Jennifer McGuire's tutorial on "Pop-Up Panel Cards" inspired my design direction. I began by creating the front (pop-up) panel. I stamped the bear onto a square of bristol paper. I masked him, & stamped the puddle & splash from the same set. I masked off the sky area with yellow Frog tape, & ink blended the ground with Pumice Stone. I was going for kind of a concrete walk look. I masked off the ground with the same tape, & inked the sky with Stormy Sky. With the bear mask still in place, I also stamped raindrops in the sky, with Stormy Sky Distress Oxide ink for a tone-on-tone look. I unmasked the bear, & used my Prismacolor pencils to color him in. I also added a bit of blue pencil to the puddle & splash, so they look like they "reflect" the sky.
I die cut a scrap of bristol with one of the "Puffy Cloud Borders" dies, inked it with Stormy Sky + Pumice Stone, & adhered it to the top of my panel. I stamped my greeting on that. I then matted the panel with a 1/16" blue cardstock mat, just to help it stand out a bit better from the background. Finally, I used a black glaze pen to go over the bear's eyes & nose.
I cut a slightly smaller square of bristol for the back panel. I stamped the rainbow image from on that, & colored it with my colored pencils. I masked it off, & ink blended Tumbled Glass for the background sky. I stamped a smiley face on the sun, & stamped the rest of the greeting. I finished by matting that with yellow cardstock.
For my card front, I used 2 patterned papers from Lawn Fawn. (They were a gift with a purchase, so I don't know the names of the collections they are from.) I cut them to 4x5-1/4", & then trimmed each piece in 2 at an angle for a bit of dynamism. I adhered them to a scrap of cardstock, just so I could work with them as one panel.
I put together the pop-up mechanism as per Jennifer's instructions. I did have to make one small alteration, because the larger pop-up square wasn't too much bigger than the smaller. Rather than scoring at 2" & 2-1/2", I had to have my score lines only 1/4" apart. It worked in the end, though! Of course, I had to put everything together following Jennifer's instructions exactly to figure out that was a problem, and then pull it apart to redo it. Thank heavens for UnDu adhesive remover!
Once I finally had the mechanism working, I matted my patterned paper panel with a piece of Gumball cardstock that I'd adhered to a white card base. I stamped "pull" on the tab, rounded the corners with my scissors, & that finished this card! I will send it to Send a Smile 4 Kids, where it will hopefully bring joy to a hospitalized child's spirit.
Date: Sunday, September 4, 2022 GMT Views: 139
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