Step by Step by Eleana Evans
Hi Everyone, it’s Eleana here and for today’s Step-by-Step I am going to show you how to make a hexagon spring pop up card. Using a mixture of the new stamps from the Herbs and Delights collection and a few of the older stamps. I hope you enjoy it.
Step 2
Cut a piece of card measuring 5 cm x 20 cm. Score along the long side at 5 cm, 10 cm and 15 cm.
This will be the bridge part.
Step 3
Cut a piece of card measuring 10 cm x 10 cm. This is for the main piece of work to go on.
Step 4
Cut two pieces of card measuring 3.8 cm x 24 cm. Score along the long side at 1.2 cm, 3.2 cm, 5 cm, 12.5 cm, 8.9 cm, 12.5 cm, 14.5 cm, 16.5 cm, 18.5 cm and 20 cm. This will be the spring strip part of the card.
Step 5
Using the spring strip. Starting from the middle you need to fold the strip with Valley and Mountain folds. Then glue the little tab under the large tab at the other end. You need to do that to the other strip. See picture for guidance.
Step 6
Using a sheet of paper from the fabulous new Dream-Scape Enchanted Forest Paper cut 6 pieces measuring 4.4 cm x 4.4 cm. Those will be for the base. Next cut a piece measuring 9.5 cm x 9.5 cm. That will be for the topper.
Step 7
Next stamp on the 6 pieces of paper as follows. Stamp the Rosemary& Thyme pots LAV948 using Versafine Clair Acorn and Spruce inks. For The Herb Garden Sign LAV941 stamp only the top part in Versafine Clair Acorn. Next stamp the Small Shrooms LAV950 and Mushies LAV945 in Versafine Clair Nocturne and the Woodland Fern LAV729 in Versafine Clair Spruce. On the large piece of paper stamp the Sage LAV949 and Dill LAV938 in each of the bottom corner using Versafine Clair Spruce. At the top of the paper stamp the small Leaf Creeper LAV742 in Versafine Clair Golden Meadow. Then stamp the River leaves LAV890 in Versafine Clair Rain Forest. Finally stamp Herbalum Bob and Baz in Versafine Clair Nocturne. That’s all the stamping done.
Step 8
Add a bit of green using a watercolour pencil to the ground under all the stamping minus the herb garden sign.
Step 9
Add a bit of white highlight to Herbalum Bob and Baz. Add a bit of light purple to the Sage flower. Add some white dots to the Thyme pot as little flowers on it. Use a dark red on the Mushies and then a few white dots on it. Add little white dots to the windows on the Small Shrooms. Then add a gold line around all the squares using a Gold Uni-Ball pen. This will help to frame it all.
Step 10
Create your matts using some cream card. I used my 0.15 cm (1/16’‘) Layer Guides from We R Memory Keepers, which are available from Lavinia Stamps website.
Step 11
Now onto the base strips. It is time to glue those 6 squares of work on.
Step 12
Then glue the tabs together so you have 3 panels at the front and 3 at the back forming a six-sided hexagon.
Step 13
Glue the bridge part into the back of the middle panels on the inside of the card as in the photograph.
Step 14
Get the two springs and glue them together to make one big spring. When they are dry glue them to the inside of the middle panels. Just where you glued the bridge part. The spring will help the card to pop into shape after it has been flat.
Step 15
Glue the larger square featuring Herbalum Bob and Baz onto the black card.
Step 16
Make the card flat. Now you can see the bridge has folded. On this black part add the glue.
Step 17
Keeping the card flat, place the Herbalum Bob and Baz topper on. Making sure it is in the middle of the two outer panels and measures 15.3 cm ( 6”) from the top of the panel to the bottom of the base.
Step 18
Let your card pop-up and it’s ready to stand.
Step 19
I added a piece of card to the back so you can write a message on it. It measures 5 cm x 8.9cm.
Step 20
The card is now complete. I hope this card has given you some inspiration to try it. I enjoyed making this as it is a fun card to make and something different. Happy Crafting to you all. Ellie x
