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Easy Pop Up Card How To Projects

December 14, 2020

Well. I don’t know why I haven’t gotten around to sharing all of these lovely Pop Up Card How To Projects before.. afterall, I have a whole section dedicated to Card Making Ideas for Kids – though these tend to generally be YOUNGER kids. And we do have a *thing* about PAPER CRAFTS. Today’e DIY Pop Up Cards are for your  7yrs+ age group – well depending on how much parental or teacher involvement there. We ADORE Pop Up Cards and love coming up with new pop up card designs and “mechanisms”! I would like to think that we have a card for almost every occassion and will certainly be adding more Pop Up Card Ideas for you over time.

Easy Pop Up Card How To Projects. Do you (or your kids! Teehee!) LOVE making cards? Add an extra dynamic to your homemade cards and turn them into POP UP cards.. oh what a little extra paper can do to transform your Card Making DIYs.... These are simple and easy cards for kids to make and you to enjoy! Love.

If you are wondering how to make a pop up card – there are actually a number of different “mechanisms” you can use to make your card pop.. and we will share a few different ways for how to make a pop up card today. A number of the cards shown below also have pop up card templates (not all, I am sorry!!), I have indicated which do and which don’t! Hopefully you will find both pop up cards with templates and without templates inspiring.

From 2D Image to 3D Pop Up Card

The first set of Pop Up cards I am sharing with you, take a “2 D image” and with a fold, turn into into a clever 3D Pop Up Card. How to make pop up cards step by step are included in each individual post. So find the pop up card you like best, click through for step by step card making instructions!

Easy Pop Up Card How To Valentines

A popular design is this how to make pop up cards heart! It is so simple and easy and yet so effective!

Similarly we have a fabulous Heart Pop Up Printable, perfect for Mother’s Day, Birthdays and THANK YOUs.

Father’s Day POP UP Card – 2 free designs to choose from

Similarly we have this fantastic Coloring Page Pop Up Trophy Card

Easy Pop Up Card How To - Emojis & Get Well Soon

Next up in our pop up card tutorials are these fantastic Pop Up Emoji Cards! In this case we focussed on “get well soon” cards, but you can pick any of your favourite emojis – be it a Valentine’s Day Emoji or a simply a BBF Emoji and turn it into this easy pop up card shown here.

And a similar process.. we made a Panda Pop Up card for my daughter’s 9th Birthday! Quick and easy.

Easy 3D Pop Up Card How To Halloween

These ADORABLE Halloween Pop Up Cards have a set of handy Halloween Joke Printables – to add that finishing touch to your card.

Easy 3d Pop Up Card How To Easter Coloring

And here I show you, how easy it is turn some favourite Easter Coloring Sheets into wonderfully personal Easter Pop Up Card Designs!

Stand Up Pop Up Card Ideas

Once you get your head around how a “stand up card” pops up, you will can make pretty much ANY design you want. They are probably one of the easiest pop up cards to make and you can combine kids’ drawings with online printables to make these.

how to make a pop up card for Christmas

First up in the “stand up 3d card” category are this adorable Snowman and Tree 3D Card design. They make perfect Christmas cards, but can also be used in the New Year as “Thank You” cards.

Merry Christmas Card with Ted

Printable Ted Merry Christmas Card – as super fun and simple card to make and give. Choose from the coloring pages version or the full colour one that just needs cutting and sticking! LOVE!

3D Flower Card for Mother's Day - super easy to make

Similarly this easy flower pop up card is great as a Thank You note (to anyone, but especially teachers) but also works fabulously as a DIY Mother Day Card Pop Up.

Or how about some lovely POP UP Daffodil Cards for Mother’s Day or Teacher appreciation day?

We also adore this super cute POP UP Dress Card! Just darling!

Best Father's Day Card - make a 3d Pop Up Card "Yoda best dad"

If you are looking for designs with pop up cards templates, this Yoda Best Dad card is one of them!

Cute 3D Birthday Card - learn how to make easy pop up cards

… as is this super cute dog and bone Happy Birthday card, complete with Pop Up Printable.

Pop Up “Bauble” Cards

3d Easter Card Making Ideas

This was super quick and last minute make we did last Easter. Aren’t these “bauble” chick Pop Up Cards simply ADORABLE?! Love.

Similarly we had fun with Paper Baubles for these lovely 3D Unicorn Pop Up Cards! Includes templates, but also teaches you to make your own from scratch.

Easy Pop Up Bear Heart Card for Kids to make on Valentines, printable worksheets available!

Easy Pop Up Bear and Pop Up Cat Card – you are Purrrrfect!

Reindeer pop up

If you love this style, you will also like our printable Reindeer Pop Up Cards!

3d Paper Bee Card

This is another “two for one” Pop Up Card idea. We have some sweet Ladybug Pop Up Cards, as well as some Buzzy Bee Pop Up Cards. So cute! (and easy!!)

Faces Pop Up Cards

Front of rudolph card

Learn how to make this adorable Rudolph Pop Up card – I particularly love the little button baubles. The pop up reindeer is made up of basic shapes, making this an easy craft to have a go at!

Pop Up Snowman Cards

Even easier is this Pop Up Snowman Card. In theory you can make this card using JUST WHITE paper! So a great one for limited resources.

add details to celebrate the occassion

Make these Beary Adorable Pop Up Bears for Valentine’s Day or Birthdays (or in white as a Winter Bear card too!).

Concertina Pop Up Cards

A different technique – I call this an accordian paper card or a Paper fan greeting card and we have these gorgeous 3D Christmas Tree Cards!

