Pop-up Diamond card

 Happy Easter, everyone!

Today's inspiration is a pop-up diamond card. This is very straightforward to make, and I think it was one of the first funfold cards I learned, many moons ago! Usually, the top and pop-up are created from one piece of card, but as this topper was paper pieced, I added it separately which makes it even easier.

Instructions to make the Base:

1.    5" x 7 1/2", scored at 2 1/2 and 5" along the long side 

2.    Turn the card and score from the top of the 2 1/2 score line to the bottom right of card, and then from the bottom of 2 1/2 score line to top right of card, creating an X ascross the 5" score line

 1.    5" x 7 1/2", scored at 2 1/2 and 5" along the long side 

2.    Turn the card and score from the top of the 2 1/2 score line to the bottom right of the card, and then from the bottom of the 2 1/2 score line to the top right of the card, creating an X across the 5" score line - see diagram above. 

3.    With your fingers, fold the 2 1/2" and 5" upwards as valley folds and the diagonal one as mountains.

4.     Adjust the folds if necessary to be in line and burnish with a bone folder. 

5.    Mat and layer pretty paper onto the rectangle, then adhere the triangle of the base centrally on top of it and hold in place while it sticks. 

6.    Create topper of your choice 5" x 5" square and adhere to the top triangle of the base. This will now fold to fit in a square 6" envelope. 

7.    I made my topper with an interlaced background die onto the Craft Consortium pink paper and paper pieced 2 layers of blue and purple papers on top. I could have made another card with the blue and purple leftovers. Do not try to turn over the paper and use reverse, and the pattern will not follow through; there may also be slight discrepancies in final fit that way, too. I die-cut another layer of rose gold mirror card and used the framework to make the design pop. 

8.    On the reverse, I stamped and decorated with alcohol markers one of the  Fairy collection stamps on white to create the writing layer. 

9.    I fussy cut the Fairy wishes words from the waste of a sheet of decoupage toppers and added foam pads and also added one of the chipboard ephemera fairies to finish my card. 

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