Trying something new...

I have been experimenting recently with some 3D and pop-up cards, I started off with a simple pop-up design which I thought I would share with you. I am quite proud of it as a first attempt at something different.

I wanted to decorate the outside of the card so that upon first look, it appeared to be just a normal plain old card.

Card front.

I used two designs of patterned paper and arranged them in alternating squares as pictured above and then covered the joins with a length of pink spotty ribbon. I then affixed a paper doily in the centre and added a 'Birthday Surprise' sentiment.

Then to decorate the inside, I should have mentioned above that before decorating the card front, I made some slits in the card blank to make my pop-up elements. I decided that the inside was going to look like a room, decorated for a birthday party - or as close to that as I could get anyway! I lined the bottom of the blank inside with some wood pattern paper to look like a wooden floor and then used a green patterned paper for the other side.

Inside of pop-up card.

I decorated the centre 'pop-up' with a paper doily to act as a table cloth and fixed a present embellishment to the front. I had a small thin pop-up strip on top of the 'table' and added a birthday cake embellishment to this to create extra dimension and give a bit of a free-standing effect. The pop-up with the presents attached on the right in the picture, was perhaps a little too long as I had to reinforce it slightly. I then adorned the rest of the inside with little extras such a the balloons and then nervously closed it shut...but hoorah! Everything folded in on itself perfectly neatly so no worries there. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get any better pictures of the finished card before I gifted it but, I hope you like it and I was certainly proud of myself and my first ever pop-up card! :)