Maria Giselle's Creative Cuts: 3D Space Pop-up Card

Friday, June 13, 2025

3D Space Pop-up Card

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I created this card to join the latest Lawn Fawnatics challenge. The theme is Up, Up, and Away!, create a project with fun things in the sky.

I used a black watercolor paper for my card base. The size of my the panel is 8 1/4" x 6". It is a left over paper that's why the short end of the panel is smaller than usual but it worked.

I painted the panel with Finetec Mica paints to create a galaxy sky. I splattered white metallic paint over the panel. I forgot to tape the watercolor paper to a board so I had a bit of warping but hardly noticeable. After this panel has dried. I trimmed 1/2" off from each side of the long side. I scored this at 4 1/8" and used a bone folder on the fold for a nice crease. This painted panel will be the inside of the card.

The stamp I used is the Lawn Fawn Out of this World stamp set. I stamped the images on white cardstock and colored it with Copic markers. I stamped the images twice to create a mirror image. This stamp set comes with a coordinating die set which I don't have, but these images are easy to fussy cut.

For the pop-up mechanism, I cut a square on acetate. I drew a spiral on a paper. This paper has the same size as the acetate. I used this paper as the template for the pop-up mechanism. I placed the paper behind the acetate and cut the acetate following the spiral line on the paper. I adhered the tip of the spiral acetate to the the right side of painted panel. I used Ranger Glossy Accents to adhere the transparency to the watercolor paper.

I applied a dot of Glossy Accent on the center of the spiral and folded the card towards the acetate. After the Glossy Accent dried, the acetate pop-ups up when the card is opened.

I adhered the planets to the acetate, adhering it back to back to sandwich the acetate and hide the glue.

I created a foldable pop-up mechanism for the astronaut and the spaceship using a folded strip of cardstock. These images flatten when the card is folded and pop-up a bit when the card is opened.

I heat embossed a sentiment using white pigment ink and white embossing powder.

For the card front, I die cut the LF Giant Happy Birthday die on a black, starry patterned paper. I also die cut this on hollographic paper. I adhered the hollographic die cut on the back of the patterned paper die cut offsetting it for a shadow effect.

I adhered this to the front of the card. This sentiment die cut can stand alone because of its large size. Since I have an extra sun stamped, colored and fussy cut, I adhered this to the front of the card.