This Paper Pop-up design for a friend's wedding invitation was a HUGE challenge for me. It don't think I've ever worked harder on anything, and that's saying a lot. But the response and satisfaction was so great after doing it, it made it all entirely worthwhile.
Folds flat to mail in a standard A6 envelope, opens to activate the figures moving towards each other for a BIG KISS when meeting at top.
An edition of 100 were made, with full color digital printing, the dieline was created in Illustrator, after developing dozens of paper prototypes, laser cutting was done by Precision Graphic Systems, Inc., hand-assembly was done by myself, my kind husband, and the couple themselves, at our place at what we called in fun a "glue party", removable take-along location direction cards were attached by thumb cuts to the reverse.
The entire action of the kiss happens from the folds on a small strip I called the "driver" that was glued in between the two full color hearts. The colorful illustrations were made in Photoshop with the wonderful, free "Tea Stains" PS brushset by talented Franz Jeitz of Fudgegraphics.
Video sent to the happy couple during the design's development.
13 comments:
This is very cute and very original. I've never seen such a fun wedding invitation.
Truly A PopUp Surprise.
What a great project! I love getting to see the video with the pop-up in action. Very nice work!
Amazing! That is a great invitation and I am super picky about good invitation design...
Molly
http://mollylee.etsy.com/
Ooo, ooo, double V fold?
I tried to make something like this for a wedding card and ending up abandoning it and making a pop up cake instead.
You are a better woman than I for perservering!
Carol
Extreme Cards and Papercrafting
This looks great Shelley! Such lucky people to have your design for their invite :)
a pop-up design perfect for the occasion,it was a great idea the surprise of kiss
Beautiful!
WOW!!! How nice to see these supportive comments! I really appreciate you all saying that! YAY!
Made my day... <3
It really was a treat working on that project with you Shelley. They came out soooo good!
Your paper engineering to get this all working still blows be away. The photos don't do it justice.
An old master indeed!
Mark
Your pop up card is great. What a nice personalized gift. When I saw it, it reminded me that I wanted to post something on your site.
I haven't seen it featured on your site, but I wanted to let you know that Rob Ives of the Flying Pig website has a new book on paper engineering. It's called Paper Engineering & Pop Ups for Dummies. There are several chapters that discuss pop up cards. I haven't read the whole book yet, but so far it seems to have good information in it.
Thanks, Mark! You and your laser cutter are my favorite creative print partners! Looking forward to more great projects with you.
Hey, Matt, thanks! We, at Paper Forest, are huge Rob Ives fans of course! Thanks for the book tip, we should link to it I'm sure. Perhaps you'd like to include your review when you've finished it?
This is so so so great. You deserve a paper gold medal!
That is so sweet of you to say, Alison! Thank you!
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