Saturday, February 1, 2025

A Valentine Cottage With Gnomes - A Rubber Band Pop-Up Card

A Valentine Cottage With Gnomes - A Rubber Band Pop-Up - Side View #1

Side View #2 

Here is a video of the pop-up in action.

 This rubber band pop-up card is an engineering marvel.  It combines a rubber band mechanism with a house which pops-up when removed from an A4 envelope. An A4 envelope is 4 1/4 in. x 6 1/4 in. The recipient of this card will be astonished when the flat card opens into this amazing three dimensional Valentine Cottage.

The rubber band expands when the base is pressed down at the seam that is opposite to the internal diagonal.  When the side pressure is released, the expansion tension on the rubber band is released and the rubber band returns to its natural state  This phenomenon allows the form to deploy and become three dimensional.

The Valentine cottage was coded in TurtleStitch and then opened in the Silhouette program for cutting. Here is the TurtleStitch code if you would like to see how it was coded.  https://www.turtlestitch.org/run#cloud:Username=Elaine&ProjectName=Vallentine%20Cottage%20-%20Rubber%20Band%20Pop-Up For my papercrafting friends, no coding is necessary.  All the files for the pop-up Valentine cottage are included in this posting.

A one inch rubber band is required for the pop-up base. (The rubber band is similar to the rubber band used on a Rainbow Loom.) I also used one glue dot.  I used 65 lb. pink and white cardstock, pink foil cardstock, vellum and pink glitter cardstock. 

Here is the PDF.

Here is the .Studio file.

Here is the SVG. Zoom out to see the entire file as it goes beyond the viewable area.

Directions to make this cottage is the same as the gingerbread house. The gnomes are two sided and are made by layering different colored cardstocks. https://papercraftetc.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-stem-project-rubber-band-pop-up.html
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