Meri's Pop-Up Elephant Card

For her birthday I made my younger sister a card with an adorable ellie and jungle theme. I started with cutting three strips into the folded section of the card. I line these cuts up with the paper that is the background and cut the same sections out. I keep those cut outs and place them under the folds. This gives the appearance of solid sheet and strengthens that fold. I also cut strips of that background (blue swirls) to cover the top of the pop-out piece. Using my gypsy I cut three trees once with green paper and once with the wood grained paper. I complete cut the trunk of the tree away from the tree top. I used an old leaf patterned punch to punch some different colored, textured greens for some dimensional leaves. I attached a row of grass on the pop-out before attaching the two smaller trees on each side. I then put another row of grass in front of the trees. Two rows of grass also sandwich the elephant. He was cute on pearled paper; google eyes, sparkle marker ear details, and silver glitter pen trunk details were added. A tree, grass rows, and Happy Birthday are on the front.