Rotating Pop Up Cards

 Today I'm sharing the card I made for hubby's birthday and the two cards I received from crafty friends that were the inspiration for his card.

I'm very fortunate to have crafty friends who are always trying out the latest fun pop up and interactive card techniques to keep me current and inspired! The card on the right was a birthday card I received from Kris and the one the the left was a Mothers Day card created by Bev.

Click on the video above to see both of these cards in action.

As you open this rotating card by Kris, Hello Kitty in the center circle pops forward and the  words "Happy Birthday" rotates around her. So much fun!

Bev installed a triple rotating mechanism in her Mothers Day Card. When Bev's triple rotating card is opened, the large flowers and "Happy Mothers Day" greeting rotate counter clockwise around the center circle while the pink circle with the sentiment and the tiny flowers buds behind the larger flowers both rotate clockwise. So many things moving! I knew I had to give these rotating cards a try too.

Click on the video below to see how my version of this card turned out.

I found several video tutorials showing how to make these types of rotating cards online but ended up mainly following the instructions from Mitosu Crafts here as well as assembly instructions from Lawn Fawn here to create my template and figure out the assembly of the mechanism.

For Hubby's birthday card, I followed the instructions for the triple rotating pop up so as he opened his card, the "Happy Birthday" sentiment rotates to the left as the golfer and golf ball rotate to the right.

I used Copics to color and fussy cut a clip art image of a golfer to attach to the center rotating circle. Golf ball was glued onto a strip of clear acetate which was attached to the rotating mechanism behind the circle. I must say that the video tutorials for this card made it look pretty easy but I did struggle trying to figure out the correct placement of all the moving parts and to get everything to align just where I wanted.

Kept the front of the card simple with the same golf course background I created for inside the card and added a golf cart cut using my Silhouette. This card was for hubby's landmark "70th" birthday so I   added a fun "play on words" greeting.