I will tell you for a near fact (is there such a thing as a near fact?) that when I make cards, 196 times out of 197 (how random) I will start with cardstock and add pattern paper. I rarely will ever use pattern paper as a base for a card.
This is the 100th time! I picked the busiest paper! Check out this busy, pattern paper, with a scallop of another busy paper, and a small circle of white cardstock on which I placed my sticker. It looks like that one house is the spotlighted house on the street! A little sentiment sticker, and one of the Wonder & Wishes Poinsettias . . . the outside of the card is complete.
And so I moved to the inside of the card! I wanted something to pop. The reverse side of my
Wonder & Wishes paper was a busy dot print. The likely candidate for the inside is always white. An estimated 93 times out of 94 (random) I will put a piece of white on the inside of the card. But only one time (1 time) in an estimated 412 (super-random) will I use pattern paper for the inside!
So I cut another piece of that dot paper . . . I folded, I made some cuts and scored, and suddenly I had a neat little pop up! I split a sticker in half, and wallah! A pop-up message! "At Christmas, All Roads Lead Home!
Instructions? Indeed!
1) Make your regular card base mine was a piece of pattern paper (pattern paper!) measuring 4 1/4" x 11", fold in half to make your card.
2) Cut another piece for the "pop factor" that measures slightly smaller upward to 1/2 inch smaller around (you can do 4 1/8 x 10 3/4" . . . or 4 x 10 1/2 . . . or 3 3/4" x 10". Trust me, it all works. Fold this piece in half equally.
3) Take this "pop factor" piece and follow my cutting/scoring instructions below.
4) Adhere the "pop factor" piece into the card base. IMPORTANT: Glue the center first, and then hold the card slightly close when you glue the ends. If you glue everything flat, the card is stiff and doesn't open quite right.
5) Cut a piece of paper (pattern or cardstock) into a strip to put your popping piece onto the card. See more instructions in the photo below.
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