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Butterfly Card

A #pop-up project

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Rob Ives
Sep 29, 2023
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It was my friends birthday this week. I think home made cards are a little bit special so this is what I came up with. The butterflies are from the same photo I took the other day that I used for the cork butterfly - thank you Red Admiral!

As the card is opened the butterflies move in opposite directions making them look like they are fluttering. The background image in the card is from a suitably textured page in a magazine. The mechanism uses a couple of opposite facing triangular folds and is based on the same mechanism I used on the Comet Card. It’s interesting how versatile mechanisms can be!

Comet Card

The card comes in the form of a downloadable file with various parts, templates and instructions. You’ll need to add some card, coloured and white as well as a suitable backdrop cut out from an old magazine.

Parts. templates and instructions

If you are in the mood for pop up cards you’ll enjoy these other designs available to download and make from the website.

Pop Up Shark Attack!

…and via the Brother International Creative Center.

Pop-Up Animals

As always members of www.robives.com and paid subscribers to this newsletter can download the butterflies card file and the files in all previous newsletter posts for free at the bottom of each newsletter page, thanks for your support! Non members can join in the fun for £2.50 or equivalent here.

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