Pop-Up SPACE Card

Humans have always been fascinated by space, its elements and its secrets, and it has not been different for me, I love starry nights, the moon and in general the sky. In this Instructable, I decided to combine 3 things that I really like, space, paper and movement.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Supplies

• Printed sheets with attached PDFs
• Cutter
• Scissors
• Glue
• Adhesive tape
• Masking tape
• Acetate sheet (we'll need just a piece 8,5 x 1,2 cm big)
• Double-sided tape
• Paperboard (25 x 38 cm)
• Black paper (28 x 41 cm
• Embossing tool

Step 1: Ideation

I started this project with many ideas, but I did not know how to make things move as I wanted, so I followed some tutorials on youtube, I understood different ways to rotate figures and to make things move when I opened a card, and then I began to create the idea I had of my card with recyclable sheets until I liked a version, and then I drew it with the help of inventor, illustrator and freepik.

Step 2: Folds

Mark each of the lines with the embossing tool to fold them easier later.

Step 3:

Cut every figure.

Step 4:

Glue the repeated elements (each one with its corresponding figure to make them thicker) except for the astronaut. Then cut off the excess edges.

Step 5:

Insert the fire figures in the holes of figure B and glue them to figure A

Step 6:

Then glue them to the inside of the rocket, as shown in the images.

Step 7: The Rocket

Glue the 3 parts that make up the rocket.

Step 8:

Cut the paperboard in half and then paste it with masking tape leaving a gap of approx 5mm.

Step 9:

Cover one side of the paperboard with black paper.

Step 10:

Paste the astronaut to the cover.

Step 11:

This is the element that creates the rotation of the rocket when the card is opened.

• Fold every line you see.
• Following the first image, glue the orange parts with the yellow ones. Then the purple with the purple one and the green one with the other green one.

Step 12:

Paste the element of rotation to the background.

Step 13:

For the back part, it is necessary to fold it in half and insert the small rectangles from below into the holes in the back part of the background and then glue them to it.

Step 14:

With double-sided tape stick the background to the cover.

Step 15:

Glue the astronauts, leaving the piece of acetate in the middle.

Step 16:

Join the astronaut, the rocket, and the element that opens the rocket as shown in the animated gif.

Step 17:

Glue the figure that will open the rocket to the rotation base. Then glue the rocket to the figure that will open it as shown in the animated gif.

Step 18:

For the leftover figures, fold strips of paper and glue them as shown in the image in different parts of the background.

(I decided to use 3 figures in this way, the moon, the alien, and the planet with rings)

Step 19:

Then paste the element to the strip.

Step 20:

Step 21:

For the card and the remaining planet I decided to paste them down and forward as shown in the animated gif.

Step 22:

The Pop-Up SPACE Card is ready!!! 🚀 😁