Pop-up Crib Baby Shower Card

Hello again, Amanda from Pear Blossom Press here with a fun pop-up card for you today. I've combined images from the new We Are Family set with a sentiment from the new Happily Ever After set to create a baby shower card with a crib that pops up when you open it! It may seem complicated, but it was actually pretty easy to make.

First I stamped and embossed the family images, then used watercolors to paint them. Once they were dry, I cut them out with my ScanNCut. (No sore thumbs here folks!) While my stamping and watercolor supplies were still out, I also stamped and embossed the sentiment and a few little flowers from the Easter Bounty set onto a die cut tag, then I painted it. The tag dies I used are nesting, so I cut out a slightly larger frame and painted it aqua to coordinate. I wanted the sentiment to look like a framed picture hanging in the baby's room.

To make the pop-up crib, I took a 1 1/2" x 8 1/2" strip of white cardstock and scored it at 2 5/8," 4 1/8," 6 3/4," and 8 1/4." When you fold the piece up, you get a little box shape with a tab for gluing it together. Before I glued it together though, I cut notches out of the bottom of each section to look like crib feet. The shorter sides are the head and foot of the crib. I cut out a pair of the same tag dies I used for the sentiment and trimmed them to fit as the headboard and footboard. I glued the crib together. Then I cut a pair of pattern paper "blankets" with a scalloped rectangle die and glued them over the sides of the crib. (This way, I didn't have to try to make slats in the sides.)

The card base was created from a 4 1/2" x 12" piece of cardstock. I scored it at 2 3/4" and 4 3/8" to form a z-fold card. I nestled the crib inside the fold and glued the headboard and back side to the card. Now when it is unfolded the crib pops up! I like z-fold cards because you are decorating the inside and outside at the same time ;)

To add a mobile above the crib, I took a 1/2" x 6 1/4" strip of the same paper I made the card base with and I folded it at 1 1/2," 3," 4 1/2," and 6." This forms another little box with a 1/4" flap for gluing. I taped clear thread with double-sided butterfly die cuts to the center of each section and I suspended a fifth butterfly from a thread that spans two folds. I covered the tape with a second strip of pattern paper, then glued the box into place above the crib.

To finish my card, I glued the sentiment and frame in place. Then I popped the family images into place with a little foam tape for more dimension. There is some negative space that my ScanNCut missed between mom and daughter; I just colored it with a marker in the same color as the card base so it blends in. This card fits into a #10 envelope (standard letter size). Here it is in action...

A quick note about the pattern papers I chose: for the card base, I chose a soft mushroom color with a pattern that looked like it could be wallpaper in a nursery. Since it's the background, I didn't want it to be too bold or you would miss the focal points. The prints for the blankets offer another splash of color and the patterns are small enough to look proportional in the scene. Remember, when choosing patterns, size matters!

Well, that's my card for today; I hope I've inspired you to give it a try. And if you love the new stamp sets as much as I do, you're going to need them in your collection. They're available now in the shop and guess what? Some lucky winners are going to receive these sets free! Head over to the blog hop for details and enter to win before it's too late! Thanks for stopping by and good luck my crafty friend! (If you are looking for links to other specific products I used to make this card, head over to the sister post on my blog.)