Center Step Pop up Card - Tutorial

Hello Friends!

Today I am excited to share a tutorial post on center step pop up card, It's not something new but it came out pretty well and I thought of sharing a tut for this! I have prepared it for this month's ICR post

I have done plenty of things here, center step technique, stamping, doodling, die cutting and pencil coloring.

Let's start with the making process,
Things needed: Thick cardstock measuring 5.5 inches by 11 inches, scoreboard, trimmer or cutting knife, any adhesive or glue for paper and scissors.
Additionals: pattern papers, stamp pads, stamp and die cuts, shimmer or diamond dust for decoration.

Process:

Line the cardstock on score board with 11" side on top, as shown in the above picture. Score at 1", 2", 6.5" & 10" as shown by arrows in the pic.

Now line the paper with 5.5" side on top, score at 1" from first horizontal line as shown in the picture i.e. leaving a gap of 1" from top. Score from 1" till 6.5" line. Cut the same with the trimmer or cutting knife. flip the paper & repeat the same on other side. So there will be two lines to cut.

Next score between the cut lines at 5.5" as shown in pic above with red arrow.

Fold at the score lines. Blue lines shows mountain fold i.e. raising upwards and red lines shows valley fold i.e. bending downwards.
And the card is done!

Next is embellishing it!

I stamped the images and coloured them with pencil colours. Sides of the paper were inked with stamp pads using foam pad. Hut was stamped on pattern paper. 
Did some doodling with white and black gel pen...triangles, dots and spirals. Fairies were stamped, fussy cut and adhered to the card. Lastly I thought of adding some shimmer to my card so applied some glue using paint brush and sprinkled diamond dust on it. I just did this on edges of the card and on die cuts. Lastly stamped the sentiment, words "Create" & "Your own" were added with foam tape. And it was done!

Hop on to Indian Craft Room to check in the complete details. There shall be another mid month tutorial by DT partner Ash and we shall be choosing two winners and there will be two prizes!
Here is our moodboard

Hope the post was helpful and you enjoyed it!
Until next time Happy Crafting!
Have a Great Day!

Fold Back Pop Up Card

Hello everyone! 

I am back with the second inspiration for Indian Craft Room Coasteride Challenge. Theme is Ribbons & Pearls plus twist is to make a Fancy fold card!

Here is what I made for the challenge, a fold back pop up card.

All flowers are handmade using Tim Holtz Tattered florals dies. I used felt to make them. Added felt leaves and few punched paper leaves.
For the triangular corners, I decided to use this gold-bronze filigree with few pearls, which gave it a complete elegant look.

Hidden sentiment at the center says "So many of my SMILES begin with you"

Here is the mood board prepared by our team

We hope you're inspired by it & will join us with your creations! You have until 28th November midnight to join in.
Do drop at ICR to check out other wonderful inspirations made by the DT team.

Hope you liked my card! Do leave some love :)
Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy the weekend!

Linking my card to following challenges:

Double D Challenges (Traditional Christmas Colors)
Color shades: Red, Green, White & Gold.

Fussy and Fancy Challenge (Different folds or Shaped card)

 

Fancy Fold Card with Ribbons and Pearls

Hello Friends,

It's festive season going on everywhere and I hope you all are enjoying it!

It's my turn to host the challenge for Indian Craft Room for November month. My chosen theme is "Ribbons and Pearls plus twist is to make a Fancy Fold Card"  

Here is my card

A Building Block Pop up card.

For the background I started with a white card stock and painted it in shades of lilac and rose pink. Did some random stenciling and stamping. For the bow I used 3 organza ribbons, all brought from local craft store. It took me little hard to keep them in place but then managed well and I loved the end result!
Then arranged all the other embellishments. 

Tiny chipboard alphabets, I covered them in white gesso & white glitter but my camera couldn't capture the shine..

I hope you liked my project! Would love to hear from you about my creation! 

And don't forget to stop at ICR to view other gorgeous inspirations from my team members and to join & participate! Yes I would love to see your projects :)

Thank you so much for visiting! 

Have a great day!

Linking my card to following challenges:

Eclectic Ellapu Challenges- Pink team - Anything with a bow!

Craft-Dee Bowz Challenges- Anything goes + Handmade bow

Craft Your Passion Challenges -Always anything goes

Crafty Sentiments- Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination Challenge- Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Anything goes

A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge- Anything goes

Christmas Pop Up Card

Hello friends!! :)

Hope you all are well. The year is coming to an end & it seems it passed so quickly. It has been six months since I started blogging & now I am just enjoying it thoroughly! 
Now coming to the post, I have a Pop up card to share today. Have a look..

Christmas Pop up card

 My card is inspired by Dr. Sonia's Pop Up Cards, she has a mastery on making amazing pop up cards and it was always on my list to make some pop up cards & here is the one

Christmas Pop up card

A closer view

Christmas Pop up card

My card has two stages for the pop up mechanism one with the green foam bushes & other holding the house. At the back there is a green arch coloured with DI with some snow on it! (done with signo white gel pen), with some punched flowers, leaves & stickers. The bell at the right corner is made with stencil using colour box pigment ink, tied with a golden string & holly leaves. Towards the outer side there are mini purple flowers punched out of foam sheet with rhinestones at the center.  

Tiny blue sequins at the either sides of the pop up stage.

Left corner shows a pretty handmade bow with a tag "with love". I also love the glittery golden border above the red polka dots pattern paper. 

This is the top cover of my card, I kept it simple since the surprising element is inside! 

And here is how the card is closed flat & can be packed easily.

So that was all. I hope you like my card, do tell me :)
Thanks for visiting!!
Have a wonderful day!!

Linking to
Scrap & Craft Inspiration ( anything Christmas)
Mod Squad challenge (all-that-glitters)
Crafty Sentiments (Christmas card)
Cardz TV (Christmas/Winter Card)
ICR Coasteride Recipe Challenge - Basic Ingredients:1/4 red & green each, 1 gold string (with bell) & pinch of sequins (blue inside & golden on outer cover). Topping (twist): stencil with ink (red bell) & distress ink colouring (green arch).

This card was picked as Winner Mod Squad Challenge: All that glitters

Tree House Pop Up Card

Hello everyone!! :)

I am sharing my first pop up card today!!
It is a pentagon shaped Tree House which on opening stands on its own & displays several panels for you. 

I made this for Lulupu's monthly challenge. This month theme is Anything goes except square & rectangle.
http://www.lulupu.blogspot.in/2015/07/challenge-51-anything-but-square-and.html

Also entering in Beyond Grey challenge where the theme is to prepare a 3D project.
http://beyondgrey.blogspot.in/2015/07/bgc70-dimensional-project.html

Here is the front of the Pop up Card with a circular window embellished with punch craft flowers.

Tree House Pop Up Card

Applied some gesso on my handmade flowers,bud,leaves & twigs and added a small metal bell at the corner.

Tree House Pop Up Card

This photo shows the pop up mechanism & a glimpse of inner panel to which I added a sliding message tag. One end of the message tag has a slant cut,keeping in mind not to use anything square or rectangle :)

Here is the left panel of pop up card..

Lots of punched flowers with hand painted paper leaves. Two lovely quilling birds, smaller baby bird on the swing!!

Inked the edges of the card using green distress ink.

Right panel of the card

Tree House Pop Up Card

Tree House Pop Up Card

Hope you like it !! Let me know :)

Thanks for visiting!! Have a Great day!!