Pop Up Penguin Card

This card was sooooo fun!!!!!  The penguin is made with the 2-Step Owl Punch – just cut the ears off the owl and you have a penguin!  I love it when a tool does double duty for us.

The nose is the heart on this punch – turned upside down.  And the fins are the large oval punch – just punch out from your black cardstock and then use the scrap that's left over to punch slivers for the fins.

The snow on the front is a piece of 5-1/2" x 2-3/4" white cardstock – torn in half.  I used the bigger piece as the first layer (the taller one) and the other piece I tore off as the lower snowbank.  I layed my torn pieces on a scrap of typing paper and ran the 2-way glue pen acrossed the torn edge and dusted with Dazzling Diamonds glitter…..WOWEEE!

Here's the inside of the card – with the pop up.  I received a beautiful card from Founder's Circle with this technique inside.  My Technique Tuesday stampers asked last month to learn this technique for our class this month.

Here's how I cut the inside pop up channel.  Place your cardstock in the paper cutter at 2-3/4".  Cut from 5" to 10-1/2" down the edge.  Then move your cardstock over to 3-1/4" and cut again from 5" to 10-1/2".

Your then going to put your cardstock in the cutter the long way and score the channel at 5", 10" & 10-1/2" as shown below.  Fold on the score lines so it looks like this:

I punched out snowflakes with the 3/4" circle punch, backed with Not Quite Navy 1" circles.  I doubled these up so when they twirl around you have the image on both sides.  A little white Baker's Twine in between the layers was perfect.  Run some SNAIL adhesive down the channel on your card base and stick your Baker's Twine to it – spacing your snowflakes evenly.  Then to cover the channel up on the outside of your card – I used Letters From Santa Designer Series Paper – cut a 1" wide.  Make sure you apply your glue to the outside of the card along each edge of the channel – careful not to get any glue on the channel or your pop up willno longer pop up.  I prefer to use the Liquid Mono glue for this step.

You'll notice here that the scalloped layer is bigger than the channel – this measures 1" x 5".

The little sign is the cuff from the Stocking Punch – it's the perfect size to use with the Tiny Tags stamp set.

I used Tiny Tags, Serene Snowflakes, & Many Merry Messages for my stamp sets.

Here are a few of the products I used for this project:

You can get all the directions and dimensions for my Technique Tuesday projects shown HERE – when you place an online order:

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