I try to make a little gift or write a small note and hide it in Ryan's bag each time he goes back on tour. This time when he comes home sometime in November we'll have only spent 2 weeks together in more than 4 1/2 months. Ouch.
My goal was to make something to remind him of home.
Cat Benatar and Ryan battle at the end of the couch everyday.
I decided to make up pop up card and have a pull tab to make the cat jump out from behind the couch.
I made a prototype first.
1. You have two options on the base card design. The first is to use two equal sized pieces of paper and glue them together once the pop up and pull tab are all cut and placed. I did this for the final product. The other option is to fold the paper in the center then fold both ends back to meet the crease. I did this with the prototype. The benefit of the prototype's design was that I could put the pull tab at the very end of the card and the fold would hold it in. The pull moved much smoother this way. With the other option of gluing the separate paper together you get a nicer look along the edges and at the fold of the card but the gluing/taping needs to create a nice path for the pull tab to run. More below.
2. At the center fold cut to equal sized slits about 2-3 apart. Push the paper between the slits in so the center fold is going the opposite direction and is inside the folded piece of paper.
3. Cut out a little cat with extra paper coming off it's backside about an inch.
4. Cut out a square where the pull tab will be accessed
5. Cut out an L shaped piece of paper. One end should be about inch longer than the distance from the pop up opening to the location of the pull tab opening. Determine where to attach the cat to this end of the L so that it can slide easily from behind the popped out area. Attach this end around the extra paper at the end of the cat using tape or glue. The other end will be visible as the pull tab.
6. Place the cat/pull into the opening into the pop-up opening
7. Draw/cut out couch.
8. Open card and attach couch to front the popped up rectangle. I used double sided tape.
9. Push the tab into the card till the cat is hidden behind the couch. Trim the paper so that the end of the tab lines up with the edge of the card,
10. Hold the tab to the card and flip it over. Mark where the tap slides to.
11. Tape or Glue along that line so that the tab does not fall all the way into the card when it is pushed in.
12. If you chose to use two seperate pieces of paper you will need to put tape along the 'unhinged' side of the L. The goal is to provide a path for the tab to slide
13. Double stick tape or glue around all the edges closing up the card.
14. If using glue test quickly before glue dries by pulling the tab to make sure the cat slides out smoothly and stops at the appropriate point.
I copied some of our photobooth pics and glued them around the card.
My goal was to make something to remind him of home.
Cat Benatar and Ryan battle at the end of the couch everyday.
I decided to make up pop up card and have a pull tab to make the cat jump out from behind the couch.
I made a prototype first.
1. You have two options on the base card design. The first is to use two equal sized pieces of paper and glue them together once the pop up and pull tab are all cut and placed. I did this for the final product. The other option is to fold the paper in the center then fold both ends back to meet the crease. I did this with the prototype. The benefit of the prototype's design was that I could put the pull tab at the very end of the card and the fold would hold it in. The pull moved much smoother this way. With the other option of gluing the separate paper together you get a nicer look along the edges and at the fold of the card but the gluing/taping needs to create a nice path for the pull tab to run. More below.
2. At the center fold cut to equal sized slits about 2-3 apart. Push the paper between the slits in so the center fold is going the opposite direction and is inside the folded piece of paper.
3. Cut out a little cat with extra paper coming off it's backside about an inch.
4. Cut out a square where the pull tab will be accessed
5. Cut out an L shaped piece of paper. One end should be about inch longer than the distance from the pop up opening to the location of the pull tab opening. Determine where to attach the cat to this end of the L so that it can slide easily from behind the popped out area. Attach this end around the extra paper at the end of the cat using tape or glue. The other end will be visible as the pull tab.
6. Place the cat/pull into the opening into the pop-up opening
7. Draw/cut out couch.
8. Open card and attach couch to front the popped up rectangle. I used double sided tape.
9. Push the tab into the card till the cat is hidden behind the couch. Trim the paper so that the end of the tab lines up with the edge of the card,
10. Hold the tab to the card and flip it over. Mark where the tap slides to.
11. Tape or Glue along that line so that the tab does not fall all the way into the card when it is pushed in.
12. If you chose to use two seperate pieces of paper you will need to put tape along the 'unhinged' side of the L. The goal is to provide a path for the tab to slide
13. Double stick tape or glue around all the edges closing up the card.
14. If using glue test quickly before glue dries by pulling the tab to make sure the cat slides out smoothly and stops at the appropriate point.
I copied some of our photobooth pics and glued them around the card.
