The Practical Step-By-Step Guide to Making Pop-Ups & Novelty Cards


Book Description

Offers instructions for creating pop-up and novelty cards with a variety of movable mechanisms and features over one hundred pop-up techniques and projects illustrated by more than one thousand color photographs.







Practical Pop-Ups and Paper Engineering


Book Description

Learn the mechanics of making your own paper pop-ups and novelty cards, with over 100 innovative techniques and projects to follow




How to Make Pop-Up Cards


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Home-made greetings cards are satisfying to make and wonderful to receive. This book shows you how to use paper-engineering skills to create movable and pop-up cards that will delight the lucky recipients. It opens with a brief introduction to making pop-up cards, followed by an invaluable guide to materials and techniques, as well as advice for common problems. The projects begin with simple folds, such as A and V folds, and move on to more complicated techniques, such as tab-held shapes. Card ideas put the folds to use, and you can create your own unique designs too. With 500 stunning photographs, this is both a practical and inspirational volume for craft lovers.




3D Pop Up Greeting Cards


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Flowers...gardens...seasonal motifs such as snowflakes and angels...traditional Japanese designs like Kabuki masks and geisha...animals...scenes...all these and many others become delightful greeting cards that are even more special because they're hand-made. Here are easy-to-follow directions—as well as cut-out templates—for creating 60 different, intricate-looking designs. Twenty-four color illustrations of the finished projects are followed by step-by-step instructions and diagrams. Whether it's to say, "Merry Christmas," "Happy Spring," "Just thinking of you," or "Get well soon," readers will find inspiration and hours of enjoyment in this beautiful and practical book.




Playing with Pop-ups


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DIVEnter the enchanting world of pop-ups and handmade paper crafts. Join author Helen Hiebert as she guides you through materials, tools and pop-up basics including parallel folds, angle folds, combinations and variations, and layered pop-ups. Enjoy creating 20 projects to play with ranging from cards and books to buildings, graphic design pieces, and more. Featuring a high-end gallery of artists, whose beautiful work will inspire you to make your own amazing paper art, Playing with Pop-Ups will teach you to create interactive pieces that everyone will enjoy./div




Pop-Up Design and Paper Mechanics


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This comprehensive guide to pop-up design and paper mechanics is a delightful introduction to the intriguing aspects of a fascinating craft. This new and accessible approach to pop-up theory and practice distills the numerous mechanisms into a logical set of 18 underlying shapes and explains the techniques for building these shapes. The author demonstrates how sophisticated pop-up designs are constructed and shows how to form a three-dimensional reference book. Invaluable for both professional and amateur designers. Appeals to craft-hobby enthusiasts who make their own greeting cards, but is also a useful aid to teachers of art, design and technology, designers, illustrators and sculptors.




Paper Engineering for Pop-up Books and Cards


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Multiple and floating layers - V-fold - Magic box - Moving arm - Rotating disc - Sliding motion - Pull-up planes - Pivoting motion - Dissolving scenes.




The Pop-Up Book


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Includes techniques for one-piece, multi-piece, and how to de sin your own pop-ups.




Creative Pop-Up


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Discover the secrets of pop-up papercrafts with this illustrated guide. A fascinating history of movable books is followed by practical advice and techniques, with easy-to-follow projects to create your own original novelty cards.