Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video I'm going to show you how to
make this fun pop out card. You can see as I open and close it, how the
middle bit pops out to create this 3D look when you open the card. It's really
impressive to look at, and best of all it's really easy to make and it folds
completely flat for postage. To make this card you'll need to get the template.
Head on over to the link in the description to my website at
craftwithsarah.com to download the free template to make this pop-up card. I have included
two different versions of the template. One is a pdf version which you can print
and cut using scissors or a craft knife yourself, and the other one is a Cricut
Design Space tutorial so that you can cut this with your Cricut and
everything's already sized for you. I've already cut out the different
parts of the template, and to make things a little bit easier for you to see I've
marked the different folds in different colors. Here is the outside of the card
and it is 5 x7 inches. I've folded it on the score line down the
middle to create the card. The score lines are all marked on the template and
that's the red dotted lines, so you can see where to score. If you're using
the Cricut version and you've got a scoring tool you can get your machine to
do with the score lines for you, again saving you time. To make the pop-up work,
it's important you know the difference between the two types of fold we're
going to be using - a mountain fold and a valley fold. A valley fold is when you
fold something so that the point is away from you, just like this card here. You
can see it goes in along the fold line and it's making a V shape which is why
it's called a valley fold. A mountain fold is the other way around,
so let's say my card is like this, then this is the mountain fold because the point is at the
top and the two edges go down to form the shape of
a mountain. So, this is a mountain fold and this is a valley fold and it's important to
know the difference because if you don't fold them the right way around your card
won't pop out properly. All right, so we've got our main card here and then
this bit is going to be the bit with the pop out to sit inside. There's a nice
little border on the edge so you'll be able to see when you put your card
together that you've got a little border of the outside card color in there.
On the template here, I have cut and scored it everywhere it needs to go and
I have marked on the design where the different fold and cut lines are. I can
see I've actually missed a black line at the top so I'll fill that one in,
okay, so all the pink lines are the cuts - you can see if I move it
apart that is where the cut is. The black and the green goes along the score lines
and I've marked which part of the design needs to be Valley folded and which is
Mountain folded. Green will be mountain folds and black will be Valley
folds. Let's get started folding our bit of paper. It's easier to turn it
round and I'm a bit worried this might be a bit hard to see as I'm going, but
we'll see how we get on. So these green lines here that go between the two cut lines
on the edges, we need to Mountain fold. We want the
point to be up towards us so just carefully fold along the score line
being careful not to fold the rest of the design, trying to only get this
bit that I've marked in green to be folded and coming outwards. Don't worry
about getting the perfect fold at this point, we're just trying to slowly work
it and then we'll complete the folds a bit later. The black fold right down the
edge is going to be a valley fold, so this time
we fold it so that the black goes downwards to create that Valley shape.
The two lines along here that are black
are going to be Valley folded, so again we're gonna push this in and fold along
that score line. I'm just gently pushing it together to make the fold. It's a little
bit tricky not to fold the paper in the wrong place, so take your time to
get it right. I'm doing this a little bit quickly and not very accurately, so I
would recommend taking a little bit more time to get your folds right. It's
already starting to pop out here, so we're going to continue with the valley fold
by doing these two lines down here. I'm gonna hold it up and just pinch
along that score line to get Valley effect, and then do the same along the
one underneath. That's almost half of the card done. I'm just
gonna look down the middle. We've got these green lines here, these ones are
Mountain folds. It's gonna be a bit easier now because
we've got this bit starting to pop out, so you can just fold that upward and get
a nice crisp fold along there and the same with the one at the bottom. Down the
rest of the middle of the card is black lines and they are all going to be
Valley folds, so now we can do those just by pushing in along the score line
to Valley fold them down, and do the same
in the very middle as well. I'm just sort of pinching that in to get the fold.
