pop up cards

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

pop up cards

This is a pop-up bear and below a flower garden; both cards are
made by Hallmark for birthday celebrations. These cards are a
part of a collection of sample greeting cards that I show to my
students before they design their own.

Pop up Cards are normally cards that, once opened, have a picture coming outward that then giving it a surprise to the reader, giving it a ‘pop out’ effect. They are the most sophisticated cards that can be easily made at home.
Design and creation of such card art is called "paper engineering." The artistic aspect of paper engineering is related to origami in that the two arts both employ folded paper. Origami in its simplest form doesn't use scissors or glue and tends to be made with very foldable paper; by contrast, pop-ups rely more on glue, cutting, and stiff card stock. Both origami and pop-up designs implement a wide variety of folding techniques however.

Pop-up Terminology:

Transformations - show a scene made up of vertical slats. When a reader pulls a tab on the side, the slats slide under and over one another to "transform" into a totally different scene.
Volvelles - are paper constructions with rotating parts.
Tunnels - consist of a set of pages bound with two folded concertina strips on each side and viewed through a hole in the cover. Openings in each page allow the viewer to see through the entire book to the back, and images on each page work together to create a dimensional scene inside.