Since I have devoted my last few posts to pop-ups, I’ve decided to put together a brief introduction to this magical bit of paper engineering. There are many fabulous in-depth resources to making pop-ups: this post is not one of those. Instead, I offer here a couple of introductory type of handouts.
For in-depth looks at pop-ups visit
- http://www.popularkinetics.com/making_page.html This is Carol Barton’s site. Back in the late 1980’s I took my first class in pop-ups with Carol at The Center for Book Arts. Since that time she has taught pop-ups world-wide and has written a couple of fun, colorful books on the subject.
- http://www.robertsabuda.com/popmakesimple.asp A discussion of pop-ups just can not be had without mentioning Robert Sabuda. The first book I saw of his was an all white Christmas Alphabet book: awe-inspiring.
- http://www.origami-resource-center.com/pop-up-card-heart.html This is mostly an origami site, but it has a few pop-ups, and I like the simple, straight forward way the directions are laid out.
I’ve dug into my archives and pulled out the reference page below that I created at a time long ago.
For a look at pages of pop-ups done by elementary age students, take a look at my last three posts
- https://bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/basis-pop-ups-at-the-end-of-the-summer/
- https://bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/1674/
- https://bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/basis-and-moveable-books-at-bancroft-library-in-salem/
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Hey There. I found your weblog using msn. That is a very neatly written article. I’ll make sure to bookmark it and return to learn extra of your helpful info. Thanks for the post. I will definitely return.
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How do you make the generations one Paula?
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Hi Tony.
The trick to making the generations pop-up is sequence. You start out making a simple box pop-up, then you make a pop-up on the side folds of the box. Now, this explanation sounds perfectly understandable to me, but I can guess that it might not seem so clear to anyone else. Let me know if you want more of an explanation, and I will do a post on it. I think it would be a fun post to do. Let me know.
Best,
Paula
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Thank you, I found it helpful. As Graphic Designer this will come in handy for me 🙂
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Thank you for your post….I am new at making cards and just couldn’t get the cut and fold to work.
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Oh, Betty, you have put me in suspense….do you mean you couldn’t get the cut and fold to work UNTIL you read my post, or you didn’t get it even after reading me post?! Must know…:)
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nice article, I am exploring all paper engineering thing for my current project
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Nice post. Well what can I say is that these is an interesting and very informative topic on pop box
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