This is a great fun pop up card that you can make quite easily from scratch. If you want something a bit different for your Christmas cards, then this is an ideal design. You don’t have to stick with the reindeer theme either, try out different colour schemes and different toppers. Below is a picture of the finished card standing and at the very bottom is a picture of the finished card laid out flat.
What you need to make this card:
- Plain Card (at least 290mm x 145mm)
- Mid Green Mulberry Tissue Paper
- Red Nosed Reindeer/Bell Topper
- Various Borders Peel Off Sheet – Gold
- Merry Christmas Peel Off Sheet – Diamond Gold
- Card Creasing Board & Bone Creaser (optional)
- Sticky Foam Pads
- Invisi Dots For Vellum or Vellum Bond
- Scissors, Cutting Mat, Craft Knife, Ruler & pencil
Cut out a shape from the plain card as per the measurements and shape shown in the shape plan below. We’ve used plain white card for our pop up card but you can use any colour you like. The shape measures 145mm from top to bottom and 290mm across from tip to tip. The shape plan is not to scale, it’s just to give you an idea of how to cut out and measure the shape.
Click on the image below for a larger view of the shape plan.
Use your creasing board and bone creaser to make crease lines on your card shape where there are red and green dotted lines shown in the shape plan. The creases shown by red dotted lines should be folded down and the green dotted line should be folded up the other way from the red dotted lines.
If you don’t have a creasing board you can ever so lightly score the fold lines using a ruler and the tip of your craft knife and then make the folds.
Once you have folded all the creases push the card flat, one of the diamond shapes in the shape plan then forms the base of the card and the other diamond is the front of the card.
Cut out a square from the mid green mulberry tissue paper the same size as the diamond front of the card blank. Stick the mulberry tissue paper to cover the front of the card using invisi dots for vellum, vellum bond or another similar glue that is designed to stick very fine thin papers without showing through.
Stick strips of a decorative border from the gold various borders peel off sheet to each of the four edges of the front of the card, on top of the green mulberry tissue paper.
Apply a ‘Merry Christmas’ wording sticker from the diamond gold Merry Christmas peel off sheet to the top corner of the card.
Finally use sticky foam pads to mount the red nosed reindeer/bell topper underneath the Merry Christmas wording.
You can write your personal message anywhere inside the card or on the bottom of the base.
Try making your own envelope using plain white paper and Lick and Stick Envelope Glue if you want a remoistenable lick and stick flap on the envelope for sealing it.
Here is a picture of the finished card laid out flat:
Card Idea by Jill