pop-up card, four ewes.
This is in pencil and appears to have been done by a child. It could have been just four sheep creased in the center but I decided to make them smaller and put bushes on the other side of the creases created by their mechanisms.
The way this opens is wonderful. It doesn't pop up until its nearly entirely opened then its a bit startling the way it flips.
Two straps with a mountain crease reverse to the spine crease, and folded into a collapsed W shape with the ends glued to the background puts two new short spine creases on either side of the real spine, which can be used as two ordinary spine creases, albeit very short ones. Plus two panorama type mechanisms between the two straps upon which extra things were added just to confuse the otherwise perfectly simple composition, a few bushes and a few broken stone walls, which seemed to me at the time rather sheep-pasture like.
Straps are cool. The central fold in the strap shaped like a W with short ends lifts upward from the spine when the card is closed, clearing space for something else to swing into also when the card is folded. The whole thing is rather like a card inside another card facing each other, the patches where the straps attach to the back, the crease there where the strap breaks away from the back, are the places where other mechanisms can be added. Anything added directly to the strap will be pressed down flat against the background when the card is fully opened.
You can glue the mechanisms to the strap in the upright position, or glue them to the backing in the collapsed position. Both ways have advantages. If the mechanism is attached in the upright, fully opened position, glue one side then collapse the mechanism and close the card over it, allowing the card itself to determine the exact angle and glueing spot on the backing that results in a nicely flatly closed card.
Straps can be understood in reverse. Tired of everything happening on the central fold. Need that fold to be to the side. Little cards added to the sides, thus the needed folds. Connect the two cards together to force action. Connect the two cards so they all lay completely flat when opened. Check to see the collapsed W shape formed by the folded strap fits within the original card. Make adjustments to length of strap and its placement as required. Do that in reverse and you get to skip the connecting step and start with a strap.
And now, all fifteen images in this set, presented here in all their high-pixel clickable potential.
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