Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah.
In this video we're going to be making a
pyramid topper and turning that into a card. Pyramid is also called Pyramage, and
it's the technique of layering up shapes of the same design one on top of the
other to create a 3D appearance. It's quite a simple card making technique but
it produces stunning results. If you're new to card making and still getting to
grips with all the different types of things you can do with your paper, pyramid
toppers are a great way to start because they're simple - all it takes is straight
lines which you're cutting out - but they produce a card which is really 3D and
interactive and looks great. There are a couple of different types of ways you
can get a pyramid topper to use on your card. Here's the first type and this is a
download which I purchased from www.craftsuprint.com and it's been designed by
Carol Clarke. I'll put the link to this sheet and all the other ones that I'm
about to show you in the description below this video so you can go and check them
out if you'd like to get them yourself. On his one, you can see the pyramid
layers are all on here but all this is is a topper that we can then stick onto
a card which we create ourselves. So, this is a topper kind of pyramid. You can also
get ones which have a completed card front. Again, this one's from
www.craftsprint.com and it is designed by Sue Douglas. This time, it's got the whole
card front design - it's not just a little topper - and then you layer up parts of
the card topper into your pyramid. This one's a little bit different to the
teddy bear one because the layers are circular rather than square. One of
the lovely things about pyramid is that you can layer up in any shape you want.
This design, I have made up into a card to show you so here it is.
You can see if I tilt it that we've got all the layers in this pyramid, showing a
lovely 3D effect in the middle of the card. If you're short on time with your
card making then using toppers that come with the completed card front is a
great way of speeding up your card making as all the hard work has been done
for you. In fact, all I had to do with this one was stick it onto a card -
I chose one with this pretty edging on it - and then do my layers which I'll show
you how to do in a minute, and then just stick some gemstones and peel-off
stickers around and that's it! That's all it was, but this is so beautiful. it's a
lovely card that anyone would be thrilled to receive. To show you what I
mean about the different shapes of pyramid, I've also got this one to show
you. This one is designed by Sandy Burchell and the layers of this pyramid
are all different shapes so it's got this curvy edge around it.
As you go down the different layers, the shape does change slightly around the
edges so this pyramid is a little bit more advanced because it's harder to cut
out with all the different curves around the sheet, but again we've got the card
front and it's just gonna layer up this little bit - so this would be a really
quick and easy card to make. For this tutorial though, we're gonna stick with
this one and just make a topper so that I can then show you how you can
incorporate the pyramid or pyramage topper onto your card. This sheet by
Carol Clarke has two different copies of the same topper on it which is awesome
for using up more of the piece of paper when you're printing out. Each one has one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven layers on it. That's quite a lot for a pyramid
topper. It would make a really thick card, so if you don't want all these layers
I'm gonna show you a really cool way of reducing that bulk on your card while
still getting the pyramid effect. The first thing to do once your sheet is
printed is to cut out all the layers. If your pyramid is square or rectangular
like this one it's kind of easiest to use
a ruler and craft knife to go along the edges to make sure they're really
straight, but if you don't have that a pair of scissors will work just fine.
Here are my layers and I've kind of put them all in the correct order on the
design, but just to show you them I'll split them out a bit so you can see.
Each square is a little bit smaller than the other and how we're gonna stick this
is we're gonna stick them in size order onto the topper with 3D foam pads to
create that 3D effect. I'm actually not gonna use all of these because my
foam pads are quite thick, and if I was gonna put all these layers
on my card then it wouldn't be able to fit through a letterbox which isn't ideal!
I'm only gonna use every other square. The easiest way to work this out is to
put them in size order with the topper at the start. We need the topper, then
I'll remove every other square until I'm left with just four and these
are the ones that I'm gonna use on my card.
When I'm making pyramid toppers into cards I like to stick the topper to my
card first before I build up the 3D layers, so I'm gonna go ahead and just
remove that one because I've got a copy of it here,
and put these to one side for the time being. I've got a 6x6 inch card
front here. It's a white card and then I've stuck on some glitter
Christmas paper and line the edge with some border peel offs. The topper of
pyramage I've put onto some gold mirror card around the edge for an extra bit of
sparkle, I'm just gonna stick this to my card
before I start the 3D layers. This is a double-sided tape runner and I like this
because it is very quick to add double-sided adhesive to your cards
and there's no peeling off of the backing because it does it all for you.
I'm gonna put this on at a bit of an angle and put that in the top there and
push it down. Now I'm ready to start building up my 3D layers. Choose the next
biggest square that you're using, turn it upside down and we're gonna put some 3
foam pads on the back, This is quite a small piece of paper so I'm not going to
need a huge amount of pads. I think just one on each corner and one in the middle
should be plenty. If you don't have foam pads you can use 3D foam tape or 3D glue
dots, or whatever else it is that you prefer to use you're making 3D cards.
There we have it - five little bits on here - and if I peel off the back to
get that sticky side of foam pad showing through, I can then get my
card back and I'm gonna line it up so on this square, the patterns on it lines up
with the base topper that I've already stuck down. I'm just gonna let
that drop so it's gently placed on the card.
This gives me a chance to check I'm happy with the alignment before I push it
down, because once you push it down it is on there for good. There we go!
Stick that one down, and now I've got some copies of the two similar squares
that I've already put the foam pads on, so if I just peel these off we can put
the next layer. For each of these squares, we're gonna do the same thing.
Line it up, drop it on gently, make sure you're happy and then push it down.
I've got one more -
and the same thing again.
Now we have it, the pyramids part of the card is done! One of the lovely
things about just a pyramage topper rather than one that comes with the full
card is you have all your creativity to play with on the final card that you
make. If you're interested in this paper that I used,
it's from the C'hristmas village' paper set by Helz Cuppleditch. I'll put a
link in the description below, but this is a really cute paper pack. It's got
loads of different characters on it - loads of penguins - and it's so glittered
which is extra special for Christmastime. I've got these Merry Christmas toppers
which are made from thick cardboard and they've got 3D pads on the
back. I'm just gonna place one of these onto my card. These toppers from a
website called www.everycraftsapound.co.uk which is a brilliance. I get most of my
supplies from there because it is what it says on the tin - everything they sell
is a pound each. Although, there are a few things that are a bit more, but in
general you can buy loads of different awesome crafty things for just a pound
each. Here is my card nearly finished, the last thing I'm gonna do is just add
some little gemstones to the corners because where my border peel-offs are
meeting it's a little bit messy. I'm gonna cover that up with these sticky
gemstones and again these ones are from www.everycraftsapound.co.uk as well.
There we go - our Christmas pyramid card is finished! If I pick it up,
you can see how you've got the 3D effect from these layers and even though I only
used half of the available layers, it's still got a really nice 3D appearance.
I hope you enjoyed watching this video. If you want to try out pyramage for
yourself, you can follow the links in the description to get this sheet or I do
have some free pyramid sheets available on my blog as well, so if you want to try
it out for free you can absolutely do that. Head on over to www.craftwithsarah.com
or follow the link in the description and you can grab my free
card making sheets from there. I actually have over 130 different card making
printables on my blog. They are all completely free, so whilst you're over
there grabbing your pyramid sheets, have a look through the other ones as well
and hopefully there'll be some on there that you can use. If for any of them, you're
not quite sure how to use them, chances are I've got a video explaining how, so
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Thank you for watching!