Mother's Day Twist and Pop

This card was a birthday "Twist and Pop" card.  Here is what it looked like when closed with the belly band, and the next picture shows what it looked like when the belly band was removed.  It was made using the Hunkydory Twist and Pop card base, paper from an old HOTP 8X8 Wedding book of papers, Hunkydory elements from their Floral Shimmer Luxury Card Collection, Hunkydory Little Book of Pearl Sentiments, a stamp from Stampendous sentiment collection, and ribbon from my stash.

The following picture shows the "popped" portion of the card that you see after the card bursts open and before you twist it closed again.  The card is made using 3 pieces of card stock (not counting the belly band).  The first is about the size of a basic A2 card that opens at the top.  The second is a piece that is scored in 4ths and accordion folded.  It is the part that pops out to display four elements when the card is opened.  The third piece is the "twist & pop" mechanism and is shown in the next couple of pictures.

The third piece is a rectangular piece.  It is first scored & folded in half length wise.  Then there are two score/fold lines on the diagonal as you can see in the picture below.

By folding the length-wise as a valley fold and the others as mountain folds, you can get this piece to fold in on itself so it looks like the picture below.

Next, glue the triangular part front and back and place on the inside of the card so the point is pointing toward the center fold line of the basic A-2 piece - just slightly below the fold line.  With it in place, fold the card closed so the piece is adhered to both inside portions of the card.   Now when you open the card, the mechanism untwists and opens.  With it open this way, you will add the accordion folded piece.  First put adhesive on the back sides of the outside panels of the accordion folded piece - just half-way up (the panel on the right will have adhesive from the top half of the back while the left side will be on the bottom half of the back).  This accordion folded piece is then added to the twist & pop mechanism piece - adhering the adhesive pieces to the corresponding rectangular part of the arrow portion (above or below the valley fold as dictated by where the adhesive was added).