Side A[2 inch wide], Side B[ 2.5 inch wide],Side C[2 inch wide] and Side D[ 2.5 inch wide]

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Easy way to fold your house pop up card is score sides B and D in the middle as shown

Cut off the lower parts[ below the score line] of parts B and D as shown and slant and cut to form tabs for parts A and C.

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Draw a triangular shape towards the top of parts B and D as shown and horizontal lines meeting as shown on parts A and C.[My measurement was 0.75 inch from the top]

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Cut off  the extra parts marked above.Slant and taper cut your tab also and your house pop up base is ready.

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You can mountain fold all the score lines to start with.Then Valley fold the score line in the middle of part B.[You can also mountain fold this if that is the shape of house you like]

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Glue your tab to the inside of part D and your house shape has formed.
Make a roof. 

I used rough measuring for this and you can do the same.

If you want a short cut you can follow my measurements which is a 4 x 2 inch card strip scored at 0.5inch,2 inch and 3.5 inch.

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If you want to go about designing a roof is here is how you do it:

The guide is your roof strip should measure the same height  as the width of Parts A and C[mine is 2 inches in height].To design a roof take a 5-6 inch long strip  score it in the middle and place it over your house shape. Judge the length you will require. You need to cover the house and have some extra to glue on the house.Cut the rest off.

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Attach your roof tabs to Sides A and C as shown above.

Additional Parts

You can add lots of fun additional pop up parts like an arched door  or a chimney like I did.

House Pop up Card

To make the arched door cut a shape and give it small tabs on the sides as shown.Fold it along the middle and fold the tabs too.

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Position it over your side B to find a position you like.
Attach one tab on the front of your house making sure the central fold lines of the house and the front of your house[ side B] align.Apply glue on the other tab and  fold over your house on to it.

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You can decorate your house before sticking it to your base card.

House Pop up Card

Open up your house and position it over  the base card.Roughly mark the position of your tabs in this position.Fold your house , apply glue to the tabs. Stick one tab to the base card. Fold over the base card and let the other tab find its own position. Wait for the glue to dry well.

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I added some layers of "snow "cut from photo paper  folded and attached in a V shaped manner.

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The house pop up card is such a versatile pop up - you can use it for a housewarming card, a moving away card, a Christmas card, a birthday card and what not!
Here are links to more Pop up Card Tutorials
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