New Pop-Up Designs

High Jumper 

Recycle a used light bulb

Recycle a used light bulb. Put on a pair of safety glasses.  Get a pair of pliers and pull out the top of the bulb.  Take a Chinese chop stick and break out the inside parts.  Rinse out with water before adding any plants.

Reply to Jared:
The base is a separate piece of glass - the ones I used are sold in craft shops...secure with E6000 glue or any other strong bonding glue (in well ventilated area or preferable take the entire project outside to glue - do not inhale any of the vapors.

Happy growing,
Petrina

Shipped off my biggest Pop-Up Book project - ever to a NYC client, last week. That is to say the most Pop-Ups in one book.  He even called me after it arrived.  I loved hearing all the nice things he had to say about my book - he actually yelled in my ear:
"You are amazing - it is beyond my biggest dreams of what it would look like."

I still have a long way to go.

That is so impressive that he even called.  Most projects, I just get an E-mail to say they received the book

Have worked on a couple of new designs this week and getting together the plan for a High School graduate.
Shipped off a project to Australia last week, also.  Only 3 Pop-Ups and 2 of them were record players with double layers showing the top and bottom of the mechanical record.

 Mechanical Car -pull the tab and the car wizzes to the right.

 Coat of Arms - also called a Crest - Pops- Up as the viewer opens the book

 Expert jeweler Pop-Up page:

 I learned how to add Silk to the inside Cover and back of book. 

Have you learned anything new lately?  Hope you would share it.

Moving pictures

Click on the photo, it really moves.

Took several photos of my Tri-fold Business card design to make a moving gif.
It loaded easily to my website and actually worked. Yippie!

This could be the start of something big!  The process will be so helpful in showing pop-up actions of paper.
  Oh what fun. !

I took these photos today with my new camera.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS5  16X Intelligent Zoom

Thanks to the tip from The Toymaker 

School House Pop-Up card

Wendy Hokenson suggested I design a School House Pop-Up card.  Thank you Wendy for the super idea.

The card is all one piece with the USA flag added as a separate piece.  Folds flat to mail.

Why not tell a Teacher you appreciate them?

Got any idea what would look better on the front of the card - a watercolor apple or a stack of books?
Let me know what you think.

Thanks for Teachers!
 -Petrina

Canoe Pop-Up Card