**Crafting with Lyn Willis: A San Francisco Holiday Pop-Up Card**
I'm Lyn Willis, a textile designer living in the historic Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. I love to share my art with my family and friends, one way being by making greeting cards. Today, I'll be showing you how to make this holiday pop-up card that I've designed inspired by details from Victorian architecture.
To get started, I spent time sketching up some design ideas. I took pictures of different details from houses in my neighborhood, such as a stairwell, stained glass window pattern, and the top of a building with its gable. From these images, I chose one to use for the holiday card – a beautiful etching on a glass door. Next, I transferred my final sketch onto tracing paper, which would become the base image for my card.
I turned the tracing paper upside down so that the drawn image was on this side next to the linen block, which is what I'd use to print my design. To transfer the image, I used a big spoon and rubbed it gently across the back of the drawing. This method pushes the graphite from the drawing onto the surface of the linen, creating a precise and detailed image.
With the image transferred, I began carving the linen blocks. Using a sharp, curved knife-like tool, I carefully carved outside of the image to create intricate details. For this design, I added some extra embellishments inside the bell pattern. Once I'd finished carving both blocks, it was time to ink them using water-soluble ink and a brayer.
With my prints ready, I scanned the images into the computer and cleaned them up slightly before developing the layout for the card. For the front of the card, I wanted to create a visually appealing image with several bells in different scales and a hanging look. So, I printed out this design on one side of the card.
For the inside of the card, I wanted to add some festive touches as well. Using my computer, I combined the tree image with the bells, creating ornaments that would hang from the branches. This way, when the recipient opens the card, they'd see a beautiful scene unfolding before their eyes.
To make the pop-up mechanism work, I needed to create a small ledge for the tree to sit on. To do this, I scored some cardstock paper and folded it into a square shape. Using double-stick tape, I adhered the ledge onto the card, creating a sturdy base for my design.
Finally, I stuck the popped-up tree onto the front of the ledger and added some rhinestones to give it a touch of holiday glitter. With the addition of these sparkly decorations, the card is now complete and ready to be shared with loved ones.
**The Finished Card**
Here's the finished pop-up holiday card, showcasing my design in all its glory. The intricate details and Victorian-inspired architecture come together to create a truly unique and eye-catching design that's sure to delight anyone who receives it. I hope this tutorial has inspired you to try your hand at crafting with paper, ink, and imagination. Who knows what creative projects you'll bring to life?
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone welcome back to Thro back Thursdays with me Meg in today's edition we're going to head over to the show Crafters coast to coast and head on over to San Francisco to check out some cool popup holiday cards I love a holiday card and if it pops up I mean that's just extra spe let's check it out hi I'm Lyn Willis welcome to my apartment here in the historic Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco California I'm a textile designer and I love to share my art with my family and friends one way I do that is by making greeting cards today I'm going to show you how to make this holiday pop-up card here we are in my second bedroom where I spend a lot of time I work on my computer here and I also work on all my design ideas here for this holiday card the design inspiration was details from Victorian architecture so I went around my neighborhood and I took some pictures of different details from different houses and then I went ahead and I worked on sketching up some of the ideas see what they look like this is a stairwell um this was a stained glass window pattern and this is the top of a building the Gable of the building and then this pattern was the one that I used for the holiday card and this design is from an etching on a glass door so what I do is I take tracing paper and I do my final SC sketch of the design so I've drawn a couple of these bells now and I think I like the smaller one so I'm going to go with that but we need something for the inside of the card so I'm going to go ahead and draw a Christmas tree now that I've got my two drawings finalized what I'm going to do is to transfer the images onto the lenum block which is what I'm going to use to print I take my final drawing I turn it upside down so that the drawn image is on this side next to the lolium so then I get my very Hightech instrument here a big soup spoon and I use it to rub the back of the image that I've drawn and this rubbing of the spoon basically pushes the graphite from the drawing onto the surface of the lenium and that's how the image gets transferred onto the lenium block this is a really great way to get all your aggressions out if you're transferring a lot of images it's pretty taxy much better voila we have the image transferred onto our lenium okay so now I'm ready to start carving the lenium blocks and I take my carving tool which is kind of like a sharp little curved knife so I start outside of the image and I go right along the edge so I've added a few more details into the spell so now I'm going to move on to carving the tree I have the two blocks all carved and now it's time to do the inking so I take water soluble ink and I take a brayer and rub the ink around and rub it onto the block and then I'm ready to make the prints and then I just peel it off and I have my print now it's time to print