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Monday, January 14, 2013

Easy Piano Pop-Up Card Printable

EASY PIANO POP-UP CARD

TOOLS & MATERIALS
  • Two letter sized sheets of card stock or heavy paper (white and black)
  • One letter sized sheet of heavy paper (any color) as supporting card
  • A scalpel knife (aka Xacto knife) with sharp blades for great precision
  • A cutting mat
  • A scoring tool with blunt tip, e.g. ball point pen tip, which no longer works
  • A straight ruler
  • Glue (white glue or rubber cement)

INSTRUCTIONS 
  • Download the pattern HERE and print pattern on the right side of white card stock.
 
  • Print black keys, or use template to trace on to black paper. Score fold lines across all five keys. Cut out black keys.
  • Assemble black keys. Fold each piece into an open box. Spread glue on the tab and glue box together.
  • Push box toward tab, collapsing it. (This ensures that the black key will fold flat in the card.) Weight and allow to dry. 
  • Refer to cut and fold diagram, below, for white keys. The white keys form a simple box pop up.

  • Cut along blue lines. Score red (valley) and green (mountain) fold lines. Push and pinch to create folds. Pre-pinch each fold in the proper direction and then push from the back to get the folds to collapse.

  • Glue black keys to white card, matching guidelines.  
  • Flatten the white card. Smooth the black keys flat, too. Put a book on the card and let dry.
  • Glue the wall main card and support card
  • Decorate the cards 
WATCH THE TUTORIAL PIANO POP-UP CARD
(another version)