Pop Up Rainbow cards

Similarly you can turn a paper accordion or concertina into a fabulous pop up Paper Rainbow Card too!

Paper Chain Pop Up Card Ideas

butterfly pop up card

Love this technique of making 3d Butterfly Pop Up Cards.. once you have the knack.. your imaginatiin is the limit to more fabulous pop up card designs!

Kids will love the simple technique behind these Heart Pop Up Cards. Super fun to make.. and they will be creating their own designs in no time!!

Valentine's Day Cards Boys

More PURRRFECT fun with these adorable Tiger Pop Up Cards! They come in two designs – Valentine’s Day and “any occassion”.

friendship cards for kids

Pop Up Friendship Cards

Finished pop up throphy card with rosette (easy)

Similaryl, learn how to make a Pop Up Trophy Card for Dad!

Easy Gingerbread Men Pop Up card made from paper chains for 3d Christmas card fun

Adorable Gingerbread Pop Up Cards.

Easy Paper Chain Pop Up SNowman Cards - cute kawaii snowmen Christmas cards

Or how about some super cute Pop Up Snowmen? These can be made using white printer paper!

Super fun Gnome Cards for Christmas, how make a paper chain gnome pop up card

We are rather in love with these GNOME Pop Up Cards too. Love the snowy landscape in the background.

3d Christmas Tree Cards made from paper chains, easy Christmas tree pop up cards

Super cute and Easy Christmas Tree Pop UP Card.

Finally – “Other” How To Make Pop Up Card Instructions

Owl cards

How to make a pop up beak Owl Card – a super cute Pop Up Card for all occassions – customise this handmade card for Birthdays, Halloween, Christmas and beyond.. what a hoot!

Pop Up Owl Card Coloring Page

This card is also available as a convenient Pop Up Owl Card Coloring Page!

Valentines Penguin Card
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Similarly, we have some adorable Pop Up Penguin Cards – these work nicely for both Christmas and Valentine’s Day! And of course any Winter Birthday Cards too!

3d Pop Up Cards - easy cat card with templates

These little Kitties are simply Purrrrrfect. They jump out and a ready to play. For this 3D Cat Card DIY, we have included a full Pop Up Card Template + Cat Puns to customise these cat cards for Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Birthday Cards as well as Get Well Soon Cards. Easy and oh so cute.

Easy Pop Up Cow Card with fun cow puns

My son loves cows! So for HIS birthday, we need a quirky cow card. Here is a fun pop up card making process. Enjoy this 3d Pop Up Cow Card!

Pop Up Monsters

Having a Monster Party? Send a Monster Card to go with it! Printable templates available.

Classic chick pop up card

This pop up card uses the classic “Pop Up Beak Technique” that I am sure you are familiar with from your own childhood card making sessions. They are super simple and just so fun.

Fabulous and easy 3d Birthday Pop Up card - adapt this for weddings

Finally, I love this step by step Pop Card for Birthdays or Weddings (anniversaries??) – basically any celebration that involves a cake! Again, it is a suprisingly easy pop up card for kids to make and looks fabulous.

Other 3D Card How Tos

I wanted to add a cheeky extra “3D Card How To” sections.. these cards are not strickly speaking POP UP. Well they are not pop up.. but they are 3D and simply gorgeous and definitely worth a look.

3D Card Making ideas - emoji valentines day cards
3D Card making ideas - paper quilling for kids - valentines

First up, our introduction to Paper Quilling and how to make this Emoji 3D Card…

… which was based on this rather lovely paper quilled heart card for beginners.

And we also have a LOVELY Quilled Christmas Tree Card version too.

Paper Quilled Shamrock Card

Again.. not a pop up card, but gorgeous non the less.. check out our Paper Woven Chick & Egg Cards for Easter!

I hope you will agree that these make great Pop Up Cards for Kids and that hopefully your kids will have LOTS of fun making these!

Easy Pop Up Card How To Projects. Do you (or your kids! Teehee!) LOVE making cards? Add an extra dynamic to your homemade cards and turn them into POP UP cards.. oh what a little extra paper can do to transform your Card Making DIYs.... These are simple and easy cards for kids to make and you to enjoy! Love.

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  1. Jeanne says

    November 15, 2017 at 12:31 am

    Thanks a looooot !!! That’s a great resource, you are making my day.

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      November 15, 2017 at 9:30 am

      my pleasure

      Reply
  2. Edina says

    March 4, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    So beautiful and so easy. Thanks a lot.

    Reply
    • sophia says

      March 17, 2018 at 4:09 am

      yeah your right they look soooooo cool!!!

      Reply
      • Red Ted Art says

        March 17, 2018 at 10:37 am

        AWww thank you

        Reply
  3. sophia says

    March 17, 2018 at 4:08 am

    Wow this is all amazing I am loving these ideas that you are coming up with. I cant believe my eyes! Cant wait to try one of them!!!!!

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      March 17, 2018 at 10:37 am

      Enjoy!

      Reply
  4. Peggy Clyde says

    September 20, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    I work with 8 and 9 year old girls and they have been wanting to make pop up cards. I’m going to use some of your great ideas for them. They will be so happy and love them. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas.

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      September 21, 2018 at 7:12 am

      My pleasure!! Have lots of fun!

      Reply
  5. Suzanne Dawson says

    February 9, 2019 at 1:59 pm

    Thank you for making my day start in such a happy way! Awesome site and videos are so well done. I love pop-up blocks. They are soooo cool and the video was concise – I am very impressed. Your site has inspired me 4 sure today.

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      February 11, 2019 at 3:28 pm

      Awww thank you!

      Reply

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