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DIY Shamrock Pop-up Card

Make your own Saint Patrick's Day greeting cards with this craft tutorial for a pop-up shamrock card. These cute cards celebrate Irish culture and heritage and are perfect for this Irish holiday.
Total Time45 minutes

Equipment

  • 1 Pencil.
  • 1 Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Marker pens. Irish themed colors (shades of green, orange, and gold)

Materials

  • 1 sheet green cardstock paper to make the pop-up shamrocks
  • 1 sheet gold or yellow cardstock paper for the outer fold of the card
  • 1 sheet white or cream cardstock paper for the inner frame that holds the pop-up feature
  • 1 sheet plain white paper to cut out shamrock pattern

Instructions

  • Print the templates provided and choose the shamrock size you wish to use for your card. Then, select a green-shaded craft paper that is long and wide enough to cut out at least three shamrocks.
  • Next, make one vertical fold on any end of the paper. The fold has to be wide enough to draw half of the shamrock pattern you chose from the template.
    Green paper strip and paper shamrock folded in half
  • Fold the paper into 6 equal accordion folds.
  • Place the shamrock template over the paper so that one half of the shamrock covers one section of the folded green paper. The center of the shamrock should be placed over the folded side of the green paper strip.
    Shamrock template on folded green paper
  • Draw the shamrock shape on the green paper, by tracing your pencil around the shamrock template.
  • Cut along the leaf outline of the shamrock, but leave the red area as shown in the second page of the template uncut. This is a small area at the outer edge of the lower shamrock leaf. This will form the paper bridges between your shamrocks.
  • Open the fold to reveal your shamrocks.
    Three green paper shamrocks
  • Select your background paper for the card. Apply glue on the outer half of the first shamrock.
  • Glue it onto one side of the card. And, then apply glue to the outer half of the final shamrock.
    Folded shamrocks with glue
  • Carefully close the card, then gently open up the card to free up the inner shamrocks and check they lift upwards when opened.
    Three green paper shamrocks
  • Now, select a front cover for your card.
    Two folded pieces of card stock paper
  • Glue the outer side of the card with the shamrocks to the covering card piece.
    Folded golden card
  • Open the card, add some more decorations with marker pens or stickers. Feel free to decorate the outer side of your card too.

Notes

Here's the link for the template for making this card.
 
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