Initial Pop-Up

This pop up card is for a lady named Vangie at the request of my oldest daughter. Vangie also rides for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Team In Training. Her favorite color is pink. Vangie has a pink bike and a pink helmet and even wears a pink jersey when she isn't wearing the team colors of purple and green. A PINK girl after my own heart!

It's What's On The Inside That Counts.

.......the inside of the card that is. I have been having fun with pop up cards, doing the inside but nothing on the outside! That will come later. Yesterday I gave you a link to a site with great pop up patterns I have since found another page from the same person that isn't linked from the first page. You can find the additional patterns HERE

The pattern for this card is on the secong page. It is called Falling Stars. It was pretty easy as most of the cuts are straight but it took a long time to do.

You can see the stars better in this close-up.

This card was really easy and didn't take much time. I now have a head start on my Christmas cards!

Pop Up Fan

Woo hoo look what I found! Patterns for fantastic pop up cards. You can find the patterns HERE
You can see some more of the artist's fabulous work HERE and read about the materials and tools needed.


This is inside of the card I made. I didn't do anything to the outside.I can already see mistakes. I didn't make sure that the fold was centered and there are a few little bits I didn't cut out but this was only practice so I am quite pleased with it.


This is the side view. It is quite easy really but I do need some practice with my swivel knife.

It's the inside that counts ......

The outside sure isn't much!

This is a card I made this morning. VERY plain jane....or is it?


This is the inside of the card! I was surfing when I found this video and thought I would give it a try. I made the flowers smaller than in the video, I cut a sheet of computer paper into 1/8ths. This will give you one piece to experiment with. The only other thing I did differently was I sponged the edges of the flowers. If I do another one I will tweek it more, maybe use colored paper for the flowers and decorate the inside and maybe put a sentiment on the inside too. It was fun to do, give it a try!