Homemade Greeting Cards: Photo Pop-Up Cards

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Brenda and today we are working on our pop-up cards. For this project we will need some 5 x 8 index cards. It is a heavy card stock material. We will need some scissors, some markers, some Elmer’s glue, an Exacto knife, rubber stamps if you like to embellish it with that and we are ready to begin. We take one our 5 x 8 cards and fold it in half. This is one of our cards and we fold it in half like this. We also cut out another sheet of paper. It can be a colored sheet of construction or copier paper the same size 5 x 8. This is going to be our under liner later in the project. It is going to be covering up the cuts that we make in our initial paper that we are working with the index card. So we take it and on the fold side we are going to be making 2 cuts just about an inch long. It does not have to be exact. That is what I like to use an inch long. So it is going to look like this. Now we open our card up and we begin to bend back like this. We just take that card and bend it back like that and then we bend it forward. This just makes it more pliable so we can work with it. It ends up looking like this and it’s like a little step. Now if you like to say send a picture of your children to the grandparents or just send pictures to friends, this is a cute little way to do it. What we will be doing is taking a small picture. It can be a picture of your pet or your children or yourself even and what we are going to do is glue it here onto this little shelf. Then we are going to embellish the rest of the card with either a rubber stamp or acrylic paint or with stickers. Here’s our finished product. You see I’ve just taken a little baby’s picture and placed here and glued it to the little step. You can see here from the side angle what it looks like. I took the rubber stamp. These are little teddy bears and this one says I love you and I wrote on here. Look at me. You can write whatever message you like. You take our under liner and glue it onto the back with our glue and that covers up our cut marks so that when our recipient opens it up like this, the little picture pops out at them and you can see this from the side. "