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Pop-Up Room Card
By
Stephanie Loomis
Crafty Cruisers
Intermediate Stamping Team Designer
I learned this technique
from my friend, Melissa Baldwin. It is highly adaptable and GREAT fun! I
recently won a contest using this submission, and I’m thrilled to share it with
my readers! Any idea will work for this project! I’ve done this card as a
bathroom as show and a barn (with little chicks). It can be an outdoor
scene---think bugs! It would be a darling apparel shop. There is no limit to
the ideas available for this technique.
Supplies:
• Rub-A-Dub stamp
set (TAC)
• Sketchy Borders stamp set (TAC)
• Palette Noir Ink Pad
• Palette Moulin Rouge Ink Pad
• Palette Cognac Ink Pad
• Square cardstock (12”x 12” is
easiest to work with, but 8” x 8” and 6” x 6”, also, work well.) Any color
will do---even patterned paper.
• Scrap white cardstock
• Circle or oval die cut of
patterned paper
• Gold rimmed circle tag
• Scissors
• Fine tip marker
• Prismacolor Pencils
• Gamsol Odorless mineral
spirits
• Blending stumps
• Dimensional Magic (Plaid)
• Silver microbeads (Penny Wise
Arts)
• Scotch Double Stick Tape (3M)
for adhering pieces
Instructions:
- Score your paper into
halves each way. (This leaves you with four equal
quarter sections.)
- Cut ONE score line
from edge to center. The two flaps lay one over the other and become your
“floor.”
- Stamp and color the
“walls” and “floor” of the room with the card laid out flat. Use the lines
from Sketchy borders with Cognac ink to create “beadboard paneling” as shown.
Use the flowers from the Rub A Dub set with Moulin Rouge ink for the
“wallpaper.”
- Adhere the
circle/oval patterned paper as a “rug.” Draw in fringe with a fine tip pen.
- Stamp and color the
exterior “walls” as well, if desired.
- On scrap cardstock,
stamp (in black) and color your scenic elements. For this project, stamp and
color the bathing beauty and towels. Use the Prismacolor pencils and blend
with Gamsol.
- Highlight bubbles
with Dimensional Magic and add silver microbeads. Allow to dry completely.
- Stamp Flowers on gold
rimmed tag for “framed artwork” in the room.
- Cut out scenic
elements leaving a ¼” tag at the bottom. This will be folded and used to
secure the elements to the “floor.”
- Fold card up into
room shape. Place scenic elements as shown and secure. Be sure to leave enough
room for the elements to fold up flat for mailing.
- To fold for mailing,
first fold “floor” flaps up. Then fold card in half so that the flaps are on
the OUTSIDE of the card. The card will fold flatter this way.
- This card will
require extra postage (12-23 cents), but the recipient will love it!
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