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How to Make Pop Up Cards - Box Variations - Lesson 4

Pop Up Box Variations

This post has been revised.  Read the updated post here.

(in which the pop up mechanism is cut from a separate piece of paper)

How to Make Pop Up Cards, Tutorial Level of difficulty: Medium

So far all of our pop up mechanisms have been cut from our base card. Besides leaving a hole in the card, it limits the appearance and shape of the pop ups that can be cut. A box can be constructed entirely from another piece of paper, or it can use the base card for some of the sides.

EXAMPLES

Picnic Basket
 
The box is the design element--nothing is glued over it. Cutting the box (picnic basket) from a separate piece of card stock allowed the use of brown card stock. The 6-pack of soda is another box cut from separate paper.

summer pop up cards



Dragonfly by Mary Beth Cryan
The body of the dragonfly is a long, low box.



Complete photos and tutorial on her site.

Wine Bucket by Hiroko
Printable pattern available on Canon site.
This box variation has 6 sides rather than 4, 2 of which are the base card.




Valita's Designs & Fresh Folds: Bee's on a pop up card. Moving the box so that one side is on the fold, and shrinking the height of the side to nothing makes the "box" a triangle. The "pop" is created with a pull tab on this one. Very clever!