Beautiful DIY Pop-up Cards

[Luv2BCreative]

Last month, my best friend took me out to lunch for my birthday. She gave me one of the most unique and beautiful birthday cards ever. Surprisingly she told me she made it herself. Now she has always been a "crafter,” doing lots of fun projects, but this card was different.*So I asked her what inspired her? She smiled anticipating the question, knowing I would be impressed. She told me that she actually downloaded the pattern she bought online, after seeing a video on YouTube. I was excited.

After lunch, I rushed home back to my computer and searched YouTube. After scrolling through a bunch of DIY pop-up cards and origami videos, I finally found it. I went to the web site and found out that they had twelve patterns, actually thirteen. If I bought twelve at once, I would get a Verbena Butterfly pattern for free. And you can download a Water Lily pattern for free if you join their club. So I did.

The freebee pattern took two sheets of card-stock paper to make. The only card stock paper I had was my Epson Matte Heavyweight paper. I figure that would work. I printed out the pattern and followed the 8 step photo instructions and I was hooked. So I went back to web site and bought the set of twelve patterns.

For the next hour, I believe I made all thirteen of the patterns. With cut paper all around me, I used up all my Epson paper that I usually save for full-color printouts. But I couldn’t wait to do them with really nice paper.

When I first came allcrafts.net last month, I really enjoyed reading tips from creative people. I like anything or anybody creative, but I found myself stumped on what tip to post.

I've always liked playing around with origami, I could do the “crane,” the “fortuneteller thing” and the ninja star. I’ve even bought books on origami, kiragami and even pop-up. But this was different. The designs were unpretentious, sophisticated and elegant. Definitely something to write about for my first allcrafts post.

Please, let me know what you think!

If you want to check it out you their web site is http://www.easycutpopup.com.
The YouTube video is at:

[Jo Lovejoy]

Fantastic cards! Very creative.

Jo x

[Backstreet]

What fantastic cards they are!! I hope you don't mind but i wanted to say thank you because i'm a teacher for a class of 11 year olds and we've been looking at ways to get them to try making new things and i think that this may be something that as a class we can try

I'll let you know how it goes!! Thanks again

[BeautifulCreations]

Great cards! I love the Panda in the Bamboo Forest card. Keep up the good work!