Pop Up Book Card Tutorial

Hiya, Crafters! I hope today finds everyone well. It's a bit gloomy and foggy here. I love it! So as we know October is breast cancer awareness month. One of my cousins is a survivor of the disease and not too long ago had her reconstructive surgery. She is so brave and an inspiration for hope, courage, and strength. I wanted to make her a very special card and followed this tutorial. Once again this card took far longer to decorate than to actually create; but I think it was well worth it. I'll be glad to show you how I did this in depth for you.

Here's what you'll need to make this card:

• 12 x 12" piece of cardstock. It can be plain or patterned.
• Trimmer
• Scoring tool
• Coordinating paper
• Sponges (optional)
• Stamping and die cutting tools needed to finish the card

Let's get started! Take your 12 x 12" cardstock and cut in half at 6". One of these will be the base for your card while the other will be the pop up part. On your base piece, score at 6". You can opt to decorate it now or wait until after you've attached the pop up part to your base. I don't see any reason not to do it one way or another. Let's move on with the cutting and scoring! This piece you will firstly score at 6".

As you can see, my trimmer is upside down so I can see what I am doing. Flip your cardstock with the 6" against the lip and line it up at 5". Move your cutting blade to the 2" mark inside your arm and cut to 10". Rotate your card 180 degrees and repeat.

Then turn your cardstock 90 degrees and line it up at 2" and score to connect the cut lines.

Slide your cardstock to 2 3/4" and score again from cut line to cut line.

Next you'll slide your cardstock to 4" and score only from the edge to the cut line. Skip over the panel to the next cut line and score down to the edge. These should only be 1" scorelines.

Rotate your cardstock 180 degrees and repeat! Here you will do some mountain valley folding along your score lines and you'll have something like this.

I'd recommend using your bone folder and burnish all the creases. You'll want to keep doing this each time you fold or unfold something. I wiped ink on all the score lines with some sponges for extra depth. Now to decorate the side panels I did some cutting to make a frame. First, cut two pieces of cardstock at 4 x 6". With your paper longways, slide the card to 5" and cut up to the 2" mark on your cutting arm. Flip it over and repeat on the other end. Then cut to connect those cut lines. These are two pieces even though I put them too close together.  You'll have something that looks like this:

Those are two separate pieces. I did find the the bottom and top panels were a little too tight so I cut a sliver off and they fit nicely.

Decorate the inside panels now. They measure at 3 1/4 x 4", but I cut them at 3 1/8 x 3 7/8". Once you've finished decorating, we are going to attach the base to the card. I did one side at a time so that I didn't have paper sticking to something that it shouldn't. Do not glue any score lines or the middle part or will not pop up. I only added glue where I had taped the pink panels before. It looks something like this:

Here's the front of my card.

I added some purple to break up all that pink. The frame was quite easy to make. I took two of my nesting dies with one smaller than the other and put it through my cuttlebug, then I embossed them.

 Super gloomy that it looks yellow, must be the yellow walls. =)

That's all there is to it! Again it took me significantly longer to decorate the card than to actually put it together. =) 

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial! I do so love books and this will be something I make again. ( have another book tutorial to share with you as well, but I'm saving it for later. I won't be posting again until Monday as tomorrow I need to bake cookies all day. Poor me, right? =P Thanks for popping by, Crafters! See ya on Monday!