It has been some time since we made our unique Pop Up Birthday Cake Card – it continues to be one in every of my favorite birthday pop ups, with a enjoyable mechanism that permits the cake to pop up. Right now, I made a decision to create a brand new model of the 3d Birthday Cake Card – one that mixes my love for cute Kawaii animals AND pop ups! Our 3d Bear Cake Card or the second model of the 3d Canine and Birthday Reward Card. They’re actually the identical craft – simply beautify barely in a different way!
This pretty duo of 3d Birthday Reward Playing cards can simply be customised to fit your pet mates. Come make these Pop-up Playing cards with us right this moment!
Disclaimer: This publish was initially shared as a part of Workshop Week 2024! This was an amazig FREE week of inventive tutorials – the place a lot of us artful so and so have got here collectively to create a tremendous PROGRAM of arts and crafts tasks. It’s now freely out there to all Pink Ted Artwork Readers as per the Workshop Week T&Cs.
To make this 3d Birthday Cake Card/ 3d Birthday Reward Card – you’ll need
- Some card inventory for the cardboard itself (we used A5 to fold into an A6 card)
- Paper scraps in quite a lot of colours – you possibly can JUST use printer paper and colour it in utilizing marker pens when you don’t have entry to numerous coloured paper!
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Non-obligatory: entire punch for confetti
As with lots of my crafts, you do NOT NEED a template, however I’ve created a template for these of you that want to use one! You’ll be able to entry this totally free in my Gumroad Retailer – merely add the low cost code ILoveCrafts at try and get 100% off! Or seize the FULL set of worksheet directions plus templates in my Trainer’s Pay Trainer’s Retailer! Excellent for utilizing within the classroom or at an arts and crafts occasion!
How one can make a Pop Up Birthday Cake & Pals Card
You’ll be able to watch our pop up card video tutorial or you’ll be able to comply with the written step-by-step directions under!
Step by Step Picture Directions:
How one can make a 3d Birthday Card with Cake, Presents and Animal Pals
Start by designing what sort of animal pal you prefer to! Will you be making a bear right this moment, a pop up canine card or possibly a bunny pal?
The printable supplied consists of printable worksheets to make use of within the classroom, in addition to template for a Pop Up Bear Card and fundamental cake shapes. The bear shapes can simply be tailored for different animals – by altering particulars such because the ears or including a tail and many others. However as with all my crafts, I do encourage you give creating your personal characters and particulars a go!
Reduce out your pop up birthdard shapes
I all the time begin with the pop up reward/ cake. It’s mainly the width of a ruler and the runs the “size of the your cardboard inventory”. Then sketch out some shapes in your pop up bear you’ll need:
- An oval for the top and the identical once more for the physique (our head and physique are the identical measurement – the picture reveals totally different sizes, I modified my thoughts!)
- Some small round ears
- A bit oval snout
- 4 arms and toes (slightly bigger than the ears)
- If making a 3d Birthday Cake – some candles
- If making a 3d Pop Up card – some bows (not included within the printable)
- OPTIONAL: balloons or confetti – however you’ll be able to take into consideration these on the finish
- OPTIONAL: speech bubbles with cute animal associated puns – I like you Bear-y a lot and many others
Make the 3d birthday reward/ 3d birthday cake
Take your strip of “cake” or “reward” paper. Fold it in half. Make a neat crease. Fold it in half once more. It is best to roughly have a sq..
Open it up. And fold the 2 again sides – one of many creases shall be within the mistaken path – so that you make slightly field (see picture). Neaten the creases.
Enhance the birthday pop up
Enhance the 2 central segments to appear to be a cake or a present. I reduce a strip of sample paper to suit the width and gave it a wiggly line. I additionally added some jam to the center of the cake with a pink felt tip pen!
Reduce out paper candles or a paper bow. Make them slightly longer than wanted, as you’ll need to the additional size for gluing.
