Pop Up Accordion Card

Pop Up Accordion Card

        Hi friends Thank you so much for all the appreciation you showered on my Spinning Pop Up Ball card.I made that particular pop up card using a Sizzix die   designed by Karen Burniston.

        Making the pop up ball card using Karen's die was such a breeze that I promtly became her fan and so for my DT project from Crafters Corner I picked up another die designed by Karen Burniston .Karen 's pop up card dies are so cleverly designed that they tackle all the difficulties of pop up card making and help crafters of all levels make fun interactive and crazily "wow" pop up cards with ease. 

Pop Up Card

           I made this Pop Up Accordion card using the awesome Oval Accordion Die Karen had designed for Elizabeth Craft designs.Using this die you can make accordion cards with 2 to "n " number of panels and the most spectacular feature of the Karen's pop up accordion cards are that they also feature pop up up elements which swing out on opening the card!

Pop Up Accordion Card

To make this Accordion Pop Up card I layered the pattern paper on the thick card base [ thick cardstock is crucial to the success of this design].

Pop Up Accordion Card

Each die cut panel has a tab on one end and you can attach the tabs to create card and albums with multiple panels.

Pop Up Accordion Card

This is how the card looks accordion folded before making the pop up elements

Pop Up Accordion Card

I trimmed a Spellbinders Majestic labels 25 to frame the oval and added a Spellbinders Borderabilities curved border 2 atop the rectangular card panels

After decorating and accordion folding the card panels , comes the most fun part...creating the swinging pop up elements!

Pop Up Accordion Card

       Karen's design is so cool...you just have to add a good adhesive [ best is red tacky tape] to the tab on one oval and stick it under the oval of the next card , a little twist and turn and your pop up album/ card is ready!

Pop Up Accordion Card

 And the best thing about pop up cards/ albums is that they fold absolutely flat to mail!

Pop Up Accordion Card

Added a Cheery Lynn  golden lamp post and shimmery flowers on the first panel of the Pop Up card

Pop Up Card

The silvery " Happy Birthday" was cut from glitter foam using Elizabeth Craft design dies.The white butterly was stamped and heat embossed on parchment and and the golden butterflies all over the card are Cheery Lynn .

Pop Up Accordion Card

In this card I made handmade paper flowers to match the floral design of the pattern paper I used on my Pop Up Card Panels and here is a mini tutorial on how I made them

Paper Flower tutorial 

I made these shimmering paper flowers using the Spellbinders rose creations die and Heart felt creations leaves

Handmade Paper Flower

1. Use off white/ cream paper for your  flowers. 

If you regularly use white paper to make punched/ handcut/ die cut flowers, try using off white , cream or yellow paper as it gives a lovely hue to your flowers even after coloring them.

 2. Draw on your flower petals

Its fun to work with stamp and die cut flowers such as the popular heartfelt creations flowers but suppose you dont want to invest in stamps here is an equally fun and economical tip : Draw fine lines/ other designs on your flower petals using a fine liner sketch pen or a pencil. I used a brown misaki sketch pen.

Paper flower tutorial 

3. Ink your flower petals  in 2 shades.

 I  used the cute , handy and not to mention super economical mini distress ink pads [ festive berries, mustard seeds, mowed lawn] to ink the edges and center of my flower petals. 

Paper flower tutorial 

Chose the shades of  your ink to match the colors of  your pattern paper/ stamped image. 

4. Emboss / shape your flowers

 if your dont have time to emboss just pinching / shaping with your hands is enough if your paper is malleable enough!

Paper flower tutorial 

5. Layer your flowers

Layering flowers always looks cool! Unless you are making a pop up card and dont want very bulky flowers!

Paper flower tutorial

6. Add Shimmer to your flowers

I wanted my flowers to match the shimmering flowers of my pattern paper . 

Paper flower tutorial 

Normal glitter would be too garish. I experimented with theWink of Stella brushes and woo I do love the magical shimmer they lend a project!

Paper flower tutorial 

 My little helper loved the magic of Wink of Stella and volunteered to jazz up all the leaves and flowers !

Paper flower tutorial 

The best feature of Wink of Stella is you can give a very subtle shimmer or really load on a golden hue to your projects by varying the pressure on the brush pen

Handmade Paper flower

Make leaves in a similar way

Leaf tutorial 

• Punch / Die cut leaves from pattern paper - so much more interesting than plain colored paper .Here I have used Heart felt creations leaves
• Add veins using a fine liner pen or pencil
• Inking options : Ink in 2 shades of green, add a touch of brown or black to parts of the leaf!Dont ink uniformly-- a mottled appearance is more natural!

Leaf tutorial 

• Shape your leaves by simply pinching or embossing
• Mix up the elements on your project so that the curvature of the leaves are varied.

Handmade Paper flower

I hope you liked the Pop Up Accordion card with the handmade flowers.Do tell me how it is.

Pop Up Accordion Card

Pop Up Accordion Card

Supplies: Wink of Stella and ECD Oval Accordion Die from Crafters Corner

Dies

• Spellbinders Rose creations, Spellbinders Majestic labels 25, Spellbinders borderabilities, 
• Heartfelt creations Classic Leaf, Heartfelt creations Sun kissed fleur [ used to make the buds], 
• Sizzix Butterfly, 
• Cheery Lynn  lamp post, Cheery Lynn  butterflies, 
• Elizabeth Craft designs Happy Birthday,Elizabeth Craft designs Oval Accordion die

Inks:Distress Inks : festive berries, mustard seeds, mowed lawn, Versamark watermark

Papers : DCWV
Misc : Wink of Stella

Edited : This card was featured by Karen Burniston on her facebook page[ yipee!!]
And also came top 5 in All Sorts Flowers theme Challenge