Hello and welcome!
I’ve always been fascinated by pop-up and kinetic mechanisms
in paper craft. (If you’ve followed this
blog for any length of time, you might just have noticed that!) As a child I spend hours trying to figure out
what made the magic happen in my pop-up books – and then when my own children
were small I did the same with their books.
So I’m always thrilled when I get a new (to me) mechanism to
work the way I want it to. Here's what happens when you open up the card -
I found the instructions for this in a book BY Duncan Birmingham
Pop-Up! A Manual of paper mechanisms. (The book is out of print, and
second-hand copies sell for ridiculous prices, so if you spot one at a
reasonable price I’d snap it up if I were you.
You can also visit Duncan’s YouTube channel – The Pop-Up Channel).
Of course the Tea Together stamps and framelits were perfect for this kind of movement. I wanted it to look as if the teapot was getting ready to pour tea into the cup.This is how I made it -
There was some trial and error associated with this card – I think I made five or 6 prototypes before I was happy. In the end I was really pleased with how it came out..
The direction and the amount of rotation is controlled by the position and angle of the fold in the cross-piece and where the "L" shaped piece is placed.
This arrangement will move anticlockwise -
The direction and the amount of rotation is controlled by the position and angle of the fold in the cross-piece and where the "L" shaped piece is placed.
This arrangement will move anticlockwise -
A wide angle will give a lot of rotation
A narrow angle will give you a smaller amount of rotation
If you like this mechanism you might want to try changing the relative positions of the working parts. And you should DEFINITELY give visit Duncan Birmingham's channel.
Keep crafting
Keren
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