This may look like an ordinary card, but wait until you see what's inside.
Ever since I was young, I have always been fascinated by making DIY's to my loved ones especially when there is a special occasion. I create cards that are personalized and give it to them as a gift. Each piece that I make has a unique touch and exceptional. Every time I hand in what I made for them, I feel happy with their reactions and amazement of how I crafted it.
Yesterday, ate @ediah sent me a link to this greeting card making contest by @mermaidvampire and I got enticed to participate. Luckily, I was really thinking of making a card for my sister-at-heart and best friend for her birthday this coming Sunday, March 25. For her last birthday, I have made her an exploding box that took me 3 weeks to almost a month to finish it.
This was the exploding box I made for her birthday last year.
So for this year, I made something new for her.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Construction Papers (Assorted colors)
Scissors
Cutter
Jute Strings
Washi Tapes
Brush Markers
Signo BallPen (White)
Colored Fine Pens
Ballpen/Sign Pen 0.3
Ruler
Pencil
Glue
Decorative Cutters
Below is the process how I made DIY Pop-up cards in a Pop-up Card.
MAKING THE CARD
(1) you need 4 8x8 construction papers.
(3) Cut one side reaching the center and fold the upper left box diagonally.
(2) Fold each paper into four equal sides.
(5) Fold the flap on the right side inward.
(4) Fold the diagonal line making an "L" shape.
(7) Do this to the other 3 papers and it will look like these. Arrange all the cards according to your preference and color combination before sticking it up with each other.
(6) Glue the topside of the right flap and fold down the top flap.
(8) Make sure to check the correct sides of each card before putting it all together.
(9) On the front page, I covered it with green paper because my best friend's obsessed with this color.
(10) I then punched a hole at the center edge of the front page.
(11) and on the back page.
(12) I took my jute twine. Measured it according to how long I need it to close and hold the card and inserted it in the whole.
(13) I decorated the twine with the washi tapes I have and make it look like a festival banner.
(14) For the front page, I cut out letters on a bright-colored paper and shadowed it with a dark colored paper to let it pop out.
(15) I glued it to the front page and wrote my best friend's name below it with the use of brush pens and decorated it with the white pen. I put in ABC's because I placed an alphabetically arranged qualities she has inside the card.
MAKING THE POP-UPS
(16) I wrote the "32 qualities Joyce have" in a separate construction paper because she'll be turning 32 this coming Sunday. I cut it out and pasted it into the first card. I also placed a pop-out corner.
(17) I used my decorative cutters, the flower, and the leaf, on the appropriate colors for the flowers and leaves to be decorated on that popping out corner.
(18) I wrote the good qualities of Joyce and cut it into smaller pieces just enough to fit on the flowers.
(19) This is how the first pop-up card looks like.
(20) For the second card, I put in another pop-out. I cut the paper into four strips.
(21) I cut out green strips to be the balloon's sticks.
(22) I made balloon cut outs in different colors and used a white pen to highlight it.
(23) Glued the qualities onto the balloons.
(24) I arranged the balloons and made a weaving pattern with the green strips. This is how the second card looks like.
(25) For the third card, I used a popping out spiral heart. I drew an outline of a heart and cut out the lines. I made two of these.
(26) I stick the largest parts of the heart and glued it to the card. I also stick the little hearts connecting each other and decorated the remaining qualities I wrote around it.
(27) For the last and fourth card, I decided to make a popping-out birthday greeting. I made an outline on a piece of paper.
(28) Then I used a cutter to highlight the birthday greeting.
(29) I then put a pink background to make the message readable when it pops out. This is then the fourth pop-up card.
Top view of the pop-up cards.
After seeing all that I have done, I got satisfied with it since I put in a lot of effort. I'll be adding maybe a personal letter and I choose not to post it since I want it to be private. While I was making these, I'm inspired to finish it because I want my best friend to be surprised on her birthday and so far, I have nothing to give her, only this. I spent hours just to finish this one and yes, making DIY's are tiring but I enjoy doing it at the same time.
I'd like to invite my cousin @jemmanuel and his friends @jancharlest, @jerikoponteras, @milayosawa to make one too. (wink)
I hope you guys learned how to make one through the steps I have shown you.
Keep creating! Unleash your creativity.
Much love,
Kayenine