How to Make a Pop-Up Birthday Card: Part 2

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Karen for Expert Village. Now you are going to take your pattern and shift it up a quarter of a inch. So you are looking here from where you drew the line here to the bottom of the pattern. You shifted it up a quarter of a inch and make sure that your side lines match. You just want to slide it up one quarter of a inch. Now we are going to trace only that is in the inside of our marked lines. Just trace like this and then let me turn it so you can see it and trace. Inside here now you have something that looks like that. The pattern has just been shifted in the center up a little. Now I'm going to draw here a little bit of a candle for our center candle. Okay! Now we are going to cut out our pop up cake card. First we are going to take with a exacto knife we are going to cut out the outside line. You do not cut our marked lines. You don't do any cutting that is going to be a folding line. So you don't want to cut here, here, or here. Only the outside traced lines with the cake. So you want to bare down pretty hard on this plastic cutting surface. So you need a cutting surface underneath. You just cut out from the line all the way down to the other line and on the other side. Again. Now you can cut the inside with the exacto knife also if you want or can fold it in half and cut with the scissors if you find the scissors to be easier to cut with. But you only cut just to our folding line. Don't forget to cut out the candles first. And cut only to the folding line. "