Thursday, October 31, 2024
Shaker Coffins and Skull Boxes
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Pumpkin Sliceform Pop Up
This sliceform pop up is designed similar to the golf sliceform pop up sphere I shared in my previous post. However, this pumpkin pop up is only about 4.5 inches tall and 4.75 inches wide; so approximately half the size of the golf pop up. It also has a lot less layers, required only 2-1/2 sheets of 12 x 12 cardstock, and was much easier to assemble.
Instead of using all white cardstock as I had for the golf sliceform pop up, I decided to use Halloween colors for the layers like the sample photo I saw on the designer's web page, M3D Art Craft by Tran Thi Muoi. But after finishing the assembly, I realized the colored cardstock seemed to make everything look darker and it was difficult to see the details of the scene inside the pumpkin. I tried lining the edges of all the cuts inside the pumpkin with Stickles glitter glue which seemed to help a little, but not enough.
To provide the needed amount of light to illuminate the pumpkin pop up, I decided to create a paper lamp base using a free template provided on the 3D Fancy website. I placed a string of 20 LED Fairy Lights inside the base, placed the pumpkin on top of it, and was very pleased that everything got a lot brighter.
The sliceform pumpkin flattened nicely to fit in an envelope but since the lamp base is not collapsible it had to be placed in a separate box. I included a sheet with simple instructions so our 7 year old granddaughter can easily set it up for display.Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Golfer Sliceform Sphere Pop Up
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
A Pair of Twist Panel Pop Up Birthday Cards
I used the same "Franklin Heal the World" cutting file to cut and piece together the mirror image sitting teddy bears. Alphas for "Happy Birthday" were cut using Arial font and the banner was made by arranging the bears with the letters and having Make the Cut design program create and cut a shadow layer of them together. Teddy bears and letters were then adhered to the shadow layer and folded accordion style to fit onto the pop up mechanism.
Last step was to add my sentiment box, some die cut balloons and flowers, and a little bit of sparkle to the letters with glitter glue.
Monday, October 7, 2024
Oven Pop Up Birthday
We have a very dear friend who enjoys baking and always spoils us with delicious fresh from her oven goodies. So for her birthday this year, I made a kitchen themed card. I used "Happy Birthday word die" from Hello Bluebird for the sentiment on the front of the card as well as Karen Burniston "Baking Charms" dies for the mixing bowl and implements. Oval panels were cut on my Silhouette Cameo and I ran the smaller oval through The Paper Studio's "A2 Bricks" embossing folder. For the wood panel mat, I printed a photo of a vinyl wood floor sample from an online flooring site. I also used this for the kitchen flooring inside the card, and to die cut the wooden spoons and rolling pins used to decorate.
Inside the card, I used Karen Burniston's "Oven Pop Up" and "Oven Extras" die sets to add a fun pop up kitchen. Although this is a very simple and basic pop up mechanism that could be easily created without a die, I chose to purchase these die sets mostly because of all the tiny, detailed and perfectly sized to fit extras included.