hello it's Karen Burniston and I'm here with an assembly video for one of my die
sets this is die number one zero two zero the Christmas Tree Pop-up and you
can check out all of my designs at karenburniston.com this is the card that I'm
making in the video today it is an a2 sized card and I chose some bright
festive colors
my first step is to construct the pop-up base the Christmas tree pop-up comes
with seven individual dies and I've placed them here on my magnet sheet I'm
going to grab the pop-up die and the base die now this one the base is
actually the trunk of the tree so I'm going to use brown for that for today's
card and then this is the pop-up die there's a triangle-shaped hole in the
die that should always point towards the front edge of the card and then the
alignment nubs go over the fold of the card and those can go anywhere along the
fold but the tree needs to have a certain amount of distance behind the
die if the tree is going to be hidden by the card itself
I think you can probably get away with three and a quarter but to be safe I'm
going to recommend that you make yourself a little cheater like this just
out of a piece of scrap cardstock that's three and a half inches wide and you use
that full distance when you want to make cards with the star and then you can
come in a little bit to three inches if you're planning to make a tree card
without the star on top. Card size is always your own choice I've chosen to do
an a2 size card today but this distance from the back edge of the card up to
where the pop-up die should be will never change so I can use my little
cheater every time that I make one of these cards and I don't have to get my
ruler out and I don't have to guess. So I'm just going to tape that with some
temporary removable tape just to show now that I've got the side of the pop-up
die lined up with my three and a half inch mark, the alignment nubs are
directly over the fold. A little more temporary tape because I don't want my
pop-up die to move and then I'm going to roll that through my die-cutting machine
using a sandwich for a wafer thin die any die-cutting machine will work as
long as it can accommodate a wafer thin die and I'm using a Sizzix Big Shot
today. Let's take a look at what the pop-up die has done it's just cut two
mirror-image tabs on either side of the fold and those are sized perfectly for
the tree trunk base to hold it onto the card
so let's first die-cut the base I'm going to use brown cardstock for this
and what this die does is it cuts and it scores so I'll want to look for all of
the score lines you can see them easier on the side where the die has pressed in
so my favorite is I put my thumbnail in that fold and I fold towards my
thumbnail to get it started but then I immediately reverse it because the idea
is that all of those should be mountain folds and then that tab is used to
attach it on the other side. For pop-ups you want a good strong
adhesive my favorite is glue I put Lineco neutral pH adhesive into
my Fine Tip Bottle and I use that for my pop-up cards I find that it doesn't come
unstuck even in a humid climate like where I live in South Texas and you know
the cards get open and closed a lot - they're fun - they're pop-up cards right? So
you want to use a nice strong adhesive but you can use tape if you're not a
glue person you can use tape I'm just making a pitch for glue because I really
love it. Now there really isn't a front or a back to this piece it's fine any
way that it ends up so it's just a matter of adding some glue to those tabs
in the pop-up card and then I want those tabs to be right in the corners of that
base so I can just go in there and pinch that tab into the corners give it a
second to set up since I'm using glue and then you'll see now I can open and
close that card and that base will just lift up and flatten down I can even give
it a good press in the closed position as well. So in a second here we're going
to cut a couple big trees and we're going to seat those down into this tree
trunk base and we're going to do that by getting access to these notches here and
the way we get access is that we take the tabs at the top and we're going to
temporarily fold those outward. See what I've done there on that first one? I'm
going to go around that base and I'm going to fold all of my tabs outward and
what that's going to allow me to do is it's going to let me seat that big tree
right down the full distance of that notch and then those tabs will actually
go through the big tree and that will all make sense in just a second when we
get to our next step and that step is adding the big trees
this is the die that I'll use to cut my two big trees and while I'm in the
business of cutting trees I might as well just go ahead and cut my two sets
of small trees as well so I've got some green cardstock here I've got a piece
that's big enough for my two big trees and then I've also got two pieces
because I need to cut the small set twice but I can stack that up on top of
each other and cut them both at the same time if the cardstock isn't too thick so
I leave it to you to test your cardstock and see if that's possible. What you may
want to do if you're going to cut your sets of small trees two at a time is you
may want to roll through your machine and then back through so that you get
that double pressure on it. So the small tree die is already
connected to each other and then it has tabs out on the side and the idea is
it's a mountain fold in the middle and both the tabs are mountain folds as well
and I can do that on both pieces
I'll set aside my small trees for now because I need to first do the big trees
so they come out as two trees one with notches, one with a slot, and the idea is
that you get the notch on your notched tree into the slot at the bottom and
then you should be able to, depending on the thickness of your cardstock, you
should be able to just carefully pull it through the slot so that that will hook it
together and you can see that those trees should swing freely hooked
together using that notch and slot system. Now at the base of those trees
are holes - see them there? There's four holes one on each side of the tree and
those are going to line up with those notches on your tree trunk base so that
the little tabs that have been temporarily folded outward are going to
end up going through those holes on the base of the tree. Now because of my
camera angle I'm attempting to do this in the air so that you can see what I'm
doing but honestly it's a lot easier just to have your card sitting flat on
the table and then bring your tree down from the top trying to get that tree
seated down into all of those notches where the tabs have been temporarily
folded out of the way so that you have the ability to get that tree all the way as
far as it will go down into those notches. Then you can just carefully work
the tabs back through the holes of the tree and you got - you know, it's a little
fussy you got to go around and do it on all four sides. You'll get really good at
it the more trees that you make. Doesn't take too long though just go around and
work those little tabs back into those holes on your big tree and then once
you've got them in your tree is now locked into position with the trunk. Now
if this is your first time making a tree it is going to be difficult to resist
the urge to close that card at this point and test it out but try not to
because actually when you fold the card it's going to bend some of your big tree
branches on the back and it's easier to get these small trees attached while you
still have all four of those bottom tree branches with no bends in them so it
doesn't take but a second to add the small trees - you just need to - much like
the big trees - you get the notch in the big tree into the slot on the small tree
and then just get that whole big tree kind of coming through the slot and you
just click it in at the top - super easy - just click it
right into position. You're going to do that with your set for the front of the
tree and then you're going to turn around and do it for a set on the back
of the tree. Same thing - we want the notch on the big tree in the slot at the - on
the small tree, and then we're just going to kind of wiggle the branches of the
big tree through the slot. When we get to the top we're going to hold the
top of the tree and just click it into position. Doing the same here -
we need the slot to be nested into that notch on the big tree and then
up at the top we click it into position. And now you've got your all four trees
on there - see how quick and easy that was? Those ones are simple! Now you've got
those tabs - see those tabs? That's what connects your small tree sets together
so you just need your your strong glue or your tape or your glue dots. I'm just
going to add your glue to those tabs and then just press it to the other side.
Okay that connects those two trees, then I'm going to turn it around repeat that
process - glue on the two tabs, just line it up with the small tree on the other
side, just give it a press until that glue sets up and that will connect all 4
of those trees together. Now I get to close it for the first time and for that
first time I'm going to give it a little help I'm actually going to squish it in
from the sides a little bit and then let the card do the rest of the work
when it's at this closed position I'm going to give it a really good press. So
now let me show you where those back tree branches get bent. They're going to
add a new little fold at the base of the large tree branches here and here.
Doesn't bug me a bit - in fact it actually helps with it closing nice and smoothly
but if you want to you can cut those off right on that fold line if you prefer. I
leave it to you.
The die set includes some decorator dies including a cardinal and it has a
stencil feature to be able to add the eye. So before taking the paper out of the
die I just used a white gel pen to add the eye to the cardinal. And then the
star die cuts both halves of the star and what you want to do is use the star
half that doesn't have a top - so it's got a notch at the top - and that's the one
that you would add. Just a little bit of glue to the base and add that to the top
of the tree. Now there's only one tree where it can go, so you know when you
look at the top of your big tree you've got one where you can seat that little
star half right down into the tree and the other one you wouldn't be able to so
it's pretty easy to figure out where it goes there's only one tree that it
really fits. And then for the other half of the star you add your glue to the
base just right next to the notch on both sides and then you're going to
slide that into the other half of the star and now this star half is going to attach
to the other big tree. So you've basically got each star half attached to its own
tree and notched to each other. So that's the basic assembly of the tree and the
star. You can see it folds down nicely it's hidden by the card when it's closed.
Lots of ways that you can decorate these trees it does come with that cardinal
die and it does come with a die that will cut you four little circles,
ornaments, at a time. And what I like to do is double up my cardstock underneath
that die so that I can get eight ornaments in a single cut, and I've done
that for my tree today out of four different colors. The tree will look
great using just those flat cardstock ornaments. As you see, it'll kind of
keep the bulk and the weight of the card down. But if you want to, you could add
some bling. So I'm going to do that here with some rhinestones that match my
cardstock colors and I'm only going to add the rhinestones to the front of the
tree - no need to add them to the back and add that additional bulk.
Here's an idea for how you can get the illusion of a tree skirt underneath the
tree. I've cut two pieces of patterned paper to three and a quarter by five
and a half and what I want to do first is figure out where the center of the
tree is, so I'm just going to place my patterned paper temporarily on the card
and with my pencil mark where the center of the tree is. I really only have to
mark one side of the paper because I'm going to tape those together temporarily
while I die cut. A three inch circle die is just perfect for the tree skirt so
I'm going to use the one out of the Snowman Twist Circle die set. I'm going
to tape that in place and roll it through my machine. Any time you're
making a pop-up card that is meant to be viewed with the card open fully flat you
really want to have only one fold in the center of the card and that's why you
see me doing this decorator step in two pieces that meet at the fold. And that
way I'm going to avoid trying to glue a big long fold inside a fold - I'd never be
able to open it fully flat like this if I did - but by doing two pieces it opens and
closes all the way up to a nice flat card. And cards like this don't need much
else. You see here I just added a ribbon with a bow on the left side and on the
right side just a couple more circles from my Twist Circle die set and a
greeting from Word Set 3. And I always do all the decorating of the
inside of my card first because anything I do then, like this brad or the ends of
that ribbon, will be covered with my front and back decoration later. I cut
two cardstock panels to four inches by five and a quarter and I'll put the one
that goes on the back of the card first. I just want to make sure that I avoid
the hole where the pop-up is with adhesive, so I'll use my tape runner on
the panel for three sides and the card for one. For the front panel I'm going to
decorate it before I put it on my card. But first I wanted to show this braided
ring decoration. The way I made that is I used the beaded ring from the Twist
Circle die set and then just cut it in two colors and offset them a bit so that
gives that illusion of a braided ring. And another decoration is to use
the large tree from the set and that does have all that mechanism in it but
as long as you cover that mechanism with a star, trunk and ornaments it's just going
to look like a solid tree. So that can be used on the front of the card as well.
I used my Snowman Twist Circle again to make myself a snowman and I just trimmed
one of the circles to make that body shape on the bottom. And for the heart I
actually used this negative space in between the two small trees. I did have
to trim the top little point to be a little bit more defined.
This really is my favorite way to do card fronts which is just to do the
inside of the card first and then sort of repeat the elements, you know. Just
take things that I've done on the inside - the same kind of colors and styling - and
just make a simple lead-in on the front of the card.
This is just a standard A2 size card. It is probably going to need a little
extra postage because of how many rhinestones, ribbon and pop dots I put on
it, but had I kept all of those embellishments flat it would easily mail
for a single stamp. So keep that in mind in your design phase if you're going to
make a whole series of these for your holiday cards. And if you use that
ornament die just with some metallic and glitter cardstocks then you can keep
everything very flat. And speaking of flat, make sure in your tree skirt - like
this one I have inlaid that beaded circle - make sure that that tree skirt is
always flat or you will create a catch point when your tree folds down. So
that's not to say you can't make elaborate tree skirts, just do it with
stamps or with inlaid dies, not with anything that has any dimension that
could catch on the tree. My whole concept of die design is to
give lots of individuals dies that work really well together. So you'll find in
this Holiday Collection little charms and things that will work great with the
Christmas Tree Pop-up. Now even though it's a Christmas tree it doesn't have to
be. It can be an evergreen tree, and I can see it being decorated, you know, with
hearts for Valentine's Day. So use this die year round - it's a fun one! If you click on
the website link you'll go to karenburniston.com where you can find out
information about purchasing these dies as well as links to all of my other
social media accounts. You can subscribe to this YouTube channel and check out
some of my other videos. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
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