Pop Up Wreath Card Tutorial

Pop Up Cards

Here is the promised Pop Up wreath Card Tutorial.The earlier pop up wreath card was made with basic materials but I went all out and used a variety of my beloved punches for this fancier pop up Christmas card.

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Materials required

Card stock- Sturdy card stock is required . I used a folded A 4 card to make the base and scraps to make the tabs and wreath

Scoring tool- Even though I use my beloved Scorpal as its so much easier and quicker, just a blunt knife or an old pen [whose ink has run out] will do.

Glue- white glue- I use fevicol MR

How to Make a Pop Up wreath card

Cut a circular shape, fold it in half and cut out the center - size it as you wish- mine is around 4 inches in diameter

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Make 4 supporting tabs from thick card stock by scoring 2 inch strips at 0.5and 1.5inches to give a tab which measures 1 inch in the middle and 0.5 inches at either end.Valley fold all the creases. 

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Take one tab and apply glue as shown and stick it to the folded wreath as shown

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Take another tab ,apply glue and stick to the central upper part of the other half once  a day your pop up wreath as shown.Note the direction of the supporting tabs and the area where the glue is applies on the lower supporting tab.

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Stick the lower tab flush with the central crease of the base card. Apply glue on the area shown on the upper tab and stick it to the other half of the base card again flush with the central crease as shown.

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Add 2 more supports at the 2 edges of your wreath in a similar fashion.Apply glue on the tab as shown,fold over your wreath and stick the glue tab.Apply glue on the other end of the tab as shown and close the base card and allow the tab to stick. In a similar fashion stick the tab on the other side of the pop up card .

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Tip: You wont go wrong in the pop up mechanism if you glue one part of the tab to the wreath and then apply glue to the other part and let it find its own sticking point by folding the base card!

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Making the wreath was so easy I became a ambitious and added a 2nd pop up element on top of the pop up wreath!
How to make a Pop Up bow

This is a super simple pop up mechanism and you can use this pop up bow on a box, wreath or maybe a baby's head!

You can hand cut a bow shape as I did in my first pop up wreath card or 

create a quick bow from 2 punched hearts as shown here.

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 I scored the edges of 2 hearts as shown, cut off the edge of one heart and stuck it to the folded edge of the other heart to make a folded bow for the pop up card.

This bow even looks like a butterfly so this mechanism can be adapted to make a pop up butterfly!

 Score and fold 2 supporting tabs.The size depends on the size of your bow- My tabs are 0.5 inches at either end and 0.75 inches wide in the center.

Pop up card making Tip:Slope the corners of  tabs for a smoother sticking and pop up mechanism ease

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 Stick the tabs as shown on the underside of your bow.Fold over the bow and apply glue to the tabs as shown above.

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Stick one glue tab near the central crease of the pop up wreath and fold over so that the other glue tab sticks by itself .Here is how the pop up bow mechanism looks.

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The Pop Up wreath card techniques can be adapted to a variety of pop up objects - like maybe a tiara, a doughnut, a ring ,a table, a cake...

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Warning: Making pop up cards does require a bit of concentration but I guess that is just what we need sometimes to distract over selves from life's stresses!

This one is especially for you my friend Jessica since you love wreaths so much!

This is inspired by Jessica's beautiful wreath card 
Here are links to more pop up card tutorials
If you prefer to make less technically challenging cards here is a compilation of card making tutorials