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How to Make Pop Up Cards - More X Forms - Lesson 15

Using What You Know to Make Pop Ups: X Forms

How to Make Pop Up Cards Tutorial
This is Lesson 15 in a series of step by step tutorials on How to Make Pop Ups. 


Time to look at some real pop up cards!

pop up cards fish


This fish card pop up is an X form card with the glue points shifted toward the center of the card. I had to move the glue points to keep the fish from poking out of the side of the card when it was closed. I could have used a wider card, but I didn't have a wider card!

pop up cards fish side view


The "slot" on the coral is a somewhat large cut-out with a V shaped bottom. On the fish the slot is a small notch that nestles into the V.



You can see how the X does not flatten all the way when the card is opened flat, like Sample 5 from 
Lesson 5.



 


----- This X-form butterfly is attached with elongated (and visible) tabs. The pattern is here.




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This X is a little different in that it does not use a box as its underlying structure, but a V fold.



I modified a pattern by Hiroko for Canon. More about this card on a previous post.



----- Can you imagine what happens to an X-form as you shorten the slots? The shorter the slots, the more an X form begins to resemble a flag book.