We've got half the card done now and it's starting to take shape, so we just
need to do exactly the same on the other side. I'm gonna start in the middle
and Mountain fold the bit down the big rectangle and the more you fold it, the
easier the rest of them become, because the rest of the card becomes easier to
move. The rest are all Valley folds. I'm gonna start with this one next,
and then these ones down each at the sides, there we go, and then I've just got
two left which is the bits down the side of the rectangles here and these are
Valley folds so again I can just kind of push down along that scored bit to make
the fold. Now, all our folds have been done, but to make sure they're all nicely
creased I'm just gonna start folding my card in half. Slowly start
folding your card and make sure you pull all the sections to ensure they're
folding in as they should, so if I do it this way up you can see how it all folds
in together to go flat and then when you turn it round this is the shape that you
end up with. I'm just gonna push down across all of this to get those folds a
bit crisper. By making the folds crisp, it means they're gonna hold their position
better as we open and close the card.
Now when I open it up, I have that pop-up effect all happening beautifully
as I open and shut the card. Once you've got this, it's time to stick it into the
card. You can either use glue or double-sided tape. I'm going to use some
glue because my double-sided tape has run out, but actually tape is better
because it won't move when you put it in. With glue, you can
accidentally shift the positioning because it doesn't dry straight away.
I'm putting the glue over just one side of the back of this pop-up piece and
then I'm gonna position my popup on the right side of the card - the inside
right - so that I've got the fold of the pop-up piece along the fold of the
crease in the card. Then I'm gonna hold this down, making sure I
didn't get glue all over my fingers, and align it in the middle so that I've got
a nice even border all the way around.
When I'm happy, I'm just gonna fold my card over and close it, push it
down to get all that glue sticking. I'm just gonna give it a moment to let it stick
and then open it up, and there is the first half stuck in my card, so I need to do
the other side. I'm gonna close it down and you can see how nicely it's gonna
fit inside the card. Put some glue on here. Make sure you don't put any adhesive on
to this little tab in the middle because that doesn't get stuck to the card.
If you stick that then your
card won't open which whould be quite upsetting after all the work you just
put in! So now, I need to close the card because it's already lined up from where
we stuck it to the first part. Stick all that glue down and there we go our,
pop-up card is ready to decorate! Included in the template for this design
are some mats to add an extra bit of decoration. My pop-up bit is this
green colored card and then I've cut the inside bits from the floral card just to
give it a little bit of extra impact when you open it up. To make it easier
for you to see, I've cut these in a bright orange color in contrast to the
white and I'll show you how to stick these on. I'm going to start with the
right hand side and just turn each bit over and then with either your
double-sided tape or glue, put a bit on the back and then turn it the right
way round and stick to the appropriate panel in the pop-out card. So this one
will go here. The nice thing about using glue for these bits is that if you don't
quite stick it straight the first time you've got a little bit of wiggle room
to move it about. That's the first bit in there, and then you just need to do the
same with all the other bits of paper.
I'll put all the glue on them first so it'll be a bit quicker. You don't
have to include these bits if you don't want to, or you could even do them in
different colors so you don't lose all the space to write your message on. In
the sample card I showed you, I did the whole inside pattern which did mean that
actually - oops, I've just stuck that, that wasn't very clever - on the sample
card, I had stuck all of these with colorful paper and I realized when I was
finished that there was nowhere to write the message, so I will write it on the
back instead. If you maybe left off some of these shapes, or did them in
white if your pop-up is not white, then you've still got somewhere to write on
the card. So that's half of it done, and you can see where I pushed it in to
stick the bits on it's lost its pop-out bits. If that happens, you can just pull
it out again then open and shut it a few times and then it will remember its
position and stay there. Okay, so when you do the same thing with the other side,
then you'll end up with the inside of your card finished so you can start
decorating the front however you want. For my card that I made, I used the same
papers that I put on the inside of the card, so this green patterned paper with
leaves on it and then the floral one. If you want to get this paper set I'll put
a link in the description of the video. It is really pretty and it makes lovely
cards. So you can see what I was talking about earlier, there's nowhere really to
write on the inside because I've used this pattern paper, so my message will
probably be on the back of the card. That's something to bear in mind for
next time, and then the outside of the card I've decorated with some flowers
and bits of lace and some gemstones along the
bottom. I hope you enjoyed watching this tutorial and I hope that
all these folds made sense. If it's not working, just give it a bit of trial and
error try and make sure you're mountain and Valley folding exactly the right way
as I did when I showed you, and before long you'll be making this awesome
pop-up card in no time at all! I'm going to be making more pop out cards soon, so
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Thank you for watching!