Arty-Forty

Saturday 11 February 2017

February video - Pockets and pop-ups.

Ok - apologies for the long title but today's video is part one of some techniques for making pages in a chunky mini book. This mini-book is full of interesting pages with pockets and pop-ups which are straightforward to make and really effective. The book itself is made using black card and then decorated using the Nature Sketchbook papers from Graphic 45. Of course you can use these techniques to make a book using any papers. The book construction is a concertina spine - but more of that in a later video - first a couple of pages. Today we are going to look at making a page which opens 'gatefold' style but has a card and pocket mechanism for keeping it closed - I call it a 'locking' pocket (though it's not really locked!). I also included on the video the 'how to' for a pop-up 3D page.

The first couple of pages look like this...



The video is below... but I am having trouble getting it to work with Blogger - so you may have to go to my YouTube channel  here.



I'll have more pop-ups and pockets featuring in next month's video - plus how to make the book - stay tuned!
Jane x