When I saw Lego themed pop up cards being created and shared by crafters on "Karen Burniston's Pop Up Peeps" Facebook page, I immediately knew I wanted to make one too. Our son-in-law really enjoys collecting and building with Lego so I figured he'd get a kick out of a Lego themed card for his birthday.
Found lots of crafty inspiration for the design for the front of my Lego card online. It all seemed easy enough, just square and rectangle shapes filled with circles, right? I thought it would also be fun to add some realistic dimension by stacking and gluing two circle shapes for each of the Lego pegs. However, I admit it became less fun once I realized how many circles needed to be cut, and how long it would take me to glue all those circles together!
On the inside, I used Karen Burniston's "House of Cards Pop Up" die to put together this huge pop up made to resemble a stack of Lego blocks.
Each of the blocks are made up of 4 panels notched together. The completed blocks are then attached as layers by inserting the tabs on the bottom of each block into the holes on top of the blocks below it. I admit I had to watch Karen Burniston's assembly video tutorial for this pop up set quite a few times before I finally got it right. In the end, I think all the added weight from the double layers of circles which I had glued onto each side of the cubes may have been the reason I ran into assembly issues.
At first my stack of blocks kept falling apart, so I heeded Karen's advice, reinforcing the connection points between the layers and that seems to have done the trick, making a much sturdier stack of bricks. The finished card ended up being quite bulky and required 6 neodymium magnets to keep it closed.
The House of Cards Pop Up die definitely makes a fun,"wow-factor" card which can be assembled and stacked in many different configurations with as many layers as you like. Others have even built pop up castles inside their cards using this die set!
In keeping with the Lego theme, I made a Lego pop up drawer gift card holder to go with the card.
I decorated a slider drawer type box to match the front of my card, and the pop up cubes inside were also covered with rectangle and triangle shapes made to look like Lego blocks. These rubber band activated pop up cubes make giving gift cards so much fun.
1 comment:
Holy Lego Mania! Now I know you are truly mad, Eunice! I can't imagine why you would torture yourself with a project like this. I hope your son-in-law appreciates this masterpiece that you created for him. You are a super crafter and mother-in-law!
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