3d Printer Birthday Card

 

 Hello,

Thank you so much for visiting my crafting place, a warm welcome to you!

It was Hubby's birthday recently, and with only a few days to go I was still stuck for a card idea.  It was my dear friend Joanne  who said "Could you do something with a 3d printer theme?" 

I actually think it was this card that got me out of my card-making funk, so a double thank you Joanne for your help.

My plan was for a pop up card that would go in a regular envelope,  and it was working quite well until I tried to figure out how to make the filament reels on the top become 3d!  There may be a way to do it but it was completly beyond me and my  solution was to give up 

🤣🤣 

 

Instead I made the reels from circles of card with strips of coloured card between and fixed them to the top of the 'printer. 

 Then I made a box to present it in!

Pragmatism rules!

 

 

 As you can see, the door opens to reveal a 3d gift - it has a box hinge behind it so it pops out. The door is silver card and the window is a piece of acetate 

To finish I added a loopy sentiment - I thought that if you used a length of fila ment you could  bend it into a shape like this - like making words from wire

Maybe I should take a photo of the card inside the actual printer but perhaps that's just a bit too 'meta' - what do you think?

 

 

  

Materials

Black card

Various other colours of card, 

Acetate for window

Square die for gift, plus die cut bow

Hand cut tag 

Punched circles for filament reels

Loopy did cut sentiment 

Just a Note

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx