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 one the Sleigh Pop-up and you can
check out all of my designs at karenburniston.com
This is a really cool die set because you get two different assembly options.
You can make a standing pop-up which means that you open your card up to 180
degrees - a nice flat card - and then that sleigh pops up in the middle, or you can
assemble it to be a traditional pop-up card which is when you view your pop-up
with your card opened to 90 degrees. The video will show you both assemblies
and we're going to start with the stand up assembly. There are nine dies in the
set - I have them here on a magnet sheet for the video - and I'm going to start
with the two pieces to cut the sleigh. You can use any die-cutting machine that
can accommodate a wafer-thin die just make the proper sandwich and roll it
through. I'm using a Sizzix Big Shot today.
The overlay piece is just sized to fit over the sleigh like this to give it a
highlight and you also have the option with this piece to take advantage of the
stencil and emboss feature on the die. So if I want to emboss that die I need
to change out my machine to be an embossing sandwich and you would just
need to Google that to find out what it is for your machine. I'm using a Sizzix
Big Shot so I need my Impressions pad and my silicon rubber on the height for an
embossing folder. So for me that's my Essentials Platform - it might be Tab One
if you're using a tabbed platform. Cutting pad on top and then you just
roll that through the machine. So embossing the die gives you that really
cool raised texture and you can leave that as is or maybe highlight that by
brushing some ink across it. And then another option would be to actually put
the die back over the paper again and sponge some ink through the die using it
like a stencil. So in this case I'm using some white ink and then that will give
me a very crisp version of that texture because it will add that white color to
all those raised areas. And then maybe I'll brush a little red around the edges
as well.
And then I just glue those two pieces together. And then I would just repeat
this exact same process to make a second sleigh because I need two of them when
I'm making pop-up cards. This is the pop-up mechanism die so I
just need to die cut that out of cardstock.
After die-cutting I want to work all of the folds in the piece and I always find
its easiest to put my thumbnail right into the fold, fold towards my thumbnail
but then reverse, because every one of these folds on this piece I want to fold
away from me so basically as a mountain fold. Okay so I'm going to just find each
one and then reverse it so it goes the other way. I have a whole series of
mountain folds going down this piece.
By working all those folds first it becomes really easy to bring the notch
that's out on the end of the strip around and into the notch that's in the
center of the strip creating this little box. Now I'm going to repeat that same
thing on the other side. I'm going to bring the end around slide the notch
into the notch at the center and that creates my second little box. So
basically - and I'll just kind of work these fold so those boxes will fold in
either direction - but what it is is two side by side boxes with kind of a
doubled up center. And what I'd like to do is actually seal that center so for
that I'm just going to take my glue and get in there between the two boxes and
just press those two together to seal them.
You get to choose your card size. A top- fold card is what you need. I've decided
to make a square card today so I went with a 5x5 top fold card, added some
patterned paper just out of my stash, rounded the corners and then now I'm
going to glue my mechanism right over the center of that fold. Before I glue
this down I want to make sure I have it oriented correctly because the little
cutout in the mechanism points one direction but then the opposite on the
other side so I have to figure out which way is forward and the way that's
forward is the side that matches the sleigh. So it's just a matter of taking
my sleigh and saying "oh does that fit? Yep, that fits perfectly." So that's the
section that I would want to have pointing towards the front of my card.
Any strong adhesive will work. I'm using glue, so I'm using Lineco neutral pH
adhesive in my Fine Tip Bottle but you could also use glue dots or a nice
strong double-sided tape - just something that's strong enough to hold up to that
card opening and closing a bunch of times. For location I want it directly
over the fold of the card. And then I can close that card and actually give it
another good press in the closed position to make sure I have a really
good bond on the two boxes to the card. And that's all there is to it - that's the
pop-up mechanism. All that needs to happen now is just to glue a sleigh to
either side of those boxes and then start filling it up with fun
embellishments.
Your glue needs to go on the box itself because of all the cutouts,
but the cutouts line up perfectly with the sleigh and that makes it super easy
to both add the sleigh to the box in the proper position so that it pops up and
pops down really nicely, but then also so that when you add the other sleigh to the
backside it is in the same exact spot as the one on the front. So that will really
make it easy to do that because you've got that guide on the mechanism itself. I
love that this pop-up is such simple assembly but with such a dynamic look to
it. Now I am going to see the back of the sleigh as the card opens and since I
happen to choose a metallic cardstock that wasn't the same on both sides - it's
actually just white on the back - my thought was to at least kind of dress up
that back sleigh a little bit. I'm going to put a little gold decorator sleigh on
the back and that way as the card is opening it's not just solid white it has
a little bit of glamour to it. So you fill the sleigh by gluing things like to
the center piece or to either of the sleighs but you can also add a little
extender giving you more area to decorate inside the sleigh.
So here's what I mean - you take a little scrap of cardstock
I don't even measure it - I just loose cut it with my scissors and then I just add
a little bit of glue to both sides of the end of that scrap. And where that's
going to go is I'm actually going to separate the two halves of that center
piece and just press that little extender right in between the two and
I'm just going to do it at an angle that it's basically kind of hidden by the
sleigh but going up into the back of the sleigh like you see there. And that just
extends all of that platform area where I can fill that with presents and
animals and, you know, whatever I want to put in the sleigh.
The die set does come with decorator pieces including a present with a bow.
You've got a wreath with a bow, and then there's a snowflake.
So the cross piece is the ribbon that goes on the present. So you just add some
adhesive to that, and then you've got the present box, and just glue those together.
And then you have the option on the big bow as to whether you make this a
horizontal present or whether you make it a vertical present so it's just up to
you as to which way you you glue the bow on. I like to just add the adhesive kind of
to the tails of the bow and have the top of the bow sticking up higher than the
package. I just think it looks nice that way. So typically I just make a series of
presents, some of them horizontal, some of them vertical - just kind of mix up the
colors and the looks to them. And then there is a small bow as well and that is
sized to fit perfectly on the little wreath die that comes in the set.
