Can someone help me figure this out?

JustTricia @giantsfan

Thanks. I see what you mean, and I thought about that, it just somehow seemed a little odd to me. I think it's asking a lot of your receiver to understand they had to "assemble" their card, because I think most people would think "Wow" on the big pop up part, then figure the other figures just laid flat. If you got a card, would you think to wiggle or try to pull up something you thought was probably glued to the background? There are no "lift" or other instructions. I'd be afraid to damage something someone made for me by tugging on non-obvious stuff to see if it moved.

With the platform card, I'm thinking if you glued your tab to the card base, and it came through the platform via a slit, when the platform collapses it would press the image flat with the platform, and when the platform is raised up, the slit would provide the stability to lift it back up as the platform raises. I hope that makes sense. That way your action isn't relying on an innate property of your material to 'spring back', or the intuition of your receiver, it's using your existing platform action to lift and stabilize. I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure that will work.

The card that is completely flat (with no platform) beyond baffles me. I can't figure any way at attach the stamped image so the card action itself causes the motion. I could put in an obvious and labeled pull tab to raise them all up at once, but I keep seeing cards that don't have that. If your attachment to the stamp goes under the background paper and to the far side of the card (across the hinge), it would have a fold at the hinge, and the distance between the image and the attachment point on the far side is a fixed distance--opening the card doesn't shorten the length the attachment piece has to cover, so no action of opening/closing would make the fixed length attachment have to cover a larger distance than when laying flat, which is what would have to happen to raise the image with no manual pull tab. It's really hard to describe the motions without pics.

This is really driving me nuts!

anniefb

Thanks. I went through her blog for over 2 years looking for a step by step. I'm hoping I didn't just overlook it. I had the same thought that maybe it was staged for the DT. Since a lot of DT want people to do step-by-steps, I really hoped she had it written up somewhere, but no luck. I've also spent hours pouring over pop up videos, books, tutorials, etc., and I've never seen anything like it, plus I own some really amazing pop-up books and I've never seen it done.

I can make the mechanics work legit using a different type of mechanism, I just really hate seeing something like that and not being able to figure our how it works.

I did leave a blog comment asking about it, but no reply yet.

I agree with you on the platform card.  That's exactly what I was figuring, but you described it a lot, lot better.  The slots don't have to be very big, and I have an old punch that's a small slot for ribbon, I figured I could do that.  I don't really mass produce cards, so that's more than good enough for me.

I've been playing and playing with the second card without the box platform.  I thought the same thing about running the tab to the far side of the card behind the background.  The strip has to go across a crease, which means it has to fold with the crease of the card.  That fold means that when the card is closed or open the distances from the crease to the glue point (far side) and stamped image never change, otherwise the card wouldn't shut completely.  I can't find a way around the crease.

I'm not even bothering with stamps to make this work until I figure out mechanics.  I have a blank card, an inner liner, some paper strips, and square punched pieces to represent my stamped image.  

@rosyposy  Thanks for the video.  I love watching Sandy videos, and I've never seen that one!  It's a little different from what I'm puzzling out, though.  What I'm trying to figure out is if the penguin and the igloo that are laying flat by the sentiment stood up too, how would you do that?  They wouldn't be attached to those background snowdrifts, they'd look like they were free standing.  How do you get that free standing look?  

@rosyposy

Wouldn't it? This is going to drive me nuts until I figure it out.

scrapnnana I haven't been on for a few days, my youngest just graduated high school and had his 18th bday, so I've had my hands full.

I did finally find the answer. I found a greeting card company that makes $8 pop-up cards, and found a retailer kind of nearish. I'd seen one that looked like what I wanted on IG, and they had it in stock, so I have a working example in my hands. I can see the basic mechanism, but I haven't taken it apart yet. I think it's similar to what crazy4scraps was saying about the tab that pulls itself. That's what I figured it was, but I couldn't figure out how to make the tab work across the hinge.

The jist of the mechanism is that there is a pull tab that attaches the back of the stamped image to the far side of card, and when you open the card it pulls the tab for you. The trick is that the tab is bent on both ends, so it doesn't fold in a fixed way a the crease, it stays mobile. It attaches on the back of the stamped image, then angles into a slot behind the image that "tunnels" under the liner layer and comes out again just short of the hinge, then goes through the liner on the far side of the hinge and fastens behind the liner. From the side you see a triangle behind the stamped image and a triangle at the hinge. It'll probably be sometime next week before I can take pics and take it apart.

But it's kind of like this: (card is the left/bottom, stamped image at right, \__/ is the tab.)

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bluecrafterperson scrapnnana posted links in the 17th and 18th posts from the top.