Glue to the again of the cake.
Assemble and beautify the paper bear or paper animal
Now it’s time to assemble your paper animal pal. On this case, we glue to ears to the again of the bear’s head. Notice – that positioning the ears provides you with totally different “appears to be like”. Experiment with how far aside or shut collectively you glue them.
Add the snout and eyes.
Draw claws and paws to your bear’s arms and toes.
The wonderful thing about making your bear on this manner is – that when you make a “mistake” you’ll be able to merely reduce out one other form and change them! That is once I determined the bear’s physique needs to be slightly larger and adjusted it to oval as per the template!
Assembling your 3d Birthday Card
Now it’s time to carry all of your paper reduce outs collectively.
Start by fastidiously gluing down’t the bear’s head, physique and toes (NOT the paws).
Fold the cardboard in half and thoroughly crease these shapes to suit the cardboard.
Add glue to each segments 1 and 4 of your cake/ reward.
Aline one phase with the central backbone of the cardboard and safe.
Fold over the cake/ reward and safe the opposite finish.
Add the paws to the skin of the cake.
Your fundamental pop up birthday card with cake or items is now FINISHED!
Add elaborations or finshing touches
Now you’ll be able to add your ending touches. We added some paper balloons (one reduce out form is included within the template) and gap punch confetti. However you may additionally want to draw and write some speeach bubbles and glue these in too.
And completed! Isn’t this 3d Birthday Card enjoyable!! My youngsters particularly love making and sticking down the confetti. Really easy and enjoyable.. and actually efficient!
How one can flip your Birthday Cake Pop Up Card into any Animal Pop Up
Our directions right this moment, confirmed you the way to make a fundamental Birthday Pop Up Playing cards + gives you a template for the Bear Pop Up Cake Card. However right here is are the examples of how shortly and simply you’ll be able to fluctuate these playing cards to make numerous totally different animal pop-up playing cards for Birthdays and different celebrations:
First up – see how simple the panda bear and bunny playing cards are? With the bunny, you’ll need to fold the ears and place the bunny slightly decrease all the way down to accomodate the ears!
And right here some cute canine birthday playing cards – I LOVE the Pug Pop-Up Card, however the generic emoji Pet Birthday Card is lovely too! As you’ll be able to see within the illustration, merely change out the colours for the physique, hand and toes as required!
Listed below are some enjoyable animal puns it’s possible you’ll want to embrace as greetings:
Upon getting made your enjoyable playing cards.. it’s time to add your messages both to the within of the cardboard or the skin! I like write paper speech bubbles and including them to both location.
Birthday Bear Puns:
- I like you bear-y a lot
- Have a bear-y good day
- Glad BEAR-thday
Birthday Canine Puns:
- Have a PAW-some birthday
- Glad BARK-Day
- It’s PAW-ty time
- Sizzling diggity canine, it’s your birthday!
Birthday Cat Puns:
- Have a PURRRR-fect Birthday
- Have a Paw-some Birthday
- Have a MEOW-some Birthday
- Have a CLAW-some Day
Birthday Bunny Puns:
- Have a HOPPY Birthday
- No-Bunny Compares to you
- Not one other gray hare (make a gray bunny!)
- Some-Bunny Advised me it’s your birthday
Hope you will have enjoyable making these pop-up Greeting Playing cards for family members on their birthday! So enjoyable! Although we made these as birthday playing cards, you’ll be able to after all use them for different events, equivalent to Valentines playing cards or Christmas Playing cards too. Merely modify the color schemes to the totally different holidays and add totally different confetti or sticker designs. E.g. hearts for Valentine’s and snowflakes for Christmas!
As you understand, we have now many many many extra Pop-Up Birthday Playing cards right here on Pink Ted Artwork. Simply to focus on a few of our favorite.
See all our Handmade Birthday Playing cards right here – numerous totally different card tutorials with a varity of pop-up mechanisms so that you can check out:
