Caroline
Love has definitely been in the air in my home as I’ve been working hard to create several new Valentine’s Day craft ideas for you this year. We are ending our Valentine’s Day theme this year with this super sweet pop-up love birds card and I just know you are going to love it as much as I do. The love birds popping off the page sitting on a tree branch are adorable and the musical heart popping out above them adds a perfect finishing touch to the whole love bird scene.
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Supplies needed:
- love birds card template <—- GET THE TEMPLATE HERE
- blue cardstock
- light blue, pink and orange cardstock (or colors of your choice)
- white cardstock
- tan cardstock
- music scrapbook paper
- heart punch (optional)
- brown and black marker
- heart stickers (optional)
- scissors
- glue stick
Tutorial:
1. Print & cut out template
Begin by downloading the love birds card template. Print out the love birds on light blue and pink cardstock (or the color of your choice). You can also print it out on white paper and trace the shapes on your colored cardstock. Cut out two love birds and set them aside.
2. Make tree branch
Cut a strip of tan cardstock about 3 to 4 inches by 8.5 inches. Use your brown marker to draw lines and knots on the cardstock to make it look like a tree branch. Fold the top 1-inch of the tan cardstock down. Set it aside.
Now it’s time to make your Pop-up Card
3. Cut your card
Fold your blue cardstock in half to create a card. Grab your scissors and about 1 1/2 inches from the inside of the edge, cut a 1-inch slit along the folded seam of the card. Cut another slit about 1 1/2-inches in from the previous cut. Make two more slits on the opposite end of the card on the folded seam.
4. Create the pop-out
Fold down and crease the blue paper along the slits you cut. Carefully open up the blue cardstock again, invert the folded pieces of the paper so they stand upright in the crease to create the pop-out of the love birds card.
Finish assembling the pieces for your pop-up love birds card
5. Make wings
Use your leftover cardstock from your two love birds and cut out a heart shape from each of the scraps. Glue each of the hearts onto your love birds to make wings. We bend the ends of the hearts up to give them a two-dimensional look.
6. Add beaks
Cut two beaks out of orange cardstock paper and glue them on your love birds.
7. Draw eyes & lashes
Draw closed eyes and eyelashes on your love birds with a fine tip black marker.
8. Make scrapbook paper heart
Cut out a 2-inch heart from your music scrapbook paper with your heart punch, or simply cut out a heart with scissors.
9. Cut out clouds
Cut out two clouds from white cardstock paper.
10. Add blue strip to the heart
Cut a blue strip of cardstock about 3-inch long. Fold both of the ends inward about 1-inch. Add glue to one end and glue it to the back of the heart.
Time to assemble your Pop-up Love Birds Card
11. Glue branch to the card
Add glue to the bottom of your tree branch and glue it on the bottom base of the pop-up card with the folded piece lining up with the pop out pieces of the card. Bend down the folded piece of the branch, add glue in the sections that line up with the fold out pieces, and attach them together.
12. Add clouds
Glue your white clouds at the top of your love birds card.
13. Glue birds to the card
Put a generous amount of glue on the pop-out sections of the card and attach the two love birds to the card with them facing each other like they are going to kiss.
14. Glue the heart
Add glue to the back folded section of the strip on the back of the music heart and glue it above your love birds on your pop-up card.
Add some finishing touches to your Pop-up Love Birds Card
For an extra special touch, add some heart stickers at the bottom of your pop-up love birds card. Then use a black marker to write a special message on your card like “Happy Valentine’s Day” or “My Tweetie Pie!”