And then there's a snowflake.
So then to fill the sleigh it's just a matter of adding some adhesive to that
strip and then just pressing my items to it. So I'm going to start here out on the
end of the strip - I'm going to choose a present... ooh tough choice ...red. I'm gonna
go with red. And I just press that to that glue to add it into the sleigh and of
course it can go at any kind of angle - it can be high, or low, or side-, you know. You
decide. Decide how you want these to look in your sleigh. I'm going to just go
right down that strip and add another present and then just continue filling.
You can also attach items to the sleigh itself like I'm going to add this extra
present here to the front end of the sleigh. And I wanted to point out that
the sleigh is sized to fit any of the animal sets including the new Winter
Animals. So I've chosen to use the Hedgehog here and have her holding that
wreath. And then I'll just add snowflakes. Now in addition to the snowflakes I did
create a greeting using Word Set 3 and I thought it'd be fun to swap out
the O for the wreath that comes in the set.
And I am a fan of just repeating my elements on the fronts of cards just to
make a simple lead-in. So more of the patterned paper. I made a little row here
of some more presents and snowflakes using the set and then I'll just glue
that to the front of the card. And this finished card is a five by five square
and what's important about that is that you can mail it in an A7 - an envelope for
a 5x7 card - and then you don't have to put extra postage on it. Okay one card
down let's make another one. This time using the assembly for a traditional
pop-up.
And you know I'm all about options so let me show you another way that you
might choose to style the sleigh. In this case I'm going to nest the two dies
together and cut them at the same time so now instead of having a piece that I
layer on top, actually the area that's the decorator part of the sleigh ends up
coming shining through from underneath when I layer that overlay over the top
of a solid sleigh. So you might just experiment with your different options
for how you style these sleighs.
Die cutting and folding the pop-up mechanism is identical no matter which
way you're making the pop-up, so it's just a matter of making those two side
by side boxes by bringing the ends around and putting the notches together.
So we make mountain folds. I bend towards my thumbnail and then reverse it.
i bend towards my thumbnail and then reverse it. And that makes all the folds
necessary for a box. I bring the notch around and put it
through the center notch, making those two side-by-side boxes. And once again I want
to seal those together by putting glue between them.
I always get to choose my own card size so I've cut a piece of cardstock to 8.5
tall by 5 inches wide so that makes a 5 by 4.25 top fold card. So
I have a little bit of a patterned paper problem in that that I have way too much
of it and yet I still manage to buy more. But this is an older paper. I have
so many pretty holiday papers just left over from previous years that I don't
buy new stuff for videos. I just go back through my stash and I really encourage
you to do the same - just find something pretty. This sleigh is going to work great
with any color scheme in any type of paper. For a traditional pop-up assembly
the back sleigh is glued to the back wall just right along the edge of the fold.
And then the mechanism is actually going to glue to the sleigh lining up the
mechanism with the pattern on the sleigh. So the adhesive will go on the box
itself just avoiding all the holes and then I'm just going to press that down
over the top of the sleigh.
And then the other side is going to attach by adding the adhesive to the
bottom of the two boxes - they're basically just going to operate as one
unit now - and I'll just bring the card up to that 90 degree position so that I can
press down the bottom of that box to the other half of the card. Now one thing
that I discovered right away was that glitter paper being behind that
mechanism was not going to be permanent. There was no way that glue was going to
want to stick to that glitter. So I just went in and peeled away the glitter. It
didn't really matter that it was a little bit messy because all of that's
going to be hidden anyway. So a little hint from me - if you're using glitter paper
just make sure that you remove it from the area that you're expecting that
mechanism to stick to.
And then I just need to add my other sleigh to the front of the box so once
again just go in there with my glue and avoiding those holes with adhesive and
then just lining up the pattern and pressing that other sleigh to it.
From here there's no difference. The process for filling the sleigh is
identical as with a standing sleigh. I just added my little extender arm with a
scrap of cardstock and just filled it all up with some cool presents,
snowflakes, and a wreath. I stamped my Merry Christmas greeting onto a couple
of layered labels. Those came out of the Gift Card Label set which I'm going to
use on the front of the card as well. Now for the front I've just turned to my
leftover materials the same pattern paper and a few embellishments from the
sleigh set. And when I die cut the large Gift Card Label I also nested it in one of
the smaller labels and cut that at the same time. So this large label is cool
because it holds, as an option, a standard sized gift card. So you don't always have
to use it for a gift card as you see it's a really pretty shape and you could
just use it as its own embellishment on a card. But it does hold a gift card and
since I do plan to use it for a gift card I'll put the gift card in before I
add my glue and that way I know I'm avoiding those couple little areas where
the card slides kind of behind the piece. I don't want to glue those areas down.
And I like doing this inlay technique when I am going to use a gift card so
that I don't have anything for the gift card to catch again so it ends up just
being a nice flat piece even those two-tone.
And then I will just finish out my front decoration by just layering those few
extra pieces in the corner and gluing it to the front of my card.
So there you have it - two different ways to assemble the Sleigh Pop-up die and
while of course we think of a sleigh for a Christmas card I am looking at this
and thinking it could be a pretty cool Halloween card. A little bit of that
"Nightmare Before Christmas" styling and there are a couple new Halloween dies in
the collection as well. So I'm looking forward to giving that a try.
And throughout the year you can use those presents maybe on birthday cards.
You can use the mechanism to animate something else in your collection so you
don't always have to use the mechanism just for the sleigh. And of course I love
how the cute little Winter Animals fit so nicely in the sleigh.
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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