I came across a video on the Mixed Up Craft YouTube channel on "Beautiful Pop-Up Book Cards." A friend of ours had a birthday recently, and I decided to make her a special card. She is a church choir director & retired music teacher, so I made the "book" a sheet music book.
I first created a 5x7" card base from heavyweight white cardstock. I cut a piece of script patterned paper to 4-1/2x6-1/2", and matted it with pink, leaving a 1/8" border, then adhered it to the card base. Our friend lives in Tyler, TX, which is designated the Rose Capital of America, so I chose the "Vintage Roses" set for the embellishments.
I created the greeting for the front in Photoshop, & printed it onto parchment paper. I die cut that with a "Decorative Labels One" die. It kind of got lost on the script paper, since there is not much color difference, so I die cut a mat from pink with a "Labels One" die, that coordinates with the decorative label. I adhered those together, and mounted them to my card front. Finally, I glued the roses & leaves in place around the greeting.
I found royalty-free sheet music online, and downloaded it. I printed out the first 6 pages onto plain copy paper, and scanned them into my computer. (The original file was a PDF, so I had to scan the pages to convert each to an image file, so I could work with them in Photoshop.) I opened the page scans in Photoshop, & sized them so they would fit on the book pages, following the measurements in the tutorial. I then printed them onto parchment paper, & cut them to size.
I matted each music page with pink, & adhered them to the inside pages that I'd cut from white cardstock. I also added the end papers to the inside covers of the card. I created the mechanism as per the tutorial, and inserted my pages.
I die cut the "happy birthday" from black glitter paper. I added that to another "Decorative Labels One" die cut, that I'd cut from a double layer of vellum. (The vellum helps mute the background sheet music, to make the greeting more legible, without totally obscuring the notes.) To finish, I added a couple more roses & leaves in opposite corners of the greeting. I made a matching envelope as well. Since there is a bit of bulk to this card, I couldn't really use a "flat" envelope, so I made one that's a bit more like an envelope-shaped box.
Date: Monday, June 7, 2021 GMT Views: 313
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