the Christmas tree so we have that image ready to go as well then I also had printed out some colors and I'm going to use this one for the tree and this one for the bells so now I'm ready to go take my prints and scan them into the computer so I've scanned the images in the computer I cleaned them up a little bit and changed the color and then I developed the layout for the card and I thought on the front of the card it would be nice to have several bells and do them in different scales and do a nice hanging look with those so I printed that out on this side and then for the inside I've got the trees and also at the same time I printed my popup image which I had taken the tree image and added the bells onto it in the computer as ornaments now I'm going to take my popup tree and cut it out of the card stock so we have it as a separate image now I'm going to add some rhinestones for some holiday glitter so I've got my glue and my other very high-tech tool which is a cotton swab so now my rhinestones are on and in order for this tree to become a popup I need to make a little ledge for it to sit on so I'm going to take some card stock paper and I'm going to score the paper so I can fold it into a square I'm going to use the double stick tape to adhere the ledge onto the card and now I'm going to stick the tree to the front of the ledge and now we have the lovely holiday pop-up card how would you interpret this pop-up holiday card video be sure to give us some cool ideas in a comment below like subscribe and we'll see you later bye guys PAhey everyone welcome back to Thro back Thursdays with me Meg in today's edition we're going to head over to the show Crafters coast to coast and head on over to San Francisco to check out some cool popup holiday cards I love a holiday card and if it pops up I mean that's just extra spe let's check it out hi I'm Lyn Willis welcome to my apartment here in the historic Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco California I'm a textile designer and I love to share my art with my family and friends one way I do that is by making greeting cards today I'm going to show you how to make this holiday pop-up card here we are in my second bedroom where I spend a lot of time I work on my computer here and I also work on all my design ideas here for this holiday card the design inspiration was details from Victorian architecture so I went around my neighborhood and I took some pictures of different details from different houses and then I went ahead and I worked on sketching up some of the ideas see what they look like this is a stairwell um this was a stained glass window pattern and this is the top of a building the Gable of the building and then this pattern was the one that I used for the holiday card and this design is from an etching on a glass door so what I do is I take tracing paper and I do my final SC sketch of the design so I've drawn a couple of these bells now and I think I like the smaller one so I'm going to go with that but we need something for the inside of the card so I'm going to go ahead and draw a Christmas tree now that I've got my two drawings finalized what I'm going to do is to transfer the images onto the lenum block which is what I'm going to use to print I take my final drawing I turn it upside down so that the drawn image is on this side next to the lolium so then I get my very Hightech instrument here a big soup spoon and I use it to rub the back of the image that I've drawn and this rubbing of the spoon basically pushes the graphite from the drawing onto the surface of the lenium and that's how the image gets transferred onto the lenium block this is a really great way to get all your aggressions out if you're transferring a lot of images it's pretty taxy much better voila we have the image transferred onto our lenium okay so now I'm ready to start carving the lenium blocks and I take my carving tool which is kind of like a sharp little curved knife so I start outside of the image and I go right along the edge so I've added a few more details into the spell so now I'm going to move on to carving the tree I have the two blocks all carved and now it's time to do the inking so I take water soluble ink and I take a brayer and rub the ink around and rub it onto the block and then I'm ready to make the prints and then I just peel it off and I have my print now it's time to print the Christmas tree so we have that image ready to go as well then I also had printed out some colors and I'm going to use this one for the tree and this one for the bells so now I'm ready to go take my prints and scan them into the computer so I've scanned the images in the computer I cleaned them up a little bit and changed the color and then I developed the layout for the card and I thought on the front of the card it would be nice to have several bells and do them in different scales and do a nice hanging look with those so I printed that out on this side and then for the inside I've got the trees and also at the same time I printed my popup image which I had taken the tree image and added the bells onto it in the computer as ornaments now I'm going to take my popup tree and cut it out of the card stock so we have it as a separate image now I'm going to add some rhinestones for some holiday glitter so I've got my glue and my other very high-tech tool which is a cotton swab so now my rhinestones are on and in order for this tree to become a popup I need to make a little ledge for it to sit on so I'm going to take some card stock paper and I'm going to score the paper so I can fold it into a square I'm going to use the double stick tape to adhere the ledge onto the card and now I'm going to stick the tree to the front of the ledge and now we have the lovely holiday pop-up card how would you interpret this pop-up holiday card video be sure to give us some cool ideas in a comment below like subscribe and we'll see you later bye guys PA\n"
