How To Make A Pop-Up Christmas Card?

The best part about this homemade Christmas card is that it can be made without using any templates. Just a string of square pieces of paper will do! The best method to deliver your Christmas message this year is with a handcrafted card! And you don’t need special supplies to construct our cards; you can create them using plain white printer paper to recreate a “snowy” environment for Christmas and winter. The ideal pop-up holiday cards to create! If you’re wondering how to make a pop-up card, you can utilize a variety of different “mechanisms” to make your card stand out. We’ll discuss a few of these methods with you today. There are pop-up card templates available for a few of the cards listed below.

How can you create a card with a pop-up Christmas tree?

If you pick the correct project, creating 3D Christmas cards is simple! But sticking to simple shapes that are straightforward to connect is essential to creating a simple card. It is based on the childhood pastime of “paper chain” building, which all children like. It is really simple to transform a basic paper chain into a three-dimensional Christmas card once you’ve mastered it.

Materials needed

Construction paper can be used for an A5 sheet of green (or white), but I prefer to use “printer paper” quality paper for these crafts.

A small card or brown paper
Yellow paper scrap for the star
Confetti snowflake ornaments – It lasts forever, and I’ve used ours on a number of projects.
Stick of glue
Scissors, a pair
Rulers
Cardstock and envelope for A6

How To Make A Pop-Up Christmas Card

Step by Step: 3D Christmas Tree Card

Create your paper fan for your Christmas tree first

We used a green A5 sheet of paper, which measures roughly 10 cm by 15 cm. We are aware that “standard sizes” in the US vary slightly. It need not be precise! Simply modify the sizes in the following step.

Fold your paper into a paper fan as neatly as evenly as you can along the 15 cm line. You should be left with a 15 cm long strip of concertina paper. We created accordion folds that are 0.5mm broad.

Cut this paper strip into five equal sections measuring 5 cm, 4 cm, 3 cm, 2 cm, and 1 cm (A5 is actually JUST little less than 15 cm; just adjust each part by a few millimeters and you’ll be OK!). As previously said, it isn’t exact. Just make sure you obtain 5 parts, with each piece getting smaller.

Prepare your Paper Tree stem and adhere it to your pop-up card

Grab your tan sheet of paper. You will require about 3 cm by 3 cm.
It is folded in half.
After that, indent the edges by 0.5mm. Therefore, you should have folds of 0.5mm, 1cm, 1cm, and 0.5mm.
Onto the card, adhere the 0.5mm strips. A “Pop up” steam has now appeared.

Putting glue on your Christmas paper fan tree

On the LEFT side of the card, just above the tree trunk, adhere your longest strip.
Once more, evenly pile the remaining 4 strips, allowing room for a star in the middle.
Once everything has been cemented in. Apply glue very carefully to the strip’s “upward facing” side. The concertinas like to bounce around a little, so this can be a little tricky.
Keep it in black. The right side of the card should be folded over and fastened to the green strips.
Your paper fan Christmas tree should appear as you open the card.

Lastly, embellishing and including embellishments in your DIY 3D Christmas card

Have fun adding a Christmas star, snowflakes, stars in the night sky, Christmas presents, a snowman, or anything else you choose! Enjoy.

Additional Christmas Crafts for Children

The personalized Christmas card “Stand Up”

One of the simplest pop-up card projects to try out is making a set of stand-up cards. The beautiful thing about this technique is that, once you learn it, there are countless possibilities for customization and design. Here are two examples, one of which includes a free printable!! Why not master this method, then add some cut-out photographs to make your Christmas cards truly unique?

This cute Snowman and Tree 3D Card design is the first in the “stand up 3D card” category. They make wonderful Christmas cards, but they may also be used as “Thank You” cards in the coming year.

Printable Ted Merry Christmas Cards are a lot of fun to make and send as gifts. Choose between the version with coloring pages or the full-color one that only requires cutting and adhering! LOVE!

Ideas for Stand-Up Pop-Up Cards

You can create pretty much ANY design you want once you understand how a “stand up card” pops out. You may mix children’s drawings with free printables from the internet to create these pop-up cards, which are definitely among the simplest to make.

Merry Christmas Ted Printable Card