Homemade Greeting Cards: Seasonal Cards, Fall

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Brenda and today we are working on our pop-up cards. This project today is going to be a Fall card and we need our 5 x 8 index cards that we can buy in the school supply area of our store. We need some acrylic paints, rubber stamps, stamp pad, some scissors and some glue and we are ready to begin. Now we take one of our 5 x 8 index cards and this is out of card stock. For this project I am following as though it were two doors are opening together like this. Just folding them so they meet in the middle. Fold and crease them down like this. I have another sheet waiting by on the side over here that is going to be the same size 5 x 8. This is going to be covering up kind of like a liner covering up our cuttings that we make. We just put that to the side and that is the last part that we do. So we fold over like this. Take our scissors and I am just making two little cuts into the area that has been folded about half an inch coming up here doing the same thing. Two little cuts. This is what is going to be like a little shelf inside of our card to hold our leaves that we are going to be cutting out which is pressed into the card like this and as you can see, becomes like to little shelves that we will use. Now we take our stamp. I’ve chose a leaf print today. We will stamp that down on a piece of our card stock. Paint it with our acrylic paint and cut them out. We will be gluing those onto our little shelves like this and this actually is our finished product. As you see as the card is opened like this, little leaves that we have cut out and placed here on our shelves pop out at you. I put here Happy Fall and I also stamped some other Fall leaves from our stamp pad on the background and we have glued our sheet that I told you about earlier as our under liner. We glued that on so that you can’t see the cutting marks where we cut earlier. So our recipient opens up and sees Fall leaves popping out at them. "