December 2025 Class 2 - Turtle-y Cute Pop Up Card & More

 

Today's class continued a look at scene creation.  This time, the scenes are all created by fussy cutting pieces from designer series paper (DSP) from Stampin' Up!.  This time we used the Turtle-y Cute DSP (all images © 1990–present Stampin’ Up!®.  This first card took scene building a bit farther, by making it a simple pop-up scene!   Here's a look at these cards and how we made them:

Outside of Pop-Up Card: 

Often, when I have something special INSIDE the card, I like to make the outside of the card pretty simple.  I started with a piece of the DSP, then added a die cut sentiment (using the discontinued Wanted to Say dies from Stampin' Up!).  I also added a few die cut music notes (from an old Paper Discovery Music Panels cutting die).  Or you COULD simply stamp them using the coordinating Turtle-y Awesome stamp set, or fussy cut some from some of the papers.

Inside of Pop-Up Card: 

Here I used Crushed Curry cardstock for the backdrop, adding a few more die cut music notes along with my fussy cut turtles (note that I also fussy cut accessory pieces from the same papers and added them to the turtles - also, the turtles that were going to be popped up were glued on a piece of cardstock before fussy cutting so they'd be a bit more sturdy).  I glued some turtles directly to the backdrop and then added three with pop-up mechanisms.  Here's how I did that:

For each mechanism: 

I cut a strip of cardstock and scored it in half crosswise - and then each half in half.   

After creasing each score line, I folded it in half, placing it on the table so that the fold was farthest away from me.  I added glue from that fold to the next score line, leaving the bottom section free of adhesive, then placed my turtle with his head farthest away from me and his feet near that middle score line.

Then I added glue to the lower portion from the score line to the free end, placed my turtle face-down with the bottom of the free end just shy of the fold. Then I added glue to the lower portion of the back of the mechanism, and carefully closed the card and let the glue set.

The next card was a more simple scene on a card using some of these fussy cut pieces and paper carefully cut to form the floor and walls of a room.  I added drawn lines using a marker and straight-edge. In addition to one of the Turtle-y Cute papers, I used a coordinating paper from a discontinued set called Fruit Salad.  If you don't have that paper, you can always use a coordinating paper from Brights DSP. 

I finished the scene by adding various fussy cut pieces from the paper - adding some with dimensionals and some with glue.  I stamped a sentiment (this one from the discontinued Beside Me stamp set), cut it as you can see, inked the edges, and added it with dimensionals.

Finally, we made the easiest scenes of all - a card using one of the pre-printed scenes included in the DSP and adding turtles to them.  Each was different, but here's a look at some samples I made:

(I used an old JustRite sentiment stamp called Royal Antique Labels One.)